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Sithun

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This has gone too far!
« on: December 22, 2010, 03:41:06 am »
I find it hard not to share this with you guys.

The game names my squads in a very peculiar way...

First squad got named "The Oily Lengths".
"Okay..." i thought. Moving on...

Second squad ended up with the name "The Whips of Muscle".

Those two squads would not in themselves be named in any kind of pattern... until I form the third squad.

"The Oily Corridors"

Upon reading that, images of lubed-up, short, hairy people with s/m equipment, tumbling around in a pile of sweat and skin forces themselves into my mind.

Two questions arrise:
1: Is DF preordained to name squads in the most unnatural ways?
2: What the hell is wrong with me???
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Capntastic

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Re: This has gone too far!
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 03:45:44 am »
Yeah randomized names do sometimes have confimationally biased 'funny' results from time to time.
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Max White

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Re: This has gone too far!
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2010, 03:46:05 am »
1. Yes.
2. Your brain is not yet dorfified. When a dorf hears oil, he thinks of buring, and when he thinks of buring, he thinks of elves, and when he thinks of elves, he thinks of slaugter. Putting 'oily' in there squad name is a way of making sure that the dorfs in question are always in a state of mind to kick ass.
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Zaerosz

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Re: This has gone too far!
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2010, 01:49:31 pm »
Upon reading this thread, I produced a sound of horror so high-pitched it made the neighbour's dog have an accident. I sincerely hate this thread.
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Cruxador

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Re: This has gone too far!
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2010, 03:47:21 pm »
1. You're just lucky.
2. I don't know. Probably lots of things.

So equip them all in leather armor and be done with it. It's not that hard.
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Max White

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Re: This has gone too far!
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2010, 03:49:52 pm »
1) Find some black bears.
2) Make them into armour.
3) Eqiput your squad.
4) Make elite wrestlers, maybe a fer lashers if you get hold of whips.
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Vercingetorix

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Re: This has gone too far!
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2010, 05:37:52 pm »
Hey, at least it's not like my engravings...nothing like the masterful "The Ignoble Long Dung" or "The Revolting Comedy".

Of course, I enjoyed the name of the second one because of the description of the guy who made it.  He's ruled by irresistible cravings and urges, is immodest, sees others as selfish and conniving, unaffected by the suffering of others...and very friendly.  Basically a combination of the sins covered in The Divine Comedy.
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Do you always look at it in ASCII?

You get used to it, I don't even see the ASCII.  All I see is blacksmith, miner, goblin.

vhappylurker

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Re: This has gone too far!
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2010, 06:44:20 pm »
I'm actually kind of jealous now. Most of my squads get rather prosaic names.

Though I am now inclined to make some bear-skinned capes and whips for them to use.
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