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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #75 on: January 14, 2011, 08:46:02 am »
Saw a thread about on conceptart.org in 2006.  It was described as 'an atom bomb to your face in terms of complexity.'  Obviously, it was necessary to try it. 
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #76 on: January 14, 2011, 10:54:25 am »
MeFi -> Boatmurdered

I found it a few years ago and uttered around with Adventure mode. Put it away after a month or so. Got hooked for good when I rediscovered it when .26 came out.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #77 on: January 14, 2011, 11:51:59 am »
Having found Minecraft, I figured I'd browse their forums and found numerous links to DF through there. At first I thought "eh, what's that, looks a wee bit complicated" but then I read some on these forums and almost laughed my head off. Complicated? Yes, but !!FUN!!


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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #78 on: January 14, 2011, 01:41:53 pm »
My memory is hazy about the Time Before Dwarf Fortress, but I think how I got into this was via a comic posted on 4chan, then Google, then deciding to try it out because it was free.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #79 on: January 14, 2011, 02:02:10 pm »
An article on Slashdot on games that dont need a mouse, only game i really playd after that
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #80 on: January 14, 2011, 02:08:23 pm »
The article on 1d4 chan.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #81 on: January 14, 2011, 02:22:43 pm »
Don't remember too well, but it was referenced by someone in the lines of "It's about a dwarf whose family died stampeded by bloodthirsty elephants and he dosen't give a damn because he saw a really nice floodgate."

I thought it's some kinda unholy morph of Unreal World and Nethack. I was terribly wrong.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #82 on: January 14, 2011, 03:20:40 pm »
SOMETHINGAWFULDOTCOM :dominic:
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #83 on: January 14, 2011, 09:29:32 pm »
Yet another from TV Tropes, kept catching bits on it here and there in their various articles and eventually wondered "just what is this?" So I read their main page on it, then read about boatmurdered, then decided to try it out, downloaded it, said "What the NFBSK?!?" deleted it, waited a while, read more about it on TV Tropes, decided to try again, found the newbie guide for it (back for 40d), played it with that, got the hang of it, and the rest is history.

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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #84 on: January 14, 2011, 09:35:26 pm »
Damn. Am I the only person who was personally introduced to it?
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #85 on: January 14, 2011, 09:47:45 pm »
Quote from: The Merchant Of Menace on January 14, 2011, 09:35:26 pm
Damn. Am I the only person who was personally introduced to it?
No, three of my friends where becouse of me, they just aren't of the forums.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #86 on: January 20, 2011, 05:07:31 am »
It was like a descent into madness. First was the image regard "You want a dwarf? [Pic] There's your dwarf." etc about digging and graphics. Then came references on Three Panel Soul. The pictures relating to the Boatmurdered saga appeared, followed shortly by the actual tale itself. By this point, I had to play this game. Scenes of towers, magmafalls, gobbo-ice cubes, etc were plaguing my thoughts.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #87 on: January 20, 2011, 06:08:09 pm »
I believe it was from visiting an imageboard (not my kind of preference in BBS) that I learned about this game.

I play dwarf fortress only a handful times a year.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #88 on: January 21, 2011, 02:45:15 am »
Quote from: The Merchant Of Menace on January 14, 2011, 09:35:26 pm
Damn. Am I the only person who was personally introduced to it?

read my post again
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #89 on: January 21, 2011, 02:46:26 am »
I found it in a thread on /v/.

Granted /v/ is the last place one would expect to find good games, but this one surprised me.
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