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[Double A]

I have yet to take a class about the different ways to kill elves. I've counted at least 6.
If only Toady made a game that would let me learn physics and trig...
Get on it!!

Because after 6, you're laughing too hard to continue counting.

I work in a small, local, TV station.
Today I was faced with a newfangled comm matrix with tons of buttons and endless configuration properties for both audio and video. Sadly it's the kind without any LCD display whatsoever and no computer interface.
It's the kind that "speaks" to you with blinking buttons in various states.

The guy who set it up no longer works here, we had no manual and weren't able to find one on the internets.
So the whole tech department is staring at an impossible piece of alien equipment that needs reconfiguration.

And I start pushing buttons, mumbling "talk to me baby, talk to me". And I push buttons faster and faster as I somehow manage to understand that its basic working principles are similar to.... Dwarf fortress Lever setup, linkage and triggering...

Everyone was looking at me all puzzled. I reconfigged that bastard, and now they all think I'm some kind of crazy autistic Technopath.

Thank you Dwarf Fortress!

Wait, really? You mean you just randomly fiddled with it?

Good thing you didn't flood the parking lot with magma.

[vadia]

Thanks to dwarf fortress, I'm no longer a loser! I used to cry myself to sleep, eat greesy fast food, and was physically repulsive to women, that is to say the laws of feild theory explained why women were flung from there feet in the opposit direction when I walked past. Now I'm a kick ass awesome guy with a mustash. Thank you dwarf fortress.

You forgot your leopardskin patterned leotard.

[Max White]

Oh well that one goes without saying. The girls just love a animal print item of clothing, especialy one that tight.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Thanks to Dwarf Fortress, i have a better understanding of which ores make what metals.

[Max White]

Goblins being a reliable sorce of iron!

[Vercingetorix]

Dwarf Fortress doesn't help too much with graduate-level accounting coursework, but it has taught me a thing or two about geology, biomes, and various animals.  Plus it's a good way to relax if I don't feel like doing anything much.

[Interus]

I work in a small, local, TV station.
Today I was faced with a newfangled comm matrix with tons of buttons and endless configuration properties for both audio and video. Sadly it's the kind without any LCD display whatsoever and no computer interface.
It's the kind that "speaks" to you with blinking buttons in various states.

The guy who set it up no longer works here, we had no manual and weren't able to find one on the internets.
So the whole tech department is staring at an impossible piece of alien equipment that needs reconfiguration.

And I start pushing buttons, mumbling "talk to me baby, talk to me". And I push buttons faster and faster as I somehow manage to understand that its basic working principles are similar to.... Dwarf fortress Lever setup, linkage and triggering...

Everyone was looking at me all puzzled. I reconfigged that bastard, and now they all think I'm some kind of crazy autistic Technopath.

Thank you Dwarf Fortress!

Wait, really? You mean you just randomly fiddled with it?

Good thing you didn't flood the parking lot with magma.

You don't have to worry about flooding the parking lot with magma when NO SANE PERSON WOULD BUILD A SWITCH TO FLOOD THE PARKING LOT WITH MAGMA.

Although I suppose the device he described doesn't sound sane... so yeah, probably a good thing that didn't happen.

[Zodel]

"Snipped"

Wait, really? You mean you just randomly fiddled with it?

Good thing you didn't flood the parking lot with magma.

You don't have to worry about flooding the parking lot with magma when NO SANE PERSON WOULD BUILD A SWITCH TO FLOOD THE PARKING LOT WITH MAGMA.

Although I suppose the device he described doesn't sound sane... so yeah, probably a good thing that didn't happen.

So we should look around Bay12 forums for a Dwarf Fortress player who once made a device in a small tv station, figure out which series of switches / buttons / whatnot floods the carpark with magma, then tell the hippies there will be a protest against the deforestation of [insert location here] ?

[Nospherat]

Hmmm...
Well, there's no volcano in this biome and digging to HFS looks like too much work.
It seems I embarked on top of a human town. However, if my memory serves me right, there was an aquifer in the first layer of caverns subway.
With a few pumps I may be able to flood the world!

Yay!

[Draco18s]

In Real Life its remarkably difficult to control lava in such a way that you could have a lever that would flood [insert location here] with magma.

[warhammer651]

In Real Life its remarkably difficult to control lava in such a way that you could have a lever that would flood [insert location here] with magma.

then we're just paying too much attention to physics.

WE'RE DWARVES GODDAMMIT!

[breadbocks]

I work in a small, local, TV station.
Today I was faced with a newfangled comm matrix with tons of buttons and endless configuration properties for both audio and video. Sadly it's the kind without any LCD display whatsoever and no computer interface.
It's the kind that "speaks" to you with blinking buttons in various states.

The guy who set it up no longer works here, we had no manual and weren't able to find one on the internets.
So the whole tech department is staring at an impossible piece of alien equipment that needs reconfiguration.

And I start pushing buttons, mumbling "talk to me baby, talk to me". And I push buttons faster and faster as I somehow manage to understand that its basic working principles are similar to.... Dwarf fortress Lever setup, linkage and triggering...

Everyone was looking at me all puzzled. I reconfigged that bastard, and now they all think I'm some kind of crazy autistic Technopath.

Thank you Dwarf Fortress!

This is so much win.

[NotPete]

In Real Life its remarkably difficult to control lava in such a way that you could have a lever that would flood [insert location here] with magma.

Thats why you flood everything with lava and hide in a magma proof bunker.

[janglur]

Did you go on to explain the importance of flux stones? 
I realy like that Toady took the time to use real world geology. I'm sure once day, if he gets around to upping the world gen algorithems, then it will mimic the formation of mineral veins and batholiths and such.

I like that word. Batholith. It's so dwarfy.

I hear this and think of an adamantine spire with magma pumped near the top, and a pool at the very top for hot dwarven bathes.

....I need to build this now.

[Max White]

Well it isn't exactly that, but close enough.