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[Jakkarra]

How well-known are we on the internet as a whole?

Do we have any sort of prescence, and are we typecast at all? It's just something that's bothering me, i'm sure SOME of the people at somethingawful know about us, as there are a few games we share, but, as a whole.

How are we known?

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Who cares.

[Jakkarra]

I'm just curious.

[Cthulhu]

Bay12 is well known on /tg/, and most people either worship Toady or think he's an obsessive compulsive weirdo, but other than that and some people on Somethingawful, I'd say we're not that well known.

[Bricks]

I'd be curious to know how people found out about DF/Bay12.  I think I stumbled upon it twice in one of my many wikipedia-adventures, and after the second time, I decided to download the game and start watching Captain Duck's tutorials.

Either way, Bay12 seems like an outlier.  It's clearly a community of nerds, but that's true of nearly everything else on the internet.  I'm always impressed at how well these forums seem to moderate themselves out of respect for each other and for the Adams brothers.  It's also cool that their are a lot of non-native English speakers on here, and that everyone still tries to type out coherent posts.  Also, lots of smart folks here, including a number of geology experts... I wonder why.

[Ampersand]

As far as I know, everyone on the 4chan thinks we're a bunch of anal retentive dicks who can't take a joke. Mostly because this forum is not 4chan. SomethingAwful on the other hand, thinks we're a bunch of dicks who are anal retentive, because Bay12 is not SomethingAwful.

[Hawkfrost]

As far as I know, everyone on the 4chan thinks we're a bunch of anal retentive dicks who can't take a joke. Mostly because this forum is not 4chan. SomethingAwful on the other hand, thinks we're a bunch of dicks who are anal retentive, because Bay12 is not SomethingAwful.

So, in other words, because we take ourselves a little more seriously and frown on stupid jokes?

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

As far as I know, everyone on the 4chan thinks we're a bunch of anal retentive dicks who can't take a joke. Mostly because this forum is not 4chan. SomethingAwful on the other hand, thinks we're a bunch of dicks who are anal retentive, because Bay12 is not SomethingAwful.

So, in other words, because we take ourselves a little more seriously and frown on stupid jokes?

Yes. I reckon most of us can probably talk to fairly normal people fairly normally. The people I know that visit 4chan have formed into a tiny group which generally deliberately distances itself from anyone else by acting like total dicks.

[Aldaris]

Where ever I mention DF online, there's usualyl at least a few who have at least tried it, the rest is either going 'Wow that is awesome (Shame about the graphics)' or 'is that the matrix?'

[Aqizzar]

I found out about it from the Penny Arcade forums.  They have a staple megathread for talking about Dwarf Fortress.  If I remember correctly, it was late 2007, when I was hanging around there during the pre-release excitement about Super Smash Bros (my how time flies), when I noticed a thread titled "Dwarf Fortress: Child cancels Sleep: Caged" or something like that.

[Rashilul]

I got it first from a friend. Didn't play it until I saw Boatmurdered, though.

_{Anal retentive dicks *Snicker*}

[SHAD0Wdump]

I found out about it from a magazine.

[qwertyuiopas]

I first saw it on some old roguelike list.

Then I found the dev log, and have followed it since.

[Realmfighter]

I saw a thread about it on another game forum.

There are boatloads of forums with dwarf fortress threads.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I think the general conception is that this forum is filled with overweight neckbeards with aspergers and/or OCD. that seems to be the joke stereotype of DF players, as well with having our own archaic inside jokes we are able to understand out of the matrix like !!2cat!! Sometimes we're viewed as elitist for our (and Toady/DF's) attention to gameplay over UI/graphics.

But apparently we maintain the wiki and answer questions on how to play the game, as well as provide awesome utilities and write stories that draw others into DF.