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[Skizelo]

Very good.

[Sareth]

Speaking of Toady dissepearing, if he died horribly, what would happen to the game? Would three toad release the source code/all the development, or would this game be lost to the sands of time?

[Granite26]

tasteless much?

[Keiseth]

Just imagine riding on your half-nightmare horse swinging an obsidian twohanded sword down the sides to cut down unfortunate enemies and missing all the time because them damn dorfs are just too short!

The !!<<*Thought*>>!! shakes Keiseth around by the brain! A piece is torn off!

Good to hear it's quiet and the computer is working at least. The month-end project must really help alleviate stress from working on just Dwarf Fortress all the time; it would drive me batty. Giant cave batty.

[LASD]

Speaking of Toady dissepearing, if he died horribly, what would happen to the game? Would three toad release the source code/all the development, or would this game be lost to the sands of time?

Why horribly? Isn't any other way possible?

[EverybodylovesTJ]

Speaking of Toady dissepearing, if he died horribly, what would happen to the game? Would three toad release the source code/all the development, or would this game be lost to the sands of time?

Why horribly? Isn't any other way possible?

It's like Werewolves and silver. That's the only way to kill him.

[Tenebrais]

We're talking the creator of Dwarf Fortress here. The only fitting deaths would be either being unable to fulfill inspiration, or in an attempt to flood his neighbourhood with lava.

[Idiom]

The only fitting deaths would be either being unable to fulfill inspiration

Like being driven mad eternally working on an ever complex and ambitious simulation of Dwarves?

[Caskman]

dude what if this economy problem started affecting Toady's donation rate?  it might not but still I'd hate for Toady to have to get another job and spend less time on DF...

[SirPenguin]

I'd say most of his donaters aren't being effected by the stock market loling right now

[Aqizzar]

dude what if this economy problem started affecting Toady's donation rate?  it might not but still I'd hate for Toady to have to get another job and spend less time on DF...

That's disturbingly likely.  After all, DF's chief audience, the net- or code- savvy, aren't famous for their wealth.  And if you're afraid you won't have enough money to make ends meet (justified or not), donations to a freeware game developer are going to be first on the list to go.  The main reason I haven't donated again is exactly because I've never been able to hold more than 100 bucks in my account and I've always got more expenses looming.

[Idiom]

this economy problem

Go to Canada?

Would he ever release the source code for people to take over if he had to stop?

[Duke 2.0]

this economy problem

Go to Canada?

Would he ever release the source code for people to take over if he had to stop?

 Let us hope he has a will. And uploaded his consciousness onto a network of sorts.

[Teldin]

I'm still here.  I just haven't done anything talkaboutable recently.  Boring save compat/entity position code stuff that doesn't have much discussable appeal, and yeah, coupled with a few annoyances here and there unB12ish, I've been unusually quiet.  I'm planning on catching up on internet matters today, though I have 52 emails and 3 1/2 pages of bug reports and 5 pages of suggestions and a bunch of story and crayon rewards from who knows how long ago, so I imagine I'll just be whittling away at it only to fall behind again.  The computer move disrupted that a bit, not in a technical fashion, but just routine-wise.  The new computer itself is working great and the transition was fine.  I've been busy on the month-end project the last few days.

Yet another argument for getting some help with the game instead of doing it all yourself. How long before you burnout, Toady? How long before the bugs list just turns from a hill into a mountain into a volcano that you just want to hurl yourself into instead of climb? Or how long before you start thinking of this as a job instead of something you enjoy, and start getting bitter about it? God knows I've done enough projects where those have all happened.

[Spoggerific]

How long before you burnout, Toady? How long before the bugs list just turns from a hill into a mountain into a volcano that you just want to hurl yourself into instead of climb? Or how long before you start thinking of this as a job instead of something you enjoy, and start getting bitter about it? God knows I've done enough projects where those have all happened.

Well, according to this topic, he's pretty much given up his career as a math professor in order to code DF. It was also more than a year ago. I have a feeling that Toady knew what he was doing before he decided to give up his job in order to do DF. I doubt he'll burn out any time in the foreseeable future, unless donations dry up or something.