| Off Topic > Games |
| The Elder Scrolls Megathread |
| << < (1838/2222) > >> |
| dkamm65:
--- Quote from: Man 2 on September 04, 2012, 09:46:28 PM ---The game operates on real world physics, yes; it just doesn't mean real-world measurements have to come into play. It's like how they always get around calling English "English" in works of fantasy, because in that universe there's no England. It's always "Common speech", or "Basic speech", or something to that effect. Just as there's no England in most works of fantasy, there is no metric system. My point is that you can call it whatever you want, and it doesn't necessarily have to be compatible with the real-world object. --- End quote --- I wouldn't care if you wanted to call the units smargenblooshes cause they aren't real units, but feathers exist in that world, and go by the same name. It makes no sense to call weight units feathers when Skyrim world feathers are light just like their real world counterparts. |
| Man 2:
--- Quote from: dkamm65 on September 04, 2012, 09:50:35 PM ---I wouldn't care if you wanted to call the units smargenblooshes cause they aren't real units, but feathers exist in that world, and go by the same name. It makes no sense to call weight units feathers when Skyrim world feathers are light just like their real world counterparts. --- End quote --- 1 league = 5.55600 kilometers League noun 1. a covenant or compact made between persons, parties, states, etc., for the promotion or maintenance of common interests or for mutual assistance or service. And by the way, have you ever dropped a feather on the ground in Skyrim? It plummets like a stone. |
| dkamm65:
--- Quote from: Man 2 on September 04, 2012, 09:52:35 PM ---1 league = 5.55600 kilometers League noun 1. a covenant or compact made between persons, parties, states, etc., for the promotion or maintenance of common interests or for mutual assistance or service. --- End quote --- Semantics. Even if you want to call it a feather as an alternative meaning to the word, that doesn't mean 1 mammoth snout weighs the same as 3 feathers. --- Quote from: Man 2 on September 04, 2012, 09:52:35 PM ---And by the way, have you ever dropped a feather on the ground in Skyrim? It plummets like a stone. --- End quote --- Because this game doesn't calculate air resistance. |
| Man 2:
--- Quote from: dkamm65 on September 04, 2012, 09:56:27 PM ---Semantics. Even if you want to call it a feather as an alternative meaning to the word, that doesn't mean 1 mammoth snout weighs the same as 3 feathers. --- End quote --- There are some very strange units of measurement out there; there's even a Wikipedia page that lists them. Some are named after real-world objects, some are named after real-world people. If 1 Newton is being exerted on an object, that does not mean Sir Isaac Newton may as well be sitting on it. It's just a word. |
| dkamm65:
--- Quote from: Man 2 on September 04, 2012, 10:18:34 PM ---There are some very strange units of measurement out there; there's even a Wikipedia page that lists them. Some are named after real-world objects, some are named after real-world people. If 1 Newton is being exerted on an object, that does not mean Sir Isaac Newton may as well be sitting on it. It's just a word. --- End quote --- That's because it's named after Newton. Units are given the names they have for reasons. They don't just throw a dart at a random page in the dictionary. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |