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Quote from: Cruxador on May 02, 2010, 03:36:44 pm

Some form of true anonymity or hidden identity is always a positive thing (assuming it doesn't preclude bans in the event of spamming/vandalism).

What do you mean by that?  Like the ability to edit anonymously?  I think that's a definite good thing, but I know in the current wiki editing anonymously means you leave your IP address, which is hardly "anonymous" in fact making an account is more anonymous because only the admins can see your IP then.

I was thinking merely something like a checkbox on your account settings causing you to be listed as anonymous in the changelogs and whatnot. It's not really super crucial, especially in something like a wiki, but it's still a positive option, and I prefer anonymity for philosophical reasons.

Quote from: Cruxador on May 02, 2010, 03:36:44 pm

Some form of true anonymity or hidden identity is always a positive thing (assuming it doesn't preclude bans in the event of spamming/vandalism).

Currently what we're doing is a type of hash on IP addresses. For instance, my IP address becomes "metalinguistic precompleteness killdee". Our word lists need improvement. The goal is phrases like "lovely yellow garden".

An elegant solution. You might be interested in the dictionary used by ponychan, which produces such phrases as "Floating Sugar", "Renegade Sweety Lily", "Mystic Silver Prancer", "Jingling Bubbles", and "White Flash Petal". I'm sure I could get ahold of it if you wanted it. But I have no knowledge of how dictionaries work, so they may be incompatible, and even if they're not, it may be too small since I believe it was written from scratch for an April Fools joke.

Well we want shorter and simpler words, because they're easier to remember and tend to flow more nicely.

The main problem with the current dictionary is that it includes a number of bad words, allowing for things like "detective f***up f***wit".

I'd actually recommend using the wordlist from DF, seeing as this wiki is sort of intended for DF purposes. Most of us are used to names like "Dodok the Radiantsword of Fish". Of course, making this work could end up being too much work.

universally, feces concidered to be taboo.

Actually, my own research suggests that the vast majority of people produce feces on a daily or near-daily basis.

It's just gross

A matter of opinion. While nobody (so far as I know) is suggesting that it's pleasant, many find it a total non-issue.[/quote]and does not really fits the whole high fantasy feel.[/quote]Dwarf Fortress isn't really high fantasy. It's closest to Sword and Sorcery, I'd say, but it doesn't really fit any conventional subgenre perfectly.

concidering staggering amount of people who are seemingly obsessed with including feces into the game,

I have noticed neither any obsession nor any staggering.

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kicking the thing in wont really solve anything. As vote(...What the hell. That seems kind of biased against a yes, dont you think?)

You could suggest that the dividing of the yes votes into two categories, effectively making it seem like there are less yesses, is indeed a detriment. But I'd reckon most folks know how to add the two percentages together if the want to see how many total vote yes.

I see absolutely no reason to introduce feces into the game

read some of this (and other) threads. There are plenty of good suggestions tied to this.

Unsurprisigly, didnt ToadyOne stated few times that he will not addlike feces or sex into game to keep game kid-friendly

No, he didn't. I believe he did say once that it wasn't a priority, but of course the scope of what is heavily prioritized is far smaller than the scope of what is eventually planned.

This is a game. A game supposed to be fun. Having to spend my gametme building infrastructure so the shit can flow does not fits into my definition of fun. Go gnaw on your feces somewhere else.

Building infrastructure does fill some people's definition of fun.

This game also have no reproductive organs. Oh, and creatures breed via magical spores. This is also a fantasy strategy game, not a real life simulation of flowing shit. Go to the toilet and play with your so desired liquid there.

To be honest, I'd like it of the breeding by spores was replaced by actual sex, even if it's as simple as two dwarves sharing a square (hopefully in a bed) for a few ticks. It shouldn't really be explicit (not because I think there's something inherently wrong with that, but because it would add almost nothing).

I have no idea why people consider sex less kid-friendly than horrific, limb-ripping violence.

I believe this is the result of an essentially Victorian repression. It reached the states after it was ending on across the pond. Give it another decade or two, and the US should be like Europe in that regard.

Hollywood would be my guess. Thank You, USA.

While Hollywood certainly doesn't encourage healthy attitudes towards sex, they're not exactly huge proponents of censorship either. I'd say their occasionally vulgar attempts at titillation are an outgrowth of their cultural schema, rather than the other way around.

Quote from: KillHour on May 02, 2010, 10:00:43 am

Quote from: Dabi on May 02, 2010, 03:57:14 am

This vote was rigged someone donated $10.000+

Lots of people donated $10 

Right, because EVERYONE writes , instead of .
-_- It's alright, you didn't know. I think an example would be the Dutch.
Take your ignorance away from here! BEGONE EVIL! 

Everyone knows Europeans frequently have trouble with punctuation. Most folks think it's funny anyway.

Some form of true anonymity or hidden identity is always a positive thing (assuming it doesn't preclude bans in the event of spamming/vandalism).

I don't get why people have been voting after the results were posted.

Indeed, the >10000 has skyrocketed recently.

Muut's an Owlman though. An Owlman with great abs. An Elkbird probably wouldn't have great abs.

Certainly some wouldn't. They have descriptors relating to their relative physical fitness just like anything else.

On an entirely unrelated not, my Elkbirds now have [PREFSTRING:great abs]

Something else I notice: Despite the fact that the description lists them as bipedal, they have [MOUNT_EXOTIC].
So I guess it's probably not human-shaped at all.

I always imagined it as that Indian spirit of the dead from Gunnerkrigg Court.