Skyway CITY...Galaxy CITY...
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Posted on: 2011-07-18 06:04 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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A: Do you like Brooklyn?|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Brooklyn isn't even a lyn!
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C: I dunno, I've never Brookled.
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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Wow, is that an Abbot and Costello reference? Rare!
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Originally Posted by Melancton
A: Do you like Brooklyn?
C: I dunno, I've never Brookled. |
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
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Or, presumably, Ryan Reynolds?
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Or, I have one better - Darkest Night doesn't have anything to do with the darkest night I've ever seen. Mine didn't have smoke or tendrils.
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This is a song about a super hero named Tony. Its called Tony's theme.
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It's Nae a dress, laddie, it's a ruddy Kilt!
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
"Scotland is not a real country! You are an Englishman in a dress!" - The Soldier
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"Don't you know dead is spelled m-e-n-t-a-l in CoH? - SapphireShot
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Which is promptly followed by this exchange:|
Originally Posted by Eldritch_Knight
It's Nae a dress, laddie, it's a ruddy Kilt!
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Q: Well, um, what is worn under the kilt?
A: Therrre's nothin' worrrn under the kilt, laddie, it's all in perrrfect worrrkin' orderrr!
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
Skyway doesn't even have any skyways.
In the Freedom Phalanx novel, Skyway came off as this slightly decaying art deco landscape of glass walk ways and express lifts between grand buildings studded with broadcast communications towers and dishes. Kind of a juxtaposition of the Jet Age promise that never was with the grim reality of 1980's urban tech sprawl.
In-game, it's a gray oversized zone with huge, ugly, mostly empty highways that don't go anywhere.
Yeah.
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Panorama City, Studio City - Los Angeles.
City Line - Brooklyn
City Island - Bronx
Lake City, Columbia City, Hillman City - Seattle
Center City, Martin City - Kansas City
Vine City - Atlanta
etc...
Pick any major American metropolitan area and you will likely find at least one neighborhood named "something City". Often they will have once been a seperate city now incorporated into a larger city. Some may still have distinct governmental hierarchy of their own, others none at all. This is a common phenomenon in the real world.
Neighborhoods named "something Park" may or may not HAVE a park, may or may not have BEEN a park.
Truth or Consequences, NM was renamed from Hot Springs when the TV show "Truth or Consequences" announced they would broadcast from the first place that named itself after the show.
Federal Way, WA took its name from the Federal Way school district - which had simply been named after Federal Highway US 99 (which is now State Route 99) as there was no actual municipality covering the area at the time. Skyway City is hardly a stretch and in fact is quite realistic and sensible.
Galaxy City, of course, takes its name from Galaxy Girl.
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Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution
I'll give you a topic. Galaxy City is neither a Galaxy nor a City. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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I really like the Freedom Phalanx novel for that. Also, I'd love to see the Three Sisters restaurant in game.
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Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Skyway doesn't even have any skyways.
In the Freedom Phalanx novel, Skyway came off as this slightly decaying art deco landscape of glass walk ways and express lifts between grand buildings studded with broadcast communications towers and dishes. Kind of a juxtaposition of the Jet Age promise that never was with the grim reality of 1980's urban tech sprawl. In-game, it's a gray oversized zone with huge, ugly, mostly empty highways that don't go anywhere. Yeah. . |
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To give the game some depth and immersion? For all the reasons stated here about how actual "city" names exist in the U.S., I don't think it's any stretch of the imagination to assume that the writers/creators of lore in the CoH/V universe wanted to give some meaningful background to Paragon City. Giving them these names inserts some depth that the city aged and came to be just like normal cities do in the real world.
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Originally Posted by Xanatos
Yes but the game is called CITY of heroes.
So why, when you have the entirety of the English language to chose from, do you use the word CITY when naming neighborhoods? |
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So would I.|
Originally Posted by Zortel
I really like the Freedom Phalanx novel for that. Also, I'd love to see the Three Sisters restaurant in game.
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I don't have the novel on hand at this exact moment, but wasn't it supposed to be in Steel Canyon? If so, maybe they'll put it in if they ever give Steel the revamp treatment.
And Manticore's mansion, wherever it's supposed to be.
And Statesman's building.
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There was a segment on a SNL Weekend Update once in which the anchor (Dennis Miller? Kevin Nealon? Can't remember.) started off by saying, "Wonder Bread, which is neither, ..." I don't remember anything after that.
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I have a friend whose last name is Johnson, even though his dad was David. That's GOT to be awkward. |
Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Also, you can name your child something other than Mary in Maryland. I don't know why.
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We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
My family moved to the general Seattle area in the seventies, just in time for the big recession back then. One result of that recession was that the freeway expansion that was intended to connect Interstate 90 with Interstate 5 was all but abandoned. For nearly two decades, you had these off-ramps leading off into thin-air and exits to nowhere, right in the heart of the city. That image is what I think of when I think of Skyway City.
I think the zone should have had a few never-completed off-ramps and such to emphasize the idea of grandiose dreams, never fully realized.
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There is a neighborhood in Seattle called Lake City. There's probably other towns/cities/metropolises that utilize the same thing. So there is REAL WORLD precedence to name neighborhoods using the word "city".
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Originally Posted by Xanatos
Yes but the game is called CITY of heroes.
So why, when you have the entirety of the English language to chose from, do you use the word CITY when naming neighborhoods? |
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I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Someone drank too much Literal Juice this morning.
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Originally Posted by Xanatos
Yes but the game is called CITY of heroes.
So why, when you have the entirety of the English language to chose from, do you use the word CITY when naming neighborhoods? |
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Also, point of note, the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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And Vatican City is not a City, but a country.
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Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution
I'll give you a topic. Galaxy City is neither a Galaxy nor a City. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Whenever I hear the words "Holy Roman Empire," I hear Burt Ward saying it. "Holy Roman Empire, Batman!"
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Originally Posted by Doc_Reverend
Also, point of note, the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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That's the second time in fifteen minutes I've seen this like referenced.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
"Scotland is not a real country! You are an Englishman in a dress!" - The Soldier
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The Abrams is one of the most effective war machines on the planet. - R. Lee Ermy.
Q: How do you wreck an Abrams?
A: You crash into another one.
And the City of London is only a tiny bit of the city of London.
Figure that one out!
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Fixed that for ya. |
Originally Posted by Melancton
Q: Well, um, what is worn under the kilt?
A: Shoes and socks. |
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Why, when there are any number of topics to choose to create a thread about, would one choose THIS inane topic? I guess humans are just funny like that.
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So? Neither is White CITY, Oregon.|
Originally Posted by Xanatos
They're not cities.
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If America was required to have truth in naming conventions, we'd be SCREWED.
And the sign industry would BOOM.
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And what's up with Grapenuts... No grapes and no nuts!
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Originally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero
Fig Newtons are not a cookie. They're fruit and cake.
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Brooklyn isn't even a lyn!
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