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MiniMacker

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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2011, 05:03:58 pm »
Quote from: lastofthelight 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.

A self-sustaining society!

  • Dig large underground areas.
  • Grow your own food and hydroponics.
  • Weave plants into linen and cotton.
  • Live a socialist society.
  • Adopt some cats.
  • Suffer the catsplosion.
  • Abandon fort.
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Quote from: ThatAussieGuy on February 18, 2012, 09:01:38 am
It isn't a new Dwarf Fortress version until we're made to fear some kind of regular creature.  Carp, Elephants, Unicorns, Badgers, and now Mosquitos.  I've got 5 dorfBucks on the next one being plagues of groundhogs.

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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2011, 08:52:04 pm »
I've learned more about geology and ("human") society than I likely ever will have from school. It's also taught me about different kinds of "meat," whether I wanted to know or not, and has prompted me to do a little research into brewing and the like.

I'm also very much desensitized, compared to before I started playing. It's hard to disgust me anymore.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2011, 12:49:22 am »
That I am a horrible, horrible perfectionist and will spend hours genning the perfect world to build my dream fort in, only to get frustrated half an hour in (usually when I futz up by not having the fort's central staircase in the exact middle of the map) and start all over again.

Also probably a little geology.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2011, 02:09:16 am »
Geology , helped me at chemestry in the earlier years of school.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #19 on: July 13, 2011, 10:47:08 am »
By playing Dwarf Fortress, I have learnt to not upset short people, lest they throw a tantrum and bite my limbs off.
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Quote from: Asteranx on May 26, 2011, 07:37:59 pm
Every few miles, [the dwarves] stop the cart.  One of the dwarfs (sic) gets off, digs a hole down below the dirt layers, licks the bedrock, and then they know exactly where they are.  It's called GPS: Geological Piquancy Sampling.

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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #20 on: July 13, 2011, 12:33:09 pm »
Nothing is hard. NOTHING. It simply requires a tad bit more effort than usual.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #21 on: July 13, 2011, 01:19:37 pm »
that magma and lava are the awnsers to EVERYTHING.
Not the most ethical awnser but at least it is an awnser.
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Re: What has dwarf fortress taught you?
« Reply #22 on: July 13, 2011, 05:10:10 pm »
That I can fill EVERY SINGLE problem with magma.
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