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[eldar]

i learned that playing this game too long will cause you to think of life differently, like "hmmm i wonder how secure i would be if i dug a hole in my lawn and set up walls and a drawbridge strong enough to crush ppl"

also i learned that midgets do not like to be called beer deprived dwarves, they prefer verticaly challenged.

and that fish do not really try to pull you down into the water and kill you, most of teh time.

[Ubersoldat]

I learned that most any problem can be solved by either short bearded men with crossbows or really big dining rooms.

In all seriousness, I learned a lot about mineralogy and a bit about metallurgy. I also learned that talking about how you broke a humans spleen by throwing dead children at him can net you a few weird looks sometimes.

[Okenido]

That throwing coins at people can kill them.

[Kagus]

I learned that you don't actually have to see something in order to see it.

[Kishmond]

What 'Yor' means.

Actually, I still don't know. I think it's a name. In which case, why is it a Dwarven word?

[Kyselina]

I also learned that you can make anything out of everything. With  something.

[Javis]

I learned that cows have haunting moos.

[martinuzz]

quote:Originally posted by Armok:
<STRONG>I think I have finally figured out the title question (I am taking this topic far to seriously I think.):

That despite injustice and evils in the world, when corporations war over minds and governments over resources, were entertainment is mas produced by companies blind for all but profit... One person, whit talent, determination, and a dream, can make by himself something far, far better on all planes than all those companies together whit millions of dollars and thousands of employees ever could come close to.
That in a world ruled by greed one can using the tools forged by that very evil, internet and computers in this case (I am not claiming they are evil, I am claiming they are created and maintained by morally questionable companies, and I use the term evil in a metaphorical, or more likely dramatical, sense), can create something wonderful and beautiful and awesome, and ignoring all "reasonable" claims how he could get rich and powerfully, he follows his dream and gives it for free to everyone who wants it, giving up his own sustainance. And yet he remains, because altruism is rewarded against all sense, because in the millions and billions of mindless corporate and governmental zombies there are a few, maybe one in a million, that can too seem this dream and gives up a slight bit of their own comfort in order for it to continue.
Dwarf Fortress have taught me what fairytales and stories of all time has in vain tried to teach me when my cynicism would make me not listen: That however dark the times, the world, there is always a slight ray of hope, that there is something good, and that whit enough determination that good can illuminate, not everything, not even a great part of anything, but at lest those very few not yet corrupted. That in the stormiest sea of evil one may still find an island if one just looks hard enough, and have a bit of luck.

My tear glands must be broken, because nobody can write something like that and not cry, and I just did.</STRONG>

The documentary available at this site shows very beautifully how one person with determination can effect change.
I'm a cultural worker, and this movie gave me a lot of inspiration.
Check this site: www.peaceoneday.org

[Will]

I learned that losing is fun.

[Alfador]

quote:Originally posted by Kyselina:
<STRONG>I also learned that you can make anything out of everything. With  something.</STRONG>

With menacing spikes!!

[Armok]

quote:Originally posted by martinuzz:
<STRONG>The documentary available at this site shows very beautifully how one person with determination can effect change.
I'm a cultural worker, and this movie gave me a lot of inspiration.
Check this site: www.peaceoneday.org</STRONG>

Interesting, but you miss my point.
I one can hear it intellectually, I have heard it from all kinds of sources until my ears numbed for it, but only in DF have I experienced it myself.

quote: I learned that losing is fun.

Quoted For Truth.
Those three words are pure concentrated wisdom.

[Crnobog]

quote:Originally posted by Alfador:
<STRONG>

With menacing spikes!!</STRONG>

I learned that menacing spikes look good on anything

[Cthulhu]

I learned that rock is arable, as long as it's wet, and that a person can squeeze through a paper-thin gap in the corner of a wall.  I also learned that jungle carp can tear a leopard in half in seventeen seconds.

[MuonDecay]

quote:Originally posted by Keiseth:
<STRONG> The strange fact that several gems and rock types sound like refreshing beverages...</STRONG>

I sense an untapped market in making soft drinks for young, adventurous geologists and geophysicists.

Oh, and you don't realize it, but you've all learned that poising a smallish everyday creature at the low end of the food chain as some kind of large, deadly predator makes for a great laugh. (How many people here joke of killer carp?)

[ June 01, 2008: Message edited by: MuonDecay ]

[Okenido]

I learned that the most common deaths involves bows.