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Title: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Slappy Moose on July 03, 2009, 03:51:22 pm
What silly alternative names have you or your friends come up with for "Dwarf Fortress?"

Mine:
Dwarfy Forts
Fwarf Dortress
Dwarftress

My Friends:
Dwarf Bortress
Dorf Bortress
The Bortress

Share yours  ;D
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Scarpa on July 03, 2009, 04:05:02 pm
"That Stupid Dwarf Game" is my wife's nickname for it. ;)

My friends and I just say "DF"
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: BigFatDwarf on July 03, 2009, 04:37:59 pm
I think i heard somewhere '' Jack Thompson's Random Violence Simulator ''
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Ralith on July 03, 2009, 04:48:18 pm
Solution To The Nonexistent Problem.

It's what's always found.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Greiger on July 03, 2009, 05:09:20 pm
"Oh don't start talking about that again" seems to be most of my friends nicknames for it.

One refers to it as "That Fortress with Dwarves in it."
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Moose Fisher on July 03, 2009, 05:26:35 pm
I've seen a lot of Dorf Fortress.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: TheDJ17 on July 03, 2009, 06:40:36 pm
Armok II
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Gunner-Chan on July 03, 2009, 06:55:50 pm
"Those god damn dwarves"
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Jeremy on July 03, 2009, 06:58:50 pm
My brother calls it "Dork Fortress".
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Duke 2.0 on July 03, 2009, 07:01:49 pm
My brother calls it "Dork Fortress".
More like "Dork Fagtress" amiright?

 But yes, just the basic "That dwarf game" which the unbelievers I'm friends and family with have at least a basic respect for, after telling them of the finished goal of it.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Karlito on July 03, 2009, 07:02:59 pm
friends?
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Empathaur on July 03, 2009, 09:00:24 pm
Drink and Dwarfin', is usually what I tell people I'm doing when I'm not in the mood to leave the house.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Eduren on July 03, 2009, 09:07:58 pm
My brother calls it "your block game". It goes well with "your space game" and "your cartoon game".
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: sonerohi on July 03, 2009, 09:49:16 pm
Heavy-drinkin 'tard midgets game is what my brothers call it. While disrespectful, it is correct.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: xaque on July 03, 2009, 09:53:19 pm
When talking on IM about it, I usually call it "dwarfortass" or "fdwarftress" or some other horrible conglomeration of those words. I don't know why, but IM makes me type stupid.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Slappy Moose on July 04, 2009, 02:12:49 am
I'd love to see a new version of DF called Derp Derptress.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Duke 2.0 on July 04, 2009, 02:16:58 am
I'd love to see a new version of DF called Derp Derptress.
That would be a fortress entirely populated by the debug dwarves that grow different parts of their body wrongly. Like no beard, lopsided eyes, teeth growing through their jaws and such.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Craftling on July 04, 2009, 04:19:33 am
The most commons nicknames ive heard are "DF" and "Wtf is that?"
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Tormy on July 04, 2009, 07:25:28 am
The most commons nicknames ive heard are "DF" and "Wtf is that?"

Lol @ "wtf is that?".  ;D Yeah, ASCII confuses many mortals.  :D
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Deimos56 on July 04, 2009, 02:10:14 pm
"That one game I don't understand how you can play."
 ::)
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Jay on July 04, 2009, 03:31:36 pm
"A game that's too deep for you" is usually how I describe it.
Then there's others I know that play..
"Dwarf Fortress" then.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Dae on July 04, 2009, 05:08:51 pm
THAT or The Matrix.
Usually, I hear "What is THAT ?" and "Are you looking at The Matrix ?"

For me it's just DF.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: mickel on July 04, 2009, 05:31:38 pm
To my friends and me it's Dwarf Fortress or DF, and also SimDwarf.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Broose on July 04, 2009, 06:21:44 pm
My brother calls it "Dork Fortress".
More like "Dork Fagtress" amiright?

Heh.. one of my friends says that.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: SolarShado on July 05, 2009, 11:58:24 am
When typing, it's almost always "DF". Most everyone calls it "that game" or "your dot game".
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Techhead on July 05, 2009, 12:28:19 pm
I usually say Dee-Eff or Dwarf Fortress.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: BigFatDwarf on July 05, 2009, 09:15:36 pm
I usually say Dee-Eff or Dwarf Fortress.

Dee-Eff ... The Elf?
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: xtank5 on July 08, 2009, 04:13:36 pm
I think he spells it the way it sounds.  I sometimes call it that as well.  My friends all call it "That game he plays with shitty graphics.  Seriously it's just dots, squares, and triangles."  My friends will never understand.  They never play games on the PC.  They will never know the wonders of DF.  :(
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: lucusLoC on July 08, 2009, 06:43:19 pm
My girlfreind sometimes tells me to "go play with your dwarvs." It has on occasion gotten us some weird looks...
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Puck on July 08, 2009, 06:51:30 pm
I call it "the best game ever made", usually, I kid you not.

That's kind of odd, tho, since I rarely play. Because DF is the heroin of videogames.

And it's weird. I look at my watch. See I have only... say ... 8 hours left, if I push it, for an orgiastic gaming session, and say to myself "nah, that's not enough for a proper DF session"... However, whenever I have about 12 hours free time with nothing to do (yes that still happens \o/) I drown some bearded smallfolk.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: BigFatDwarf on July 09, 2009, 03:28:49 pm
I think he spells it the way it sounds.

Yeah I know. I was just fooling a bit, again on the over-used, not-even-funny-anymore Elf joke.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Sowelu on July 09, 2009, 03:33:35 pm
My girlfreind sometimes tells me to "go play with your dwarvs." It has on occasion gotten us some weird looks...

I think I've gotten that exact same phrase out of my ex when we were still together.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: jaked122 on July 14, 2009, 08:57:45 am
Dwarf Fortress :O
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Fault on July 24, 2009, 01:10:45 pm
My friends rarely use the name, but they do call it

"The game with No graphics" or sometimes "the One dimensional game"
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Javewa on July 24, 2009, 01:43:17 pm
GF used to call it "The Matrix" but by now I've explained to her how my Dwarves would kick her Sims' ass. The future possibility to strangle someone with their own gut impressed - in the level of it's innate sick-ness - her as much as it impressed me (Seriously, that has to be the sickest idea I've ever heard, but the ingenuity and possibility of it are strangely interesting). Now she at least calls it "Dwarf Matrix".
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Dae on July 24, 2009, 04:57:41 pm
Seriously, the future possibility to strangle someone with their own gut has to be the sickest idea I've ever heard.

So, the possibility of scorching someone like a banana, cutting a little piece of their limbs every day and leaving them with nothing to eat but their own flesh hasn't ever crossed your mind ?
...
Well, I guess now it has.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Chalk on July 24, 2009, 10:31:43 pm
My boyfriend just calls it Dwarf Matrix. Or, "that dwarf builder program". I don't think he's realized what kind of game it is yet.

Once when I was visiting my parents, I left my laptop open with DF running while I made food. My mom came by just as a Vile Force of Darkness entered my fair land, and got to watch goblins be tossed about willy-nilly by my dwarves.

The violence shocked her into silence, particularly after we looked at what body parts were lying around. Now she refers to it as "that dwarf war game with all the chunks".
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rilder on July 24, 2009, 10:46:35 pm
I usually just call it DF, or "Playing dorfs"
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: The Orange Mage on July 24, 2009, 11:51:47 pm
My girlfriend calls it "Gnome Digger."

Which admittedly would make a pretty cool mod, where you have Gnomes whose tools can't dig through rock and other Gnomish nonsense.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Muz on July 25, 2009, 12:58:57 am
One of my friends came to my room, looked at me playing DF, and says "WTF is that? All I see is smiley faces on dots. Are you playing Pacman?" My roomate LOL'd at it and he's been referring to DF as "that Pacman-like game" ever since.


EDIT: Haha, I looked back at the thread and found it funny that I'm not the only one who gets "WTF is that?"
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: zarmazarma on July 25, 2009, 04:35:05 am
I've said dwafuguh before. Why? DFG18.

My friends in vent call it 'Zarma's Carp Dwarf Porn' why? ... Not sure.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Lamp on July 25, 2009, 09:21:41 am
Simply "DF"
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: PTTG?? on July 25, 2009, 10:41:14 am
I know a guy who likes to call it "Hobbit Hill", but only when he know's he's out of reach at the moment.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: zarmazarma on July 25, 2009, 03:45:45 pm
Hobit Hell sounds good to me.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Leafsnail on July 25, 2009, 05:08:12 pm
"the One dimensional game"
Wow, a one dimensional game would be awesome.  It would be, like, a line of pixels.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: SolarShado on July 25, 2009, 09:10:57 pm
"the One dimensional game"
Wow, a one dimensional game would be awesome.  It would be, like, a line of pixels.

Hmm... Thanks, now I wanna play that... If I weren't already working on a project, I'd try my hand at making it...
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: ein on July 25, 2009, 11:49:42 pm
I call it Dwarfort or DF (often slurred to sound like "deaf").
The first time my friends saw it, they all said "Wtf is that?"
Now my friends call it Dwarf Fortress.
My aunt calls it "Dwarf City or whatever it's called."
My grandma called it "that dwarf game" when she said I could install it on her computer if I wanted to play. I promptly explained that it barely runs on my computer and thus, would do absolutely nothing on hers.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rashilul on July 26, 2009, 12:48:25 am
I call it Dwarfort or DF (often slurred to sound like "deaf").
The first time my friends saw it, they all said "Wtf is that?"
Now my friends call it Dwarf Fortress.
My aunt calls it "Dwarf City or whatever it's called."
My grandma called it "that dwarf game" when she said I could install it on her computer if I wanted to play. I promptly explained that it barely runs on my computer and thus, would do absolutely nothing on hers.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Don't worry sonny, I'm sure it'll work just fine. Just give that wheel a few turns to turn it on."
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: ein on July 26, 2009, 01:03:23 am
Lolz, thankfully she's running XP.
On a laptop.
But with a crappy single-core processor, 512 megs of ram, and a 32 gig HD with only 4 left.
I exported a couple of maps and ended up with a 5 gig DF folder.
Damn bitmaps.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Zironic on July 26, 2009, 01:19:15 am
Me and my friends don't refer to it by name instead they refer to it by inside jokes.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: zarmazarma on July 26, 2009, 01:45:12 am
"the One dimensional game"
Wow, a one dimensional game would be awesome.  It would be, like, a line of pixels.

It's be invisible actually... Well... Yea. Invisible. It's be a 'point' so to speak, but only in the fact that it would hold a point in the universe, but there would be no way to see it visibly.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: zarmazarma on July 26, 2009, 01:47:24 am
I call it Dwarfort or DF (often slurred to sound like "deaf").
The first time my friends saw it, they all said "Wtf is that?"
Now my friends call it Dwarf Fortress.
My aunt calls it "Dwarf City or whatever it's called."
My grandma called it "that dwarf game" when she said I could install it on her computer if I wanted to play. I promptly explained that it barely runs on my computer and thus, would do absolutely nothing on hers.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Don't worry sonny, I'm sure it'll work just fine. Just give that wheel a few turns to turn it on."

Working that thing would make me feel like a god of thunder O__o
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: ein on July 26, 2009, 01:48:01 am
No, one point is zero dimensions.
One dimension is a line.
Two is a square.
Three is a cube.
Four is a hypercube.
Etc.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rashilul on July 26, 2009, 01:50:08 am
Note that it's only a model of what a computer could look like in 2004. You can't actually use it.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: zarmazarma on July 26, 2009, 02:42:43 am
No, one point is zero dimensions.
One dimension is a line.
Two is a square.
Three is a cube.
Four is a hypercube.
Etc.

Alright, first dimension is a line, but it's still in no way visible.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Jimmy on July 26, 2009, 02:59:12 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension)
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: zarmazarma on July 26, 2009, 03:24:03 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension)

Yes, I've read it before. Do I need to sit down and explain to you why it wouldn't be visible?
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: ein on July 26, 2009, 04:07:49 am
It should be obvious to most people that it's not visible.
Unfortunately, humans can only see in 2 or 3 dimensions, so to represent 1, we must draw a 2 dimensional figure.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: SolarShado on July 26, 2009, 04:23:43 am
"the One dimensional game"
Wow, a one dimensional game would be awesome.  It would be, like, a line of pixels.

It's be invisible actually... Well... Yea. Invisible. It's be a 'point' so to speak, but only in the fact that it would hold a point in the universe, but there would be no way to see it visibly.

Actually (assuming we're just talking about nomal geometry and not Einsteinian space-time), a one-dimensional object would not be a point, but a long line. It would be invisible though.

EDIT: O_O ninja'd... several times over
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Maggarg - Eater of chicke on July 26, 2009, 04:26:48 am
We call it Worf Dortress or The game of which we do not speak.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: ein on July 26, 2009, 05:05:55 am
"the One dimensional game"
Wow, a one dimensional game would be awesome.  It would be, like, a line of pixels.

It's be invisible actually... Well... Yea. Invisible. It's be a 'point' so to speak, but only in the fact that it would hold a point in the universe, but there would be no way to see it visibly.

Actually (assuming we're just talking about nomal geometry and not Einsteinian space-time), a one-dimensional object would not be a point, but a long line. It would be invisible though.

EDIT: O_O ninja'd... several times over

Lolz, epic fail.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rhenaya on July 26, 2009, 05:59:43 am
Zwergenfestung  ::)
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Dae on July 26, 2009, 07:37:49 am
Hmm... Thanks, now I wanna play that... If I weren't already working on a project, I'd try my hand at making it...

Here is an example of what a one-dimensionnal game can be. (http://www.kongregate.com/games/EvilDog/z-rox)
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rashilul on July 26, 2009, 05:05:31 pm
If it was truly one- dimensional that line wouldn't have any width
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: GlyphGryph on July 26, 2009, 07:43:57 pm
You can have a one dimensional game with a 2 dimensional interface. Sort of like how the original doom was a 2-dimensional game with a 3-dimensional interface and DF is a 3-dimensional game with a 2-dimensional interface.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: ein on July 26, 2009, 08:05:33 pm
I've played 4d tic-tac-toe on a sheet of paper.
You needed to get 4 in a row though.
Makes the game easier to win (or lose).
Unfortunately, I'm the only one of my friends who can really comprehend how it works.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rowanas on July 26, 2009, 08:11:26 pm
Isometric grid paper, anyone?
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: ein on July 26, 2009, 08:12:49 pm
Nope, regular notebook paper.
Find the book Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions by Martin Gardner.
It has an entire chapter devoted to tic-tac-toe.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rowanas on July 26, 2009, 08:31:41 pm
that sounds like the least likely book for me to ever pick up. I'm not mathematically inclined.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: zarmazarma on July 26, 2009, 08:34:20 pm
Shush, to stop the talk about one dimensional stuff, I have taken the time to illustrate a one dimensional line.

Here it is:









:)
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rowanas on July 26, 2009, 08:40:05 pm
Weird. When I look at it I can see Euclid spinning in his grave.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Rhenaya on July 27, 2009, 06:02:49 am
i would ask you to make a new thread for one dimensonal discussions, and let this one for df nicknames :p
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Dwezeldorf on July 28, 2009, 10:57:14 am
I call it DORFAN GAEMS. Yes, I can talk in all caps. No, it's not yelling. Imagine a Billy Mays-type voice projection. Well, I'm gonna go name my Legendary Appraiser/Record Keeper/etc. dorf Billy Mays.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Itnetlolor on July 28, 2009, 10:29:04 pm
My nicknames for playing (so far):
Dorfin' it Up
Project Antfarm
Evil Genius Simulator
Carp Attack
The FUNhouse


But of course, the most common nickname given by anyone in my house (apparently not fans, even with my megaproject):
NOT AGAIN!
THAT DWARF GAME!
ENOUGH!

Meh, I tried to get them interested. Oh well. I'm instead told how to make use of it for my life (engineering and designing and such), oh those silly U's ::).
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Lord Shonus on August 01, 2009, 03:33:46 am
that sounds like the least likely book for me to ever pick up. I'm not mathematically inclined.

How about a 700 page tome entitled "The complete history of PI"? A guy I went to high school with was reading that for about a week. And they called ME a nerd.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Techhead on August 01, 2009, 08:23:52 am
that sounds like the least likely book for me to ever pick up. I'm not mathematically inclined.

How about a 700 page tome entitled "The complete history of PI"? A guy I went to high school with was reading that for about a week. And they called ME a nerd.
...
I think I own that book.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: Ampersand on August 02, 2009, 02:09:39 am
From my brother; 'That stupid game.'

He likes graphics. I tell him he's stupid.
Title: Re: Dwarf Fortress nicknames
Post by: ein on August 02, 2009, 02:13:50 am
From my brother; 'That stupid game.'

He likes graphics. I tell him he's stupid.

As in "ooh, shiny!" or "this game has good plot 'n' stuff, but sucks because there's no graphics?"

If the former, tell 'im I says 'e's stupid.
If the latter, ne'ermind.

(Meanwhile, I'm gonna type out my accent as best I can.)