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[GoombaGeek]

This thread carried on long enough. Why can't tileset users and ASCII users live in peace together?

FROM NOW ON THIS IS THE OFFICIAL THREAD FOR ANGRY ARGUMENTS ABOUT ASCII AND TILESETS
KEEP IT CIVIL, HA HA HA HA HA

WHY

because it's halloween and I'm too much of a wimp to watch horror movies
so I'm relying on society to scare me

This serves one singular purpose:
funneling away inappropriate RAEG from other threads.
We are concentrating the corruption into one bloated mass.

THE CASE FOR ASCII:
IS GAME DEFAULT
THE CASE FOR TILESET:
IS GRAPHICKY

GO HERE FOR PEACE AND HARMONY ♥

[forsaken1111]

I'd say use whichever one you like.

Oh wait, you said this is the place for angry arguments.

I'd say use whichever $@#@ing one you like!!!!!!

[GoombaGeek]

I'd say use whichever coinadventurerfloorgrateadventurering one you like!!!!!!

FTFY

[forsaken1111]

I'd say use whichever coinadventurerfloorgrateadventurering one you like!!!!!!

FTFY

Word.

[misko27]

ASCII FTW!

[Leatra]

This thread...

I have... created a MONSTER!

[enter melodramatic music here]

[jaxy15]

Tilesets are for UNSKILLED SCRUBS who need to learn how to play with ASCII!

[Ruhn]

ASCII is so hard to use, and there are way too many choices of the different font packs.

[Kastrol Aslaasri]

Donwload, extract, [FPS:YES], play, !!FUN!!.

ASCII all the way.

[TKGP]

ASCII is so hard to use, and there are way too many choices of the different font packs.

There are way too many choices of different graphics packs too. Just use the default, it works fine.

Graphics are for simple-minded rubes.
ASCII is for elitist pricks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I prefer ASCII but graphics are ok if you're into that kind of thing. Until graphics can represent the game world with near-perfect accuracy, I'd rather leave the details up to the imagination.

[katana]

ASCII is so hard to use, and there are way too many choices of the different font packs.

There are way too many choices of different graphics packs too. Just use the default, it works fine.

Graphics are for simple-minded rubes.
ASCII is for elitist pricks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I prefer ASCII but graphics are ok if you're into that kind of thing. Until graphics can represent the game world with near-perfect accuracy, I'd rather leave the details up to the imagination.

So the economy is made up of a bunch of graphic tileset users? (whose quote was that anyway?)

[GoombaGeek]

ASCII is so hard to use, and there are way too many choices of the different font packs.

But they all follow the same standard. Graphics don't. % can be food, a screw pump in action or floating guts. With graphics, % can only represent one accurately (an inverted barrel does not look like a delicious meal). With ASCII, % represents none of them accurately, making it equally abstract. Having inconsistent abstraction is annoying.

(One day I'll learn to play with the most efficient 3x3 binary tileset, I swear)

[kingubu]

Agh, this again. 

Tilesets killed my teacher.  Now I'm here to avenge his death.  After a musical training montage.

But seriously, CP437 works for me.  Probably because I came here from Nethack.

My experience of tilesets is like seeing someone draw nipples and eyes on "Nude Descending the Staircase" in crayon, because, well, "real nudes have eyes and nipples."

That is not a turkey.  A real turkey is a 't'.  A red 't'.  That is Michael Jackson's zombified left hand in white glove, walking the earth and laying eggs.

Only thing I can figure, is people are having some sort of Catholic School PTSD flashback of hairy nuns wielding rulers when they see the letters of the alphabet, "EYE BEFORE EE! *crack!*"  "I'll show her.", they say to themselves, through the tears and shame.  "I'll... *sob*... never use the alphabet again."

I don't actually mind the isometric tileset of Stonesense.  So there's that.  Of course, I don't have to actually try to do anything with it but look at it and go, "oooh! pretty!"  Well, not so much "oooh pretty" as hideous and awkward and blocky.  Like that farm plot that looked like someone took a flaming dump on a pizza box.

I blame tv, and to a greater extent the internet.  Not only did we, growing up, have no idea what a muffin looked like, we were unclear on it's general position on the human body.  I think those early days of trying to visualize what mysteries the fairer folk concealed, really gave our imaginations a workout.  Like a dwarf operating a pump.  And not at all like a mutilated accident victim inexplicably standing on two barrels.

So, yes, ASCII people are just plain better human beings, as I've clearly demonstrated.  But I don't expect tileset people to be able to understand.  Please see: Dunning–Kruger effect

[Loud Whispers]

You're just continuing the cycle.

ASCII all the way. But it's irrelevant. DF is DF, changing one squiggle to another won't change the game, it'll just change the medium. To whoever's ends to whoever's ends.

[misko27]

You're just continuing the cycle.

ASCII all the way. But it's irrelevant. DF is DF, changing one squiggle to another won't change the game, it'll just change the medium. To whoever's ends to whoever's ends.

Alternative opinion, only n00bs who can't stand pure, un-adulterated awesomness of DF use tilesets. Counter-point?