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Post by dn on Mar 5, 2018 4:20:06 GMT -5
Yeah, the new version of DF is 64 bit, which means the patent dn XP craptop won't run it.
I have a new computer (well, new-ish) but it needs an operating system and I point blank refuse to use windows 10 as a matter of fucking principle. So trying to get a decent OS for the fucker is proving challenging.
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Post by Olroda on Mar 5, 2018 11:11:05 GMT -5
That's too bad. Might I recommend Win7 64-bit? I use it myself. I think it's the equal or near-equal of XP, and quite likely the last good Microsoft operating system.
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Post by 40oz on Mar 8, 2018 14:35:47 GMT -5
64-bit for a game that runs on ASCII characters?? whoa.
btw I'd like to read anyone chronicling their adventures with a new game. Rush had something going with the LSD Dream Emulator which was fun. I don't play enough video games to talk about anything besides Doom though.
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Post by BattleKorbi on Mar 8, 2018 15:40:21 GMT -5
btw I'd like to read anyone chronicling their adventures with a new game. Rush had something going with the LSD Dream Emulator which was fun. I don't play enough video games to talk about anything besides Doom though. Hmm... is that really a thing in this forum, chronicling gaming adventures? Did yall pay attention to other people doing that stuff (except for this very thread here)? Because I might have some material considering stuff I screw with but at the same time I don't think anyone would care about what I do, really :/
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Post by 40oz on Mar 8, 2018 15:56:39 GMT -5
You're wrong, I'd definitely read it
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 2:12:52 GMT -5
I'm WAAAY to fucking lazy to write one up but I might do something similar in the form of YouTube videos. Want to avoid the stale lets-play style but wont be able to I'm sure but I find either videos or forum posts like this entertaining usually.
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Post by Aisleen on May 7, 2018 9:42:56 GMT -5
Awesome thread! I'm a big rougelike fan myself, so this will be a fun read. But i haven't touched DF yet, still getting my butt kicked by ADOM and DCSS (assuming you know your rougelikes, if ya don't its Ancient Domains of Mystery and Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, they are good games btw). Its been quiet lately, but i think its just university doing its thing.
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Post by dn on May 7, 2018 15:50:42 GMT -5
Prepare your anuses. Raise your shitstone mugs. DNDF2018 is coming.
Names here for dorfs.
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Post by dn on May 7, 2018 16:56:24 GMT -5
Here is the world I generated, which looks a bit like a fucked up version of the UK. Scotland is a fucking frozen glacier and Wales has been eaten by Zombies. Pretty much like real life. Unlike real life, we have forgotten beasts out the fucking arse. Choose our destiny, people. Evil Wales will be a short game: it's fucking raining blood over there that may or may not also be acid. It's also composed of three separate biomes; the right is haunted, which is only bad. The coast on the left is not only haunted, but is a Savage biome: this means GIANT ZOMBIE SPERMWHALES CRAWLING OUT OF THE OCEAN AND RAPING DWARFS TO DEATH WITH THEIR GIANT ZOMBIE SPERMWHALE COCKS. On the other hand, that volcano looks interesting: weaponizing magma is always fun. Living long enough to get the Fuck the World Magma Pump operational, however... Elves are Elves. We're not at war with them (yet), but the new version of DF means we can send squads off-site and fuck with their shit / pursue a war of genocide against the filthy fucking tree-hugging fairies. The humans are inconsequential. Warring against them is counter-productive because we NEED the longshanks. We need them to buy our shitstone mugs. There are goblins & dark towers. Not so many of them as usual... I assume that's because the Forgotten Beasts have eaten them all. Still got two in Fuck You range and those towers have fucking Dark Lords in them... I'm not sure if they are necromancers or demonic hell-spawn. Either one is bad news. Choose a rough spot and let's fucking roll.
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Post by Olroda on May 8, 2018 7:54:02 GMT -5
Yes! The tales of revenant whales are most likely exaggerated. No dwarf worth his beard would believe such a tale! Probably just lies told by the sissy fairies so they can have the land for themselves! Brave the western shore in search of the mountain of fire! Besides... Greedy midgets without a volcano are like horny midgets without Snow White! And we can't have that, can we?
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Post by 40oz on May 8, 2018 12:20:28 GMT -5
Volcanoes + Zombies sounds like my favorite recipe
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Post by dn on May 8, 2018 13:43:52 GMT -5
Yeah I'm looking at it and thinking the potential for awesome is too much to resist. As an added bonus, I just noticed another necromancer tower lurking at the bottom of Evil Wales. So we have next door neighbors to borrow milk / death from.
Planning out the expedition is proving to be a bitch tho. If, for example, I went too heavy on the stab-happy specialization to begin with (say, six dorfs swords and shield, one miner) then nothing will get done and we'd have to hope and pray for useful migrants to come in the first wave otherwise we'd risk starving to death. The other end of the spectrum (farmers and brewers and other pussy shit) will fail just as hard because the first zombie to walk through the door will just eat our fucking legs off with no resistance.
Outdoor farming is fucked: too dangerous out there for civvies. So no corn, no barley, and definitely no fucking cows: if some prick necromancer kills and raises a heard of foaming undead beef-cows...
So, here's the plan: we need an underground food source. Dwarfs sitting in the dark gnawing on mushrooms is all very well, but that shit gets old fast. I've thought about it and I think we can do better.
We will have vermin: dwarfs don't like eating shit like rats and fucking leeches and tend to throw axe-tantrums when forced to do so in the face of starvation. Normally, I bring a few cats along to kill hamsters, mice, bloodworms etc... keeps the place tidy. But it has occurred to me that this is a food cycle we could take advantage of. To paraphrase the immortal words of Heath Ledger, it's simple: we eat the batman cats.
So we bring twenty of those fuckers on embark. They have kittens, we keep the kittens, we eat the parents. Olroda, you get to be the Cat Butcher (in addition to your second job, which we will get to shortly). As a bonus, we can tan the hides: within two seasons, the dorfs will be clad head to toe in glorious dorfmade *Cat Skin Leather*, removing our reliance on the filthy fucking elves for our clothing needs and making us self-sufficient should the occasional zombie siege force us to Shut the Fucking Fortress Door for 700 years.
The second part of the glorious Embark plan is to make all dwarfs miners in addition to their backup careers (see: cat butcher). Every dwarf digs, no one quits. Anything that gets close, they stick a pickaxe in the fuckers head then get back to digging. Pick-axes cost about as much as swords do: this way we get a two-for-one bonus, plus we don't have to sacrifice any of our starting 7 to military training.
It is the PERFECT FUCKING PLAN and NOTHING CAN GO WRONG WITH IT. I'm fucking excited! Roll out the *Cat Meat Barrels*!
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Post by Olroda on May 9, 2018 6:19:22 GMT -5
Olroda, you get to be the Cat Butcher (in addition to your second job, which we will get to shortly). As a bonus, we can tan the hides: within two seasons, the dorfs will be clad head to toe in glorious dorfmade *Cat Skin Leather*, removing our reliance on the filthy fucking elves for our clothing needs and making us self-sufficient should the occasional zombie siege force us to Shut the Fucking Fortress Door for 700 years. Some history: My grandmother's brother was an animal friend, and brought home various creatures when he was a child, including at least one cat. Allegedly, his father tired of it when the cat climbed his undershirt, and proceeded to chop its head off with an axe. ...So it's fitting that we've come full circle today, almost a century later. Olroda: Cat Butcher. It will look great on my curriculum vitae! The plan looks solid, DN. I can't wait to see how this plays out!
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Post by deathevokation on May 9, 2018 8:23:33 GMT -5
What happened to your images on the first page? Any chance you can put them back up?
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Post by dn on May 9, 2018 13:48:07 GMT -5
What happened to your images on the first page? Any chance you can put them back up? Grrr. That's annoying. I trawled the old laptop and got the screenies back. Suggestions for a decent image host that doesn't arbitrarily delete shit?
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Post by 40oz on May 9, 2018 14:11:36 GMT -5
imgur.com has been getting worse and worse lately, but it's still been pretty good to me so far. I don't know for sure but think it uses an algorithm to keep images life-span longer depending on how often they are viewed. No need to register an account either.
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Post by dn on May 9, 2018 14:16:20 GMT -5
fucksake. Well, that's as many files as I could scrape off the old hard drive. Fucking climax is gone forever tho. Bloody annoying. Anyway, since apparently postimage is deleting shit left right and center, here's some other old shit from DNDF.
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Post by deathevokation on May 9, 2018 17:06:13 GMT -5
imgur.com has been getting worse and worse lately, but it's still been pretty good to me so far. I don't know for sure but think it uses an algorithm to keep images life-span longer depending on how often they are viewed. No need to register an account either. If you have an account the images last forever.
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Post by dn on May 10, 2018 7:57:07 GMT -5
THE LUNGFISH OF IMMORTALITYYeah. It's doing that a lot. Apparently there is a strong weather-front coming in from the eastern seaboard: a combination of low-pressure over the Evilwelshsea and the fact that the atmosphere seems to be made from LIQUEFIED ELVES and... I dunno. I'm not a meteorologist. All I know is the sound they make when they die. Anyway, we have established ourselves inside the volcano. Hardly anyone died doing so, except the carpenter, who is bleeding to death and won't shut up about it. See all those little c's running all over the map? That's the brigade of cats that we brought with us. 20 of the fuckers. And good thing we did, because the volcano is *riddled* with something called Demon Rats that apparently tear through food storage like a fucking buzzsaw. Also, remind me to take more miners with me on a more regular basis: the boys are fucking ripping through stone. A mountain gets in my way? I point six dwarves armed with pickaxes at the mountain and suddenly it's not a mountain anymore. Totally worth every penny. So far there have been no undead: our sole casualty was our carpenter, who somehow managed to drop a fucking tree on top of herself whilst out cutting wood, because our carpenter is a retard. Problem is that I can't cut down anymore wood till this little bitch dies because the fucker refuses to relinquish her battleaxe, the only one we brought with us because Reasons. It's quite literally a 'out of my cold, dead hands' scenario. Plus, you know, the fact that we have six fucking miners and one half dead carpenter: the boys are improvising, but the beds they are making in the woodwork shop are... not really bed-shaped. Such is life. Speaking of life, it's just turned autumn. And we just received our first delivery of the season. Delicious. Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!
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Post by Olroda on May 12, 2018 5:20:38 GMT -5
So far, so good, then! Chez Meow will be a great success, I'm sure!
Also, elfin blood showers? Do you know if there's some special and elaborate reason behind that or does it just happen? The world of DF seems really crazy.
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Post by dn on May 12, 2018 6:15:03 GMT -5
The fact that's pissing elf blood out of the sky is a side effect of the evil biome. I could just of easily been acid or pus or any one of a million other horrible things. The joys of procedural generation.
There *might* be a syndrome attached that I haven't noticed yet; it's definitely horrifying the dorfs. I think that's why the carpenter dropped a fucking tree on top of herself, she was too busy screeching about the fact that she was drenched head to toe in blood and got distracted from the job at hand.
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Post by dn on May 13, 2018 10:51:34 GMT -5
Here's a joke for you: a fucking ogre walks into a trade depot. The broker says "o shit an ogre" and the ogre pulls his arms and legs off. My entire militia charges headfirst into the ogre but leave their fucking swords behind, intent on wrestling the ogre to death. The ogre punches them all in the head and makes their heads explode. The fucking bastard is now refusing to move, simply standing in my trade depot and tea-bagging the corpses of my militia. We can't retrieve the bodies because, you know, fucking *ogre*, and now the bodies have started to fucking decompose, stinking out the entire fortress and making everyone spew vomit everywhere.
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Post by Olroda on May 13, 2018 14:47:29 GMT -5
What were they thinking? Not even the cats were spared, I see. Is there any hope of salvaging the situation?
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Post by dn on May 13, 2018 20:04:08 GMT -5
Yeah, dog-piled the fucker and took it down via pick-axe. All is well, in a The Hills Have Eyes But With Fucking Ogres kinda way. One problem that we are having is with the caravans: they arrive on the map, take one look at the elf-blood everywhere + vomit + piles of dead monkeys + dead ogre / wrestler stink and run in the opposite direction. We're not getting any merchants visiting and that's going to be a problem when the cats run out. In other news, congratulations to deathevokation for successfully not dying in a Harpy ambush. First notable kill for a named character. Number of days since last industrial accident: 0
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Post by Olroda on May 16, 2018 6:38:09 GMT -5
Well done Deathevo! And well done miners! But wait now one second... Monkeys? Where did they come from? Did the Ogre attempt to direct a snuff film? And what about the cats?
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