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Alfador

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Re: Real life DF stories
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2007, 02:56:00 am »

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<STRONG>The hotel made entirely of ice

See it here</STRONG>


And they even have a magnetite sculpture garden!

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Re: Real life DF stories
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2007, 09:00:00 pm »

Keep this thread alive!

Anyways, here is what I have to offer:

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The Thai fisherman, known as Kik (pictured right) was left to estimate that the Siamese giant carp weighed 256lb or 18st - 36lb more than his scales could bear.

The world record for any member of the carp family, which includes goldfish, is 88lb.

"It is the biggest carp ever caught on rod and line and kept slapping people with its tail."


Seconds later he was heard to say "OH GOD ITS GOT MY ARM NO NONOoooooo *gurgle gurgle*!!"

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Re: Real life DF stories
« Reply #17 on: November 16, 2007, 10:24:00 am »

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<STRONG>I just remembered about Centralia, PA. From Wikipedia:    Eventually the town was abandoned. From a little further down: "There are no current plans to extinguish the fire, which is consuming an eight-mile seam containing enough coal to fuel it for 250 years." You really don't want to get fire near your fortress' coal mines!
[ October 06, 2007: Message edited by: Turgid Bolk ]</STRONG>

Centralia is actually the inspiration behind Silent Hill. I remember reading the notes of a girl who made a trip there. It really feels like you're in fucking Silent Hill.

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« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2007, 11:39:00 am »

Afaik silent hill doesn't involve a permanent underground firestorm.
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Re: Real life DF stories
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2007, 01:02:00 pm »

the movie does
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« Reply #20 on: November 16, 2007, 01:03:00 pm »

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<STRONG>Afaik silent hill doesn't involve a permanent underground firestorm.</STRONG>

In the movie, it rains ashes.

Also: http://www.google.ca/search?q=silent+hill+centralia

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« Reply #21 on: November 16, 2007, 01:29:00 pm »

I drove through Centralia recently.  While the story of all the people living there having to leave their homes and jobs is terrible, it really wasn't all that exciting.  There is a newly paved two lane road going right through the middle of what was the town the town.  There are some closed off streets.  When I was there, there was only a small field where you could get out of your car to take pictures with a pile of rubble that was giving off some steam.

Maybe it was just a dry part of the year.  I think reading about it is much more exciting because you get interviews from the crazy, stubborn people that still live there and refuse to move, and you get to relive some of the tragedy that the people there went through in trying to save their town.

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Re: Real life DF stories
« Reply #22 on: November 16, 2007, 01:38:00 pm »

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<STRONG>Wow, that was one hell of a fey mood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God_%28artwork%29
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Are you sure it wasn't a fell mood?!
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« Reply #23 on: November 16, 2007, 02:01:00 pm »

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Are you sure it wasn't a fell mood?!</STRONG>

It's a platinum totem. Fell would involve a REAL dwarf skull--or in this case human. (In DF, you don't need fell moods to make human skull totems.   :D )
[EDIT: Whoops, sorry...looks like the skull is really still there; it's just encircled with bands of platinum, studded with diamond, and menaces with spikes of diamond.]

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« Reply #24 on: November 16, 2007, 04:16:00 pm »

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It's a platinum totem. Fell would involve a REAL dwarf skull--or in this case human. (In DF, you don't need fell moods to make human skull totems.    :D )
[EDIT: Whoops, sorry...looks like the skull is really still there; it's just encircled with bands of platinum, studded with diamond, and menaces with spikes of diamond.]

[ November 16, 2007: Message edited by: Alfador ]</STRONG>



 :eek: So it was a fell mood!
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« Reply #25 on: November 17, 2007, 02:52:00 am »

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« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2008, 01:24:00 pm »

I couldn't find the other "real life DF" thread so I'm adding to this one.  A guy fell 47 stories on a platform and survived with major injuries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/nyregion/04fall.html?em&ex=1199595600&en=a6cd1e14f02e1178&ei=5087%0A
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« Reply #28 on: January 04, 2008, 03:31:00 pm »

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<STRONG>I couldn't find the other "real life DF" thread so I'm adding to this one.  A guy fell 47 stories on a platform and survived with major injuries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/nyregion/04fall.html?em&ex=1199595600& en=a6cd1e14f02e1178&ei=5087%0A</STRONG>

Note to self: Make execution tower 48 stories tall.

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« Reply #29 on: January 04, 2008, 11:11:00 pm »

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<STRONG>Lawyer dodging bullets at point-blank range even after getting shot

I seem to remember watching the full video of this. It is funny in a very dark sense, but the guy lives in the end, and his dodging is spectacular.</STRONG>


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 Gerry Curry, Lawyer entered a martial trance! 

That mine fire thing is pretty wild too.  I had no idea that sort of thing could even happen, though it makes sense now that I think about it.

And, uh, this might be stretching it, but...

Britney Spears cancels seek infant: Court injunction.

Yeah.  Definitely stretching it.

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