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Author Topic: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.  (Read 6796 times)

C4lv1n

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According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« on: August 11, 2010, 11:51:16 pm »

I am refering to the Google Trends page here:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Dwarf+Fortress&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

The Regions section looks like this:
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I just thought I'd share.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2010, 12:03:47 am »

It's all proportional.

Still, interesting.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2010, 12:08:40 am »

An interesting sidenote is that all of those top countries listed are also the homes of the cultures that gave us the Scandinavian/Norse mythological basis for the dwarves featured in Dwarf Fortress.  And, of course, all of the others like Australia, the US, New Zealand and Canada were all settled by people from those regions that brought that culture with them (not to mention Tolkien was from the UK).  A mystery in that case is why Germany isn't also featured on that list along with the cultures it influenced.

Whether that's just coincidence, I don't know, but it is interesting.

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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2010, 01:21:52 am »

Must be because we Finn's find the dorfs to be so similar to ourselves.
Often drinking, and often overcome with stupid suicidal behavior or violent and suicidal behavior.

Just like with that sauna thing that labelled us all as stupid barbarians who are stupid and barbarians.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2010, 04:06:33 am »

Must be because we Finn's find the dorfs to be so similar to ourselves.
Often drinking, and often overcome with stupid suicidal behavior or violent and suicidal behavior.

Just like with that sauna thing that labelled us all as stupid barbarians who are stupid and barbarians.

Even though I am a mutt like most others that live in the US, I especially cherish my Finnish ancestry (1/4th! woo!), and it is probably to blame for my deep love of Dwarf Fortress. The only other people I know brave/crazy enough to play DF have Finnish ancestry, too. Strange.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2010, 04:15:31 am »

Must be because we Finn's find the dorfs to be so similar to ourselves.
Often drinking, and often overcome with stupid suicidal behavior or violent and suicidal behavior.

Not to mention the Finnish, like the Dwarves, sometimes end up as total badasses.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2010, 04:27:40 am »

I agree that it definitely fits :)

Not being on that list already is a sign that I should try to introduce more fellow Germans to it - I'd like to keep us fond of drink, industry and overengineering.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2010, 05:11:20 am »

W00t!Australia likes DF!
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2010, 05:15:32 am »

And yet, I can't get any of my friends to actually try DF out.

Maybe we're just good at doing google searches.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2010, 05:37:13 am »

I am refering to the Google Trends page here:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Dwarf+Fortress&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

The Regions section looks like this:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I just thought I'd share.

Just a note: Finns are obsessed with computer games. :D Just take a look at the various FPS gaming communities [multiplayer], like CS or CS:S. The number of Finnish gamers is superdwarvenly huge.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2010, 05:38:31 am »

I have spoke to a few mixed german and polish crowds and I hardly ever get positive responses about dwarf fort.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2010, 07:22:44 am »

I have spoke to a few mixed german and polish crowds and I hardly ever get positive responses about dwarf fort.
Thats because they are heretics and need to be purged in the Dwarf Emperor's name.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2010, 07:28:37 am »

I have spoke to a few mixed german and polish crowds and I hardly ever get positive responses about dwarf fort.
Thats because they are heretics and need to be purged in the Dwarf Emperor's name.
Watch out or somebody will purge you.

@cyks: you spoke to the wrong crowd, apparently.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2010, 07:54:53 am »

I have spoke to a few mixed german and polish crowds and I hardly ever get positive responses about dwarf fort.
Thats because they are heretics and need to be purged in the Dwarf Emperor's name.
Watch out or somebody will purge you.

@cyks: you spoke to the wrong crowd, apparently.
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Re: According to this, Finland really likes Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2010, 08:21:05 am »

I have spoke to a few mixed german and polish crowds and I hardly ever get positive responses about dwarf fort.
Thats because they are heretics and need to be purged in the Dwarf Emperor's name.
Watch out or somebody will purge you.

@cyks: you spoke to the wrong crowd, apparently.
HERESY!

Be careful, you're mixing your excessively violent and suicidally bleak gaming settings.  In DF, it's 7 alcoholic squats against an unforgiving world, psychotic clowns and an uncaring and fickle player.  In 40K, it's uncounted billions with an unforgiving and uncaring god-emperor (well, mostly his priests and bureaucrats) against psychotic and fickle xenos, heretics and traitors.  Granted, the characters are doomed in both settings, but you need to keep the wild-eyed zealotry in the correct game...  ;)

edit: The elves in both settings deserve to die slow-ish.  Also note that the 40K universe couldn't handle the dwarfs, and they were expunged...
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