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Man, it's been a long time since I've been on the fora, but I've been watching the DF dev cycle for a year. Now that DF 2010 is out, I'm not going to get anything accomplished this weekend.
Cheers to Dwarf Fortress players everywhere.

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This actually happened to me awhile ago. I was reading the forums and found that when I clicked orange "read latest posts" button, it wouldn't take me to where I left off. Then I found that there were people in my foe list whom I had not foed. I contacted Belial about it, and I changed my ...

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In addition to the D-9 website, there is the Multi-National United website (their motto is: "Keeping humans safe, by keeping non-humans seperate") as well as a counter-blog by an alien named "Christopher" (a former MNU employee).

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said. Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state ...

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I don't know if anyone is playing the ARG called "Something in the Sea" but over at unfiction I have been solving puzzles related to Bioshock 2. I decoded a message written by one of the kidnapped little sisters.

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It's not a pandemic. It's nowhere near a pandemic. According to the WHO, it actually is near a pandemic. Keep in mind that "pandemic" may not mean what you think it means. It probably does mean what the WHO thinks it means, however. If I recall, the word-for-word phrasing was: "Level...

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Looks like Black Hat Guy inspired some real-life destruction:

Spoiler:

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I have a similar problem to what others have encountered in this thread. I have two hard drives and a CD/DVD ROM drive. Any two of the above can be seen in "My Computer", but not all three. So right now I have the boot disk and the cd drive as master and slave respectively on one cable. An...

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It was the explosion of an undersea volcano
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshow ... lcano.html <-- cool slideshow

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what?

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I want to play the falling sand game [link] but all I see is a blank area where the game should be. Something's wrong with Java. Fine. I install all the latest java again (which uninstalls the old version and installs the new one), enable Java in Firefox and check again. Nothing. I go to the Java co...

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Yes. Battle Champs is all about demoing potential framerate improvements. But DF does way more simulation than tile printing.

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I ran the optimized OpenGL for Battle Champs in the dev log, and I was getting 10000FPS fullscreen.
ToadyOne will be rereleasing 40d with the optimized code implemented in DF.

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HEREis my first attempt at a perpetual waterfall. Xaddak, you make it look easy.

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Are you sure this is what happened? I don't think the game is coded for this. (If the water was coming from the ponds it would quickly have been exhausted anyway) Trust me. Water was leaking out of the puddingstone. Very slowly I might add, it was more of a seeping, but there was water coming out o...

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I embarked on a great map: magma pipe AND magma pool, a river, plenty of ponds and more trees than I knew what to do with. I decided to bring the magma closer to my workshops area for the forges, but I dug the tunnel through puddingstone, which was dampened by the ponds above. And there were pudding...

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4=5 wrote:new challenge, make a map dug entirely out of stairs. it'll be like everything can fly

But the pathfinding will completely ruin your FPS. Instead of one or two stairwells to consider, the dwarfs would have to navigate through dozens.

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Azrael001 wrote:I am glad that you are in fact continuing. I sense that a climax is approaching...

Where's clintonius when you need him.

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Though not necessarily a computer, consider Frankenstein. Actually, that's not even the oldest example of a creation revolting against its creator/humanity: consider the Clay Golem ~16th Century. Yes, it is a common and long-standing theme in sci-fi/parables/social fiction In many depictions golems ...

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Earth is waaaay out on one of the arms (225, 7200-ish) And I just made it to the center and really all I can say is That shit has only 42 uses‽ I spent 8 million sporebucks to get there! Anyway, it wasn't hard really, as long as you move quickly. Don't bother fighting the Grox, just terraform, plant...

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Has anybody here reached the center of the galaxy yet, or just given up?
I'm pretty close, but damn, it's expensive.
EDIT: I just found Earth. Awesome.

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I'm probably gonna go back to Dwarf Fortress pretty soon...

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Playing the game on hard mode... my homeworld was obliterated in about 5 minutes because I didn't pay another civilization to not go to war (extortion money, basically) I don't want my games to hold me hostage.

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ThomasS wrote:Sometimes I miss java's 2 pass compilation process.

Hey, Religious Wars is that-a-way

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In the SPACE prototype, you can put colonies in the ocean, they just have a bubble around them. And ARRRGGHH! Why does Spore keep crashing in Space? NO AUTOSAVE

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Wow, thanks a lot, the solution that 0xBADFEED gives is exactly what I was looking for. I will use forward declaration, and I always add the #ifndef wrappers to my headers, but it kind of breaks when both are explicitly included ... ...I came upon an issue where if one class is included in another, ...

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Let's say I have two classes: Foo and Bar. Since they both communicate with, and depend on each other (but not inherit), I need to mutually include them. Say that these are two unrelated classes, except that they each contain a pointer to an object of the other class, like this: #include "Foo.h...

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Torvaun has a new avatar. Congrats.

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The card is fine, but I'm sending it back. After some detailed inspection, and more testing, I caught the reflection of a spark behind the motherboard. Also, the sound of a spark inside the power supply. Put the old card back in, and everything works normally. This leaves me with two, equally dishea...

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The lesson here is to not bring guns to school.

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Hmm just crashed on me. Oh look! No autosave! That's juuuuuuuuust peachy.

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Ask me a year ago what I thought of Spore and I would have told you I couldn't wait. Ask me two weeks ago what I thought of Spore and I would have told you the amazing impression I got from the prototypes (science FTW). I was ->this<- close to buying the game on my lunch break. I was so certain. Whe...

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Dude. I would notice something like that.
Here's an image from theinquirer.net review of ati graphics cards:

Spoiler:

Top to bottom: 2900XT, 3870, 4850, 4870

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When I saw that the computer wouldn't power up with the video card, power drain as the first thing to cross my mind. I immediately took out my wireless card and sound card and tried it again. Still nothing. I'm wary of doing this too many times for fear that I am causing damage to parts unseen. And ...

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Looking around on the google and the endgame (center of the galaxy) appears to be a little bit of a letdown as well (but it does have a Hitchhiker's reference in it).

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Wired gave a review. The response is pretty much summed up by the word "lackluster" Ironically, 7/10
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/09/spore-review.html

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Has Yahtzee reviewed spore yet? If not, he will soon, and then we can laugh and laugh and laugh...

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The number of creations in sporepedia tripled in the last two days.
And we are playing TOTALLY LEGAL VERSIONS. DON'T GIVE ME THAT LOOK.

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it is 1am and I am installing microsoft word whatthefuck

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Well as it is right now I'm only using one molex connector for the IDE Hard drive and CD/DVD drive. The SATA drive has its own power connector. But what you mention about the rails sounds like it could be the case. I imagine that the PSU is "smart" so if there is something going wrong with...

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