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Author Topic: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF  (Read 5671 times)

Loud Whispers

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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #30 on: February 03, 2012, 03:11:10 pm »

When you lock all the doors, broken windows become acceptable paths.

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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #31 on: February 03, 2012, 04:20:29 pm »

When in doubt... apply magma.
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #32 on: February 03, 2012, 05:20:25 pm »

When you lock all the doors, broken windows become acceptable paths.

Sadly, you need trolls to break them for you. And when they do, everyone will be cowering in the opposite corner anyways.
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #33 on: February 03, 2012, 05:56:15 pm »

People don't mind death, war, famine, and poverty, just as long as they have a really nice dining room to eat in.


 The sad thing is this is sort of true. :p
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #34 on: February 03, 2012, 07:01:48 pm »

When you lock all the doors, broken windows become acceptable paths.

Sadly, you need trolls to break them for you. And when they do, everyone will be cowering in the opposite corner anyways.

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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #35 on: February 03, 2012, 07:06:30 pm »

Yeah, and if they become pains in the asses, an "Unfortunate Accident" may occur
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #36 on: February 04, 2012, 07:26:29 pm »

Screw economic agreements! Any real politician would just deconstruct the trading depot.
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #37 on: February 04, 2012, 10:48:43 pm »

Maybe our primary export should be magma...

We REALLY need an evil-smile smiley.
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #38 on: February 05, 2012, 02:01:52 am »

Maybe our primary export should be magma...

We REALLY need an evil-smile smiley.

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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #39 on: February 05, 2012, 06:22:48 am »

Improve world efficiency - Beerify the oceans.

Building (particularly bridges) would be much cheaper to make with only one single support. Preferably to one side. Because.

Concerned about the enviromental morale impact of rubbish dumping? Just compress the worlds trash into a 1x1x1 cube.
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #40 on: February 12, 2012, 10:25:11 pm »

That is something I wonder a lot... Why has humanity built up and not down?
HFS, duh!  :P

In order to get elected, offer free booze for everyone.
This. Also, in order to keep things running smoothly, keep your expendable minions valuable subjects boozed up at all times.
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #41 on: February 13, 2012, 11:01:02 am »


- Don't retreat, reload.  No matter how many must die!
- All tree-hugging hippies can go to hell.  Literally.  Using a drawbridge drop-trap.
- Drill for coal.  Use it all up.  Then burn all the trees to make more coal.  So you can make steel.  So you can make more weapons!
- Kill all the elitist nobles.
- Employ children to operate mechanical devices.  We don't need no education.

Wait... I just realized...  The Republicans already are using DF as their playbook!

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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #42 on: February 13, 2012, 05:02:38 pm »


- Don't retreat, reload.  No matter how many must die!
- All tree-hugging hippies can go to hell.  Literally.  Using a drawbridge drop-trap.
- Drill for coal.  Use it all up.  Then burn all the trees to make more coal.  So you can make steel.  So you can make more weapons!
- Kill all the elitist nobles.
- Employ children to operate mechanical devices.  We don't need no education.

Wait... I just realized...  The Republicans already are using DF as their playbook!

Easily one of the funnest little things I've read in awhile.
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Re: Lessons Politicians could Learn from DF
« Reply #43 on: February 13, 2012, 09:49:56 pm »

If the current Congress wishes that our civ had more resources, perhaps they should have had mineral scarcity set to "Everywhere" when they genned the world!

Does anyone realize how absurdly SLOW the world is? I swear, every time I wake up I am stunned for about 2 hours! I think the politicians should think about damming up all the rivers to stop waterfalls, destroy ALL the stray cats and dogs (yum dog tripe biscuits!), and set the population cap to somewhere far below wherever it is now (300+ million in under 250 years? what!?) to stop additional migrants from coming in order to maximize FPS. Also, temperature should be turned off. I think people will get used to fire and snow being room temperature eventually.
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