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MelloHero

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How Do YOU Describe DF?
« on: September 14, 2010, 11:30:15 pm »
We've all heard comparisons to drunken Sims, sentient Legos, and all that, but what's your favorite summary of the game, either by you or by someone else? Mine comes from my friend Adam, a very recent convert: "They hate water and like booze, they eat anything, usually raw, and they never shower. Fact: Dwarf Fortress is the world's most complicated homeless shelter."
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Quote from: Samrobot on September 14, 2010, 11:33:57 pm
Even if you have dwarves decked out in cotton candy they will still have fun with clowns.

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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2010, 11:33:08 pm »
Lemmings meets the sims meets simcity
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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2010, 11:34:31 pm »
It's 3am, why am I not sleeping?
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Quote from: Xenos on January 06, 2011, 07:54:22 pm
Give cats natural metallic armor and throw them in your danger room.  Also allow their mouth and tail to grasp (shield in mouth, weapon in tail xD)  Have a cat based military.  You know, do the same with all tame animals xD send in the cats as shock troops to disrupt the archers

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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2010, 11:36:07 pm »
Crisis management DBA simulator cleverly disguised as a very good city sim game.
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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2010, 11:37:56 pm »
"All the fun of locking manic-depressive, alchoholic midgets in a box, but with none of the clean-up."
Enticed three friends into playing with that one.
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ungulateman

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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2010, 11:44:15 pm »
"Can you say 'zombie great white sharks'?"
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Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on October 01, 2010, 12:52:33 pm
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Quote from: Sphalerite on September 23, 2010, 08:56:03 pm
It's not an embark so much as seven dwarves having a simultaneous strange mood and going off to build an artifact fortress that menaces with spikes of awesome and hanging rings of death.

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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2010, 11:45:58 pm »
You can't really...it's like describing a rainbow to a blind person.  You can tell them the mechanics of it, but until they play, they won't UNDERSTAND.  (and even then, only maybe)
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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2010, 11:46:40 pm »
 I'd probably describe it as a love letter to geologists and sadomasochists, signed in dwarf blood, sealed with cat tallow and a !!puppy spleen!!.
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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2010, 12:02:43 am »
Quote from: SkyRender on September 14, 2010, 11:46:40 pm
I'd probably describe it as a love letter to geologists and sadomasochists, signed in dwarf blood, sealed with cat tallow and a !!puppy spleen!!.

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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2010, 12:31:08 am »
The Settlers plus Legos, as visualized by NetHack.
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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2010, 12:48:21 am »
MAGMA!!
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Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on October 31, 2010, 09:08:40 am
Forgotten Beasts seem to be akin to Toady playing Russian Roulette with your fortress, as they can be anything from harmless giant worms made of mud to necrotic-gas spewing nigh-invunerable iron hydras of doom.

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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2010, 01:06:13 am »
Bad user interface : a case study.
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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2010, 01:09:00 am »
I kinda like the interface.
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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2010, 01:13:26 am »
Crom.
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Urist son of Urist

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Re: How Do YOU Describe DF?
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2010, 01:50:23 am »
Rocks fall, everybody dies:  The game
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