[Discussion] Community spirit - "Off Topic"

[Vormav]

Maybe someone will rewrite PT in Unreal Engine 3? ;)

YouTube - Unreal Engine 3 Features Trailer [HD]

PT 3 on UE3...
cryEngine sux btw >=P

Hopi: DX11 MSAA Hair
Hopi: DX11 Subsurface scattering
Hopi: APEX clothing

[bobsobol]

Sadly, they did. It's call "Second Enigma" and it sucks harder than a starving ant eater on a termite mound.

YouTube - [HD] Priston Tale 2: The Second Enigma (Trailer+Gameplay)

Actually, I believe they fist added the Unreal II Engine, but the option to upgrade is simple. What isn't simple is

1. converting the assets to take advantage of all those new features
2. getting a large enough player base that all have quad core CPUs clocked over 2.7 GHz and Dual PCIE DirectX 11 Graphics arrays
3. Performing all of that AND coping with a Massively Multi-player environment.

So, even if you use the engine, you will probably want to keep most of those features turned off and add them as the cost of hardware comes down over the next 5 to 8 years.

Sadly, the game blows goats, so the fact that it has been running betas since about 2008 and actually made it to release amazes me. Especially when Laxe Lore totally owned and never made it out of beta.

I still can't see how it is an improvement on Rappelz, which nFlavor have been running for ages, and I've had a GPotato account since before I joined up here.

YouTube - Rappelz HD: 1080p test

Oh yea, I have no idea where that player got the silly cat costume from. I only ever played Gaia and Deva, but I'm guessing they have possessed their "pet" to the extent that the actual player has become the "assist".

[SheenBR]

pt2 sucks.

[bobsobol]

No argument from me.

[SheenBR]

Just to bump with an awesome song:
(indeed, I dont understand almost nothing, ahaha, that kind of songs with too much slangs are hard to understand so I got one with lyrics.)

YouTube - ‪Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton) - Lyrics‬‏

For those who are native english speaker:

YouTube - ‪Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton)‬‏

[bobsobol]

Okay. As de-slang as I can get it.

(Oh.)
Lonely Island, Michael Bolton.
(Yeah.)
Together on the track, the boys are back. [We return to sing a song together.]
The night starts now baby roll with us, [Join us for this evenings entertainment]
Chickens snappin' at the neck when we're rollin' up. [Women staring at us so hard their necks may break when we arrive.]
(Rollin' up.)
Blow through the doors ain't no holdin' up, [We don't wait in line, just walk right in]
Black card at the bar like I give a fuck. [We're card holding members, don't have to pay for drinks]
(Yeah!)
(Come on.)
Ladies shifty eyes when we walk into the set, [On stage the women don't want to be seen watching, but can't help doing so]
Fuck the fellas lookin' jealous play the back and get wet. [The guys behind us are green with envy which just makes us look better and turns the girls on more]
Three pounding in my waist, [three girls pressing close on the dance floor]
shank in my sock, [I have an erection]
you either get out, [leave now]
get stuffed, [go away]
or get shot. [She'll turn you down cold and embarrassingly]
Yeah yeah!

This is the tale of Captain Jack Sparrow,
A pirate so brave on the seven seas.
(What?)
A mystical quest on the isle of Tortuga,
Raven locks sway on oceans breeze. [Black curly hair blowing in the ocean wind]

Yea that was kinda' weird, but we're back in the club.
Buyin' up the bar so the groupies show us love. [our fans love us coz we're buying them drinks]
Kiera Knightly
Motherfucking ice man, I'm the top gunner, [Shut up has-been, I'm the star here]
Heater on blast, I'm the number one stunner. [Like an automatic side arm I'm *very* sexy]
Jack Sparrow
Watch it girl coz I ain't your "Mr. Nice Guy",
[Listen Miss, I'm a bit of a scallywag]
More like the "meet ya, take you home and fuck you twice guy". [I'm not waiting for invitations, I'm looking for lots of sex]
Yeah
All dressed up with nowhere to run, [You're well turned out but I won't let you escape] (play on "all dressed up with nowhere to go", commonly said when you prepare for a party but get turned down at the last minuet)
And now I make you feel crazy with the...
Now back to the good part!

From the day he was born,
He yearned for adventure.
(Nooo)
Old Captain Jack
(yeah)
Giving them "what for"" [giving them a pasting]
He's the pauper of the surf [unhealthy traveller of the waves]
The Jester of Tortuga [court comedian and confidant]
(Oh God)
But is Davy Jones' Locker, [Is a death & burial at sea]
What lies in store?
(Yea, we've seen the movie.) [We saw the film.]

Throw your hands in the air and say hell yeah, come on! [Surrender and give in to my charm, you know you want to]
(Captain Jack)
What!?
(Johnny Depp!)
No!
From the front to the back,
Say we count stacks. Come on! [Everyone in the house knows we're rich and influential]
(Davey Jones)
Nope
(Giant Squid)
Wrong
Michael Bolton we're really gonna need you to focus up. [Okay Michael, get with the plot and concentrate]
Roger that, let me try with another film.
(Wait)
Life is a box of chocolates,
And my name is Forest Gump.
(Not better)
Though I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, [I'm not very cleaver]
I give Jenny all my love.
(Come on)
Okay then I'm a Legal Aid,
Erin Brockovich is my name.
(Noo! God!)
Then you can call me Scarface,
Snorting mountains of cocaine.
(Close enough)
You cockroaches wan'na play rough? [I look down on you, do you want to do this the hard way]
Okay, I'm reloaded!
This is the tale,
Of Tony Montanya.
Cubano Flame, with the Miami Nuts. [IDK what that means]
Got a Basshead wife, [My wife is highly addicted to Base Heroine]
But her womb is polluted. [Err... not sure.]
This whole town's a pussy [Everyone in this place is a coward]
Just waiting to get fucked! [I'm going to beat them up]

Okay,
Turns out Michael Bolton is a major cinephile. [It appears Michael Bolton is a adorant cinema fanatic]
(You complete me)
Yep, yeah, okay.

[SheenBR]

LMFAO! very good, thanks bob.


This whole town's a pussy [Everyone in this place is a coward]
Just waiting to get fucked! [I'm going to beat them up]


I understood that in the 1st time xDD

Yamachi told me this is a parody song. This is a parody from which song?

[bobsobol]

I wouldn't say it was a parody of anything in particular. (at least nothing that I know of) I'd simply paradoical of pop music in general... like all of Lonely Islands' tracks.

Weird Al Yankovic does Parody, like this one of Don McLeans' "American Pie"
"Weird Al" Yankovic - The Saga Begins

[SheenBR]

well, as far as I can tell, that parody is from Star Wars, right? Well, I didn't learn slangs in my english classes, and The Event & Supernatural doenst use too much slangs too, so if you can teach me some of them I'd be glad lolol

[bobsobol]

It mixes Don McLeans "American Pie" for the music with the story from Star Wars - Episode 1 - "The Phantom Menace", yes.

The trouble is, there are so many forms of "slang", and that's the main area for deviation in "global" English. Slang terms are colloquial, and based in regional and Ethnic heritage.

For example, both Cockney (from the greater London area) and Australia use a form of "Rhyming Slang" which requires one to know the common phrase who's end sounds like the word you are mimicking. But the rhymes are different in the to sub-dialects. "Apples and Pears" (Apples) = "Stairs", "Syrup of Figs" (Syrups) = "Wigs", "Tit for Tat" (Titfer) = "Hat", "Ruby Murry" (Ruby) = Curry etc. I don't know the Australian variant very well.

In Britain, "Cockney slang" is often intermixed with Polari, which was developed by the homosexual community when homosexuality (among men) was a crime punishable by death, (from the Victorian reign right up until the mid 60s) in order to escape that cruel justice. But that "slang" has also evolved. So the original meaning of "naff" ("Not Available For Fucking" a straight man) is now anything that is not very good. The popular 4 letter word "fuck" is also an Acronym from the time of the Norman conquest of the English, where prostitution (previously an honourable trade profession) became a crime, and practitioners where sentenced "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge".

There is "Hip Talk", which was a slang first developed in the late 50s' and early 60s' by "beatniks" and associated with "Hippies" and the "Surfing" / "New Age" and "Travelling" communities is another common example. "Far out" = "an incredible thing", "No way" = "Extraordinary", "Bummer" = "That's sad", "Bodacious" = "A daring and rightfully achievement" etc.

There is the reverse psychology of African American "Street Slang" (that I'm very bad at) where "Bad" = "Good", "Nigger" = "Friend", "Honkey" = "White man", "Brother" = "Black man", "Slaughtered" = "Well appreciated" etc.

And then you get the typical Jamaican "Street Slang" that... IDK. If you watch this, you will get a very good example, and very few "English" speakers understand this form of "slang":-

Snow - Informer

I can tell you that "Word" = "Tell me" or "I'm telling you", "Boom boom down" = "Assassination", "Play" = "Trick", "Jiggle it rait" = "Shapely woman", "Lick up" = "Beat up", "Flame" = "lover" etc.

There is traditional Jamaican slang in there too so "Likki" is "small" ("little"), "babylon" = "the authorities" (traditionally, white men), "most high" / "jah" = "God" (Jah Rastafari), "busted" = "caught out" / "a failed prank" / "arrested", "Lone-taim gwan" = "in the past", "riet naow" = "Okay" or "in the present", "me" = "I", "him" = "he", "her" = "she", "Ya" = "you", "ya naow" = "you understand" ("you know?"), "tinke" = "work it out" or "estimate" ("think" different connotation), "dyam fool" = "careless" ("Damned fool" different connotation) etc.

Something more like this:-

Shaggy - Boombastic

The video you posted uses many slang dialects, including old sailing slang from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" so "Swarthy dog" = "good colleague", "slip sway" = "set sail", "salty sea urchin" = "one for who the ocean has long been his home", "scallawag" = "thief" / "wrong doer" etc. It's mostly a collection of old English, and early English colonial colloquialisms.

You get "slang" from Jewish migrants producing a complete new language "Yiddish" as a mix of traditional "Hebrew" and the many languages they encountered in their travels, and "Yiddish" finds it's way into the languages of all the places they visit(ed), so "shister" comes from the German for "defecation" but means "bad person" in Yiddish slang, hence we also call bad people "shits".

Then you get the "Dance culture" slang where "shit" is a mind altering chemical substance (usually of dubious legality), "wicked" = "a good time", "tearing it up" = "really working hard and having fun", (extreme version of the 1940 dance term "cut a rug", where high heels would trash carpet) "blaze" = "smoking pot" etc.

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The street slang from second or third generation Indian and Pakistani immigrants (who's fore-fathers where probably escaping the turmoil of the exit of the British Empire and splitting of India and Pakistan) here in Britain is very popular, and you see it a lot in "Goodness Gracious Me", where "init" is abbreviated from "isn't it" but means "Don't you think?" or "You know what I'm talking about." and such.

Much of which comes from the "Ragga" influence from the joining of the Caribbean and Asian (Indian / Pakistani) immigrants.

INDIAN RAGGA GIRLS (THE REAL MCCOY)

So... all in all, you have to work out the heritage of the "slang" you are listening to, in order to work out what the words, or phrases mean. Out of context, they are pretty meaningless. And this is where a lot of people trip up using automatic translators, in any language. I know there is a lot of "Brazilian slang" used on MIB which doesn't translate, because it isn't common / traditional "Portuguese", and sadly many Brazilians aren't aware of the differences between their contemporary mode of speech (their cultural identity) in comparison to the Portuguese they inherited (or had forced upon them) from their colonial fore-bares.

I suspect you (unlike many other Brazilians) would know far more about that. And certainly more than I do.

The history of colonisation is something which Britain understands well... negatively, from our former British Empire, starting with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. But also from the waves of Northern European and Mediterranean colonisation of the British Isles which forged the "English" language in the first place.

"English" has always been a "melting pot". It's base is a mixture of Norse, Galic, Celtic, Latin, Saxon, French and Bretton.

So we have no problem with it acquiring influences from other cultures it comes into contact with. Though the differences between British English and American English, "Hood" = "Bonnet", "Side walk" = "Pavement", "Pavement" = "Road", "Trunk" = "Boot", "Eraser" = "Rubber", "Rubber" = "Condom" etc. can also be very confusing. XD

I was always told off for referring to a "rule" as a "ruler" in school, as that is an Americanism. A "rule" is a measuring instrument, a "ruler" is a person in charge. Now, most British people would call a "rule" a "ruler". I was also chastised (by my parents) for using the word "ain't" for it's being "bad English", and I should use the word "isn't" instead. However, from "The Scarlet Pimpernel" the character of "Sir Percy Blakeney" frequently flourishes the word "ain't", as a popular high-class term.

So the evolution is on-going. The language is still a living, evolving thing.

[SheenBR]

I guess I can make the old 1.66b work in my emu..

(Just to entertainment

YouTube - ‪LMFAO Party Rock Anthem Lyrics‬‏

xD )

[lucashz]

lol, no comments

[Vormav]

I doubt anything will change.



PS. I did not found Justing Biber in PT threads so we are not doomed yet!

[Gregoo]

PS. I did not found Justing Biber in PT threads so we are not doomed yet!

We are now

[SheenBR]

wtf, that guy, hes really faggot. Music is turning itself into shit nowadays.
Where the fuck is the old Guns? Megadeth? -.-