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MrShovelFace

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What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« on: July 11, 2011, 11:13:38 pm »
Tell us something that dwarf fortress has taught you that school could never

Prior to my fun with dorf fortress i never knew that a alcohol is capable of rehydrating people
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2011, 12:21:49 am »
DF taught me geology.
School could never do something so simple.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2011, 01:17:26 am »
Quote from: NewsMuffin on July 12, 2011, 12:21:49 am
DF taught me geology.
School could never do something so simple.
Now that you mention it; why isn't rudimentary geology taught in school?  This seems like a more productive way to spend one's youth than doing book reports.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2011, 02:29:44 am »
DF has taught me how beautiful microcline and orthocase can both be.

It has also taught me some basics on trigger reactions and stuff.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2011, 03:57:42 am »
DF has taught me, like the Civilization games, how a complex society may crystallise from the humblest beginnings, and how tiny decisions in preparation (or lack of) can have the hugest ramifications.

It's been a very long time since I was in school ;) I'll turn 40 next year - and no, I bet I'm not even close to being the oldest DF player.

I hope I never see a "How old are you?!" thread on these boards. If there are any such, buried dozens of pages back, let them stay there! "How old are you?!" threads on gaming forums are demeaning to gamers and gaming, for many reasons.
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shadenight123

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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2011, 04:01:02 am »
df taught me to never surrender. because against all odds, all possibilities, a sock WILL BE TAKEN BACK TO THE STOCKPILE!
NO SOCKS SHALL BE LEFT BEHIND ON THE BATTLEFIELD!
and under the arrows, the bolts, and the lashes of the goblin, that sock will go in the stockpile!
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“Well,” he said. “We’re in the Forgotten hunting grounds I take it. Your screams just woke them up early. Congratulations, Lyara.”
“Do something!” she whispered, trying to keep her sight on all of them at once.
Basileus clapped his hands once. The Forgotten took a step forward, attracted by the sound.
“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.

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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2011, 04:12:20 am »
I have the strong desire to start a Magma engineering company.

So that says something.
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Roctiv

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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2011, 04:17:17 am »
Dwarf Fortress taught me that no matter OCD ridden you are, no matter how perfect you want things to be, no matter how perfect you manage to make things, In the end you will be destroyed by a monarch butterfly or the lack of turtle shell in the desert. Perfection is overrated

(It's the first "strategy" game, strategy with quotation marks because it's a bit more than that, where I consider my entire workforce to be completely expendable)

@shadenight, do you mind if I sig' your post ?
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2011, 04:58:25 am »
DF has affected my psyche more than it has taught me. Let's just leave it at that.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2011, 05:43:00 am »
What Sedimentary stone is.

That Bauxite is an ore of Aluminium. Magnetite, Limonite and Hematite are all sources of iron. Lots of that stuff.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2011, 05:47:30 am »
Quote from: MiniMacker on July 12, 2011, 05:43:00 am
That Bauxite is an ore of Aluminium. Magnetite, Limonite and Hematite are all sources of iron. Lots of that stuff.

I knew Bauxite from Railroad Tycoon II ja Hematite from school. But yeah, a lot of the stuff I've learned is about geology. The rest is more about game design than the game's content...
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2011, 07:21:55 am »
I found someone I'm going to school with in the fall. Studies the same major. DF nerd. I hope he's a neckbeard too. THERE ARE MORE OF US ON EARTH
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2011, 08:09:07 am »
you may sig it with no problems >.>
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“Well,” he said. “We’re in the Forgotten hunting grounds I take it. Your screams just woke them up early. Congratulations, Lyara.”
“Do something!” she whispered, trying to keep her sight on all of them at once.
Basileus clapped his hands once. The Forgotten took a step forward, attracted by the sound.
“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.

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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2011, 03:58:49 pm »
Quote from: Caldfir on July 12, 2011, 01:17:26 am
Quote from: NewsMuffin on July 12, 2011, 12:21:49 am
DF taught me geology.
School could never do something so simple.
Now that you mention it; why isn't rudimentary geology taught in school?  This seems like a more productive way to spend one's youth than doing book reports.

I learned about rudimentary geology in the sixth grade. I had quite enough of the stuff for several years until I tried Dwarf Fortress.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2011, 04:10:05 pm »
That my purpose in life is to buy 20 acres of land and live off the grid in earth-sheltered homes with some of my friends, making our living off of cottage industries but being free from the morass of the corporate (goblin-run) world.

We have yet to do this, but it is the dream.
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