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zemagris

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What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« on: April 08, 2012, 10:02:15 pm »
I was playing around in fortress mode today, when a thought struck me. I went and checked on Wikipedia, and it turns out that playing DF taught me things like Sphalerite is an ore of zinc, and Tetrahedrite is an ore of copper, though it may contain up to 20% silver. I thought it was really cool I could actually remember those things, so I wanted to ask. What has playing Dwarf Fortress taught you?
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2012, 10:15:09 pm »
Dwarf Fortress replaced my Geological, Physiological, Social, and Psychological teachers.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2012, 12:28:09 am »
A whole lot of geology, that's for sure.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2012, 12:53:07 am »
That babies and the ill are worthless to society and do not contribute to anything, so they must be thrown into a pit of magma before they can make friends.
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I was thinking more along the lines of this legendary champion, all clad in dented and dinged up steel plate, his blood-drenched axe slung over his back, a notch in the handle for every enemy that saw the swing of that blade as the last sight they ever saw, a battered shield strapped over his arm... and a fluffy, pink stuffed hippo hidden discretely in his breastplate.

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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2012, 01:47:54 am »
You can loose weight fast by dipping your limbs into extreamly hot liquids.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2012, 02:00:13 am »
The secrets of life and death.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2012, 02:48:30 am »
Not sure about DF in itself (has mainly corrupted my ethics), but Bay12 has taught me a lot of tolerance, believe it or not.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2012, 04:04:12 am »
How to lose gracefully
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2012, 04:55:44 am »
Quote from: Oliolli on April 09, 2012, 02:48:30 am
Not sure about DF in itself (has mainly corrupted my ethics), but Bay12 has taught me a lot of tolerance, believe it or not.
This basically.

And that Elves are gay.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2012, 05:09:49 am »
I learned a lot about making mirror glass when I made a mod for it. My dwarves did a lot of mercury smelting that day.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2012, 06:01:30 am »
It made me more patient
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Dwarf fortress ethics.
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Of course there's an ethical way to train doctors! Toss children off short cliffs. Since they're not useful adults, injuring them isn't a waste of valuable labor, and since they're not nobles, it's ethical to use short cliffs instead of tall ones!

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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2012, 10:06:34 am »
Its perfectly acceptable to surf over a bed of spikes on the back of your baby, but only if its into the surging masses of a goblin siege party.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2012, 10:13:23 am »
it made me doesn't really care about anything anymore.
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While adding magma to anything will make it dwarfy, adding the word "magma" to your post does not necessarily make it funny.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2012, 10:19:56 am »
It has taught me a million different kinds of animals, and that sponges should be feared...

Washing dishes is much harder now.
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Re: What has Dwarf Fortress taught you?
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2012, 11:09:55 am »
My GF got an interview at a super prestigious place, and the guy hiring her sent her a weird questionnaire with a ton of different types of questions (including pop culture, science, history, and non-pop culture) and thought experiments, to be filled out without the aid of the internet.

One of the questions, which she later told me she had no idea how to answer, was:
"Explain what 1 of the following is: Lucius Cinna*, [some other word with "cinna" in it], and cinnabar."

Anyway, I was pretty psyched that I knew what cinnabar was. And it's all due to DF.

*turns out he's a character in a Shakespeare play.
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