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How did you find DF?

Other..(Please Post it Thank..).
- 16 (17.2%)
Web Search
- 11 (11.8%)
Friend told me about it
- 11 (11.8%)
Minecraft
- 14 (15.1%)
Youtube
- 8 (8.6%)
(game)Magazine
- 3 (3.2%)
Boatmurdered
- 12 (12.9%)
Wikipedia
- 1 (1.1%)
Tvtropes
- 14 (15.1%)
I don't remember.(or forgot it)
- 3 (3.2%)

Total Members Voted: 93


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Trickman

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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #30 on: February 13, 2014, 12:28:05 pm »
4chan /v/

Also, what the flying fuck. I never knew about Boatmurdered until I had played DF for over a year, or something.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #31 on: February 14, 2014, 02:32:28 pm »
Pretty sure I heard mention of it on the rec.games.roguelike.development newsgroup.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #32 on: February 14, 2014, 02:56:38 pm »
Quote from: Dirst on February 12, 2014, 04:17:46 pm
Quote from: Plancky on February 11, 2014, 04:29:26 am
Came across the second Ars Technica article about Dwarf Fortress and decided I had to try it.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/challenge-accepted-dwarf-fortress-pros-show-ars-up-with-insane-10-hour-forts/
That was actually the second article there.  The original http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/dwarf-fortress-ten-hours-with-the-most-inscrutable-video-game-of-all-time/ is where I first found out about the game.  The URL gives you an idea of the flavor of her experience  :)

Lol, hello there my fellow ARSians, may I join the line?
« Last Edit: February 14, 2014, 02:59:48 pm by fricy »
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #33 on: February 16, 2014, 01:09:46 am »
Heard about it on a forum of another game early 2010.
I read some hilarious stories, downloaded it but never actually even started a game.

About half a year later another DF thread appeared on the forum of yet another game, I read more hilarious stories, I downloaded again but this time I actually started playing.
Been playing since then.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #34 on: February 16, 2014, 02:07:15 am »
Man do you remember ElendorMush?  I used to play a lot of the Mush scene in college - that's when Telnet predated the Internet. When those sassy 386's hit the scene, I lugged home that 10mb hd and boat of a monitor for $1500.  I started loading up roguelikes downloaded from BBS's and was happy as a clown. 

In the early 2000's I heard about DF being the most complicated rouglike game to date.  I could swear I hit the enter key and built my first world in the early 2000's.  The Wiki says 2006 was the release date.  It had to be earlier than that.  I must be going crazy or getting old.

I didn't really get back into this scene but within the last few years.  That dwarven ale just keeps callin' ya back.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #35 on: February 16, 2014, 10:16:15 pm »
I used to play Minecraft a lot, and after I looked it up on Wikipedia, I followed the DF link and immediately liked the idea.

The other day, I booted up Minecraft for a moment, and was absolutely appalled by the game's lack of detail and boring simplicity. I have decided that DF > Everything Else, and Minecraft is a subset of Everything Else. 'Twas a train, to the land of dwarves, Minecraft to me.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #36 on: February 17, 2014, 12:49:22 am »
About one or two years ago, while browsing the forums for the Terrafirmacraft mod for Minecraft, i found a thread about Dwarf Fortress. Searched it on google, Didn't play Minecraft for the next few months.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #37 on: February 17, 2014, 12:44:05 pm »
Quote from: Noel.se on February 17, 2014, 12:49:22 am
About one or two years ago, while browsing the forums for the Terrrafirmacraft mod for Minecraft, i found a thread about Dwarf Fortress. Searched it on google, Didn't play Minecraft for the next few months.
Quote from: Tawarochir on February 16, 2014, 10:16:15 pm
I used to play Minecraft a lot, and after I looked it up on Wikipedia, I followed the DF link and immediately liked the idea.

The other day, I booted up Minecraft for a moment, and was absolutely appalled by the game's lack of detail and boring simplicity. I have decided that DF > Everything Else, and Minecraft is a subset of Everything Else. 'Twas a train, to the land of dwarves, Minecraft to me.
Nearly 18% of DF player from Minecraft.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #38 on: February 17, 2014, 05:24:03 pm »
Boat Murdered.
Then downloaded it, got very confused by it but persevered and i am so glad i did, DF is just so good.
Been playing for over two years now...


Interesting to see so many people coming from minecraft, i personally didn't (as it didn't exist  :P), i always forget that minecraft is like 2-3 years old now... Sunk so much time into that alpha...
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #39 on: February 19, 2014, 09:19:31 am »
TvTropes, twice. I regret having only one vote to give...

Namely, I first ran into a reference for one of the epic tales - I think it was Boatmurdered, but I'm not sure because it was way back in 2010. I then tried playing the game on my laptop in the winter vacation of 2010-2011; given that my laptop at the time was a piece of crap, that was crap even in 2007 when I bought it (it had an amazingly huge 340MB of RAM for instance; I don't even remember what processor it had), that... did not go over so well. So I dropped everything until last spring (~May 2013) when the story repeated itself, but this time with Failcannon.

And I've been playing ever since.

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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #40 on: February 19, 2014, 10:24:57 am »
TvTropes, Youtube and the wiki.

Found the wiki, looked up the game on Youtube, forgot about it and then found it on TvTropes.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #41 on: February 19, 2014, 02:38:23 pm »
Ah yes... The amount of references to this all over the Internet. Naturally, I had to wonder how a game referenced so much on the Internet, was never heard of by any my mates, all gamers. So, with my, "hipster like attitude" as they call it, I looked into it right away. Been sucked in to the procedural generated humour, ever since.
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« Reply #42 on: February 19, 2014, 08:40:07 pm »
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #43 on: February 21, 2014, 09:19:44 am »
Back in 2006, via the now defunct CorpNews.com forum, which was a diaspora site from the old LumTheMad forums.  Somebody posted up a link to the, then still active (iirc, though I might be mistaken), Boatmurdered thread.
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Re: How did you find DF?
« Reply #44 on: February 23, 2014, 01:41:46 pm »
well, some are forgot it.
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