🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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screenshotsVISUAL AIDS of 4 floors of a building, so it's kinda tallI decided that my next building would be a hospital. I removed a wall from the side of the dormitory, built a catwalk, put walls on the sides, put a door on each end, and then noticed that there was no way to put a roof on it without tearing out a wall or building a staircase in an awkward place.
So I told my dwarves to take out the wall above where the door was, allowing them to access the roof of the catwalk from the dining hall. There was no floor there because the wall below it was removed, so I told them to build a floor grate in the opening (it's much faster to build and remove than an actual floor, but requires an item that can only be used for that purpose and doesn't block liquids). The supports were finished so I designated the floor and the roof for the hospital.
They built the floor and roof, and I needed the floor grate to be moved to the floor below so I could put the dining hall wall back in and build the corner walls for the hospital (for some reason, dwarves can move diagonally between walls while carrying a cage with a dragon in it, but not when they're building a wall). I waited for everyone to leave the roof, then marked the grate for removal.
A dwarf goes to the dining hall, detaches the grate from the walls and floors it's attached to, and drops the grate for another dwarf to pick up. Except he dropped the grate on the roof instead of inside the dining hall.
[spoiler]I built a floor above the door and a dwarf grabbed the grate and brought it down to the hospital. The floor was removed, this time by a non-moron dwarf. The wall was put back in and the rest of the hospital was built. The end.[/spoiler]
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Status: Quelling an overwhelming urge to shove Steam so far up Gabe Newell's arse it comes out the other end.
Why? Event notifications. They throw you out of the game and to the desktop (a great idea when you're doing 160mph on a wonky straight in a Ferrari 458 GT3), and you cannot disable them.…and I can't run the game without Steam. So it'll happen again.
Fuck.
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I've never had them take me out of a game. Usually they pop up behind whatever I'm doing and I don't notice them until hours later. What group are you in that's giving you so many event notifications?
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It was just one notification though
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Do you have broadcasting enabled? I know that there's a bug in that that sometimes minimizes a game when the first viewer connects.
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I've disabled it now, but it wasn't a notification about that that did it; the notification was about a Freedom Planet race starting (and I was playing Race 07, in a race of my own).
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"THIS IS MY FIGHT TOO!" says the only person to fight so far this year.
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My dwarves decided to put two barrels of a certain fluid in my kitchen stockpile:
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Was that DF? When did DF get a UI knockoff of Gnomoria?
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Stonesense was started in 2009.
The CONCEPT of Gnomoria was announced in 2012.
The first reference I can find to Gnomoria on Steam is from 2013.
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http://gnomoria.com/gnomoria/
On the front page:
Yeaaah! Another dwarf fortress rip off! And I can pay for it instead of getting dwarf fortress for free for ever.
Wow, you must have been really creative to change “dwarf” to “gnome”. Well done.Ouch...
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Stonesense was started in 2009. The CONCEPT of Gnomoria was announced in 2012.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/S=0/comic/2006/04/10
Is that what you're trying to tell me?
I first heard of DF in 2007, and I'd never heard of Stonesense before today.
ETA: Also, onebox fail.
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>Wow, you must have been really creative to change “dwarf” to “gnome”. Well done.
Ouch...
The next comment was pretty choice:
For the record, Red, if you’re getting DF for free rather than donating to a game you claim to be loyal to, then you’re self-proclaiming to exploit the hard work of others — which makes your comment hypocritical, at best.
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screenshotsVISUAL AIDS of 4 floors of a building, so it's kinda tall
I was excited when I saw the screenshots, but then I realized it was just Dwarf Fortress in disguise.
-- Wow, granny, that's a lot of different tile types you got there.
-- Well, you know, variety is always a plus. It's not that much once you get used to it.
-- And what about all those little trinkets strewn around the place? Is... is that for... crafting?
-- Heh heh, don't you mind that, you little bra- I mean dear. Just look at my nice pixel art.
-- Wait... are those dwarves?
-- ... Gah! Fuck this ruse! I'm coming for you, nerd! Your chance to lose virginity is mine!
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[there was an image here but Discourse is slowing to a goddamn crawl on my end, I can only assume it's doing to same for everyone else]
I love the way he looks at the grenade after it's landed.
"Wait, wha - " BANG.Also, trying to type this out after having quoted the image with preview open is a goddamn nightmare. Holy shit does it get sluggish.
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VISUAL AIDS
I hope this isn't contagious, or if it is, that there's a cure for it.
Filed under: VISUAL AIDS is the worst kind of AIDS.
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I love the way he looks at the grenade after it's landed.
At least it wasn't a frag grenade: he's still got his legs!
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And that is why Americans can't have Kinder
eggsSurprise...
Filed under: Literal translations of local "common" names for things are a possible barrier to discourse
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Either place the caps in your pocket or hold them while drinking water.
Whatever you do, don't leave them on the table! They will jump at you when you're not looking, the nasty little buggers!
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Obviously the solution is that all water bottle caps have a hole in them, like biros.
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Obviously the solution is that all water bottle caps have a hole in them, like biros.
No no no... the proper
nannybully-statism thing to do is to make water bottle caps illegal.Or tax them.
Or both.
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Make water bottle caps illegal.
Or tax them.
Or both.
But that doesn't continue to allow the 'dangerous' thing while completely defeating the point of its existence.
There's fixing the 'problem' by wild overreaction, and then there's 'fixing' the 'problem' by utterly missing the point.
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IIRC you can disable the steam in game overlay and that as a side effect disables in game event notifications.
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There's fixing the 'problem' by wild overreaction, and then there's 'fixing' the 'problem' by utterly missing the point.
Both are accepted methods of "problem solving" here.
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Evolution at work.
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Your chance to lose virginity is mine!
You're offering to help him lose his virginity?
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The image on that article is so helpful. It shows exactly the opposite of what the article is about.
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False.
Cats lead to crazy cat ladies and catsplosions.
Crazy cat ladies and catsplosions lead to tantrum spirals when a cat falls prey to anunfortunate accidentincident involving a drawbridge, causing said crazy cat lady to go berserk and kill the captain of the guard in the main dining hall.
Tantrum spirals lead to severe compromise of the fortress' defenses, leading to a lack of security, which is the topic of the article.
Filed Under: I just @ben_lubar'd @ben_lubar, do I get FORUMPOINTZZZ?
Addendum: No, I don't play the game, but I do follow some of the bay12games forum games, those stories can be very highly entertaining
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Oh. I saw a cat
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That picture shows a website crypto upgrade taking its time on Virgin Media?
Or does it show ISP waving red flags at Firefox and Chrome?
The opposite of what the article is about?
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Those flags are pretty green and lock-shaped.
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I think you should define the dimension of oppositional variance in the future, to avoid such ambiguous situations.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
la tcarlis. cusku lu le ninmu cu morsi li'u .iku'i ri jmive
means
Charlie says "the woman is dead"; however, the woman is alive.
la tcarlis. cusku lo'u le ninmu cu morsi le'u .iku'i ri jmive
means
Charlie says "the woman is dead"; however, Charlie is alive.
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PUBLIC
That would imply that the public speaks lojban.
If that is the case, I hope the announcement is of a rather large meteorite about to strike their settlement.
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I'd say "Also known as
(?:0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)?
non-capturing parenthesis
FY
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Irish (Gaelic) is far more evil
Worse than Welsh?
The Welsh didn't have a writing system until they adopted the Latin alphabet. I'm nearly sure that when they did the switched all the vowels with consonants on purpose to confuse the English.
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My favourite Welsh word is their word for microwave: popty ping
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My favourite Welsh word is their word for microwave: popty ping
The Welsh word for 'carrot' is 'moron'Oddly, if I put 'microwave' into that, I get 'microdon'…
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Oddly, if I put 'microwave' into that, I get 'microdon'…
Which is why I didn't link it for proof.
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You missed two of them.
Still, one out of three isn't bad...
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You missed two of them.
There was an implied "fixing the rest of the regex is left as an excercise for the reader" :)
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There was an implied "fixing the rest of the regex is left as an excercise for the reader" :)
INB4:
@blakeyrat said:Turns out I'm not telepathic. Shocking, I know.
@blakeyrat said:That's me reading what they actually typed.
I have no telepathic abilities available to know what they meant to type; I only have access to what they actually typed.
@blakeyrat said:OK well just FYI? Still not telepathic.
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So is he telepathic or not? People can be so ambivalent about it...
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Good thing the ax wasn't pointing down, right?
I love how the guy on the left never stops smiling, even after the guy on the floor gets hit in the crotch. He enjoyed every second of that stunt.