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[Interus]

I... I always thought it was "clown car" because there's an assload of giant critters all packed into a tiny little cave, which, by extension, made the critters in the clown car "clowns". And now it turns out I had it backwards. I feel kinda stupid.

I thought it was for a similar reason.  The only time I ever went down that far was when digging through an adamantine line to get through a magma pit(and also because I really wanted to end that fortress without abandoning for once).

I get down there, and see this huge open area.  My miners head back up, I get a pop up, and when I go back down there's like 20 brightly colored creatures with weird symbols all packed up against the bottom of the stairs and trying to get out.  A 2X2 staircase with probably close to a 5X5 mass trying to get inside.  The fact that they managed it made the initial entrance kind of like a clown car. 

I think the metaphor is kinda stupid, but I've read a book where a clown murdered somebody and then used the victims house to spy on the person the clown actually hated, so Clowns==Evil works for me.

[PhoenicIan]

Personally, every time I read "HFS" all I can think of is

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

hell f*cking spawn

.

wat do

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Actually, I find this hate towards these terms somewhat amusing in a community where misspelling dwarf as dorf is quite common (and yes, I find dorf much more unpleasant than clown).

Well, I guess everyone have their pet peeve :) :) :) :) :)

Deathworks

[Leotto]

Hi!

Actually, I find this hate towards these terms somewhat amusing in a community where misspelling dwarf as dorf is quite common (and yes, I find dorf much more unpleasant than clown).

Well, I guess everyone have their pet peeve

DBag

Dorf is memetic, it's not a typo.

[Man In Zero G]

Nobody said 'typo'. Memetic or not, it's still an intentional misspelling.

[DFPongo]

Poor sods,
the way a nickname works is its used once and catches on. Not you have a committee meeting to pick one and debate the rules as to what it can be or cant be and the pedigree of one name over another.
News Flash
 

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the number of people who came to this forum to find out about the game and didnt click on the very first spoiler and see that there is a Balrog trapped in the adamantite is zero. I mean it was a nice thought to keep it secret I suppose, and your following Toads wishes, but the game takes so much internet research to figure out, everyone in the last 2 years knew of the balrog before they unleashed it.

I think he should get a goblin spawn to build his army with.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

We do need to talk about the HFS, after all that is a big part of the game. But I think giving euphemisms is just stupid.

Put spoiler and HFS in the thread title, and then just talk normally.

I don't like the clown thing because it doesn't actually hide anything. Anyone who reads a post about horrifying clowns from below killing everything after you dig through the blue cotton candy, is going to understand what is going on.

I think it's just people trying to be cute. Whatever. I'm just going to start calling them Spelunkies.

[Retro]

Hay guys, so as I was mining through the crust, I came upon this great pocket of feta in a mozzarella vein... I kept digging deeper down, through the tomato sauce, and eventually opened up some kind of giant pepperoni. Now there are green pepper bits slaughtering my entire fort! Halp what does I do!

...

Yeah, it kind of looks like most people agree that metaphors conceal nothing, and in terms of comedic element the clown analogy has long-since lost its momentum and purpose. I'm glad to see it go. Hopefully saying HFS (spoilers) in a topic title or in a spoiler name will be more common now.

[dwarfguy2]

pizza names would be cool! 

[LeoLeonardoIII]

"You know how you get pepperoni if you dig deep enough? Well I managed to trap my green peppers in a solid block of tomato sauce. Then I built my fort around it and it's like a calzone!"

[MaDeR Levap]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the number of people who came to this forum to find out about the game and didnt click on the very first spoiler and see that there is a Balrog trapped in the adamantite is zero. I mean it was a nice thought to keep it secret I suppose, and your following Toads wishes, but the game takes so much internet research to figure out, everyone in the last 2 years knew of the balrog before they unleashed it.

There is solution to this and I think Toady will try implement this (but when?): dynamically generated HFS. And no as in

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"some random demons inside always same crap, namely hell"

. Not as in

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"random place with random properties and random very strong monsters"

.

To be interesting, refreshing and unknown (only that it is DEEP is known) every time when we strike the earth, we need something with emergent properties to create novel structures. And I do not know if this is possible at all in today state of information technology.

[Leotto]

Blah blah blah…

[Mangled]

Poor sods,
the way a nickname works is its used once and catches on. Not you have a committee meeting to pick one and debate the rules as to what it can be or cant be and the pedigree of one name over another.
News Flash
 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the number of people who came to this forum to find out about the game and didnt click on the very first spoiler and see that there is a Balrog trapped in the adamantite is zero. I mean it was a nice thought to keep it secret I suppose, and your following Toads wishes, but the game takes so much internet research to figure out, everyone in the last 2 years knew of the balrog before they unleashed it.

I think he should get a goblin spawn to build his army with.

Agreed.
This is a stupid thread, all Craftdwarfship is of no quality.
It is encircled with bands of elitism, and menaces with spikes of fail.
On the item is an image of a dong in Adamant/HFS/clownite.

[RedWarrior0]

If you don't have anything constructive to say, don't say anything. And while I agree that memes are spontaneous, I also think that insulting the thread and its goals is not the right thing to do.

[Mangled]

Yeah but it totally amused me.