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Into what age bracket do you fall?

17 and under
18-23
24-35
36-49
50+

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cowofdoom78963

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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #30 on: September 14, 2008, 07:01:42 pm »

I'm surprised that there's no poll for gender. I want to know if I'm prejudiced or right (I can't shake the feeling that it's mostly men).
Im pretty sure everyone here thinks your right (weather or not they want to admit it)
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #31 on: September 15, 2008, 02:19:52 am »

17.

Mental age is 25.5 ((150*17)/100)

Yeah, I have an IQ of 150. Apparently. I never noticed.

And yeah, it'd be mostly males, although there's more females on here than on the last forum I frequented. It had all of none.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #32 on: September 15, 2008, 08:26:33 am »

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50+  2 (1.1%)

Awesome.  :D
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #33 on: September 15, 2008, 09:34:15 am »

I'm 20.

I utterly hated DF when I tried it a few years ago. Decided to force myself to play it again a few months before the first Army Arc release. Fucking loved it.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #34 on: September 15, 2008, 09:43:12 am »

It's the internet. All the women are men. All the men are men. All the children are men, or FBI agents, who are men.

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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #35 on: September 15, 2008, 11:25:44 am »

I'm 16.
I feel old though, mostly because I wear glasses and I have badly damaged
knees due to an accident on a ferry.
I hate the bits of mornings after you have to get out of bed.
Before that, everything is nice and snug.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #36 on: September 15, 2008, 12:47:01 pm »

Hey now, I know two girls who have at least tried DF. Both of them consider internet forums the dumbest waste of time possible, though, so I wouldn't expect to ever interact with them.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #37 on: September 15, 2008, 01:01:23 pm »

Hi!

Here is another 32 year old in order to save the reputation of the older ones (after all, DF is much too good a game to leave it to the youngsters :) :) :) :) ).

I don't care too much about the IQ testing stuff, so I don't have any precise value ready for that. So, I leave it to the audience to determine my mental age :P

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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #38 on: September 15, 2008, 03:21:40 pm »

It's the internet. All the women are men. All the men are men. All the children are men, or FBI agents, who are men.

 ;)

You got it almost right.  It's:
"Welcome to the internet where men are real men, the women are also men, and the children are FBI agents."

Although it's now more like this these days:
"Welcome to the internet, where men are real men, sometimes little boys, occationaly older women, half are teenage girls, and yes, there are real women here too: they just don't look like women most of the time.  Also, watch out for the furries and don't forget Rule #34."
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #39 on: September 15, 2008, 05:09:20 pm »

Hi!

Here is another 32 year old in order to save the reputation of the older ones (after all, DF is much too good a game to leave it to the youngsters :) :) :) :) ).

I don't care too much about the IQ testing stuff, so I don't have any precise value ready for that. So, I leave it to the audience to determine my mental age :P

Deathworks

IQ? Frankly who cares about IQ? Nowadays only 1 thing is what matters: how much money do you have.  ;D
My IQ is surely not high, but I am quite good financially..and this makes me a happy person!  :D
Well of course some people just dont care about money at all, but I guess you know what am I talking about.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #40 on: September 15, 2008, 05:17:37 pm »

don't forget Rule #34."

Hot dorf/elf action!  With a ☼steel battle axe☼ and a pool of magma.

*ahem*  Er, yeah, ah, that'd be 30 and 11/12ths then.   :)
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #41 on: September 17, 2008, 12:27:05 pm »

Very rapidly approaching my . . . late '20s here, at the ripe old of 28.

Seems like the sheer volume of mayhem you can cause in so many different ways in DF cuts across ages to some degree.  And yeah, we have the sampling problem of 'who plays DF' + 'who's on the forum' both. 
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #42 on: September 17, 2008, 12:46:03 pm »

I'm 14, started playing DF 4-5 months ago.
Also, I am quite surprised that so many who are 17 and under plays this game.
I'm pretty sure none of my friends would like it.

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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #43 on: September 17, 2008, 01:16:35 pm »

I actually am 15, and was intrigued by the large numbers of 17-Under people.  As Habblatic said, I only know one, maybe two people my age who would like this game.  I have to wonder if more people would play if there were real graphics, or if DF would simply be banned in most households due to excessive violence/gore/dismemberment.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Player Demographics?
« Reply #44 on: September 17, 2008, 01:57:03 pm »

I think it's pretty interesting that the younger age groups shot up so fast, and it's only as the poll has been up for a few days that the older age groups have caught up. Seems we can draw one generalization about older DF players- they check the forums less frequently than their younger counterparts.
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