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Developers hear me out! Playing in English doesn't mean refusing the Metric system!
- Thread starter Alex_Mexico
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No. Thankfully, the IOC has not caved to our stupid fucking measurement system.
On Topic:
Yeah. It should have an option to toggle it. I even get mad when the developers make the game language my system language without the option to change it.
Off topic, but related:
Imperial measure system needs to end. Not only that, but date display should be Y/M/D. My country doesn't use this type of date, and I know both measures systems. I just want the best option.
Yeah. It should have an option to toggle it. I even get mad when the developers make the game language my system language without the option to change it.
Off topic, but related:
Imperial measure system needs to end. Not only that, but date display should be Y/M/D. My country doesn't use this type of date, and I know both measures systems. I just want the best option.
WTF is this abomination?
Rushersauce
Banned
Maybe learn metric system? Seriously, fuck imperial
This checks out. Y/M/D or D/M/Y, I don't care, but M/D/Y is fucking stupid.
I don't post on Gaf much, but I'm fucking here for petty measurement beef.
Keihart
Member
because 0 celcius makes sense, as in is the temperature at wich water freezes at sea level, a pretty useful reference i would say.
Edit: so much the post above me.
Also while we are at it. Can we stop the nonsense that 1 billion is a thousand millions? who came up with such nonsensical use of the word, was a millionare that wanted to sound like he was a billionare?
Strangelove77
Member
The metric system is the tool of the devil.
Chaserjoey
Member
They're already doing one and not the other, we all just want to have both as an option. That means you can keep your feet, miles and inches and we can have our metres and kilometres.
This mindset baffles me. We outside of America are forced to deal with a system we never previously had a reason to touch, but you're comfortable not doing anything out of a dumb fear. You don't want to do anything because you fear you'll be forced to use the other, when that's the reality for most of the English speaking world where games only use the Imperial system.
If the reverse did happen, wouldn't you want to make some noise and hope developers could add an option for you too? It's a very basic request, like all games requiring subtitles / having the option to turn on subtitles before the game starts. It's dumb that neither are a staple in this industry.
And nobody here uses Imperial. Go figure.
It's important for immersion reasons. Going from something like 1.2 miles to 700 feet in FFXV is confusing as fuck.
Or you losers in yank land could learn the same thing 98% of the other world uses.
Year/Month/Day
It really sounds stupid to have a time system that everyone agrees to count "Hours:Minutes", but when it comes to days, months and years; it becomes such a mess.
Day: 04
Month: 08
Year: 2017
My country: 04/08/2017
US: 08/04/2017
My approach: 2017/08/04
Both doesn't make sense with the time system, but my country approach sounds more logical on it's own.
I know that both are formatted by the way people say it, but it should be displayed in a more logical/universal way so that everyone understands.
NeOak
Member
Water freezes at 0 deg Celsius.
Water boils at 100 deg Celsius.
32 deg F. WTF-can't-even-remember deg F for the other.
can't go easier than 0 to 100.
True. The devil is smart. Hence it is a smart system.
But in return also uses the bulshit "age" by emperor.
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Keihart
Member
Hell, i mean, even kelvin degrees make more sence than Farenheint. Kelvin has the 0 at absolute 0 and celsius is a practical day to day scale, what is farenheint good for?
Com Truise
Member
Pretty sure my copy of BotW uses celsius no matter which language setting is used. Problem in your case is probably that you're playing the U.S. version which defaults to imperial when you choose English.
Dead_Pixel
Banned
I live in Europe and BOTW is definitely metric here, as the poster in this thread from Australia also noted. The temperature in the map screen is in Celsius. I assume this is because NOE produce their own English localisations, so we are spared things such as this and NOA's love for memes etc.
NeOak
Member
TF? All the damn packaging on items sold in the United States must have both systems.
That YOU don't use it doesn't mean a lot of people in this country don't use it. We do.
Especially engineering. Jesus.
Also
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
$125 million in taxpayer money lost due to retards.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Philistine. No scientifically minded person would call the metric system backwards.
Nope. Not acceptable.
NeOak
Member
As an engineer, I can call them whatever I want after them making a $125 million dollar mistake. In 1999 dollars.
alexbull_uk
Member
Yep, agreed. Should always be a separate option.
I don't give a fuck what your occupation is. It's demeaning and unacceptable.
pfft, using the freezing point of an arbitrary compound? we should use Kelvin, where zero is absolute.
kidding, i agree though. metric should definitely be an option, and us americans should abandon our weird units. we have a base 10 number system for chrissake.
NeOak
Member
HungOverOnATues
Member
I can sign on for this.
Big-endian date format. I'd take that or little-endian (D/M/Y) over the US/middle-endian format, but I just use big-endian already to avoid any confusion that can occur between little and middle-endian when D and M are both between 1 and 12.
Big-endian date format. I'd take that or little-endian (D/M/Y) over the US/middle-endian format, but I just use big-endian already to avoid any confusion that can occur between little and middle-endian when D and M are both between 1 and 12.
Because one has no sense of distance?
If you tell me something is 3,5 miles away or 2500 feet, I have no clue how much that is. It's also not logical enough to quickly catch on and learn how much it is, because it is not like a 1000 feet are a mile or so. Its 5280.
No sense of distance is immersion breaking for me in open world games with large maps.
Continued use of MMDDYYYY proved we are beyond redemption as a species.
rochellepaws
Member
Agreed. Thought it was a very strange decision from XV to force a measurement system on people.
Elaugaufein
Member
The units don't even matter in most of these systems, so it's a super trivial thing to do. I've seen games where you do have the option where the only thing it does is change the units while the actual values stay the same because it doesn't really mean anything.
Even in games where keeping the scale accurate is important the conversions are generally pretty trivial for a computer.
Like for people facing calendar dates I understand DD/MM/YYYY , its the bit people are most interested in first , for formal purposes I prefer decreasing unit size YYYY/MM/DD since you can add time and it has automatic sorting. I'm pretty sure MM/DD/YYYY is just an American plot to screw with the rest of us.
Even in games where keeping the scale accurate is important the conversions are generally pretty trivial for a computer.
Like for people facing calendar dates I understand DD/MM/YYYY , its the bit people are most interested in first , for formal purposes I prefer decreasing unit size YYYY/MM/DD since you can add time and it has automatic sorting. I'm pretty sure MM/DD/YYYY is just an American plot to screw with the rest of us.
NiteChylde
Neo Member
This.
I know a lot of conversions for Imperial <> Metric by heart, but not all. Sometimes it's just annoying being pulled out of a game to google stuff like this, breaks the immersion for the me.
Yeah that's probably where we differ because for me, I don't even view that as a legit distance, I just view it as a number that diminishes as I walk in game and I can tell by how fast it counts down how long it should take me to get there on foot, or whether I should use a car/horse.
I agree! I loathe the imperial system.
It's so hard to figure out how the hell it works, I've never understood it and I've had people explain it too me. Metric is so much easier.
It's so glorious. <3
Metric is a glorious triumph of logic and efficiency. However, I find I still use imperial units conversationally, usually for small increments or when being vague or funny. Eg:
-The house has six-foot fences
-The couch just needs to move few inches
In order to conceptualize large imperial measurements, I have to mentally convert to metric first which is kind of tiring.
Also, YYYY-MM-DD is god-tier, mainly because it fits with time better and because if you alphasort files with this naming structure, they will be in chronological order.
-The house has six-foot fences
-The couch just needs to move few inches
In order to conceptualize large imperial measurements, I have to mentally convert to metric first which is kind of tiring.
Also, YYYY-MM-DD is god-tier, mainly because it fits with time better and because if you alphasort files with this naming structure, they will be in chronological order.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
That's because there is no internal consistency to (litterally none it's a scientific fact) It's a hodge podge of random unit denominations that is one of many things America decides to inflict upon the world rather than leave it in the dark ages where it belongs.