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[UristMcDwarf]

Why do we throw babys into magma?
Why do we drop elfs into pits?

Do we get pleasure from it?
Are we just sadistic?

discuss

[Aramco]

Because we're Dwarves.

[schussel]

BECAUSE!!

WE!!!

CAN!!!

[Valrandir]

Because THIS IS SPARTA DF!!!

[Qinetix]

Because we practically "can't" do so in real life and we will be hunted by the law if we done so , you don't go to hell if you do such things in a game... i hope (you practically don't hurt anyone).

[Valrandir]

However I don't throw babies into magma, and elves perish from ambush more than from pits.

[Ieb]

It's a known fact that the more free reign and chance to do horrible horrible things a player is given by a game, the more the player tries to be as horrible horrible as possible.

That's double horrible.

[Hyndis]

I actually try to make my fortress a dwarven paradise, and I become disturbed when any one of my precious dwarves dies. Its inevitable, but I do try to avoid it as much as possible.

[wuphonsreach]

For !!SCIENCE!!

[Joshua IX]

Because we practically "can't" do so in real life and we will be hunted by the law if we done so , you don't go to hell if you do such things in a game... i hope (you practically don't hurt anyone).

Boiled down to its core: We are sociopaths

[Naryar]

Personally I believe that DF is too diverse, large and open-end to be fully embraced by someone who is not willing to throw his moral code by the roadside when playing.

I care not about the dozens of puppies I regularly throw into magma, for regulating population. Because it's for my FPS's sake.

Sure we are villains by standard morality, but what we do is mostly necessary evil. We do it for curiosity's sake, for Rule of Cool's sake or for awesomeness's sake. Among many other reasons.

But this is the mark of the Unfettered, and a mark of strength !

[Urist Imiknorris]

Sure we are villains by standard morality, but what we do is mostly necessary evil. We do it for curiosity's sake, for Rule of Cool's sake or for awesomeness's sake. Among many other reasons.

You forgot doing it for the sake of doing it and doing it just because we can.

[Tryble]

As a serious answer, I think the community as a whole is seemingly monstrous for a few reasons.

The biggest one, I think, is the lack of real graphics.  Think on it this way; if DF was ultra-realistic 3D, do you think everyone would be quite so willing to pull a magma lever and watch as a mass of people melted horribly right in their faces?  Or would Adventure Mode players be so earnest in tearing the limbs off an elf and then crack his head open with it, watching as the guts and brains oozed out?  I sort of doubt it.
DF has opportunities for this sort of terrifyingly awful stuff, but the reason we aren't totally disgusted and horrified is because it's all in ASCII.  A kitten being systematically taken apart for meat is probably an incredibly disquieting and violent thing to watch, but around here it's practically standard protocol.

I don't think it's because everyone around here is a hideous person that is just full of sadism, more like we see this sort of thing happening onscreen and it's just so over-the-top ridiculous, it comes across as humorous.  And it is.  Kitten biscuits feeding an entire city of people, seeing your bookkeeper go nuts and claw a goblin's eyes out, etc.  The community has sort of cultivated this culture of crazy unnecessary grotesque violence for comedic value.
And it's okay, since it's not like we're slaughtering real kittens or anything.  It's just a game, after all.



Anyway, that's my theory.  It's probably dumb and wrong, but take it for what you will.

[Bdthemag]

Probally because all Bay12'ers have some sort of mental illness.

[The_Fool76]

It's revenge for the abuse the game inflicts upon us as we attempt to learn it.