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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

55 (71.4%)

We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

17 (22.1%)

I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

5 (6.5%)

Total Members Voted: 77

[Corai]

No, just have it have something to do with Spearbreakers. I imagine that killing Spearbreakers' zombies in a first-person mode, with guts and intestines and sweet, sweet gore flying everywhere would be an awesome way to relieve stress... And just be plain fun, too. I actually kind of wish I could do it. Just get set down right in the middle of the 300+ zombie siege and start hacking at everything...
repeatedly...
for all eternity...
necromancers are useful sometimes.

Fischer: The Game

Rated I, or "illegal in all countries due to inhumane ways of torture, death and that creepy hospital."

[Splint]

Spearbreakers INC. is not liable for the injury of those who attempt to imitate martial denistry.

[Aseaheru]

wow. i missed a bit.......


can we have repeating crossbows? in otherwords, a high level crossbow with a higher speed but with requirements for all sorts of things to make. like gears. and magazines. basically, a crossbow but with even HIGHER rates of fire.

and guns. i think guns will be fun.

and vault doors. i.e. special metal doors operating off mechanisms but without getting destroyed by trolls, both in game and R.L.

and ALL sorts of fun guff.

i vote there be spawn castes, with Mr Frog at the head or the making.
who else plays Mr Frog's mods?

[Splint]

I've been busy trying to find the right blend of brutal and balanced with humans so I haven't really had the time to. Some of his stuff seems downright nasty at times though (the radiation mod he and Talvieno worked on spring to mind, or the Scythod.)

We do have guns planned (I've still got the raws somewhere for the weapon and ammo, if nothing else) but I have no idea if there's a way we can make the weapons fire munitions faster.

[Aseaheru]

hmmmm.... more damage then? but i was talking about maej fortress.

[Splint]

I haven't really tried it yet, but I intend to. And as far as damage goes the railguns we have planned will do one of two things -

1. Shatter the bones of whatever it hits.
2. Hit the target center mass with enough force to propel it into a solid surface and explode into ludicrous gibs.

[Mr Frog]

At this particular moment, I think I need to load up some Total War and slaughter thousands for a little while. I'm probably not going to get a update up tonight, sorry guys. :/

>Have bad day

>DESTROY VIRTUAL PEOPLE

Best way to relieve stress ever.

>Loads up violent video game
>Can't kill enough people fast enough

DAMN YOU SKYRIM! I NEED MOAR SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

>Talking about this
>Mr. Frog logs on

IT'S THE FROG, EVERYONE DIP!

Graaagh. I just don't have the energy to browbeat everyone into behaving the way I want them to lately I still think it clogs the thread with useless crap that nobody cares about, and reflects poorly on y'all to boot, but I can't force y'all to agree with me or even care (at least not without expending disproportionate amounts of effort).

Rest assured, I still glow with fiery disapproval whenever y'all slip into Chatroom Mode. I'm just doing so silently for the time being.

I would like to point out that putting it in spoilers does not make it okay. All it does is emphasise the fact that you know you aren't supposed to be doing it yet are doing it anyways. Basically, you aren't dodging my disapproval -- you're focusing it.

Hopefully I'll have something to contribute other than ineffectual bitching sometime soon.

[Splint]

Sometimes we need a soundboard to do some light venting, plus we're keeping the thread active. Remember that there are times this place can get utterly dead. Things just seemed to dip in and out from relavant to irrelavant at random points is all, and quite frankly derails always rerail themselves at some point. How exactly I have no idea, but we manage it.

[Mr Frog]

Spoiler: I'm angry now. (click to show/hide)

(Okay, I've opened a gate now, and Splint's attitude is pissing me off, so I will now go bring out the Frog-Rage. It is, of course, far superior to normal rage.)


"Need a soundboard" my bony ass. That stuff does not go here. In fact, there are countless places where it could be going that are not here, but you're all dumping it here anyways. I can't really speak for anyone else, but from my perspective, based on my standards of evaluation, that makes all of you look really bad.

"Keep the thread alive" also my bony ass. The Battlefaileds have dropped onto the second page repeatedly later into their lives, and they would always come back up. What matters is content being produced. Reudh's still plugging away at his turn, and Talvi and Hansie and hopefully I soon are hard at work fanficcing away, therefore the thread is active and will garner interest. In fact, I believe that the endless contentless derails harm the thread by clogging it with stupid crap nobody cares about. When I click on a thread presumably about a succession game, I am most likely interested in reading about succession games. I am assuredly not interested in reading about whether it's safe to mix ZzzQuil and coffee or whatever.

Finally: Not derailing is a matter of not posting irrelevant stuff. It's as simple as that. If it's really that goddamn hard for you people to judge whether what you're posting actually belongs where you're posting it, then I apologise for expecting too much, but at the moment it looks to me like none of you are even trying, and it's frankly pathetic. I don't want to think that about y'all, and I don't expect any of you to care what some shut-in nerd with a god complex thinks about you, but the fact is that reading these pointless derails leaves me with a very poor impression of everyone involved.

I get the feeling that this is going to end with at least a couple people angry at me, but I frankly couldn't care less. I feel that this has desperately needed to be said for quite a while now.

[Hanslanda]

Indeed. *Agrees completely* :/

[Corai]

Indeed. *Agrees completely* :/

I feel bad now. But I can't really say anything on the subject, since I myself have only popped up during derailments/nominate quotes.

[Splint]

Eh.Probably about get full force of the rage, but ever consider that shit just happens? We all get bored from time to time, we're just killing time between updates while maintaing thread activity. I posted a link to tinychat a while back so we could shoot shit there instead, but there weren't any takers besides Hans, Paintbrush, and Talvieno. Besides, I personally don't mind it so long as it doesn't go on consequtivly for page upon page (most I've seen is a page and a half ina row with interspaced relavant stuff.) :\

[Xahnel]

Very well, Mr Frog, you've got my attention.

-Waits for the epic on-topicness-

:I

[Jack Magnus]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I guess I'm the odd one out who actually enjoys reading the off topic stuff :p I've always preferred reading the topic based community fortresses rather than the archive ones. I guess it's because I start to understand the people writing and posting and not just the story itself. Maybe I'm just weird, but I find it fascinating, and I tend to get attached to the dorf versions of posters more if I actually understand the person behind them. Dunno if I'm making sense there, but I can't figure out how to word it.

That being said, I don't want the thread to go so off topic that we bring the wrath of the Toad down on us. I also agree with Splint, this entire forum has a huge tendency of going off topic, and it seems more prevalent in the community games/stories section - but it tends to rerail itself after an actual on topic post is made, either new content from the overseer, or someone asking a question.

In case I'm rambling (which I have no doubt of at this point), I'm trying to say that I enjoy reading the off topic-y bits because it helps me to understand you guys better, and I find some of the off topic stuff amusing. In addition to that, the thread always tends to rerail itself (eventually).

@Hans: Have fun murdering as many (virtual) people as it takes to make you feel better :p I admittedly find it amusing to fry sims in The Sims 2/3 on occasion, but that's just me.

I'd post something relating directly to Spearbreakers at this point, but I honestly have zero questions I wanted to ask (that I can remember right now). Shame, because I wanted to say something to at least make this post a small fraction of being on topic instead of talking about being off topic (that wasn't meant to be sarcasm, either).

Oh, one thing. The last time I played my fortress, I got another artifact mug. So now I have two of the bloody things.

EDIT: I see Mr Frog ninja'd me with some fairly strong words about off topic-ness. I'm sorry if this post aggravates you further, but I'm just putting forward my opinion at this point. I don't post very much on here anyway, so...

Wish I could say something to actually help :/ I'll at least try to keep my off-topic stuff to a minimum so at least I don't irritate you. I dislike being on people's bad sides if I can avoid it.

FAKEEDIT2: I see several other people ninja'd me as well. Why do I always have to be so damn wordy that every time I try to post something in a discussion, the discussion's already ended by the time I finish?

[Mr Frog]

Spoiler: Still angry, now specifically @Splint. (click to show/hide)

"Shit happens" is what you say when circumstances beyond your control occur without warning and fuck shit up. When you type up an irrelevant post and post it, you do not get to say that "shit happened", because you were the one who made the shit happen. I will make allowances for those of us with ADHD, but you are still responsible for controlling your own decisions and actions, and there has been a failure to do that.

I understand that you're okay with the derails and respect that, but I am not okay with it, and as a fellow contributor and -- more-importantly -- a member of your audience, I feel that my thoughts should be respected as well, though whether to do so is still your decision and I have to accept that fact.

And yes I realise the irony of derailing the thread to bitch about people derailing the thread.