u/baar-ur

By "Warhammerism", I mean words like "armorcrys" for armored glass and "cogitator" for computer. I recently read Commissar by Andy Hoare, where one character's mohawk was called a "mohican".

I think my absolute favorite was when a bathroom was referred to as the "necessarium" in a Cain novel. I genuinely laughed out loud at that one.

Inspired by Toady's comment in the Future of the Fortress discussion that more detailed needs for animals would be good but isn't a focus any time soon. What's something realistic you would add and how would you do it?

For animal needs: I would tag animals as herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. More complicated diets like insectivore, granivore, and fructivore would be sub-categories. Animal feed is produced in either the kitchen or the farmer's workshop. There's so much stuff already going on at the farmer's workshop, though.

Carnivore feed uses meat OR meat and bone meal for a lower quality meal. Herbivore feed uses plants and/or hay produced by harvesting grain-bearing crops. (Convert hay into straw for straw crafts! Your farmers need straw hats!) Higher quality meals keep animals full for longer and make them happy. Feed requirements are based on size; it should be much harder to keep a giant tiger fed than a house cat. Maybe there's also an option to make large meals that use more ingredients.

Animals also need to be tended at least once a day, using the animal caretaking skill. Dwarves with pets will tend and feed them automatically. Tending increases happiness, and also boosts training so trained animals need to be retrained less frequently.

Or how about dining hall details? Finally a use for those cauldrons, ladles, and bowls! Assign a dining hall attendant to serve visitors and have social interactions, like a tavern keeper who won't overserve your dwarves.

What would you like? Sewer needs? School for children? Lighting requirements? Dreams and nightmares?

I'm looking for a prompt from Make Some Noise that was something like "The movie finally explains why these kids are the Chosen Ones". Brennan did a monologue in a wizard voice about a bunch of magic stuff and ended it something like "- and that's why you, Ashley, and you, Dylan, two white middle schoolers from Middle America, were chosen to be the Gatemaster and the Keeper of Keys."

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Because that's what >!Disclosure Day!< felt like.

I've been hanging out here for a few months after a chance link in another sub showed me this place. The things you guys do to hold on to data are so cool. I feel like archiving is so important in an era where all kinds of media are being faked, destroyed, or removed for the sake of money. So I've been quietly reading and thinking about what I want to save.

I finally decided that I want to archive the media of my childhood. Things like cartoons and kids' shows aren't at the top of the list for many people. But I want to be able to share the things I loved, the things that made me who I am, with my kids one day. It's also a type of media that has degraded rapidly in quality lately, with stuff like YouTube Kids getting flooded with bizarre and unmoderated slop.

I could use some advice on storage. I've read a little about M-Discs and I think that might work for me. I want something that's "set it and forget it", not "I have to check this every month to make sure it hasn't died for some esoteric reason". I don't know if they're any good for frequent reading, but it's fine if not. I figure I can archive with them and then copy onto DVD/Blu-ray when I want the data available years in the future.

I also need some suggestions on how to include captions. I have some audio processing issues, so being able to read captioning has always been important. Captions are also an educational tool for learning how words are spelled and pronounced. I want to make sure captioning is included as much as possible, even if I need to bake them into the image recording.