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I have screenshots and notes, I just haven't written them up up yet.

Try #2 is going slightly better, I think. I've manage to lock one of the berserks up, and we've only lost half the fort. Of course, we're also only two weeks into Granite.

EDIT: No, try 2 is just as full of death and mayhem as the try 1.  A small teaser:

During the mad 50-dwarf murder spree we just had. I think you tantrumed in the 2nd wave, after the militia captain tangled with the mayor.

   I...I can't even do anything. The only thing I can do is wait until the carnage stops. I started the save with 53 dwarves, it's currently 14. Most of those are going to bleed to death.

EDIT: I think a boar got in somewhere, but I can't ever stop the game quickly enough to track it down.

SON OF EDIT: Just to be clear, about 95% of the deaths are definitively due to other members of the fort. When I loaded the save, 34 dwarfs were miserable and about 10 were already tantruming.

I've sent a PM to agatharcides, but they haven't been online since early March. I can't remember what time limit we set for responding, so I said to respond in two days. If we don't have a post at that point I'll download the save.

I find the idea that Romans had fidelity as a virtue hilarious.  I mean, maybe men were less likely to cheat with other women, but...

YES.  Romans talked about fidelity, but it was usually more in terms of keeping-one's-oaths-to-pater-familias, not avoid-sleeping-around.  Frankly, I do not know why people think the Romans were great people. They were terrible people, who were very good at building things, setting things on fire, and killing people they didn't like.  Just like every other empire we have records of.

Weiner disgusts me. He's proven himself to be a terrible human being who has no sympathy or empathy for other people. I think that basically disqualifies him from being a decent leader. He definitely isn't the kind of man I want in charge of my country.

I've been noticing an interesting distinction in this thread, and I want to try and put my finger on it. Some people are saying that this doesn't make a difference to Weiner's ability to do his job. Other people disagree. I think the difference lies in the definition of what his job is. If his job is to win funds for his district, to make back-room deals, and keep on top of procedural and legal issues then I agree that this doesn't necessarily directly relate to his ability to do all that.

But if a Congressperson's job is to lead and represent America, than this kind of crazy incompetence does effect Weiner's ability to do his job. I don't want to be represented by a creep who sent unwanted porn to people and cheated on his wife (if you are sending porn to people you are not married to, you are cheating on your spouse). He demonstrated seriously bad judgement, both with the photos and with how he tried to handle it.

Seriously, do we want leaders who make the right-wing nutjobs (of whatever religion - I'm looking at you, Taliban) look like they might have a point? Because that's what Weiner is.

Has someone PM'd Magentawolf?

I just use the Print Screen button and Paint. That let's me grab the image and crop it to show what I want, and that's really all that needs to be done with screenshots.

I know. I do some of them too.  Becoming un-bigoted is hard and painful, and it involves changing your self and how you relate to others.

Quote from: BronzeElemental on June 04, 2011, 11:42:09 am

rambling

Dude, just stop.