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Arda Xi
Arda Xi
23:22
oh great, the hippies are telling me to stop cutting trees
"Our needs exceed your allowances. Relax. They're only trees."
alexanderpas
alexanderpas
23:44
:86488 doomed...
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
hm?
oh, yeah, pretty much doomed
alexanderpas
alexanderpas
the first thing he wants to do, is mine for more copper with the miner he has.
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
don't say it here, say it in the big box under my inferior answer :)
alexanderpas
alexanderpas
I'm already typing
Kevin Y
Kevin Y
I've haven't actually looked into Dwarf Fortress despite all the talk about it . . . what is it about the game that everybody plays it for?
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
23:50
the extreme difficulty :)
alexanderpas
alexanderpas
the depth of the game.
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
Dwarf Fortress is to normal city-building games as the UNIX command line is to Windows: abstruse, catastrophically punishing of newbie mistakes, unfailingly esoteric in documentation, and thoroughly opaque in operation.
Kevin Y
Kevin Y
Perhaps I should give it a try . . .
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
best of all, it's Turing-complete
which means that, eventually, it should be possible to play DF in DF
alexanderpas
alexanderpas
:86503 (note: quantum computer required.)
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
23:52
Toad really has to multithread this thing
it's not as hard as everyone thinks it is :)
I'll bet it's easier to make DF multi-threaded than it is to keep a fortress running for 10 years
alexanderpas
alexanderpas
I just wonder what MT has for influence on the procedures.
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