it's 11:53 pm and a new dwarf fortress has been released.

and I have half a mug of wine (turns out I don't dislike wine, just merlot).

@pnathan i can't imagine how complex that is now, a decade after i last played it

@alyx fewer bugs, still single threaded, grr.

@pnathan @alyx If I remember the actual game play is only bottlenecked by memory speed now of all things, even the smallest world can't fit into the largest L3 cache so the limit isn't processing power it's how fast the information the game needs can be pulled out of RAM

@Ashrand @alyx I should go rummage through the forums.

but a key issue was the threadedness of the code and the search algorithm.

@pnathan @alyx That isn't wrong, but it's also a technical way to say "why not just rebuilt the game" there are a lot of reasons, mostly related to poor planning, why the game itself runs the way it does, i wouldn't dare wonder how long it would take to fix all that and address the bugs it creates but it puts the myth arc down the road a few years. I'll take more actual development tbh.