Well then... After reading for many days out of any spare time I could find, I reach today, the first of March, on which I am now up-to-date.
Captain, my Captain, I doubt that even you could have surmised how spectacular a story about a group of dwarves with meager supplies in a frozen hell-hole could become. I doubt that you could have foreseen that you would create a fan-club not only for yourself, but also of a character, digital data no less, out of a fortress in DF. Then again, you are Captain Mayday. Who knows...
I must say that this is one of the best stories I've read, but it's also astounding that you simply place a creative description on what actually goes on in the game, and that your mastery of the game (with some mastery of DFC, too) is the reason why we currently have close to three thousand posts. You have achieved excellence in a worst-case-scenario, conquering Dwarf Fortress, as it seems, and then writing pretty words to go along with it. Both skills require congratulations, and I heartily congratulate you. More than that, I thank you for an addictive source of entertainment that has wholly enthralled me for many days.
To me, it sort of seems selfish to post that you just got done reading, posting a thanks, then asking for a spot in the fortress. I have thought so reading every request throughout this immense epic. Though now that I have also finished, the knowledge that I can possibly be even less than a speck in the tales of Nist Akath... it is nearly overwhelming. So I merely ask that you, Captain Mayday, grace me with the opportunity.
Name: Chaos
Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male
Profession: A Hammerdwarf
Note: If it is at all possible, if he could be somehow involved with Armok or Armok's following. Not to ask for Progeny, necessarily, but perhaps a member of a group that religiously venerates him.
Again, I merely ask that I be allowed the honor. If Nist Akath is to end without my character, then that is fine, for I am already happy that Nist Akath was alive on my watch, rather than complete before I could presently realize its greatness.
It feels somewhat wrong to have this in the same post, but I'd rather not double post. So please excuse me, Captain, while I partake upon the other discussions in the thread.
About the consoles: I disagree with consoles being in any way superior in hardware to the PC. The XBOX 360 is the bleeding edge of XBOX 360, if you understand what I mean. The same goes for all consoles. However, if you take a PC, you can easily destroy any console with bleeding edge hardware. Pump it up to a terabyte of storage, terabyte of ram, triple the graphics cards, GPU, etc. The problem is, is that consoles are all considered standard. With a PC, you could have anything, but with a console you know exactly what you have. If you compare a Windows 95 that someone is no doubt lurking on somewhere across the internet, it's easy to declare that even something like the playstation or the ps2 is superior. For even middle-class computers, the next gen consoles might still be considered superior. But when you pit the cream of the crop of consoles against the cream of the crop of PCs, it's simply no contest. I will, however, concede that there are some console-only games that are better than a large quantity of PC releases. Even with emulators, the console format is still necessary. In that respect, I can see consoles having the upper hand. I know that this is still an opinion, but I try to base my opinions on as much fact as possible.
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