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[Kamudo]

While watching Animal Planet, a short thing about deadly animal attacks came on, and this elephant busted out of its cage and immediately begins assaulting a park employee, I didn't even think to feel sorry for the guy, instead, I thought of Dwarf fortress.

Is this a normal reaction, after playing Dwarf Fortress for a long time? Like... Human to Dwarf conversion... o.o..

[smjjames]

Well if the park employee was treating the elephant badly, he probably got what was coming to him.

[Hoborobo234]

People talk about the internet turning you into an emotional husk. Here, we don't have memes or racism or any other of the "conventional" internet properties but we do it through the use of DF.

[Kamudo]

The elephant was just angry. >_> It was being treated fairy.

Well, I understand what the internet does to people, but I have realized he lack of... normal internet jokes, and more or less DF jokes. I don't post a lot, but I read a lot, and it seems people create recurring jokes about, Elephants, Elves, Magma... etc.

I love Animal Planet though. >_>

[Hoborobo234]

We are a very different community then the rest of the internet, which is probably why I have been rejected by other communities. I can see why, we have a serious yet humorous approach of things and Toady likes to keep it. I have been involved with the folks at Tyranid mod for the last year. Their admins didn't control stuff as well as toady did and their Spam thread grew and took over to Forum, after a while a flame war erupted, many people left and they payed the price. I have known veterans of this war and they don't want to see it again, though they revel in Spam.

[Kamudo]

Well, the community here makes me laugh, and mostly, I really like it. They don't make crazy announcements, nor do they become trolls. I should post more often. >_>

I like it how I relate things on Television to this game. To me, I think the game requires a bit of imagination to make it more interesting.

[monk12]

Well, animals are a lot like people, Urist McSimpsonReference.  Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life, or have been mistreated...but, like people, some of them are just jerks.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Here, we don't have memes or racism or any other of the "conventional" internet properties but we do it through the use of DF.

Killing elves just because they're elves (unless they bring us bears or giant scorpions to guard our fortresses)
Blood thirsty demon carp
Ninja elephants of ages past
Urist McDwarf
Noble mandate-processing levers
Thermonuclear catplosions
Magma
Clowns
Ironblood, Morul, Cacame *cough* Boatmurdered
Goblinite, the other iron ore
Tantrum spirals

What do you mean memes or racism through DF, you mean you don't normally do this?

[Kamudo]

I don't get the clown joke. =/

Reading BoatMurdered was the funniest hour of my life.

As for Elves... I don't see why people don't like them, I mean, sure, they're pompous hippies who like trees, but they can be cool... Sorta... >_>

Actually, no, elves are mostly bad, except when you play as them in adventure mode, with metal weapons.

[Sir Iryn]

Elves are cool only when they bring loads of wood and cool animals. Otherwise I refer to them as "Test Subjects"

I wonder, having empty wood piles causes traders to bring more wood. Would empty animal piles cause elves to bring more animals?

[Grimlocke]

Elves are cool only when they bring loads of wood and cool animals. Otherwise I refer to them as "Test Subjects"

I wonder, having empty wood piles causes traders to bring more wood. Would empty animal piles cause elves to bring more animals?

I dont think it does. In one fort I had a pile full of goblins, named beak dogs and the like. Yet the elves still brought me an awesome lot of annimals. In only a few years: breeding pairs of foxes, bears, wolves and even unicorns. Since then I adopted a policy of looking what they have before Pulling The Lever 

[Deon]

I don't get the clown joke. =/

Clowns = HFS creatures, it's a replacement word used to hide a probable "spoiler".

[Kamudo]

Ohh, I hate them. >_>

The term 'Clowns' seem appropriate though. ^^

[KaelGotDwarves]

I actually dislike calling them clowns but the name appears to have stuck with many other people.

[Kamudo]

Hm... Maybe you should try to start a trend of calling them something else? O_o

That's what I would do. >_>