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Quote from: thegoatgod_pan on February 16, 2012, 02:33:06 am

I have a great one:

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Ladies and gentledwarves: The DF equivalent of Giacomo Casanova.

And no comment about the necromancer's surname of Glossclimax? And the tower's name is Glazedrink? Glossclimax? Glazedrink? Did the forums grow up while I was away? 

Who wants an invitation? I set up a group http://www.group.as/profile/group/dwarf+fortress+/

Prisioner Cancels Walk To Cell: Interrupted by Bridge
Prisioner Sighs

Kudas to anyone who gets the refferance, even if it is a littile famous.

Bridge Over the River Kwai? Or is that:
Prisoners cancel construction: covert action.

How about this one:

Militia Captain cancels training session: Blown up, si-ir!

Quote from: Ratbert_CP on August 05, 2011, 09:13:48 am

So...  This would be the culmination of the Armies arc, right?
 
 
 
 
Provided we can craft/procure the appropriate sleevies...

The army arc isn't over until Toady says it is, and even then there might be changes in the future. Before that happens, we will at least be able to send out armies from our fortresses, and command armies as an adventurer.

Toady did the interactions change because it fixes a lot of missing functionality, which would be vastly increased in the next version had it not been implemented.

*sigh*
 
Where did the General keep his armies?
 

tl;dr
 
OK, I skimmed the thread...
 
I may have missed it in the multiple "Walls-O-Text", but for me the simple fact is that Toady is letting us watch and enjoy (and perhaps using us as a feedback loop) for his own entertainment: developing the game he wants to.  I maintain my serenity by surrendering to the knowledge that Toady will code and release what he will and on his terms. We may provide feedback and find bugs, but we are not his muse. One could almost critisize him for even asking for donations and monetizing his own leisure activity.
 
On another note, there was much made over the term psychotic and its use in regards to Toady. On that, I posit that the term was used as much for shock value and hyperbole as anything. My own thoughts on the matter are that aside from being brilliant, Toady lies somewhere on the Autism spectrum.  Being on it myself, I recognize a lot of behaviors found in people with Asperger's Syndrome (basically a range on the spectrum way up in the high-functioning zone). While perhaps not as severe as someone like Temple Grandin, Toady seems to be self-aware enough to leverage his idiosyncratic behaviors to his advantage.
 
As far as the blog post referenced goes, Mr. Maelstrom can keep shouting at the cars from his old refrigerator box under the interstate. 

Dear Urist Nazomcog (((their actual name))), the legendary engraver.

Please, please, don't engrave the same crosses and pictures of wounded dwarves that you did in the hospital in our dwarves rooms.

Thank you,
Overseer.

They're supposed to be helpful "stitch by number" diagrams to help out future hospital workers...

Dear traders,

No, I'm not taking your explanation of 'hood snake venom' at face value.
How long is the trip that you end up with an entire wagon of barrels full of it?

-The overseer, suddenly feeling in need of a bath.

What are yo.. Oh. Ick! Can not unsee! Magma brain rinse in order!

Entire fortresses of dwarves could also be reunited in the afterlife after some horrible disaster...

Boatmurdered burns forever in the afterlife, its ghostly inhabitants endlessly thrashing in their twisted, tortured madness... save for one simpleton child, laughing and playing on an endless pile of blackened skulls, unaware of the pain, suffering, and eternal torment of her long-dead kin. This is the price for the greed and hubris of the dwarfs of Kinmelbil.