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[Mister Always]

That's not considering their reproductive rate. That would'a spelled death for your fortress.

Urist McUrist has drowned in a sea of adorable fluffy-wuffy kittens.

[foop]

My three year old son will happily sit on my lap and watch me play, but has lots of questions.

  "Where are the goblins?"
  "What are the dwarves doing?"
  "Why do you have to kill all the kittens?"
  "What's eff-pee-ess?"
  "What's all that green stuff?"
  "Where are the goblins?"

[Crazy Cow]

When my 11-year-old brother watches me play, he is constantly asking what everything is. I offered to teach him how to play once and he responded with a firm "Hell no."

[Inglonias]

My mother always insists that its "Dwarf Castle" simply because she wants to annoy me.

Dwarves don't build castles! They dig them.

[Musashi]

My mom calls them "your midgets" or "your dwarfs" or even "your game with the silly midgets", depending of her mood.
While she's an adept of dumping the corpses in magma, she's not herself playing. Also, while I hint at many accidental animals deaths, I doubt she would be taking very well intentional cat killing*, so I voluntarily omit details. 
It's not my fault there is no way to spay kittens in that game! I even ensure all parts will be used!


* Fortunately, she is dwarfy enough to recognize the genius of engineering various and cruel gobbo traps.

[Vorthon]

My sister usually calls it some insulting name... Can't remember any at the moment... (Yay for head injuries! )

[NW_Kohaku]

For no reason at all I draw your attention to this passage from my Nist Akath death toll report...

Tame animals that died

1 White-browed Gibbon      1 Gorilla   1 Giant Leopard      4 Bull      3 Cow      6 Mules      191 Donkeys
25 Donkey Foals      4 Horse      170 Cats      1057 Kittens         7 Dogs

Yes, but what if I hadn't killed every damn one of those? I'd have that many grown cats. At least.

It's like the SPCA... Leaving all those kittens out there to reproduce and starve is cruelty.  Please spay or slaughter your strays.

Fortunately enough, my mother doesn't really dismiss the game so much, although whenever I talk to her about it, she sometimes asks, "You can't put this on your resume.  Why can't you put this much time and thought into your education?"

[castun]

It's like PETA... Leaving all those kittens out there to reproduce and starve is cruelty.  Please give us your cats so we can slaughter them.

Fixed for you.

[bobhayes]

Cute. I like how she implys you never do any work as your always playing 'goblin dot game'.

She was actually coming right out and saying it.

[NW_Kohaku]

It's like PETA... Leaving all those kittens out there to reproduce and starve is cruelty.  Please give us your cats so we can slaughter them.

Fixed for you.

... I don't see how that's fixing it at all. 

Being as PETA is known for being sometimes obnoxiously against any animal cruelty even being against organizations like the SPCA's willingness to euthanize strays, trying to make a "joke" that PETA likes to kill animals is functionally no different from just randomly interjecting "I hate PETA!" into a conversation.  "I hate PETA" is't a joke.

[jimi12]

My wife calls it Midget Hideout. She also doesn't understand how I can play with dots for hours at a time.

[Nyxalinth]

My partner and i both love the game and have differing playstyles.  I babble to my room mate about Dwarf Fortress and she tells me about her Farmville farms. 

My partner's now six year old son used to call the walking trees in WoW Uh Oh Trees, and the rock elementals were Uh Oh Rocks.  I can only imagine what he would have called Forgotten Beasts.  Probably 'Oh fucking hell my military isn't ready! Beasts'

[Cotes]

It's like PETA... Leaving all those kittens out there to reproduce and starve is cruelty.  Please give us your cats so we can slaughter them.

Fixed for you.

... I don't see how that's fixing it at all. 

Being as PETA is known for being sometimes obnoxiously against any animal cruelty even being against organizations like the SPCA's willingness to euthanize strays, trying to make a "joke" that PETA likes to kill animals is functionally no different from just randomly interjecting "I hate PETA!" into a conversation.  "I hate PETA" is't a joke.

To be fair, PETA has a history of causing completely unnecessary harm/death to animals, and not just by making animal rights groups all seem insane.

[Megaman3321]

My dad once called it "Dwarf whatever."

[Ultimuh]

My family dosn't care much for DF.
Altough over half of them have really grown attatched to Minecraft.