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OtaconPliskin

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What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« on: August 30, 2012, 12:30:09 am »

In your own words, describe what Dwarf Fortress is to you.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2012, 12:33:08 am »

It means, that I post sober.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2012, 12:34:34 am »

It means, that I post sober.

Don't judge my alcoholism! :D
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2012, 02:38:32 am »

It's the game, man.  It's what I wanted.  A sim game- multiplayer eschewed in favor of complexity.  Emergent gameplay, flexibility.  Legos meets sim city and dungeon master with built in comedy and tragedy.  Moddability, community.  All menacing with spikes of cat bone and set with magma forged !!SCIENCE!!

I love the game at 36% completion.

I'm dying for 42%.

It's the. Game.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2012, 02:50:33 am »

Its the game that brought my hope for humanity back to life.

Its the game that has trained me to be the future leader of a small country.

Its the game that inspired me to reach out into the stars.

Its the game that made me different then all the other 13 year old's around me being dumb.

Its the game that revieved my hope for the Internet.

Could go on awl day on this damn game.

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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2012, 03:04:11 am »

A fun game that I actually play a surprisingly small amount compared to the amount of posting on the forums. You would be surprised just how helpful you can be at giving advice on something even if you never have actually used that system itself! :P

But it is certainly a huge time-sink, even if I spend much more time modding the game and reading/posting the forums then I do actually playing.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2012, 03:05:19 am »

In your own words, describe what Dwarf Fortress is to you.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2012, 03:09:49 am »

In your own words, describe what Dwarf Fortress is to you.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2012, 03:31:57 am »

It's everything. In a way I hope it is never finished, or that development seems to go on forever, because I never want it to end :D
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2012, 03:34:24 am »

It's everything. In a way I hope it is never finished, or that development seems to go on forever, because I never want it to end :D
Well we've got at least a few more decades, depending on how long Toady lives, and then we might see it for a while after that if a group or an individual gets together and continues to work on the released code (assuming that nobody killed Toady to get the code released that is). :P
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2012, 03:42:17 am »

!!FUN!!
Oh, and cats.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2012, 08:38:08 am »

A grand game, that I have spent over two years on, with maximum replayability and mabye even the best game in the world.
That, is Dwarf Fortress, to me, and no other game has shown me this... This thought, and delicacy. I <3 you Toady, Threetoe,
You made a masterpeice.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2012, 11:32:53 am »

Dwarf Fortress is an outlet for my insanity, allowing me to live a normal, mundane life without padded walls.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2012, 12:19:52 pm »

Well, dwarf means to me a little person, or other non-human humanoid with a relatively smaller height, but with connotations of broader stature for all that, having a probably subterranean preference for most, if not all, aspects of living and working and (influenced as I am by Sir PTerry's take on the meme) largely indistinguishable between the genders, very much tended towards being masculine males in attitude and appearance (regardless of actualities of sex, sexuality and gender), to be hidden behind chainmail, leather, beard and a weapon of choice.

OTOH, a fortress is like a fort, only female, right? ;)


(As to the game...  It's a time-sink.  The hub and the glue for an online community of much[1] intelligence.  An artwork in progress (i.e. a female 'prog') by its creator.  A paradigm of design that should at least be studied, if not necessarily followed, by other developers.  It's raw and visceral in its conceptualised nature; in the face it presents to the world; and in the stories it generates.  And, much, much more.  I don't think it's the best thing since sliced bread (because there have been better things than sliced bread arising all the time, since sliced bread came about), but it'll probably survive at least the first few redrafts of the short-list I would have to draw up in order answer to that particular hypothetical[2].)

[1] Yeah, I'll chance my arm and say that without any reservations.

[2] A working space-elevator, for example, would probably edge DF out of contention.  Well, as soon as I get my ride on it it will.
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Re: What does dwarf fortress mean to you?
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2012, 12:59:13 pm »

Its the most emotions I've ever held for numbers and letters.
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