Investigation mode buff?
Too bad I blindly trust everybody anyway!
Too bad I blindly trust everybody anyway!
- Thread starter Nine of Swords
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Look, the speed limit says 50, so I have to go 49 in the left lane, OK? It's the law.
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It was a big surprise when I moved from Texas to Georgia. In Dallas you NEVER used your signals, I would warn people who moved the to never, ever use their turn signals. The reason being, if you signaled for a lane change, someone would speed up to block you out, or change lanes suddenly to block you. Fort Worth right next door wasn't as bad, but in Dallas turn signals are a challenge to a duel!
It's DC that doesn't use blinkers. Baltimore blinks twice and changes lanes, whether you moved out of the way or not. Baltimore drivers are very polite for .5 seconds. After that it's on you. Literally.
Great game, BTW (first time I posted was right when I started, now I've been up all night and played through). I really appreciate that there are both male and female MC options, and the writing is great.
I don't think the Baltimore references are too overdone, and the neighborhood names, road names, drive times etc. add a bit of realism that probably work for anybody anywhere, because we don't actually need to be familiar with a city to tell that the writer and story are familiar with that city.
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Today I learned that seeing people say blinkers instead of indicators is as triggering to me as hearing people say aloominum instead of aluminium.
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btw, I use " turn signals ", instead of blinkers, indicators just to be different
Really liking this one. Quite the cliffhanger I won't spoil it. Can't wait to see what's next from you Nine.
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I agree.
I have never been in Baltimore, and don't know the city. But names of place, road... feel real and flesh out the game.
I will surely miss a lot of geographic / landscape references, but Nine of Swords, I think you should continue to put some in the game.
I presume it was mature (with brownish spots and a smell of dried urine); it's how I like it
. But if the taste is too strong for you, you can eat it with a little butter.
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The Englishman who first isolated aluminum from bauxite ore named it aluminum. Years later, it was changed in the British Isles to "aluminium" to sound more sophisticated and different from America.
Now you know.
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The picture in the header does look like the screen from an old Windows version. Glad that you got your car in order, had to spend about 1600$ in car repears not to long ago myself.
And now for my dear norwegian entrant into the slightly wierd food contest:
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(it's actually quite good)
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I'm of Scottish decent and love haggis, so I can't be too critical of anyone's national dishes.
Great reference of Ana Ng. And I like the Baltimora references: I have been there in the '90, a nice journey in USA (Baltimora, NY, Philadelphia, Boston).I'm a Baltimore native!You must be registered to see the links:
When I was driving once
I saw this painted on a bridge:
"I don't want the world,
I just want your half."
I'm trying not to put in too many Baltimore references, though; I don't want people from other places getting too confused!
I love(d) them!It is! Mara was a cameo in Bare Witness, just like Athena is a cameo in Mythos! Same Mara, same Athena!
I've had very few occasions to eat haggis; it was in Lyons, in France, now I live in Toulouse and I have never seen any. It's... curious. But I do love bagpipes and the so sweet Gaelic language.I'm of Scottish decent and love haggis, so I can't be too critical of anyone's national dishes.
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a little history going way back in time about aluminum, if anyone is interestedThe Englishman who first isolated aluminum from bauxite ore named it aluminum. Years later, it was changed in the British Isles to "aluminium" to sound more sophisticated and different from America.
Now you know.
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I don't mind "home town" references by dev's or writers ,it can be an insight into their background, as long as I'm not expected to know how to navigate the town to make sense of the story. Too many New Yawk writers think everyone knows all about it. I did a hired car transfer between airports in NYC once. That was WAY too much time there for meI'm a Baltimore native!You must be registered to see the links:
When I was driving once
I saw this painted on a bridge:
"I don't want the world,
I just want your half."
I'm trying not to put in too many Baltimore references, though; I don't want people from other places getting too confused!
I had camembert for the first time a few months ago... I am not a fan. Imagining a cake made of it... uuurgh...
It is! Mara was a cameo in Bare Witness, just like Athena is a cameo in Mythos! Same Mara, same Athena!
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I don't speak the language, although I wish I could. I have many albums of bagpipe music, including more modern "Celtic Rock"
The best haggis I've ever had was on a visit to Scotland. There is, or was a little "chip shop" where you could get damn near anything battered and fried (including pizza and candybars). They had deep fried haggis on a stick. A sausage skin of haggis, stuck on a stick then battered and deep fried. Like a Scottish corny dog. There's nothing like taking a food that will kill your heart anyway then deep frying it. Slap some HP sauce on that - Wooooo Buddy!
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you are as barbaric as the bavarians and their weisswurst.
hard enough for me as a prussian to adapt to their customs.
but i have learned to appreciate liver cheese semmel and weissbier.
hard enough for me as a prussian to adapt to their customs.
but i have learned to appreciate liver cheese semmel and weissbier.
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If I tell Tera that I only see her as a friend is that forever? I like more of a slow burn and her coming out of nowhere right from the get go isn't really my thing. I didn't see an option to just tell her I'd think about it, just a yes or no situation.