El Defaultio wrote: ↑04 Oct 2018, 02:47
It's overbearing as we've said. It's too much. It's not even unique as you like to say, we already have a synth like this.
I'd like to respond mostly to what I've quoted, though. You think you've responded to it logically, but that entire paragraph you put up is pretty conceited. "Why shouldn't I be whitelisted? I'm a great roleplayer, my application is great!"
Unfortunately I'll be the one to tell you this, but if you rolepay in game - that doesn't give you a free ticket. Do note other applications have been denied, and the applicants themselves are great roleplayers. Being a great roleplayers or showing an affinity to it is not grounds to instantly accept you.
I wasn't aware we had a synthetic like that, though that does make me scratch my chin!
As for the latter parts, I'm quite sorry you seem to think it came off as conceited. I was repeating a summary of all the things I'd previously mentioned in all my responses, along with the addition that most everyone in the thread had mentioned that they felt I would do good in the position on the roleplay part, so I was attempting to make my confusion clear and ask for an elaboration because I didn't get a response that seemed to address my own points. I had hoped you'd understand I never would present nor feel that viewpoint, but I understand it can be difficult to tell tone on the internet!
SovietKitty wrote: ↑04 Oct 2018, 03:06
I've seen little to no one more dedicated to a character, and consistent roleplay over the state of a round than Okand. In all of my personal experiences they've never broken character to meme, and have actually brought some of the saddest moments I've ever seen on SS13! That's a pretty rare thing on a meme alien kill mans simulator. Roleplaying grief at the loss of a close friend, sadness, happiness, anger those are all things that people tend to ignore and mostly tend to migrate towards stoic bad ass.
So, on top of this IC stuff, OOC, Okand is a decent human-being with other peoples respect for everyone elses enjoyment.
If you agree to follow the Commanders request for a more traditional, modern line of dialect, I'm all for giving you my full encouragement, and a +1. Mostly on account that I feel Synthetics, who are capable of learning the Xenomorph language, should be capable of harboring multiple dialects in their repertoire.
To my understanding, since the quirk was supposed to be ingrained, I had assumed that when I had chosen a quirk accompanied by a speech pattern I had to stay with it. When I've been trying this gimmick as a PFC, most of my sentences don't actually play upon the very dramatized and exaggerated examples I gave above, and I tried to convey that they were such but I feel the point was missed. To be frank, most of it has ended up as spouting "Ah, what a fine day 'tis to serve for king and country!" and "Hail, friend, I wish thee well." along other silly tropes.
Stemming from this, is the actual possibility to use both something that's acceptable? To my knowledge it wasn't, and I had tried to ask others before I submitted the application and was under the impression it was something I was supposed to dedicate to as part of my programming. If this isn't actually the case as I've been led to believe, would there be an issue with simply replacing words such as "knave" with "fool" and other more simple, modern words that still represent the overall "theme" without the archiac nature upon request and by default with important communications? This is what I've attempted to convey, but I hope this rephrasing will give better insight.
TL;DR Discount medieval beep-boop with modern words in place of archiac form is what I've attempted to convey by mentioning a "simplified dialogue." While I understood full-well you should follow CO/aCO to the best of your ability barring against your programming, I wasn't aware the dialogue part of the quirk didn't count as apart of the "basic programming" since the guideline did not make that clear to me, since I assumed it was "ingrained" due to the programmed nature.