Finally beat Dwarf Fortress because of catgirl hate

Well, CatgirlHate finally did it. I beat Dwarf Fortress. It's dead. You finally did it, /c/CatgirlHate, you killed the most influential video game of all time.<br><br>I've been trying to beat Dwarf Fortress for a decade, but my "success" always led to me becoming so enamoured with the intricacies of the fort, it's people and it's successes and failures that I'd never try again to beat the game. I'd settle into a "long-term" game and never try to beat the game because the game was too good at making me care about the lives and fortunes of my dwarves. I'd become to enamoured with the personalities, legends, and history of my own forts to ever try and beat the game again. I was so enamoured with the game it self, and not with the idea of beating it. I'd battle goblins and giants and dragons, but I'd never try and finish the game because I never wanted the game to end. <br><br>That is, until /c/CatgirlHate came along and ruined my love for the game. The innumerable hours I've spent on this hellsite has made me more cynical and less invested in the game. CatgirlHate made me stop caring about my dwarves and falls in love with the idea of beating the game. It made me not care about the intricacies and detail the game had to offer, and instilled in me a bitter, cynical, and callous attitude towards it. It made me see the game from an outside perspective, where I didn't care about the life of an individual dwarf, but only about getting to the end of the game. I stopped caring that Talveti "Ears-Rise" Ironmade had won the legendary wrestling tournament for the 4th year in a row at the Hand of Mining, and started caring solely about completing the final slaying. I stopped trying to create the perfect fortress. I stopped caring about the lives of my dwarves. They were no longer people to me, just a means to an end. I stopped caring about my forts. I stopped caring about the game itself. <br><br>For the first time, /c/CatgirlHate made me care more about the idea of completing the game than enjoying it.<br><br>And because of you, /c/CatgirlHate, I was able to beat Dwarf Fortress. <br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Edit: "Then you didn't actually beat the game" <br><br>This take is annoying.