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Serious discussion
« on: March 21, 2011, 07:08:53 am »

Does anyone else find themselves making a menacing triangle with their hands while creating their fortress?

I mean, I can't help it. It's like i'm plotting my evil plans, or something.

In case you don't know what I mean by "Menacing Triangle":
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2011, 07:10:16 am »

I do now.
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2011, 07:32:27 am »

you mean the "Burns Gesture"? :)



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Simpsons did it!! :)
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2011, 07:48:45 am »

I tend to do the Gendo hand thing:



Sadly, my glasses probably don't glare quite as menacingly.
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2011, 07:59:04 am »

Hey, good idea ! I would rather do the Xanatos Pose personally



Most of us are villains anyway, it's time we identify ourselves as them and take on some clichés.

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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2011, 08:01:23 am »

I prefer to stroke my goatee and/or pet my cat while planning my fortress.

Then I pretend to use an intercom and ask to see Urist McPeasant in the drowning chamber. I may be a little weird.
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2011, 08:16:45 am »

i just sit and laugh manically as the wave of magma tunnels through my fortress, incinerating everything in its path. muwahahahaha

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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2011, 08:19:04 am »

I prefer to stroke my goatee and/or pet my cat while planning my fortress.

Then I pretend to use an intercom and ask to see Urist McPeasant in the drowning chamber. I may be a little weird.

Pet cat here too, she watches the dwarves fall to their deaths in the pit.
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2011, 08:56:23 am »

I put my left thumb and index finger on the chin while the right hand holds the mouse, then I look up like I'm pondering.

When I'm calculating, I look down kinda like The Thinker, with my elbow supported by the desk.
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It's treated as completely normal because this is Dwarf Fortress.  There's absolutely nothing wrong with surrounding yourself with a wall of flames, only to later realize that you're surrounded by a wall of flames.
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2011, 09:12:01 am »

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you mean the "Burns Gesture"? :)



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Simpsons did it!! :)

Simpsons already did everything, so you disregard whether the simpsons did it or not.
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2011, 09:36:08 am »

Acctually, Magic, The Gathering did everything.

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It's treated as completely normal because this is Dwarf Fortress.  There's absolutely nothing wrong with surrounding yourself with a wall of flames, only to later realize that you're surrounded by a wall of flames.
There's nothing that can't be solved by hurling fifteen roc birds at it.

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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2011, 09:47:23 am »

Either that or do a variation on the Gendo/Xanatos pose but with my chin resting on my fingers. >:D DF brings out my vicious side.
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2011, 10:40:33 am »

I'm always in some variation of the Thinker pose, because my right hand never leaves my mouse/numberpad.
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2011, 10:51:34 am »

I'm not so much for the gestures, but I'll certainly announce things to my dwarves, such as "Good news everyone! I've discovered a way to [fill in the blank with something that will invariably wind up catastrophic.]"
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Re: Serious discussion
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2011, 12:45:59 pm »

I pet my cats, but that's because if I don't pet them then they will walk on the keyboard.   :D
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