@eosino: You know, in an earlier draft, the sentiment expressed in that sentence was given a lot more room. It's an idea that Austin and I both agreed would need a lot more room, and while it wasn't necessarily what my article was about, I really wanted to make sure it made it into the final draft. The "In [current year]," construction was the best I could do on a deadline and with a word count. Besides, I don't think it's wrong to say that in this current year, centuries after the country I live in shrugged off the rule of a monarch, that fetishizing that system of government is at the very best short sighted and at the very worst feels like the author does not believe in democracy and yearns for an oligarch?
WELL one big help i had was the Dwarf Fortress Wiki Quickstart Guide. Really invaluable! If you wanna know what to do right away, what economies you're going to need, and what the keyboard shortcuts are, I can't recommend this enough. I kept it open in a tab the entire time I played.
I also really recommend getting a newbie pack, with tiles sets and dwarf therapist! Dwarf Therapist is a tool to make managing what jobs your dwarfs have easier, and tiles sets are just easier on the eyes. Have fun!~
@sethmode: HI it's Gita. I was a little worried about how that sentence would come off removed from an earlier context I had (in a previous draft I referenced my experiences at a high school magnet program for creative writing and how that influenced my view of fiction). I really love pulp! I'm not doing an irony when I say that Face/Off is my favorite movie, it super legitimately is.
But on the other hand, I do think literary fiction, especially modern literally fiction, is especially concerned with untangling human life, and the more that I read, the more I want that. I want it alongside vampires and dystopian megacorps, sure, but I want it all the same.
If I may be so bold: my friend Max's novel, Echo of the Boom, captures both pulpiness and "literariness" really well. Plus there's a teen DJ named Jennifer Savage!
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