[List] In-Jokes, Third-Party References, etc.

Discussion in 'Dungeons of Dredmor General' started by LonePaladin, Sep 22, 2011.

  1. Reminds me of a Lister quote. "Hol, all his mates were French."
     
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  2. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    The Magic Training capstone ability, "Master of Magic" was also the name of an old strategy game.
     
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  3. Kazeto

    Kazeto Member

    Nice one, Bohandas. Even Sir Nicholas liked your post for that, which is quite an achievement.
     
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  4. And an even older RPG back on the Commodore 64.
     
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  5. Haldurson

    Haldurson Member

    Master of Magic is one of my all-time favorite 4X strategy games -- you can still get it from GOG.COM. It's certainly a flawed game, but it has a lot of richness to it, with all of the spells and heroes and different kinds of units. It's one of those games that made a huge mark for itself in gaming history such that now, so many new fantasy 4X games try to compare themselves to it.

    I still play the game on and off -- it actually holds up pretty well. Don't get me wrong, it has bugs, and it can be severely unbalanced depending on your choices or just the luck of getting a bad (or good starting location. The AI is nothing special, and diplomacy is kind of rote. Yet even today, it's still a great game. How strange is that?
     
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  6. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    I think the lutefisk is another Dwarf Fortress reference. Toady One has mentioned lutefisk several times in his blog (on 12/24/2009, 12/22/2011, and 12/21/2013)
     
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  7. Daynab

    Daynab Community Moderator Staff Member

    I don't think it is, they definitely knew about it independently and have tried it I'm pretty sure. I have also never seen lutefisk in the game proper.
     
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  8. Gorbax

    Gorbax Member

    That's probably because lutefisk is an actual real life thing?
     
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  9. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    Yes, but not a real-life thing that is very popular or widespread, or that is at all likely to come up in the average person's conversations or life.
     
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  10. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    One that it annoys me nobody ever figured out is the Practical Handbook of Bee Culture. The joke *in* the book is, of course, from The Wicker Man. However, the book itself is ALSO a reference to something else.
     
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  11. Haldurson

    Haldurson Member

    All I remember from that movie was Christopher Lee and the guy from "The Equalizer" TV series. And I remember thinking it was a very strange, very '60s sort of low-budget film. Don't remember any reference to bees or a bee book, but it's been many years since I saw it.
     
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  12. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    Oh, for crying out loud, has nobody read Sherlock Holmes these days?
     
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  13. Kazeto

    Kazeto Member

    Many of us do, but I'll have you know that—at least translated into the language I read it in—none of the books had that which the game referenced. If I read it in the original I would have probably noticed it being there, but well ...
     
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  14. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    "Metaphor for the Atomic Bomb" is apparently a reference to the videogame "Braid"
     
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  15. I think it's more of a jab at Cloud from Final Fantasy 7, since he spends a good deal of the game angsting his brains out.
     
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  16. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    I think there was a remake that had bees in it.
     
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  17. Haldurson

    Haldurson Member

    The original, I know, is considered a classic. But in spite of that, I wasn't really crazy about it. So when the remake came out, I didn't bother seeing it. I've only heard bad things about it.
     
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  18. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    Portal stole Android Hell from Futurama who stole it from Red Dwarf. They probably stole it from someone else in turn but I don't know who.
     
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  19. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    Is the robe of the beige warlock a reference to anything?
     
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  20. Kazeto

    Kazeto Member

    To be honest, I'm not sure.

    I do want to say that it probably is, and that there are a few things (like Discworld) that it might be referencing; but on the other hand, the description of the item does turn mockery of the general fashion-blindness of wizardly characters into quite a plausible option.
     
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