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[Xantalos]

Adamantine is like supertough rubber?
Wat.

[MaximumZero]

Wait, hold on. Diamond would have too much give to work as armor?

[Putnam]

Adamantine is the opposite of rubber, it's super brittle. I was assuming the brittle thing was about diamond.

I think that this is more of an issue of how DF represents things than the real life materials.

[Orange Wizard]

Wait, hold on. Diamond would have too much give to work as armor?

I think diamond is too brittle to work as armour with real-life physics, but adamantine is even more brittle?

[Putnam]

Brittle doesn't mean it's not strong.

Also, DF's physics are wonky.

Anyway, I currently have 6 nonillion cookies in Cookie Clicker. This run started an hour ago. The beta is completely broken.

EDIT: 19 nonillion with wrinklers popped and expensive stuff sold

[Xantalos]

Cookie Clicker still exists?

[Orange Wizard]

Cookies are like German money in the 20s.

[Putnam]

buying the next grandma costs 5 octillion cookies

I am making 466.52 septillion cookies per second

12 minute game

[Lord Shonus]

My current Pandora playlist includes Wagner along with stations seeded from Konami and FFVIII. Unless the latter two are playing the actual game music (instead of actual performers such as The Black Mages covering the songs), I cannot tell the difference between these three stations without checking.

[i2amroy]

On diamond as armor, the problem comes from something that DF currently doesn't model, which is the fact that because of diamonds crystal structure being very ordered they also have a great many planes upon which they fracture relatively easily. This is why despite being one of the hardest materials out there diamonds are fairly low on the toughness scale. (And why the idea that you can test if a diamond ring is fake by dropping it or hitting it is totally false, real diamonds can shatter that way too, as long as they get hit at the right spot/angle combination.)

As for adamantine the inelasticity gives it an interesting effect, which is the total immunity to any forms of physical wear and tear. Because there is absolutely no changes in the structure of the adamantine, it doesn't suffer from any sort of weakening at all from repeated hits, which means that if you hit an adamantine sword with a hammer it would do one of two things, either be completely unchanged or totally disintegrate into dust. (Of course that boundary is much higher than any normal person could hit at, being approximately .5 the pressure required to make diamonds. If two of you working together couldn't make diamonds with your own pure strength, you can't harm adamantine in any physical way).

Adamantine's other unique property is it's sharpness. Adamantine is so sharp that if you held a thin blade of it directly over solid rock and dropped it, it's own light weight would still be enough to drive it down through the rock until such point that it either became out of alignment or gravity stopped it. (Or it was destroyed due to pressure).

As a whole at the DF level of technology you get something that was sharp enough to cut through anything but itself and was completely immune to any forms of damage that you could do; in other words, the type of legendary sword that can only be destroyed by being thrown into a volcano.

[scrdest]

On diamond as armor, the problem comes from something that DF currently doesn't model, which is the fact that because of diamonds crystal structure being very ordered they also have a great many planes upon which they fracture relatively easily. This is why despite being one of the hardest materials out there diamonds are fairly low on the toughness scale. (And why the idea that you can test if a diamond ring is fake by dropping it or hitting it is totally false, real diamonds can shatter that way too, as long as they get hit at the right spot/angle combination.)

As for adamantine the inelasticity gives it an interesting effect, which is the total immunity to any forms of physical wear and tear. Because there is absolutely no changes in the structure of the adamantine, it doesn't suffer from any sort of weakening at all from repeated hits, which means that if you hit an adamantine sword with a hammer it would do one of two things, either be completely unchanged or totally disintegrate into dust. (Of course that boundary is much higher than any normal person could hit at, being approximately .5 the pressure required to make diamonds. If two of you working together couldn't make diamonds with your own pure strength, you can't harm adamantine in any physical way).

Adamantine's other unique property is it's sharpness. Adamantine is so sharp that if you held a thin blade of it directly over solid rock and dropped it, it's own light weight would still be enough to drive it down through the rock until such point that it either became out of alignment or gravity stopped it. (Or it was destroyed due to pressure).

As a whole at the DF level of technology you get something that was sharp enough to cut through anything but itself and was completely immune to any forms of damage that you could do; in other words, the type of legendary sword that can only be destroyed by being thrown into a volcano.

Insane theory: adamantine is all a single atom, stretched through spacetime by magic forces. It explains it's sharpness - you can sharpen it to have an arbitrarily thin edge, even less than monoatomic, and it's inelasticity - although it would have a very !!FUN!! side-effect of causing a nuclear explosion upon being destroyed, which sounds absolutely dwarven.

[timferius]

Wow, got another EA videogame series death threat.

This time for The Sims.

I wonder if I should take it seriously or not...

Apperantly not because The Sims 4 still sold well...

Why EA? SimCity was your own dang fault.

Honestly I've never heard of a company outright saying this...

What do you mean by EA videogame series death threat? As in 'we'll end the series'?

Because if it's that, I can't help but think of that one scene in Blazing Saddles where the protagonist takes himself hostage.

Yeah, could use a link or something. Makes no sense.

Yep. Still got no clue.

Unless EA sent you a death threat. Or a sim did.

I have context! Here, have some!
One of the lead developers for The Sims series was asked on the forums at one point what features they were thinking of for Sims 5. He responded with  "We're not working on Sims 5. We're not thinking about Sims 5," he wrote. "If Sims 4 isn't successful, there won't be a Sims 5."

Which was deleted, though, he also quoted a post quoting it replying  "It's not all or nothing, per se, but something has to pay for 5,".

[citation]

And honestly, I'm not sure I blame him. You've put years of work in to a game, and as soon as it's released you get a lot of flak from people who haven't played it yet, and are already being asked about the sequel. I probably wouldn't have handled it as well.

Aside:
How do I get the hyperlink to use text other than the url?

Edit: Aha, Thanks!

[Helgoland]

Code: [Select]

[url=google.com]Like this.[/url]

[Reverie]

I found a babby scorpion on the shower curtain when I was taking a shower >.>

[Lightningfalcon]

I found a babby scorpion on the shower curtain when I was taking a shower >.>

I assume that you killed it with fire?  And then proceeded to burn the rest of the bathroom just to be sure?