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You might want to consider bringing along at least one "bodyguard" dwarf with a weapon, fighting skills and maybe some armor. Especially if you plan on breaching the caverns early. BAD THINGS come out of the caverns. All my recent forts have gotten ended early when something nasty went on the rampage and ate half the total limbs of the dwarves in my fort.

It gets Toady in under 20 questions whenever I try him.

It gets some real crazy ones. Rapunzel for example - I expected it to get that one easy but it took 3 tries. The whole time it was asking the wrong kinds of very-specific questions and I didn't think it had enough info to narrow it down, but then boom!

Right now I'm trying to see if it knows of the @ from Roguelike games....nope, looks like it doesn't. I've entered the character as "The @" (Roguelikes)

It's having trouble recognizing a character as ill-defined as the @. It keeps guessing other RPG protagonists like "The protagonist of Dragon Age" and "The Nerevarine."

I think you're pretty much stuck designating one level at a time. If there's a way around it I'd love to know too, but I'm 99% sure

Technically, there's no such thing as Muslim missionaries, because proselytizing is supposed to be forbidden.

Huh? That's a new one on me...

We'd like to send missionaries to muslim countries, but you know, most people get arrested or killed for attempting to spread Christianity in those countries.

That's funny, I know people who are missionaries in Muslim countries and none of those things ever happened to them

So the elf caravan came and they asked me to stop cutting down so many tree. I agree because I don't want to make enemies since I don't have an army or particularly good fortifications.

Hoooo boy, do you have a lot to learn young one.

Also, this is DF2010. No need for complicated magma/drowning chambers, just order your military to hack 'em to bits.

Why blame this one guy? If anything, blame the consumers. If mainstream games are becoming bad, it's the fault of consumers who are willing to buy them. If people cared, they would stop buying those games in favor of better ones. Supply will meet demand.

In any case I don't view the games industry as being much different than the music industry. Yeah, most people listen to bad, generic pop music. There's still a sizeable niche for good music that often goes under the radar, and just because that stuff doesn't get played on the radio much, it doesn't mean the niche is going to go away. Same thing with games - remember what forum we're all posting on? Sure Dwarf Fortress is never going to be popular or mainstream the way Halo or WOW are. But there's still obviously a market for it.

Of course, as with music, the mainstream isn't all bad either. But just play/listen to what you like and don't stress out over the fact that the most well-known media aren't to your taste.