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CatButcher

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Demographic insight
« on: December 28, 2011, 07:02:20 am »

I was wondering to myself recently, what kind of demographic plays dwarf fortress? 
I can hazard a guess, and say white males inbetween the ages of 18 and 35, mostly nerdy college students. (like me)
 We should post, though, to see just what kind of sick, twisted people play this game:
please post your:
gender:
age:
race:
profession: i.e. college student, unemployed, small animal dissector. . .
social class:
perferred sock color:
favorite way to kill a goblin:

I will begin, *Ahem*
gender: male
age: 21
race: white
profession: college student
social class: upper middle class nerd
prefered sock color: grey
favorite goblin killing technique: weapon traps with spiked balls

Thank you for your input.
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2011, 09:12:12 am »

Well i can already say that it's a different demographic than most of the internet, what with DF being the kind of game it is. :P

Gender: Male
Age: 19
Race: Caucasian
Profession: Studying geology at university
Social class: Middle
Perferred sock color: Gray
Favorite way to kill a goblin: Angry axelord
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2011, 11:01:59 am »

gender: Male
age: 17
race: Caucasian
profession: Student (High school)
social class: Upper Middle
perferred sock color: Black
favorite way to kill a goblin: Tower of Doom
« Last Edit: April 13, 2012, 01:34:46 pm by Oliolli »
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2011, 11:02:50 am »

gender:Male
age:16
race:Asian
profession: High School
social class:Middle
perferred sock color:White
favorite way to kill a goblin:Whatever is available
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2011, 11:38:11 am »

gender: male
age: 23
race: caucasian
profession: networking student, 
social class: middle
perferred sock color: black & white
favorite way to kill EVERYTHING: drop from +20 z levels on glass upright spike  :D
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2011, 01:36:03 pm »

gender: male
age: 21
race: Caucasian
profession: CS student (game programmer)
social class: middle
favorite way to kill a goblin: whatever, so long as it's done in BULLET-TIME! :D
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2011, 01:39:34 pm »

Gender:Male
Age:15
Race: Orkoid(African American)
Profession: Student
Social Class: Middle
Prefered Sock Color: White and gray
Favorite way to kill dwarves: Rusty Axe to the chest.
« Last Edit: January 16, 2012, 09:08:28 pm by UltraValican »
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2011, 02:23:36 pm »

gender: male
age: 26
race: white
profession: professional hauler at a lumber yard, moonlighting as an RPG designer
social class: lower
perferred sock color: grey
favorite way to kill a goblin: cause a cave-in (with just-for-this-purpose "cave-in guns" consisting of a few floor tiles on a linked support) behind them such that the dust blasts them into my walls at high velocity, then they fall down the ditch into the pit of repeating spikes.
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2011, 02:32:56 pm »

gender:male
age:18
race:caucasian
profession: student
social class: middle
perferred sock color: black or grey
favorite way to kill a goblin: drop on spikes
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2011, 02:46:27 pm »

dang, we're skewing pretty hard to the young/student crowd so far; I'll be the first old-timer:

gender: male
age: 30
race: white
profession: network administrator
social class: middle
prefered sock color: green!
favorite goblin killing technique: hail of crossbow bolts!

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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2011, 02:54:22 pm »

gender: Female
age: 24
race: White
profession: Currently unemployed, applying to be an elementary teacher
social class: Middle, MFA gives that a slight social boost
perferred sock color: Whatever isn't white - dirty them up too quick
favorite way to kill a goblin: One dwarf killing machine is always fun.
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2011, 02:56:27 pm »

Gender: Male
Age: 16
Race: white
Profession: High school student, amateur expert linguist
Social class: Middle
Favorite way to kill a goblin: Cage traps
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2011, 04:29:32 pm »

gender: Male
age: 20
race: English
profession: student
social class: Middle
perferred sock color: Purple
favorite way to kill a goblin: firing squad
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2011, 04:47:15 pm »

Gender: Male
Age: 27
Race: Caucasian
Profession: Unemployed (re-education to programmer)
Social class: Middle
Preferred sock color: Gray/Black
Favorite way to kill a goblin: Blender
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Re: Demographic insight
« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2011, 04:48:39 pm »

gender: male
age: 30
race: white, I think
profession: IT administrator
social class: middle
prefered sock color: black
favorite goblin killing technique: dwarven bait
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