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DF Suggestions / Re: Hippos, the ultimate War Animal
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:52:58 pm »
Quote from: Di on January 01, 2013, 05:29:29 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 01, 2013, 04:21:30 pm
That seems ludicrous. Animals are not bloodthirsty killers. They're creatures that want to live and make a new generation.
It's dwarf fortress, man. Everything around here wants to gouge your eyes, tear your limbs and burn you in the fire of their hatred.
That's an even worse argument that most based on DF science, because it's not true.

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If training and war-training should be blocked by something, it should be low chance of success determined by skill level, not a single tag in raws that says you can tame giant cave spiders but not giant moths and so on.
Again, temperament is a huge obstacle. It's easier to get hippies to kill something than to get rabbits to kill something.

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General Discussion / Re: Humans, and eventually a colony on Mars.
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:46:29 pm »
Quote from: Aseaheru on January 01, 2013, 05:03:16 pm
well, unless there is a form of instantaneous communication then loyalty to earth is not that much of an issue, as by the time anything happens it will already be to degraded to matter.
Four words: Violent counter-colonization fleet.
It's something to worry about a little.

Quote from: Starver on January 01, 2013, 05:03:43 pm
Quote from: 10ebbor10 on January 01, 2013, 04:14:26 pm
Quote from: Starver on January 01, 2013, 02:30:49 pm
(and happier with a practical Venusian surface base than a "cloud city" one),
Unless we find a way to obliterate 99% of a planets athmosphere, we ain't having no Surface bases on Venus. Why does nobody like the floating base thingies.
I don't actually dislike them, and I acknowledge that there'd be problems behind a surface base (thus qualifying the base as needing to be "practical").  I was just stratifying my imagined preferences.  Ground best, orbital worst.  A semi-stable cloud-city might sit between the two.
OTOH, if I think about it more, I could actually be saying "Ground best, orbital next-best, cloud-city worst".  A problem in orbit tends to mean at least some time 'just' in a different orbit (which could be corrected for, or rescued from, as required).  A whole cloud city (or a person working on the outside of it) that somehow ends up falling is just going to quickly find it/themselves heading downwards.  Potentially at great speed.  You have the generally Earthly problem of how to survive the fall mitigated a bit by the thick atmosphere.  But, in turn, you are now faced with the almost-uniquely Venusian issue of how to survive the ground-level pressure and heat and acidity that so discouraged the guys in R&D from constructing any ground-base... And, should you survive, how soon might any practical rescue arrive? ;)
Get me an active Venus Ground Base below me, and I might be happier (with precautions) working on a Venus Cloud Base.  Something tells me I really wouldn't enjoy a tour of duty on a Jovian Cloud Base, even if they can make it a nominally Earth-normal environment by one means or another, and I've a feeling that that's impossible gravity-wise but don't even fancy it enough to speculatively check that out...
I wouldn't mind a cloud base designed by halfway competent engineers. It would probably work by the same principles a balloon or (sea)ship works, and be sealed off similar to a spaceship. I'd rather live in such a base than a spaceship--it's easier to make bigger and has gravity. The biggest problem is power, actually...

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DF General Discussion / Re: Catfish land attack.
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:41:32 pm »
I think you have no idea how evolution works.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Is this real? Some rich guy claims to have just donated $50k to Toady.
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:39:03 pm »
&

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DF General Discussion / Re: Question on goblins
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:38:46 pm »
Quote from: Detahramet on December 31, 2012, 09:27:03 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 30, 2012, 12:39:41 am
Quote from: InsanityIncarnate on December 29, 2012, 07:21:55 am
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 28, 2012, 11:45:51 pm
Quote from: slowpokez on December 28, 2012, 10:40:18 am
Btw, Welcome to B12 one of humanity's last best beacons of insanity. :D
FIFY.
There's way too many crazies in the world for us to be one of the last beacons of insanity.
Look at politics.
Politicians don't count. Our insanity is too intellectual for them.
Again, best beacons of insanity.
I'd accept last beacons of intelligence, too.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Insanity aside, Bay12 is one of the few places I've been able to find a high concentration of people who aren't complete morons.

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DF Modding / Re: Gauntlets via Reactions
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:37:38 pm »
Just to point out...

You referred to using "not actually bronze, just relatively close organic materials, such as in the bronze colossus". Bronze colossi just have tissues made of INORGANIC:BRONZE.

Thank you for your time.

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DF Modding / Re: [DFHack] Sky Eternal: Create more z-levels! (version 0.1)
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:34:28 pm »
Probably wouldn't work as well, HFS is in the way.


What happens if you've "anchored" a construction to the sky and then add a new z-level?

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: (Un)Holy Powers(OOC)
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:30:03 pm »
Quote from: javierpwn on January 01, 2013, 05:17:42 pm
If you guys were to try hard enough, you could use the disease to your advantage, curing people so they will worship you
You're assuming they would cast aside their ideals and sacrifice mortal lives for their own personal benefit?

...

I'm screwed.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: The Art of Minimalism V: No Derming/Furtakaing
« on: January 01, 2013, 05:25:47 pm »
Quote from: Harry Baldman on January 01, 2013, 03:35:46 pm
Spawn as dog that has a lighter and knows how to use it.
Just the lighter.

Quote from: Tavik Toth on January 01, 2013, 03:37:36 pm
Get any weapons for shark.
Then find more survivors.
You grab the hatchet. [1] You notice a Mafioso with a Tommy gun, [4v2] shooting you dead. Respawn?

Quote from: Doomblade187 on January 01, 2013, 03:47:12 pm
Make another torch. Even if it fails, explore the cave.
[6] You incinerate it again. [5-1] You explore the cave. It's not too large, just 7-8 feet high usually and a couple dozen feet across.

Quote from: Vorthon on January 01, 2013, 03:52:25 pm
Ingest serum.
[3] You develop fur and a craving for mice.

Quote from: misko27 on January 01, 2013, 03:54:22 pm
Note to self: Free Speech = C+
Alternatively, that's the only LCS pickup line I could remember.

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Ending the conversation affter making plans to see each other later, investigate hovel, gun at ready. "Hello? I have gun!! Hands in the air."
"Hello? I have a gun!! Hands in the air."
No one responds.

Quote from: ShadowDragon on January 01, 2013, 03:55:17 pm
Make #1 into sword.
With what, your bare hands?

Quote from: Xantalos on January 01, 2013, 04:08:25 pm
Go punch the shovel guy to death and take his shovel.
[2v6] You don't actually hit him, but Doomblade dodges into a low-hanging dirtactite. He is dazed.

Quote from: Furtuka on January 01, 2013, 04:18:20 pm
Respawn with a cutting board and set of knives. Make the shark into sashimi
[1] You decide to start with the tongue, which ends exactly how you'd expect.

Quote from: Persus13 on January 01, 2013, 05:16:42 pm
Continue talking.
"...So, seen any good movies lately?"
"No."

GM TURN:
The shark reanimates and eats Furtaka! Respawn?
The Yakuza guy charges at misko again, enraged that he was ignored. [1] He somehow charges right into the zombie shark.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll To Wasteland
« on: January 01, 2013, 04:59:24 pm »
Look around.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Feudalism Rethought Redux: Step 1
« on: January 01, 2013, 04:57:13 pm »
Ayup.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Feudalism Rethought Redux: Step 1
« on: January 01, 2013, 04:53:21 pm »
ebbor, mesor, scapheap...yup. Probably at least one more will vote aff.

Replacing world map in OP with this one:
Spoiler: Somewhat large image (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: Humans, and eventually a colony on Mars.
« on: January 01, 2013, 04:51:21 pm »
Quote from: vadia on January 01, 2013, 04:47:35 pm
until we can rework physics it seems to me a multi-generational approach is the only reasonable approach to making it to our neighboring stars' planets.
Hypothetically, if we could create a well- or self-maintained* starship and had a way to put humans into indefinite hibernation, using that could work. Less chance of a degradation of technical skills/loyalty to Earth/etc.

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General Discussion / Re: A Parable
« on: January 01, 2013, 04:49:21 pm »
Quote from: Lectorog on January 01, 2013, 01:26:59 pm
Quote from: ed boy on January 01, 2013, 08:03:27 am
Quote from: PTTG?? on December 31, 2012, 11:56:30 am
The important question, besides who has to clean up the crusher before the feds show up, is, who's fault is it?
How on earth is this the important question?
What do you think the important question is?
How do we fix this?

We already know who to blame: Everyone. Neither side really wanted to solve the fiscal cliff (or at least the desire to solve it wasn't universal enough), because if they failed they could say, "Look what the [other party] did to you!"

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Feudalism Rethought Redux: Step 1
« on: January 01, 2013, 04:47:00 pm »
Quote from: 10ebbor10 on January 01, 2013, 04:22:14 pm
The map is rather small, it appears to me.
A bit, yeah. I didn't discover I could set the world generator to make bigger worlds until it was too late.  ::)

...On that note, who thinks we should stick with the little map and who wants to have a bigger world?

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