Who is Sirocco? And why are his views on parasols so flawed?
I am curious.
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Ari Rahikkala
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Essentially: There's this Let's Playof Dwarf Fortress with a somewhat roleplaying-ish bent (since people have pretty much exhausted most of the wackiest stuff the game can do in earlier LPs) going on. One of the overseers, Sirocco, had the game crash fairly late on his turn (and he'd neglected to take backup saves) after he'd already posted several updates. Since he's one of the better writers involved (this post is not his best work, btw), people encouraged him to start his turn over. He did, and retconned the previous updates as part of a conspiracy to periodically time-loop the fortress in order to test out supersoldiers that would be used to take over the world in order to boost the business of Parasol Corporation... it's uh, a bit referential.
Essentially: There's this Let's Playof Dwarf Fortress with a somewhat roleplaying-ish bent (since people have pretty much exhausted most of the wackiest stuff the game can do in earlier LPs) going on. One of the overseers, Sirocco, had the game crash fairly late on his turn (and he'd neglected to take backup saves) after he'd already posted several updates. Since he's one of the better writers involved (this post is not his best work, btw), people encouraged him to start his turn over. He did, and retconned the previous updates as part of a conspiracy to periodically time-loop the fortress in order to test out supersoldiers that would be used to take over the world in order to boost the business of Parasol Corporation... it's uh, a bit referential.
No-one should be without a parasol, Sirocco.
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Dwarf Fortress sounds like a fun game. I used to love playing Dungeon Keeper and Sim City.
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Ari Rahikkala
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To like Dwarf Fortress requires a certain sort of creativity, boredom, misdirected aspiration, and willingness to learn an interface that doesn't really make a lot of sense a lot of the time. It's ludicrously detailed and very much in development... I think this item from the list of changes to be found in the new version (now more than a year in development and expected to be released... well, who knows, but I'm gonna say within months) pretty much sums it up, both for the new and the current version:
Yeah. Basically imagine a citybuilder with that level of detail, and with that amount of bugs in the detail. That's pretty much Dwarf Fortress."Eyelids clean the eyes so you don't have to soap them off, but if an eyelid is torn off, I think they might soap the eyes"
No-one should be without a parasol, Sirocco.
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Dwarf Fortress is an awesome game if you have the right mindset for it. If you get bored with it really early, play more, you'll eventually figure out why it's fun.
Libido-powered perversion, coming to your home at the speed of light.
The longer that the journey takes, the further down the road
"Well, as the saying goes with D&D, give players a fish, and they'll use it to club someone down. Teach a player to fish, and you'll have them showing up next session with a copy of The Complete Fisherman, trying to dual-wield vorpal fishing poles."
The longer that the journey takes, the further down the road
"Well, as the saying goes with D&D, give players a fish, and they'll use it to club someone down. Teach a player to fish, and you'll have them showing up next session with a copy of The Complete Fisherman, trying to dual-wield vorpal fishing poles."
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Play more 
Libido-powered perversion, coming to your home at the speed of light.
The longer that the journey takes, the further down the road
"Well, as the saying goes with D&D, give players a fish, and they'll use it to club someone down. Teach a player to fish, and you'll have them showing up next session with a copy of The Complete Fisherman, trying to dual-wield vorpal fishing poles."
The longer that the journey takes, the further down the road
"Well, as the saying goes with D&D, give players a fish, and they'll use it to club someone down. Teach a player to fish, and you'll have them showing up next session with a copy of The Complete Fisherman, trying to dual-wield vorpal fishing poles."
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