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Author Topic: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?  (Read 2868 times)

Cespinarve

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Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« on: May 20, 2011, 01:58:57 pm »
Just asking. Does anyone know if Toady is 'saved', will he be teleported into heaven? If so, does he have a contingency plan to open-source the code after he's gone? And if not, does anyone know how the Rapture will affect his ability to update? Where does he live again, some American city, yes? Will there be traffic problems with all the saved, or is it one of the godless cities like Cleveland?
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Quote from: Mangled on June 19, 2010, 08:04:24 pm
Nice one, not sure when I'll be feeling like killing a baby but these things are good to know.
Quote from: Robocorn on May 21, 2010, 05:33:23 pm
This is why we can't have nice things... someone will just wind up filling it with corpses.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2011, 02:07:28 pm »
I don't think he will be, from what I gather. Best not give this rapture BS any more posting anyway.
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Quote from: Thadius on September 19, 2010, 02:00:07 am
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2011, 02:12:01 pm »
Quite the opposite - the rapture will have to wait until Toady is damn well finished.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2011, 02:26:52 pm »
Completion of Dwarf Fortress is actually the criteria for the end times.
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Quote from: Thadius on September 19, 2010, 02:00:07 am
Live long if you can, and prosper by any means necessary.  Any means, Urist.  So pull that lever, or by Armok, I'll lock you outside come next siege.
He who plays with dwarves must take care that he does not become a dwarf.  And when you stare into DwarfFort, Dwarffort stares back into you.

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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2011, 02:45:50 pm »
Right because either of 2 things can happen:

1) Df is nether completed and thus rapture nether comes

or

2) df is completetd and we will be upload our minds in its heavenly depths.   
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2011, 02:51:46 pm »
Toady lives in Seattle, which is on the west coast, making it a less religious place, and while I don't know the level of his faith, I do know that the big man up top doesn't like competition, so will probably keep him out on that reason alone, so really, we have nothing to worry about.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2011, 03:10:33 pm »
dont forget to go steal you a military super computer after it happens
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2011, 03:17:36 pm »
Quote from: Uthric on May 20, 2011, 03:10:33 pm
dont forget to go steal you a military super computer after it happens

I'll add it to my looting list- hey, if we can steal Watson and hook it up to DF...
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Quote from: Mangled on June 19, 2010, 08:04:24 pm
Nice one, not sure when I'll be feeling like killing a baby but these things are good to know.
Quote from: Robocorn on May 21, 2010, 05:33:23 pm
This is why we can't have nice things... someone will just wind up filling it with corpses.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2011, 04:04:36 pm »
I'm pretty sure that hooking up Dwarf Fortress to a super computer is liable to start the rapture.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2011, 04:29:38 pm »
Quote from: Balistic604 on May 20, 2011, 04:04:36 pm
I'm pretty sure that hooking up Dwarf Fortress to a super computer is liable to start the rapture.

I'm pretty sure playing dwarf fortress on a super computer is rapture.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2011, 04:30:40 pm »
I'm pretty sure playing DF on a super computer wouldn't be great, because super computers are massively multi-core, and DF is a single-process program.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2011, 04:38:51 pm »
Quote from: Cruxador on May 20, 2011, 04:30:40 pm
I'm pretty sure playing DF on a super computer wouldn't be great, because super computers are massively multi-core, and DF is a single-process program.

Eh, it'd be the same as running it on whatever type of core the computer uses then.  And I suppose you can't make a single core go faster by making it bigger.  But you could run soooo many other programs simultaneously.  All the programs.  I don't know how many programs there are to make DF better though.  DwarfTherapist and Stonesense are the only ones I use.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2011, 05:12:50 pm »
Quote from: Interus on May 20, 2011, 04:38:51 pm
Eh, it'd be the same as running it on whatever type of core the computer uses then.  And I suppose you can't make a single core go faster by making it bigger.  But you could run soooo many other programs simultaneously.  All the programs.  I don't know how many programs there are to make DF better though.  DwarfTherapist and Stonesense are the only ones I use.

Be a true dwarf and run a different fort on each core.  Think 200 dwarves is tough to manage?  Try running 200,000 in 1,000 simultaneous forts.

With no Therapist, no graphics.  Just the default tileset.
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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2011, 06:54:48 pm »
Quote from: Vercingetorix on May 20, 2011, 05:12:50 pm
Quote from: Interus on May 20, 2011, 04:38:51 pm
Eh, it'd be the same as running it on whatever type of core the computer uses then.  And I suppose you can't make a single core go faster by making it bigger.  But you could run soooo many other programs simultaneously.  All the programs.  I don't know how many programs there are to make DF better though.  DwarfTherapist and Stonesense are the only ones I use.

Be a true dwarf and run a different fort on each core.  Think 200 dwarves is tough to manage?  Try running 200,000 in 1,000 simultaneous forts.

With no Therapist, no graphics.  Just the default tileset.

That's definitely the seven years of tribulations right there.
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Quote from: Mangled on June 19, 2010, 08:04:24 pm
Nice one, not sure when I'll be feeling like killing a baby but these things are good to know.
Quote from: Robocorn on May 21, 2010, 05:33:23 pm
This is why we can't have nice things... someone will just wind up filling it with corpses.
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

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Re: Will the Rapture Affect the Update Schedule?
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2011, 07:24:45 pm »
Real time or DF time?
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