I hadn't checked.
To be brutally honest, this wasn't just to report another incident of this glitch, but also to start posting again on my own behalf. I was gone for over a week, to Hungary, without a computer (although with a Nintendo DS and a copy of Pokemon Platinum that I picked up at the airport and I tell you this: I am neither ashamed nor disappointed), but with a lot of statues, excellent transport systems and markets full of all kinds of merchandise. One of which was nearly entirely peopled by the Chinese, whom all seem to be friendly and utterly fun loving. I have to learn more about their culture, as Fun is a commodity I find hard to locate.
But the main thing I saw, was essentially what Terry pratchett states in the Night watch.
The city works. Quite well. Its like a gigantic clock, millions of tiny tiny gears grinding together to do the work of big wheels, which turn, ticking another second to completion. Hundreds of thousands of lives who click from one tooth to another, interacting with other lives, which allow others to turn, gears the didn't know existed.
And all the while, they take in food, water, shelter, people, raw materials, tourists, artists, steel workers, builders and much more, and they produce second by second a city whos inhabitants can live in.
Of course, there are broken gears. And thats terrible, for its the clockmakers job to ensure that the wheels turn smoothly, and that gears broken are removed, repaired and put back in. These gears will never be able to turn without this, never help turn another, never hear the click of the clock.
Its unfair to dehumanise people in such a way, comparing them to teeth on a wheel, but that is part of what they are. But they are still human, with human needs. The broken Gears, the homeless, the disabled, the broken and battered, the people who never knew different, they were the responsibility of the government, the clockmakers, who (at least, in My country, Ireland) don't care for the machine, but take the seconds it turns out and line their own lives with it, for it is they that are truly broken.
This, my friends, this and truly this, is the essence of Dwarf Fortress. The ultimate Clockmaker simulation. The attention to detail, just like in a clock, is astounding. It is a clock, but a clock of fractals, as it turns out other clocks, each giving off a different tick, each taking a different measurment of time. Some are small and crude, some are ornate but flawed, some do as they were meant to do, and that is run smoothly, not allowing anything interfere with the gears, taking broken gears and mending them, finding work for loose teeth, showing the true love of a clockmaker for his craft, the true love for the gears, and always, always the search for perfection in the smallest of detail.
tick.
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