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[Buttery_Mess]

The best deaths are those we don't want. Which is kind of oxymoronic I guess, but it seems to ring true for me.

Or goblin deaths. Those are always good.

[Urist McGyver]

On topic: Because its a game. I loved to blast grunts into juicy gibs in Quake, and to melt seargents with missile launchers on Doom, but I would probably not do the same in real life.

So basicaly its cool do drop an elf down a 30-Z shaft leading to a cave full of crocodiles, but elves don't exist in real life¹ and its okay just because it is a composition of ones and zeroes

¹: Or at least that's what they want us to think.

[KarolineDianne]

I wouldn't call myself a bad person. I don't really do anything horrible in any of my forts or adventures.

I train war dogs, build a meager military, and set traps for ambushes and sieges. I negotiate with and treat the elves kindly and with respect. I've never arranged an 'unfortunate accident', nor have I ever launched anything into a pit or into lava.

In adventure mode, I have never committed an act of genocide. I cannot remember the last time I purposefully attacked a friendly unit. Sure, some of the combat is brutal, but I try my best to disable/kill my opponents as quickly as possible, if only so they are no longer a threat.

I wouldn't mark myself among the psychotic sociopaths that play DF, but then again I have never had much time/resources to put towards such things. I have trouble enough just getting my farms up and keeping my fort up and running, much less engineering some kind of lava atom smasher pit of doom.

[schussel]

poster above is a sneaking elf .. get him people!

you will be one of us in no time, just wait for the moment you witness a troop of goblins enter your highly weaponized traps, giggeling quietly over the arcs the shredded limbs fly off .. with sudden shock realizing .. you were absorbed into the insanity of Dwarf Fortress

or you just realize you can let out your sadistic side instead of doing so in real life

if not .. you are still an elf!

*throws with cutebolds*

[KarolineDianne]

I would say I am an elf, really.

Not one of the vanilla elves that are more like tribal hippies, though.

In Adventure mode, I hardly play anything other than the Dusk Elf int he Genesis mod. I once even modded them into vanilla so I could have something to play.

[Supercharazad]

In real life, I hesitate to hurt small insects.


In Dwarf Fortress, I don't hesitate to slowly burn kittens to death in magma vats.

[peregarrett]

Why do we throw babys into magma?

They fall there by their own purpose.

Why do we drop elfs into pits?

For !!SCIENCE!!. I suppose in a centuries of regular dropping we can breed a flying elf specie. Just no one tried that long.

Do we get pleasure from it?

Not pleasure, just a feeling of relief

Are we just sadistic?

Sure thing. It's a great luck for us and other people that we have DF. If we didn't, they'd suffer from our sadistic projects

[EmperorNuthulu]

We are bad people because it's fun! See you have less fun if you're not a bad person. Using walls to stop casualties? Not fun. Using walls to direct magma into the trade Depot? Fun!

[Shrike]

I like to see it as the ultimate expression of a gamebreaker's efficiency. We kill kittens to prevent catsplosions, while making sure there are cats to hunt vermin. We burn elves with magma because they ... Um.. hate our logs.

Okay, we're bad people. But we enjoy it.

[Urist Imiknorris]

We burn elves with magma because they're militant environmentalists, so we return the hostility with all-natural destruction. Volcanoes are environmental features too, you know.

[Kamamura]

Aperture Science:
We do what me must
because we can.

.... lalala

[Aramco]

Aperture Science:
We do what me must
because we can.

.... lalala

I don't know, the best part of that song was-

"Even though you broke my heart and killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece   into   a fire."

[Evil One]

Aperture Science:
We do what me must
because we can.

.... lalala

I don't know, the best part of that song was-

"Even though you broke my heart and killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece   into   a fire."

For me it was this bit:

Look at me still talking when there's science to do.
When I look out there it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive.

[Lovechild]

Aperture Science:
We do what me must
because we can.

.... lalala

I don't know, the best part of that song was-

"Even though you broke my heart and killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece   into   a fire."

For me it was this bit:

Look at me still talking when there's science to do.
When I look out there it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive.

We're out of beta,
we're releasing on time
To the people who are still alive

Maybe some day...

[Aramco]

"Now those points of data make a beautiful line"

That one was good too.

And now...


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