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Arm_ok god of blood
« on: September 20, 2017, 06:59:39 pm »
I read up that a user named Armok inspired the series name. Is it this user?

The account is from 2007 and there are mentions of Armok going back atleast to 2001. So I suppose not. But then, who is?
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2017, 07:01:30 pm »
I thought the name stemmed from Arm: OK
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2017, 07:06:10 pm »
Maybe both.

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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2017, 10:34:43 pm »
There was a variable name in some previous game that Toady made (I don't remember which) called "arm_ok".
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2017, 10:44:39 pm »
Indeed I beleive it was dragslay.  The name armok came from the ARM_OK variable, that determined if the player had a functional arm.  The forum poster came after, around the same time I started lurking but had not yet signed up. (and Armok was a regular poster here for some time).
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2017, 03:19:33 am »
My legs are OK


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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2017, 03:29:53 am »
Thus began the Legok Heresy.
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2017, 05:35:15 am »
If you look at his first post, you suddenly realise that yes, he is the inspiration.
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2017, 09:39:12 am »
Quote from: Imic on September 21, 2017, 05:35:15 am
If you look at his first post, you suddenly realise that yes, he is the inspiration.
But that doesn't prove anything at all? There are references to it from long before him.
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2017, 12:17:54 pm »
Quote from: Gatleos on September 21, 2017, 09:39:12 am
Quote from: Imic on September 21, 2017, 05:35:15 am
If you look at his first post, you suddenly realise that yes, he is the inspiration.
But that doesn't prove anything at all? There are references to it from long before him.
Yeah, I just noticed that.
Well, he managed to get the name, and he's been here much longer than a lot of people here... Blood for the blood god!
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2017, 12:37:51 pm »
I just wonder what happened to some of the truly ancient ones.

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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2017, 12:11:07 am »
I wonder if a shoutout to a DF dev would get an answer...
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2017, 10:47:18 am »
Quote from: roseheart on October 08, 2017, 12:11:07 am
I wonder if a shoutout to a DF dev would get an answer...
Not sure if you knew, but there are only two devs, Tarn (Toady One) and Zach (Threetoe) Adams, and Toady is the only programmer.

Which means that if we contact one of them, they probably won't respond all that quickly, if at all, what with the release coming so soon.
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2017, 10:50:44 pm »
No need to contact Toady about it. You've already been given the true account of the arm_ok variable and it's a fairly well known story if you want to search. The forum user Armok chose the name after learning of it from Bay12, not the other way around. He himself didn't inspire anything in Toady other than maybe annoyance.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=38415.msg642978#msg642978
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Re: Arm_ok god of blood
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2017, 04:44:22 pm »
RtRtD would need a LEG_OK variable, I think.
Wait, no, Frelock eventually got Armsplosion. Conveniently, it was right after Frelock's legs got cut off.
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