When I first necro'd this thread after Toady referenced it, I expected to get shouted down or complained at. While I'm absolutely certain that some folks had the urge to do so, it's flipping amazing that the only responses that directly reference my necroing of this thread are both polite and humorous.
I swear that this forum community is both funny and mature on levels that are simply "win". I haven't loaded up DF in six months, and I still come here several times a week just to see what you folks have to say. I don't come here to see if Toady has put out an update (I DO watch for that, but that's not why I have been visiting here recently. I WILL play the next release.)
I mean, look at all the violence in DF, and look at how we treat one another in these forums, with rare exceptions. This forum could be thrown straight into the faces of all those crackpot psychogabblers who try to say that exposure to violence in media unbalances people. (I'll give them some credit about it being inappropriate for young children.) There really are very few places on the internet where violence that is NOT real is discussed with as much depth as we go into here. I'd go off on a limb and say that there are no other places where plans for violence that is NOT real are discussed in such incredible detail. There are thousands of pages of descriptions of exactly how to make creatures fall into or get trapped inside various types of traps where they will then be killed in terrible ways.
Here we are, discussing all of these things in an polite and considerate manner, in a forum that might possibly be the largest collection of tips and tricks of how to kill things in a virtual world.
Thank you all for being so awesome. You'll probably even forgive me for not putting this in a new thread, which I *did* consider, briefly, but then realized that it does sort of fit here, because not only has the game grown, so has the community.
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