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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #135 on: May 22, 2014, 04:07:01 pm »

The last devblog post wasn't as encouraging as I'd hoped for.  It almost sounded more like general "issues" being fixed, which were supposed to have been finished a month ago or so.  I really wish we could get some indication of how much progress had been made on the grand total bug pile.   :(

Fix one bug. Twelve more show up.  :-X

Exactly.
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #136 on: May 22, 2014, 05:38:42 pm »

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most people's forts are shorter term in their entirety than the difference in time between now and release, probably
Considering forts last a few years generally, that is a very foreboding statement.

If we take this at face value, all of us should do our part to speed up development by embarking on terrifying glaciers from now until release.
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #137 on: May 22, 2014, 06:14:31 pm »



If we take this at face value, all of us should do our part to speed up development by embarking on terrifying glaciers from now until release.

Why glaciers?  Terrifying, scorching badlands with high cliffs, no streams, aquifers, or sub-surface lakes.  Oh, and no picks, either.  That'll surely get things moving along!  XD
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #138 on: May 22, 2014, 06:58:15 pm »

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most people's forts are shorter term in their entirety than the difference in time between now and release, probably
Considering forts last a few years generally, that is a very foreboding statement.

If we take this at face value, all of us should do our part to speed up development by embarking on terrifying glaciers from now until release.

"shorter than," not "as long as" 
Making them even shorter still doesn't change the face value logic or necessitate an earlier release date, even if the statement is taken as absolutely true (whereas if it was "as long as," or "longer than," then making the fort shorter would also make the release faster, at face value) ;)
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #139 on: May 24, 2014, 08:38:06 pm »

Maybe it won't be released at all? Maybe toady will be killed and we no get release cause he no release cause he killed and that means no release meaning he killed thus no release cause he says if they think he be killed he no release.

It probably won't happen but I'm just a pessimist. :P
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #140 on: May 24, 2014, 08:43:37 pm »

Nah, if Toady dies he'll just come back and haunt the forums. Then, one day, he'll spew forth the finished game as other ghosts spew ectoplasm.
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #141 on: May 24, 2014, 09:04:19 pm »

Toady has gone on record as saying that if he does with no suspicion of foul play (and only in that situation) he will release the source code.
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #142 on: May 24, 2014, 09:37:00 pm »

Toady has gone on record as saying that if he does with no suspicion of foul play (and only in that situation) he will release the source code.

Do you have any idea what happens when an abandoned game goes open source?

Vibrators become part of the official continuation, that's what.

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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #143 on: May 27, 2014, 01:32:01 pm »

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess June 4th...why not :P
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #144 on: May 27, 2014, 07:27:17 pm »

Tonight
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #145 on: May 27, 2014, 08:03:16 pm »

protacted dev log silence makes me excited.. but realistically no way its tonight
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« Reply #146 on: May 28, 2014, 12:13:41 am »

I've been checking the dev log almost every day for almost 2 years. I have a feeling when that release message goes up, I will actually die of some shock to the heart of brain related illness. It will feel like a long, drawn out devastating war being over where I can finally live peacefully like I've always been wanting to my whole life but couldn't.
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« Reply #147 on: May 28, 2014, 06:38:47 am »

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I've been checking the dev log almost every day for almost 2 years. I have a feeling when that release message goes up, I will actually die of some shock to the heart of brain related illness. It will feel like a long, drawn out devastating war being over where I can finally live peacefully like I've always been wanting to my whole life but couldn't.

This! I've try warning my relatives of the impending devastation it will cause to my social life. But I don't think they get the scope of it.
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« Reply #148 on: May 28, 2014, 07:50:35 am »

protacted dev log silence makes me excited.. but realistically no way its tonight

Yeah, that issues list is only going to get shorter.
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Re: Time for bets. New release date?
« Reply #149 on: May 28, 2014, 08:50:20 am »

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I've been checking the dev log almost every day for almost 2 years. I have a feeling when that release message goes up, I will actually die of some shock to the heart of brain related illness. It will feel like a long, drawn out devastating war being over where I can finally live peacefully like I've always been wanting to my whole life but couldn't.

This! I've try warning my relatives of the impending devastation it will cause to my social life. But I don't think they get the scope of it.

Yea...this.
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