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[Purdurabo]

"It's like reading a book if the book was written by a random assortment of authors, many of whom were drunk, also the book might be on fire sometimes."

So basically the bible?

[Droggarth]

Imagine one building built by 20 architects. They weren't working together and each had a different design. That's how a succession fortress is.

"It's like reading a book if the book was written by a random assortment of authors, many of whom were drunk, also the book might be on fire sometimes."

So basically the bible?

To me it seems more like an abstract ever-changing labyrinth designed by the minds of madmen each driven to madness differently by Cthulhu himself but in such an abstract and ironic way that once Cthulhu decided to enter this labyrinth of madness, he himself would be scarred for eternity for the horrors he just suffered with missing limbs and tentacles and saying to himself every time in his mind "I don't even wanna know what this creature called 'The Froggy Pink Squeezer of the Gods' even is anymore!".

[Taffer]

What an odd thread. The handful of people I've mentioned Dwarf Fortress to didn't care much. Let's not make Dwarf Fortress out to be some obscure, strange pastime that others somehow find weird and interesting. It's just a game.

[Untrustedlife]

What an odd thread. The handful of people I've mentioned Dwarf Fortress to didn't care much. Let's not make Dwarf Fortress out to be some obscure, strange pastime that others somehow find weird and interesting. It's just a game.

Then you didn't mention it well enough. It simulates an entire fantasy world and everyone important in it as you play.Its like teh fantasy matrix..especially in adventure mode.
tell them that.

[Droggarth]

What an odd thread. The handful of people I've mentioned Dwarf Fortress to didn't care much. Let's not make Dwarf Fortress out to be some obscure, strange pastime that others somehow find weird and interesting. It's just a game.

Aye, a !FUN! in-depth immersive game of many worlds and many failures (and victories in my case) and most importantly: many stories. Hench why I see it as an abstract construct of how a game should be as nothing has ever come close to what I have sought in a fantasy RPG game.

[Pvt. Pirate]

my brother said "it lacks all and any kind of program-to-user-connection".
and i was playing with spacefox and mousecontrol.

most friends get instant eyecancer when i send them screenshots or links to videos.

[Untrustedlife]

my brother said "it lacks all and any kind of program-to-user-connection".
and i was playing with spacefox and mousecontrol.

most friends get instant eyecancer when i send them screenshots or links to videos.

convince them to love it.

[90908]

I have begun seeding DF among the population of my school. The reaction of some is "Why?" and the reaction of others is "Why is that crocodile being beaten by a mad child with a scepter?" of which both reactions usually lead to the same conclusion; "Why did I not know about this?"

[BigD145]

I have begun seeding DF among the population of my school. The reaction of some is "Why?" and the reaction of others is "Why is that crocodile being beaten by a mad child with a scepter?" of which both reactions usually lead to the same conclusion; "Why did I not know about this?"

Does you school have a dead drop?

[Insanegame27]

I showed this to a mate at school and he instantly fell in lov with it. He did get confused between a goblin and a goat at one point, fighting both outside a vault.

[Dirst]

I showed this to a mate at school and he instantly fell in lov with it. He did get confused between a goblin and a goat at one point, fighting both outside a vault.

Wait until his fort is visited by a drake

[Random_Dragon]

I'll admit, I was resistant at first to getting into it, when a friend regularly poked me to try it. But then again, that was a specific friend that does that a lot with games, so more often than not I finally get into a game long after he's done pestering me about it. :V

Generally every friend I know that's looked into the game but isn't a big fan has hit that same stumbling block of the controls being a clusterfuck, but most of them also aren't major roguelike fans. If you've played other roguelikes, it seems to be less of a clusterfuck to get used to.

Funny enough, lack of proper graphics has yet to be a stumbling block among the friends that have discussed it. It helps that DF's psuedo-ASCII tileset is relatively sensibly used compared to some roguelikes. Though it's likely just my having greater experience with the default graphics, but DF is just about the only game where I prefer the ASCII style to a tileset.

The fact that 90% of DF tilesets I've seen are a blurry mess in practice doesn't help with that. :V

[Niddhoger]

Back to what the OP is asking... DF does have a reputation on Reddit.  They have a subforum called "nocontext" that basically considers quoting from /rdwarffortress to be cheating. 

I mean, the general theme running through the community is best summed up by "comedic sociopathy."  We can talk about zombie cloning techniques, drowning, and spike traps in discussions about RAISING CHILDREN while being completely serious.  Wives being happy about killing their own husbands in "satisfying" sparring matches, mothers curing their depression by making a bin out of their OWN BABY, using babies as shields in combat, babies saving fortresses by strangling eldritch abominations... I mean, I could go on... JUST WITH BABIES. 

So aside from the "great sage of nerdcraft" reputation, there is also that dark image of a bloodthirsty barbarian playing God with human life... which... eh... we don't really do anything to damper. Its kinda like the Tyranny and social darwinism of Sims players... but with battleaxes and amputations... which are by no means mutually exclusive. 

[Urist McVoyager]

Reaction-wise from others, it's a mix. My bro dislikes the graphics and asked me if I was playing a retro game at first. When he heard what it was, his reaction was akin to the words "just why?" None of my in-person friends play it, mostly because they're either not gamers at all, not PC gamers, or just aren't into the genre. One friend used to play but doesn't anymore. He'll still happily sit there listening to me talk about it. And he's not shy about telling me how dark my play gets, if I go dark at all. Others who hear about it are either afraid of the difficulty they heard about, or they have no clue what I'm talking about.

Never any of this divine worship some others are talking about.

[Salmeuk]

What an odd thread. The handful of people I've mentioned Dwarf Fortress to didn't care much. Let's not make Dwarf Fortress out to be some obscure, strange pastime that others somehow find weird and interesting. It's just a game.

It also happens to be an exceedingly important game, on many levels! There's nothing else quite like it.

I once told a new acquaintance about how all I ever really played was Dwarf Fortress. He replied with: "oh, you're one of those people." The car was dark but his tone implied eye-rolling. I'm still not sure what he meant, and since he ended up trying to convince me of the relative merits of polygamy I'm not certain that I care to know.