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?

Post by LocalizedDownpour » 21 Apr 2016, 18:18

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?

Post by Biolock » 21 Apr 2016, 19:16

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.
Yeah, and they're made fun of for it. Relentlessly.
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?

Post by LocalizedDownpour » 21 Apr 2016, 19:34

It's annoying...and contagious.

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Post by Biolock » 21 Apr 2016, 19:43

It's like cancer, only worse.
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?

Post by Stalin » 22 Apr 2016, 02:41

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.
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?

Post by Morrinn » 22 Apr 2016, 11:01

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.
Hurrah, húrra, hurray, hurrain, hurren, huzzah, urien...
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?

Post by Biolock » 22 Apr 2016, 14:03

No, don't care how it's spelled, it still sounds like you're puking in a toilet after a night of drinking.
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?

Post by Ms.Degrasse » 28 Apr 2016, 18:15

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.

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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?

Post by ParadoxSpace » 28 Apr 2016, 23:51

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.'

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Post by TeknoKot » 29 Apr 2016, 03:05

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.'
Don't we all like to turn on caps lock, forget about it, OD on oxycodone and kill xenos?
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Re: Does anyone else find that super unrealistic characters are immersion breaking?

Post by Daman453 » 29 Apr 2016, 23:44

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

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