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[Mesa]

I was very much bored, so I made this.
Clearly the boredom is high when I make videos and even record my voice. In bloody English! Now that's heresy!

"Once, we knew words other than that pertaining to war. Words like, loaves, and grapes, and peace and love.

We knew of words like luxury, vanity, greed. We still know the phonetics, but, cowering in our walled off holes, the meanings are unattainable. Almost as if fanciful-like notions.

There were two eras. One, where we dwarves prospered, engorged on the very bones of the earth with nary a single thought. Our hunger was unrivaled. All lesser races before us were pushed aside and dispatched aggressively and effectively when ever they barricaded us from our endless feast. Our birthright. And then, when our power reached it's final height? When we thought we had slain fear itself and so pompously thought our adolescence as a god-race was nearing an end; We chipped away at gaia's very soul itself! This hubris lead to the age of the clown and all was dragged, kicking and screaming back into darkness.

Do not resist this bizarre new world order, my child. Dare not! No matter what your naive heart tells you; This is not the age of the Dwarf. This is not the age of the adventurer. Those were the days of loaves and grapes. This is the age of fires, this is the age of plague and floods and pillars of salt! This is the age of the Clown!"

[mastahcheese]

I imagine that many sites will have their claims contested and counter-contested throughout the history of our world.

I think when it's released, and I make the world and take my first turn, the first thing I'll do is make an adventurer, not to go mess with people and their homes, but just to go see how the world moves, and talk to people.
I think I'd do that for maybe the first day of my turn (we agreed that turns would last 1 week, right? Or am I mistaken?) and then get to work on the world's first fort.

[DVNO]

Very, Very awesome DarkDXZ!

That made my day. It really did.

If you're looking for more stuff of mine to narrate, here's TormentHug.

Chapter 2 coming soon!*

*chapter 2 may never come

[Mesa]

That was just a one-time thing, at least for the time being.
Though who knows, I need to sharpen up my pronunciation a bit, so something may or may not be coming. 

[TD1]

I liked it too. Also, I'm in.

[Mesa]

That title.
I too wanted DF2013 to still be a thing, but let's face the truth, it's just borderline impossible, especially with Christmas right around the corner (and it will Toady a day or two off).

If we have to start calling it DF2015 then we'd have a problem.

[WillowLuman]

Christmas or early next year, for sure.

And even if it went on into 2015, then I'm sure the wait would be worth it.

[Mesa]

Christmas or early next year, for sure.

And even if it went on into 2015, then I'm sure the wait would be worth it.

Pretty sure Duke Nukem fans said that about Forever.

[WillowLuman]

Are you seriously comparing Dwarf Fortress to Duke Nukem?

[Mesa]

The only comparison I can make here is to Forever's devcycle, which outclasses DF's lengthiest cycle by a huge margin.
DNF is older than me, if I read it right.

[Mesa]

DF2014 and onwards!
This really is the longest DF devcycle yet. And it'll only get longer, I'm thinking, what with there being more and more stuff needing to be worked on and all...

[Remuthra]

I wonder if an algorithm for development cycles could be extrapolated...

[Eric Blank]

The work is definitely winding down; Toady is working on the list of bugs and tying up loose ends. We'll be seeing something by March. Probably.

Also, I highly doubt it's possible to write an algorithm to predict the length of development cycles to any degree of accuracy.

[Ruhn]

I think an estimation would be possible if we had a list of features and an approximate knowledge of how complex each one is.  Compare that information to the historical records of the other cycles and BAM!  Project Management at it's finest.

[Elephant Parade]

You know what would be funny?

If it turned out that Toady actually secretly completed the release already, and is planning to release it on New Year's Eve.

The only thing that supports this theory even slightly is him being nearly done, though.

FAKE EDIT: Actually, the recent lack of development logs could also be him putting all of his time into working on the game. The Future of the Fortress reply probably took up a lot of time, though.