User:Teres Draconis

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Teres Draconis has been quite content lately. She has been satisfied at work lately. She was comforted by a friend lately. She ate a wonderful meal lately. She got in a fight lately. She has slept in a fine bedroom lately. She has admired own fine window lately. She was comforted by a wonderful creature in a cage lately. She is romanticly involved with <message redacted>. She is a casual worshiper of Mari the Chalice of Life. She is a citizen of the United States. She is a member of <message redacted>. Teres Draconis likes sandy loam, lapis lazuli, silver, the color green, elk leather, dogs for their loyalty and dragons for their terrible majesty. When possible, she prefers to consume cow's milk, cow cheese, wild strawberries and tuberbeer. She is relaxed. She finds helping others rewarding. She is quick to anger. She is often nervous. She greatly apreciates art and natural beauty. She is willing to compromise with others. She often feels discouraged. She has a sense of duty. She tends to avoid crowds. She is bored by reality and has a wonderful imagination. She feels strong urges and seeks short-term rewards. She loves new and fresh ideas. She is disorganized. She is concerned about rejection and ridicule. She is occasionally given to procrastination. She is very friendly. She is slow to trust others. She does not feel effective in life. She often does the first thing that comes to mind.

What DF stuff I've done lately

in game

Finding out that no, booze and blood don't flow like water. <explicative redacted>. Like I didn't find that out from many other sources /after/ failing my several boozerfall experiments. I have one last one to try... probably won't work, either, but I'm almost set up for it, so might as well continue.

Making verminous cows... yes, I can milk them, but they have a few... problems. Like, my cats keep killing them, you can't buy them from the embark screen, you can't milk the tame ones (so it really doesn't matter that you can't buy them at embark)... oh, and they teleport like other vermin. Not at all cow-like, I know. I'm working on it. I know they don't /have/ to teleport. Bats don't, once they spawn. Or, at least, I've followed one around for most of a season and it never did. It did change z-levels a few times.

I think [vermin_grounder] might be what makes them blink in and out... they "go to ground". They hide out. They're not really "teleporting", but since they're hidden, even from the hunters, they might as well be. I mention this because I've never noticed Carp teleporting around.... they spawn, they kill, they get the +«+Pig tail shirt+»+ (On the item is a finely-designed image of a dwarf and carp. The dwarf is surrounded by the carp.)

Ah, uhm... gotta go cook dinner. More later, maybe... after I work on my "cows". Argh. - jaz 01:10, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Wiki

Check out the new chalk page and tell me what you think. Yes, honestly, because otherwise I'm going to keep doing it wrong.

I have been told that there is too much duplicate data, and it doesn't fit the style of the other pages. I've been asked to slow down, wait, be patient, and so I shall. But I'll still be doing the stones in the order they are found on Stones for my own benefit. If someone else wants them, I can share... but I'll be slow and patient and calm. - 01:10, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

On the other hand, just having done it taught me a lot about the language of behind-the-wiki. Still more to learn. Something new every day (I hope). Now to see if I am capible of putting it into practice. --jaz 07:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S. If someone would like to use the comments page to point me to a dwarf wiki task that doesn't require sublime wit (which I often recognise in others but cannot seem to duplicate myself), nor experiance with modding, nor... let's just say if it's mindlessly boring "take this info from these three tables and use this format to put it there"... I'll do at least eight hours worth as penance for my recent sins (which have multiplied, apparently). If you're lucky, you'll get quite a bit more out of me. Depending on how long I put off starting, and what I'm using this task as an excuse for avoiding. ... See, my tendancy towards procrastination can be used to your advantage. *sigh* - jaz 01:10, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Ever feel like a little fish in a really big pond?

And that maybe the pond is filled with something other than clear crystal water?

I am wading through some of the forums at www.bay12games.com, trying not to duplicate threads as I make suggestions (or, in at least one case, point out that there is a perfectly good way of dealing with the problem they want dealt with without them suggesting something that would mess up my problem even more, and better yet, their solution is already functional in the game). My word, there is a lot of ... stuff... to wade through. Even if I find a thread that talks about something similar to what I'm thinking, it may be a good ten pages long... and if I don't want to sound like a "me too!" who didn't even bother to read what they're "me too!"ing, then... argh... And when that's /already/ a duplicate thread. Headache. And then it turns out that none of them address the subtle vision I see... or insist on making it too complicated to actually impliment...

And I have to wonder, if it's this difficult for me, wading through it all, how badly fare the Great Toad and his tri-toed sibling? Because I'm sure I'm not looking at even a tenth of the ... stuff... that they are. (And no, I don't mean "<redacted>" because it's worthless, but rather because there's just so much of it that it intimidates me and I thus feel the need to call it dirty words. I accept my common ways.)

So, Yargh, I say. Yargh! I will take my ineffective self to dinner, and maybe tomorrow will wade through more "suggestions" in the hopes of finding a gem, a clever mind who's desires match my own (and who was smart enough to phrase it in a way that other people actually understand).

--jaz 00:52, 21 May 2009 (UTC)