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I don't think you can twist a weapon using the "aimed attack" menu, since an embedded weapon will disappear from said menu, but pressing towards the enemy to autoattack will make you twist the weapon and pull it out immediately.  Important to remember if there's a huge battle raging and you're not paying much attention to combat messages and suddenly for some reason you can't use your sword in the aimed attack menu anymore.

Here's the Leibniz formula for pi.  This is only an approximation using a non-infinite number of terms, of course, but you can keep going for as long as you like to get as much accuracy as you like.  Unfortunately, it converges very slowly, but it will work.

I'm still amazed nobody linked to Creating Friendly AI yet.

Oh wait, I just did.  Go on, have a look- it's quite good, if a bit long. 

The trick is to get extra flow by using a stack of pumps say, ten wide, with a single-tile-wide exit pipe.  This will cause water to flow down said pipe at ten tiles per tick (so long as the pumps stay supplied, which is harder than it looks without simply using a cistern stack), giving a highly convincing simulation of "high-pressure" water flow. 

This is still just using the teleportation model of water pressure, of course.  I'm not sure whether fast water flow in this manner can crush people against walls, and would be interested to find out (particularly since the canonical hydrodynamics I remember indicates that teleporting water does not push creatures or items, only "flowing" (I.E. diffusing) water does). 

Uh. 

Okay. 

Well, I'm still not quite sure that she's actually going insane, but "insanely powerful" would certainly be an adequate description.

O_o

Clarifying note: We have seen Rose's dreamself vanish in just this manner when she woke up, so John's dreamself vanishing wasn't something special Vriska did.  She just woke him up. 

I have absolutely no idea where his dreamself is going to be when he falls asleep again, however.

Vimes.

Capture live fish captures vermin fish, I think (like turtles and moghoppers).  To catch and cage larger fish, you'll need to get underwater cage traps somehow (usually by having a "funnel" into a drainable tunnel filled with said traps).

Zombie and skeletal fish can walk on land as far as they want, but they won't be able to get out if you build a wall around the "aquarium", or if they're in a glass aquarium-cage rather than a pit full of water (although the former might be preferable, to stop them from scaring your dwarfs, since glass walls still block line-of-sight).

Like this (side view):

X_____X
X~~~~~X

where X is glass walls and ~ is water (and _ is empty space without water, to prevent escapees).

And now that I think about it, you won't actually need underwater cage traps for undead aquatic wildlife, given that they can walk on land.  Just use bait animals or something (bait dorfs?) to get them into your cage traps.