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[crazysheep]

Bad generalisation on my part :/

[Dorfimedes]

Bad generalisation on my part :/

Nah, it holds up pretty well. I mean, have you ever heard of a film director with a major in comp sci? I haven't. Although I don't watch many movies. I guess people who are good enough to work with computers would prefer that over the precipitous path of creating media.

DF is a game I prefer to play in solitude, but one time I did play it in the computer lab back in high school. It doesn't really count as gameplay, but a girl commented that the title music was very pretty. I agreed.

[sjm9876]

Everyone I've introduced this to asks how you win.
I quote Girlinhat:


 Your fort will die.  It will.  You will not win.  You will only have fun as you come closer to failure.  Your entire goal is to have fun, as the only measurable success of a fort is enjoyment.  Got steel clad legendary axedwarves?  Got a platinum plated dining hall with waterfalls?  Got a magma-duct that ritually kills goblin sieges with clockwork precision?  It doesn't matter, because you will fail.  The only measure of success, is how much you enjoyed the route to failure.  That's what makes Dwarf Fortress, and its players, so unique.  We don't strive to level up, or to get top-tier gear, or to finish the quests, or to earn achievements.

We play for fun.  And we do it right.

Usually I get at least one blank look

[flieroflight]

Itm ight be quite fun to go along with the poor tech people and preten that you are hacking, with digging as "undermining your firewalls" and hauling as "stealing their internet"

[HiEv]

OMG OMGO OMG OMOMMMOG what about the movie with Angelina Jolie called, guess, what HACKERS, they used APPLEs and some kind of CREEPY 3D tube interface system with flashing lights to hack the cities traffic lights and the fire system!

Not to get this thread more off track, but the viruses shown in that movie were flashy Hollywood versions of real viruses, trojans, and malware.  For example, there really was a "Cookie Monster" program that would basically lock up your computer saying "Gimmie a cookie!" until you typed the word "cookie".  The problem is that most people aren't aware of those viruses, so the in-joke looks kind of stupid/silly to them.

[Kaiserr]

Person:What...are...you...playing?

Me:Dwarf Fortress.

Person:What do you do?

Me:Lose.

Person:That sounds unpleasant.

Me:No,because Losing Is FUN! *Creepy grin*

Person:

[runlvlzero]

OMG OMGO OMG OMOMMMOG what about the movie with Angelina Jolie called, guess, what HACKERS, they used APPLEs and some kind of CREEPY 3D tube interface system with flashing lights to hack the cities traffic lights and the fire system!

Not to get this thread more off track, but the viruses shown in that movie were flashy Hollywood versions of real viruses, trojans, and malware.  For example, there really was a "Cookie Monster" program that would basically lock up your computer saying "Gimmie a cookie!" until you typed the word "cookie".  The problem is that most people aren't aware of those viruses, so the in-joke looks kind of stupid/silly to them.

Roger that, I wasn't on the IT scene until after the 1990's. Never would consider myself a hacker, not by any means either, so while I chuckle at the technicalities, I have no idea what I'm looking at still when it comes to "knowing" all there is to know... lol

Also if they portrayed hacking in movies accurately, most people would have the same reaction to them they do to DF... WTF IS THIS! (just to stay back on topic)

Also @crazysheep I'm sorry, I just got all excited thinking I was cool to point out some anecdotal nerdyness.

[Hammerstar]

I introduced my current roommate to the game, after he saw me playing Adventure mode, and he did at first just kind of sneer because of the graphics, but I  went on to describe the level of detail in combat, and I saw his eyes light up when I mentioned how there is no standard "health" system like most games, instead it simulates tissue layers and organs and so on, and how that was kind of the payoff for the graphics, because there was no way in hell his PS3 could simulate that level of detail in real time with what he considered AAA graphics (I have no idea how accurate that statement is, but he bought it).

Got him playing, and not five minutes later, he looked up from his laptop at me and asks "Can you die from an arrow to the throat?"
I say "Yes, but if you can kill all the bandits or whatever before you bleed out, and are able to rest, you might survive."
"Well, doesn't matter, because the guy just shot me in the brain."
I look up from my screen, and he's grinning, and getting his next character ready. He still plays Adventure more than Fortress, but he's slowly getting into that, too.

Though, my own best reaction to the game actually came some time after I started playing it, when to anyone watching I would have appeared crazy, because a certain FB had me almost shouting at my monitor "You're made of salt! Stop swimming up my aquaduct!"

[Gamzee]

Here is a conversation from a while ago with me and a friend, when he first found candy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fredrik Hansson says
wow
imma have ALOT of adamentite
imma even make a special storage for it 
Bish aaa says
just eh
don't dig the /whole/ thing
Fredrik Hansson says
why? 
Bish aaa says
well uh
for one thing, the wealth would mean a LOT of seiges
Fredrik Hansson says
 I FUCKING HOPE SO
also uh
what
is
this
Bish aaa says
well.....
Fredrik Hansson says
WHAT
Bish aaa says
thats what I was trying to warn you of actually 
Bish aaa says
its the uh     
Fredrik Hansson says
HELL 
Bish aaa says
HIDDEN FUN STUFF
Fredrik Hansson says
 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bish aaa says
Fun indeed 
Fredrik Hansson says
 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well i dont have any real entrance
unless
they can fly 
WHAT
WHAT
WHAT
WHAT
WHAT
Fredrik Hansson says
IM SCARED BISH 
WHAT
Fredrik Hansson says
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT
Bish aaa says
and yeah wings
Fredrik Hansson says
WHAT
STEAM BANSEHE?
WHAT
WATHESILDGNKSMAFKPDGKNHTld_FÖ
Fredrik Hansson says
 AELJGTKHSNÖLAFJSGHNKGJALEJAFFSGO
Bish aaa says
but yeah clowns
Fredrik Hansson says
THEY ARE QUEUEING
Bish aaa says
randomly generated, just like forgotten beasts
only uh
a bit worse 
Fredrik Hansson says
oh dear god
BISH THEY'RE GETTING INTO MY CASTLE 
Bish aaa says
yeah they do that sometimes 
Fredrik Hansson says
ASFDKGS
WILL DOORS HOLD THEM BACK?
Bish aaa says
nah they'll break them 
Fredrik Hansson says
DFJSJDFOSIEJHFSDFSDFKJSFSD

[Sallen]

The teen brother of a friend's overheard us talking about DF.

Brother: "Is that a game? How is it called?"
Me: "Dwarf Fortress"
Brother: "And what kinds of other things can you do in it?"
(I explain)
Brother: "Wow! I want to play it!"
(I show)
Brother: . . . uuh. . .
Me: The graphics are not what you expected, right?
(He retreats with an akward smile)

[Hanslanda]

Me: Yeah, I'm going home to play Dwarf Fortress.
Friend: Oh yeah, I got that. I couldn't figure out the fortress mode, but the adventurer mode is way cooler anyway.
Me: ... You shut your whore mouth.
Friend: what.
Me: Move, I'm showing you the REAL game.
*Two weeks later*
Friend: I tried to build a three Z deep moat, but it flooded my dining hall. I sealed it off with a door, but the dumbass dorfs kept running to it, and it'd let a bit of water in, so I WALLED that shit off. There was a guy inside, but he swam out through the moat. 
Me: You know Goblins will come with cave crocodile mounts and swim right through water moats, right? You'd be better off with a dry moat, as if they don't have mounts, they just stand at the edge of the water anyway.
Friend: Goddamnit.  Cave crocodiles?
Me: Yeah, they live in the giant caverns.
Friend: Caverns?
Me: But they don't matter, Adventurer mode is cooler anyway, right?
Friend: Show me the caverns dammit!

[crazysheep]

Also @crazysheep I'm sorry, I just got all excited thinking I was cool to point out some anecdotal nerdyness.

It's cool

OT: Somehow my friends who have seen me play DF know straightaway that it's a game. They only ask what it's about, and some of them have played similar ASCII graphic-type games.

[chevil]

I have a friend with whom i used to play minecraft with and couple of years ago he made me play planescape:torment so bad interface and graphics obiusly won't scare him.
I started telling to him about this fort i had where i built this artificial lake of lava with my fort a massive tower in the middle connected to the rest of the world using a series of bridges and about all the battles that took place on those bridges. And he is just sitting and listening quietly. Then i start talking about stuff i have read from this forum and about mereman farming and magma mines and stuff.
And the he asks "How?".
"It sounded to me like you just made up a bunch of random stuff."
I think he is gona try DF.

[Riloki]

"A kitten powered shotgun?"

"Nah, between the zombies and general mayhem the cats didn't really breed enough to start up any kind of real kitten-bullet industry."

"...No.... See.... I meant a shotgun, with a kitten working the mechanisms."

"...Oh."

[Hanslanda]

...

I iz in ur shotgun, firing ur bulletz?