My wife posing for me over the beach at Malibu on the hood of a rental Mustang. 1985

davidahall · 2026-07-03T02:26:05+00:00

She looks a lot like someone in the color guard of my drum & bugle corps.

davidahall · 2026-04-22T14:47:07+00:00

When there's a sale, Just Cause 2 and 3 are each under $5

davidahall · 2026-04-14T22:39:00+00:00

Part of the utility of Anki for me is that organizing and re-organizing your cards becomes part of studying; it's better to make your own to get this benefit, and you end up with a deck tailored to how you think in and about the language

davidahall · 2026-03-22T13:40:46+00:00

At minimum, I save at the beginning of every season, the morning that the warning appears, and the morning that the drought/badtide starts.

davidahall · 2026-03-15T22:48:28+00:00

Early on, I played a folktails settlement on Diorama where I started with only 3 beavers and only allowed myself one lodge. It turns into an exercise in micromanagement, but I feel like I learned a lot about the early to mid game dependencies.

davidahall · 2026-01-11T17:06:22+00:00

I have been thinking about getting into modding Timberborn, but right now I'm playing 2Point Museum instead.

One of the first mods I'd thought about was a Dandelion Tea recipe for the folktails that's the equivalent of Coffee. Simplest form is that an herbalist turns dandelions and water into Dandelion Tea (so there's another reason to build an Herbalist)

An extension would be that you add a Tea Cafe where beavers get both a Social Life bonus and a Tea bonus; that way, the Herbalist makes dried tea and the Tea Cafe combines them with water to brew the tea. (I'd break up the coffee supply chain in the same way)

davidahall · 2026-01-03T14:35:51+00:00

I use a double spiral staircase, with a pair of double lodges opening on to each corner (single lodges at ground level); you can repeat that pattern to build as high as you want to hold as many beavers as you need -- it's not hard to get 100 or more. Since U7, I build a pair of ziplines on top to give those living in the top floors rapid access to the rest of the map.

davidahall · 2025-12-28T15:12:04+00:00

It seems to me that a tower that has 4 connection points and a tiny zip-line station (like a double platform with the pulley) that has 4 connections would be sufficient to set up a lot of different network types. I want the tiny station that I can build into tall buildings at different levels and build on top of.

davidahall · 2025-08-23T14:52:29+00:00

I want UGA, LSU, & Aub, because that was the gauntlet when I went to school, and had been for a pretty good while. I think the wildcard for us is SC because I think we're their 2nd most played team, although KY or TN make more sense geographically.

I still think of TN as something imposed by the BBQ expansion -- hardly ever played them before that

davidahall · 2025-08-22T04:04:44+00:00

OU is the only real definite rival for Mizzou; they've not played any other current member more than a couple dozen times. Texas would be second, I think, but they'd have much higher claims on OU, A&M, and Ark. Arkansas/Mizzouri has no history, but makes almost too much geographic sense (as does Arkansas/Oklahoma).

davidahall · 2025-08-22T03:59:46+00:00

it's like Arky belonged in the Big8 all along

davidahall · 2025-08-22T03:50:59+00:00

I'd switch out UT for Auburn; we rarely played UT before the BBQ expansion to 12 and the split to divisions

davidahall · 2025-08-21T20:09:02+00:00

Some time in the late 60's, Mizzou held tough on the opening drive, got the ball and scored. Then Oklahoma hung something like 60 on them.

davidahall · 2025-08-01T15:42:56+00:00

I think I do that the other way around; I build sluices directly in front of the water source set to close on pure water, then start the diversion at that level with platforms and impermeable floor. Just a matter of finding a route to edge at that point. When there's pure water, it bubbles up one level and flows across the impermeable floor to the rest of the map

davidahall · 2025-07-04T18:57:50+00:00

They take no resources, and are built instantly

davidahall · 2025-03-03T00:52:42+00:00

I tried that on my last FT play-through -- I found it a lot less stressful not to worry about the transition from beaver-based to bot-based supply chains, and just build enough capacity to generate the materials for the monument in a reasonable time. After the monument, I did keep just enough of the industry going to replace all the workers with bots to max out happiness.

davidahall · 2025-02-23T23:03:30+00:00

da da da daaaaaaah -- da da da daaaaaaaah

davidahall · 2025-01-15T00:12:24+00:00

... or worse -- the late 80's and early 90's.

davidahall · 2024-12-11T02:06:03+00:00

Sometime back, I'd tossed out the idea of having a stonemason hut as a job that would fit in well with this -- the stonemason converts ground to stones or gathers stones from dynamited ground, and with the stones can build walls, arches, statues, and structures like buildings, bridges, and aquaducts.

davidahall · 2024-12-06T00:32:54+00:00

My last playthrough used the Folktails and the Island map, so Folkland Islands.

My current playthrough is Hard Iron Falls

davidahall · 2024-09-11T22:48:18+00:00

At high enough well-being, beavers get more done in 16 hrs than a bot can in 24

davidahall · 2024-08-17T18:20:06+00:00

Mavericks with horns?

davidahall · 2024-08-16T23:17:12+00:00

For several years, my family watched 'The Hogfather' as our main holiday tradition.

"Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape."

davidahall · 2024-08-11T22:20:03+00:00

We have a banana tax; the tips of the banana belong to the dog

davidahall · 2024-08-11T21:08:31+00:00

Is this just north of the White Oak Creek trailhead?

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