Moira_Mayhem @ Moira_Mayhem @beehaw.org

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I have been playing the ever loving fuck out of it any chance I get.

It is like a mix between Dark Souls, Pokemon, Death Stranding and Return to Moria. I love all of those things.

Is there jank? Sure, but not enough to harm my gameplay.

I've felt legit nervous facing some of the bigger higher level Pals, and the exploration is very well designed and always engaging.

I spent two decades of my youth volunteering for local candidate's campaigns.

Now I'm old and tired and you can spend the time if you like.

Oh man, you may regret that work order. Incoming cliff face of (hopefully) -Well-Crafted- engravings:

So I'm redoing an old project where I turned a volcano into an obsidian caster and casted a 20z level solid obsidian fortress with the lava tube at the center. Reddit ate the original post and I can't find the original files anywhere.

My original was chef's kiss perfect embark, 3 biomes haunted forest, mirthful grass, and wild forest, a brook running right by the volcano. This time wasn't so lucky, it's just a Mirthful forest but the need for a Haunted biome was covered by the fact that I am in range of a Tower (more later). This embark also has Humans, Elves, and Goblins as neighbors, my original was a super evil world where only goblins and kobolds existed, so I guess that's an upgrade.

My first task was to strip the volcano of trees and bushes, and setup my temporary fort where everyone will live til the casting is complete, and underneath that began digging out my water reservoir. The process is ridiculously water intensive and brook tiles refill so slowly that I'm going to need to literally just let it run while I sleep so the reservoir refills.

My next steps (tomorrow night) is to complete the reservoir and start filling it while I build a giant 4 lane water pump stack and build a huge faucet emptying in the middle of the lava tube. This will turn the middle blocks to obsidian and drop them down to the destructive surface at the bottom of the magma tube, draining it. I have to be careful on this, too much water will plug the tube and that is a MAJOR pain to clean out. Once I've drained the lava tube down below the level of the 1st cavern, I will build 2 double magma pumpstack and 2 double water pumpstack columns running up the middle of the fort.

Here is the mockup

The idea is to provide both RED HOT MAGMA and water to every floor without taking up the main floorspace.

Once that is complete, with the lava tube still drained, I will dig out the mountain leaving pillars at every level and hollow out belowground the radius of my fort down to 1 Z above cavern layer 1 and that will be the first floor of my obsidian casting.

As I've (hopefully) improved my casting process, my previous limited size (the limiting factor was that drawbridges are max 10x10 and need at least 1 anchor) of about 18x18 walls around a 38x38 lava tube should no longer be an issue and I BELIEVE that with my new style of caster that I can make arbitrarily large obsidian slabs.

My original caster had 2 levels of drawbridges surrounding the lava tube, the bottom filled with lava spilling out from the Z level of the volcano top (volcanoes in DF are weird), and the top drawbridge structure held water pumped up from a reservoir below.

Each level looked like the top of a crenelated tower, I don't have the pics anymore so it's hard to explain. It was cool but very very small.

My new caster is the above mockup, delivering 4x lava and water stacks straight into the casting area and allowed to spread out, unlike my original model which was filled then dropped all at once. This is how I am hoping to make larger slabs as the water pours out over a sea of 5-6 high lava at the casting floor. It may not work, this is experimental and I may have to go in after each cast and manually fill in a few gaps but the benefit of making very large slabs is worth the extra annoyance.

Once I've casted enough levels to about 20z above ground, I disassemble the mould used to hold in the lava and start digging my lava moat. In my original version the moat just drained off the map above 3z deep, and was a risk for lava-safe intruders so now it's all going to be recycled through the pumpstack system leaving just enough lava in the moat to deal with sieges.

When it is all said and done, this fort should be a lava defended obsidian monolith where every surface is carved with the story of my people. It will be my greatest work to date and I can't wait to see what I learn building it.

The Need for Necromancers

It is critical to my fort to have a pit of undead butchered animal parts for my archers to practice on, and in my original fort the animation force was the part of my fort in the Haunted biome, and it worked so much better than trying to convince militadwarfs to train archery. Nowadays we have necromancers, so I plan on capturing a necro from a raid and walling him in to a little booth where I can lift a lever and let him see the corpse target pile, reanimate them, then get shuttered again till my crossbowdwarfs finish the random pile of torsos and intestines wobbling about.

And D&D and ICP and so many other things wonderful to me

They rail and they rally and burn books you see

"We must protect kids in the Land of the Free"

Many would trade a lot to be as blissfully ignorant.

I am not even sure how so much hate and ignorance lives in one woman without causing her to have constant strokes.

Oh I'm no stranger to how the right has perverted Jesus's message, and have been bitter about that for some time.

It's just... SO frustrating that they are so blind to hypocrisy especially considering what Jesus thought about outward displays of holiness with their mouths spouting the stench of rotting corpses.

If Jesus were alive today he'd take a lash to every fuckdamn one of them.

Most nights I fall asleep wondering what a world where most people were like that would look like.

A shitton better than the one we have I'll say that right now.

There is desperate need for the concept of the Gnostic to take its rightful place in Christianity as a whole, there needs to be a reformation and I wish I had the resources and skills to start it.

There is such a stark difference between the compassionate, personal, and community-driven message Jesus spoke as compared to the insular, socially stingy, and hierarchical lives that his conservative supposed followers live.

And the sad thing is I really think they'd be a lot happier if they gave up on their worldly obsessions and bigotries and ACTUALLY read what he said. I know I am.

Shhhh don't let the boomers know otherwise there will be no end to the prescription tide pods jokes...

Is there a better solution? I don’t know. But it’s not this.

If people were still interested in discussions of in-depth knowledge on a close cluster of topics, webrings could come back.

In a way that's kind of what Lemmy does, lets communities share links of interest, and a human curator has ALWAYS been better than any results google provides, even back when it was still good.

And, tinfoil hat time: I think google actively worked to kill rss to increase searches.

And even if you were to actually get it before your rep, it's likely that neither they or anyone on their staff is tech savvy enough to understand it.

We are ruled by a generation raised when the highest form of tech in ones house was MAYBE a color tv and it shows.

Palworld and Dwarf Fortress, swapping between them when I get bored.

And getting my Elden Ring char ready for the (hopefully) incoming DLC

I wonder how many examples of corporations making life miserable for normal people need to be made public before enough people realize we are in deep shit to start protesting.

Crony capitalism decays everything it touches for the sole purpose of shunting the lion's share of our nation's wealth into the pockets of the already obscenely rich.

This is what happens when they try that shit in a country without a 4 decades deliberately crippled public education system.

Kind of jealous ngl.

Its funny but every authoritarian regime kind of thinks the same thing not long before rough music starts.

Your argument about the downsides of tiktok (attention span and laziness) applies to anything

Lol no, Bytedance hired a whole think tank of psychologists to create a second filter standard for non-Chinese users that is differently curated from their Chinese user set. I'm not even wasting the time to detail it more because it has been in the news for years now

I wouldn't go that far...

As a progressive Christian who hates everything MTG stands for, this is kind of disheartening to hear...

Compared to America, most conservative German politicians are damn near moderates.

I know for a fact that they would be called 'damn libruhls' by nearly every republicunt they shared their policy ideals with.

And I've found that facts have been largely irrelevant in nearly every level of social discourse for the last 15 years.

Especially when it comes to government.

I know it's comforting to believe that isn't the case, that humanity is at base level rational and reasonable.

Unfortunately this is a lie. The significant majority of humanity only follow rationality as far as it will help them achieve their goals.

I cannot even count any more how often I have been objectively, factually right and was dismissed for not saying it in a way that they would like, which is abandoning factual accuracy to preserve certain comfortable illusions.

So I've largely given up on wasting my time and effort to bring objective facts to people on the internet and in my government.

I find that the best way to change things for the better is to get out in the streets and shout a lot.