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An adamantine spire is found in the caverns. A tense moment is felt throughout the fortress, and the dwarves watch with bated breath as the miners begin to dig away at the side of the vein. When it becomes apparent that it's solid all the way through, the danger is past, and the dwarves rejoice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T5JUa1yjl8

And yet no one notices, of course. I hope it will be reviewed or something and eventually revised or repealed, but somehow I doubt that will happen; especially when anyone who suggests that the bill is flawed could be... *gasp*... a terrorist.

Say, does this bill only cover people in America, or does it include anyone anywhere? I heard somewhere that it gave permission to detain anyone in the world. That would certainly foil my plan to flee the US (probably to the EU) once I finish my education. I don't have the money to lobby the politicians into sensibility, so I don't have another choice, really... I feel as if the US government is declaring war on its own citizens. I actually don't feel safe in the US now because I disagree (peacefully, of course) with how the government is run.

Deon: After bugtesting by adding one raw file at a time, I have discovered what makes Genesis (ASCII version) crash when the "objects" folder in the Mac OSX version of vanilla Dwarf Fortress is replaced with the "objects" folder of the ASCII version of Genesis (a process which works fine to install Genesis into DF on other operating systems).

In the file creature_savage_normal.txt, there is an entry for the Dire Badger ([CREATURE:GIANT_BADGER]). This entry, when removed, allows the Mac version of Genesis (vanilla DF with its objects folder replaced with ASCII Genesis' objects folder) to run normally (it crashes otherwise). Could you take a look at the raws and see if there's anything irregular in that specific creature's entry? For your convenience I've put them below:

holyshithiolyshitholysheeeeeet!!!!!!!!

http://black-aperture.com/

Very interesting... I think it's probably fake, considering HL3's track record... but then again, it's Valve. They do clever stuff like that on occasion, especially after they hired that MINERVA: Metastasis guy, who is apparently an ARG mastermind. Gabe Newell and Mark Laidlaw say there's no ARG currently, although they could be hiding something. I certainly hope they are.

There's some info here about the clues that people claim to have found:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/12/12/valve-vga-vid-appears-to-offer-hl3-clues
People are also claiming this panel from the recent TF2 comic to be a clue. So the rumor goes, if you increase the contrast, there's a λ (background, right of Spy's head)and a 3 (coffee stain to the left). I think this one's a bit of a stretch, honestly.

Are there any other decent sites for OWS specific news besides occupywallst.org? That site has been a great source of until recently... Now, however, they're mostly posting things along the lines of thank-yous and congratulations. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I'd like to have a source for news regarding actual events, dates of assemblies, days of action, etc.

a mad butcher of a doctor

You too, eh? I bet my patient mortality rate is higher than yours.

Mine is currently a gif of The Doctor from Cave Story, in that floaty animation that he does just before he teleports. He's just hovering there grinning evilly at my posts, I suppose.

I tend to stick with a "Dr. something or other" theme (for obvious reasons)... I think my avatar was Dr. Robotnik before this one. I attempted to make a little pixellated Santa hat for The Doctor, but my pixel-fu is too weak.

I suppose you ran the exe file with Wine. If so, it most likely installed stuff into your ~/.wine folder (which is basically like Windows' C: drive). Be sure to back up any applications you have in Wine's "program files" folder (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you most likely have nothing to back up) and then remove ~/.wine with this command:
rm -rf ~/.wine
On the next time you try to run a Windows program with Wine, a fresh copy of the ~/.wine folder will be recreated for you.

Quite a while ago I had a forgotten beast with a deadly dust that caused instantaneous necrosis appear in a very open cavern (due to custom worldgen parameters). I sent a bunch of recruits after the beast and they all jumped on top of it, axes swinging wildly. Just as most of the recruits got within range, it used its dust attack and blasted them across the cavern. Anyone who was flung by the dust also contracted its necrosis syndrome, and as a result, fledgeling axedwarves rocketed across the cavern in all directions until they exploded against the walls, all the while emitting miasma like some sort of putrid contrail. Not one dwarf survived.

The scene was gruesome but utterly glorious. I don't recall whether the beast overtook the rest of my fortress... I most likely sealed off the caverns before it could wander in.