Tech Quotes review

[Thunderbrd]

I believe it was the reference to thunder and what it was saying about that which made it so pertinent as to use it

Your suggestion is rather straight forward relative and that might be a good thing. I always tried to make it a little more artistic but I often found nothing I searched through would come up with that perfect thing and eventually settled on something. Just... if someone is going to suggest a change, the full new and old should be posted so we can more fully discuss the inferences and implications.

 

[Yudishtira]

Your suggestion is rather straight forward relative and that might be a good thing. I always tried to make it a little more artistic but I often found nothing I searched through would come up with that perfect thing and eventually settled on something.

Would it help that he was satirising the voice of authority's tendency to exaggerate the 'dangers' of raucous 'rock' music like Hawkwind's?

Bob Calvert? Straightforward? Never!!!

 

[Thunderbrd]

Would it help that he was satirising the voice of authority's tendency to exaggerate the 'dangers' of raucous 'rock' music like Hawkwind's?

Bob Calvert? Straightforward? Never!!!

Why replace a perfectly good quote with another perfectly good quote tho?

 

[Yudishtira]

If a quote about 1860s civil rights is perfectly good for a 21st century weaponry tech, you need to list the quotes you don't think are perfectly good (if any!).

There's no need to take it personally. No-one blames you that the placeholder quotes from way back can be improved upon.

 

[Thunderbrd]

If a quote about 1860s civil rights is perfectly good for a 21st century weaponry tech, you need to list the quotes you don't think are perfectly good (if any!).

There's no need to take it personally. No-one blames you that the placeholder quotes from way back can be improved upon.

It's irrelevant when a quote was made, isn't it? Or even what it was originally intended to mean (for example the quote you're offering as a replacement as well.) Isn't all that's relevant the actual words of the quote itself and how it becomes a poetic way to express the tech?

 

[Yudishtira]

It's irrelevant when a quote was made, isn't it? Or even what it was originally intended to mean (for example the quote you're offering as a replacement as well.)

I hope you'll change your mind on that - if not we'll have to agree to disagree. Relevance has to be the most important criterion. My quote (on one level - which is plenty) is specifically about acoustic weaponry, which is extremely rare in 'popular culture', which is why I thought and still think it is such a good suggestion.

Isn't all that's relevant the actual words of the quote itself and how it becomes a poetic way to express the tech?

"To express the tech" requires relevance. Otherwise it would just be find our favourite verses and assign them at random.

Would you mind listing all the techs with quotes you are this attached to, so I'll know what to expect if I suggest an alternative (or not to bother). Sorry but I honestly thought with this and virtually all non-vanilla techs, that anything would be an improvement.

 

[Thunderbrd]

If you were to quote here the whole text I could explain why I selected it and why I feel it was valid, or I might have an opportunity to measure my impression against the one you are suggesting at least and give a more informed opinion. At the moment I've forgotten what the thing says and it takes a bit of file navigation for me to find it so since you are suggesting an alternative, I'd think the burden of that should be on you. However, I'm not saying I don't have an open mind to considering that perhaps the one you are proposing is an improvement. At the moment, I don't know. But the original source and reason for what is said is somewhat irrelevant compared to how it can be read to mean in relation to the tech is what I'm trying to say. If I quoted the movie Bambi to make an interesting point about nuclear war, so what that it came from that movie and what it may have originally meant in the greater context of that movie or even where it was said so much as what it actually says and how it can be relevant to the tech itself. Make sense?

One major resistance to a change is that I like the fact that my recording is on it. Any change means a new recording will be necessary and I doubt I'll find time to do that for it myself and tbh, I don't like MOST of the voice acting on our techs though I admit I haven't taken the time to listen to some of the latest efforts so I don't know how good they are going in right now. To clarify, it's not because it's ME, but because I don't have a lot of faith that it will be done well.

 

[Yudishtira]

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." - Frederick Douglass

Sorry I didn't know that would be so easy...

From 30 seconds in: if you want to use this audio, I think I might be able to work out how to edit it.

 

[Thunderbrd]

I felt the current quote captured the idea of harnessing more primal elements for war, sound included.

I like yours in contrast and it does seem to be more direct. That recording... there are online sources that can take a youtube link and make an audio file out of it - can't recall what but it's probably fairly easily found. It's... interesting in full. I'm not sure it's really CLEAR enough to make out what he's saying but you're reading it at the same time. It definitely differs in style to the standard Nemoy target which is just clear vocal, though maybe that's ok here?

I'm now interested in hearing other opinions that can sway things here.

 

[JosEPh_II]

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." - Frederick Douglass

Sorry I didn't know that would be so easy...

From 30 seconds in: if you want to use this audio, I think I might be able to work out how to edit it.

I'm going to shock Yudishtira! I have been a big fan of Hawkwind since the early '70s.