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"The tigerfish has drowned."
« on: June 21, 2008, 09:58:59 am »
A message recieved in adventure mode.

Got any reason why?
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Re: "The tigerfish has drowned."
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2008, 10:32:58 am »
When a creature who breaths water loses access to water they "drown" in the air. Were you on a warm map where ponds would evaporate?

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Re: "The tigerfish has drowned."
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2008, 03:14:09 am »
Maybe the wording in that case should be "the tigerfish has suffocated?"  I've usually heard that used to describe what happens to fish; 'drowned' just sounds wrong.
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Re: "The tigerfish has drowned."
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2008, 03:22:19 am »
It does sound kind of wrong,that is most likely the reason this sort of thing keeps coming up

another thing that strikes people as odd is the message 'the (fish here,most likely carp) stands up'.
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Re: "The tigerfish has drowned."
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2008, 08:31:01 am »
It really bugs me that you can lie down/stand up in water for some reason. Just gives the impression of a dwarven soldier taking a stroll through the ocean.
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Re: "The tigerfish has drowned."
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2008, 09:33:04 am »
Quote from: SHAD0Wdump on June 22, 2008, 03:22:19 am
another thing that strikes people as odd is the message 'the (fish here,most likely carp) stands up'.



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Re: "The tigerfish has drowned."
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2008, 10:07:02 am »
Quote from: Skizelo on June 22, 2008, 08:31:01 am
It really bugs me that you can lie down/stand up in water for some reason. Just gives the impression of a dwarven soldier taking a stroll through the ocean.

When I think about standing/lying down in water, I think of the swimming pose; standing up would be like a sort of "treading water" kind of swimming, and lying down is backstroke or frontcrawl or whatever.
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Re: "The tigerfish has drowned."
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2008, 10:29:58 am »
But when you "lie down" in water you should move faster. The DF suggests an opposite thing.
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Re: "The tigerfish has drowned."
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2008, 12:23:23 pm »
Thats how I get around it. I take "standing up" in water as a euphemism for getting into a swimming pose, whilst "lying down" is just floundering.
It would be nice if you could dive from a height into water rather than bellyflop all the time, but it's hardly the most pressing issue.
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