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[peskyninja]

Not sure about DF in itself (has mainly corrupted my ethics), but Bay12 has taught me a lot of tolerance, believe it or not.

Same here. One of the most useful things  I've learned from DF is that cats and dogs are an execellent emergency food supply.

[Jacob/Lee]

It taught me how to kill people I don't like and make it look like a very unfortunate accident.

It also made me not want to walk under drawbridges anymore.

[Loud Whispers]

Not sure about DF in itself (has mainly corrupted my ethics), but Bay12 has taught me a lot of tolerance, believe it or not.

Same here.One of the most usefull things  I've learned from DF that cats and dogs are an execellent emergency food supply.

I've never looked at animals the same way again.

Nom nom.

[Gatleos]

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.

Oh man, I forgot about that picture. Does anyone know where it is? I'd love to see it again.

[Elone]

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.

I always felt like this about the babies. But only DF rewards such an act and lets you get away with it!

[C0NNULL]

I've learned that saying, "Yes, but these are evil cats," to my cat as I slaughter cats works well. (Really, she doesn't mind, but used to before I came up with that phrase. Also, catnip.)

I've learned to assume that if my words do not work, magma will. (That'll persuade ya.)

More about geology - a given.

Probably more, *shrug*.

[Johuotar]

Frozen rivers can thaw in milliseconds.

[Gamerlord]

Sometimes you just gotta send out the axelords and fuck shit up the old fashioned way. For all the other times, theres magma.

[Findulidas]

I learned that while elves might sometimes be cool and full of magic knowledge. When you want real shit to get done you want one or more dwarves.

Steel and stone is stronger than trees and fluffy animals. And if that for the moment seems to be wrong, drown said thing in magma.

Zombies are assholes.

[blue sam3]

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.

Anyone else vaguely depressed that such a major historical figure has been demoted to "a character from a Shakespeare play"?

[Cobbler89]

Cinna was one of Julius Caesar's opposition in the senate and/or the conspiracy against his life, if I recall correct?

At least if you read the Shakespeare play you get the gist of who people were (when he's being more historical than mythological, anyway); it's when you haven't even read Shakespeare that you say "he's some character in a play" without knowing anything further. ;^)

(It's been a while since I read or attended a performance of Julius Caesar. Must remedy this, seeing as I have screennamed myself after the best character in the opening scene.)


On-topic, DF has brought home to me that life is just weird sometimes -- which I sorta knew already, but I think I accept the fact better now. The traps that don't work and end up flooding your own fortress with magma (when the doors are all open and there's no enemy to be swept out of the main hall as the trap was intended to do, for instance), the loyalty cascades, the prized treasures getting lost only to turn up at a kobold yard sale years later, the funky graphics, the fact that until a week or two from now you still have to haul items one by one, the stopping to get a drink only to realize you can't pick up a glass of water because you lost your arm in battle, the badgers, the fact that somebody interrupted by badgers can pick ten different tasks to try to fulfill (and consequently suspend the attempt to build an entire wall) because he thinks of something else to try to do every time he gets interrupted...

...and giant mosquitoes are nasty, but I knew that from real life before too.