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[Max White]

Are you using handbooks written by people from England or Australia, or the American variants?

[Zaerosz]

There is. Unfortunately, it's against my religion to help anyone who can't tell the difference between a "z" and an "s."

Interesting fact: The period symbol, in that sentence, should have gone outside of the double quotations.
Moral lesson? Gamma is useless beyond portraying a idea or expression, so once that message has been understood, gamma is secondary, and obsessing over it is pointless.

Wait, what does gamma have to do with this?

[Max White]

Wait, what does gamma have to do with this?

That's the point.

[Lord Shonus]

Are you using handbooks written by people from England or Australia, or the American variants?

US.

[Max White]

That might account for it.
I know that a fair amount of spelling differs in the US, but I don't know if you have your own syntax too. Here in Australia, as part of the commonwealth, the national language is the Queen's English.

[Lord Shonus]

There are a few differences. I know that the use of single and double quotes is, or was, backwards here.

[Max White]

Ah, in that case I apologize for trying to correct you in speaking my language, when it wasn't mine at all.

[Untelligent]

I don't see topics randomly derail into grammar debates very often.

[Bauglir]

-snip-

[Max White]

There is a difference between "YOU FORGOT AN APOSTROPHE AND THEREFOR YOUR ARGUMENT IS VOID!!" and two people talking about proper use of quotations.

[Immacolata]

However it is kind of amusing. I mean for an Internet grammar war it is kind of low intensity right now. Fisticuffs in the bar, perhaps a few glowering border guards and menacing coastal patrols. Not full out magma war. I applaud you, Dwarf Fortress forumites.

Also, Visualizer I use is Stonesense. 0 and 9 keys can change z-levels AFAIK.

[Untelligent]

I don't like stonesense because it can't zoom in and out and the isometric view gives it a very limited number of angles to view your fortress from, so I can't see as much of my fortress as I want to with it.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I don't like stonesense because it can't zoom in and out and the isometric view gives it a very limited number of angles to view your fortress from, so I can't see as much of my fortress as I want to with it.

The newer version is supposed to give full screen shots up to 30 z levels.
But I can't get the new version to work :/

[Ovg]

Put memory.xml from dfhack for current version to your visualizer. It should work, though stonesense won't show creatures for some reason.

[Desdichado]

Lol. Most of the people correcting sentences here have bad grammar. No surprise there. Gamers tend not to be the smartest of people, because they waste time on their computers.  For example, I think maybe 1 in 4 people here might know the difference between "than" and "then."

And yes, you better believe that my quotation marks are right according to MLA rules. This is one gamer who does not slack.