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Sorry, I wasn't here when this thread began and I just saw someone quote that and found it difficult not to reply. I shall commence the process of shutting in the upward direction.

I'm pretty sure the English lessons you had in school definitely helped you anyway, even though you've gone through the core of the learning process on your own. You must've picked up some basics of the language from the lessons and a general nature of the structure of the language. After that it's all a matter of learning the vast vocabulary (IIRC you're Italian? Nearly all of Italian vocabulary is Latin and English derives a lot of its words from Latin as well so there's a bunch of shared vocabulary, you have to account for that having an easing effect as well) and picking up the details and minutiae of the grammar, and that is a much easier process when you already know the basics.

So translation is not free, but learning a foreign language is? Do you have any idea how difficult it is to learn a foreign language once you're over twelve years old, let alone twenty or higher? It would take at least a year (if the person learning the language is VERY talented at learning languages or speaks a relatively similar language like Dutch or German) and usually much more than that of learning a foreign language from scratch until someone who is over twenty years old got to the point where they could play the game without any language barrier problems. And let me tell you, if learning that language is not a part of your regular elementary and high-school education, that costs a LOT of money. I'm not even going to talk about how ridiculous it is to suggest that someone should learn a foreign language just so they could play a video game. I believe that is self-explanatory.

Wrong. I'm interested in making the game available and enjoyable to as many people in the entire world as possible. And that's what I've voted for.

It's just a way of remembering/honoring that person's sacrifice.

Not when you consider that great majority of them don't speak English, which is the official language of the forum. They probably have their own forums for discussing the game where they can do it in their own language.

0_o I wonder how you decided to stop at Olympics.

Except he wasn't an Olympic athlete. He was a messenger and he died of exhaustion! Fun fun!

Honestly, the poll results make no sense to me. Well, they do, considering most people would rather just vote selfishly instead of considering the number of people who would benefit from a translation into a certain lanauage (which would, in turn, benefit the game because more people would be likely to buy it). I selected Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. Why, you ask? Simple. Not only is there a whole bunch of native Chinese, Japanese and Korean speakers, but they are also far, FAR more likely to not have been taught and thus not know English than anyone anywhere in Europe. It's a simple linguistic fact. And of the European languages (I consider Turkish practically European) presented in the poll, the only one which covers significant portions of the world outside Europe is Portuguese: But I see my way of rationalising this is in great minority.

Well, for anyone who fails at... e-mail: http://www.kickstart...ty/posts/330758

It's my job to... eh... run about? Pheidippides...

Who gives a shoop.

Indeed it did. http://www.twitch.tv/obsidian/b/335806140 She's somewhere in there. Ugh...

You mean after KS ended?

Indeed. Which is exactly why we shouldn't go around laughing at each other's faces for something which we were all supposed to do to get in.

There is no reason to doubt that I did. The same cannot be said about you.

Did he?

You can't type because you're laughing? You laugh with your hands? So, I presume you haven't paid the additional 8$ and got in the Order anyway? Is there any way we could get this jackass troll kicked out, then?

Can you please just explain what you're talking about?

Oh, his point was that you can just not donate the additional 8$ and join the Order and none would be the wiser? Well, yeah, but that's just being a douchebag.

Duped? As in... deceived? Um... isn't that the whole point of the Order...?

Thank you!

I'm glad you think so, but I still think I screwed up. If I had donated that additional 8$ via Kickstarter, it would have gone towards making their Kickstarter record for video games even greater. That's nitpicking, but I'm a nitpicky sort of person. I'm sorry, brethren of the Obsidian Order.

Thanks!!! I completely missed that one at the bottom. I've donated 10$. :> Now I feel a bit better.