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Go shave your beard and wear rope reed, you elfspawn mandate-whore!

Your mother was a noble and your father was an elf!

Go to Boatmurdered.

You're so ugly, even a tentacle clown wouldn't touch you.

Yo momma so fat, when she fell in the bottomless pit she got stuck.

May you sober up and figure out where you really are!

Go pull the noble lever.

Healthcare: Yea, it's buggy as all get out, but it's still a step up from where it was in 40d. No more military dwarves in bed for six years (superdwarvenly tough no less, pissed me off) because of a lousy lower left leg. No more tantrumming dwarves because they can't drink booze due to a broken bone. No more being permanently bedridden because you lost your left pinky to a carp. Lost a foot? Grab a crutch. Lost an arm? Learn to use the other one. No more need to euthanize perfectly good dwarves because of minor injuries.

Military: Still buggy as all get out, but at least you don't have to very carefully regulate who's using what. No more buying wooden weapons or carefully making base quality silver weapons with haulers, then painstakingly forbidding and unforbidding to make sure your trainees are using silver, then having to quintuple check to make sure one of them isn't carrying a steel one by mistake and still getting spinal wounds because your marksdwarves, who you gave steel crossbows, decided to practice hammerdwarf. Wooden training weapons are a godsend, and the quartermaster is my new favorite noble. We still need behavior fixes, but it's way easier to use than it was in 40d. Which is good, because we need the military a lot more now than we did in 40d.

The first word is one of the 7 deadly sins. The second word is a synonym of stubbornness. It sums up dwarves nicely (though a synonym for "mind-bogglingly stupid" would work as well). It's just fluff.

Bronze is a good metal, it's no steel (though neither are adamantine) but it makes good armor and weapons and is very easy to make if you have the right conditions. If you embark in a spot with granite near the surface, bronze will be a logical first step. If you embark in a metallically ideal spot (limestone or chalk upper layers), you'll probably go right to steel.

Moreover, iron ores cost 24 embark points and the bars cost 50. Copper Nuggets/Malachite and Cassiterite cost 6 embark points apiece and can be combined with a 10 point charcoal or a 3 point log (or free if you use the ones that make up your wagon) into two bars of bronze. If you increase the amount of bronze you embark with, you can reduce the fuel cost further by bringing Bituminous Coal and processing that with a log. Assuming you use one log, one coal, and one each of cassiterite and copper, two picks would cost you 18 embark points if you forged them yourself, compared to 220 purchased at embark (or 88 if you only brought copper, since if you're buying picks that's probably what you'd get). If you stretch the pick order (let's say you want to forge 6 picks, leaving one dwarf to gather food/farm), you would need 51 points worth of material (using coke instead of another log to process successive bituminous coal saves 3 points) plus a 100 point anvil. Compared to 660 for bronze picks or 264 for copper, that's one heckofa deal, especially since the picks you forge yourself come with quality modifiers if you invested in a weaponsmith. Bronze is the king of embark metals if your mountainhome has access to cassiterite.

Humans are born with hair on their heads. Dwarves are born with beards longer than they are.

I finally got around to DF2010, mostly because Dwarf Therapist is updated and I managed to optimize enough that it didn't lag horrible. The place I embarked is very nice, lots of limestone, trees, and I haven't pierced the caves yet. I checked civs on embark and the only civ missing is the elves, and who needs them anyways. There's no running water, unfortunately, but it rains a lot and it's fairly cool. Haven't hit winter, it might freeze up, but I saw no evaporation during the summer which is promising.

The place is very mineral rich, I've dug through three gem clusters and five iron veins just digging out storage and farming zones (takes a lot longer, now that you have to plan for irrigation. I dug out some rooms right below a murky pool and pierced the roof with a ramp to irrigate, then had to wait two months before enough water drained into my fort for me to build a wall and cap the flood. So water won't be a problem.

Just got my first migrant wave. Not a huge fan of Dwarf Therapist, but since Dwarf Manager apparently didn't make the migration I'll have to learn it I suppose.

The problem with fantasy worlds is that if you try to apply scientific structure to them they tend to fall apart. Toady is legendary for even getting his worlds to generate under those conditions.

A decent physics based combat game similar to Robot Wars 2 (I believe... it was based on that robot wars tv series). You had a bunch of things like motors, pneumatic rams, etc and you built, by drawing them out with a CAD-like tool, weapons and other devices to use against AI opponents. As far as I could tell, the game calculated damage based on real physics - your robot took more damage from a weapon designed like a pick than it would from swinging the same mass flat. Moreover, each component was separate, similar to DF's wound system. You could rip off wheels, break weapons, or, for the ultimate kill, smash the CPU inside the robot. It was awesome.