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Author Topic: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.  (Read 5248 times)

Archereon

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Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« on: March 28, 2012, 10:47:47 am »
I just found a rather amusing glitch while starting a new adventure mode game.

Apparently, there exists, somewhere in my newly genned world, a civilization that causes my game to crash, since every time I scroll down to the bottom page, the game crashes.

Now, it's probably due to the name being invalid, but I like to think it's a bit like Hastu-(Archereon cancels invoke eldritch name: Not that bloody stupid)


Anyone ever have a similar experience?
« Last Edit: March 28, 2012, 10:49:18 am by Archereon »
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I want to tell you they were bad men, cephalo.  I want to tell you that with a better overseer the Fortress never would've gotten so bad someone would get offed in a pointless fisticuffs.
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It was inevitable.

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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2012, 12:18:41 pm »
This reminds me of that bug in a previous version of DF that caused older-version save files to slowly corrupt and die when you upgraded to the next version.

But I've yet to encounter doom-bugs in the game as of yet.
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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2012, 12:32:02 pm »
The Union of Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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Archereon

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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2012, 12:38:25 pm »
Wow. Shit just got creepy.

I can't find the file for this world ANYWHERE in my DF fortress  :o .

It would be in saves right?

^^ Btw, this was genned in 0.34.06, so no resurgence of that bug.
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Quote from: Azrayel on July 10, 2014, 09:13:11 pm
I want to tell you they were bad men, cephalo.  I want to tell you that with a better overseer the Fortress never would've gotten so bad someone would get offed in a pointless fisticuffs.
But the sad truth charlie?
It was inevitable.

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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2012, 12:49:44 pm »
Hastur ! Hastur ! Hastur !

There, no effect  :P
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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2012, 12:50:35 pm »
Welcome. To the Twilight Zone.
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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2012, 06:39:28 pm »
Submitted for your consideration a user named Archereon.
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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2012, 06:47:26 pm »
Quote from: Naryar on March 28, 2012, 12:49:44 pm
Hastur ! Hastur ! Hastur !

There, no effect  :P

YOU FOOL! YOU'VE DOOMED US ALL!
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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2012, 06:52:10 pm »
Children!

Do I have to read from the necronomicon, or can you stop summoning the great old ones before dinner on your own?!
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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2012, 07:07:48 pm »
Ȟ̸̟̹͚ͤ̃͢͜e͖̬͓̝͈̭̦ͤͦ͒͞ ̺͙̼̪̭̲̰͌͗ͣ̿̌ͤ̚c̹̺̻̝̘̏̒ͩ̀͢o͓̯̲͔̟̗͋͑̈̒̀͢m͈̖͔̄̿ͮ̇͌͘͜ĕ̢͈̬͕̥̭̭̹̩̤͋̊͊͋͑̚͢s̷̺̘͓͚ͮ̉ͤ̉̎ͦ̕
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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2012, 09:36:41 pm »
I had a fortress named Basementtortured once.  I was too irrationally afraid of the lower z-levels of the map to get past year 1.  Dwarf Fortress: running the gamut between light-hearted whimsy and abject terror in the time it takes to say "Fluffy Wambler."
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I put together a two-person marksdwarf squad and sent them to stand *near* the river, without crossing it, hoping they'd shoot down at the goblins. Didn't work; one marksdwarf went to the side of the river, spotted the two goblins still alive, and jumped right in, whereupon he was killed by the dingos. Goblins eventually died, too, but the dingos are still hanging out. They've been down there about two years.

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Re: Oh dwarf fortress, you and you meta-cosmic horror.
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2012, 10:06:01 pm »
Quote from: Nullset on March 28, 2012, 09:36:41 pm
I had a fortress named Basementtortured once.  I was too irrationally afraid of the lower z-levels of the map to get past year 1.  Dwarf Fortress: running the gamut between light-hearted whimsy and abject terror in the time it takes to say "Fluffy Wambler."

/duck
Be careful with that thing man! You can take someone's head off with that thing!
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« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2012, 12:15:10 am »
Quote from: MetalHead on March 28, 2012, 10:06:01 pm
Quote from: Nullset on March 28, 2012, 09:36:41 pm
I had a fortress named Basementtortured once.  I was too irrationally afraid of the lower z-levels of the map to get past year 1.  Dwarf Fortress: running the gamut between light-hearted whimsy and abject terror in the time it takes to say "Fluffy Wambler."

/duck
Be careful with that thing man! You can take someone's head off with that thing!
I was going to say it was only a problem if you were made of metal like a bronze collosus.  Oh wait ...
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