Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
People in the army 'the branch I served in' say Hooah all the time...for anything. Yes. no. I understand. I don't understand. A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
Yeah, and they're made fun of for it. Relentlessly.LocalizedDownpour wrote:People in the army 'the branch I served in' say Hooah all the time...for anything. Yes. no. I understand. I don't understand. A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
I'm stressing way too hard about what to put here, so I'm just gonna leave it blank.... or....
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
It's annoying...and contagious.
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
It's like cancer, only worse.
I'm stressing way too hard about what to put here, so I'm just gonna leave it blank.... or....
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
It's quite possible you'd appreciate it more if you realised it was a war cry ("Urrah!") that deviated into a variety of pronounciations. They're simply keeping the tradition going.
Long live our Soviet motherland,
Built by the people's mighty hand.
Long live our people, united and free.
Strong in our friendship tried by fire.
Long may our crimson flag inspire,
Shining in glory for all men to see.
- Soviet Anthem 1944
Built by the people's mighty hand.
Long live our people, united and free.
Strong in our friendship tried by fire.
Long may our crimson flag inspire,
Shining in glory for all men to see.
- Soviet Anthem 1944
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
Hurrah, húrra, hurray, hurrain, hurren, huzzah, urien...Stalin wrote:It's quite possible you'd appreciate it more if you realised it was a war cry ("Urrah!") that deviated into a variety of pronounciations. They're simply keeping the tradition going.
The etymology of the word is both vast and multipurpose. It might be a deviation of the word 'hurry', adopted and evolved over several generations. A thing to note is that there has never really been a standardized version of spelling it. It's a phonetic exclamation, onomatopoeic and use dependent.
People who get bent out of shape over a perceived 'proper" way of spelling it fail to realize that the word has never had a proper traditional way of being spelled.
Oorah, ooh rah, hoorah, ooh-rah, these all have been reliably quoted from different armed forces personnel who might take issues with some pointdexter insisting they're not spelling it right.
Add to this the fact that the marines in question are a fictional futuristic version of the usmc, it's highly possible that the phrase has evolved even further.
In any case, if anyone is going to get this upset over the 'proper' way of spelling it, it's really only going to be more tempting to bastardize the phrase even further.
Go cry some more.
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
No, don't care how it's spelled, it still sounds like you're puking in a toilet after a night of drinking.
I'm stressing way too hard about what to put here, so I'm just gonna leave it blank.... or....
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
Characters with weird/uncommon hairs? Don't tick me on this.
Bizarre names is another thing.
I already spotted a marine with a surnamen that was an offensive expression in a language the staff probably had no proficiency in - and this way it passed.
But the worse thing ever is some players actions/behaviour.
Properly rioting (for a given reason), or even breaking up and getting pisssed off, in character, is one thing.
Being gratuitously disrespectful to higher ranking personnel is another. - ANd it is super unrealistic actually.
Bizarre names is another thing.
I already spotted a marine with a surnamen that was an offensive expression in a language the staff probably had no proficiency in - and this way it passed.
But the worse thing ever is some players actions/behaviour.
Properly rioting (for a given reason), or even breaking up and getting pisssed off, in character, is one thing.
Being gratuitously disrespectful to higher ranking personnel is another. - ANd it is super unrealistic actually.
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
y'know there's the other kind of bad character
'I AM LE EPIC MARINE SEARGENT I FEEL NO PAIN I WILL NEVER TURN OFF MY CAPSLOCK DOCTORS. ARE. MY. SLAVES.'
'I AM LE EPIC MARINE SEARGENT I FEEL NO PAIN I WILL NEVER TURN OFF MY CAPSLOCK DOCTORS. ARE. MY. SLAVES.'
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
Don't we all like to turn on caps lock, forget about it, OD on oxycodone and kill xenos?ParadoxSpace wrote:y'know there's the other kind of bad character
'I AM LE EPIC MARINE SEARGENT I FEEL NO PAIN I WILL NEVER TURN OFF MY CAPSLOCK DOCTORS. ARE. MY. SLAVES.'
"I'm a soldier, that means I'm the defendant and the judge."
Victor 'Orbital' Kaipov says, "You're all fucking stupid."
https://youtu.be/aLEL1ZSf4fM
Victor 'Orbital' Kaipov says, "You're all fucking stupid."
https://youtu.be/aLEL1ZSf4fM
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?
I remember a round today with a dude with yellow hair and i poked out of his helmet, i treated him as the guy from star ship troopers. The blond one.
The Idiot that plays Cayden "Prisoner" Mary