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Author Topic: SMBC comic and DF  (Read 10644 times)

zombie urist

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SMBC comic and DF
« on: May 02, 2012, 08:01:03 pm »
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guess which game I immediately thought of.  :P
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm »
Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician :P
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2012, 05:10:44 pm »
Quote from: Anathema on May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm
Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician :P

Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2012, 05:56:19 pm »
Quote from: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 05:10:44 pm
Quote from: Anathema on May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm
Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician :P

Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.
But in fact turns out he doesn't even want to make scripting a part of basic gameplay! Crazy how people aren't entirely defined by their academic discipline.
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2012, 06:01:17 pm »
I'd be interested. Hoping for the ad to be literally true because the interface is so configurable it's whatever you make it...
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2012, 02:28:06 am »
Quote from: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 05:10:44 pm
Quote from: Anathema on May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm
Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician :P

Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.

Well, many people hope for that ability:

Σ{Booze} < n => Tasks = {Brew Booze, Tasks}
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2012, 07:48:33 pm »
Quote from: zwei on May 04, 2012, 02:28:06 am
Quote from: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 05:10:44 pm
Quote from: Anathema on May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm
Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician :P

Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.

Well, many people hope for that ability:

Σ{Booze} < n => Tasks = {Brew Booze, Tasks}

See: DFhack
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2012, 11:13:16 pm »
Quote from: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 05:10:44 pm
Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.

Shhhh!!!!

he might hear you...

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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2012, 11:41:13 pm »
A billboard like that would get me to buy their product...
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Somehow, that fills me more with dread than anticipation.  It's like being told that someone's exhuming your favorite grandparent and they're going to try to make her into a cyborg stripper.

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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2012, 11:53:25 pm »
I gotta say tho.

I thought of Google in the first panel.
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2012, 01:57:36 am »
Quote from: zwei on May 04, 2012, 02:28:06 am
Quote from: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 05:10:44 pm
Quote from: Anathema on May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm
Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician :P

Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.

Well, many people hope for that ability:

Σ{Booze} < n => Tasks = {Brew Booze, Tasks}

We just need to get Toady to embed a Lisp interpreter into DF.  Learning lambda calculus in order to play the game wouldn't make DF's learning curve much steeper.
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2012, 03:05:06 am »
Quote from: zwei on May 04, 2012, 02:28:06 am
Quote from: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 05:10:44 pm
Quote from: Anathema on May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm
Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician :P

Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.

Well, many people hope for that ability:

Σ{Booze} < n => Tasks = {Brew Booze, Make Stone Pot, Tasks}

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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2012, 09:06:32 am »
Quote from: Naryar on May 06, 2012, 03:05:06 am
Quote from: zwei on May 04, 2012, 02:28:06 am
Quote from: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 05:10:44 pm
Quote from: Anathema on May 02, 2012, 09:53:56 pm
Close, but DF is even worse: designed, built, and marketed by a mathematician :P

Really? You'd think a mathematician would make you enter commands as equations.

Well, many people hope for that ability:

Σ{Booze} < n => Tasks = {Brew Booze, Make Stone Pot, Tasks}

fixed

Do
      Tasks = {Make Rock Pot, Tasks}
Loop until Σ{Rock Pot [Empty]}>10 
Do
      Tasks = {Brew Booze, Tasks}
Loop until Σ{Booze} < n OR Σ{Rock Pot [Empty]}=0
     

fixed
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2012, 02:24:36 pm »
Yeah, this comic is really about DF.

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I couldn't think of a good slogan using what was there...
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Re: SMBC comic and DF
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2012, 02:58:51 pm »
You, sir, did an excellent job! Here are your internets. *Handles internets to Kabuto*
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