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I was interested for the sake of blah-blah what human civilization you think our beloved (?) dorfs most resemble. I lean towards the Aztecs as they:
- Were aggro people setting out to a foreign land and laying waste to their neighbors.
- Created an improbable city in the middle of a lake and festooned it with mega-projects.
- Gave rise to craftsmen of legendary skill and interesting taste (flayed human skin suits, for instance).
- Embodied the Armokian spirit of spilling industrial quantities of blood.
- Inevitably overrun by an incursion of neighbors led by several uninvited guests with metal skin. Beware their pestilential breath.

Howdy, I have an ongoing issue with the dwarf fortress process not quiting after I close the game on Ubuntu 9.10. This was a sporadic issue in OpeneGL 40d17 but is now constant in OpenGL 40d18. In d17, one processor of my dual core would run DF and more than half the time after shutdown the process would run at 100% on the core it had been running on, requiring me to close it by hand. In 40d18 (which seems to be using both cores concurrently), one core relinquishes after shutdown while the other always locks up with DF eating 100% of the processor until I stop it in System Monitor. I've never seen this issue in prior OpenGL 40d's. Any idea what's up? I will gladly provide any required info upon request.

Have an issue where my dwarves are trying to lay traps to catch animals. At first, the trapper started laying traps outside but then began laying traps inside, resulting in erratic pathfinding. He would pace back and forth for some time inside before dropping the trap and going to retrieve another to repeat the same behavior. An announcement that the dwarf canceled the job appeared, but the job does not show as canceled in the kennel task list. This has occurred for the last five traps I've used.

My initial broker requires a bedroom and a study. The bedroom worked out fine, but though he is assigned a study it does not count against his requirements. Solutions tried include reassigning existing office and designating a seperate office for him, to no avail.