i laff everytime i read this

+GBoone "laff"

It menaces with spikes of guitar sound

@@VaalerianG dammit I was gonna do that.

i was like: yeah. heard that a lot about games. fuck, thats true this time.

Pieter Vogt I've had the game autosave for me many times before. And I really don't want to know what the autosave delay is.

My first night of DF ended in pretty much the same way xD

weird thing is, in you first night (and probably some time after) you dont have a clue whats even happening :D but you watch the symbols anyways. for me it was like that

this is why I dont play it often. sadly, there is too little time and too much DF

It wouldn't very hard for someone with musical knowledge to decipher it and put it into tablature.

@DUD31 why should he

@@jollygrapefruit786 you dont get it, this comment is written in the procedural style the game uses for item descriptons

​@@peachy7776 could you give me another example of that? I don't get it

a strange curse. but I approve.

Wow, huge thanks! I've been trying to play it barehanded and failed miserably

I listened to this and thought “Ah that’s not too complicated I should learn it”. Jesus Christ.

What a fucking comment. Tyty

upvote to save a guitarist's life

@@kerokero_furogu Sadly most tabs these days are a sick joke more than a useful reference in any way, although if you look at several different ones and use your ear it can help a lot.

David Olvera Like the music of Eric Zahn?

It is terrifying.

@@jasonfenton8250 i am content after listening to a live performance

@@jasonfenton8250 It was inevitable.

@@Robert-vk7je It's for the best.

Four warriors?

+AntsanParcher Mighty indeed D8

Great pfp I love that painting :D

***** i done that too

***** =)

It started driving my STARK RAVING MAD after awhile, and switched to loops of Battle for Middle Earth II Dwarven songs in a playlist for awhile and i switch between the two once i get sick of one or the other!

Anonymous I listen to "The Village" ost and the "Alien 3" ost when I'm playing.

I'm just laughing because I imagine this soothing calm tune still being played as you open up a hole into hell and your dwarves start getting slaughtered by demons.

Urist McDwarf cancels Drink: No arms.

Some don't. They go insane and have to be put down.

The economy system was a long time ago, though!

Im glad the economy isnt part of recent versions. Now its just a rather communist commune system :p

dwarf fortress is proof that comunism = good ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@@jackspedicy2711 Epic notion there, dear. I'd like to assert the importance on of this subject. At this array we could hypothetically prove the effectiveness of communist society.

nice man, wonder how you're doing now

@@cosbos7934 he died.

@@MrHomelessHobos rip o7

Guessing he doesn't use this account anymore huh

@@wryyman5552 RIP me

+ErrorIam It's interesting to hear you say that; I've long had an impression of this theme as encompassing the span of a civilization's history...a promising, hopeful introduction, resolving to uncertainty as the melody begins, thereon evoking a whole range of conditions: triumph and loss, peace and strife, jubilation and despair. Eventually it all comes full circle and the cycle repeats itself forever.

+StarmanSuper00 I agree.

Theres this eerie objective distance like in learning about typical human history, an understanding of patterns and cycles of history, no real agenda or sentiment, just "these things happened". And thats why I love this game, All of the sentimentality is what the player brings into the world. There are just these facts: Who fought with who, what minerals are around, what creatures exist together -- and its up to the player to feel how they will about it all. For instance, there is this great detail into the psychology of each dwarf and their piety, their loved ones etc. and what we ourselves superimpose is this idea that they are stupid/ get in the way/ just these silly dwarves and playthings. But we say that obviously because its a game, but also they get in our way, at the end of the day we are interacting with the system and wanting something out of them. Ultimately in our attempts to control the dwarves we are just re-actualizing history and understanding it better ourselves. We along with them are trying to tame the ecosystem they are thrust upon. And then when something we find noteworthy happens, we impose a character on those involved. Emergent storytelling!

This may be the greatest thing I've ever read in a comments section.

>everything that ever happens in the game: when you first strike the earth, deaths yeah, that sounds about right for most of my playthroughs tbh

Dwarf Fortress is "Fun".

Elliott Pascoe Berserk is the most fun kind of insanity. Especially a miner with a candy pick.

Nah, I just girder my loins and start mining. Strike the Earth.

"fun"

Clearly he had a strange mood.

Never thought of crowded school halls like my crowded halls of dwarves. Basically the same, messy floor with shit spilt everywhere, everyone smells bad with miasma down the halls and everyone is short. Huh.

@@umadbroimatroll7918 yeah but you cant get fucking maimed by hordes of monsters in school

@@mairidberz1450 well.... depends really xD

@@mairidberz1450 yes you can

@@umadbroimatroll7918 the orcs...

+Batman Drinks Pepsi I can run through it all in my head, but whenever I have a go at it on the piano or whatever, I quickly lose my orientation. There are a lot of dissonant chords and off-kilter progressions that make it hard to follow intuitively. That's an interesting story you cited. Social commentary aside, there's definitely a similar hypnotic, alluring quality about this tune.

Sounds like how people treat how Dwarf Fortress is meant to progress. I honestly don't understand how people find the game so hard to understand, once I got used to the general principles and stopped going blind staring at the ascii it seemed blindingly simple to me.

Dante Torn GnomoP People find it hard to understand in the same way that someone without experience flying a spacecraft would find the controls of a spaceship to be hard to understand: they are faced with an overwhelming set of controls and options and have only a vague idea at best of what any of them actually do. Once they are taught extensively how the mechanism works, it's easy for them to work with it. You asking why people get confused about the controls to the game when you're perfectly acclimated to it, as a result, doesn't really mean anything. You looked through the controls, figured out how it worked, and learned how to operate it perfectly. People who don't have that same experience you do will obviously struggle and complain when the help they ask for that experienced people give to them boils down to "I don't understand why you have trouble, it's obvious to *me*" and "you're a faggot."

+GnomoP That's a very harsh opinion you got there.

DF has a pretty much vertical learning curve, i agree. My friends gave up after only teaching them designations lol. Still, this amount of controls is NEEDED. The amount of stuff you can do in this game is astonishing, and even if a skilled player can quickly use the correct command to check what he wants to check, a newbie won't. Yet, once you master the commands, the game is all about careful planning and prevention. Also, the embark is pretty much the core decision of "difficulty". I often find myself starting in a very difficult place (Terrifying, Glacier...) or with a horrible embark team and resources (Minimalist start, only one dwarf working...) to get a greater challenge. Still, it took me several years to be able to do so. For new players, even making the fortress survive (booze, food) is kinda difficult. Avoiding tantrums is another problems, cause most new players either do not expect that, or underestimate the threat of a tantrum spiral. They say practice makes perfect, and it is true. After a lot of years of play i can safely say i can tackle almost everything in this game. Still, the game WILL find a way to f*ck you up, trust me. No fortress will last forever (Steel webspinning FB with poisonous breath i'm looking at you), and will eventually fall. The game gets easier the more you play it, as normal. Just look at games like Dark Souls, for example. The first time you play you die over and over, and the 50th run you quickly demolish most bosses without even taking a hit. The challenge in this game, after you have mastered the controls, comes from the player himself. Having to manage so many things quickly becomes habit, and if no problems appear, easy. That is why expert players usually try to have more "Fun". So, the main difficulty is the extremely step learning curve and insanely high complexity. Once you learn those two, it's up to the player to decide what challenge he wants. Even as an expert player, i've found myself starting in a pacific area with plenty of resources only because i wanted a calm fortress. So it is up to us to decide the difficulty, and there are no scripted ones like "hard" or "easy". That's what i really love about Dwarf Fortress.

+Paul Chan Average day in Dwarf Fortress.

don't forget the burning dung elephant that vomits blood in the basement

Well skulking vermin is pretty easy to deal with :P

i love how your very first task your ruler gives you is always shit like killing a bronze colossus or a huge gang of high-skill bandits so you just ignore them go out into the woods and beat up wild boar and lost kobolds

Tell me about the armies on the march

The static maaaan, such a vibe 😭

+Happy Mask Salesman What are you talking about? Majora's mask isn't that funny? Specially when the damn moon fall on the Earth. That surely is a LOT of fun.

woosh

loosing is fun

Had a Scorpion composed of vomit. Fun was had

RoachdoggJR plays DF???

Hey that's a pretty nice comment, cheers

Armok has given you some !FUN!

You're just moody. Make sure you have all your mats accessible.

You might be on the brink of a tantrum. Let's hope you won't need bones..

Try going near a waterfall That mist is heavenly

Any improvements 6 years later?

The chord progressions in both compositions are incredibly similar. I agree with you.

@@deweyspaulding7364 Actually, the chord progressions are not similar at all (if I'm wrong, provide timestamp for this vid and also for tristram). However, the patterns and textures, and a bit of the melody sometimes, definitely seem a bit tristram-inspired.

i don't know all my classical guitar history, but the 19th century russian etudes in this video really feel like the ancestors to this type of music: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrqUg8yr352omZc.html

@@MaxLohMusic Tristram inspired? Bah, Bach was doing music like this ages ago! Nothing in art history is ever truly an original, check out BWV999, it's incredibly similar.

a kobold has appeared The slim kobold as stolen the "youtube comment"

It used hell a lot of candy threads!!!😭

narnbrez is pleased after viewing a tastefully arranged KZfaq comment

Huh, I’m not even a dwarf & yet I feel personally called out

+Grant Dosland good on you, its amazing . well worth the learning curve. and remember ,losing is fun

+Grant Dosland It was inevitable.

+Grant Dosland d,b,d d,b,f & d,b,F. You will thank me later.

And, how did it go?

Grant Dosland cancels Learn Dwarf Fortress: Went Insane. Grant Dosland has gone Berserk! Grant Dosland punches 123nick in the head, smashing the skull and tearing the brain! 123nick has been struck down!

There are lots of vg music that encapsulates their intended feelings perfectly though. Laura shigiharas pvz ost, earthbound, minecraft, kirby 64, P L E N T Y

The first sentence is not true imo.

Poggle566 Dwarf Fortress theme goes with everything?

Aidan McLaren Indeed.

Can confirm. Effectively the perfect rhythm to fap to.

10 year later, I agree!

TheDragonReborn93 heathen... playing without the soundtrack.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNphe9F8p5u7dZc.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrqUg8yr352omZc.html 4u

I'm only subbing becuase of your quote profile pic

So right!

+Charles Crumb *Menacing with Spikes*

Couldn’t agree more sir.

John Fahey is fucking incredible

+Inoka01 It helps that you can never quite remember how the song goes when you are done playing Dorf Fortress. No, really, try and remember how the song goes whenever you get done playing for the day.

So I just turn off seasonal soundsense music every 3 months and listen this music

@@krullachief669 I can only remember the part that slows down as it's when I notice the music. The rest is a jumble to me

This man studies ^

Do you ever come back to a video you watched a long time ago forgeting you ever even left a comment only to find your past self just chilling there?

@@travosk8668 yup

pain

And its the corner wall on staircase through aquifer...

Aidan McLaren you know... actually I have this saved along with the Tristram song.... You just blew my mind

wish they did tbh it was so good

@@bastiboyza they did! The new main theme is this, just with a couple more movements

@@missmoonmage8609 the new main theme is the old main theme with a couple more movements. this is the fortress mode theme which was not retained

Samantha Stever Doooo ittttt!!!!

I'm not even joking, I'm all over it. Gimme. [grabby hands]

Samantha Stever JUST DO IT don't let your dreams be dreams YESTERDAY you said TOMORROW, so just DO IT

+Samantha Stever JUST DO IT.. oh wait, someone did that already.... whatever! DO IT!!

jfc why am i still getting notifications about this

That's nice! ^^

How good are you now?

:) i too love classical guitar due to this track

@@Henryfordisright I just picked it back up! I never got super good (video on my channel if you're curious) but I've found a way to really enjoy lately which is great

Created by UristMcCrafter!

+Dario Martinez you are everywhere.

The Forgotten Beast Dinosaur Dreams has come! A gigantic theropod composed of dolomite. It has external ribs and it appears to be emaciated. Beware its deadly bite!

10 years

For example? lol curious

@@sizzle7578 Heroes of Newerth, ELEX, and to a lesser extent Outward (for the last one, only some of the expansion music was bad, so I wrote a fanmade alternative soundtrack and put it on Nexus Mods)

This part is in the new one at 4:17, but you're right it's not played as fast

+John D. Music to *have !!FUN!!* to. Fixed for you.

+Josh Sierakowski You typed the exact same thing he did.

dwarf mode is that the opposite of goblin mode?

@@jr.jackrabbit10 Whoops, I meant Fortress mode.