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Elder scrolls worldgen presets for Dwarf Fortress
People seemed to like the BotW Hyrule worldgen preset I shared for for Dwarf Fortress a few months ago so I thought I'd share these ones too.
The file contains world prests in different sizes for Cyrodiil (generated from the Oblivion heightmap), Skyrim (generated from the Skyrim heightmap), Vvardenfell (generated from the Morrowind heightmap) the Iliac Bay (generated from the Daggerfall heightmap) and Tamriel (generated from this fanmade heightmap)
Elevation should be relatively accurate bc I generated them from the games' actual heighmaps using PerfectworldDF, althought I had to make some minor alterations (such as connecting the Imperial City Isle to the rest of the world with a little land bridge). I did my best with the biome placement but I'm only human and the DF biome editor is not exactly easy to use, look at this shit:
This was made for classic DF but I've confirmed it works with the Steam version too.
How to use:
Download this world_gen.txt file
Go to your Dwarf Fortress install.
Go to data>init
Replace that folder's world_gen.txt file with this one.
(Make a backup of the old file if you want to keep your old world presets. Or merge the two files into one by copying the entire text of one of them and pasting it at the end of the other)
In game, choose "Design new world with Advanced Parameters"
Choose one of the presets from this file.
Before generating, you can tweak details like history length, number of civs, etc, etc etc.
I think whoever decided that counting cards in blackjack is "cheating" used to be one of those kids who unplugged the playstation whenever he started to lose
i wish these replies a very die
not to promote misogyny but i think this should happen i think it would be really funny
i think im still kind of lost on what kind of things constitute "genre" as opposed to scene or style. like the best ive come up with is that "tracks are in the same genre if their authors considered the same stylistic elements important to play around with and were in communication with each other either personally or through a shared canon of previous work" but i dont even know if i have it right i like the similarity webs because they capture that this is about this sort of interrelatedness and not just stylistic features, though, so in this sense i understand
music companies like genres for marketing i like genres for sociomusical understanding and exploration. we are not the same. do you understand
SHIVERS: The world is slowly waking up, shaking off the remains of the night. The wind plays with the nets, hanging from the railing on the pier, carrying the smell of freshly burned wood far, far away from the inhabited areas. Somewhere in the distance, a shutter opens with a loud creak. The village comes to life once more.
Nearly a year ago I asked if anyone wants to make an art collab with me, and one of the people who volunteered was @amrehmar who proposed to make an animation one. I did the line art, she put the beautiful colours on and I added the animated parts and here we are! I hope y'all will like it just as much as I do.
@amrehmar thank you for taking this journey with me, it was a real pleasure to make some art together :>
enough flat earth theory, its time for flat earth praxis
i think we shouod terraform earth to make it completely flat because itd be fun
tundras are soooo pretty aand beautiful to look at smears of best ever colors on flat and muted greens and yellows.... hard agree with los campesinos like yes take a body to tundra for real......
ACTUALLY the harry drawings are 90% new. the kim ones is like a year old tho.
GUMROAD IS BANNING NSFW CONTENT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS
I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet, so I might as well.
They've updated their content policy to comply with payment processor Stripe and Paypal's censorhip. They gave 24 hours. On March 16th 2024, Gumroad TOS will no longer allows sales of any written or drawn nsfw content.
This is going to hurt for so many creators. Giving that little time leaves people's source of income wildly unstable, especially with such a huge overhaul of what content is allowed.
I hate this. I hate what censorship is turning the internet into. I hate that nsfw content creators keeo getting pushed to the fringes, that they need to digitally migrate so often, because nowhere can be trusted to allow their art for long.
I don't know what to do next, there isn't some sort of "here's what you can do to help!" People just deserve to know.
my translation of that laios & kabru comic from the new adventurer’s bible (sorry for the awkward localization i‘ve only done this once before)
my god the transgenders are attacking
pussy mazovian. pussy infra-materialist. phasmid pussy pheromones this pussy's delirious. pussy so good it make the union bust. pussy so good it make kim TRULY trust.
tumblr had to ban predstrogen because she painted a fake tunnel onto the side of a mountain and tricked photonicmatthew into running into it, don't you see?
not even a full year apart... we stay silly :3 🐈
abandoned space elevator
Father John Yogurt was defrocked from the clergy today for being asexual, following a papal ruling that "vows of chastity don't count without temptation." The Pope later commented "You gotta have that dog in you"
gunner sub whining and begging me to please please please load the fucking apfsds round already so they can fire it while an enemy tank is slowly rotating its turret to point directly at us
Is the relationship between the gunner of a crew-served weapon and the ammo bearer/loader technically Dom-sub
of course it is
i think a big part of the reason i love de is that it always affirms the things in themselves. there is a temptation, when a core part of your outlook on the world collapses, to look at everything that exists and say "well, what is the point of you, then? do you even mean anything anymore?" and it says yes, it does. the things - the lights, the clinking of cups, the smoke, the cold, the colors that make up the picture - just being - it has value, the things mean themselves if nothing else. it is what it is, and what it is is enough.
I'm actually really touched by this scene, which you only get if you're with Cuno or alone in the end:
You think you're going to be abandoned, but then a bunch of skills jump out to encourage you in their own way.
And all the options you get except the last one are positive.
What are your opinions on birds as a subject for photography.
hold still you little fucker
to be honest, to me starting at the top seemed easy. the way i learned was basically a sequence of "this is how x really works under the hood"-type revelations, which suited my learning style reasonably well. im sure i could have gone the other way around too, though i feel like you might have lost me starting at assembly because a high level language was relevant to my other interests then in a way assembly wouldnt be
half of the mystique around "tech stuff" that most people experience is mostly just because they don't know the difference between a "tech enthusiast" as constructed by Apple et al's marketing team and "people who know computers work" and how there's very little actual overlap between these two categories. the only actually good programmers are the ones who want to fuck the computers or perchance have undergone some other technopsychosocial adaptation, which does not correlate with knowing how many dozen cameras the latest iphone has or being able to get along well with the business major interviewer at a startup called Zyergote who drives a tesla
I don't want to say "you should never listen to a non-linguist about anything involving language", but like... man, people are so wrong about language. If you are learning a language and want to know how it works, don't ask a native speaker! They don't fucking know! Ok, they do, but not in a way they can convey to you. They'll tell you some wrong shit!
"How does this grammatical construction work in your language?" — you'll get the wrong answer
"How is your language different from English" — you'll get the wrong answer
"What is unique about your language" — you'll get the wrong answer.
"Oh ho ho, I am the exception, I am a very educated person in general and I would never—"
Wrong. You don't know shit. Language doesn't work like that. The things you think about language are wrong. "I always heard it was—" wrong. "I always figured it was—" wrong. Oh my fucking god you guys you would not believe how furiously wrong everyone is about linguistics all the time. It's wild.
they did not call me any particular nickname in college because I did not have any characteristics or traits
posting the spotted hyena vision diagram again
if there's one thing ive learned from my math education it's the ability to judge a textbook by it's cover:
fancy cover with actual picture, fewer than 15 years old, $300: absolute dogshit. time wasting exercises, poor exposition, that weird gloss they put on the pages probably makes it too toxic to use as kindling
title is just name of subject, referred to by author, 50 years old with like 3 editions: excellent. compact proofs, exercises good enough people refer to them by number in conversation. available for free by foraging somewhere they grow naturally
title is some shit like paul's notes, "cover" is just default latex titlepage, distributed as pdf to grad classes or by advisor: best coverage of whatever (usually niche) topic it's about in the world. crystal clear exposition. solutions to exercises available by emailing grad students working under author
hey don’t cry. the Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite ok?