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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #60 on: March 26, 2011, 10:27:18 pm »
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Good times...

I like how Dwarf Fortress can somehow get people to talk like they are grizzled veterans who who are the last living representatives of something that happened four years ago.  (Which was back in the Age of Myth of Dwarf Fortress, the days when Boatmurdered still roamed the forums free, spewing magma onto other stories.)

"PFFFT! You kids with your fancy "hospitals that work"!  Back in MY day, if a dwarf stubbed his toe, he was a gonner, and we LOVED IT!" 
"How long have you been here?"
"Two months.  Alot's changed since then... those were the good ol' days..."

I guess it just goes to show how much Toady's accomplished in that time.  *old guy voice* Back when I was just knee-high to a modded-in grasshopper-megabeast, we played 40d, and nothing changed for over a year.  *ahem* Maybe I just expected the game to be a slow development cycle forever.  Now that Toady's finished the long chain of bugfix releases, it seems like the pace is really picking up. 

I hope you "I started playing two months ago" types are writing out your own "back in my day" stories.  You might need them soon for the next wave of people that come :P
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #61 on: March 26, 2011, 10:28:57 pm »
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #62 on: March 27, 2011, 12:47:11 am »
Since around nearing the end of the life of 40d, so pretty much right before DF2010. There was a few months of 40d and then it came out. I am a late forum-comer. I think that means its been about 2 years? Honestly, I don't really know. I just vaguely remember certain aspects of 40d and then it kind of blacks out for a bit and before I know it it's DF2010. Might be repressed memories.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #63 on: March 27, 2011, 01:07:47 am »
About 24 months, little less - little more.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #64 on: March 27, 2011, 01:41:20 am »
Quote from: NW_Kohaku on March 26, 2011, 10:27:18 pm
Quote from: Xombie on March 26, 2011, 07:30:30 am
df_23_130_23a_s.zip 23.02.2007 14:51

Good times...

I like how Dwarf Fortress can somehow get people to talk like they are grizzled veterans who who are the last living representatives of something that happened four years ago.  (Which was back in the Age of Myth of Dwarf Fortress, the days when Boatmurdered still roamed the forums free, spewing magma onto other stories.)

"PFFFT! You kids with your fancy "hospitals that work"!  Back in MY day, if a dwarf stubbed his toe, he was a gonner, and we LOVED IT!" 
"How long have you been here?"
"Two months.  Alot's changed since then... those were the good ol' days..."

I guess it just goes to show how much Toady's accomplished in that time.  *old guy voice* Back when I was just knee-high to a modded-in grasshopper-megabeast, we played 40d, and nothing changed for over a year.  *ahem* Maybe I just expected the game to be a slow development cycle forever.  Now that Toady's finished the long chain of bugfix releases, it seems like the pace is really picking up. 

I hope you "I started playing two months ago" types are writing out your own "back in my day" stories.  You might need them soon for the next wave of people that come :P
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #65 on: March 27, 2011, 03:10:23 am »
On and off for a little over a year.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #66 on: March 27, 2011, 06:47:07 am »
Forget the exact date, but I first started playing a few weeks before 40d was released. Long interruption whilst I lacked a computer that could handle it, corrected just in time for .31.16 to come out.
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Re: How long have you been playing DF?
« Reply #67 on: March 27, 2011, 06:49:22 am »
Today.

What?

Seriously I started playing around 40d, was frustrated by the lack of updates and figured this game was just vaporware.  Only a dream in someone's eyes.

But now I'm back.
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