Necroing yes, but more like waking up a coma patient by taking the bed apart.
...My brother persuaded me to read Eragon, and I was simultaneously joyous of the dwarves building a city around a Giant Freaking Sapphire, and disgusted at how the Elves seem to have a monopoly on pretty much everything.
Also the lack of Magma in the dwarven city...
Honestly, the Eragon books are falling into a common trap with magic. Magicians are ridiculously overpowered, Eragon himself could probably - if they had no wards - kill the entire population of the world with about the same amount of energy it would take to walk to the fridge for a bite to eat. I'm looking forward to the next book, but not as much as I thought I would.
Because of dwarf fortress I...
Know how smelting actually works.
Don't really worry about food in any other civ or rts title, thus causing mass starvation and death.
Despise marble, but love limestone.
Look at magma as something fun to pl... OH GOD MY HANDS!
Have trouble fitting into any other forum, because I keep trying to be nice to the trolls instead of shooing them off.
Think of carp as vicious killing beasts. I mean, they're not exactly pets, but still...
Think of dogs as being possible candidates for a giant "Release the HOUNDS!" lever.
Think of aluminum as something valuable and hoard cans (actually, I'm just too lazy to recycle them).
Want to get my hands on a house over a magnetite vein.