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| Re: More Adventures in 'Who Writes This Stuff!?' | |
| Posted By: BanditORR <banditorr@hotmail.com> | Date: 9/28/10 8:57 a.m. |
In Response To: More Adventures in 'Who Writes This Stuff!?' (General Battuta) : Interrobang in the subject line! And now to complain about the latest line to : jump out and poke me, destroying the lovely mood created by what was : otherwise a better-than-I-remembered sequence (except for Jorge's awful : 'Tell me this isn't happening!') : "UNSC Frigate Grafton, please re - " : hang on a minute, folks, this is the Grafton. we're busy conducting our
: is the reason we got totally owned by this corvette because our radio
: i mean is this a ham radio net? what is going on? do we subcontract to the
: did you really feel it was necessary to specify that this was a UNSC frigate
: i mean it's not THAT big a deal, but since we're : FWOOM No, this isn't a big deal at all. This crosses over from serious complaint (like a "To war!" line) into just nitpickish. It's like saying "Really, Bungie? Do you have to call him SPARTAN 117? I mean, do you have any one else running around identifying themselves by numbers?" I'm fairly certain that this type of nonsense has happened in other games/books as well, and I wouldn't be surprised if a real military used a similar type of broadcasting.
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