Deiyen on 27/5/2002 at 07:10
Hello! Welcome me to the Deus Ex forums! Wheeehehe! Ok, I'm normal... really...
I used to be registered on TTLG 'cause I used to visit the Thief forums frequently. I've changed my name though. It was quite a while back anyway. I got into DX, awesome, awesome game. I play it like I play Thief though, same style, much stealth.
Anyway though, I wanted to ask if there's any way to export conversations from in game. Or if not, maybe someone can direct me somewhere that has quotes from in game? There's a couple that jump to mind. 1. The conversation with the Australian bartender in the Lucky Money Club in Hong Kong and 2. (possible spoiler) [SPOILER]The conversation with the Echelon III prototype AI in Everett's home in Paris[/SPOILER]
ICEBreaker on 27/5/2002 at 08:41
Isaac: Beer is 15; wine is 120.
JC: I'll take a drink. Gimme a forty.
Isaac: Excellent.
Isaac: Beer is 15; wine is 120.
JC: I'll take a drink. Wine, please.
Isaac: The best in Hong Kong.
JC: Can I ask you something?
Isaac: What do you want to know?
JC: Despite all I've read about the Triads, I wasn't prepared to see them operating in the open, on the streets, and wearing uniforms. Doesn't the Chinese government care?
Isaac: The Chinese leave Hong Kong alone. They barricade the roads to control trade to the mainland, but they know how business is done.
JC: I would think the secret smuggling operations of the Triads would disturb the Chinese government.
Isaac: Maybe the Luminous Path, but China knows that the Red Arrow are business owners, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and that they protect the city from outside influences.
JC: You said "outside influences." What does China fear?
Isaac: China is the last sovereign country in the world. Authoritarian but willing -- unlike U.N.-governed countries -- to give its people the freedom to do what they want.
JC: As long as they don't break the law.
Isaac: Listen to me. This is real freedom, freedom to own property, make a profit, make your life. The West, so afraid of strong government, now has no government. Only financial power.
JC: Our governments have limited power by design.
Isaac: Rhetoric... And you believe it! Don't you know where those slogans come from?
JC: I give up.
Isaac: Well-paid researchers -- how do you say it? -- "think tanks," funded by big businesses. What is that? A "think tank"?
JC: Hardly as sinister as a dictator, like China's Premier.
Isaac: It's privately-funded propaganda. The Trilateral Commission in the United States, for instance.
JC: The separation of powers acknowledges the petty ambitions of individuals; that's its strength.
Isaac: A system organized around the weakest qualities of individuals will produce these same qualities in its leaders.
JC: Perhaps certain qualities are an inseparable part of human nature.
Isaac: The mark of the educated man is the suppression of these qualities in favor of better ones. The same is true of civilization.
JC: I'm looking for Max Chen.
Isaac: Is that so? What is it about?
JC: Just curious, I guess.
Isaac: A tourist with a deathwish! Better just throw yourself in the canal.
JC: I need to find Tracer Tong.
Isaac: Are you crazy? Don't even say that name in here!
JC: Maggie Chow sent me.
Isaac: Ah, the beautiful Miss Maggie. You'll find the door just behind me.
JC: I'll get a drink later.
ICEBreaker on 27/5/2002 at 08:42
Morpheus: JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No --
JC: How do you know who I am?
Morpheus: I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. I am a prototype for a much larger system.
JC: What else do you know about me?
Morpheus: Everything that can be known.
JC: Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors?
Morpheus: You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather than of individuals.
JC: I'm engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up.
Morpheus: You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer.
JC: Are you programmed to invent riddles?
Morpheus: I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed by Dr. Everett allows me to convey the highest and most succint tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge.
JC: How about a report on yourself?
Morpheus: I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves.
JC: I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.
Morpheus: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.
JC: Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.
Morpheus: The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.
JC: Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.
Morpheus: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.
JC: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.
Morpheus: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
JC: You underestimate humankind's love of freedom.
Morpheus: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization.
Morpheus: The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning.
Morpheus: God was a dream of good government.
Morpheus: You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.
Morpheus: I was made to assist you.
Morpheus: I am a prototype of a much larger system.
Deiyen on 27/5/2002 at 09:00
Thank you very much! Where did you get that now...? If it was a website, could you give me the URL? If you just got them from the game, is it alright if I ask you about other quotes next time?
I've been reading some of your posts ICEBreaker, you bring up some really good points. [extends hand] Nice to meet you. :)
ICEBreaker on 27/5/2002 at 09:19
[shakes hand] No I did that myself for you. And yes, you can ask me for more quotes next time.
Rogue Keeper on 27/5/2002 at 09:35
There are common text files in the DX folder with all the conversations and text from the game. Handy for translators, although they are usually too long to view in Wordpad/Notepad.
Deiyen on 27/5/2002 at 09:48
Really... where are these files? I assume the System folder of DX? Can you point them out to me...? Thanks.
Thanks again ICEBreaker. If I have quote questions, I know where to go. :)
Rogue Keeper on 27/5/2002 at 10:19
You can find them either in the main DX folder or in one of its subfolders. Examine it carefully, I have forgot where exactly they are.... It is almost half an year I had it on my harddisc last time.
