What games you play?

Some of it is shown on my Steam account. I've got over a thousand hours logged playing Kerbal Space Program, and I've also got back into playing Viscera Cleanup Detail lately. There's something very relaxing about wandering through a level with only mop and bucket, cleaning blood and guts.

I also regularly play Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, and recently have bought a copy of Ori and the Blind Forest.

Awww yiss fuckin' dorf fort. I've been playing adventure mode as a nevrean. Nevreans occasionally preen nearby people of the same species. It's adorable.

My most recent fort died horribly, because I settled in a region with no goblins and delayed putting up defenses. I'd only faced a few kobolds, and they just ran away, so I didn't think there was any problem waiting for the masons to make stone blocks so that my outer wall could be nice and pretty, rather than quick and practical. Thus, I was unable to prevent a were-rabbit from attacking my food gatherers.

One month later, the entire fort erupted in were-rabbit attacks, and 40 of 60 were dead.

"Oops."

Werecreatures are a death sentence if you're not paying attention. I make sure to watch them closely whenever they attack. Anyone who gets so much as a scratch goes into a "special bedroom" in which an "unfortunate accident" may occur.

I've never made any serious attempt at adventure mode. It seemed a bit pointless last time I tried, many versions ago. What's it like nowadays?

The combat and movement is deep and complicated, but relies a bit too much on luck if you ask me, but I'm no expert on it. I'm mostly a fortress mode kinda guy. The combat is fun, especially once you're incorporating climbing, sprinting and momentum into your attacks. It's much easier to be a sneaky stabby guy than before. As well you can ask entire rooms full of people to join you at once, which is pretty nice.

How long has it been since you played Adventure mode? 40.24 has a LOT of new adventure mode features. Was basically a total overhaul of the mode.

I'm not even sure which version it was. This was two or three years ago, so might have been v0.31.

I prefer building traps and infrastructure to hanging about talking to NPCs in taverns though.

If you've got nevreans then you must have made a few starts into modding. Have you ever tried playing with some of the sillier adjustments you can make to the dwarf race files? Many years later, my favourite game is still a fort where I tweaked the dwarf raws so that they had a maximum age of 2. Every year, half the population of the fort died of old age.

After the annual new year riot, it was a lot of fun trying to tidy everything up in time to attract more migrants. It was impossible for any of the fort newborns to become productive adults, because they all died of old age as toddlers, but for some reason the immigrant arrivals skipped that check. The game doesn't seem to have code to handle the case where death by old age comes before adulthood, so all immigrants turn up as 1 year old adults. The fort could only survive by making lots of crafts, offering lots of wealth, getting lots of new workers, all while watching the elders of the fortress crawl around helplessly because they're not grown up yet, and never will.

Another good one is removing [sentient] and replacing it with [can_speak], you get a playable race that can't gain skills, so everybody is permanantly a peasant. I like to think of this as "Moron fort" mode.

If it was that long ago, yeah adventure mode is way different now. The fun of it is not in talking to NPCs, I just mentioned that as a neat feature. The detailed combat is what I play it for.

Yeah modding has been a thing for a long time. Masterwork Dwarf Fortress is the largest and adds the most features, but it hasn't been updated for the new version and I doubt it will be for a long, long time.

How did your fort survive any combat? I doubt 2 year olds are terribly good warriors. Neat idea though, maybe I'll suggest it as a weekly challenge on /r/dwarffortress. Making a species in modding is super hard. Because of the way organs work, you can accidentally do things like, make their organs external, their lungs aren't connected to their mouth, etc. Crazy stuff.

I can only assume that the game had some kind of "is adult" binary setting for each dwarf rather than checking against their age every tick. Migrants get the box ticked adult regardless of their actual age, so you can get workers and soldiers still, even if they are only a few months old.

I've been trying to dig up the original thread about this. Found it eventually: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/inde.....hp?topic=84769

It's probably worth trying this again to see if the game still works this way. Should be fun no matter what the result.

I'd be very, very suspicious if I just found a portal lying around with no explanation. Why should I trust that it's stable, and safe to go through?

Curved spacetime is not a friendly place for critters. If it was a wormhole, for example, there's no guarantee you wouldn't be spaghettified, incinerated in an event horizon firewall, burned by about half a dozen other types of radiation, or turned inside out.

Always read the manufacturer's instructions carefully before entering a portal.

Do you watch Game of Thrones, and if so, do you like it?

I started watching this only a few days ago! We've been playing the Game of Thrones boardgame at one of our local groups, and I was one of only two at the table who hadn't seen the series. (They gave me House Greyjoy to play in that game, because they worship a seamonster.)

That was enough to get me to start watching. I'm only up to season 2 so far.

It's interesting, and I am enjoying it, but it's also quite wearying. Bit depressing when most of the good characters die, and the complete bastards thrive.

Ah yes, the Kraken, very fitting indeed for you .

And yeah, that is definitely a theme of the show.

Aww, sorry to hear about your PC. What kind of graphics card did you used to have though? Because i still use my old Nvidia 660Ti and it works. Sure, newer games look horrible and run horrible but the games which i play (which is mostly a bit older games) run quite okay.

I've got a box and manuals for a Geforce GTX 660Ti, so... that might be the one I'm using now. I honestly can't remember whether that's the current or previous card. Can't check without turning on or opening up the games PC.

Hm, sounds weird that the graphics card is dying then. (Unless you mean it's getting old) of course i guess the lifespan of a graphics card depends on how often you open and clean your PC and wherther or not you overclock it.

Graphics cards are inherently unreliable. They're incredibly complex, delicate devices that are constantly trying to cook themselves. You can see just from the size of their heatsinks that they are pushed to extremes as part of standard design.

What games and movies are you looking forward? There's a whole bunch coming out, so it's definitely a good time to be alive.

I don't know of any upcoming games that look interesting. I don't pay much attention to games in development, so there might be some cool stuff, but I'll find out about it when it's released and people start playing it.

I am cautiously awaiting the film version of The Martian. I really loved the book, it was perfect in every detail, so I'm a bit worried that the film will screw it up somehow, but I'm still looking forward to it.

Rawr rawr?

That is not a question!

Grrrrr!!!

What are your thoughts of a viceral cleanup duty sequal dealing with the aftermath of macros in a city? x3

I have already considered this. It might not need a sequel, as the game has a built in level editor and steam workshop support. Some aspects of it would work perfectly, though in a very NSFW manner. I think you can define custom mess types so it should be possible to give enormous white splatters for instance...

The difficulty would be in the larger scale damage. Your tools in VCD are only set up to handle bulletholes and items that can be replaced by hand. There's no system that would let you repair smashed buildings, or fill in giant footprints.

Haha, sounds like you've given this a -lot- of thought! X3

What if you're playing a macro janitor?

A lot of the game assets are built on the assumption that you're human. I'm not sure how many of them are accessable to modding through the level editor. To do it properly, you'd need to design a suitable mop and bucket for a giant, rethink the dispensers, incinerator, world tools, and of course rescale a lot of the mess items.

It might work. Would be a complex project though.

Which of your characters do you want more art of?

Any of them. All of them!

I have some specific plans for Zoe the kakapo, and there are a few items paid for and in progress involving my seamonster. Apart from those, my big list o' commission ideas has a pretty even spread of all my characters.

If you could meet only one of your characters in the real world, who would it be?

Meeting them as a human? Huh... I have strong feelings about becoming my characters, but not so much about them being created independent of me.

We can immediately rule out ladyGeb, on both safety and ethical grounds.

maleGeb would be fun, and he'd find reality interesting enough not to break it too much..

Ansaes is a critter built for utopia, where his powers aren't really needed except to provide fun. Any meeting with him in harsh reality would be brief, as he'd immediately run off to be a superhero, getting in the middle of warzones and telling everybody not to be so silly or similar activities.

Mari would struggle to fit in, both literally and figuratively, but I would very much enjoy being able to show somebody from an iron age culture all the wonders of modern tech. That she is huge, curvy and cute is a definite bonus...

The rats are a large enough breeding population that they'd probably take over the world in a few decades, and might do a decent job of running it, but I'm not sure what would happen to everybody else in such a scenario. Best not to conjure them into being without seamonster to keep their population stable.

Zoe just doesn't stand out enough against the competition.

Given these choices, I think it has to be Ansaes.

Hey Geb, do you only eat the ladies?

Take a look through my gallery. There are plenty of commissions of guys getting gulped. You're missing out on some great art if you haven't seen them!

I certainly will! Bonus question, have you ever eaten an alien?

I don't think so, but I'm not 100% sure. I've eaten a few high tech sci-fi critters, and some of those might have been aliens, but if they were they didn't say so.

Hehe maybe someday you'll get to eat one.

Are you a nice macro? Like you don't hurt anyone?

In some settings, yes. Not always.

It depends whether I'm playing realistic, or fantasy. Sometimes it's fun to imagine being a giant lizard in the real world, or something like it, and at times like that I'm a gentle giant. Being able to let go and do whatever you want is the point of fantasy though, and I do enjoy predation as more than just mawplay.

If you were a giant reptile in the real world you could caress and touch you ?