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DF General Discussion / Re: Lavasquare.exe help
« on: May 09, 2010, 06:52:01 pm »Yeah, it may be time to upgrade to DF2010I'd say tomorrow is probably a better time, since it looks like that's when the d# merge will be complete.
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DF General Discussion / Re: The Magmawiki Project
« on: May 09, 2010, 06:49:25 pm »Presumably he was asking if it would be possible to do this in the new engine. Indeed, it strikes me as a somewhat helpful feature to be able to filter "Random" results, though it's not really hugely important for any purpose.Is it possible to limit the random page function? While I do occasionally want to see random factoids about DF that expand my knowledge, I don't like wading through various mods and player stories.
Let's try to keep this thread on the topic of the Magmawiki engine, not with anything having to do with the current dwarf fortress wiki engine
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DF General Discussion / Re: Crayon Art
« on: May 09, 2010, 05:34:58 pm »Does Toady also send crayon art to Europe or only within the US??Based on the fact that I've not seen any threads full of whining Europeans, I'd assume he does.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Which method of prioritizing thirst/hunger/rest over work do you prefer?
« on: May 09, 2010, 03:32:58 pm »What amuses me about the new system is realizing that I'm hungry, thirsty, and sleepy but still playing Dwarf Fortress.Heh. I do the same. I've never died because of it, though. I reckon dwarves should still get around to satisfying their basic needs before death.
"I'll just finish this barrel and then I'll go eat some plump helmets... done! ... I'll just finish one more barrel and then I'll go eat some plump helmets."
It might make some sense if we're able to force short breaks. I also don't think there should be skill penalties for being just a little hungry or whatever. Starving, sure.
Mine have mostly managed that, though.
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DF Suggestions / Re: Would you support adding waste/sewage?
« on: May 08, 2010, 01:14:49 am »Here he takes a different road on the internet's baser content and apparently accuses governments for using that content (i.e. child porn) as a scapegoat for passing censorship legislation to sites instead of micromanaging each case of such content on these sites -- and I'm presuming the sites on hand here are torrent sites or boards like 4chan -- internationally (a thing, frankly, impossible for a number of reasons). He then goes on to question the reader if the cost of allowing these sites to be (thereby, allowing said bad content to exist because he's already defined it as an inevitability of these sites) is worth it, which is puzzling, because he first bids the reader sympathy for a medium polluted by a few bad apples resulting in strict government enaction to suppress it completely before justifying that harsh and unreasonable means-to-an-end, after all. He finishes this paragraph with embellishing the potential for bad content and whether or not you want it in an unrelated forum thread simply because it exists for someone to find it a "cool meme" and eventually bring it up. Quite frankly, though, were the two even this comparable I would find a reference to poop much more tolerable than, say, a fun picture of a child being raped here and again.looked to me like he was referring to the recent EU blocking of CP sites, and using that to suggest that there is more bad stuff on the internet than meets the eye.
It seems to me more that he rambles off topic than that it's a coherent fallacy.*snip*
Oh my god, that is the most triumphant example of the slippery slope fallacy I have ever, ever seen.
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DF General Discussion / Re: If the dwarves were on their own..
« on: May 08, 2010, 12:59:19 am »
Same thing as NPC forts: Dig a hole in the ground and just hand out all day.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Adopting the locals...
« on: May 07, 2010, 08:17:12 pm »be wary of those cubs, the last thing you want is a tigermansplosionOh yeah, the inability to butcher sentient creatures could be quite problematic here...
though I'm not sure if that extends to animalfolk.
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DF Suggestions / Re: Would you support adding waste/sewage?
« on: May 07, 2010, 07:52:03 pm »There has been no suggestion that this precede anything else. The earliest it might happen would be after the current bugs are fixed, adventure mode and sieges are made fun, and the top ten suggestions are addressed. And the bugs resulting from those additions are fixed.If we're going to talk about detail, dwarves should sleep every day, eat a few times, pee several times, and poop once.
For their health Urist McHouse recommends loving sex every other day, a glass of wine with dinner (not a problem), and a 40 hour work week.
And that changes DF straight into playing The Sims with alcoholic midgets back in 1400.
Oh, and I dislike the idea of having even more crap stuffed inside the game instead of getting the current stuff fixed. Maybe after Toady gets a decent pathfinding so my stone won't try to pathfind down the volcano.
At that point, I wouldn't be surprised if a plethora of relatively small things go in, and this could be one of them.
Or it might not.
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DF Suggestions / Re: Would you support adding waste/sewage?
« on: May 07, 2010, 06:35:26 pm »Actually, the dwarf fortress threads on 4chan tend to be totally devoid of the sort of thing which people on these forums see as indication that waste would be used to drown elves. "Sick and insane stuff" exist in proportions roughly equal to elsewhere, and people are not, as this forum is, inclined to farm mermaids or whatnot. This sort of immaturity would exist only here, if it were to exist at all.They can do that in 4chan or wherever else. Why invite it here?Oh no, immaturity on the internet?! Everybody, into the magma!It is when you get people posting about it on the DF forums on a regular basis as a new meme on the same level as the catsplosion based meme.Trying to be optimistic, I voted "Yes" this time. But as I have explained before, it is very important for me that we find a way to curb the resulting onslaught of immaturity that might occur (I am not sad if I am wrong and it does not occur at all, of course).So what? It's a single player game. People's poop-drowning traps will not be forced on you. Just don't build them. Using the immaturity as an excuse is like saying that the internet should be shut down because some people use it to plan crimes.
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Just ignore it. I can't really imagine how you would be offended by a person mentioning poop. It's a basic bodily function.
Also people post about how they do sick/insane stuff every day on the internet. It should be shut down.
It could be on Something Awful too, I don't go there so I don't know.
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DF General Discussion / Re: The Magmawiki Project
« on: May 07, 2010, 02:04:12 pm »We would like to get comments on this design:Well, it's very different, and me being of the ornery traditionalist sort, that makes me quite apprehensive. However, I like that each conversation is kept as a separate thread, and that there can thus be a separate talk index. That is a step forward of magnitude such that all other concerns become quite minor.
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Dwarf_Fortress_Wiki:Magmawiki/Emmys_Talk_Forum_Mockup
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DF General Discussion / Re: Fan art competition!
« on: May 05, 2010, 02:38:36 pm »It is literally impossible, yes, but I believe it is practically possible. Vermin spawn based on those same ratios, unless I am mistakenUtilizing the milked material will be impossible, both because it can't be used for anything, and because there's no way to get it out of the barrels. But the rest is possible.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Incidentally, what you plan to do is impossible.
Also, nice goblin picture.
No possible either will be getting a vermin to occasionally breed a non-vermin, which kinda kills the whole thing.
Also, did no one see the elf stealing magma with he BARE HANDS a few pages back? I thought that was pretty awesome.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Haspen has been curious lately... [poll]
« on: May 05, 2010, 01:29:57 pm »I suppose I am technically not playing any version now, but waiting for merge/bugfixes...Yeah, this is me too. But I have played the new version a bit, when it first came out. Didn't last too long, though.
But, I voted "I will play 0.31 after bugfixes/OpenGL merge, for now, .40d" anyways...
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DF General Discussion / Re: Fan art competition!
« on: May 05, 2010, 01:24:29 pm »Utilizing the milked material will be impossible, both because it can't be used for anything, and because there's no way to get it out of the barrels. But the rest is possible.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Incidentally, what you plan to do is impossible.
Also, nice goblin picture.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Complete indecision
« on: May 05, 2010, 01:19:53 pm »Both. Use burrows to segregate your residents. Men up top and women down below.This would preclude breeding, since they wouldn't meet enough to become enamored with one and other, and thus would not marry.
To fix this, I recommend that you dig a single dining hall, horizontally into a mountainside.
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DF Suggestions / Re: Feces vote
« on: May 05, 2010, 02:02:00 am »What do you imagine would happen if Boatmurdered had feces as a feature?Assuming it was still mixed in with the death, slaughter, fire, miasma, vomit, elephants, and magma, I reckon it'd be just fine.
Would you like that to be the introduction new players were given to the game?