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[brewer bob]

Sometimes dwarves might choke on the food they're eating. They can be helped by other dwarves, but this requires them to be in a hospital zone, so usually they end up suffocating while being dragged into the hospital.

[King Zultan]

Sometimes dwarves go to their rooms and choke themselves for a bit then leave the room with happy thoughts, but sometimes they choke themselves to long and they die, this causes any dwarf that finds them dead like this to get even worse negative thoughts than they'd normally get.

[muldrake]

Put a crypto miner inside every pickaxe so that when dwarves mine, they mine.

(I think this is the first genuinely terrible suggestion in pages.)

[PlumpHelmetMan]

Really? You think that's any worse than the multiple pay-to-play suggestions or the idea of "de-politicizing" DF by making it nothing more than a weapon-smithing simulator?

[King Zultan]

What about the suggestion about making the game more politically correct by basically deleting the entire thing.

[A_Curious_Cat]

What about reimplement the entire game in brainfuck?

[Eric Blank]

Are you looking forward to cleaning up after your complementary control rat?

[SixOfSpades]

. . . the idea of "de-politicizing" DF . . .

How about hyper-politicizing DF?

* All DF gods are now named after existing (past or present) IRL deities.
* Every dwarf who migrates to your fort now has a line in their Thoughts screen that states where they emigrated from. All settlements in your civ are named after existing countries with low standards of living, and current fortress residents have loud and differing opinions on whether or not the fort should accept any (more) migrants from there.
* Some of your dwarves will protest the killing of goblins, saying it's unethical, and try to protect them.
* Other dwarves will try to outlaw certain medical practices, at least in a Hospital zone, forcing dwarves who need that procedure to get it done in somebody's bedroom.
* Every type of food or drink is of a different gender. Dwarves will only consume food or beverages with which they are sexually compatible.
* All goods obtained through trade are the sole property of the broker. This wealth inequality is the beautiful and natural consequence of the unfettered free market, and is absolutely essential if the fortress is to remain competitive.

[PlumpHelmetMan]

Rename dwarves to "persons of dwarven descent". And so the game doesn't normalize rampant alcoholism in the real world: they only drink orange juice and tea.

No, wait, that could potentially make social drinkers feel alienated. Hold on, give me a few minutes to work this out...

[brewer bob]

. . . the idea of "de-politicizing" DF . . .

How about hyper-politicizing DF?

* All DF gods are now named after existing (past or present) IRL deities.
* Every dwarf who migrates to your fort now has a line in their Thoughts screen that states where they emigrated from. All settlements in your civ are named after existing countries with low standards of living, and current fortress residents have loud and differing opinions on whether or not the fort should accept any (more) migrants from there.
* Some of your dwarves will protest the killing of goblins, saying it's unethical, and try to protect them.
* Other dwarves will try to outlaw certain medical practices, at least in a Hospital zone, forcing dwarves who need that procedure to get it done in somebody's bedroom.
* Every type of food or drink is of a different gender. Dwarves will only consume food or beverages with which they are sexually compatible.
* All goods obtained through trade are the sole property of the broker. This wealth inequality is the beautiful and natural consequence of the unfettered free market, and is absolutely essential if the fortress is to remain competitive.

* Wars are now called 'special operations'.

[muldrake]

* Wars are now called 'special operations'.

Elves are no longer cannibals, because that's racist, and no longer care about trees.  They do show up and lecture you about dwarven privilege, though.

[PlumpHelmetMan]

All creatures in the game taken from real-world mythologies (including dwarves, which originate in Norse/Germanic folklore) are removed since their presence in DF signifies cultural appropriation.

[muldrake]

All creatures in the game taken from real-world mythologies (including dwarves, which originate in Norse/Germanic folklore) are removed since their presence in DF signifies cultural appropriation.

Fortress conveys a positive portrayal of war, which is in fact terrible, therefore instead of Dwarf Fortress, it will be called Sapient Entity Dwelling.

[A_Curious_Cat]

All creatures in the game taken from real-world mythologies (including dwarves, which originate in Norse/Germanic folklore) are removed since their presence in DF signifies cultural appropriation.

Fortress conveys a positive portrayal of war, which is in fact terrible, therefore instead of Dwarf Fortress, it will be called Sapient Entity Dwelling.

This is discriminative against non-sapients.

[King Zultan]

In order to keep the game from offending anyone in anyway ever again the next update will contain a secret line of code that when activated deletes everything on your hard drive and sets fire to your computer.