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Rhyming slang.
Apart from Welsh it's the only language invented purely to annoy tourists...

Well it was invented to trick the police so I suppose it is meant to be confusing, whereas welsh was invented by a dad losing at scrabble.

corpsesarefun wrote:Well it was invented to trick the police so I suppose it is meant to be confusing, whereas welsh was invented by a dad losing at scrabble.

Well done corpses, you are the first person I have quoted from dakka in my sig.

corpsesarefun wrote:Well it was invented to trick the police so I suppose it is meant to be confusing, whereas welsh was invented by a dad losing at scrabble.

My bio teacher is constantly going on about the 'fact' that biologist made up half the name of stuff so they could win at scrabble... perhaps the same person.

It isn't my joke I'm afraid Ben miller I think...

purplefood wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Well it was invented to trick the police so I suppose it is meant to be confusing, whereas welsh was invented by a dad losing at scrabble.

My bio teacher is constantly going on about the 'fact' that biologist made up half the name of stuff so they could win at scrabble... perhaps the same person.

Biologists started it, but now, thanks to the Internet, anyone can invent a word

Shakespeare did it long before the internet or modern biology before it was cool.

Man, I regret joining the stormcloaks with my khajiit. Every damn town guard now has stormcloak garb, aka every town is boring as gak.
Its so boring with everyone looking the same

Ah but the colors are all different!

Nope, every single guard has the blue+ brown stormcloak garb (Ive beaten the questline)
All the guards in all the holds exchange their town armor for stormcloak armor, and its really lame

First playthrough is imperial, second will be stormcloak and third will be imperial again.

[SPOILER WARNING - IMPERIAL QUESTLINE!]

I generally dislike just how truly duct taped to the game the Imperial vs Stormcloak questline was, almost as if it were an afterthought.

Despite me being a veteran Legate in the Imperial Army, and the Jarl of Windhelm sitting Ulfrik's naked corpse with the beheaded corpse of Ulfrik's lying in front of the throne with people occasionally getting up from the banquet table to stand next to it and gasp, a lot of NPCs still talk as if Ulfrik still existed, Imperials treat me like dirt when i'm their superior, NPCs make a lot of references to how the Stormcloaks are so going to win...

One or two NPCs after you finish the quest is fair enough, but the vast majority of Skyrim refusing to acknolwedge anything about the questline after it's over is a hell of a let down. It might've taken a little effort to fix it, but it'd have added far more depth to the game than it currently does.

I led the Imperial Army to retake fortresses, single-handedly freed prisoners who can't even pick up weapons and slaughtered the cloaks in that fort, stood stalwart at the gates of Whiterun and sent stormcloaks running for the hills, and fought through the streets of Windhelm like a juggernaut alongside General Tullius, beheaded Ulfrik's Thane before him and cut him down like the traitorous dog he was, and I felt pretty damn good about it.

Then it sunk in a bit and I started to realise nobody remembered anything about it, and it felt like just another questline. You do it, get thanked, get a reward, and go on your way.

Melissia wrote:Or similarly, why can't I go to a priest and report that yes, that goddamned house IS haunted by a powerful daedra lord, and you should kill it with fire or something. Hell, why can'tI just subdue the idiot priest who gives in, instead of killing him? (like tie him up or something)

Oh yeah, that annoyed the hell out of me. I left that house and was given no option to tell anyone about what was going on in there, and I was like 'why can't I act like real people would act?'


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Manchu wrote:This is a great point, especially about those particular quest -- and the one Melissia brings up, too. All of Markarth in fact felt fethed up. Not just in terms of there being little "good" to be done; it just felt rushed/shoddily plotted. Although "good" options would make for a huge improvement, I still think a "good" faction on par substance-wise with the Dark Brotherhood or Thieve's Guild is necessary.

I haven't actually been to Markarth yet. But I have found a couple of areas that felt a lot less finished and generally shoddier than other areas. I guess the scale of the project meant quality control slipped in a couple of places.

Avatar 720 wrote:[SPOILER WARNING - IMPERIAL QUESTLINE!]

I generally dislike just how truly duct taped to the game the Imperial vs Stormcloak questline was, almost as if it were an afterthought.

Despite me being a veteran Legate in the Imperial Army, and the Jarl of Windhelm sitting Ulfrik's naked corpse with the beheaded corpse of Ulfrik's lying in front of the throne with people occasionally getting up from the banquet table to stand next to it and gasp, a lot of NPCs still talk as if Ulfrik still existed, Imperials treat me like dirt when i'm their superior, NPCs make a lot of references to how the Stormcloaks are so going to win...

One or two NPCs after you finish the quest is fair enough, but the vast majority of Skyrim refusing to acknolwedge anything about the questline after it's over is a hell of a let down. It might've taken a little effort to fix it, but it'd have added far more depth to the game than it currently does.

I led the Imperial Army to retake fortresses, single-handedly freed prisoners who can't even pick up weapons and slaughtered the cloaks in that fort, stood stalwart at the gates of Whiterun and sent stormcloaks running for the hills, and fought through the streets of Windhelm like a juggernaut alongside General Tullius, beheaded Ulfrik's Thane before him and cut him down like the traitorous dog he was, and I felt pretty damn good about it.

Then it sunk in a bit and I started to realise nobody remembered anything about it, and it felt like just another questline. You do it, get thanked, get a reward, and go on your way.

Clearly this means that the canon story line is that the Stormcloaks win and they did it to annoy all you legion goonies.

sebster wrote:

Melissia wrote:Or similarly, why can't I go to a priest and report that yes, that goddamned house IS haunted by a powerful daedra lord, and you should kill it with fire or something. Hell, why can'tI just subdue the idiot priest who gives in, instead of killing him? (like tie him up or something)

Oh yeah, that annoyed the hell out of me. I left that house and was given no option to tell anyone about what was going on in there, and I was like 'why can't I act like real people would act?'


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Manchu wrote:This is a great point, especially about those particular quest -- and the one Melissia brings up, too. All of Markarth in fact felt fethed up. Not just in terms of there being little "good" to be done; it just felt rushed/shoddily plotted. Although "good" options would make for a huge improvement, I still think a "good" faction on par substance-wise with the Dark Brotherhood or Thieve's Guild is necessary.

I haven't actually been to Markarth yet. But I have found a couple of areas that felt a lot less finished and generally shoddier than other areas. I guess the scale of the project meant quality control slipped in a couple of places.

Like Falkreath, what's up with that? There's just trees everywhere, but there is a quest where you get to shipwreck a ship by putting out a lighthouse and that was genuinely a cool idea.

Has anyone checked if it's there before you put out the light in the lighthouse?

Manchu wrote:Has anyone checked if it's there before you put out the light in the lighthouse?

I don't think anyone explores around there before the quest, hell, I managed to explore the entire eastern side of the map while leaving the west unknown.

I think its some of the lesser emphasized quests that are much cooler

For example finding a lighthouse where all the people inside are killed by the Molemen and taking the remains of one of them to the light house and burning it to get a healing bonus was kinda neat

If not unexplained and weird

corpsesarefun wrote:Shakespeare did it long before the internet or modern biology before it was cool.

Didnt Chaucer (1343 –1400) did that too? I think he invented several words like "arse"

Shame he never finished his frigging book. Sure its boring but its only half done!

We have a funny thing called language which seems to be derived from people making up words

Also, there are molemen in skyrim?!?

halonachos wrote:

Manchu wrote:Has anyone checked if it's there before you put out the light in the lighthouse?

I don't think anyone explores around there before the quest, hell, I managed to explore the entire eastern side of the map while leaving the west unknown.

I explored the northern coast on my mage character logn before I finished the "retrieve the horn" quest...

My assassin has explored the northern and eastern coasts, along with the tundra and the southern forests.

He's never seen a dragon.

I still haven't touched the horn quest for the greybeards... The world can be saved tomorrow...

Playing Skyrim right now.

Weirded out when i found the "Naked Hunter hotsprings". I kept getting the detected warning while sneaking around and I didnt realize there was a naked female hunter "hottubbing" right beside me. I would have stolen all their clothes too if I wasnt 3 points away from being overburdened.

To Manchu's point: I agree that being a good guy doesnt seem to have a lot of love put into it.

when i played Fallout3, 3dog would be broadcasting my good deeds althroughout DC and I felt awesome. The people I helped were really good folks and they really seemed thankful. I remember that quest where you retrieved that Violin for that old lady. Missing out on loot and guns was worth it because being a good guy FELT GOOD.

I would settle for a town crier or the bards singing about me but alas...maybe in a future patch or DLC

I used to be a good guy, but then I took an arrow in the knee.

My favorite "arrow in the knee" line was from a Stormcloak soldier.

"I used to be an Adventurer like you, then I took and arrow in the knee"

And yet, dispite his injury, he fights to liberate Skyrim, but he can't go mucking about in dungens

I used to take an arrow to the knee, then I took an arrow to the knee.

Nerviant, you strike me as obsessed with death. It could be ataxia.

@Bakerofish: Those FO3 memories are perfect contrasts to Skyrim. That's exactly the thing I am missing.

How do you even tell if you're being good? Is there a slider thing hidden somewhere?

The limited and garbled menu in skyrim confuses me.

It took me a trip to google to find out how to view my status effects.

corpsesarefun wrote:I used to take an arrow to the knee, then I took an arrow to the knee.

I used to be a knee arrower, and then I took an arrow to the knee.

Or we could combine several of their favorites.

I used to get around to thinkin' that I was the Dragonborn, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

I've had no problems with the menu, I found it quite intuitive (other than status effects and shouts being under magic).

But no there is no "karma" meter at all.