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Johnny Madhouse

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2010, 10:56:28 am »

There's always letting the infection spread and giving your dwarves the [EXTRAVISION] tag.
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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #31 on: December 21, 2010, 11:43:52 am »

In my limited experience all of human history, forgotten beast generic plagues are the new HFS. I've We've lost more forts civilizations to disease than I we ever did to demons battle.

Just sayin'
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CapnUrist

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #32 on: December 21, 2010, 02:10:27 pm »

I temporarily had a blind jeweler and surgeon once. While it had practically no effect whatsoever on their professional life, imagining the result was hilarious.

Jeweler sitting with a friend in the workshop.

*chink*
"Is it done yet?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
"How about now?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
"How's this then?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
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Angry Bob

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #33 on: December 21, 2010, 02:24:33 pm »

This is actually hilarious. Let's list the ways injured dwarves are better than uninjured dwarves.

- Blind dwarves don't get distracted or interrupted.
- Dwarves with brain damage don't socialize and don't collect friends, so lessening the risk of tantrum spirals.
- I read a thread somewhere where a dwarf got smeared in an FB goo that disintegrated all of his sensory nerves, removing his ability to feel pain.
- I vaguely remember there being a benefit to melting a dwarf's skin and/or fat off.

That's all I can remember right now.

All of these need to be combined somehow. I propose mass-production of superdorfs. For !!science!!.
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Dariush

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #34 on: December 21, 2010, 02:27:22 pm »

I temporarily had a blind jeweler and surgeon once. While it had practically no effect whatsoever on their professional life, imagining the result was hilarious.

Jeweler sitting with a friend in the workshop.

*chink*
"Is it done yet?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
"How about now?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
"How's this then?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
It's even more hilarious when you think about surgeon's perspective :)

Surgeon sitting with a friend in the hospital.

*splurt*
"AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!"
"Had I cut the appendicitis?"
"No, three inches to the left"
*splat*
"AAAAAAAAAARRRGHOHARMOKWHYISTHISHAPPENINGTOMEEEEEEE"
"And now?"
"No, a bit hgiher"
*splik"
"AAAAA..."
Urist McPatient has bled out.

celem

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #35 on: December 21, 2010, 04:24:32 pm »

I have a lot of one-handed dwarves in my military.  I've been trying to profit from this by having them split my limited supply of masterwork gauntlets but they dont seem to want to cooperate  :(
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squeakyReaper

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #36 on: December 21, 2010, 05:03:23 pm »

This is actually hilarious. Let's list the ways injured dwarves are better than uninjured dwarves.

- Blind dwarves don't get distracted or interrupted.
- Dwarves with brain damage don't socialize and don't collect friends, so lessening the risk of tantrum spirals.
- I read a thread somewhere where a dwarf got smeared in an FB goo that disintegrated all of his sensory nerves, removing his ability to feel pain.
- I vaguely remember there being a benefit to melting a dwarf's skin and/or fat off.

That's all I can remember right now.

All of these need to be combined somehow. I propose mass-production of superdorfs. For !!science!!.

If a dwarf has his fat melted off, he's essentially fireproof from that point on.  His clothes aren't though.  So make a nude warrior as your champion against the fire imps.
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inteuniso

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #37 on: December 21, 2010, 05:09:59 pm »

My mother always told me this would happen.
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Max White

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #38 on: December 21, 2010, 05:17:09 pm »

If a dwarf has his fat melted off, he's essentially fireproof from that point on.  His clothes aren't though.  So make a nude warrior as your champion against the fire imps.

The only thing better then a champion is a ‼champion‼

Musashi

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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #39 on: December 21, 2010, 06:13:25 pm »

I temporarily had a blind jeweler and surgeon once. While it had practically no effect whatsoever on their professional life, imagining the result was hilarious.

Jeweler sitting with a friend in the workshop.

*chink*
"Is it done yet?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
"How about now?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
"How's this then?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
It's even more hilarious when you think about surgeon's perspective :)

Surgeon sitting with a friend in the hospital.

*splurt*
"AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!"
"Had I cut the appendicitis?"
"No, three inches to the left"
*splat*
"AAAAAAAAAARRRGHOHARMOKWHYISTHISHAPPENINGTOMEEEEEEE"
"And now?"
"No, a bit hgiher"
*splik"
"AAAAA..."
Urist McPatient has bled out.

See? Told you!
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Re: Blindness pandemic?
« Reply #40 on: December 21, 2010, 08:04:49 pm »

I have to put my vote in with stacking soap all over the place and then flooding the fortress. Be sure to keep all the already-contaminated dwarves locked out of the central airtight clean room.

Ideally, you'll have a way to pump the water out again...
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