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DF General Discussion / Re: What is the best DF CPU?
« on: September 29, 2011, 02:29:46 pm »
Wierd, but I suspect it may be due to the graphics system of that particular processor.  On-core GFX = Bleh for raw performance.  it sucks a LOT of power away from the cores unnecessarily.

Still, i'd expect it to do a LOT better than you suggest it is.

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DF General Discussion / Re: What is the best DF CPU?
« on: September 29, 2011, 01:01:52 pm »
What do you consider 'drastic'?  Also, is it a C2D Mobile or regular?

I usually consider the game playable until <20 FPS.  That allows me about 250 dwarves on a 6x6 map, depending on features.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarves, Lay down your weapons
« on: September 28, 2011, 07:24:48 pm »
Piss on all this pathetic pansy elven garbage!

X-Ray Dog.  Just about everything by X-Ray Dog.  X-Ray Dog.  THIS.  IS.  DWARVEEEEEEN!

http://youtu.be/76yepsL-oNU

http://youtu.be/6ymPz0LhoPI   <-  Perfect image, too!

http://youtu.be/eP7j6C450og   For LoTR style Whup-ASS

Or this:

http://youtu.be/3Qg_K93B5xQ   Good for right as your army gathers behind the door, just before you open it to unleash absolute and pure terror.  Just before you learn, truly, what fear is.

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DF General Discussion / Re: What is the best DF CPU?
« on: September 28, 2011, 07:03:32 pm »
In my experience, the AMD Phenom II X4 980 can outperform even Intel's entire i7 line.  But of course, YMMV, as there's fundamental differences between any seperate architectures, installations, and even DF maps that can all skew the results drastically.

My aging Phenom II X3 720 can gen a max size world in about 3-4 minutes (standard gen settings on vanilla).
So it's not like you need to buy the absolute best to acheive your goal, there.  Just something from the past 5 years should do fine.

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DF General Discussion / Re: What if EA got the rights to Dwarf Fortress...
« on: September 28, 2011, 07:01:01 pm »
That's a typical urge after EA.  Or DF for that matter.

Take two magma and call me in the morning.

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DF General Discussion / Re: What if EA got the rights to Dwarf Fortress...
« on: September 28, 2011, 02:56:44 pm »
Agreed.


Now don't get me wrong, I used to be a pretty hardcore EA fan.  Back in the days of Genesis, they rocked the boat nonstop, and I owned (and still do) a huge reportoire of their best and worst games, and more often than not, they were incredibly fun.  I still play them.  Back then, they weren't afraid to actually innovate.  Anyone remember the Mutant League series?  Best multiplayer hockey game EVER.

http://youtu.be/h_Sx-nGmMok

But now, the only 'innovation' you can expect in ANY and EVERY sports title is a year spent cataloguing the looks of some celebrity athlete noone actually gives a shit about playing.  They should focus more on gameplay, and mixing it up, than just releasing the same shit with different players every single fucking year.

Ah, how I miss the old days.  King's Bounty, you own more of my life's time than college.

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DF General Discussion / Re: What if EA got the rights to Dwarf Fortress...
« on: September 28, 2011, 02:38:23 pm »
The Sims series isn't one I'd consider to be soul crushed by EA unless you look at the Expansions and the glitches/lack-o-patches


And I do.

Furthermore, I consider selling overpriced expansion packs that barely add any new content, and are actually just patches anyway, to be the equivalent in gaming as shitting your pants in public is socially.

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DF General Discussion / Re: What if EA got the rights to Dwarf Fortress...
« on: September 28, 2011, 01:50:19 pm »
Spore The Sims The EA Ultima Series SimCiy 4 (Everything EA released since 2006) was a game that offered absolute boundless content, freedom, and a vastly different experience every play.  What you got was a nebulously aimless and goalless game that became repetitive faster than Bop-It and thrice as obnoxious, with absolutely no sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, or achievement whatsoever as a result of it's absurdly simplified gameplay and total lack of challenge.

Everything else is either a slightly graphically tweaked rehash of the game of the same title from last year, which is a rehash of last year, which is a rehash of last year, ad nauseum.

With the exception of the vaguely familiar but grotesquely underdeveloped storyline set in yet another vaguely familiar and grotesquely overused universe concept whose only difference between each unwanted sequel is yet another cutting-edge powerhog graphics engine that, by this point, is the sole driving influence behind the graphics card industry as a whole, with absolutely NO new content to speak of and a story that only rudimentarily differentiates itself from it's predecessor.  Nevermind that similar or greater graphical quality is offered by studios with less than a tenth the prestige and staff, while consuming half the resources, and far more likely releasing a genuinely original product.  Until EA inevitably gobbles them up like The Blob and condemns them to join the ranks of every other washed-out former-glory company they've sucked dry and butchered with endless failed reanimation projects seemingly cooked up by a retarded monkey with a CoD obsession.

And that's not even touching on their non-gaming business practices, and how they're factually and notoriously the worst paying publisher in the world for their hour-to-project ratio, how they set unreasonably short deadlines and utterly fail to employ even a skeleton crew of bugtesters, patchers, or post-release production staff.  Or the extremely questionable corporate behavior they engage in with their Pokemon-esque trading of namebrand officials who honestly contribute less to their employers' and projects' development than the janitor they've hired illegally to clean up the brain matter suicide programmers leave scattered around.

I wish I knew a way to just organize the whole of the gaming community to march on EA's front lawn and simultaneously all take a large, steaming shit on their lawn, and the promptly leave after planting a sign that said, "We've pre-released all your games for the next decade.  Enjoy."

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Three words
« on: September 26, 2011, 12:09:24 am »
Once upon a blue moon, evil takes over the body of a pony.  it is the beginning of a very common storyline.  "So it goes", said Tralfamadore's boss, the demon- said to get extraordinarily thirsty when eating cheese cookies.  All of the best ones can be personified as lonely and misunderstood pastries of self.  Such a man would never think outside the walls of the burger joint he lived.  Existed a world of poor conjugation and few periods.  he did not eat Urist's babies.  When suddenly Tralfamadore stood and shouted at the aliens, "Come down here and try this Dwarven ale", walking towards good urist.  Quoth the aliens, "To kill all the peasants in the filthy rebellious city of McNobody's Elven Forest Retreat.  But beware on Christmas Day, there will be many angry cookie monsters who are very pissed, because Mr. Dwarf pulled the Rick Roll trick while wearing no socks, he even ate their cookies.  he then jumped off a cliff."  While giving them words, the aliens casually destroyed a rat's nest of gigantic, mutated Jack Knife Barbers, then proceeded to negotiate with panzy elves to buy their pansyness for fun.  Four millenia later, they came back and murdered the almighty sheep of Armok, the God of Blood, in the court pizza hat pen to make mutton whilst of course, writing down a short sweet soliloquy about eating this bear bone bed.  This greatly displeased those of the Cult of Refrigerator's grand order box.  They will demolish every copy of Harry Potter and become heroes.  But at what cost?  There cannot be more than seventeen pieces of Microcline without first unlocking the Microlinicon.  This is not lovecraft buy they were indeed the writers of this thread.  Thus, with a hot potato and the Swiss ambassador, this is Sparta.  So then, finally, it drank whiskey and barfed on everybody's favorite pet.  So now there's only one option, to eat= your heart out.  But then it rebounded on his table and broke his favorite apple.  So he went every other post.  From there, he hijacked his cousin's sausages, and proceeded to beat up a Mongolian Warlord with a herring whilst doing The Time Warp, again.  He kept watching the German 'Happy' video featuring Babushkas eating slimey shit.  Suddenly, a Velociraptor playing the tuba attacked Bill Gates with a vengeance.  He killed Gates using some mouse called 'The Legendary Monocle of the Super Fancy Tophat of Wonderful Ultra Gentlemanly Headgear of Infinite Mass Displacement Overdrive Of Super Manliness and Zombified Vomit.  With menacing spikes of vomit and fucking cow shit he then proceeded to vomit kittens all over Urist's finely braided beard while the noble cat leather cap insulted AoD's foul Necronomicon leather shoe.  He punched Urist with a shark shaped adamantine glove yelling, "Thou hast royally fucked up!"  Urist fell down and faceplanted hard into Cacame's eyeballs.  Cacame then ate a plump helpmet.  [End page 11]

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DF General Discussion / Re: What if EA got the rights to Dwarf Fortress...
« on: September 25, 2011, 11:40:51 pm »
What can we say?  EA has ruined everything they've ever gotten their hands on, and haven't put a decent game out since roughly 1998.
EA is where game companies (and games) go to die.

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DF General Discussion / Re: I RETURN! Like so many dwarven ghosts.
« on: September 25, 2011, 01:30:46 pm »
SPLENDID!

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DF General Discussion / I RETURN! Like so many dwarven ghosts.
« on: September 24, 2011, 08:30:25 pm »
So after a crushing 4+ months without touching Dwarf Fortress due to Terraria followed by Minecraft, they have lost their novelty as DF never can.  And I... return!

Now, as we all know, DF is entirely too big, nebulous, and OMGWTFBBQ to hope to truly survey.  So I ask you to synopsisize it for me like a good Recordkeeper.

Name the things i've missed (such as mods, wows, and holyurists) in my terrible absence.  Omitting anything native to DF itself, as I have the latest version, and am already enjoying the perils of beekeepsdwarfship.

Yes, community.  REMIND ME WHY WE ARE DWARVES!

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DF General Discussion / HFS theme
« on: May 09, 2011, 05:03:08 pm »
 So, I was wandering and found a song that possessed me with a fell mood to suddenly breach HFS.

This is the song.  The theme of Hell.

http://youtu.be/GqTpKH5LHwc


Epicgasm.

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DF Modding / Re: A Little Bit More Mod
« on: April 02, 2011, 08:08:26 pm »
Sounds extremely useful, and will have the privilege of being the first mod I'll add without trying vanilla first. If you're looking for reaction ideas, how about one that creates slade blocks as a kind of "pig adamantine"? A reaction in the craftsdwarf's workshop to pair them up with a wooden handle and everyone has those slade warhammers they've always wanted, or is that outside the scope of the mod?

It's a bit out of scope and i'd prefer not to mess with slade.  Thanks for the praise and ideas though!

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DF Modding / Re: A Little Bit More Mod
« on: March 20, 2011, 08:54:31 pm »
1.3a is up!

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