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I really wish there were more games that did that (I would've used Perfect Dark in my example, natch, but Goldeneye is pretty much the same game with worse graphics). Your reward for being better at the game is being allowed to play more of it, not intangible "achievements" or in-game collectibles that don't mean anything outside of that game.

In PD in particular, there's one level (possibly more?) where playing on the highest difficulty completely changes your starting position and weapons, which makes the mission a lot more dangerous due to the snipers (which are practically aimbots on the highest difficulty).

This is a masterwork simulation of dwarves in a fortress in C++. All craftstoadship is of the highest quality.

Havok integration is moving along smoothly, although I still can't stop dwarven brains from flying out of their skulls when they come to a sudden stop. For now I've just disabled gravity on them, but you'll still occasionally get dwarves dropping dead from their brain bouncing against the inside of their skull.

On a happier note, index of refraction is now fully simulated, although prisms of certain dimensions tend to magnify sunlight one thousandfold and spread it in all directions, resulting in many pages of "The ____ is melting!" and "The ____ is on fire!".

well my 14 year old fort has had a vampire attack, only problem, the usual tactics will not work, we embarked on year 5 of the world so the vampire is no different from the rest of the dwarves.
I had recently marked all the barrels of blood and ichor  to be dumped, I'm wondering if my vampire has been drinking from them for the past three years instead of getting it fresher.
 I have several dwarves that have no drinking thoughts, ok the one that likes mead, no I've not had mead in the fort, perhaps that dwarf just needs some mead, but the rest, I'm afraid I got a vampire blood spill in the well. Time to un-dump the blood, put them in a blood only stockpile and see who drinks there.

I don't think vampires are sated from drinking spilled blood, only by feeding directly on a living victim. That's how it works in Adventurer mode at least, I've never had a fort survive long enough to receive a vampire.

It's been less than five minutes since I embarked and a kea has already stolen a wheelbarrow. Great.

EDIT: Ten minutes into my first encounter with keas and I already hate them with a burning passion. They've stolen ten plump helmets, two ropes, a pick (!!!) and the aforementioned wheelbarrow. I am going into the RAWs and adding about ten zeroes to their internal temperature.

EDIT AGAIN: Maybe this fort wasn't such a good idea in the first place. I picked "Play Now" instead of preparing for the journey carefully, and for some reason I thought I'd end up with an arrangement of dwarves that would make sense. I have a fisherdwarf and a fish cleaner that could easily have been a farmer and a second miner. Well, there's training for that, at least.

Stub his toe, chipping it off and spilling magma everywhere. Which would cause him to rush to the hospital, setting everything he passes alight. When he immolates all his friends in the hospital, he goes into a temper tantrum, breaking even more stuff. Finally, he calms down and goes into the booze stockpile with his still-leaking foot, causing an event that can only be measured in Michael Bays.

WWUD if he discovered pre-Youtube Internet memes?

Freezing enemies of any kind ever

I have never had fun fighting an ice-themed enemy that could freeze me. I always spend half the battle frozen, waiting to be put out of my misery by an enemy that could be easily defeated except for their stupid god damn freezing ability. Sometimes it can be almost like the infamous Silver battles from Sonic 06.

Ambushed by ~25 goblins with half that number of companions, we were surrounded and my companions slaughtered to a man. However, none of the goblins seemed to be able to land a hit on me. It took me a while to realize, but I had accidentally drank a vampire's blood earlier, meaning a massive speed and strength boost that saved me just in time. It was pretty confusing to be fighting for my life one turn, and then suddenly notice that I was standing in a pile of dead and dying goblins. I found a few gobbos standing around away from the carnage afterwards, but I'm pretty sure that I killed them all.