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[Kidiri]

Because of dwarf fortress i wonder why people were being chased by an iron man on teminator 2

Sarah Connor cancels go insane: Interrupted by iron man

[Daetrin]

I have unreasonable expectations for evaporation.

[darkrider2]

I was in band yesterday and we were talking about how much it would hurt if someone were to fall into the pit in front of the stage... I suggested adding spike traps.

[cdrcjsn]

I have yet another reason to be late in updating my projects...

[chaturga]

I think "If I can just pick up some gravel or a live worm and throw it, I can probably sever a leg crush a skull" when passing Chav's in the street.

I am CERTAIN that I can balance my entire neighborhood on a single lamp post.

[Ralith]

Tensile strength is not something I think about, ever, even when it's vital.

[Ethereal.Frog]

Half of the poetry in  my big ol' project is DF-related.

[Spartan 117]

I make Legolas fangirls cry, like the elves they so wish to be.

I'm a little messed up as you can tell.

[melomel]

Because of Dwarf Fortress, I've actually had semi-serious conversations with my father (45+ year mechanical engineer vet)--and over a computer game, too.  He even actually listens, sometimes!

DF:  It's not AutoCad, but when I proudly explained my latest minor engineering project, he actually got it, while my video-game-loving mother looked kinda blank.  Maybe I'll ask him about defensive strategy next...

I was told to write a story today... and I had an irresistable urge to write the whole thing in announcements messages... 

I actually did this. The teacher praised me for "letting the reader imagine the story themselves."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary_novel  It'd fall under this, sorta, I think.  Totally valid literary format, if falling only behind second-person as one of my least-fav things in fiction...  It's not a beginner's format, though people seem to think it is:  you have to make at least two unreliable first-person narrators, through only their own contrived prose, interesting characters, and somehow skivvy in a plot as well.  Using DF announcements as a basis is probably a better jumping-off point than a college lit class, fo' sho.  ("Urist McTreeChopper is attacked by goblins.  Urist McTreeChopper's baby is stolen by goblins.  Urist McTreeChopper lies limbless in the field for a few months.  Urist McTreeChopper is happy to have been rescued and had time to recuperate.  Urist McTreeChopper's kitten is slain by goblins.  Urist McTreeChopper becomes Urist McAxecrazy.")

[Kidiri]

...my father (45+ year mechanical engineer vet)... my video-game-loving mother...

Can I be your brother?

[Aklyon]

Because of Dwarf Fortress, I've actually had semi-serious conversations with my father (45+ year mechanical engineer vet)--and over a computer game, too.  He even actually listens, sometimes!

DF:  It's not AutoCad, but when I proudly explained my latest minor engineering project, he actually got it, while my video-game-loving mother looked kinda blank.  Maybe I'll ask him about defensive strategy next...

i wonder what he could think to build in DF, i doubt we have too many mechanical engineers around here.

[Xzalander]

I keep using Shift+. and Shift+, to change Z-levels. Terribad in Sims3.

[Nikov]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary_novel  It'd fall under this, sorta, I think.  Totally valid literary format, if falling only behind second-person as one of my least-fav things in fiction...  It's not a beginner's format, though people seem to think it is:  you have to make at least two unreliable first-person narrators, through only their own contrived prose, interesting characters, and somehow skivvy in a plot as well.  Using DF announcements as a basis is probably a better jumping-off point than a college lit class, fo' sho.  ("Urist McTreeChopper is attacked by goblins.  Urist McTreeChopper's baby is stolen by goblins.  Urist McTreeChopper lies limbless in the field for a few months.  Urist McTreeChopper is happy to have been rescued and had time to recuperate.  Urist McTreeChopper's kitten is slain by goblins.  Urist McTreeChopper becomes Urist McAxecrazy.")

I really have to disagree; the style in question is an exchange of letters or an insertion of letters, messages, journal entries, etc into the prose, not using little one-off sentences to convey the entire story. But like people have been reminding me, all art is subjective. And for this reason I state that subjectively, I find modern art to be utter dreck.

[techno65535]

Because of Dwarf Fortress I've seriously considered digging my own mini fort behind the house. Complete with wood walls and floor to piss off the elves. (Hey, I live in the middle of the woods, might as well do something with the trees)

Sadly I live on Crowly's ridge with is basically a big fucking sandbar from the last glacier to come through here and the land around here is nothing but gravel.

[Eric Blank]

Because of dwarf fortress my sadism has been reinforced.