May 9, 2024: The May '24 Report is up.
News: April 23, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.13 has been released.
News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
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Mark writes on the tablet one tablet two writing slugs and one restraint slug please(Competent for only an interpretation of the word.)
(also I nominate Mark for most competent living character)
Extinction, mostly to see what happens if we choose this.+yeah
On a serious note, though: Assess the global situation. Is there starvation? Where are the remaining people? How much of the old social order is left?
Ah-ha. Ours look like this:I think that's a bombadier beetle, which shoots acid death out it's ass.
If you move to Siberia you need to grow a beard and wrestle bears though.And boars.
I remember that rifle. It was odd. To get it you hd to be a headshot master, but to use it effectively (since it was basically an OHK) you had to aim for the torso, which took a while to adjust.You all may hate me for saying this, but that was actually one of my favorite weapons that the sniper got.Rewards that actually downgrade youYes, I HATED that freaking rifle!
I was just thinking about this because I was playing Battlefront II recently, which doles out special weapons for certain tasks, usually getting X kills in Y amount of time. In some maps, there's a lot of open space where it can be really fun to play as the sniper. The sniper, IIRC, gets their special weapon after getting several headshots in one life.
The sniper's special weapon sucks. It has a bright purple beam that makes it even easier to see where shots are coming from in a game where everybody uses glowsticks for ammunition, and it has a drastically reduced range so that the beam just stops in midair before reaching your target. Because this weapon is forced upon me after getting so many headshots, I have to deliberately avoid getting headshots to remain anything resembling effective in large maps like Kashyyyk. It's no-win.
Of course, you don't actually equip it until you switch away from the starting sniper rifle, and I never used my pistol as a sniper, so for me it was basically just free ammo.
Yes, the range was pitiful, but once you got used to the ability it had to pierce through multiple targets, and figured out how to use it properly, (Pro tip, the beam lasts for a bit, so use a sweeping motion when you fire, don't hold your aim in one spot.) it actually became pretty nice.
But yes, I hated it at first, too.
Nono, it's not a "mostly true story" it's "that fucking movie that makes you cry gallons of tears."You can add The Iron Giant to that list.
Hmm. I never really understood the whole social animal thing, but that's me.I don't get it.It is a cultural thing.
Society (A collective of people) expects people are meant to want certain things. This is because wanting these things is productive to society. We want people to want jobs because people having jobs benefits us. We want people to want families because then our society can continue. We want people to want friends because that allows us a network to help enforce these ideals. We want people to want faith because that makes them comply to the same code of morality that we do.
It is pretty standard for any social animal, and to some degree it works. A career can be very fulfilling, a family is very rewarding, friends are comforting, you get the idea. The problem is that often perusing these things for the wrong reasons can have negative effects. You don't start a family because of the expectation (Well sometimes you do, but it isn't ideal), you start a family because it feels right for yourself.
With the complexity of humanity taken into account, it is clear that the same path won't work for everybody, and these arn't the only goals to reach for. Some choose creative or intellectual achievement instead of the given choices, for example.
