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No, I listen to the dwarf fortress music.

12 (22.6%)

No, I've muted all sounds.

5 (9.4%)

Yes, I listen to music in the background.

16 (30.2%)

Yes, I listen to/watch/movies/tv series in the background.

11 (20.8%)

Yes, I let dwarf fortress run while watching youtube/movies/tv series/playing other games.

9 (17%)

Total Members Voted: 53

[Tahlin]

As the title suggests, I'm asking you all if you have anything in the background while playing dwarf fortress? And if so, What?
Personally, I'd go stark raving mad if I didn't have something in the background except the normal dwarf fortress music, I usually have a TV next to me with a movie on, Or just a movie in the background to dwarf fortress. I've also set the FPS really high, So I can't just watch a movie while waiting for something to happen.

[Flying Dice]

Normally I run DF while doing something else, as most of my work consists of large designations, and there really isn't any point to sitting around watching it run.

[NW_Kohaku]

I often run forts in the background while browsing the forum and listening to music.  I only pull DF up when I'm actively controlling the game while it is paused.  I rarely actually watch what's going on, which is just as well, as I often have very laggy forts, anyway.

I frequently leave the game running when I go to sleep or just go watch TV, as well.

[Robsoie]

Same here, usually i play DF while browsing the internet, good way to use my limited free time, and avoid getting bored from the sometime long "nothing to do but wait until those miners/carpenter/crafters are finished with their assignement" time.

[dhoovr]

Im all DF whenever I play. Only DF music, I actually can't stand playing it without the music or with any other kind of music. But because of this I often fall asleep while watching large designation or waiting for orders to be completed.

[King DZA]

When I'm playing an older version, I'm normally using SoundSense. With DFVD, it's either Dwarf Fortress' original music, or music that I have playing in another window. Most recently, that music has been religious chants.

I may want to start blasting some metal again, though. As said chants make every event that happens seem incredibly dramatic/depressing...

[GhostDwemer]

Yo dawg, I heard you like dwarf fortress so I ran dwarf fortress in the background of dwarf fortress so you can gen worlds while you fortress.

[Kestrel]

I think virtually anyone born after 1980 is pretty well conditioned to constant multitasking.  I can't play DF without having music, Netflix, or both going in the background.  Lately I've been running the more tolerable TED Talks or online Yale courses in the background so I can learn while I slaughter internet dragons.

[red_29A]

Yo dawg, I heard you like dwarf fortress so I ran dwarf fortress in the background of dwarf fortress so you can gen worlds while you fortress.

Nice.

i always run winamp in the background, but the DF music is always in the playlist a few times

Also, i really like my dwarfs so if the game is unpaused i'm totally into it. Not as much in a years old fort, but lately the sinister areas have been brutal. i'm too ocd to let them run around with out keeping an eye on them.

[slink]

I have real-life playing in the background when I play DF.  It's muted because I shut it out, in my mind.  Sometimes real-life gets through anyway, though.    Thank goodness, or I would become melded to this chair I am sitting in, like those people on the news whose skin grows around toilet seats and whatnot.   

[Kaleb702 Games]

Soundsense!