I'm in for the technobabble.
I'd like to get in on the technobabble too, even if I'm not very good at it. In fact, this is the reason I've decided to leave the editing of the tech descriptions of Exile's weapons for last. Basically, I dunno if I can write plausible technobabble, but I
can recognize when technobabble is obvious bullsh!t. Case in point: I
still haven't forgiven George Lucas for giving us the "hydrospanner" tool. A technobabble tool that means "waterspanner?"
Really, George? At least the Kessel Run in "less than 12 parsecs" was more forgivable! (Not to mention that we got a movie starring Emilia Clarke as a Star Wars femme fatale out of that!)
Is there any way to read those text blurbs/increase their resolution so we can decipher them?
And I'll at least take on the Squadron Complement/Math Is Cool blurb since I've done
previous work on that.EDIT: Is there any way to freeze the cutscene in place so that we can study particular frames, like with Vpviewer or something? It's a royal PITA to try to decipher a blurb of text that's only on the screen for half a second out of a 3 minute cutscene.
EDIT 2: I'm a dumbass, I just realized I can just go to YouTube and watch and pause the Colossus cutscene there.
Now I
have to contribute to the new Colossus cutscene, if only to make my own tribute to Kurtwood Smith, who both voiced this cutscene and memorably played Red in "That 70s Show."
"Computer, how do you say 'dumbass' in Vasudan?"EDIT 3: Ok, taking my first look at this, it looks like the text blocks in both Fighter Complements and Crew Descriptions are the same paragraph starting with "Math is cool" repeated over and over. I'm of half a mind to just go Monty Python on this and just do my own Freespace-ish version of the "Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I might even throw in some
Robocop and "That 70s Show" references in homage to Kurtwood Smith. Hell, I never saw "That 70s Show" but I did see
Robocop and that one Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode "Things Past" that Smith was in. And I can look up Red and "That 70s Show" in TV Tropes for material.
Oh
yeah, I'm gonna have
fun with this.
So, to reiterate, my chosen assignment(s) are 1) Fighter Complement (definitely) and 2) Crew Descriptions (maybe). Assistance/suggestions with the latter would be helpful/welcome, so PM me if you got any.