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I'm reading while listening to random tracks from the soundtrack on youtube, that's really some pretty fine music. Makes me want to pour a whiskey myself. Also, love the .gifs. I found the cigar, but I filtered out the newspaper as rubbish. On the roof...gently caress that poo poo. I thought it'd be the axe/hammer and the latch or something. Those dots didn't even register.
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All the conversations are written from Orlando's perspective. Seeing as how prohibition ended, he is probably completely hammered, constantly, only capable of slurring (racial) insults at passersby and getting into constant fights. His mind translates his speech into what, to his addled brain, sounds like marvelously witty responses. In his drunken stupor he imagines reliving his glory days, stringing multiple booze fueled days and nights into a coherent narrative of solving a non-existent murder mystery. From the drunk tank at the police station, to various bars, stealing money left and right to buy more booze, he finally lands in the city's sewer system, following an imaginary trail on a road paved with empty bottles. Well, that, or the translation was botched up from already cheesy text.
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Mar 2, 2015 23:40
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Perhaps they translated the game by giving Orlando's dialogue to one guy, all the other dialogue to another translator, and never showed either of them the context the dialogue was supposed to happen in. Both translators think they're crafting witty, top-notch dialogue, put them together and it's surrealism. But that shot with the police ambling off is just too pelfect.
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Mar 6, 2015 20:37
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Thank you, this was amazing. I've never been so baffled by a video game before.
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Mar 15, 2015 23:35
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That's actually a pretty common ye olde way of making a lockpick. I can't find any good translation so I'm just going to  In German, the thing Orlando made would be called a Dietrich. It's a very simple tool used to unlock equally simple locks like this one. Wikipedia thinks that 'Dietrich' should be translated as 'skeleton key', but that just doesn't fit the bill. It's not so much a blank key to be used on multiple locks, but more a home-made back-up key or burglary device. Perhaps this is a European or specifically German/Polish thing?
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