Bay 12 Games Forum

Dwarf Fortress => DF General Discussion => Topic started by: Buttery_Mess on January 20, 2011, 05:21:53 pm

Title: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Buttery_Mess on January 20, 2011, 05:21:53 pm
I know it's made me look more like a dwarf. I've managed to put on both flab and muscle, become at least 900% beardier, plus longer hair (and balding). I'm looking more rugged and generally haggard every day.

Has Dwarf Fortress made you change any other aspect of your life? I used to draw all sorts of things. Now I draw almost exclusively dwarfs. I'm starting to arrange things into neat squares. I've generally become more organised and interested in crafts. I'm looking forward to buying a house with a garden, so that I can build an underground bunker. I'm also eager to set up a workshop and build real swords and armour. I'm thinking about buying, or making, leather clothes, and growing my own food in my back garden.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Kavalion on January 20, 2011, 05:48:06 pm
It has motivated me to do more work on finishing the basement.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Vattic on January 20, 2011, 05:56:09 pm
I like to grow my beard to a respectable length before cutting it. I started playing DF at around the same time so I'm not certain they are related, it does, however, make me laugh, having a beard, as a DF player.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Darvi on January 20, 2011, 05:58:33 pm
Tall, thin, nothing resembling a beard... Eh, later maybe.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Maklak on January 20, 2011, 06:28:58 pm
I shave and bathe more rarely if that counts. I don't seem to vomit more often tough. I also drink mostly water, and avoid alcohol. I think, I don't have enourg nice socks.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: *Poster* on January 20, 2011, 07:01:37 pm
I am rather partial to wandering around wearing nothing except nine capes, but I'm not sure if this began before or after I discovered DF.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: dennislp3 on January 20, 2011, 10:19:24 pm
im going more bald....and im only 21 (about ¼ the way there)...and I really want to make a garden (shaped and tended like i do it in DF)...but that's for many reasons....but I live in an apartment...moving to another in a month...will most likely try and dedicate a room or part of one to an indoor garden because we are getting rid of a room mate.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Xenxe on January 20, 2011, 10:21:01 pm
I don't look good with a beard so I do shave but dwarf fortress has changed my opinion about fantasy worlds. I used to love elves.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on January 20, 2011, 10:22:05 pm
I began playing in early November of 2008.

I now have a beard and seem much better at improvising elaborate contraptions to deal with minor problems.

EDIT: I used to love elves as well. Now they're more fuel for the fire.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: inteuniso on January 20, 2011, 10:29:42 pm
I live in my basement, and with the recent inclusion of a minifridge and microwave, I can survive for quite a while in the event of a siege.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Jack A T on January 21, 2011, 02:17:54 am
Still tall, still skinny, but I have sideburns, a beard, and a mustache at the age of 15.  I think insanely early facial hair is pretty dwarven.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Gatleos on January 21, 2011, 02:36:17 am
Quote from: Jack A T on January 21, 2011, 02:17:54 am
Still tall, still skinny, but I have sideburns, a beard, and a mustache at the age of 15.  I think insanely early facial hair is pretty dwarven.
*High Fives*
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: The Merchant Of Menace on January 21, 2011, 02:50:06 am
Nope. Hasn't changed me a bit.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Cruxador on January 21, 2011, 03:05:51 am
I don't think so. I wear a beard more these days, but I don't think that's related to DF so much as to my beard tending to be fuller as I age a bit more, and thus looking better. In general, I'd say my perfection has remained unchanged.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Funk-Tech Operative #3 on January 21, 2011, 03:31:12 am
It immerses me and makes me forget to shave my neckbeard..
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: KaguroDraven on January 21, 2011, 03:53:02 am
Quote from: Xenxe on January 20, 2011, 10:21:01 pm
I don't look good with a beard so I do shave but dwarf fortress has changed my opinion about fantasy worlds. I used to love elves.
Really? I've always disliked elves, never been REALLY partial to dwarves before DF, but I've always disliked elves, too arrogant for my tastes, and their almost always goody goody.
Other than likeing dwarves more it hasn't changed me.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Max White on January 21, 2011, 04:00:40 am
Nope, at the age of 19 I have a slighty girly voice and I am incapable of growing a real beard. No more dwarfish then when I started, sorry.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Lovechild on January 21, 2011, 04:43:54 am
My parents gave me ten socks for Christmas, and I was genuinely happy to get them.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Thief^ on January 21, 2011, 06:53:15 am
Quote from: Max White on January 21, 2011, 04:00:40 am
Nope, at the age of 19 I have a slighty girly voice and I am incapable of growing a real beard. No more dwarfish then when I started, sorry.
I still have a high-pitched voice (for a bloke, anyway, and I'm 25). Still haven't tried growing a beard. Weight and height pretty much unchanged. Still don't like drinking.

Have got more interested in contraptions though.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: martinuzz on January 21, 2011, 11:16:10 am
I'm starting to look more and more like my avatar.
Flattening the top of my head is the most painful part, and will take a while, still.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: luciensanchez on January 21, 2011, 04:54:24 pm
Well, I need alcohol to get through the working day, but I suppose that's always been the case.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Akhier the Dragon hearted on January 21, 2011, 05:46:56 pm
I was more of a coming home type of thing. Like being raised by elves not knowing why everyone was so damn killable...   dislikeable then finaly meeting other dwarves and having it all click.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Zrk2 on January 21, 2011, 07:30:46 pm
Nah, I'm tall completely facial-hair-less and only sorta fat... I do get called an autistic neckbeard on occasion by my friend that has only heard of DF, though...
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: jmancube on January 22, 2011, 01:18:32 am
Tried growing a beard, but that kind of failed. I do have sideburns though... Dwarf Fortress has also had the side effect of making me say weird things that are only funny to people who know of dwarf fort. My ramblings of carp, socks, and those damn elves always seem funny to me and my friends, but to others I sound absolutely insane.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: NewsMuffin on January 22, 2011, 03:04:55 am
I'd like to think so. Not my physical appearance, but my emotional and psychological spiritual being-
God damn elves stealing my computer...
But no, I don't think I've changed physically because of Dwarf Fortress. However, it has made me want to grow a beard.
Also, I do feel more cynical and sinister, but that may just be me getting older. I think it's a bit of both.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Xenxe on January 22, 2011, 04:23:07 am
Quote from: KaguroDraven on January 21, 2011, 03:53:02 am
Quote from: Xenxe on January 20, 2011, 10:21:01 pm
I don't look good with a beard so I do shave but dwarf fortress has changed my opinion about fantasy worlds. I used to love elves.
Really? I've always disliked elves, never been REALLY partial to dwarves before DF, but I've always disliked elves, too arrogant for my tastes, and their almost always goody goody.
Other than likeing dwarves more it hasn't changed me.

yeah I used to choose elves for the race I played in every game but now it is always a dwarf. I also see elves as highly sneaky backstabbers.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: tomas1297 on January 22, 2011, 04:40:26 am
 I used to think dwarves are one of the lamest fantasy races ever. Now I think they're awesome and by far the MANLIEST race.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Zaerosz on January 22, 2011, 04:42:01 am
Quote from: jmancube on January 22, 2011, 01:18:32 am
Tried growing a beard, but that kind of failed. I do have sideburns though... Dwarf Fortress has also had the side effect of making me say weird things that are only funny to people who know of dwarf fort. My ramblings of carp, socks, and those damn elves always seem funny to me and my friends, but to others I sound absolutely insane.
I want to meet your friends.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Buttery_Mess on March 28, 2013, 12:05:40 am
I know it's an old topic, but my hair has grown since I first posted it. After having played Dwarf Fortress for several years... I now look like this.

(http://img.ie/3bltl.png)
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Necrisha on March 28, 2013, 02:20:19 am
It's gotten me thinking about growing out my hair again, and maybe making something like these:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
over at here: http://bionic-dingo.deviantart.com/art/Pole-axe-hairsticks-revisited-120628345 (http://bionic-dingo.deviantart.com/art/Pole-axe-hairsticks-revisited-120628345)

 8)
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Buttery_Mess on March 28, 2013, 08:31:11 am
Quote from: Necrisha on March 28, 2013, 02:20:19 am
It's gotten me thinking about growing out my hair again, and maybe making something like these:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
over at here: http://bionic-dingo.deviantart.com/art/Pole-axe-hairsticks-revisited-120628345 (http://bionic-dingo.deviantart.com/art/Pole-axe-hairsticks-revisited-120628345)

 8)

That is ridiculous. I thoroughly approve.

My beard is long enough to braid now, but I can never find anything to tie it up with. It's also not very comfortable.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Mr S on March 28, 2013, 09:17:20 am
Those pole axe hairsticks menace with spikes of Awesome!
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Raphite1 on March 28, 2013, 12:02:53 pm
I'm tall and thin, but have a beard now.

I'll also be carrying a plastic axe through a muddy obstacle course race next month.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: chevil on March 29, 2013, 02:23:33 am
I am still tall, bald and beardless but my eyes see the world in a completely different light.
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Loud Whispers on March 29, 2013, 08:07:02 am
Quote from: Buttery_Mess on March 28, 2013, 12:05:40 am
I know it's an old topic, but my hair has grown since I first posted it. After having played Dwarf Fortress for several years... I now look like this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
VIKING AS HARDRADA
Title: Re: Has Dwarf Fortress made you look more like a Dwarf?
Post by: Squill on March 29, 2013, 10:38:18 am
Not physically. However, I was playing Minecraft with my friend, and he aske me what the hell I was doing. I then realized that while building a stockpile, I dug out a huge 35x35x35 cube for storage on the third in game day. Does that count?