The difference between the dialogue that Reaper uses mostly to his own team vs what the other team usually hears is so funny to me, every time I play?
Like, you know how a member of your team is more likely to use the english version of their line but you hear the native language one in killcams from the person who killed you’s perspective, stuff like that? Well, we always talk about the super edgelord voice lines that enemy reapers are more likely to use, but his alternate set is SO like, aggressively apathetic + businesslike, and it kills me. Like
Enemy Gabe teleporting: “ D̡e͠҉at̷̕h̡͠ ̷͠c̛o͞m͝e̸͢s̡s̸͏…҉̛ ” Friendly Gabe: “…repositioning.”
or especially with ults, it’s like:
Enemy Gabe: -descends out of friggin nowhere- DĮ̶E̵͠,̶ ̛D͘͡IE͢,͘ ̀D̶̡͟I͟͞E͞͏!̴!́҉!̡́!̡͡!͘!͠͏!!̸̵ (strobe lights, jesse is crying, linkin park playing, etc) Freindly Gabe: “…..Clearing the area.” v softly over the comm thingies. U turn to ask what he said and. the enemy team all just died. when did he do that.
The number of messages I’ve failed to answer across all my devices and media platforms will be weighed against my soul on judgment day, and I will be cast into hell
not to make one of those ‘uwu imagine disabled mermaids’ kind of posts, but pls consider a Humans Are Baffling Space Orcs scenario where autistic people are highly sought after because they can actually EXPLAIN what the other humans are up to in ways that aren’t an opaque, frustrating ‘that’s normal for us!’ they’re used to studying and codifying the abstruse and irrational nuances of human social systems in order to reproduce those behaviors effectively, and there’s a lot more of them than the much more expensive professionally educated humanthropologists.
captain: human liaison phil, when humans attempt to distress one another intentionally with coded gestures and remarks, is that actually important? should we be doing that?
phil: it’s just social status bullshit. don’t indulge it.
captain: gotcha. human brent said it was vital to his mental health to be allowed to ‘joke around’ in such a matter with his subordinates. he seemed serious.
