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Kurp ♥

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:30pm

What the drek?

What's with everyone using the word "drek" over ♥♥♥♥ and ♥♥♥♥?

Feels like I'm playing a censored version. Actual profanity would serve the dialogue so much more.

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Konst

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:31pm

why the drek would you care? just play the drekking game, drek.

lol. jk

nirth Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:31pm

Originally posted by Kurp:
What's with everyone using the word "drek" over ♥♥♥♥ and ♥♥♥♥?

Feels like I'm playing a censored version. Actual profanity would serve the dialogue so much more.

It's a shadowrun thing.

ATyger

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:32pm

Drek n., x. (vul) A common scatological curse word, as in "bulldrek;" adj. drekky.

Krathicus

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:33pm

Shadowrun slang

TransFat

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:34pm

The 80's, that's why. And you're welcome to have as much 80's as you like, we brought enough to share with all the younger people.

Noodlesocks has Shadowrun Returns

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:34pm

Originally posted by Kurp:
What's with everyone using the word "drek" over ♥♥♥♥ and ♥♥♥♥?

Feels like I'm playing a censored version. Actual profanity would serve the dialogue so much more.

A lot of cyberpunk/futuristic stuff make up their own curse words to avoid censorship. Judge Dredd does it, Batman beyond does it, Red Dwarf does it. It's pretty common and I imagine that all these made up words used in the game come from Shadowrun lore itself.

Last edited by Noodlesocks; Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:35pm

Pelican

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:35pm

All it makes me think is how much I want to rewatch Battlestar Frakking Galactica.

Technicali has Shadowrun Returns

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:35pm

It was used in Red Dwarf as well if anyone is from the UK

Last edited by Technicali; Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:36pm

elix

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:35pm

It's the future. Why must people talk exactly like we did in 1995?

Just imagine people in the 1940s complaining that someone dared write unusual dialogue for stories set in the far-off, bizarre future of the YEEEAAAAAARRRRR 2000. Does that seem sensible or just hilarious of a complaint to make?

nirth Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:35pm

Originally posted by Pelican:
All it makes me think is how much I want to rewatch Battlestar Frakking Galactica.

Do it.

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katarack21 has Shadowrun Returns

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:36pm

Originally posted by Noodlesocks:
Originally posted by Kurp:
What's with everyone using the word "drek" over ♥♥♥♥ and ♥♥♥♥?

Feels like I'm playing a censored version. Actual profanity would serve the dialogue so much more.

A lot of cyberpunk/futuristic stuff make up their own curse words to avoid censorship. Judge Dredd does it, Batman beyond does it. It's pretty common and I imagine that all these made up words used in the game come from Shadowrun lore itself.

Battlestar Galactica, too. And even in more recent things--Firefly used "shiny" and Chinese cursing for the same purposes. It's part of creating a unique world with a distinct flavor.

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katarack21 has Shadowrun Returns

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:37pm

Originally posted by SaturnRetrograde:
It was used in Red Dwarf as well if anyone is from the UK

Don't be a smeghead.

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elix

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:38pm

I'm working on a scifi story that uses "grot" as a perjorative, because it's got that nice, grungy, guttural roll to it.

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TransFat

Jul 25, 2013 @ 4:38pm

Personally, I subscribe to the idea that anyone who might complain about this sort of thing is basically saying "But I'm out of ear-shot of mummy and daddy-kins, I wanna curse a bunch *Pout*" Also: The 80's

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