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[mek42]

Is there a thread to celebrate being sig'd?  This is my first too.

[Callista]

Man, I don't even want to think about trying to explain DF to my mom. She has a hard enough time wrapping her head around the idea that I might want to read a book that's even mildly scary, let alone watch a movie, and she thinks fantasy and sci-fi make no sense because they're not the real world and she doesn't believe in magic. And she's still looking for the "any key" on her computer.

Needless to say, if I got started on making biscuits out of the surplus cat population, she'd probably flip out and figure I had gotten into Satan worship or something!

[Necrisha]

Nah, that's when you you use a mod to turn tallow into candles and become able to make leather books ok ok movie references aside, I haven't had much luck either. Though the last friend I'd expect to show the least bit of interest has completely survived the learning curve without me being aware that he picked it up so I did have awesomesauce with that.

[Andrakon]

Every time Dwarf Fortress gets brought up between my wife and I, she asks if I'm butchering puppies again! 

[Baffler]

Edit: wrong thread.

[mek42]

Every time Dwarf Fortress gets brought up between my wife and I, she asks if I'm butchering puppies again! 

To which, the proper response ought to be, "Of course not.  The ones I don't train to be ravenous killing machines give better meat when full grown."

[Deus Asmoth]

I explained the game to my brother once. While he never really got into the game, he does enjoy hearing about forgotten beasts that make the dwarves spontaneously liquefy and stuff like that.

[ExecratedDwarf]

Explaining DF to my friends is totally pointless. The only games they like are linear roller coaster types. They need the game to tell them which direction to go, which enemies to shoot, what weapon to use, when to use said weapon. I have dumb friends.... It sucks, because many games are more fun with a human opponent, like Civilization, Europa Universalis, Endless Space, and others like Minecraft and Terraria are more fun with friends that play like you do. Alas, I'm stuck playing solo until my friends evolve brains.

[Noobazzah]

It's been said elsewhere before, but I'll say it again. You don't need friends anymore. You have Dwarf Fortress.

[the1337doofus]

Explained it to my mother once. Included explanations of what is usually done to nobles, children, how infants are used, the fact children (and civvy dwarves) don't mix with danger rooms, what a danger room is, what is done to elves, what forgotten beasts are, and adamantine. She stared for a minute, and then said that it's weird.

She's the weird one. Right? RIGHT?!

[Graknorke]

I was having a conversation with a group of friends about various video-game related things, and I brought up how efficient cat farming can be and the downsides of the potential of them adopting dwarves and so being off-limits for butchering.
Apparently one of them got really upset because she likes fluffy animals. Even fictional ones who exist in only a handful of characteristics. She thought that the idea of butchering cats for meat and bones was okay, but got upset at the idea of population control via kitten killing.

[Snaake]

I was having a conversation with a group of friends about various video-game related things, and I brought up how efficient cat farming can be and the downsides of the potential of them adopting dwarves and so being off-limits for butchering.
Apparently one of them got really upset because she likes fluffy animals. Even fictional ones who exist in only a handful of characteristics. She thought that the idea of butchering cats for meat and bones was okay, but got upset at the idea of population control via kitten killing.

The silly/weird/sad thing is, before neutering cats became commonplace(ish?), killing kittens in all sorts of inhumane ways *was* a common way of controlling cat populations in the real world. Which is why neutering is so heavily recommended, unless you really want to make kittens from a purebreed cat or something.

[Roostre]

I don't butcher cats at all. ...I have standards. Most of my forts fall before the kitten-boom can have any meaningful impact on FPS, so I keep them around. I like not having vermin.

Dwarf Fortress recently got mentioned on that news show on Penny Arcade TV, Checkpoint, giving me some impetus to finally talk about the game with real-world friends who'd watched that edition of the show but scratched their heads at the mention of this weird indie dwarf game and were like "whuts that?"

But I'm having the hardest time getting them to play it. They like hearing me talk about the audacious stuff that tends to go on in DF, but the learning curve is getting the best of them. I might have to resort to letting them watch me play using Skype's share screen feature.

[PDF urist master]

my parents often walk in on me playing dwarf fortress.

they don't get the meaning behind the ASCII


it's hard to get into the game unless you have a real passion for the game. I don't think that's something you can effectively create with friends (mild interest is more likely)

[MaximumZero]

I don't butcher cats at all. ...I have standards. Most of my forts fall before the kitten-boom can have any meaningful impact on FPS, so I keep them around. I like not having vermin.

Dwarf Fortress recently got mentioned on that news show on Penny Arcade TV, Checkpoint, giving me some impetus to finally talk about the game with real-world friends who'd watched that edition of the show but scratched their heads at the mention of this weird indie dwarf game and were like "whuts that?"

But I'm having the hardest time getting them to play it. They like hearing me talk about the audacious stuff that tends to go on in DF, but the learning curve is getting the best of them. I might have to resort to letting them watch me play using Skype's share screen feature.

I made my cats really useful by modding in a reaction to turn vermin remains into fertilizer. ^_^