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[Ratbert_CP]

... and extremely steep learning curse ...

Typo, I'm sure, but so very, very apropos...
 
I've had a couple of friends try it.  Most just enjoy reading the stories.  None of them really got into it.  Hell, I bounce back and forth between playing (badly) and doing something less fail-enhanced...

[Shook]

Most peoples reaction to my playing of it can be summarized as "lolwut", followed by a complete inability to comprehend why it can possibly be entertaining, though i did meet one guy in school who had heard of it. My brother did give it an honest shot (after i showed him the Lazy Newb Pack), and he did get a fort up and running (with extensive guidance), though i think his interest has since waned. Else he just forgot about it, which wouldn't surprise me one bit.

[Duelmaster409]

The usual response is something along the lines of "moldy alphabet soup".

[jimjulius]

No one understood. One flatmate once saw the announcement "X has cancelled X - Interupted by zombie fox" at the bottom of the screen, then she started shaking my laptop and shouting "Oh no Jim! Zombie fox! Zombie fox!". Another favorite was to shake my laptop and shout "Earthquaaaaake!".

I don't think any friends have taken it seriously for a minute, although my brother will listen and show some mild interest in the actual goings-on in my fort if I explain it to him, since he likes things like dungeon keeper and minecraft. He can't understand for the life of him why I don't use graphical tilesets though.

[Bdthemag]

My friends really enjoy the stories I tell about it, well except one. He thinks since it has ASCII graphics, it is instantly bad. All of my other friends say its boring, but I always try to get them to play it.

[h3lblad3]

I got my nephew to play Adventure mode.
And another friend to play Dwarf mode.  Took him 2 days to get better than I, after months, in the old 40d days.

My thoughts were along the lines of, 'YOU ARE A GENIUS'.
He had to use graphical upgrade of some sort, though.

[Miggy]

My roommate watched me play and he said it reminded him of the matrix. There were just random signs flying through the screen to him, but apparently I somehow understood it.

[metime00]

I've showed several friends the combat by going out into the woods with an adventurer and pummeling a rabbit or a deer to death. They laugh at the combat (in a good way) and like the idea of the game, but never are able to actually play it due to the lack of a manual.

One friend I got interested in it by just showing him around legends mode, and he got pretty into it. I was pretty surprised cause I think legends mode is one of the weakest aspects of the game.

Still pretty cool, but now I should encourage them to play a bit more, maybe get them over the learning curve so they can start making megaforts and stuff. Summer ho!

[Alastar]

I tried to get friends and family to give it a chance, but the Wii-owning farmville-playing, WoW-addicted elves simply have too different priorities. Especially after they took up worshipping Apple and actively look down on everything computery that requires active thought.

[Bdthemag]

I tried to get friends and family to give it a chance, but the Wii-owning farmville-playing, WoW-addicted elves simply have too different priorities. Especially after they took up worshipping Apple and actively look down on everything computery that requires active thought.

Oh no people who use the Mac! PC Legion Unite!

[Flaede]

I only usually talk about Dwarf Fortress when folks around me start going on about their loot in WoW or suchlike. One other friend plays/has played DF and backs me up... bystanders prefer hearing stories of ridiculous dwarven mayhem to repetitive (loud) exchanges about levelling and guildie-drama.

[Ferozstein]

"Oh, it's that game where you spend days and days changing your dwarves' socks."

More seriously, I got my brother (huge fan of everything dwarven) hooked in about two hours of showing him around the interface, and another friend has recently expressed interest after hearing about DF's complexity. He's got a Ph.D in computer science and Sumer culture (that's ONE doctorate. Don't ask), though.

[Alastar]

I tried to get friends and family to give it a chance, but the Wii-owning farmville-playing, WoW-addicted elves simply have too different priorities. Especially after they took up worshipping Apple and actively look down on everything computery that requires active thought.

Oh no people who use the Mac! PC Legion Unite!

Maybe that came out wrong. Considering there's a Mac version of DF, there appear to be plenty of Mac users who don't demand that everything has to be easy, polished and fed to them in bite-sized morsels with an associated lifestyle message.

Incidentally, if I understand your use of 'PC Legion' correctly... sorry, not a member. Smaller outfit, with considerably more bile and bitterness. Still, to each their own

[Jake]

More seriously, I got my brother (huge fan of everything dwarven) hooked in about two hours of showing him around the interface, and another friend has recently expressed interest after hearing about DF's complexity. He's got a Ph.D in computer science and Sumer culture (that's ONE doctorate. Don't ask), though.

If you run across him in Second Life, don't let him show you any flashcards.

[BigD145]

I saw the learning cliff as a challenge and overcame it.

One friend gave it a few days but got frustrated. Maybe he'll pick it up in later versions. Another friend hates dwarfs. That's it. Just hates dwarfs.