Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Toady One]

The fifth one has been posted.

Any comments about the format, content, quality, etc. of the call are welcome.

The new email system for questions seem to be working well enough for now.

update: The transcript is up at the first link above.

[Neonivek]

Thanks for another release: Captaintastic, Rainseeker, Toady One, and Magellan (he is the one transcribing right?)

Ill listen to it immediately.

YIKES Scamps cut open Toady's Wrist and then snapped his neck... Fortress Talk is starting to get sort of dangerous.

[Ampersand]

To Rainseeker: I'm curious as to the music you used just before the Q&A segment. For some reason it strikes me as exceedingly familiar.

[skaltum]

righto downloading

lets hear how blood thirsty scamps is

[Safe-Keeper]

I love the talks, but I think that the delivery of this one (for constructive criticism's sake) wasn't all too great, with the "like"s and "ums" and "yeahs" and stuttering detracting from it. Don't know why it happened, because the others seemed pretty well rehearsed, but this one didn't draw you in the same way the others did.

The Cat Attack in the beginning made it a bit unprofessional, too. Sorry, guys.

[Footkerchief]

The Legendary Liar remark made me laugh pretty hard. 

To Rainseeker: I'm curious as to the music you used just before the Q&A segment. For some reason it strikes me as exceedingly familiar.

Sounds like it's from Unreal or some other game that Alexander Brandon composed music for.  Or maybe some other demoscene guy?  (We're talking about the music at 56:05 here, I assume.)

I love the talks, but I think that the delivery of this one (for constructive criticism's sake) wasn't all too great, with the "like"s and "ums" and "yeahs" and stuttering detracting from it. Don't know why it happened, because the others seemed pretty well rehearsed, but this one didn't draw you in the same way the others did.

I didn't think it really deviated from the others in this regard.

The Cat Attack in the beginning made it a bit unprofessional, too. Sorry, guys.

When I think of a word to describe Bay 12...

[Dohon]

I love the talks, but I think that the delivery of this one (for constructive criticism's sake) wasn't all too great, with the "like"s and "ums" and "yeahs" and stuttering detracting from it. Don't know why it happened, because the others seemed pretty well rehearsed, but this one didn't draw you in the same way the others did.

The Cat Attack in the beginning made it a bit unprofessional, too. Sorry, guys.

I don't see why the talks should be "rehearsed". The more fluid the conversation, the better. People use a lot of "stopgap" words like euh, um and like, but that's natural to human communication. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, unless it is overdone (an um that lasts over 5 seconds is a bit overboard).

That said, I still gotta listen to the podcast. Why are there only 24 hours in a day?

[Neonivek]

HEH silly me the transcriber is Mallocks or however you spell it.

Oddly enough this talk was the most all over the place. I am not even sure what parts were off or on topic.

[CobaltKobold]

Thanks for another release: Captaintastic, Rainseeker, Toady One, and Magellan (he is the one transcribing right?)

Mallocks?
PPE: Ninja'd by himself.

Toady is savaged by Scamps! But settings can covered in "frontier vs peaceful place".

Counting fingers are different from places, I know (thumb being 5th vs 1st)

Some weird buzzing at 24:18, more at 1:16:10

Traditionalists might like granite, but rebels should change and like the new marble, until you get that as your site's preferred mat. And then, attract migrants who like marble themselves perhaps!

I think the phrase Tarn was looking for is "diplomatic incident". (Now imagine if the statue is of the liaison )

Religions/Subcultures: Personal shrines and items, also the whole "free time" thing could lead to someone putting a little shrine in a heavily traveled corridor

"Legendary liar" = great.

Gully dwarves.

(...It was Crystal Pepsi. I miss it.) On rollerskates, now that blades are declining, they're calling rollerskates - get this- "side by sides". Or were a while back.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ASCII CP437 is reasonable look. Not that graphics are bad, but it's a reasonable look.

People mainly oppose tutorials when they're not optional in my experience.

Sides-of-world: Permeable is funky. If you couldn't send off to attack them, would be worse, say. (I note the oft-suggested cross-region tile settlement came up...)

"intelligent pets"...slaves? You could also purchase "local guides", I daresay, with a bit more interesting part to explore, once the Trailmode is in, or e'en if that was merely simulated behind scenes.

Lack of liaison/official mountainhome support- well, you could get independent merchants showing up who chafe under the normal liaison-guided/controlled trade.

helpful link to mentioned boat topic

[Armok]

Ok, listening now, this is m scrible  pad for random coments while listening because I always forget stuff afterwards:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Once you have peaple judging the adventurerer from his clothing, might it also be used in the other direction? For example "This is a dwarf. He is very old. His facial features indicates he's from the far north. He is dressed like a human from the Sands of Shifting, a kingdom to the east. He is dirty and carrying a pick." Perhaps also displaying these kinds of descriptions for conversations, or even spontaneously while spotting someone who looks really odd but whose ASCII tile still is the same as evryone else so that it's unlikely the player would look otherwise.
Another  idea along these lines, would be noticing common traits in a crowd, for example noting there "A group of soldiers all dressed in [Uniform description], exept one whose helmet is golden.", that kind of stuff...

One thing I just noticed, maybe I just misinterpreted, but it sounds liek the guilds would be something ALL cultures would have? I migth have gotten it wrong but having guilds at all I thougth was a cultural trait...
That's one thing that might be a bit harder to do, or atleast require a buch of special cases... How WOULD things hard to make gradual be handled, stuff like the basic type of economy (Guilds/capitalism/evrything owned by the state/barter based...) or nomadic/not nomadic, etc. be handled?

I got an idea for where to put those details, in addition to the more curent-state description and thoughts, and the global announcements, you could give each creature a personal announcement screen that involves everything they do in maximum detail, from getting a new thought to completing a job to combat log concerning the creature and everything else. Sorta like if each dwarf had it's own twitter feed...
Once books go in, this  kind of stuff could also be in journals and the like.

As always, thi8s was just Beyond Quality! ^_^ These podcasts are the highlights of the month.

[CobaltKobold]

As always, this was just Beyond Quality! ^_^ These podcasts are the highlights of the month.

I think DFTalk will... not be the highlight of this/next month...

Spoiler: Really, spoiler! Read this, hosts. (click to show/hide)

PS. Error: Challenge thread not found.

[Toady Two]

Interesting podcast as always.

I imagine a unskilled tattoo artist painting his clients greatest fear on his body and the resulting madness to be a good source of hilarity.

[mallocks]

Just a quick note to confirm that transcript is on the way, but due to real life commitments will not be out in the next couple of days.

[carebear]

Going to put this on my MP3 player and listen to it before falling asleep. I did the same with DF Talk #4, it's very relaxing!

[JoRo]

Maybe other professions could do the tattooing and barbering in their off time, so that they'd be reasonably skilled from their regular jobs.  Like, engravers could do tattoos and weavers could do beardcare.  I look forward to having a fort full of <<Dwarves>>.