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maki32

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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2012, 07:24:56 am »

You can read the books Or only can know the title of it? They have stories inside? How you make the books in Dwarf fortress mode?
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« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2012, 07:25:59 am »

The book titles all sound sensible and realistic for the most part. Are they really procedurally generated?
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2012, 07:48:03 am »

Yes out or partial words.

He probably has i list of suffix words and prefix words that all go together.
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2012, 08:36:30 am »

And You Sang 'Storage!' was a 283 page novel, written in the mid-autumn of 176 by the dwarf necromancer Tekkud Apexsteel. It concerns her storing Kol Futuretrades And The Nails (a 158 page novel concerning her apprentice) in Boargild in the early winter of 168.

There's also one called Give Me After Can The Market The Easy Way Save The World?

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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2012, 09:51:16 am »

"The History of PokeDreams"

Why is there Pokemon manga in your library? :P
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2012, 10:05:24 am »

And You Sang 'Storage!' was a 283 page novel, written in the mid-autumn of 176 by the dwarf necromancer Tekkud Apexsteel. It concerns her storing Kol Futuretrades And The Nails (a 158 page novel concerning her apprentice) in Boargild in the early winter of 168.

If only we could actually read those books. I'd love to see how one could write 283 pages regarding a single mundane event such as storing a book.

There's also one called Give Me After Can The Market The Easy Way Save The World?

Wow. If I read this correctly, the sequence of books goes like this:

1. Wrote The Market The Easy Way (or maybe wrote The Market, and then wrote "The Market" The Easy Way)
2. Wrote Can "The Market The Easy Way" Save The World?
3. Wrote After "Can The Market The Easy Way Save The World?"
4. Wrote Give Me "After Can The Market The Easy Way Save The World?"

That's a sequence of four, maybe even five layers of bookception.
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #21 on: February 15, 2012, 10:28:10 am »

My favorite book in my legends screen is: Start Your Day With The Dwarf.  Written by a dwarf necromancer.  Extra fun, because I more or less did this morning :)
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #22 on: February 15, 2012, 10:38:25 am »

And You Sang 'Storage!' was a 283 page novel, written in the mid-autumn of 176 by the dwarf necromancer Tekkud Apexsteel. It concerns her storing Kol Futuretrades And The Nails (a 158 page novel concerning her apprentice) in Boargild in the early winter of 168.

There's also one called Give Me After Can The Market The Easy Way Save The World?

???

I didn't know Dwarf s used Engrish :D
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #23 on: February 15, 2012, 11:29:43 am »

And You Sang 'Storage!' was a 283 page novel, written in the mid-autumn of 176 by the dwarf necromancer Tekkud Apexsteel. It concerns her storing Kol Futuretrades And The Nails (a 158 page novel concerning her apprentice) in Boargild in the early winter of 168.

If only we could actually read those books. I'd love to see how one could write 283 pages regarding a single mundane event such as storing a book.

I have this mental image of the necromancer walking through an insanely long series of doors opened by increasingly ridiculous forms of ID check.
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2012, 01:48:00 am »



Best self-help book I ever read.
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« Reply #25 on: February 16, 2012, 02:33:06 am »

I have a great one:

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« Reply #26 on: February 16, 2012, 04:35:24 am »

I have a great one:

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And You Sang 'Storage!' was a 283 page novel, written in the mid-autumn of 176 by the dwarf necromancer Tekkud Apexsteel. It concerns her storing Kol Futuretrades And The Nails (a 158 page novel concerning her apprentice) in Boargild in the early winter of 168.
...and James Joyce.
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #27 on: February 16, 2012, 04:47:27 am »

And You Sang 'Storage!' was a 283 page novel, written in the mid-autumn of 176 by the dwarf necromancer Tekkud Apexsteel. It concerns her storing Kol Futuretrades And The Nails (a 158 page novel concerning her apprentice) in Boargild in the early winter of 168.

If only we could actually read those books. I'd love to see how one could write 283 pages regarding a single mundane event such as storing a book.

Maybe it's an epic tale of how he journeyed across tundras to save the book and store it away? Atleast that's how I imagine it.
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #28 on: February 16, 2012, 05:43:12 am »

And You Sang 'Storage!' was a 283 page novel, written in the mid-autumn of 176 by the dwarf necromancer Tekkud Apexsteel. It concerns her storing Kol Futuretrades And The Nails (a 158 page novel concerning her apprentice) in Boargild in the early winter of 168.

If only we could actually read those books. I'd love to see how one could write 283 pages regarding a single mundane event such as storing a book.

Maybe it's an epic tale of how he journeyed across tundras to save the book and store it away? Atleast that's how I imagine it.

To bad every book I've seen was written and stored in the same tower.

Maybe necromancers don't actually learn the secrets of life and death because they fear their own mortality, but because they are so lazy they just want undead servants?
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Re: Books are Fun!
« Reply #29 on: February 16, 2012, 06:15:08 am »

I got a series titled...

Dwarf
Dwarf Abridged
Even More Dwarf.

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