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Author Topic: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress  (Read 1692 times)

OcelotTango

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Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« on: February 12, 2013, 06:10:33 pm »

This never occurred to me, because I have never had any urge to watch the show, but my girlfriend wanted to. I realized halfway through an episode that there were some eerie resemblances, and I mentioned this. The rest of the night focused around the horrifying conclusion that the two were so similar. Highlights of this discussion include

-People/Dwarves called by the surname Mc(Adjective)
-So called doctors who accidentally kill more then they save
-Constant drinking and partying
-Doctors who 'need alcohol to get through the working day'
-A supposedly tame lion who gets free and starts killing people (straight out of the dev log)
-A person who is fat, has a huge beard, shabby cloths, and vomits at the sight of sun light(apparently in one of the newer seasons)
-Tons of sex/babies
-An all encompassing lust for wealth

The list goes on, but now I can watch the show by mentally replacing each person with a dwarf.
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Re: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2013, 06:40:04 pm »

If this is guerrilla marketing for Urist's Anatomy, I am bought.

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Re: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2013, 07:59:03 pm »

This is amazing. I want to watch the show now.
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Re: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2013, 08:12:14 pm »

Just from this, Grey's Anatomy is now going to get a secondary audience in the form of DF players. Kind of like the brony movement.
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Re: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2013, 08:45:29 pm »

I feel like it needs an accompanying drinking game...
Every time something happens in the show that has happened to you in dwarf fortress drink.
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Re: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2013, 06:59:53 pm »

Is this on the TV Tropes WMG page for DF yet?
If not you should put it there.
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Re: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2013, 10:25:54 pm »

We just need to be sure to watch the final episodes, when the time comes. If no one survives its a keeper. Even more so if everyone's death was somehow related to an excessive number of cats.
« Last Edit: February 21, 2013, 10:28:30 pm by Exlo »
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Re: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2013, 01:10:01 am »

Can't wait for the episode when they have to fight a T-rex made of bone that shoots fireballs.
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OcelotTango

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Re: Grey's Anatomy is actually Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2013, 11:14:35 am »

I kinda want to start a medical fortress based on this, but I've got another fortress I'm working on at the moment. Working on very slowly...
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