It features a world generator and history simulator of unparalleled (in games at least) depth. I will copy some choice paragraphs from the developer's log: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html
Another island map with good/evil turned off and high rainfall/savagery. The only civilized creatures left alive after 1000 years were three demons and a nine hundred year old elf born in a goblin tower. In order to stay alive, one of the demons had killed 3 hydras, 4 titans and various cyclopes and minotaurs. The elf was a guard and had killed a cyclops and two minotaurs. He had a wife, 6 daughters and 2 sons, but they were all killed by marauding beasts early on. The high savagery didn't impact play other than killing a few hunters -- the beast problem was caused by all of the caves crammed on the islands (it's possible to compensate for this by changing the cave parameters, but I didn't do that). Also, you can see a rain shadow very clearly on the right side of the upper island.
(...)
Now I'm in the process of adding wounds, in particular since a few too many of the beast duels end without a result, and wounds give both the beasts and their victims/challengers character without removing them from the game, as well as any future revenge motives that might come up. The worst wounds will be realized in-play even in this preliminary world gen release (for example, a missing eye it mentions will be missing if the dragon comes to your fortress, as expected).
(...)
In the first world I ran, pocket world zero, the only beast was a dragon named Atheli Coalparches the Flame of Mining ("Mining" because dragons currently have the mountain sphere). Atheli managed to survive all the way until the end at the year 300, long after the only demon had died. The dragon rampaged through every site on the map. There were no humans or kobolds, but Atheli killed 22 dwarves, 15 elves and 6 goblins, all in fair contests (as fair as they could be, with one combatant being a dragon). Many of these unfortunates were also eaten. In addition, Atheli devoured three cows, four horses, five mules, a donkey, six dogs, two cats, and a rhesus macaque and fox while tormenting the elves. The hoarding beasts can only steal one object at a time at this point, but Atheli still managed to collect a few crowns, four scepters, five amulets, six earrings, four rings, an idol, eight bracelets and a large yellow jasper (it tracks all of the materials for later adventure mode realizations -- one of the scepters was kimberlite, and one of the rings was made out of cave crocodile bone). During Atheli's last rampage, the dragon devoured a grizzly bear in the elven forest retreat. Then I created a "smaller" world. This one had a dragon, as well as a giant and a minotaur. The minotaur was named Ust Wringwebs the Hale Lancer and focused on an elven forest retreat that was under the rule of humans. The poor elves were forced to construct hovels to live in, which the minotaur would knock down. Six elves were also killed by the beast. Eventually the minotaur was killed by a shopkeeper (who had been forced to move a dozen times during the minotaurs 160 year reign of house-wrecking terror). The giant was a bit different, since giants like food and drink in addition to other objects. Ciba Willknight the Bejeweled Berry not only destroyed hovels, apartments and shops, stole crafts and killed three humans in the town of Tourtalks -- the giant also stole both prickle and fisher berry wine, river spirits, sewer brew, beef, raccoon meat and strawberries. Ciba was killed by a lye-maker during one of the rampages after 130 years of causing trouble. Civilians should be able to do this very rarely, but I think I'll probably have to tweak the numbers a bit to make size mat
WHY IS EVERY MICROSOFT INNOVATION ABOUT DISABLING SHIT????
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"A is killing pc gaming" "B is killing pc gaming" "C is killing pc gaming"
Meanwhile pc gamers play. I have been playing for a while, and i have 2 comments on this:
- All interesting and innovative stuff is coming out on PC. While this is the reality, every other platform is more likely to die than the PC. I am talking dwarffortress-class innovation, NOT better graphics. - The massive population of console users is mostly unexperienced gamers that will in time get bored of the limitations of consoles in both input and variety of games. Half of them will end up pc gamers.
hire a SINGLE Windows God in a medium to large business, who can delegate tasks to people who are lower on the food chain (like the ones who can click "Next..Next..Finish" but not use ADSI Edit), your maintenance costs go down...
You know what else brings maintenance costs down? Not having to hire clickers because you have sane software! You may be knowledgeable in Windows, you are profoundly ignorant of Linux, but you are not a good sysadmin. Because you think having people doing the work of computers is something that shows the superiority of your platform of choice. Of course large tasks require teams, of course you have to make it work and this is how its done. But don't come to a professional forum proud of holding your system together with chewing gum.
Yes, sysadmins delegate. When you delegate to the computer, you're doing it right. When you delegate to humans, you're doing it somewhere between half-wrong and wrong.
Furthermore, the very distortion of your perspective that led you here is the result of the use of your baroque, under-engineered, single-user platform.
Finally, the notion you propose of a Windows God running a large business system's is hilarious. A Linux God, MAYBE, and that's because *nix was designed for such use. You might as well claim a mechanic god can fix all the cars in the world.
And btw, i know enough Windows administration to assure you that occasional trips to the registry are unavoidable, Mr. Windows Admin.
A bit weak troll for these waters because most people here can think of painful ways to offer you an "absolute distinction" between real reality and the others.
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. I'm not sure Reiser would continue to work in jail, and if he doesn't i doubt reiserfs would be left orphaned. If it is, however, then the time will come where i (and others) will have to replace reiserfs, hopefully by something even better.
You mention the "way above my head" attitude. You must realise that many of the great computer programmers started doing it as children, and that colors many of their views of failure and responsability. So you headhunt for high stakes jobs - high stakes is not done by magical "better" programmers or harder whipping. It is done with boring, systematic testing, and those that have a concerned view of the problem are the most likely to produce the desired results. Also the best programmers tend to be realists. If your code is processing real money, and it processes the equivalent of your yearly salary in a few minutes or hours, you are "way above your head" no matter how arrogant or really fucking good you manage to be.
Otherwise i agree with you and think you have a very adequate view of things for your described job.
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Since you're here and considering your line of work, you should find the game Dwarf Fortress fascinating: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/features.html
It features a world generator and history simulator of unparalleled (in games at least) depth. I will copy some choice paragraphs from the developer's log:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html
Another island map with good/evil turned off and high rainfall/savagery. The only civilized creatures left alive after 1000 years were three demons and a nine hundred year old elf born in a goblin tower. In order to stay alive, one of the demons had killed 3 hydras, 4 titans and various cyclopes and minotaurs. The elf was a guard and had killed a cyclops and two minotaurs. He had a wife, 6 daughters and 2 sons, but they were all killed by marauding beasts early on. The high savagery didn't impact play other than killing a few hunters -- the beast problem was caused by all of the caves crammed on the islands (it's possible to compensate for this by changing the cave parameters, but I didn't do that). Also, you can see a rain shadow very clearly on the right side of the upper island.
(...)
Now I'm in the process of adding wounds, in particular since a few too many of the beast duels end without a result, and wounds give both the beasts and their victims/challengers character without removing them from the game, as well as any future revenge motives that might come up. The worst wounds will be realized in-play even in this preliminary world gen release (for example, a missing eye it mentions will be missing if the dragon comes to your fortress, as expected).
(...)
In the first world I ran, pocket world zero, the only beast was a dragon named Atheli Coalparches the Flame of Mining ("Mining" because dragons currently have the mountain sphere). Atheli managed to survive all the way until the end at the year 300, long after the only demon had died. The dragon rampaged through every site on the map. There were no humans or kobolds, but Atheli killed 22 dwarves, 15 elves and 6 goblins, all in fair contests (as fair as they could be, with one combatant being a dragon). Many of these unfortunates were also eaten. In addition, Atheli devoured three cows, four horses, five mules, a donkey, six dogs, two cats, and a rhesus macaque and fox while tormenting the elves. The hoarding beasts can only steal one object at a time at this point, but Atheli still managed to collect a few crowns, four scepters, five amulets, six earrings, four rings, an idol, eight bracelets and a large yellow jasper (it tracks all of the materials for later adventure mode realizations -- one of the scepters was kimberlite, and one of the rings was made out of cave crocodile bone). During Atheli's last rampage, the dragon devoured a grizzly bear in the elven forest retreat.
Then I created a "smaller" world. This one had a dragon, as well as a giant and a minotaur. The minotaur was named Ust Wringwebs the Hale Lancer and focused on an elven forest retreat that was under the rule of humans. The poor elves were forced to construct hovels to live in, which the minotaur would knock down. Six elves were also killed by the beast. Eventually the minotaur was killed by a shopkeeper (who had been forced to move a dozen times during the minotaurs 160 year reign of house-wrecking terror). The giant was a bit different, since giants like food and drink in addition to other objects. Ciba Willknight the Bejeweled Berry not only destroyed hovels, apartments and shops, stole crafts and killed three humans in the town of Tourtalks -- the giant also stole both prickle and fisher berry wine, river spirits, sewer brew, beef, raccoon meat and strawberries. Ciba was killed by a lye-maker during one of the rampages after 130 years of causing trouble. Civilians should be able to do this very rarely, but I think I'll probably have to tweak the numbers a bit to make size mat
Your shell is my shell of choice. Thank you.
Ooh flame me too! The grandparent must have hit the motherload. Thanks for the confirmation, fanboys, i'll keep the matter up now.
BTW metamods will clean your shit.
THIS SHIT is exactly why i browse at flamebait +5. I do see a lot of shit, but i won't have you littledicks censor what i read.
My point exactly. Go out and explore. With a PC.
WHY IS EVERY MICROSOFT INNOVATION ABOUT DISABLING SHIT????
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"A is killing pc gaming"
"B is killing pc gaming"
"C is killing pc gaming"
Meanwhile pc gamers play. I have been playing for a while, and i have 2 comments on this:
- All interesting and innovative stuff is coming out on PC. While this is the reality, every other platform is more likely to die than the PC. I am talking dwarffortress-class innovation, NOT better graphics.
- The massive population of console users is mostly unexperienced gamers that will in time get bored of the limitations of consoles in both input and variety of games. Half of them will end up pc gamers.
A brilliant twist, sir.
Thank You.
You know what else brings maintenance costs down? Not having to hire clickers because you have sane software! You may be knowledgeable in Windows, you are profoundly ignorant of Linux, but you are not a good sysadmin. Because you think having people doing the work of computers is something that shows the superiority of your platform of choice. Of course large tasks require teams, of course you have to make it work and this is how its done. But don't come to a professional forum proud of holding your system together with chewing gum.
Yes, sysadmins delegate. When you delegate to the computer, you're doing it right. When you delegate to humans, you're doing it somewhere between half-wrong and wrong.
Furthermore, the very distortion of your perspective that led you here is the result of the use of your baroque, under-engineered, single-user platform. Finally, the notion you propose of a Windows God running a large business system's is hilarious. A Linux God, MAYBE, and that's because *nix was designed for such use. You might as well claim a mechanic god can fix all the cars in the world. And btw, i know enough Windows administration to assure you that occasional trips to the registry are unavoidable, Mr. Windows Admin.
A bit weak troll for these waters because most people here can think of painful ways to offer you an "absolute distinction" between real reality and the others.
All you say is true, but lately i'm hearing it more. "It" being the death of PC gaming, which i find hilarious.
Indeed, the death of the PC as a gaming platform is the new "year of desktop linux" prophecy around here.
Amen, brother!
Maybe the USA can repeat Russia's performance in scandinavia. Make sure you enter through Finland, and bring a lot of tanks.
I mean, repeating the Afghanistan war was not enough right?
The first version, at least...
He doesn't have to say anything, the frog is cooked.
I'd still vote for him.
Weed.
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. I'm not sure Reiser would continue to work in jail, and if he doesn't i doubt reiserfs would be left orphaned. If it is, however, then the time will come where i (and others) will have to replace reiserfs, hopefully by something even better.
Reiser rules. Should Reiser the programmer be found guilty, Reiser the FS will still rule.
It is almost like they are separate identities, and his alleged criminal behaviour didn't introduce bugs into his code or something.
You mention the "way above my head" attitude. You must realise that many of the great computer programmers started doing it as children, and that colors many of their views of failure and responsability. So you headhunt for high stakes jobs - high stakes is not done by magical "better" programmers or harder whipping. It is done with boring, systematic testing, and those that have a concerned view of the problem are the most likely to produce the desired results. Also the best programmers tend to be realists. If your code is processing real money, and it processes the equivalent of your yearly salary in a few minutes or hours, you are "way above your head" no matter how arrogant or really fucking good you manage to be.
Otherwise i agree with you and think you have a very adequate view of things for your described job.
And to control it they are using the next version of Ubuntu, called Hairy Hardon.
Or at least don't you know use them.
There was also a serious regression in KDE bluetooth functionality. Really left a bad taste in my mouth.