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Author Topic: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)  (Read 8567 times)

ToonyMan

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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #75 on: June 11, 2009, 01:31:21 pm »
That is, in essence, what DF is.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #76 on: June 11, 2009, 02:54:42 pm »
Quote from: SimRobert2001 on June 08, 2009, 11:54:35 pm
Law of the fortess: There will ALWAYS be something you can learn. always.
Addenum: When you can't think of any possible way something can get screwed up, it will screw up as it never did before.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #77 on: June 11, 2009, 03:30:17 pm »
Murphy's Law has some hold of Dwarf Fortress.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #78 on: June 11, 2009, 04:02:22 pm »
Quote from: alway on June 11, 2009, 07:28:46 am
Quote from: Rockphed on June 10, 2009, 10:13:15 pm
Quote from: Aldaris on June 10, 2009, 10:57:09 am
Quote from: Leafsnail on June 09, 2009, 04:22:46 pm
General law of the forums: As the the hideous and awful thing you inflicted on your fortress gets worse, the chance of anyone on the forums NOTexpressing sympathy tends towards 0.
Fixed.
Seriously, have you ever seen the Urist Salvedangers thread? Or Boatmurdered?anything in The community games and stories sectionTHE ENTIRE DF FORUM?


So you mean to paint the DF forum as a compassionate place?
Yes. Except for when any of the following is mentioned:
kittens
microcline
orcs
elves
goblins
orthoclase
catsplosion
magma
water
trap
FPS
HFS
boatmurdered
magma cannon
obsidian
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tantrum spiral
yuri
CIB
Various Nonsense.
EA games.
DRM
Penguins

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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #79 on: June 11, 2009, 05:17:19 pm »
Quote from: Okenido on June 11, 2009, 04:02:22 pm
Added a few more.

The list is still not complete.
True... I hadn't taken non-DF sections into account.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #80 on: June 12, 2009, 03:12:54 pm »
When you fight, and win, against impossible odds, wolves will ambush your adventurer.  Always.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #81 on: June 12, 2009, 04:19:49 pm »
The one champion you actually want to die will be able to charge into a hoard of orc snipers naked and kill them all without getting a scratch.

The champion you want to live forever will die to a kobold.
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Only vaguely. Made of the same substance and put to the same use, but a bit like comparing a castle and a doublewide trailer.

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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #82 on: June 14, 2009, 09:33:32 pm »
Quote from: SimRobert2001 on June 12, 2009, 03:12:54 pm
When you fight, and win, against impossible odds, wolves will ambush your adventurer <B> and tear apar his throat in the first turn </B> .  Always.

added to my post.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #83 on: June 15, 2009, 04:03:46 am »
Quote from: Okenido on June 11, 2009, 04:02:22 pm
Quote from: alway on June 11, 2009, 07:28:46 am
Quote from: Rockphed on June 10, 2009, 10:13:15 pm
Quote from: Aldaris on June 10, 2009, 10:57:09 am
Quote from: Leafsnail on June 09, 2009, 04:22:46 pm
General law of the forums: As the the hideous and awful thing you inflicted on your fortress gets worse, the chance of anyone on the forums NOTexpressing sympathy tends towards 0.
Fixed.
Seriously, have you ever seen the Urist Salvedangers thread? Or Boatmurdered?anything in The community games and stories sectionTHE ENTIRE DF FORUM?


So you mean to paint the DF forum as a compassionate place?
Yes. Except for when any of the following is mentioned:
Dwarf Fortress
Anything else

Added a few more.

The list is still not complete.

Completed.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #84 on: June 15, 2009, 11:30:29 am »
Pythagoras' Dwarf Fortress Theorem: The square of the insanity is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two megaprojects.

Einstein's Theory of Dwarven Relativity: E = MC2. Where: E = Economy
M = Mandates
C = Count

Dwarven Thermodynamics: The increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the sum of amount of energy added by heating the system (via magma) and the amount of effort Urist puts in to the pumps. There is no decrease.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #85 on: June 15, 2009, 01:49:30 pm »
The elven tree limit is more of a guideline....
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #86 on: June 19, 2009, 03:20:59 pm »
The more you need an anvil from the first caravan, the more likely they won't bring one/ a tree will sprout in front of the trade depot.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #87 on: June 19, 2009, 05:36:20 pm »
Quote from: Heph on April 21, 2009, 08:59:11 pm
Any engraving in a personal room will most likely picture something the owning dwarf hates.
any engraving in a former noble's room will feature a 1/the size of the room chance of the noble dying due to unusual accidents.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #88 on: June 19, 2009, 08:53:26 pm »
Law of the Bigger Fish: Fish are endowed with certain unalienable stopping power.

Law of Siege Corollary: Caravan will tend to coincide with sieges.
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Re: The Saying of Urist McMurphy (aka DF Murphy's Law)
« Reply #89 on: June 20, 2009, 04:11:40 am »
The 0th law of fluids: if it can't be drowned in, flood, be pulled in by carp, or otherwise get your dwarfs wet, they will all die of thirst.
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