Talk:Cyberdisc (EU2012): Difference between revisions

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What's the point of adding useless speculation about the Cyberdisc's name? It isn't related to any of the other games and this is merely your opinion about the origin of it. Hobbes (talk) 23:53, 31 August 2015 (EDT)

I'm going to go a step beyond that and straight-up undo it. "Disc" has been used to mean simply "round, flat object" for a couple of thousand years (it's a straight borrowing from Latin discus), far pre-dating electronic computers (though technically not computers themselves or "optical data storage"; abaci and writing are both older). The modern conventions regarding whether to use a C (from the Latin) or K (from the original Greek; the Greek alphabet doesn't have a C) when discussing computer components don't negate the word's ancient meaning. Magic9mushroom (talk) 04:44, 1 September 2015 (EDT)

This issue is made even simpler by the fact that both games (original EU and EU2012) only use the spelling Cyberdisc, never Cyberdisk, so explaining the latter term makes no sense. Hobbes (talk) 07:54, 1 September 2015 (EDT)

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+What's the point of adding useless speculation about the Cyberdisc's name? It isn't related to any of the other games and this is merely your opinion about the origin of it. [[User:Hobbes|Hobbes]] ([[User talk:Hobbes|talk]]) 23:53, 31 August 2015 (EDT)
-these can appear in Abduction missions too, not just Terror (now playing my first Classic run-through, after a Normal game in which they debuted in Terror).  I checked the Terror mission entry but didn't find Abductions to be a 'subset', so this is a suggestion that Alien Abduction be added to the list of appearances. [[User:Apocalypse.underground|Apocalypse.underground]] 20:13, 22 September 2013 (EDT)
+:I'm going to go a step beyond that and straight-up undo it. "Disc" has been used to mean simply "round, flat object" for a couple of thousand years (it's a straight borrowing from Latin ''discus''), far pre-dating electronic computers (though technically not computers themselves or "optical data storage"; abaci and writing are both older). The modern conventions regarding whether to use a C (from the Latin) or K (from the original Greek; the Greek alphabet doesn't have a C) when discussing computer components don't negate the word's ancient meaning. [[User:Magic9mushroom|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom|talk]]) 04:44, 1 September 2015 (EDT)
-:You're looking for [[Cyberdisc (EU2012)]], if you are talking about XCOM: Enemy Unknown ;) [[User:Hobbes|Hobbes]] 23:32, 22 September 2013 (EDT)
+:: This issue is made even simpler by the fact that both games (original EU and EU2012) only use the spelling Cyberdisc, never ''Cyberdisk'', so explaining the latter term makes no sense. [[User:Hobbes|Hobbes]] ([[User talk:Hobbes|talk]]) 07:54, 1 September 2015 (EDT)