Ok, this is a mighty obscure topic, but, believe it or not, it is DF-related.
Has anyone else seen/read the Mad Magazine strip (in the editions I read, it appears in the Strip Club section and is done by one Christopher Baldwin) It Only Hurts When I Laugh and immediately thought of Dwarf Fortress?
It features an amusingly insane, bearded, squat man who does such things as:
- Turning a profit on his coffeehouse business by adding cocaine to the coffee, and getting numerous people from the town, including an old lady, addicted.
- Succesfully directing a man browsing his flower shop (after several failed attempts at diagnosing him as having mundane issues relating to an angry girlfriend or spouse) to the chrysanthemums section on the basis that he was caught "parading in her underclothing while listening to Prince and spraying whipped cream on your armpits".
- While running a Galaxy-class starship, surrendering to an aggresive alien race for destruction on the grounds that he had a terrible headache and coffee was out.
The mismatched priorities, comedic pseudo-sociopathy, beardedness, obsession with drink and sheer lunachy of it all really struck me as quite Dwarfy. What truly made it, though, is that he always seemed genuinely unaware of the bizarreness and inappropriateness of his actions, rather than being a genuine sociopath.
So, is this just me, or have I uncovered a diamond in the rough?
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