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Romans were homosexual. 11 17.19%
 
Roman numerals should be banned. 2 3.13%
 
I think its a non-issue. 18 28.13%
 
I'd like to start a fan-... 13 20.31%
 
Let's bring it back like... 5 7.81%
 
If you don't get the reference to #5, stfu. 1 1.56%
 
Agree. 1 1.56%
 
Disagree. 4 6.25%
 
Answer 9: 1 1.56%
 
Frak you! 8 12.50%
 
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Galaki on 05 August 2011
manuel said:
NiKKoM said:
Just be glad they don't use Kanji

3 in kanji is actually a bit similar to 3 in Roman numerals. (Just turned 90 degreees) :P

Roman: III

Kanji: 三

Or Chinese.

Second column is what everyone use.

Third column is like writing one instead of 1.



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Blacksaber on 05 August 2011

Because it's "trendy" and in with the kids of today. It's the same reason they put numbers into the names of games like F3AR AKA Fear 3, it's only there to catch the buyers interest no matter how little it does. When you see something out of the ordinary your more likely to look at it and in games case gives a better chance of being sold to "hipster" consumers. And on a final note I hate Hipster's with all my heart and soul.



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Lostplanet22 on 05 August 2011
Galaki said:
manuel said:
NiKKoM said:
Just be glad they don't use Kanji

3 in kanji is actually a bit similar to 3 in Roman numerals. (Just turned 90 degreees) :P

Roman: III

Kanji: 三

Or Chinese.

Second column is what everyone use.

Third column is like writing one instead of 1.

Third are for financial documents so people could not easy forge numbers.



 

Zlejedi on 05 August 2011

Anyone seriously cares about it ?



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deskpro2k3 on 05 August 2011

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d21lewis on 05 August 2011

"Porch monkey"? Silly Superchunk. Monkeys don't have porches! They live in tree-houses!

I'm against Roman numerals, too. I mean, what have the Romans ever done for anyone except give us the phrase, "When in Rome...."? I say we use hash marks.
 



Icyedge on 05 August 2011
scottie said:
Icyedge said:
manuel said:
Says a person from a country that still refuses to adapt the metric system. :P


Saying 5 feets is actually faster then saying 150 centimeters or 1 meter and 50 centimeters :P. In Canada we use both system depending on the situation, officially its the metric system but for things like my example we use the imperial system.


Saying 1 metre is faster than saying 3.28 feet. You can't just pick a round number for the imperial system and thus say that it is better than the metric system, where it isn't a round number


Hence why I said we use both system depending on the situation. But since the imperial system use smaller round unit, its often faster when talking about dimension, inside 1 meter, you have 1 foot, 2 feets and 3 feets. And between, when using the imperial system you dont say 3.28 feets, you say 3 feets and a quarter ;) (3 feets and 9/32 if you need that kind of precision). 3.28 feets is like using both the metric and imperial system at the same time :P.



manuel on 05 August 2011

If my English teacher taught me correctly you don't say 3 feets. ...



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Kirameo on 05 August 2011
Blacksaber said:
Because it's "trendy" and in with the kids of today. It's the same reason they put numbers into the names of games like F3AR AKA Fear 3, it's only there to catch the buyers interest no matter how little it does. When you see something out of the ordinary your more likely to look at it and in games case gives a better chance of being sold to "hipster" consumers. And on a final note I hate Hipster's with all my heart and soul.


I wholly disagree with this post. Roman numerals have much to do with the environment and feeling of the game itself. If it is a game about times that could relate to what Rome was like (or is percieved to have been) in the past, these numerals fit well. If not, the don't. That way we could see that a game like Halo benefits more from standard (modern after a fashion) numbers, but games like Age of Empires would benefit more from roman numerals, because they fit better in the style of the game.



 

Dr.Grass on 05 August 2011
non-gravity said:
Only Arabs should be using numbers. Roman numerals all the way


The modern number system comes from India, not the Arabs. It was stolen when Muslim invaders tried to take over India. So get used to the fact that your actually using a Hindu number system every day of your life...

More importantly, you can't really do math with Roman numberals since there is no 'zero' and everything becomes a mess.