@Yudishtira I can add those quotes in, though do you have a source for them? Could even be a pseudo source like in SMAC.
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Yudishtira
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I don't understand. I gave you the source quite specifically. The source is Grod, often referred to as "the Wiser". You want a book or something? Grod lives in the prehistoric before books were invented. He is just freakishly good with (spoken) words for his era.
ETA: I gave you the attributions for each exactly the way I hoped they would appear in-game. There are plenty of quotes that just give who said them without other details (that no-one cares about).
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Yudishtira
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I've told you he lives in the actual prehistoric, along with thousands of other homosapiens none of whom you have ever heard of.
I thought you would understand, but whether or not, can you please just go with it?
The Persistence Hunting quote I originated is attributed to "Yudishtira". In the interest of avoiding more immersion-breaking (and ambiguous since Yudishtira is also a character in the Mahabharata) attributions to forum members, I sourced these quotes from Grod.
Thunderbrd
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So you're saying you're none the wiser eh?
pepper2000
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I like the quotes, but I would rather stick with the custom of using quotes from notable sources as much as possible.
Hmm those fun quotes could be first paragraph of pedia entry.
That is funny introduction to tech and then explaining it what is this.
Yudishtira
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As much as possible, okay, but we need to get rid of the embarrassingly inappropriate quotes in dozens of techs before applying this rule. These quotes are clearly better than what's there.
Quotes from notable sources for future techs will have to be from fiction.
For the prehistoric, the best quotes will be from fiction, since the alternative is some dull description of (for example) where they got the ingredients for the first adhesives and how they combined them.
I repeat, you must know how bad the current quotes are for many many techs. Please prioritize getting rid of those over notable sources.
I agree with @Yudishtira, just like there are quotes derived from proverbs with unknown authors there could also be quotes made by forum members.
Since the quotes themselves are fun and concise I see no problem in having them in.
Since the quotes themselves are fun and concise I see no problem in having them in.
There is some problems with this qoute: It is technically wrong.
Chaos theory does not give problems where the outcomes are unpredictable, but rather that those problems require exponentially better precision when making predictions further into the future. It is quantum-mechanics that has that requested feature.
It would also be a waste to not use a weather related qoute, such as the famous butterfly qoute, since chaos theory is the principal reason why weather prediction losses certainty quickly over the scale of a week.
CreativeCaprine
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I'm a bit late in this thread, but I find the amateur voice lines and the quotes themselves charming, and some even hilarious, like the childish singing in Hard-Hammer Percussion*. And they're always better than text to speech software.
If you want to replace them with something more serious, that's fine, but I hope you'd rather record an actual human voice, no matter how shoddy(Like I said, they're charming, even though that's just my opinion), than put in an artificial voice.
*Edited the post. Had the wrong tech before.
If you want to replace them with something more serious, that's fine, but I hope you'd rather record an actual human voice, no matter how shoddy(Like I said, they're charming, even though that's just my opinion), than put in an artificial voice.
*Edited the post. Had the wrong tech before.
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