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Nah.  Treat this as an opportunity to hone your defensive strategy and tactics  You already have a ton of adult dwarfs, you just need to use them sparingly so the children have time to grow and replace them.

I think the best was when somebody screwed something up and generated an inside-out world with the surface down low and the hidden fun stuff on top.  But that is a fairly oddball set of legends you have there.

The rare Spectral Pickle Factory has appeared in the Plains today!

Crap, I missed it, it's rollover now.  Oh well, I don't need it for the novelty, and a MAS is a better version which I already have.  I don't use strictly combat familiars much anyway, I'm usually using either a Crimbo P.R.E.S.S.I.E. or one of my elemental gravy fairies (typically sleazy, I get the familiar-specific equipment without having to go out of my way for it).  Right now I'm using a Black Cat, which is horrible in every way.

Username there is ShaggyShaggs.

I can drive, I'm just not licensed to.  I'll do it if nobody else wants to.

Name: Weenog
Gender: male
Age: 31
Race: human -- Irish/Cherokee/Filipino
Fighting Style: street fighter with grappling emphasis
Signature Attack: Bearhug Slam
Final Break Smash Ultimate Power Strike Divine Move: Hyperactive Endocrine System -- adrenaline surge that looks like a PCP rampage to anyone who's seen both
Planned Order Once You Get to Taco Bell: Taco Party Pack (350 lb and HUNGRY)

How do you figure making the source code available would increase everyone's respect for him?  It's not as if all projects are improved by releasing the source code, some just aren't appropriate to create that way and get worse if you try.  Nor is doing it wrong on purpose because people keep asking you to a big respect winner, if anything it loses respect from people who value integrity and courage.  Are you just thinking Open Source Everything At Any Cost zealots == Everybody, or at least Everybody Who Matters?  They aren't.

Mayor just mandated the production of rock salt mugs.

I think the place is getting to him.

Oh, and this guy absolutely detests bats. Turns out the engraver I ordered to beautify his bedroom a bit loves them...

Did you get any engravings of the mayor surrounded by bats and looking terrified?  Those are always fun when they turn up in a personal bedroom.

Maybe you need something more meaningful in your life.  It sounds like the things you do, and the things you want to do, are all pretty superficial.  Not judging here, it happens to a lot of people, me included.  Unfortunately, when nothing you do or experience really matters, it can be difficult to self-motivate, and to take pleasure or even notice when the small things go right.  Perhaps the solution is to get involved in something that's important to you, and where your action or inaction makes a significant impact.

I don't mean to suggest you put yourself into a position where you will quite literally die if you don't get your act together (although that certainly got me out of my own rut), but perhaps you could volunteer your time to a cause you feel strongly about, or teach yourself a new skill that you think will be important to your quality of life in the future, or take care of an abused animal, something like that.  Find something that you care about and that you can do, something for which it doesn't matter what your crappy family thinks, whether the teachers are working, or how many friends you make for doing it, all that matters is your own performance and the results... then get out and do it.  Do it so hard and persistently that you end up every day banged up, sore, and completely exhausted.  If nothing else it should start you eating and sleeping more effectively.  You'll have to, just to recover the energy you're expending to whatever it is you're doing.