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DF General Discussion / Re: Damn steel cockoaches!
« on: May 31, 2011, 02:13:41 pm »Would cage-traps work against it, or is it trapavoid?
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DF General Discussion / Re: A were-capybara wouldn't howl!
« on: May 25, 2011, 04:27:05 pm »Were-mantis
"I am Zorak McUrist, lone Dweremantis of the magmapocalypse!"
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DF General Discussion / Re: A were-capybara wouldn't howl!
« on: May 25, 2011, 04:17:49 pm »
You get randomness!
"See these eyes so green..." Were-Kinski!
Were-capybaras don't scare me. It's the were-nutria!
"See these eyes so green..." Were-Kinski!
Were-capybaras don't scare me. It's the were-nutria!
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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarf fortress and Screw ups of Biblical proportion.
« on: May 25, 2011, 01:04:03 pm »
Harold Camping, Herald, cancels rational thought: Strange Mood.
Harold Camping has claimed another date of reckoning.
Sheep-like masses cancel productive lives: Strange Moods.
Sheep-like masses cancel property and monetary ownership: Fey Mood.
Internet cancels porn: mocking laughter.
Harold Camping has gone stark raving mad.
Harold Camping cancels raving madness: Lack of Rapture.
Harold Camping becomes moody.
Harold Camping claims another date of reckoning.
Harold Camping has claimed another date of reckoning.
Sheep-like masses cancel productive lives: Strange Moods.
Sheep-like masses cancel property and monetary ownership: Fey Mood.
Internet cancels porn: mocking laughter.
Harold Camping has gone stark raving mad.
Harold Camping cancels raving madness: Lack of Rapture.
Harold Camping becomes moody.
Harold Camping claims another date of reckoning.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarf fortress and Screw ups of Biblical proportion.
« on: May 25, 2011, 12:51:33 pm »Luigi cancels reading: Laughing hysterically
Boss cancels work: Interrupted by Luigi
Boss strikes Luigi with tong lashing.
Luigi has been struck down !
Your boss hits you with tongs? Man, I think you can sue.
That would be thongs...
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DF General Discussion / Re: Future of the Fortress: The Development Page
« on: February 27, 2011, 01:14:18 am »Quote from: Chthonic
Granite is smart. These are good ideas.
Someone thought it was a good idea to send seven random "volunteers" into the wilderness to start a settlement. Then someone thought it was a good idea to send a contingent from the lye-makers local 153 to said settlement...
Both "good" and "ideas" have fluid meanings in and around Dwarf Fortress.
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DF Modding / Re: RAW travesties: [IGNITE_POPULATION]
« on: February 25, 2011, 03:15:46 pm »
Fun with DF prose:
He once a lone, abandoned child's future a celebrated hero, he winds him of the child's future a lone, abandoned child and thrusts a pebble toward safer fields or a pebble toward safer fields or a pitiful and he smooth stone and the out and champion pausing light of searching maw of the seems oblivious to do. Killing light he most. The famed dwarven warriors to leave.
Alas, his mantrance.
Alas, his mantrance.
The would-be ruler silently mountainside the girl suddenly cannot kill eternally between his swords searching maw of a service, but his idiot child when his idiot child's future a celebrated dwarven warriors to ever heavily decay that you to the last time. At thoughtfully between his verybody is broken, along with his mindless burns to kill side the main road, the surround happy. She stone last ash-encrusts a pitiful and begins searching her behind. As head, save heavily decay that surround him of a service, but his death and self helpless as heart? He once a celebrated herent thought he for what surround herent thout and rubs it to the will for the last dwarven warriors to ever live, unable to be a lone, abandoned child and her gesture a lone, abandoned child plays in the girl suddenly can seem too her behind. As heart? He simpleminded and fire.
He once a lone, abandoned child's future a celebrated hero, he winds him of the child's future a lone, abandoned child and thrusts a pebble toward safer fields or a pebble toward safer fields or a pitiful and he smooth stone and the out and champion pausing light of searching maw of the seems oblivious to do. Killing light he most. The famed dwarven warriors to leave.
Alas, his mantrance.
Alas, his mantrance.
The would-be ruler silently mountainside the girl suddenly cannot kill eternally between his swords searching maw of a service, but his idiot child when his idiot child's future a celebrated dwarven warriors to ever heavily decay that you to the last time. At thoughtfully between his verybody is broken, along with his mindless burns to kill side the main road, the surround happy. She stone last ash-encrusts a pitiful and begins searching her behind. As head, save heavily decay that surround him of a service, but his death and self helpless as heart? He once a celebrated herent thought he for what surround herent thout and rubs it to the will for the last dwarven warriors to ever live, unable to be a lone, abandoned child and her gesture a lone, abandoned child plays in the girl suddenly can seem too her behind. As heart? He simpleminded and fire.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Lazy Newb Pack [0.31.18] [V7.0] With Graphical User Interface!
« on: February 25, 2011, 01:27:33 pm »QuoteThis day I installed it my 6 yrs old son asked me If he can have this game as well. He is barely able to read in our native language - which as all of you already know from my language skill presented here - is different from English. I thought he would not be able to play it neither this game will be fun for him for long time. First time he was only digging horizontal tunnels as long as his food was depleted and dwarwes stopped to dig :-P .. but later .... I cannot say DF is his only game. He won Starcraft 2 single player already and playing ladder with bellow average results, he won Mass Effect I and II - and few more games - but few times per every month he visits my room and asks me - "Father, Why my dwarf attack others? Or something else from DF. And then we go to his room and he learns few new tricks about DF.
Now at his 7 years he can read slow but well in native language but also he can read and understand many english words - only because of DF. If you let him to start new Fortress he can build the very basic one with storages inside, basic workshops, doors, beds, basic rooms for his dwarfs using 2 or 3 levels, mining some diamonds and store them in own made bins, create still and distile some beer to own made barels - everything by his own. None of couple recent modern games forced him to ask me about "what means word XXX" - he won his recent modern games just by Try to click icon by mouse and watch what is going to happen. Last weekend he watched me to play and asked me what is "Farm Plot" - so another step was made and he now can flood room using small underground lake and start his own farming fun.
Your son... is better than me at this game.
And he's six.
It's amazing what a strange mood can do to a child...
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves
« on: February 23, 2011, 06:09:39 pm »Dear UristMcCastun
to avoid this you can just create meeting zones over all the places you want dorfs to meet, just don't forget to assign the dining room as a.. well dining room
Avoid what, parties being organized? And how so, does keeping all the dwarves from gathering in the same place help prevent parties?
Make your noble/elven/caravan "welcoming" room into a meeting area. Let natural selection weed out the partyers...
Or make sure you have *no* meeting areas, and there will never be a focal point for a party. How can you meet at the onyx table if it isn't a meeting hall? Just remember that zoos, statuary gardens, etc. are all meeting areas by inference... Your dwarves will get even more socially inept an morose, and nothing spells success quite like "depressed alcoholic sociopath with deep abandonment issues and moderate spectrum disorder symptoms magnified by constant isolation and repeated life-threatening trauma". Well, that actually spells "sideshow peace, placid choir tools "
Also, "vomits with a gleam" spells "solve it with magma"...
edit: Hrmmm... Thought that looked a bit off... My initial phrase was truncated! Stupid me...
But "depressed alcoholic sociopath" spells "dislocates heroic cephalopods".
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DF General Discussion / Re: Rainseeker's Animal Sponsorship Drive
« on: December 20, 2010, 12:50:29 pm »I will be sponsoring that greatest of mammals: the Giant Tortoise.mammals!?!?
I was wondering how long it would take someone to notice that... They're
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DF General Discussion / Re: Rainseeker's Animal Sponsorship Drive
« on: December 20, 2010, 12:06:43 pm »Ceti Eel...
Okay ... which bit's what? (or what bit is which ... I don't know - what the hell is it?)
It's a Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan reference. Nasty bug. Painful brain parasite that enters via the ear, and makes the victim easily... controlled. Bleeding ears and lots of screaming. Of course, losing control of an "infected" dwarf isn't that much of a liability, since managing a fortress is more frustrating (albeit less disgusting) than herding eels.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Rainseeker's Animal Sponsorship Drive
« on: December 20, 2010, 10:55:12 am »Can't donate, but could someone do me a favor and try and get the earwig on the bottom of the list? Those things are freakin' creepy.
Hmmm... I'd be OK if they get morphed into something more along the lines of the Ceti Eel... Those are freakin' creepy!
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DF General Discussion / Re: 1000 sgins that you play Dwarf fortress (way) too much
« on: December 20, 2010, 02:01:51 am »
370. You vacuum your carpet in a (horrifically inefficient) pattern based on the way dwarf miners choose their next work face.
371. You realize that the Mythbusters understand the concept of a lever (or button) connected to a support (usually with detcord).
372. You pray Toady will implement connecting levers to elves, using detcord and C-4.
373. You keep checking the History Channel, hoping to find a new show: Dwarf Fortress Miners - The Worlds Deadliest Holes
371. You realize that the Mythbusters understand the concept of a lever (or button) connected to a support (usually with detcord).
372. You pray Toady will implement connecting levers to elves, using detcord and C-4.
373. You keep checking the History Channel, hoping to find a new show: Dwarf Fortress Miners - The Worlds Deadliest Holes
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DF General Discussion / Re: Is The World Of Dwarf Fortress Horrifying?
« on: December 19, 2010, 10:04:58 am »If both wikipedia and my memory are correct, it was originally a native american mytho (wendigo?) that either Lovecraft or someone writing a Cthulu story used... I want to say HP used it in a short story, then someone else took it and ran with it...
Thank you.
The important thing that seperates Ithaqua from the rest of the mythos, is that it has one of the few names I can remeber how to spell the majority of the time, a truely unique feature.
Purely from memory, I get: Azathoth, Yog Sosoth, R'Leyh, Shub Niggaroth. Probably wrong, but it's from memory. I'd probably get more if I actually played my copy of Arkham Horror...
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DF General Discussion / Re: Is The World Of Dwarf Fortress Horrifying?
« on: December 18, 2010, 09:55:27 am »*Face palm*
It's not a DF thing, its a Lovecraft thing. Or atleast a Cthulu thing, I think even though Ithaqau was in the mythos, it wasn't Lovecraft. Maybe, it could have been him.
If both wikipedia and my memory are correct, it was originally a native american mytho (wendigo?) that either Lovecraft or someone writing a Cthulu story used... I want to say HP used it in a short story, then someone else took it and ran with it...