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[Thormgrim]

Yesterday I had 7 worms left over from fishing with my kids.  I put them in my garden and told them to "strike the earth".  I was worried they wouldn't get underground ere the birds get hungry.

I know I've been spending too much time with DF when I start to see it in the real world all the time...

[Devstorm]

Nah. If you had dorfed too much (is there such a thing?) you would have butchered the worms and tried to tan their skins for leather by now.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Or tried to tame them. Or set up a milking industry. Or tried to use them to trigger a pressure plate that activates a deathtrap. Luckily, vermin can't trigger pressure plates.

[Dirst]

Or tried to tame them. Or set up a milking industry. Or tried to use them to trigger a pressure plate that activates a deathtrap. Luckily, vermin can't trigger pressure plates.

Now I want to see a size 300000 vermin...

[Nyxalinth]

Or drawn a picture of yourself surrounded by the worms.

I do this with games all the time, especially DF.  Most recently, it was with Morrowind.  I woke up one day and saw an incredibly beautiful sunrise.  I didn't think of how pretty it was, instead I thought "Dagoth Ur welcomes you, MNervar, to the place where destiny is made." because it seriously looked like Red Mountain out there.

[Dark One]

Not even mentioning bringing dwarven child care to reality by far?

[Thormgrim]

I suppose I could have butchered them, prepared their brains, finely minced those brains and then roasted them with finely minced mushrooms, finely minced mushroom wine and finely minced tallow.

[Urist McVoyager]

That's beyond too much and into "It's not a game, it's a lifestyle" territory.

[Ancalagon_TB]

During the holidays I saw something - and now I really wish I remembered what it was! - and my first reaction was "wow, that's dwarf-fortress fucked up".   The reaction was apparently more memorable than whatever it was

[Legendary Emu]

I was playing mount and blade a little too much, saw someone I wanted to talk to, and thought "I should talk to that person so I can get better relations."

[utunnels]

Well when I opened some files at work I tried to press > to go next page, or tried to use +/- to scroll.

[StagnantSoul]

Someone was annoying me at school, they were complaining about me being too much of a gamer and not partying. So I read out my own profile like I was reading a dwarfs'.

[Urist McVoyager]

^^Okay, that's a case of muscle memory gone wrong. Happens to the best of us, though it usually happens inside games, not real life.

[Aslandus]

DF is so much like real life you can't always tell the difference

[Urist McVoyager]

The difference: If you see a goblin, it's probably DF.

If you see a bunch of humans all around and no nonhuman people, it's probably Real Life.