At least he’s pretty based for someone in the niche of nerdy ass games. He said BLM during the 2020 protests and during the Palestinian protests in ‘21 he said Free Palestine, that US was backing an apartheid, and gave a bunch of resources to donate to Palestinians. Good guy and you should purchase his game because it’s pretty cool.
I played DF for years with the LNP, it's probably the best way to get into DF sans steam, especially with the tilesets you get in the LNP. Plus the LNP comes with dwarf therapist, DFhack, other utilities I'm forgetting, and classic is getting all the same updates as the steam/itch version. I'd say absolutely go for it. YouTube is chock full of helpful tutorials, as well.
Remember, your first forts WILL DIE. Often to stupid mistakes or things you didn't know could happen. but that's the fun in it all :pika-pickaxe:
haha, I remember the old tagline for dwarf therapist: "it makes dwarf fortress playable, it's that good!"
its not wrong lmao playing DF with and without therapist is night and day