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[Arthropleura]

My friend says that all df players are 13 to 14 or lone programmers...I need to show him a proof "normal" people play this game...Any help?

There is no objective, universally-agreed upon standard as to what constitutes a "normal person".

Yes there is. The Oxdorf Dwarven dictionary compact edition of 1050 defines normal person as

normal person (plural normal people) 1. A player of Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress
                                                                  1. A sapient being enjoying  Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress
                                                                  2. A cat walking on your keyboard as you play Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress
                                                                  3. Your friend after he starts playing Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress

[jecowa]

Wow, Oxdorf is surprisingly specific. Here is the entry in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language 1913:

>1. According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.

Very vague in comparison.

[Arthropleura]

Wow, Oxdorf is surprisingly specific. Here is the entry in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language 1913:

>1. According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.

Very vague in comparison.

This is why Dwarven dictionaries are better. The writers know that the sooner you know what something is, the sooner you can club goblins over the head with it.

[Devast]

I'm completely normal aside for lighting the occasional kid on fire while whittling human bone dioramas of Jesus surfing on the back of a shaved Gorilla while injecting heroine into his testicles.

Mmmm, shaved Gorillas.

huh, I have a gorillia shave my back while injecting heroin into my testicles.
We should hang out. 

[Moridin920]

I'm 26 and I feel like I'm pretty normal idk. Not a programmer or anything.

[Imic]

I haven't been playing dwarf fortress for the longest time, but I have been playing games like it since i was introduced to gaming.

[Heretic]

That about me... 18 years old student, professional programmer(probadly can be counted as lone)(code for !eight! years(seriosly(if time that i spent to learn it counting), now continue to learning some staff in universiti.
I would like to have time to say more, but now is busy. So let's laconic: the normal, average person is so lame, that I have never had any desire to get into into this category. They will never try to do somethink intresting... they will never to risk, they never can be really be satisfied of their lives...  they can only talk to someone who is doing something that it wants and what it achieves that it is not normal.

[argh226]

As far as normal goes, I'm 39 and I'm an IT Tech and very little time to code.  I have 2 kids and still figure out a way to play this game, which is plain amazing!

[Arthropleura]

I have 2 kids

Fortresses don't count as children.

[Starver]

And neither do children count as fortresses, so some of you should probably stop doing what you're doing...

[Shook]

Are you telling me that i'm not supposed to be filling children with magma?

...

Huh.

[jimboob]

I'm 26 and I feel like I'm pretty normal idk. Not a programmer or anything.

25 and also pretty normal, whatever that is. I have my own place, a job, a girlfriend. I just like slaying elves in my free time is all.

[Starver]

25 and also pretty normal, whatever that is. I have my own place, a job, a girlfriend. I just like slaying elves in my free time is all.

Nonononono... You're clearly a freak! Except for the elves thing, of course.

[xandalis]

My friend says that all df players are 13 to 14 or lone programmers...I need to show him a proof "normal" people play this game...Any help?

My help is to suggest you find some better friends. That one sounds like they're maybe a friend, or at best, a -friend-. Find yourself a ☼friend☼.

[Gwolfski]

Ask him where he gets his information from.