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Icefire2314

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New Perspective on Player Status
« on: November 04, 2014, 08:55:24 pm »
Has anyone ever considered that as a player, we ARE the fortress? Literally, as though the fort is a living entity?
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2014, 08:57:58 pm »
No.
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2014, 08:59:14 pm »
We are Armok, the God of Blood. We cause the dwarves to go insane and do all kinds of horrible things.
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2014, 08:59:47 pm »
I know what I've got to do... I've got to go back to the fortress.

(did I do that right? I never saw that awful looking show, just the memes resulting from it)
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2014, 09:00:56 pm »
Which show?
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2014, 09:34:19 pm »
Somewhere I have a list of things to do if I ever get high again since college. I'm pretty sure playing DF is not on it. Though maybe it should be...
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Icefire2314

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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2014, 10:09:04 pm »
Quote from: klefenz on November 04, 2014, 08:59:14 pm
We are Armok, the God of Blood. We cause the dwarves to go insane and do all kinds of horrible things.

See, the problem there is that that statement is logical. Given the nature of DF, the nature of the player must be equally illogical.
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2014, 03:01:40 am »
Quote from: GavJ on November 04, 2014, 09:34:19 pm
Somewhere I have a list of things to do if I ever get high again since college. I'm pretty sure playing DF is not on it. Though maybe it should be...

There is no maybe about it.
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2014, 03:03:43 am »
Quote from: Icefire2314 on November 04, 2014, 08:55:24 pm
Has anyone ever considered that as a player, we ARE the fortress? Literally, as though the fort is a living entity?
Some succession forts have They overseers avatars in fortress. It is the same?

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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2014, 04:34:56 am »
Quote from: Nikow on November 05, 2014, 03:03:43 am
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i thought that was what we were already doing when we played an adventurer. it says that much on the legends mode.
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2014, 07:16:47 am »
Quote from: StagnantSoul on November 04, 2014, 09:00:56 pm
Which show?
Lost was the whole "you don't get it, we are the island" thing wasn't it?
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2014, 07:54:28 am »
Never got into 'Lost', but the OP rather made me think of this kind of fortress:
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130114
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2014, 07:56:43 am »
Quote from: Icefire2314 on November 04, 2014, 08:55:24 pm
Has anyone ever considered that as a player, we ARE the fortress? Literally, as though the fort is a living entity?

*stretches his west wing and scratches under the dining hall contemplatively*

Hmmm, no. Sounds ridiculous.
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2014, 08:36:38 am »
Quote from: Max™ on November 05, 2014, 07:16:47 am
Quote from: StagnantSoul on November 04, 2014, 09:00:56 pm
Which show?
Lost was the whole "you don't get it, we are the island" thing wasn't it?
All I could think of was how "Back to the Fortress" sounds kind of like "Back to the Future".
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Re: New Perspective on Player Status
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2014, 10:46:31 am »
Quote from: than402 on November 05, 2014, 04:34:56 am
Quote from: Nikow on November 05, 2014, 03:03:43 am
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i thought that was what we were already doing when we played an adventurer. it says that much on the legends mode.
Yeah, this is it, but i dreaming about posibillity to posses dwarf for short time in DF mode.
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In my fortress dwarves are dying from old age.
Quote from: Sadrice on January 15, 2015, 03:01:42 pm
Dwarven wine is a little bit like good chicken soup:  solid at room temperature.
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