I don’t think Tarn has ever recoded to allow multi thread processing, so everything runs on a single CPU core (my info may be out of date)

Dwarf Fortress started adding multithreading last year along with an engine update. This is in large part to Tarn hiring outside help to work on the Steam release, and the game has never been better.

I also wanna say that the Steam version packages a full tutorial which will get you off the ground and also cleaned up a lot of the old game logic that was inconsistent and confusing (like how some rooms were “rooms” and others were “zones” and still others were “places”), and now I’d say that getting a base up and running is pretty intuitive since most things work just about the way you’d expect them to and it’s only “hard” if you intentionally make it that way by embarking on a dangerous biome or doing a challenge run.

You’ll still die a lot though, 'cuz that’s the fun part.

I didn’t say track, I said control access. I know my fellow Americans tend to bristle at the idea of doing anything for the common good, but I personally feel that the danger of unregulated media and internet access has been well demonstrated in the past hundred years, and that not regulating it in some capacity is just as negligent as not regulating firearm ownership or toxins in the food.

Either unrestricted access to the internet hurts children, or it doesn’t. If it hurts children, then we have a societal responsibility to protect them from it. “Good parenting” wouldn’t be able to protect kids from lead in the paint, so why would we expect it to protect them from other widespread harmful contagions?

Then enjoy all of the negative social outcomes of widespread internet addiction I guess.

They may have been technically right about the Republic’s corruption but they were clearly rebelling for their right not to pay taxes and to have fewer regulations, rather than for any kind of greater freedom that would have benefited the masses. Just look at their leadership - the banking clan, trade federation, corporate alliance, commerce guild…

National IDs, require an ID to connect, limit the hours for kids. Works in South Korea and China - sure it can be gotten around but that takes a certain amount of effort that isn’t worth it for the majority of the population.

Pretty much as soon as gen 2 came out 8 year old me said “yeah I’m not gonna remember all these guys”.

Penny Arcade is still being made

wow.

Both lines in the meme are from Theoden, the missing line from Aragorn is “6,000 will not be enough to break the lines of Mordor.”

It’s not a plot hole. The oathbreakers had satisfied their oaths and were owed peaceful rest. If Aragorn had kept them around after they had fulfilled their end of the bargain, then he would have been breaking an oath, and the fact that he doesn’t even though it seems like the logical thing to do is key to Aragorn’s goodness as a character and worthiness to be king.

So like, weren’t these guys just a week prior to this fighting an existential battle against tens of thousands of Uruks? Shouldn’t he know about how many soldiers and horses he has left and that they’re extremely depleted?

As we all know, getting more militantly progressive because you see the repeated failures of the liberal worldview is exactly the same as getting more conservative because you own more property 🤡

convert inches to miles

When will you ever convert inches to miles? One of these is for measuring things that you can pick up with one hand, the other is for measuring traveling distances.

The useful thing about standard measurements is that base-12 is much more useful in daily life than base-10, which is only easier to work with on paper. Make a footlong object and you can very easily make 1/2 1/3 1/4 1/6 and 1/12 versions of it, make a decimeter long object and you can only easily do 1/2 1/5 and 1/10.

all base 10.

You see, this is part of the problem. SI seems more logical on paper, but in practice if you want to divide by anything other than 2 or 5 you have to pile on the decimals or switch to an unwieldly small unit of measurement, which hampers the ability to use those measurements. The most commonly used “standard” measurements are the way they are because they were the most useful measurements for actual craftspeople to standardize to, while the SI system was dreamt up by a bunch of rich French people.

I’ve been fighting this battle on Lemmy for years, people who don’t make or repair things with any regularity just don’t accept the usefulness of standard units. The fact that they’re mostly in base-12 or -16 alone makes them far more useful than metric!

True. I didn’t become a commie until I was almost thirty, young me was so idealistic.

tHeSe MeN wErE vIoLeNt TyRaNtS

The kulaks and the monarchists and the nazi collaboraters deserved it. Communists have been vindicated by history every single time.

voting for liberals to keep the fascists out doesn’t work

our current system has already shown the tendency for liberals to let fascists into prominent positions of power

in the historical example, the Germans could have saved their country by voting for communists, therefore I advocate voting for communists in the present day

is that simple enough for you to understand?

Since Biden has done nothing to curb the radical conservative takeover of the Supreme Court, he doesn’t have to. The GOP has all the undemocratic institutional power they could ever ask for.