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Cody wrote:

Have I mentioned how much I dislike my in-game hands? On a long cruise, the regular finger-flexing becomes mighty tedious - and in the middle of a tough dogfight, when I'm almost breaking my 'stick to stay in the fight, out of the corner of my eye I see the damn thing release its 'stick and do its flexing exercise! Repeatedly!

I've seen a number of similar posts over there.. left-handers with an Oculus Rift find it especially jarring/disconcerting/disorienting, apparently!

mossfoot wrote:

Oh, and I've decided to expand on my lingo posts by creating on for bounty hunters and one for pirates:

Pirates and Privateers - Know the Code
First of all, none of us go "arrrr" unless we're having a laugh. Let's get that out of the way right now.

How on earth (or in space for that matter) can you do 'Pirate' without "Arrr"

Having said that, there are few terms that might work as is (or with 'spacing up' a bit) -
Barnacle - Someone who hangs around and is hard to get rid of. Maybe a term for an interdiction episode; "I've picked up a barnacle"
Limpet - Someone who is getting the better of an 'action'; "He's a bit of a limpet." "I've got a limpet on my six."
Dog/Mongrel - Anyone who is perceived as a rival/enemy who perhaps escaped or wins an 'action'; "I'll be back to get you, dog", "Run you cowardly dog", "The mongrel took me apart".
Matey - a neutral term of address (esp. in Britain and the colonies)
Stand down - Surrender; "Stand down matey or you'll be chewing space dust"

And you've got to have a few (clean) Piratey adjectives -
Black, Mangey, Scurvy, Poxy - as in "I blasted the mangey mongrel out of the sky, the Poxy Black Suited Sun God"


As I'm in the mining industry, you've got me thinking about mining terms that might work. Unfortunately most miners explete every second word, so it might be a little hard to give good contextural meaning to the terms.

G'Day, Wotcher, Hi there - Hello (Wotcher may be an abbreviated mangle of what d'ya know)
What d'ya know - General ice breaker. Any news, gossip or useful info
Not much, you - Standard reply to 'What d'ya know'
Yep, Yeah, Yessiree - Yes
Nup, Nope, Nahh - No
edit: forgot Cheers - Thanks
F**k Off - General negative statement cf. Leave. Not saying. No way.

[expletive] - as noun, verb or adjective; "The [explet]ing [explet]ers [explet]ed"
Working, Digging, Drilling, Blasting - the act of mining
Pit/Prospect/Patch - place where mining occurs; "Workingh down't pit", "Out drilling my patch"
Digger, Equipment - Mining equipment - refers to ship, scanner, lasers, scoop (and perhaps refinery)
Ore, Sh!t - Stuff mined
Mullock, Waste, Crap - Not ore
Good, High Grade - quality descriptor of 'Sh!t'
Tonnes, Sh!tloads - quantity descriptor of 'Sh!t'
Drill, Blast - Use mining lasers; "...the sh!t"
Dig, Mine - Use the (mining) equipment; "...the sh!t"
Collect, Pick Up - Scoop, Retrieve; "...the sh!t"
Haul - Transport; "...the sh!t"
Dump - Offload, Sell; "...the sh!t"
Piece of Sh!t/Crap - Reference to bad/worse Equipment/Patch/Prospect
Blokes, Mates - Generic for miners and those friendly to them
Folks - generic for Not miners
Rock Licker/Rock Hopper - System Explorer/Surveyor. Tech specialist subclass of Not miner
Coldie - Alcohol (esp. beer), anything but namby-pamby wine or lolly water

"Not much. A [explet] rock hopper [explet] told me about this [explet] piece of sh!t, it's nothing but mullock, a [explet] piece of crap, you can't blast [explet] out of this sh!t, how am I supposed to [explet] make a living, [explet]! I think I'll go and see me mate, he's got some [explet] good sh!t, [explet] sh!tloads of it. He's a [explet] good bloke; if I buy him a couple of coldies, maybe he'll let me haul for him. Cheers, thanks for asking, now [explet] off."

Not extensive, but probably sufficient for a miner

mossfoot wrote:

First of all, none of us go "arrrr" unless we're having a laugh. Let's get that out of the way right now.

Or, of course, unless it's September 19th, aka International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Incidentally, loads of piratical/nautical terms can be found by following that link.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Cody wrote:

Have I mentioned how much I dislike my in-game hands? On a long cruise, the regular finger-flexing becomes mighty tedious - and in the middle of a tough dogfight, when I'm almost breaking my 'stick to stay in the fight, out of the corner of my eye I see the damn thing release its 'stick and do its flexing exercise! Repeatedly!

I've seen a number of similar posts over there.. left-handers with an Oculus Rift find it especially jarring/disconcerting/disorienting, apparently!

Maybe ED will start selling different pilot body models: left-handed ones, non-flexy-hand ones, ones with "Hello Kitty!" gloves, etc.

I like that idea, can we have creepy aye-aye fingers as a special easter egg unlock please?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NI0ijhIxK0E/U ... ayeaye.jpg

Disembodied wrote:

Maybe ED will start selling different pilot body models: left-handed ones, non-flexy-hand ones, ones with "Hello Kitty!" gloves, etc.

<sobs> At least my in-game knees aren't jigging about - if they are knees that I see!

Why are you wearing shorts in a cockpit? Oh, they're not knees are they? I didn't realize it was that kind of game.

If I'd chosen the female pilot, they would definitely not be knees that I'm seeing!

SteveKing wrote:

As I'm in the mining industry, you've got me thinking about mining terms that might work. Unfortunately most miners explete every second word, so it might be a little hard to give good contextural meaning to the terms.

What do you think of the list I actually came up with?

Miners: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... &p=1811584

(I derived it from several sources, two American and one Australian, plus added a few of my own)

ClymAngus wrote:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NI0ijhIxK0E/U ... ayeaye.jpg

whatever this strange animal is in this picture it looks like it's just found out that if it climbs high enough up the tree it can peer into into its neighbours bathroom window

Community Goals - what a heart-warming concept! <grins wryly>

E:D reviewed on Good Game this week:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE7I-Q22zZA

mossfoot wrote:

What do you think of the [mining] list I actually came up with?

Hi Mossfoot,
Had a chance to consider the mining slang over the weekend. I expect you managed to get to the site that had a bit of Klondike slang – I couldn’t get to it, but I found a good site of New Zealand terms (and a couple of Californian Gold Rush sites). I had a look at an English coal mine slang site, but not a lot of it is applicable or transferable to asteroid mining.

The list you’ve got is fairly intuitive (for an Australian miner). Just a few things that hopefully can be added or that make a bit more sense, I’m sending a PM as it might be a bit long for here. Hopefully it will flesh out what you already have.

On a related topic, is there such a thing as ‘gas mining’ or ‘atmosphere mining’ in ED, a la Bespin? There would be another slang set to go with that.

Wildeblood wrote:

E:D reviewed on Good Game this week:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE7I-Q22zZA

Hex still has it...lol

the trend for instant gratification , pick up and play games shows through on this program. but seeing as it is meant for kids then its easy to understand. kids just dont seem to want to "earn" their way to better things in games like ED or Oolite etc... basically they get bored with the grind.... wait till you leave home and get a job lol. thats one grind you cant avoid...

If my day to day grind was this sumptuous, I would leap out of bed with a happy grin.