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Author Topic: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress  (Read 9842 times)

muldrake

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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #45 on: November 29, 2020, 12:02:22 am »

Any muscle's got to be connected to something. And you have a lot of face muscles.
It says "a tendon IN the skull."  Maybe dwarves don't have brains.  Their skulls are just full of tendons.
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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #46 on: November 29, 2020, 02:52:24 am »

It says "a tendon IN the skull."  Maybe dwarves don't have brains.  Their skulls are just full of tendons.

There are combat reports about "pushing the skull through the brain".
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Reading his name would trigger it. Thinking of him would trigger it. No other circumstances would trigger it- it was strictly related to the concept of Bill Clinton entering the conscious mind.

THE xTROLL FUR SOCKx RUSE WAS A........... DISTACTION        the carp HAVE the wagon

A wizard has turned you into a wagon. This was inevitable (Y/y)?

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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #47 on: November 30, 2020, 03:29:20 am »

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ruining this thread with the cursed knowledge of the hardcoded materials FILTH_B and FILTH_Y
There is also Unknown substance.
When you see it you'll [REDACTED] [REDACTED].
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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #48 on: May 09, 2023, 01:22:31 pm »

toilet

absence of toilet

ruining this thread with the cursed knowledge of the hardcoded materials FILTH_B and FILTH_Y
There is also Unknown substance.
When you see it you'll [REDACTED] [REDACTED].
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but it was well-known in v0.28.181.40d for appearing in glowing pits occupied by tentacle demons, along with both types of filth
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My second turn's unnoficial goal was to turn everyone into vampires, and it backfired so bad, I ended up making the fort a more efficient, safer and friendlier place.
Apparently they evolved a taste for everything I love and care about

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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #49 on: May 11, 2023, 12:11:14 am »

Some necromancy there.

Are those three still in the hardcoded materials of 0.50 or were they removed?

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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #50 on: May 11, 2023, 11:25:49 am »

They are still there. I also see a CREATURE_1 ("unknown creature substance"), that is not listed on the wiki (but it was already there in 2011). I don't know if it is actually used in game.
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muldrake

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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #51 on: May 11, 2023, 11:46:16 am »

It has always kind of bugged me that insanity is completely incurable.  That hasn't stopped me from throwing insane dwarves into volcanoes, though, because you can often discover the cavern layers (or even adamantine) as they sink beneath the magma.
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« Reply #52 on: May 11, 2023, 01:17:58 pm »

[...]because you can often discover the cavern layers (or even adamantine) as they sink beneath the magma.
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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #53 on: May 30, 2023, 06:40:13 am »

I haven't read the whole thread, but there's a special mention to be reserved for Night Trolls very non romantic reproduction system.
And this is being /has been already removed, yes?

What else : un-trained vampires are terrified by the death they cause, making their (non-)life an undending nightmare.

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Re: Creepy or unsettling aspects of dwarf fortress
« Reply #54 on: June 16, 2023, 04:33:17 am »

It has always kind of bugged me that insanity is completely incurable.  That hasn't stopped me from throwing insane dwarves into volcanoes, though, because you can often discover the cavern layers (or even adamantine) as they sink beneath the magma.
It is with DFhack though? Or do we not speak of such heresy?
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