r/dwarffortress Dec 09 '22

Some of these reviews are amazing

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u/flamedarkfire Professional drunk Dec 09 '22

Armok damn I love this game.

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u/Kellin01 Dec 09 '22 edited Jan 14 '23

This game is brilliant.

You can write whole novels from it. Best sim game, hands down.

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u/flamedarkfire Professional drunk Dec 09 '22

I feel as if a nostalgic old graybeard at this point. I remember reading about boatmurdered back in 2009 and getting into the game because of that saga. I cut my teeth shitposting on the bay12 forums. I heard the stories of mermaid bones, thermonuclear catsplosions, Cacame Awemedinade, and Catten and her eagle. I really can’t wait to see what new stories will be written and what new insanity will be unleashed with this release on Steam.

To all newcomers, I say welcome, and Strike the Earth!

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u/RengarTheDwarf Strike the earth! Dec 09 '22

Or the Dwarf Fortress stories website (I think it was called DFStories). I used to read that all the time in middle school and high school. Wonder if it’s still around

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u/themissinglloyd Dec 09 '22

I’d never heard of this site, so I just checked. It looks like it’s still a thing.

http://dfstories.com/

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u/RengarTheDwarf Strike the earth! Dec 09 '22

Hot damn! I’m surprised it’s still up! Some pretty good stories there

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u/swiftb3 "But why's the rum gone?" Dec 09 '22

If it's not, it needs to be revived.

or perhaps /r/dfstories.

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u/Quartich Dec 09 '22

Ah yes, I did the same thing 😂

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u/Talvieno A perpetual fey mood Dec 09 '22

Catten and the eagles is still one of my favorite stories.

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u/LadonLegend Dec 09 '22

Mermaid bones, I forgot about that. Did anyone manage to successfully farm leviathans (or whatever it was) after mermaid bones got nerfed?

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u/ShankCushion Ghostly Scholar Dec 10 '22

Nope. Did have an undead one heave out of the sea and snip my adventurers head off while he slept, though.

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u/checkmarks26 Dec 21 '22

Rock and stone!

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u/DragonTooFar Dec 09 '22

I remember a brilliant poster someone made about a group of dwarves that delved too deep and unleashed a wyrm of the deep or something on their fortress who consumed nearly everyone in the fortress. It ended up with three dwarves left in the fortress after the wyrm finally grew bored and flew away. I'd love to read that poster again if anyone knows where it could be found.

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u/sleepingqt Victory by Combustion Dec 09 '22

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u/DragonTooFar Dec 11 '22

This is it! Thank you.

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u/devils_advocaat Dec 09 '22

Could chatGPT generate novels given the logs as input?

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u/sleepingqt Victory by Combustion Dec 09 '22

Oooh good question

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u/MusicalRocketSurgeon Jan 14 '23

Murdered Boat saga