Interesting Links for 23-01-2015

[andrewducker]

• FactCheck: the truth about jobs and wages
  (tags: jobs wages UK facts )
• TV debates to include Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, UKIP, SNP and Plaid
  (tags: uk politics )
• New Town £60m registers regeneration near St Andrew Square revealed
  (tags: viaFrancescaElston architecture building Edinburgh )
• Dwarf Fortress will crush your CPU because

Comments

[cartesiandaemon]

Dwarf Fortress will crush your CPU because creating history is hard

Wow, maybe REAMDE isn't as ridiculous as I thought...

[xenophanean]

To be fair, REAMDE is directly attributable to Dwarf Fortress, Stephenson encountered it, and thought it was neat, I think.

[andrewducker]

Dwarf Fortress is on my to-play list. Along with DOTA 2.

For when I retire.

[xenophanean]

"For when I retire."

For a certain sort of person, this is a very good plan, as far as DF goes. I tend to get obsessed for 4 days every 5 years, then get bored. Some people only get the obsessed stage. (some others, just complete incomprehension as to what the point is).

DF is definitely one of MineCraft's parents though, and much of what makes MineCraft great is also true of DF, in a much more complex/harder to use sort of a way.

[cartesiandaemon]

Ah! I didn't realise, that's cool. Although honestly, REAMDE made it sound less exciting than that article, alas :(