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[Johuotar]

My friend who likes weird games told me what he had been doing in this weird dwarf game.

[Kete]

Been drowning immigrants since 2006. I happened upon the game on the GearHead forums, and yeah, I think the poster warned something like 'kiss your social life goodbye'  been lovin every release since

[AfroScotsDwarf]

Through minecraft, believe it or not

[Mr Frog]

I read about it on TVTropes around 2009, I think. The descriptions of the various antics possible within the game intrigued me, so I gave it a try.

Unfortunately, the tropers had failed to properly communicate just how confounding this game actually was. After staring at my first embark for an hour and still having no idea what the hell I was looking at or how to make the little neon smilies construct a magma fountain, I ragequitted.

A few weeks later, I found the wiki, and thus actually got my first fortress dug out. 2 hours later, I learned the hard way that dimple cups are not edible and a few minutes later learned that starving dwarves tantrum, tantrumming dwarves can break floodgates, and that no dwarf -- tantrumming or otherwise -- can breathe underwater.

It was quite possibly the most fun I've ever had watching ASCII midgets get angry and drown themselves as a direct result of my own incompetence. I was hooked.

[Caprealis]

I was in churchcamp, And there was two people playing it,
Then I asked what it was, And they gave me the game.
After a few days of playing around with it.
I have not found a better game.

[nenjin]

Through Jesus. Er......

[jellow belly]

i found it through a local gaming magazine years ago, while it was still in the one z-level stage of development although i didn't start playing for real until later when i found an audio interview with toady

haven't played for a while though (about a year and a half in fact) so i'm not sure if i still know how

[HorridOwn4ge]

/v/ after I saw the design for a bloodpowered bloodspewing cannon (you know the one) in a thread, I instantly googled it and started playing.

[RexMundi]

Through the fourms on Clonk.de
I found clonk while randomly searching the net, fell in love with it and bought the game. I saw someone mention DF on the fourm, I ignored it. When reading the tread over a week later, I said why not, and came here.
If not for Captain Duck and the utterly newby tutorial, and mayday, I'd not be here still.

[Livonya]

I don't completely remember, but probably from RPG Codex.

However, even after I first discovered it I couldn't play it as the native text graphics were simply too harsh on my eyes.  I wasn't able to actually play until I discovered the graphic mods.  Prior to that I would just get a headache.

[orius]

Yet another person who found it through TV Tropes here.  I kept seeing references to it under video games, and because I had never heard of the game before, I finally checked out the DF page to see just what it was.  As soon as I read the description of the game, and found out it was free, there was no possible way I could not play it.  It sounded too much like the sort of thing I like.

[JackoftheBox]

I friend of mine was playing DF once when I was visiting him, so naturally I asked what the game was and thats when I found it. Took me a while to start playing it as when I first downloaded it, it was still the old no Z-levels version and my ancient PC couldn't get through world gen. When I finally got a new PC, 40d was already out and I started playing it.

[Spinning Welshman]

I bumped into a fellow videogame nerd at a festival in portugal, got into a discussion and he told me about dwarf fortress.

I was intrigued so I tried it out when I got home, and I've been addicted since. 

[Meansdarling]

I found out about DF during it's last development cycle, a year or so ago.
A PC Gaming website, Rock Paper Shotgun, wrote all about it.
One of their staff had a DF story on the site. I read that, then everything else.
I checked out the forums, read the wiki. Then I thought about it.
Then I played it. Fun fun fun.

[Steb]

Through StumbleUpon, I think. This was sometime between the first 3D version and 40d.