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I dreamed I was a wealthy man, still young, I dreamed I had a custom built overclocked desktop, with a blue water cooling system that circulated around my bedroom before going in and out of the computer case, I had an enormous aquarium shaped to look like a dwarf head with red stroboscopic lights going out of the eyes and a fountain streaming out of its mouth... I was playing dwarf fortress when I fell into the screen and ran through the wires, going around the whole range of ip addresses. Here and there ip cameras shaped as chained kittens watched over the entrance of my home, sending short bursts of data to a system of sentry guns that stood vigilantly, protecting the sleep of my loved ones with kevlar crossbows loaded with depleted uranium quarrels... I went down and down to the cellar and there I saw... I saw a fortress, first I saw a beowulf cluster , then after traveling to the switch I fell again in what felt to be a bottomless pit. It was not falling as much as flying. There was no movement in the darkness, no wind, no noise... nothing. but I knew. I knew I was going somewhere... then, the light. I came crashing down, fell through the canopy of a rain forest, flocks of birds watched me fall then tried to attack me. I was there. A world full of life, with beasts, war, prophecies, disasters but also births, miracles and love. I saw crazed dwarves write thousands of pages of poetry on mugs or goblin bone earrings. I saw that and so much more that I cant recall. I walked through mazes, talked with ageless beings. Played dice with clowns, bet on the outcome of arena fights, drank and feasted in brightly lit halls, saw them crumble as ages passed and time drifted by. I saw most wonderful things, I saw what could be, what should be, I saw things I'd rather not, things that cant be unseen and even if they are but the shadow of a memory that's not even mine; they now keep me from enjoying simpler pleasures.

My point being, if dwarf fortress was to ever be adapted to parallel computing (and maybe multiplayer gaming), how many bay12ers would be ok to join a big cycle-scavenging based program to run a persistent df world?

I know this is a wild hypothesis but eh, let's roll! who would feel like joining?

I for one would gladly invest in a beowulf cluster just for that
(ok maybe not, I'd do some bitcoin mining too)

(apologies for spelling/grammar mistakes, english isnt my first language)

ok found out that if I destroyed and rebuilt the craftdwarf worksho the engravers would see the slabs...

I am officialy onboard! YAY


Question, why Back up the money with a metal? Look at the bitcoins system! We could adapt it in some way...
just a suggestion though ^^

Lately I was reading some code, when it struck me... If toady was an evil individual he could have backdoored all the systems running dwarf fortress to create some giant botnet since the code isnt open source no one can tell... I dismissed the thought with a mental wave of the hand (baaah, he isnt the kind of individual to do this, and someone would have noticed) then it struck me (yes again) that he has backdoored... Our minds!
think about it, hasnt been df running in your mind like a daemon? Sometime you think about it you dont know why, things IRL remind you of it... And when you are idle (asleep) its still running : look at the dream topics! He didnt even bother with a rootkit, his plan is so perfect... Lately I saw interest arise in subjects such as the Bay12 space program (which I should have applied to since I can count some hours on orbiter traveling to other planets, mastering the slingshot process, the reentry and that kind of thing, brainfreeze if you read me and it isnt too late, I would gladly join) and members flock around these projects, isnt that another proof that there is some kind of "globalbay12 brain", does it think by itself? or is there a puppetmaster... Or should I say a puppettoadmaster?

So what is he planning to do with his bots? when (if he didnt already) will he set them in motion? and how...

(maybe the proof that I am truely infected is that I have no problem with that)...

IMO if you cant handle half a dozen bogey men, how well shall you fare against a score of thieves amongst whom there will be two or three masters at arms clad and wielding masterwork loot-to-be? I see as a danger for the first days of my adventurers but after some weasel wrestling they are more like training dummies since they cant touch me. The main problem being exhaustion if I dont play a vampire.

I wonder how power levelling ambusher will impact the new system. Currently you can kill a whole army without being noticed if you are legendary...

It would not be fair to pit us against diggers without means to defend ourselves. I love the waterwall idea, but if you get diggers in the first siege, will your wall be set up already?