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Gigaz

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xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« on: June 10, 2013, 01:37:56 am »
http://xkcd.com/

It looks like Randall Munroe is a huge fan, too. Great advertisement.   :)
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2013, 03:19:57 am »
"Randall Munroe on the recent NSA leak and Dwarf Fortress."
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2013, 09:27:29 am »
This is the future of Dwarf Fortress.
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2013, 09:33:51 am »
The BEST part, is that we've been designing computers in Dwarf Fortress using pressure plates, water, and floodgates.
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2013, 04:03:50 pm »
The Wachowskis had it all wrong...
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2013, 04:05:12 pm »
Quote from: anzelm on June 10, 2013, 04:03:50 pm
The Wachowskis had it all wrong...

So what you are saying is, the Machines actually got their start as...
Quote from: Girlinhat on June 10, 2013, 09:33:51 am
The BEST part, is that we've been designing computers in Dwarf Fortress using pressure plates, water, and floodgates.

And... they are punishing humanity for the atrocities commited in Dwarf Fortress?

Oh God Armok...
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2013, 04:21:23 pm »
This lends credence to the notion that we are all playing an advanced simulation of a game created by an advanced species controlled by a greater government holding together the illusion of reality as part of a simulation created by an even more advanced species and so on...
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2013, 04:33:58 pm »
Quote from: CognitiveDissonance on June 10, 2013, 04:05:12 pm
So what you are saying is, the Machines actually got their start as...

Wanna pull the cobaltite lever? Go ahead then. I'll be happy with the bauxite one.
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2013, 04:41:22 pm »
Quote from: anzelm on June 10, 2013, 04:33:58 pm
Quote from: CognitiveDissonance on June 10, 2013, 04:05:12 pm
So what you are saying is, the Machines actually got their start as...
Wanna pull the cobaltite lever? Go ahead then. I'll be happy with the bauxite one.
They're both actually microcline levers, you'll be wanting the realgar one.
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2013, 04:42:23 pm »
YES!!! If as if I've been waiting my whole life for this comic. I didn't even know he was a fan
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Re: xkcd about Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2013, 05:08:30 pm »
Quote from: dewboy on June 10, 2013, 04:42:23 pm
YES!!! If as if I've been waiting my whole life for this comic. I didn't even know he was a fan
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