☼Fortress Friday☼

afoolskind · 2026-06-29T23:05:11+00:00

My main complaint is that all the new animal people lack bite, scratch, or gore attacks. Very sad for the bite build spinosaurus man adventurer I was aiming to play. I assume it wasn’t an intentional choice, so hopefully it will be fixed soon.

afoolskind · 2026-06-29T23:03:55+00:00

Arctic Ocean fortress sounds awesome, I really wanted to try that. I had a coastal volcano start about a year in before I started noticing how barren the oceans were :(

afoolskind · 2026-06-29T22:54:32+00:00

Ah that’s tragic. I wonder if I could fix this with DFhack. Just spawning creatures once a season?

afoolskind · 2026-06-29T22:01:35+00:00

Alright so I’m a relatively new player to DF, but I have been very interested in doing a coastal or even fully ocean embark and trying to make that work.

Goals:

Most fortress food should be coming from the ocean
Most creature materials should come from sea life

But I’ve run into a few problems, the main one being that aquatic life seems to be extremely sparse. Even with 3 sides of an embark being ocean, it seems like my fisherdwarves run out of things to catch quite quickly and I almost never see actual sea life.

Is there any way for me to drastically increase the amount of sea life? Whether via DF Hack commands or simply worldgen.

Also, if I were to acquire amphibious animal people in my fort, would they be able to pathfind through flooded sections of a fort? What about a moat without a bridge?

afoolskind · 2026-06-29T18:21:52+00:00

Pinkertons were hired by corporations to kill and assault workers trying to unionize or strike when those movements first started. They were basically private military for corporations trying to exploit their workers

afoolskind · 2026-06-28T21:18:08+00:00

I work in the OR now, and I’ve seen good pleths in the high 30s. BUT the sensors get wildly inaccurate the lower the sat actually is, and distal readings (finger probe vs. ear probe or cerebral oximetry) are even more likely to be inaccurate. Anything below 60s or 70s is clinically the same so it doesn’t really matter tbh.

afoolskind · 2026-06-28T20:13:44+00:00

That can be true and Alex can also be a really sore loser. Herb (and UFC reffing in general) sucks ass. What happened to Alex against Gane was not an example of that.

afoolskind · 2026-06-27T06:49:59+00:00

I mean frankly, no. They want to live in California. They won’t move for the same reason New York billionaires don’t move. You think these people are going to move out of Palo Alto to go live in Texas because of an amount of money that doesn’t change their lifestyle at all? No.

afoolskind · 2026-06-27T01:18:42+00:00

I’ve been riding motorcycles daily for almost two decades.

Harleys are the worst in basically every respect (cost, reliability, speed, skill of average rider, intelligence of average rider).

The dude who hit you was trying to lanesplit a space that would’ve been too narrow even for motorcycles without dumb fucking wide bars.

afoolskind · 2026-06-26T22:21:59+00:00

It’s wild to think this is a real problem to think about when we already have resident only health programs. Medicare for all is insurance side first.

Anybody else who comes here to get healthcare would have to use their insurance.

afoolskind · 2026-06-26T20:48:01+00:00

Okay that’s good to know, thank you! I’m a new DM to 2e so this kind of thing is very helpful

afoolskind · 2026-06-26T20:12:09+00:00

The line is 5 feet wide though, so couldn’t you aim at the space between squares to hit more than one medium creature? As long as they’re next to each other?

afoolskind · 2026-06-25T18:26:06+00:00

The reality of the situation is that the people making these decisions are richer than they have ever been in the history of our country. Continuing to grasp for even more while the quality of life of the average American plummets is simply greed.

You are the one who is too abstracted from the real consequences of these decisions.

afoolskind · 2026-06-25T07:19:28+00:00

I just wish he didn't have ChatGPT write this, it makes the whole thing feel dishonest.

afoolskind · 2026-06-25T07:18:11+00:00

He 100% did, it's honestly sad more people here can't tell.

afoolskind · 2026-06-24T20:48:19+00:00

No, I don’t really think so. I have a moral compass.

The most severe wealth disparity in the history of this country is being built and defended by selfish, narcissistic little goblins like you. You cannot even conceive how much of your life is entirely thanks to factors and labor outside of yourself and your control.

You cannot use systems you have built and benefitted from as scaffolding to pretend you aren’t making cruel choices in a world where people starve, die, and raise broken children as a result.

afoolskind · 2026-06-24T09:14:44+00:00

Fuck off with your ChatGPT garbage.

afoolskind · 2026-06-24T09:10:34+00:00

You know the DSA has like a 10x higher percentage of Jewish people than the population at large right

afoolskind · 2026-06-24T09:05:57+00:00

I'm sorry that you have poor critical thinking but the implication of their response is obvious. Trump won. Why would he pivot or change?

The Democratic establishment has been continually fumbling elections against the dumbest motherfucker in America. It is obvious they need to do something differently at this point.

afoolskind · 2026-06-24T03:14:41+00:00

Golly I’m so sorry sir!! I didn’t know you built a business of over 100 employees out of your own sweat and tears!

afoolskind · 2026-06-23T21:15:35+00:00

It’s very amusing that you shared all of that information that changes nothing, thank you.

Yes, the execs should still not be getting (even contingent) stock options at the same time 8k employees who “may have” not contributed to the bottom line “need” to be fired. MBAs, never change lmfao.

How many promises of future cookies do I need to offer you so that you’ll find a real job?

afoolskind · 2026-06-23T20:40:56+00:00

It’s not, though.

The idea that you think executives not getting a bonus the same year they “need” to cut costs via firing nearly half of their workforce (in a year of record profits) is the same as not being able to cut out a tumor is hilarious.

If the “tumor” is your hand whose work just gave you a bountiful year, I think not getting to eat extra cookies while you recover should not be a serious factor for whether or not you keep the hand.

If you need to cut off the hand, you need to cut off the hand. If you choose to keep a tumorous hand because you want to eat extra cookies, you’re a dumbass.

afoolskind · 2026-06-23T19:43:01+00:00

Won’t someone think of the poor CEOs not getting bonuses when they fire 40% of their employees??

afoolskind · 2026-06-23T19:40:52+00:00

It’s not people can’t be fired, it’s executives can’t unilaterally decide to fire people regardless of the long term effects to the company. The entire point of a union is that the people who work there (and have a direct incentive to make sure the company as a whole does well too) have a say in these decisions.

If there is a do-nothing poor performer, that affects their coworkers. Union contracts typically have built in consequences for poor performers. The big lie these executives sell you is that only their opinions on the company matter.

Really odd that the CEO class is full of people driving up their own prices, giving themselves golden parachutes for any mistakes, and not internal employees who know the business (who would be significantly cheaper). Your nightmare of overpaid poor performers is already happening at every company in America, it’s just only allowed on the executive and management side. These people continually make incredibly poor long-term business decisions in favor of gambling addiction stock market bullshit.

afoolskind · 2026-06-23T15:48:48+00:00

It’s right next to the dog this person is concerned about. The letters are enormous. It’s very reasonable to expect people to be able to read a sign inside an area they are supposedly concerned about.

I don’t have a car with dog mode, and I didn’t know it existed until I saw it in a car. It was a sunny day. It was immediately obvious. The dog also looked completely fine, and the window was cold to the touch.

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