Why "DE" Named Venus Open World "Fortuna" ?

[(PSN)dursereg]

2 hours ago, (PS4)watt4hem said:

Clearly, DE stole the name from carl orff's o fortuna /s

Highly doubt DE is going to name it after a Nazi composer.

[Campaigner]

Nerds that live in their own tiny bubbles never cease to amaze me.

You're uneducated. You lack information literacy. Accept that your tiny brain doesn't know everything.

If you had enough presence of mind to not spew hive mind memes with every waking moment you could recognize that maybe there's something you don't know. Maybe you could like, look up the actual origins of a word and not make a fool of yourself?

 

 

[evilChair]

It's a cynical name that Anyo gave the place himself, most likely. Fortuna means both "riches" and "good luck" in both English and Latin (and was the Ancient Roman goddess of both those things), so ofc the smug prick will rub it in his debtors' faces that they have neither of those. It's your basic sadism, typical of cordial "family men"/megachurch scam-pastors such as Anyo, who's also a kidnapper, enslaver, inventor of debts, a trading floor cutpurse, a fraud and a cad, and a pathological gambler. The more we learn about him, the more we get it afore-cemented that there's not even a speck of anything that redeems that man. He makes people like Bek, de Thaym, Ruk and Toga Man look like flawed people with an equal share of human decency. Hell, even the Lephantis, literal impulse-driven fauna, comes off as more of a person when it asks "Why do you defile us?" as if it's desperate to at least know why it has to die.

Edited November 5, 2018 by evilChair

[Eirshy]

2 hours ago, (PS4)dursereg said:

Highly doubt DE is going to name it after a Nazi composer.

Not sure how that matters.

He composed Carmina Burana in the mid-30s (early Nazi party, ie, before they really started the whole atrocities thing), and Carmina Burana was based on a collection of poems circa 1847 (by the same name). It also contained effectively zero nazi propaganda (beyond maybe "look at this awesome thing one of our citizens composed under our reign"). Additionally, there's potential that he had some affiliation with the White Rose, and at a minimum assisted in memorial services for one of its founders after his execution.

But more importantly, calling him a nazi is very disingenuous. If you actually look at his life, the extent of which he was Nazi was "he was alive, under the Nazi regime, and not clearly participating in resistance activities". There's a difference between "supporting" and "surviving". He did the latter, not the former.

 

Also, it wouldn't be naming it after Orff's song. Fortuna is latin for Fortune. Also a goddess of Fortune.
And, per Orff's song, Empress of the World.

Edited November 5, 2018 by Eirshy

[(PSN)robotwars7]

disambiguation of the Word Fortuna:

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- Roman goddess of luck (Tyche is the Greek version)

- a Ghost town in Arizona

- a City in California

- an unincorporated community in Missouri

- a small city in North Dakota

- a Settlement in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

- a Village in Argentina

- a Municipality in Brazil

- a Spanish Town

- a Forest Reserve in Panama

- a bay and a Glacier in South Georgia Island

- an Asteroid, known as 19 Fortuna.

- an Israeli-made film from 1966.

- a Mexican Telenovela (guessing that's like the Soap Operas we have here in the UK)

- Bib Fortuna, a Star Wars character.

- another name for Bagatelle, a game derivied from Billiards.

- a planet in the Star Fox series.

- multiple vessels captured by the british Navy between 1805 and 1812 were called Fortuna.

- a Steamboat that operated on lake Washington in the early 20th century.

- about 15 football(soccer) clubs worldwide bear "Fortuna" somewhere in their name.

- the name of a female Brazilian Singer

- the nickname of a Spanish Matador, real name Diego Mazquiaran.

- a railway Station in Pennsylvania

- an abandoned Air Force long range Radar site in North Dakota.

- a Spanish Cigarette brand

- an algorithm for a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator

- a 13th century poem

 

and perhaps the greatest of all of them

Spoiler

- a genetically modified potato.

 

Edited November 5, 2018 by (PS4)robotwars7

[Dark_RRiderr]

Now dont tell me its from Dark Sector or any other games before this one that DE made as reference, is it?

Still more agree to what many others think is the reason behind the naming of fortuna. Specially about what evilchair said, very well would describe it lore wise at least.

Who knows maybe there is some reference from older games of DE behind it as well like Dark Sector or some of the others.

[DeMonkey]

Just now, Dark_RRiderr said:

Now dont tell me its from Dark Sector or any other games before this one that DE made as reference, is it?

Doubtful, Dark Sector was set in Latvia. Of the others, Darkness 2 was... New York? Don't know many other DE titles tbh, but I don't recall anything to do with Fortuna in their old Multiplayer stuff. Rapture sure, but not Fortuna.

[(XBOX)chillichillman]

4 hours ago, (XB1)GearsMatrix301 said:

Fortuna is a play on the word Fortune. And the Corpus love money.

Actually, Fortuna is latin for Fortune.  Fun fact. 

And I think "love" is an understatement. 

[evilChair]

38 minutes ago, (PS4)robotwars7 said:

disambiguation of the Word Fortuna:

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- Roman goddess of luck (Tyche is the Greek version)

- a Ghost town in Arizona

- a City in California

- an unincorporated community in Missouri

- a small city in North Dakota

- a Settlement in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

- a Village in Argentina

- a Municipality in Brazil

- a Spanish Town

- a Forest Reserve in Panama

- a bay and a Glacier in South Georgia Island

- an Asteroid, known as 19 Fortuna.

- an Israeli-made film from 1966.

- a Mexican Telenovela (guessing that's like the Soap Operas we have here in the UK)

- Bib Fortuna, a Star Wars character.

- another name for Bagatelle, a game derivied from Billiards.

- a planet in the Star Fox series.

- multiple vessels captured by the british Navy between 1805 and 1812 were called Fortuna.

- a Steamboat that operated on lake Washington in the early 20th century.

- about 15 football(soccer) clubs worldwide bear "Fortuna" somewhere in their name.

- the name of a female Brazilian Singer

- the nickname of a Spanish Matador, real name Diego Mazquiaran.

- a railway Station in Pennsylvania

- an abandoned Air Force long range Radar site in North Dakota.

- a Spanish Cigarette brand 

- an algorithm for a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator

- a 13th century poem

 

and perhaps the greatest of all of them

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- a genetically modified potato.

 

- a Spanish Cigarette brand

nef anyo sends squad after squad of corpus grunts deep into the earth's grineer territory to extract antique smokes from ruins of cities whose names resemble corpus curse words such as "Madrid" and "Cordoba" (two common, rather rude epithets), "Valencia" (crude slang for a gentlemen's self-pleasure assistance device), "Barcelona" (the corpus term for "eggplant emoji followed by sweat emoji"), "Toledo" (an especially vile and jealous epithet for a tech crewman because the contract-prescribed galley nutrition program allots them more calories per meal for sheer body size), and "Seville" (="yo mama").

[IAmTheFutureFlash]

18 hours ago, Campaigner said:

Nerds that live in their own tiny bubbles never cease to amaze me.

You're uneducated. You lack information literacy. Accept that your tiny brain doesn't know everything.

If you had enough presence of mind to not spew hive mind memes with every waking moment you could recognize that maybe there's something you don't know. Maybe you could like, look up the actual origins of a word and not make a fool of yourself?

 

 

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