Nice Stuff Ya Got There

careful, it is not kosher

the berry or?...

ya strawberries aren't kosher. they also aren't berries

okay i have two followup questions

oh that wasnt my second question but thank you for both. may your path wind through many highs with the lows needed to cherish them.

what was your second question then I need to know

how do i know when she's flirting with me?

if it makes you feel small and blushy, she is

Adjusted value of Bees. Now that was a special one… because every item in the game had a minimum value, and a beehive was a container for bees, which each had a minimum value… which meant the moment one of your dwarves picked up a beehive, your entire fortress’ net worth skyrocketed… a value used in determining how powerful the foes that visit and try to murder you are.

Reblogging for the explanation of what “adjusted value of bees” actually means, because I know several folks following this blog have been wondering.

Okay but you’ve all forgotten the best Dwarf Fortress bug of all “Flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy” 

Actually I lied it’s the one where after a major update werewolves and vampires started climbing the nearest tree and refusing to come down. It turned out that he’d given evil creatures the ability to sense each other, but forgotten to set a maximum range on it, so werewolves were aware Hell was underground and trying to flee by climbing 

The thought of a world with just one ‘species’ is just immensely compelling to me. I like to think transformers come to earth and are baffled by the concept of different species. They’re like ok so you engage in cannibalism here? What do you mean it’s not cannibalism? Well yes it looks different from you but cybertronians can be four legged and bestial and still be cybertronians. I have a friend who resembles one of your cats. You can’t communicate with them? Like at all? Wow. Isn’t that frightening? How do you live with an unknown and unreachable lifeform sleeping on your bed? No shared language? None at all? And you say you EAT them? Wow. Okay. Okay. Not worried about any sort of, I don’t know, revolution? No? Okay. Hmmm. And there’s life forms on every surface? Really really small. Even smaller than you. Wow this is really kind of overstimulating I want out of here like asap

And can you imagine the terror a cybertronian would feel looking at a human and seeing them so similar only a human was derived from evolutionary chance and cybertronians have like. A confirmed god. Scary…. Even monkeys on a typewriter can replicate the genetic code of a god. The idea of evolution would freak out a cybertronian; a cybertronian basically controls their own ‘evolution’ over the course of a single lifetime and can modify their body at will, but a human is stuck with the form they have at birth, yet still manages to remain just as malleable as a cybertronian by dying frequently and fostering another generation. Scary! It would be like a family lineage is all one cybertronian splayed out and fragmented. I don’t think they’d like it one bit. They’d find the progression of life terrifying in the way it cares very little for autonomous choice. They’d look at a bacterium and then look at a person and then compare the two and run to the robot bathroom to robot stress vomit

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.