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Re:Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics by honkycat on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:15PM (#19386261)
Dwarf Fortress is a popular game, but it's progress has been stalled for years.

One of its big issues is performance. For an ascii game.

If anything, it is an example of how saying "Eh, screw it." can stall your progress

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Re:Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics by npunt on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:18PM (#19393851)
DF does massively complicated and computationally expensive simulations. It eats CPUs alive. How it shows those results (ascii, tile pack, etc) has nothing to do with it - it isn't GPU-bound the way just about every other game is, because it's as much a simulation as a game.
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Re:Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics by Smithalicious on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:13AM (#19386867)
What do you mean by "stalled for years"? I haven't played in a while but according to the website[0] the last development progress wasn't even a month ago.

[0]http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

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