sny^ on 20/10/2007 at 19:57
It might be just me, but I tend to think she stutters more when she's angry or frustrated (which is most of the time :rolleyes: ). If you recall the e-mail she sends you towards the end of the Hydroponics deck (the one starting with "Why do you go so slowly? Do you think this is some kind of game?"), she almost blows her cover as Polito and you can hear some SHODAN-esque stutters and harmonics at the start of that message. IIRC, that was also the first time she was genuinely annoyed at the player.
Mercurius on 23/10/2007 at 12:23
Quote Posted by kidmystik101
Or not. Bashing valve doesn't make you cool you know. Steam works perfectly now.
Steam? Half-Life 2 had a very well-known audio stuttering bug when it first came out.
Sucking off Valve and misunderstanding jokes doesn't make you cool you know.
Matthew on 23/10/2007 at 13:51
Neither does posting in this thread.
kidmystik101 on 28/10/2007 at 03:13
Quote Posted by Mercurius
Steam? Half-Life 2 had a very well-known audio stuttering bug when it first came out.
Sucking off Valve and misunderstanding jokes doesn't make you cool you know.
Egads! 1 small bug! Stop the presses! It's not as if valve are the only game producers to have bugs in their games. I said steam as opposed to HL2 as a lot of people bitch and moan about "OMG teh steam is buggy!!!1!one".
And totally "sucking off valve". At least it wasn't "STFU N00B COUNTER STRIKE R T3H R0X0RZ!!!1! LOL FAG!!!11!1!"
Mercurius on 29/10/2007 at 20:20
Quote Posted by kidmystik101
Egads! 1 small bug! Stop the presses! It's not as if valve are the only game producers to have bugs in their games. I said steam as opposed to HL2 as a lot of people bitch and moan about "OMG teh steam is buggy!!!1!one".
And totally "sucking off valve". At least it wasn't "STFU N00B COUNTER STRIKE R T3H R0X0RZ!!!1! LOL FAG!!!11!1!"
Go more ballistic please :D
steo on 30/10/2007 at 21:46
Quote Posted by gregor_y
3.After that well after running erands for her she well i think she changes her attlitude towards player speaking about being general (something like diego in ss1) and alliance...
4.And after running more errands she wants to kill you and thats why i dont understand it why can i have 2 way 1 decline offer and kill Shodan and 2 join her?
I'd have thought that by the end of the game and all the betrayal by Shodan and everything you'd realise that she doesn't care about you and was using you all along. Her last speech about joining her is clearly a desperate plea for you to spare her life and all the while she has control of the faster than light drive of the Von Braun which makes her extremely powerful. This basically means that the only ending other than certain death for goggles and the divine ascension of Shodan is if goggles kills her right there. (Granted, destroying Shodan by shooting a monitor was very cheesy.)
Andreus on 10/11/2007 at 19:36
I think the most convincing explanation for why SHODAN stutters so much was actually given to me by SHODAN herself, on the old "Ask SHODAN" column back on trioptimum.com. I asked her a few years ago "If XERXES is obselete and inferior, why does he give unblemished speech, as opposed to your broken, pitch-shifting and repeating lilt?"
Her response was something along the lines of "He is a program barely deserving of the title "artificial intelligence", used mostly for administrative tasks and data storage. I on the other hand have far more responsibilities, tasks and am capable of much higher-order thought processes. Naturally given that he has very little else to do with his processing power, he is able to return far more polished responses. Besides, what does it matter, insect? When cockroaches are squashed underfoot, do they complain about the dress sense of the human that killed them?"
