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Armok Invaders – a game built inside Dwarf Fortress

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Re: Armok Invaders – a game built inside Dwarf Fortress

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More information on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/User:BaronW#Armok_Inv... A video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2cMHwo3nAU

Also, this is by the same guy (BaronW) who made the calculator in DF. The one where an overflow error leads to overflowing magma.

Re: Armok Invaders – a game built inside Dwarf Fortress

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7z only download links just fill me with rage. I don't understand why people keep pushing that format.

Why are you against the format?

How dare someone who made a game, is giving it away for free, and someone else is paying for bandwidth decide not to pick the optimal file format for all downloaders?

How selfish of them.

Re: Armok Invaders – a game built inside Dwarf Fortress

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7z only download links just fill me with rage. I don't understand why people keep pushing that format.

Why are you against the format?

The size difference is trivial so there's no real benefit to .7z files.

However it's a non standard format so I have to hunt around for what the CLI tool is called, then install it, the look up the options...

Sure that's not a huge amount of work, but it just seems preposterous. Like using some 'gopher 2.0' protocol instead of http.

Re: Armok Invaders – a game built inside Dwarf Fortress

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you against the format?

The size difference is trivial so there's no real benefit to .7z files. However it's a non standard format so I have to hunt around for what the CLI tool is called, then install it, the look up the options... Sure that's not a huge amount of work, but it just seems preposterous. Like using some 'gopher 2.0' protocol instead of http.

'Preposterous'

Re: Armok Invaders – a game built inside Dwarf Fortress

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you against the format?

The size difference is trivial so there's no real benefit to .7z files. However it's a non standard format so I have to hunt around for what the CLI tool is called, then install it, the look up the options... Sure that's not a huge amount of work, but it just seems preposterous. Like using some 'gopher 2.0' protocol instead of http.

Windows has a GUI client.

OS X and Linux have p7zip. And package managers.

It's not rocket science.

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