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[Moonstone_Flower]

The jeweler is also a gelder.

I think you're taking that euphemism a bit too literally, Thikut.

[Rabbot32]

In order of most-recent to least-recent:
Watching my Dwarfs take "capture live animal" as "chase a hamster around and spam me with cancel messages because it gnawed out of the trap".
Forgetting to set up proper food lines.
Forgetting to pack an anvil.
Not understanding how ramps work, leading one miner to almost starve to death hunting a non-existent mouse at the bottom of a mineshaft.
Starting in an aquifer and playing hell trying to get stone.
Accidentally starting in an Evil biome and watching my dwarves death to drown in blood.
Watching a dwarf thirst to death because I didn't know how to make buckets.
And, of course, starting a fort without knowing any of the controls. Only started playing two days ago.

Are we having Fun yet?

[Fleeting Frames]

Almost all of that was inevitable.

[ManicSin]

So it was the first fort I was proud of, must have been years ago, was like my third fort or something, It had everything a dwarf could need. I even trained a good 16 dwarves for the first goblin invasion.

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 It was really just a hole in the ground with small mud rooms for each need and a depressed militia after I threw away their favourite wooden training sticks.

I had a huge blockade, and a maze of traps waiting for the invaders, each bit of fort had a closed gate, forcing the invader into my hot-gates where their numbers would count for nothing.   

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A large wooden shack, that I crammed all my dwarf into with some random cages around the entrance (not cage traps, just empty cages).

Only to be foiled by the goblin malice as they flanked my fortifications and slaughtered my innocent workers as my warriors got cut down, some warriors broke ranks and tried to save their loved ones only to  get a overwhelmed by the hoard of green men. The last few who held ranks fortified the blockade and waited the goblins out.

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holes in the roof, I had a huge amount of holes in my roof after cutting down all the trees earlier and as most of my fort was 1 layer down that left holes where the tree truck once were. One hole who lead straight down into my panic room.   The death of my dwarves was quick and bloody. By the time my military arrived their families laid dead on the floor, enraged and chocked the elite military who never seen real combat just practice in their mud room quickly succumbed to the green horde, one squad never moved from the wood shack so I put some walls at the doors so nobody could get in, dooming them to death by starvation rather than glorious combat

[zenkai]

The jeweler is also a gelder.

I think you're taking that euphemism a bit too literally, Thikut.

Just need you to know I keep randomly thinking back to this post and laughing. It's been days.

[Runaway_char]

My woodcutter got severely injured, a "spinning wood log" smashed his leg into unrecognizable gore while he was cutting down trees.  I didn't even think that was possible.  Had to hastily set up a hospital, but with it being winter, we had no water to clean his wounds with.  He's up and running again, but has an infection.

[Eschar]

My miners' pathing ended up creating a near-silhouette of a man face-palming. I stopped the mining project so I could keep the image.

[Derro]

My miners' pathing ended up creating a near-silhouette of a man face-palming. I stopped the mining project so I could keep the image.

Picture, please?

[Eschar]

Unfortunately, I don't have an account on any 3rd-party image-hosting services at the moment.

[gunpowdertea]

My woodcutter got severely injured, a "spinning wood log" smashed his leg into unrecognizable gore while he was cutting down trees.  I didn't even think that was possible.  Had to hastily set up a hospital, but with it being winter, we had no water to clean his wounds with.  He's up and running again, but has an infection.

that's a standard problem... as far as I understand it, this comes from woodcutters cutting down trees, the branches of which fall onto other trees -- often growing a level down. Then, when your lumberjack (who is ok, as we all know, wearing women's clothing etc.) cuts down this mighty scot's pine (or whatever) the wood that has accumulated on the branches falls down and hurts him (or her, or... yeah, whatever --- when teaching I tell my students that to my mind "students have no sex", i.e. any gendered form I use applies to all unless I explicitly stress the gender, and usually this is met with quite some giggles ;p )

FP: digging through a four or six(?) level aquifer... multiple face palms, many Dorfs lost. I did recover the corpses by punching through all levels and flooding a cavern level, yes, that was another FP, especially with the FPS problems I had... I don't think I have ever used this many grates...

[TheFlame52]

Unfortunately, I don't have an account on any 3rd-party image-hosting services at the moment.

Imgur is pretty good.

[Fleeting Frames]

Unfortunately, I don't have an account on any 3rd-party image-hosting services at the moment.

Got ninja'd by Flame, but don't need one on imgur. I script things to make uploading not require a web browser, either.

[Eschar]

Ok, image here.

[Fleeting Frames]

Heh. Yeah, I can see that. I bet they'd be mighty happy to live in it, too.

[Moonstone_Flower]

Facepalm moment...  Not from in-game, but still related.  Hopefully this counts - a specific post from this thread was linked in IRC.

<Leaf> >Almost all of that was inevitable.
<mouse> DF quotes have become memetically contagious.
<Leaf> ...it was inevitable.
<ball> The world is the same as ever.
<Leaf> It is terrifying.

[...] (or her, or... yeah, whatever --- when teaching I tell my students that to my mind "students have no sex", i.e. any gendered form I use applies to all unless I explicitly stress the gender, and usually this is met with quite some giggles ;p )
[...]

That's the reason that we have the words "they"/"them"/"their" in English.  Those are neutral pronouns.