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Zash Krusov
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.28 20:04:00 -
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Small thing, but one that always bothers me when I look at attributes of weapons...
I humbly request (read: demand) that all instances of the word 'clip' (outside of where it is appropriate IE: 'clipping') be replaced by the technically accurate term 'magazine'. For the simple reason that using 'clip' perpetuates ignorance, and while very common in video games, and in real life, to refer to magazines, it is incorrect.
A Gek-38 does not have a clip. It has a magazine.
A swarm launcher does not have a clip. It has a magazine.
etc, etc.
This may seem frivolous, and may even cause a handful of Dust players to scratch their heads thinking "magazine wtf?", but in the long run, I think it will benefit the game and society as a whole. Do it for the children.
I'm sure it isn't as simple as enter database, find (clip) replace with (magazine), but think about it  |
Godin Thekiller
Ghost Wolf Industries
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Posted - 2013.04.28 20:22:00 -
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Swarms, Shotguns, HMG's, and Mass Drivers have drums. All laser tech have batteries. All hybrid tech have magazines. Yet they call them clips.....
Peace, Godin  |
Zash Krusov
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.28 20:29:00 -
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Godin Thekiller wrote:Swarms, Shotguns, HMG's, and Mass Drivers have drums.
Drums are magazines.
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Godin Thekiller
Ghost Wolf Industries
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Posted - 2013.04.28 20:42:00 -
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It's a type of magazine. Whatever, we get it.
Peace, Godin |
Spademan
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
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Posted - 2013.04.28 20:47:00 -
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Godin Thekiller wrote: All laser tech have batteries. Peace, Godin
Battery magazine, duh.
But I agree, and to my knowledge a clip is located inside a magazine. |
Mithridates VI
IMPSwarm
Negative-Feedback
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Posted - 2013.04.28 21:19:00 -
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In the future they call them all clips.
Hate to break this to you but thousands of years from now language might have changed a little. |
Arkena Wyrnspire
Turalyon Plus
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Posted - 2013.04.28 21:26:00 -
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I MUST BE PRECISELY CORRECT!!!11!!one1! |
Zash Krusov
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.28 21:45:00 -
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Mithridates VI wrote:In the future they call them all clips.
Hate to break this to you but thousands of years from now language might have changed a little.
I refuse to believe in a future where there aren't perfectionists correcting others' grammar.
I simply refuse.
Quote:I MUST BE PRECISELY CORRECT!!!11!!one1!
Precisely correct is better than precisely incorrect
On a more serious note, however, I like Dust quite a bit, and I think it's a smart enough game to not drink the video game koolaid of using the incorrect term.
It doesn't bother me when action games that have you dual wielding Desert Eagles and AK's while skydiving call magazines clips. They aren't games that are intended to be taken seriously.
Dust, to me, comes off as "Hey, we are a more serious, more meaningful shooter than your average CoD or Halo clone". It comes off as a 'smart' game. A smart game that has an incorrect term in all of its weapons' attributes.
It is entirely possible that in the future of EVE, magazines are called clips (disregarding the fact that every other facet of the English language remains intact), but on the off chance that it is an oversight of game development, or a term not set in stone for Dust, this thread was made.
May not matter to you, that's cool. Reload dem clips, yo. |
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Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2013.04.28 22:49:00 -
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Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:I MUST BE PRECISELY CORRECT!!!11!!one1!
THIS VIDEO GAMES CONTAINS THINGS THAT DO NOT AND CANNOT EXIST IN THIS WORLD???
UN-*******-BELIEVABLE! FORUM POST INCOMING!
on a slightly more related note, I don't call it mag because there was a crappy game I never played called MAG, and some people play this game have.
Also, clip sounds better than mag ^-^
idc what the text says, It'll always be a clip 2 me! |
slypie11
Planetary Response Organisation
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Posted - 2013.04.28 23:30:00 -
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Hate to break it to you guys, but the magazine is actually the mechanism you put the clip in, the clip is the actual bullet holder thing. |
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Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2013.04.29 02:02:00 -
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slypie11 wrote:Hate to break it to you guys, but the magazine is actually the mechanism you put the clip in, the clip is the actual bullet holder thing.
Just had to double check before I posted a response, but why don't I post what I found on google instead? :3
http://www.minutemanreview.com/2008/09/clip-vs-magazine-lesson-in-firearm.html |
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