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true...loveNote: Thread necromancy is typically around three months of age, not less than one.It just so happens that your thread here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do: Go through its clothes and look for loose change.
I prefer a theory in which our existence is all but inevitable over one in which it is all but impossible. Does that count as philosophy? If so, I'm a philosopher. I think that it doesn't make a difference, because both the many-worlds theory and the Copenhagen interpretation are pretty much impossible to prove or disprove at the moment, AFAIK, what with their inherent invisibility.With a sufficient number of universes, the anthropic principal makes sense. With one universe with unvarying laws? Nope.It's not about making sense, it's about logic. Any physical theory that attempts to explain our universe must imply our existence. Our universe, through our observations, dictates physics. Not the other way around.
Once you go beyond that boundary, you've veered off into philosophy.
I am somewhat certain that the decorations on artifacts are generated when you first look at them. Maybe that's true with other images, too.I did a little testing on a handful of regular statues. As far as I can tell, a their description is fixed before you view it. If there's any delayed generation at all, I'm guessing it happens when you first view the "statue of" string.Now the goal is to get two artifacts to have images of each other. Maybe easiest with a pair of planepackeds.These are the _current_ questions. Note that you buried them under cat corpse [12].
I also assume that, as a result of the delay in content generation, you need to read the description before it gets added to the history (if unrevealed)?
Do images on artifacts interact with the likes/dislikes of dwarves? Like if Urist McMayor detests flies and the artifact is a statue of a dwarf, will Urist like the statue until you read the description which makes it be covered with images of flies?
Does the same mechanic for artifact descriptions also apply to general statues and possibly engravings?
Actual armor, attempt to create a homemade version of SWAT armor (Of evil.)Remove "of evil" and replace with "in bright, cheery colors." I've read the Evil Overlord List, in- and out-of-character.
