A missed opportunity for color text

[mechahamham]

You can see the following if you do Officer Field's introductory arc in Atlas, but there's no text to go along with the display.

 

 

Reaper: "I wanna talk to my lawyer!"

PPD Cop: "You're going to have to wait. We're trying to find one who'll wear hazmat gear."

 

PPD Cop: "*You* cuff him!"

PPD Cop: "I will very literally quit the force and go work in the Rogue Isles before I touch that."

 

Mortificator: "Oh, the fitness requirements for new police officers! They look..."

Reaper: "Delicious?"

Mortificator: "Deli... You just had to go and make it weird, didn't you?"

 

PPD Cop: "When we make it back to the precinct, I'm going to shower. Then I'm going to have another shower. Then, you know what? I may well just have a third and fourth shower and possibly even a fifth."

 

PPD Cop: "Dispatch, we need a coroner here in Atlas. Send some bodybags with him. How many?"

Mortificator: "..."

PPD Cop: "All of them. Good lord, this job..."

 

 

 

[Starhammer]

You know those AI videos making the rounds lately of alien invaders complaining about the horrors of fighting humans? I'd love to see these, and other NPC interactions rendered like those.

[mechahamham]

On 7/11/2025 at 2:32 PM, Starhammer said:

You know those AI videos making the rounds lately of alien invaders complaining about the horrors of fighting humans? I'd love to see these, and other NPC interactions rendered like those.

 

Y'know, I give those a *wide* miss. I'm okay with the AI art unless it's grotesque, but AI *voices* on the other hand make me start looking around for weapons to defend myself. I'm subject to not just the heebies, but a buffet full of jeebies.

 

It's worse if the AI voice is supposed to be a real person. The recent James Earl Jones stuff for Darth Vader's voice is horrific, and not in the good, Tarkin-must-be-holding-his-leash,-blowing-up-Alderaan-just-to-show-his-daughter-her-ol'-man-means-business-way.

[Starhammer]

On 7/15/2025 at 4:19 PM, mechahamham said:

 

Y'know, I give those a *wide* miss. I'm okay with the AI art unless it's grotesque, but AI *voices* on the other hand make me start looking around for weapons to defend myself. I'm subject to not just the heebies, but a buffet full of jeebies.

 

It's worse if the AI voice is supposed to be a real person. The recent James Earl Jones stuff for Darth Vader's voice is horrific, and not in the good, Tarkin-must-be-holding-his-leash,-blowing-up-Alderaan-just-to-show-his-daughter-her-ol'-man-means-business-way.

All the Vader impressions, even by other humans, never seem to get JEJ's actual tone right. It's like they remember it being deep, so they aim too deep, and it ends up not matching what was.

[RikOz]

5 hours ago, Starhammer said:

All the Vader impressions, even by other humans, never seem to get JEJ's actual tone right. It's like they remember it being deep, so they aim too deep, and it ends up not matching what was.

Ever listen to a non-SouthernUS, non-professional singer sing a country song? They almost invariably do so with a wildly exaggerated Southern drawl. They're (usually) not mocking the genre, they simply think that's how it sounds. The same thing happens with people trying to imitate Geddy Lee, of Rush, who has a rather unique voice. The imitators end up over-enunciating every syllable and for some reason putting undue emphasis on every "ee" sound.