News: Backstory: Historical Archive - Thomas Connery Holovid - 18.01.2636

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by razor851

That's one too many.

That's 5 to many the way some people seem to go on.

I guess people just want PS2 to look as good and professional as possible though, so I guess it's understandable.

I wonder what they're going to do for the actual PS2 launch, if the story is going to ramp up especially to that event. Could be a good way to boost hype that much more. I've been enjoying the slowly expanding story so far.

[Mod]

Also, to continue with the hole picking, whoever actually posted the news item on the website used the wrong image

[FastAndFree]

Originally Posted by Anathe

Tom Connery supplied signed affidavits containing more than 300,000 volunteers for his wormhole mission. He did so nine days before the Ministers’ imposed deadline. He stated that he will narrow the list to a total of 75,000. To carry them on their mission he has requested 128 ships be reconditioned. A launch date of May 13, 2638, the anniversary of the Armistice, has been chosen. The Ministers unanimously approved President Connery’s request and offered him their personal congratulations. Minister Adam Miller extended his desire to volunteer for the mission. President Connery accepted.

February 12th
May 13th

Now we wait.

Crap, do you know what this means????

If we can't get at least 75,000 volunteers to sign up THE FLEET WON'T LAUNCH

Tell your friends! Tell your dog! Hell, tell your enemies!

[TheBladeRoden]

Beta and release dates = confirmed!

[Sinistrad]

Some of the errors do take the edge off it. The big ones:

"The thousands of explorers that had returned to Earth empty handed were disappointing, to say the least."

"Sorry to interrupt, Tom, but you ever think the aliens, if they even exist, don’t want to be found?"

It would only take a few seconds to fix them.

Sentences with five or six clauses also look bad to me, but whatever.

[MgFalcon]

Don’t forget Pluto was blown up. If the aliens are capable of destroying entire planets, perhaps we have to take the initiative.

Pluto is a Planet again!!!!! Well before it was blown up... But I remember when Pluto was a Planet... Only move by science I actually truly hate.

[acosmo]

Don’t forget Pluto was blown up. If the aliens are capable of destroying an ice dwarf, perhaps we have to take the initiative.

ftfsoe

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Sinistrad

Some of the errors do take the edge off it. The big ones:

"The thousands of explorers that had returned to Earth empty handed were disappointing, to say the least."

"Sorry to interrupt, Tom, but you ever think the aliens, if they even exist, don’t want to be found?"

It would only take a few seconds to fix them.

Sentences with five or six clauses also look bad to me, but whatever.

Not to be an apologist, but it can be argued that those lines don't need to be "fixed".

For everyone on Earth, especially Sean, err Tom Connery, seeing the explorers return empty handed would be disappointing, to say the least.

Also, the other is a line of dialogue, and if you say the line then it does flow in the way people talk. People who speak grammatically perfect sound like robots.

[Graywolves]

Originally Posted by FastAndFree

Crap, do you know what this means????

If we can't get at least 75,000 volunteers to sign up THE FLEET WON'T LAUNCH

Tell your friends! Tell your dog! Hell, tell your enemies!

If we build it. They will come.

[Shogun]

oh my god... the devs can be sooooo evil! mentioning these dates in the backgroundstory is just soooo evil speculation fodder!

i can almost picture them how they say "let´s put in some near future dates so we can have fun during the holidays, on the psu speculation forums!"
and everybody explodes in laughter!

hell those guys know how to have fun ;-)

ps: remember the tentonhammer vote. firefall on second place again!

[HELLFISH88]

Originally Posted by Graywolves

If we build it. They will come.

^


Most people don't even know about the Fleet yet. This is Capitalist Trolling at it's finest.


I love these antics.

[Erendil]

Originally Posted by Sinistrad

Some of the errors do take the edge off it. The big ones:

"The thousands of explorers that had returned to Earth empty handed were disappointing, to say the least."

"Sorry to interrupt, Tom, but you ever think the aliens, if they even exist, don’t want to be found?"

It would only take a few seconds to fix them.

Sentences with five or six clauses also look bad to me, but whatever.

Okay... The first section of this historical archive is a diary entry. The subsequent sections are dictated minutes from Senatorial sessions. People generally don't obsess over proper grammatical syntax when writing/speaking informally. As such, we should not expect them to be grammatically perfect due to the nature of the source material.

Raymac is right. People are not robots. No extra proofreading is warranted IMO.

[Traak]

Originally Posted by Sinistrad

Some of the errors do take the edge off it; the big ones; "The thousands of explorers that had returned to Earth empty handed were disappointing, to say the least", and "Sorry to interrupt, Tom, but you ever think the aliens, if they even exist, don’t want to be found?" and it would only take a few seconds to fix them, and sentences with five or six clauses also look bad to me, but whatever.

There, fixed that for you!

[yonman]

Originally Posted by Raymac

Not to be an apologist, but it can be argued that those lines don't need to be "fixed".

For everyone on Earth, especially Sean, err Tom Connery, seeing the explorers return empty handed would be disappointing, to say the least.

Also, the other is a line of dialogue, and if you say the line then it does flow in the way people talk. People who speak grammatically perfect sound like robots.

Oh, so you don't vote for your representative based on correct diction and eloquence?
Probably one of those weirdos that vote on merit alone.
Intriguing.