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PurpleXVI posted:Get better soon, Alexey. Thank god I wasn't the only one who thought the same thing when seeing those monsters. That and the way they slid after landing really makes it feel that way. It's good to see this LP back!
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I've been working my way through the game and thus haven't let myself completely catch up yet - I'm some fraction of the way through the Advanced Research Labs, but the LP has been motivating me to actually play more regularly and see it through. So thanks for that! That also means I'm incredibly late to the party on a few things, but skimming the rest of the thread it doesn't look like anyone brought them up, so:
Monstrously belated edit: And now I'm caught up. Good times. Hope by now you feel better! ManxomeBromide fucked around with this message at 02:02 on May 22, 2017 |
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May 15, 2017 06:49
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After a lengthy trip report I can also confirm that Prey is real good y'all
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I promised      
nutri_void fucked around with this message at 23:45 on May 22, 2017 |
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May 22, 2017 23:40
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Holy poo poo! Vega sounds so concerned about basically his death but has to go with it.
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May 23, 2017 00:30
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Russian is such a fun language to listen to. Especially when paired with RIP AND TEAR 
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May 23, 2017 01:19
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The Russian dub of this LP is excellent. 10 out of 10. Also the Vega sections of the game were some of my favourites, those battles made REALLY good use of vertical design, I felt, and you had to constantly keep on the move for the most part.
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May 23, 2017 01:42
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That was so perfect  That being said, half a year? Man, how time passes.
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Slaan posted:Russian is such a fun language to listen to. Especially when paired with RIP AND TEAR Zain posted:Holy poo poo! Vega sounds so concerned about basically his death but has to go with it.
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May 23, 2017 02:57
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Zain posted:Holy poo poo! Vega sounds so concerned about basically his death but has to go with it. It's the tiny little hesitation at "It has been... decided" that really sold it for me.
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May 23, 2017 05:43
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If you don't mind me asking, what type of accent do you have? Admittedly, I am no Russian-language expert, but from what Russian media I've watched, many people have an accent that sounds... almost French? Whereas your accent is very clipped and precise, at least to my ear. Also - again, apologies for the questions about Russian - you mention a few times that there are no direct translations of certain terms, e.g. Doomslayer and weapon upgrade points. Yet I notice that Russian for railgun is just 'railgun'. At the risk of sounding dense, how is this the case? I can understand slayer having no equivalent - there are many synonyms of it - but the others (to me) seem pretty... well... could only be described in one way. Also, great LP as always, Alexy!
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May 23, 2017 06:27
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A lot of times, especially for games terminology or more recent technological stuff, the common parlance has accepted to just use the English term for it. Sometimes it's because a literal translation would sound stupid, overly long or clunky, or it's already used up by something else. Like in the new game Prey, where in the German version the main enemy type is still called the decidedly English-sounding mimic, because the closest German word to that, Mimik, means "facial expression" and not "tries to hide its presence by adapting an unassuming form"
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quote:the difficulty levels in the game don't go up in proper steps - the next level, Nightmare, is simply unplayable, as everything kills you in 1 to 3 hits, and the game doesn't let you evade all the damage (which is not intentional and is a result of the way the battle arenas are designed, there aren't any hitscan enemies in the game). While I think I could be able to grind through Nightmare, given enough time, I think that this would not be enjoyable for anyone, so to Hell with that Shoulda just admitted you aren't skilled enough to be comfortable with Nightmare, OP. Trying to rationalize away your personal limitations in the face of I'm guessing dozens of viewers here -- myself among them -- that completed the game on Nightmare without much issue is just cringy. I'd have agreed with you if you had said Ultra Nightmare. That mode is masochism.
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ninotoreS posted:Shoulda just admitted you aren't skilled enough to be comfortable with Nightmare, OP. Trying to rationalize away your personal limitations in the face of I'm guessing dozens of viewers here -- myself among them -- that completed the game on Nightmare without much issue is just cringy. 
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HenryEx posted:A lot of times, especially for games terminology or more recent technological stuff, the common parlance has accepted to just use the English term for it. Sometimes it's because a literal translation would sound stupid, overly long or clunky, or it's already used up by something else. Is there no German verb available that means 'to impersonate'? Or can you not 'make' nouns from verbs in German? Edit: Also, what the heck is the difference in pronunciation of mimic vs mimik?
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Samovar posted:Is there no German verb available that means 'to impersonate'? Or can you not 'make' nouns from verbs in German? You CAN make up new words in German, just prepare for them to be 30-letter compound monstrosities. Definitely scarier than the actual monster they're describing.
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ninotoreS posted:Shoulda just admitted you aren't skilled enough to be comfortable with Nightmare, OP. Trying to rationalize away your personal limitations in the face of I'm guessing dozens of viewers here -- myself among them -- that completed the game on Nightmare without much issue is just cringy. I'm not skilled enough to be comfortable with Nightmare. That's the point. I edited the OP to reflect what I meant, i.e. that I can't comfortably play it Samovar posted:If you don't mind me asking, what type of accent do you have? Admittedly, I am no Russian-language expert, but from what Russian media I've watched, many people have an accent that sounds... almost French? Whereas your accent is very clipped and precise, at least to my ear. 1) I'm from St. Petersburg, we don't have an accent of our own 2) Real-life railguns have a Russian word for them, but video game railguns are always just called railguns 3) Thanks!
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HenryEx posted:A lot of times, especially for games terminology or more recent technological stuff, the common parlance has accepted to just use the English term for it. Sometimes it's because a literal translation would sound stupid, overly long or clunky, or it's already used up by something else. I don't speak german very well, but wouldn't der imitator or der Nachmacher be acceptable substitutes?
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Some of the more surprising words that Russian seems to borrow are "parasite," "pilot," and "exoskeleton," unless this is the video game term exception.
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GunnerJ posted:Some of the more surprising words that Russian seems to borrow are "parasite," "pilot," and "exoskeleton," unless this is the video game term exception. Well, I would imagine parasite and pilot are of Greek derivation, though I thought skeleton was Romance. Interestingly, the Russian word for idiot is idiot (though I suppose it is more accurately pronounced 'idi-yot' with emphasis on the second syllable.)
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By the way, going all - about 13 minutes you mention the Sun's surface temperature being 5800 K = 5,8 mega Kelvin, but unless my maths education was severely deficient, 5,8 mega Kelvin would be 5.800.000 K
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inscrutable horse posted:By the way, going all You are correct. I can verify this because I was educated and trained in physics-based physics.
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Corroborated pedantry is the best pedantry!
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inscrutable horse posted:Corroborated pedantry is the best pedantry! So what's the correct term for 1 x 10^ 3 Kelvin? A superkelvin?
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Samovar posted:So what's the correct term for 1 x 10^ 3 Kelvin? A superkelvin? Kilo is a thousand, so 5,800 Kelvin are 5.8 kiloKelvin. kK.
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Samovar posted:Well, I would imagine parasite and pilot are of Greek derivation, though I thought skeleton was Romance. Interestingly, the Russian word for idiot is idiot (though I suppose it is more accurately pronounced 'idi-yot' with emphasis on the second syllable.) Idiot and skeleton are both Greek as well! Idiot straight-up (though it originally meant "someone with no political allies" - notice how in English all the other "idio-" words mean "unique" and not "stupid") and "skeleton" made it into English by way of Latin. Lynneth posted:Kilo is a thousand, so 5,800 Kelvin are 5.8 kiloKelvin. kK. That said, while I've only encountered it in science classes, I've never heard 5800 K ever called anything other than "fifty-eight hundred Kelvin" or "five thousand eight hundred Kelvin"
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The corona of the sun is obscenely hot, around a million kelvin sounds about right for that.
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That's one of the things that's always fascinated me about the sun; how the "surface" is so much cooler than the corona.
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Alexeythegreat posted:1) I'm from St. Petersburg, we don't have an accent of our own So St. Petersburg is the Michigan of Russia.
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Samovar posted:Is there no German verb available that means 'to impersonate'? Or can you not 'make' nouns from verbs in German? The first i in Mimik is long. Also yeah, you'd have to go with something like "Imitator" or "Mime" (both German words, and yeah most Germans would probably think of street performers first for the latter word), which are both heavily connected to persons, whereas mimics are not persons.
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inscrutable horse posted:That's one of the things that's always fascinated me about the sun; how the "surface" is so much cooler than the corona. Ionized gases in obscenely powerful magnetic fields are pretty fascinating. Also dangerous.
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Alexeythegreat posted:2) Real-life railguns have a Russian word for them, but video game railguns are always just called railguns
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HenryEx posted:The first i in Mimik is long. Also yeah, you'd have to go with something like "Imitator" or "Mime" (both German words, and yeah most Germans would probably think of street performers first for the latter word), which are both heavily connected to persons, whereas mimics are not persons. There's always 'Doppelgäng(er)'...
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Fish Noise posted:Why the distinction? Probably because it's unwieldy, in French there isn't really a fast way of saying railgun that isn't, well, "railgun". You can say it's an electrical gun or an electrical gun using the Lorentz force or an electrical gun using the Laplace force because you you've simplified out all the little annoying Lorentz forces out but it's not as fast so railgun it is. You can say "cannon ā rail" but that just sounds really stupid. Also possible confusion with a railway gun.
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Thanks for the Russian episode, I've studied a bit of the language and I'm pretty proud that I got around 90% of what you said!  Also, your dry humour comes out really well in original, it's even funnier. Good work, dude! (chuvak? priyatel'?)
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SIGSEGV posted:Probably because it's unwieldy, in French there isn't really a fast way of saying railgun that isn't, well, "railgun". You can say it's an electrical gun or an electrical gun using the Lorentz force or an electrical gun using the Laplace force because you you've simplified out all the little annoying Lorentz forces out but it's not as fast so railgun it is. It sounds stupid but it's the best kind of stupid. I haven't stopped laughing at this for a good 5 minutes.
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mortons stork posted:Good work, dude! (chuvak? priyatel'?) Tovarich, surely! Also, why aren't railguns called Lorentz cannons? That sounds so much cooler.
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Zain posted:It sounds stupid but it's the best kind of stupid. I haven't stopped laughing at this for a good 5 minutes. I imagine that if the Doomguy could haul around a railway mounted cannon, he definitely would.
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