FDev's Arthur: "We think Thursday's stream will be really good, looking forward to it" RETURN OF GALNET?

Vetinari

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StuartGT said:
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From the end of today's lunchtime livestream.
Source: https://clips.twitch.tv/GlamorousCredulousNikudonWTRuck


Also said during the livestream was that a game update will be coming tomorrow, with patch notes being posted later today.
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Great Screenshot! Ill bet they are both pleased as punch with that look :) Mind you it does explain why the sound has always been so bad.

@StuartGT We are looking for a LS from late June if you can use your AI investigative skills to find it? this one from Turning The Wheel thread originally posted June 29th:

Nerix said:
Really curious what'll happen. As FDev mentioned our little endeavour and reacted to it with a big smile in one of their live streams, I'm quite positive that at least something will happen at some point (when we manage to get it to that point, but I have not doubt we will).
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Nerix said:
Here you go: http://www.twitch.tv/frontierdevelopments/v/654579657?sr=a&t=784s
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StuartGT

StuartGT
Vetinari said:
Great Screenshot! Ill bet they are both pleased as punch with that look :) Mind you it does explain why the sound has always been so bad.

@StuartGT We are looking for a LS from late June if you can use your AI investigative skills to find it? this one from Turning The Wheel thread originally posted June 29th:
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If no-one downloaded that Twitch video from the FrontierDevelopments channel then it no longer exists, VoDs are only stored for two weeks unless the channel owner is a Twitch partner (FDev don't stream enough on that channel to become one).
 

thistle

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Frillop Freyraum said:
This phrase "We think Thursday's stream will be really good" is quite a confusing statement for me. Why do they have to "think" at all, should they not "know" instead? Or is this just some other British laxity, something you can just say out of the blue, without it having to mean anything? Or British understatement perhaps?
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It's a humorous encouragement to watch. A little nod and a wink to camera.

Also - how are they actually supposed to "know" how the stream is going to go, are they time travellers?
 

CMDR Yates

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Frillop Freyraum said:
This phrase "We think Thursday's stream will be really good" is quite a confusing statement for me. Why do they have to "think" at all, should they not "know" instead? Or is this just some other British laxity, something you can just say out of the blue, without it having to mean anything? Or British understatement perhaps?

I only hope that GalNet doesn't come back in the same form as it was before. No GalNet is still better than meaningless GalNet.
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It's a humourously overstated subtlety. An exaggerated wink. May or may not translate to other languages and/or social-cognitive abilities.
 

Snowymonk

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Frillop Freyraum said:
This phrase "We think Thursday's stream will be really good" is quite a confusing statement for me. Why do they have to "think" at all, should they not "know" instead? Or is this just some other British laxity, something you can just say out of the blue, without it having to mean anything? Or British understatement perhaps?

I only hope that GalNet doesn't come back in the same form as it was before. No GalNet is still better than meaningless GalNet.
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Unless I am mistaken, the language used is deliberately used to mitigate conflict.
wording like '..we think..' or '...in my opinion...' are used to avoid potential flare ups.

saying I think that it was a good stream but you didn't, let's agree to differ..... as opposed to this is a great stream, no it's not, yes it is....

The better orators naturally weave this sort of language into their streams.


or it could just be a bit of British laxity.
 

CMDR Yates

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Frillop Freyraum said:
But aren't the not supposed to know this said content, as you seem to suggest?
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They know about the content, but they're not allowed to talk in detail about it yet. And they know we know that.

So they're playing light-heartedly on the idea of acting dumb and sending coded hints as though they're trying to slip information to us without their management noticing.

These "hints" are deliberately attention-grabbing and unsubtle and would blow their cover if they were genuinely trying to leak information secretly, therein lies the humour. Because we know hinting about the return of Galnet today is really an agreed-upon part of their promotional/marketing strategy, but they're pretending it's not for comedic effect.

There's not much more to it than that.
 
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