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Time to start proofreading your comments before posting.

Does it need to expend the energy to winch it up? Would it not be simpler to have a set of these weights, and a ramp system to deliver them to the top, and use vehicles to unload at the base and drive them back to the top to be hooked up again in sequence? Surely there would be less energy loss moving it up a ramp than fighting gravity in a vertical shaft to winch it directly upwards.

Exactly right, and also, thank you for reminding me I forgot to brush my teeth.

Dwarf Fortress' creator Tarn Adams is the antithesis of this guy, as far as I can see from a brief perusal of his articles beyond this one. Tarn is humble, often plays down his acheivements, is really interested in how his players and community interact with the systems, and builds out complexity based on the desires and needs of the players.

I don't mean to diminish the work of Crawford, but he is building the same kind of simulationst mechanisms that Adams is, but Adams hit on success partly because of his personality.

No Russendisko unfortunately, but I guess that's German and not technically Easter-European.

That film is my white-whale, Ive searched high and low for a copy of it with english subtitles since I saw the trailer back in 2011 or 2012. Mainly I just want to see it because I'm a fan of the band Leningrad and they did some of the soundtrack.

The ecological disaster is that these kinds of forest are green dead zones. no other native plantlife can survivie in this ecosystem, if you can even call it that. Silka Pine should be considered an invasive species, IMO.

I am the same. I have an irrational hatred of those wet-mouth whisper videos, it makes my skin crawl but not in the same way as this article describes.

The sound of The Shimmer from the trailer and in the movie (See here https://youtu.be/89OP78l9oF0?t=54) makes my skin shiver every time I hear it. Also I loved Annihilation both in book and movie form. Have you seen its spiritual predecessor, Roadside Picnic?