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Hi guys, I'm looking for some advice.

I'm currently in Japan for a few months. Due to visa shenanigans, I need to leave the country for a brief period so that I don't piss off immigration. As such, I'm hopping across the Korea Strait and visiting S.K. this weekend. I'm landing in Seoul noon on Sat (leaving monday afternoon), and have my accomodation booked, but I'm kinda at a loss for what to do.

I'm currently planning around what I read on wikitravel; it's good, but it pretty much takes a shotgun approach to listing sights and attractions. So, I was wondering if I could instead get the advice of peeps who have been or, better yet, lived there.

What are a few awesome things to do in Seoul in a day or two? I'd prefer not to bankrupt myself, but I'm not adverse to spending a few hundred dollars either.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

Cheers!

Hi guys, I'm thinking of signing up for the Tough Mudder competition on March 31st or April 1st this year, and I was just wondering if anyone else is keen. This needs to be run as a team (well, you can run solo, but it's practically suicide) and ends with free beer.

If we can get enough interest together, I'd like to register a DF team.

If you're curious as to what it involves, here's a breakdown of the course (click the view full map button, mouseover each challenge to see details). Pay special attention to the last few challenges

Finally, here's a training program, to whip you into shape as a tough bastard.


So, any takers?

Howdy. I recently graduated from a science degree, and have applied for a graduate development program with these guys. This is a 2 year program at one of Australia's premier scientific establishments, that happens to pay 64k a year as well. Naturally, when I heard my application made it through the first round of vetting, I was bloody ecstatic.

The thing is though, I now have a job interview coming up. Considering my previous jobs consisted of supermarket storeboy (interview was walk up to manager, ask for a job, get hired on the spot), research assistant (walk up to head of research group, ask for a job, do a week training course, get hired on the spot) and Physics 101/201 tutor/lab demonstrator (get asked to teach, accept on the spot), my experience with interviews, particularly ones with large corporate/government entities, is somewhat lacking. Which is a problem, since I have an hour long phone interview on tuesday, and if I'm successful, they'll fly me across the country for a face-to-face.

So, I'm asking those who have said experience, particularly on the hiring side; any advice?

I'll keep this short and sweet; basically, what I'm thinking is we need a [G]raveyard screen, which displays a complete list of all dead named creatures, the architect, cause and date of their death, and possibly a feature that allows you to zoom to the site of a creature's death AND the last recorded location of the creature's skull.

Incidentally, I've searched around, and all I've found related to the idea are throwaway lines in some suggestions for new rooms or noble roles.

Just wondering, does anyone else play the ancient Chinese game of strategy Go?

I came up with this idea as a mechanism to bring back cave ins in 3D DF while reading the I miss cavein threads

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=23090.msg255789#msg255789

Any comments?

A few more ideas regarding machines and power. (It may have come up before, but I doubt it. Closest I could find was flywheels)

Basically, I say replace the current mechanics system (power) with 2 values; speed and torque.

Torque (basically the rotational force) is approximately analogous to the current power, in that a certain threshold value is needed to move a bridge, pump etc. Further, like our current power, it is conceptually possible to have it stack linearly (in non-science speak, pump only works if you have more than x torque, and it makes sense that you can get more torque by bolting on another windmill). This on it's own is by no means any great difference to our current system, but it is the second component that makes the difference.

The speed component is a value which, as the name suggests, indicates how fast the gears etc are turning. In DF, the two power systems used are both (relatively) high torque, low speed methods of generation. While this is great for moving big, heavy things (basically millstones at present, though in future maybe bridges etc as well), smaller lighter systems are going to be operating at low speeds with torques far in excess of that necessary.

However if you introduce a speed value, systems with high torque and low speed (the windmill farms etc of the current system for example) could be converted to high speed, low torque systems via a transmission (can be as simple as two meshed mechanisms of different sizes, also works in reverse), which would be more useful in a variety of different situations.

While I'll admit that, at present, there isn't much point in creating overspeed millstones, except for maybe hilarity (Urist McUrist cancels mill plants; pulled through machine), it would be great for controlling how fast your screwpumps operate, turning your current gentle water feature into a firehose capable of blasting Urist across the map.

Ideally however, if Toady ever gets around to upgrading the mechanics system available, it could conceivably let you control things like conveyor belt and elevator speeds, the rate at which spike traps fire (imagine a spike trap firing ten times faster than a Superdwarvenly Agile with Pull Lever/R), or even forcing a windmill to spin faster than the surrounding wind, causing a stiff breeze. I'm sure the rest of you can come up with even more ideas as well.


So anyhoo, what do you reckon?

I have a large, healthy fort. Somewhere on the order of 115 dwarfs, nearly all ecstatic, lots of monies, more food than I can poke a stick at, and 3 miltiary squads that can wade through arrows and annihilate every siege I've yet encountered.
Hence, as you might of guessed, I was starting to lose interest.

Then I get the message; Zuglar McDwarf has gone berserk.

Okay, buggger, I'll get my military on it. Then I encounter my first problem. They're all asleep. Crap.
Then I see my second problem; Zuglar is a Fortress guard one level short of becoming a swordmaster, equipped in full *Copper Plate* or better, with a mastercrafted obsidian short sword. Ohhh crap.
3rd problem; She just brutally slaughtered her husband (a royal guard, who is now evenly distributed across the 3x3 bedroom), is drenched in dwarf blood, and is chasing my haulers down the corridor. Ohhhhhh crrrraaappp.

Corners a hauler in a bedroom, hacks him to pieces in blink of an eye. Runs straight past my hammerer, who ignores her completely (collusion!), up the ramps and into the dining room.

Kills three more dorfs (knocked one down the trash disposal chute into the magma), a cat, and then runs headlong into my champion Zon Igelmush, who just woke up and was on his way to get a nice +kitten roast+. In solid exceptional steel plate, artifact bone shield, legendary in all combat skills except sword (grand high master) with a mastercrafted obsidian sword...

The tile blinks red, once, and then I'm digging Zuglar chunks out of odd corners a z level away, while Zon strolls off to find something to eat.

I love this game.