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I want to meet the people who played this before I did.
I want to hug people who played this in 2017.
I want to say, I love you, in person, for real, to all the people who played with me my first day.

If you read this, and you are someone that played in March 2018 or before, thank you.
I love you.

Though I really love you all. Those that came before me have a special place in my heart.
Back when the stability of the food economy always hinged on a single carrot seed.

For those of you that remember that time, I have a gift

That hand wishes at the very least, it could hold yours; to shake it, while I say thank you. Though I'd much rather use it to pull your back towards me, and say I LOVE YOU. For caring for me, for letting me care for you, and for working with me so that we, could give others the chance to do the same.

Thank you, so are you.

Thanks, now just to figure out a convenient way to share them.
I tried pastebin and almost crashed my PC.
Then I tried megaupload, seemed to work okay.

OK, fine,

since it's you.

There, that better?

I totally understand what you mean, now!

I went out looking for a straight branch today, found some maple trees.

Nothin.

Nothin here either.

It can really get you down, not finding what you're after.

But sometimes,

sometimes you get lucky.

Sometimes everything is perfect.

And ya just gotta dig into it.

You work at it.

And with the right effort.

You get what you're after.

Then at the end of the day.

You can treat yourself to something special.

DF has had that classic guitar for as long as I can remember. It's Tarns brother Zach on the guitar. Why does everyone on Earth not know this by now? You know it's been awhile, maybe I should read up on the Adams Brothers. Maybe I'm wrong and that's just a repeated thing that isn't really true.
... oh no.
Oh no...
Damn it, I've been lying for all these years?
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Soundtrack
"The in-game music is played on a 6-string guitar by Toady One himself."

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Toady_One
"Toady One (or just Toady) is the nickname used by Tarn Adams"
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/ThreeToe
"ThreeToe is the nickname used by Zach Adams"

Damn it! I had it wrong this whole time!? I thought one of the brothers was the programmer and the other was the "creative" one that did guitar, art and story stuff. Argh!!!!!!!!111111111asdf

For at least 10! years, 10 friggin years, I have been repeating this information across forums, and to friends, and even to other DF players, and no one has ever corrected me. !?

so stereotypical

much revelation

I can't believe I never actually bothered to verify this... it just, made sense. =/
I feel terrible, for all the people I've lied to.
Worst of all, I feel bad, because I was wrong.

moving on

I think India deserves mention as well... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0220-7
"...but in India is mostly from croplands (82%) with minor contribution from forests (4.4%)"
Ooh, okay, well, they have some world records at least?

India Plants 50 Million Trees in One Day, Smashing World Record 3 years ago

India plants 66 million trees in 12 hours as part of record-breaking environmental campaign 2 years ago

They'll get there.

Finland, huh?

- 1 hour later

I wish there was a better way of looking up the Leaf Area Index (LAI) change by country, say, over the last 5, 10, 20 years.
Every country should be listed and their LAI for each year should be known, then we could see the trend for each country over time.

Like this image but on a spreadsheet with sortable columns, one of which would be LAI change over time by square kilometer. Big countries get a lot of attention, but I'm sure there are many smaller countries who are making great strides towards increasing the LAI of their little piece of the Earth.

Or better yet, forget borders altogether.

I want a 3 dimensional view of the Earth, like Google Earth, that I can put search information into, like, area and LAI.

So let's say I want to find a contiguous area of 100 square kilometers, with the highest LAI on Earth.
Or, all circles, with a radius of 100 kilometers, where the LAI is greater than 10. Maybe even a topographic globe, where the texture is the data. And, for data like this, you could either have the alarming data where the LAI overtime is negative, show as a peak, coming off the sphere, or, if you were looking for areas where the LAI was increasing, you could switch it and see where the peaks were coming off the globe by setting the positive z (z in this case being like the altitude above sea level) to a positive LAI overtime.

Anyway, too much gabbing.

While I am glad that people are regrowing their trees for now, I think we should also be looking for ways to replace the functions that trees serve over time. Not now though, the population of Earth is still too small to warrant large investments in replacing life with technology, at least when it comes to things like producing oxygen, or, for maintaining or increasing biodiversity for the sake of potential benefits from the chemistry that would occur naturally as opposed to what we can do in labs.

Yeah, we should maintain habitats for a lot of the species on this planet, but those species are also going to have to adapt to the world we are changing this planet into, just as all species have had to adapt to changes. Life is now mass producing it's most capable form, most intelligent, and yes, most destructive form, in people. The good that we are capable of, as far as the ability we have to spread life to other worlds throughout the universe, far, FAR, outweighs all the harms we could cause here on Earth.

So long as we get life to other worlds, before our ability to severely harm all of them here, has reached the point where we could end life entirely through some sort of chemical or physical process.

We have a few timers that are ticking down, and one of the most significant ones that we are aware of, is the aging of the sun.

If we are not capable of supporting life after the sun dies. Nothing else matters.
Nothing can matter, without life to concern itself.

Well all right,

if you say so.

Ouch.

Damn tree,

almost broke my hand!

OWE!

That hurt!

Stop it tree!

I'm bleeding,

because of you!

Owey.

Wait a minute...

What the heck is this!? You guys...

I think we have a GRIEFER!

Well, that was a fun project.

But on my way home, I found a basket of stones in the woods.

Come on you guys, don't just leave stuff layin out in the woods.

Here's some for you too Sukallinen.

For real, go outside and get a flower and bring it inside near your computer.
Then just take a whiff of it every few minutes.
It's quite... intoxicating?
Why do we even use that word to say what it means?
This feeling and the root word, toxic, are like, complete antonyms.
Purifying?
I suppose, if you look at life as a game of chasing after attractions, it certainly is purifying in that way; it makes me want to go get more.
I think refreshing would probably be a better word for it.
Especially given this medium of communication.

Go get a flower and refresh your life.
And while you're out there, get one for someone else too.

It's such a simple gesture, when was the last time someone gave you a flower?
If someone gives you a flower
it's a good sign you mean something very important to them.
Give a flower to someone that means something important to you.

I recommend blossoms, like apple or cherry blossoms, just pinch off some you could fit in the palm of your hand. Or some lilac, find a lilac bush in your neighborhood and give a piece of that to someone, or treat yourself to some, if you don't have anyone to give some to. Just keep your nose open and your head up, and if you catch a whiff of something nice when you're out and about, bring some home with you.
With enough practice you'll easily learn to distinguish between the smell of flowers you can pick out of people's yards, and dryer vents. Some people use some pretty nice smelling dryer sheets though, so, while it's not certainly as pleasant as walking around neighborhoods with a lot of flowers, it can be a treat to catch several of your neighbors all doing laundry at the same time.

I find 9 AM or so a good time to catch housewives doing their sheets and blankets and then 9 PM or so a good time to catch wind of clothes. I don't know though, your neighborhoods may vary. Just get out more and find out for yourself. Trust me, it's a pleasant thing to pick up on. You think I'm being creepy telling you this, but trust me, if you get i the habit of taking your walks at peak washing times, or at least, of the times when people who use dryer sheets that you really like the smell of in the breeze. Your walks will instantly make you 20, maybe even 25% happier than they would have otherwise. And laundry is done year round, most flowers only bloom once a year... but when they do. There is just no comparison.

Get out and smell some flowers.