Dwarf Fortress: The child punches the cave spider in the thorax, bruising the brain!

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Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

This is going to be an interesting fight.

That's outrageous. Metal bands wish they could come up with a giant winged four-armed plague lich with snakes for flesh that's covered in scorpions to put on album covers.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2014 02:03

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 23:07

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Bad Munki posted:

New version is out, definitely check it out: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

not even a lie, this time, maybe

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 02:26

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

skasion posted:

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 04:32

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Triskelli posted:

We used to talk about how real Dwarf Fortress was.

This is quite possibly Too loving Real.

Too bad it's too long to be a thread title.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 04:39

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

a slime posted:

I visited a random fortress in adventure mode, which was perfectly square with about 30 dwarves inside. They were all trying to climb the walls and failing, slipping down and trying again and again. I took a couple of things from a pile of goods in the center, and the mayor lunged at me on my way out. I sliced off his neck (?), killing him, and the rest of the dwarves continued clawing at the fortress walls none the wiser.

Holy poo poo

# ¿ Jul 9, 2014 23:35

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Moridin920 posted:

Is it possible to take a dwarf in a fort and go adventuring with that dwarf?

I don't think so, as of now. I know military expeditions are Something That Toady One Has Planned which means come back in three years and see how it's going.

If you could, though... danger room for their entire life, take them adventuring. Kill the world.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2014 02:24

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Kyte posted:

Nah it makes perfect sense. Programming are like an iceberg. The visible part is tiny compared to the foundation. He spent months chipping away at the foundation without much to show for it, except he can now slam out a shitton of major changes because the underlying support is there.

Especially with a game as complex, enormous, and long-running as DF, taking the long route and doing things properly is definitely the correct approach.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2014 01:57

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

ghetto wormhole posted:

What if he's had all this poo poo working for a year and he's just flipping it on feature by feature just for fun

DF has been finished since 2004 and he's just been slowly commenting in lines of code to drive grognards crazy.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2014 02:05

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

scamtank posted:

Stop autistic king

that's pretty much what I spend half my time doing when my nobles show up :v:

# ¿ Dec 27, 2014 00:48

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Nietzschean posted:

Thread slows down over the holidays, oh well that seems normal. 35 new posts in one day, oh gee there must have been an update!

Nope, just spergin about trees. Never change, dorfgoons.

Tree posts are good and interesting, and tree-knowers should be admired

# ¿ Jan 3, 2015 01:28

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

scamtank posted:

Hey, a log!
Stopped "fighting" skill from increasing from trap/projectile attacks

Uh oh, is that going to mess up danger rooms? Dodging/blocking will still work right?

# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 03:54

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

scamtank posted:

instrument use (finally!)

WHAT

# ¿ Jan 11, 2015 07:07

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Gibbo posted:

There hasn't been an update in over 5 days... Is it safe to play now?

Safe? 'Course it isn�t safe. But it's good. Toady's the king, I tell you.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2015 01:42

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Mice Everywhere posted:

Hollow out a giant and live in it.

New Crobuzon?

# ¿ Feb 3, 2015 02:04

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

scamtank posted:

Do We Understand The Year?

I love the idea of a bunch of dwarves sitting down and trying to figure out what the hell happened in the previous year. Because most of the time, the answer to that implicit question is a resounding "no".

# ¿ Mar 31, 2015 02:15

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

my dad posted:

Not quite. Looks like it's pretty much a pre-defined tech-tree adapted to his meme spreading mechanics and randomly generated book names. Still incredible to see something like this implemented, though.

This is exactly the kind of thing that makes me so glad that Toady is the one at the helm of Dwarf Fortress. A sensible person might've built a new UI or optimized some fluid math. Tarn Adams is building imaginations.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 00:49

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

scamtank posted:

Dev time!

I can't wait to read legends about civilizations that collapsed into chaos and ruin through the course of a single massive, world-shattering party.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2015 03:38

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

PublicOpinion posted:

We all know dwarves get bad thoughts from going naked, but do they get bad thoughts from wearing nothing?

"But you're not wearing anything!"

"No, I'm wearing nothing!"

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 02:04

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Radicals posted:

I wanted to make a video to express the action-packed nature of DF to a younger audience with shorter attention spans.
I created this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI85gJn3qlQ

Reddit has already rejected it saying it was not good enough, any ideas how I could make it any worse?

Well, it's got "Parody Montage" in the title. Which isn't really committing to the joke. Most of the time it's better to go straight-faced. Be as earnest about it as possible.

Plus it's not quite overedited enough. If you're going to go for stupid exaggeration, you gotta go way further than you think is remotely watchable. See the following video, which has basically been put through the video editing equivalent of repeated JPG recompression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOb3x8qF27E

e: be sure to read the description of that video.

ee: what am I doing

Rip_Van_Winkle fucked around with this message at 01:58 on May 12, 2015

# ¿ May 12, 2015 01:51

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

program666 posted:

-35 dB

The horrifying cacophony is crucial.

# ¿ May 12, 2015 03:53

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Alehkhs posted:

Their fates are completely
predetermined.

It was inevitable.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2016 05:46

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Honky Dong Country posted:

The Wizard's Guide to Self Control has never been such an important book as now.

we might not want wizards reading the wizards guide to self control, ever, it's not going to help anyone

# ¿ Mar 23, 2016 16:55

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

scamtank posted:

OH A THing

oh man I can't wait for the material/image specifications menu to be unusably obscure

either way that's neat

# ¿ May 5, 2016 13:23

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

Qubee posted:

Mike Mayday and Meph working on it is like a dream come true. I remember Mayday's tileset being the first one I ever used back when I was 16 years old, I'm 26 now. gently caress me...

I remember getting Mayday's set in 2010 when I first discovered DF. I think it was 0.31. Always been my favorite look - clean, tidy, and readable, but still nice on the eyes.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2019 17:23

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

tracecomplete posted:

And the caverns can explore your dwarves' insides too

if you're not getting something's guts everywhere is it even a cavern

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 23:07

Rip_Van_Winkle: Jul 21, 2011; "When life gives you ghosts, you make ghost-robots"

I think this is a philosophy we can all aspire to.

I haven't actually booted up DF in a long time now but it warms my stupid little heart that so many people are having such a good time with the steam release :kimchi:

# ¿ Dec 8, 2022 07:24

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