It also helps you understand how corporations (and their founders) can become these soul-sucking monsters. You start small and personal, with humble and altruistic aspirations. You know every dwarf by name, and want nothing but the best for each of them. Then as your fortress grows and the scope slowly pulls further and further out, you lose sight of that. Despite Dwarf Fortress going out of its way to ensure every dwarf has fully functioning personality, history, and motivations, the sheer quantity of these unique individuals turns every one into just another cog in your machine. You stop appreciating their eccentricities and start despising them, because a dwarf who's expressing himself is a dwarf who isn't working at maximum efficiency. You stop caring about what each dwarf wants to do, and start assigning them based on what needs to get done. You stop viewing the environment they live in as a world and start seeing it as a list of resources to be exploited. You stop trying to make dwarves happy for their own sake, and start doing it for the sake of productivity, using cheap and often manipulative tactics to reach basic satisfaction quotas. Just like real life, Dwarf Fortress goes from a game about people to a game about numbers.

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@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworthdon’t forget any cogs that go against the machine get the hammer in the fortress square.

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@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth one of the best comment rants i've read in a while. but OP made a good point about avoiding uncontrolled immigration in, favour of maintaining a culturally homogenous population.

very weird timing, I'm doing okay, feeling good about getting back into content creation, much love dude

@@scudpunk Cool dude, I know motivation is hard but you got this. You were the GOAT of Rust back in the day along side Shacky and BCHILLZ, hope to see more of you around

Not a crime if no one's here to judge you

Thanks dude, it was super fun to make, glad you liked it

go play DF, now! (when you have some time to commit) there's "some" learning curve, but learning new things is so much FUN!

I hope that now that dwarf fortress is on steam & they have funding, things like darkness and weather will be added. The game was designed over 20 years by just two people, with the millions they made from steam sales recently I hope they hire a team, I hope they implement better AI and many other things. I believe in 10 years this game will still be around, or they will do a rebuild from the ground up the way rust did.

much love dude, so good to be back

More to come!

not dead yet!

Nope he just makes shitty AI videos now.

They needed those plump helmets so bad lol

Thanks dude, already working on the next one!

@@scudpunk can't fuckin wait G!

Much love dude, those socks are the best! I wore my pair until it was too riddled with holes to wear it anymore lol

Hey dude, I completely get what you're saying, it's really difficult to craft a story from dwarf fortress gameplay footage. In an interview one of the creators of DF explained that our brains are story building engines, and DF is a game designed to foster that creativity, stories unfold in game and we fill in the blanks with our imagination. I felt inspired so I threw this video together and in a way I don't even really know how I found that inspiration. I'm already struggling to build my next story. The advice I will give you is to just keep playing, Record what you find interesting and do your best to use your creativity to build a story using whatever events the game offers you while playing. Hope this helps, good luck! also dropped you a sub :)

@scudpunk thanks for the reply! And haha, this channel just has all my clips with my friends, but I appreciate the sub nonetheless 😂 I definitely have been taking notes, though I probably will try and start recording clips as well. I guess there's no other trick to it them getting the creative muscle flexing and writing til something good pops out 😅 I'm excited to see you make new stuff and to get inspired by your stories! Thanks again!

The humans and elves really were an issue for the wellbeing of my dwarves. Eventually I decided to get rid of them, that's really the only part of the video that was staged, everything else was organic and narration was added later

Put them in a military squad and directed them to where I wanted 😈

Thank you my friend

Can't wait for adventure mode, love this idea

The visitors became residents, so I put them in a militia squad and directed them to go where I wanted!

RIP the days when rust was actually fun

@@scudpunk fr dude 2015-2018 was prime in my opinion

Yes I think your right

this pretty much sums it up

Thanks dad

Yeah I figured someone would make this point. I made the decision to curse based on the fact that, I have 10 million views between youtube and twitch, and almost all of my content is incredibly inappropriate. So the curses are definitely a leftover biproduct of that success and directed at my old viewerbase. But you make an excellent point, if my goal is to find a new audience maybe the cursing should go. Thanks!

rejoicing about genocide is quite okay, but strong language, good lord, that's simply not acceptable.

@@__xxx_xxx__ fantasy and games does not and never translated to negative behavior in children (moral panics are a falacy). However, cursing used as normal communication is completely repeatable. Kids a sponges and parrots. They suck in everything a repeat what they hear. You know the families that curse in the house by just listening to the children talk. So yes, its a constant fight as a parent to not normalize that speech, else your child grows up to be a foul mouth little prick. You have 1 job as a parent, and that is to mold their children before they become adults. If you dont understand that, then you are still a child and definitely dont have kids.

Nah be real keep speaking like you want it’ll be your style

@@scudpunksorry for the necro, but gotta make a counterpoint. I found it very refreshing to watch a DF video with swearing and ‘edgy’ shit in it. Not everything has to be child friendly - especially a fucking video about a racial genocide in a dark fantasy world lmfao.

Thanks dad