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Quote from: Jackrabbit on July 10, 2009, 04:40:10 am

Quote from: Yanlin on July 10, 2009, 04:37:48 am

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Quote from: Dr. Johbson on July 09, 2009, 05:15:58 pm

For the other admins, watch out for Mike88511 and Iceman. Mike was using excessive language, even after I asked him to stop, and Iceman breaks AI laws.

Yanlin bans anyone that looks at him funny.  We'll be fine, methinks.

When have I ever banned somebody for looking at me funny?

Sarcasm.

When have I ever used sarcasm?

Man, the human body can only take a certain level of sarcasm. I'm feeling kinda lightheaded...

That *is* disturbing! What can I do?

I'd say administer rejuvenators and then put him in a cyro.

I just love sharing this story with everyone: My one in a million moment was when a migrant was attacked by a horse. Now since I had walled off my fortress the migrant was sure to die. She was, after all beaten too badly to move. Then the monkeys came. The rhesus macaques would wrestle him until they were over-exerted and unconscious. They tore out his throat, but she didn't die. Slowly, over the period of nearly a year and a half the dwarf lay there being torn apart. She never got hungry or thirsty, so never died of starvation or dehydration. In the end she was nothing but a head, torso and half an arm. The end also only came when some goblins chased off the monkeys. It was discovered that the monkeys had been keeping her alive, and any rescue attempt would kill her.

This was in unmodded DF. You can see an early video of her here: http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-931-monkeyman

I say monkeyman, but that's because I hadn't checked gender until later. And while this may be one in a million, I hope that this can one day be replicated to find out exactly how long something can last through that without intereference.

sounds like... hey, you look hungry, here is your own finger to nibble on.. can I have some too?

Quote from: Firnagzen on June 17, 2009, 11:48:32 pm

Well, I have a bit of a problem. I want to dig out a really big circle, because circles are pretty. But I can't get it to actually be round, because it's so big, you can't really judge that well. I can, however, tell it's more like a rounded rectangle. Bah.

So, I ask: Is there an easy way to mark out a large circle for digging?

Look at it this way. A circle, by definition, is the collection of points which all have equal distance to a single point, called center.

And in DF, diagonal movement costs as much as straight movement. This means that what we uneducated humans call a square is actually a perfectly round and pretty dwarven circle!

really? I thought it was like 1.7 movement cost to travel diagonally on the wiki... ill have to check that...

Even then, he would get an alert that there was a cave in (the message does come up with floor tile cave-ins, right?).

Check around for tantrumming dwarves, they might have one a few of that. Are there any sea creatures that can destroy buildings such as floor tiles?

Jumping up 9 spaces? THE CARP IS MUTATING! RUN!

Now if you'll just sign these papers mister liasion.

The trader cuts the liasion across the chest with the paper! It explodes in gore!

Hmmmm.... not enough mess for that. he probaly got the paper, no injuries and then.....

hey, I dont have a pen.
oh, i have one. here, catch!
The flying pen hits the leason in the chest, it is run trough entirely!

True, a king isn't much of a king if one look at a slightly oversized bird causes him to run in horror.

Even if it is known to borrow dwarven eyes?

My mind also almost exploded when first trying to decipher the ASCII, but now it makes my imagination run wild whenever I see something exploding into gore for some random silly DF reason .
And the graphical tileset's... hmm... i think they'd limit the power of my mind.
(I might try a square one someday.)

At the moment he has a full set of adamantine and an artifact mace (also adamantine ) I thought Id just use the other peasants for building my tower and hauling stone. Besides I want to see just how strong one dwarf can be.

Artefact adamantine mace? heck, you wont be killing them, they'll get launched into orbit, slam into a star, and explode into individual quarks.
(ps: Could you post the description?)