Curse

Clusmas · Mar 31, 2006, 12:22 AM // 00:22

From guildwars.com

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Check out this week's screenshot for a view of a much-loved new feature of Factions: The Siege Turtle. These members of the Luxon armada play an important role in a mission at the Gyala Hatchery, which is where this screenshot was taken. Find the shot over here.

It's great when the fantasy world in which we play can be so creative as to rename tortoises as turtles. Oops.

EDIT: Linkage: http://www.guildwars.com/gallery/scr...ions/gw101.php

quickmonty · Mar 31, 2006, 12:29 AM // 00:29

Since the Jade sea was once water, and not jade, they may indeed be turtles.

master_ranger_matt · Mar 31, 2006, 12:32 AM // 00:32

rofl, siege creatures. The jade sea was once water, so they are turtles, look at their fins, they arent legs so they are turtles.

KvanCetre · Mar 31, 2006, 12:46 AM // 00:46

http://www.k12.nf.ca/tricon/KinderProj/tuvsto.html

Desbreko · Mar 31, 2006, 02:01 AM // 02:01

The name "turtle" is often used to describe both the aquatic and terrestrial members of order Testudines, so I don't really see the problem here.

Sunai · Mar 31, 2006, 02:03 AM // 02:03

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Originally Posted by KvanCetre

http://www.k12.nf.ca/tricon/KinderProj/tuvsto.html

That is made for (or maybe by) kindergardeners, as you can probably tell, so it's a bit dumbed down.

Tortoises are terrestrial turtles. However, that does not mean everything else we call a "turtle" is limited to water. An example of this would be the box turtle, which is terrestrial.

Besides, "seige turtle" sounds better than "seige tortoise". IMO. :P

Turtle
Tortoise
Box Turtle

Jas D · Mar 31, 2006, 02:12 AM // 02:12

I guess we're all posting new threads just to post one I suppose. Or to see our name in the catagory. Why is this even posted? Waste of space?

KvanCetre · Mar 31, 2006, 02:14 AM // 02:14

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Originally Posted by Sunai

That is made for (or maybe by) kindergardeners, as you can probably tell, so it's a bit dumbed down.

Tortoises are terrestrial turtles. However, that does not mean everything else we call a "turtle" is limited to water. An example of this would be the box turtle, which is terrestrial.

Besides, "seige turtle" sounds better than "seige tortoise". IMO. :P

http://www.answers.com/turtle[/B]]Turtle
Tortoise
Box Turtle

The link still touched on the main aspect:

Turtles have flippers. Tortoises have feet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle

Sunai · Mar 31, 2006, 03:09 AM // 03:09

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Originally Posted by KvanCetre

The link still touched on the main aspect:

Turtles have flippers. Tortoises have feet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle

Turtles have all kinds of feet, especially considering tortoises are turtles in the end, as you can see from the "Order Testudines - Turtles" section in the turtle link you gave me. I also browsed through the families but hardly saw any references to feet.

To clarify, it mostly depends on what family they are. As it says here, the largest family of turtles in the Northern Hemisphere (these include box turtles) have webbed feet. Tortoises belong to a different family, and they have clubbed feet. As you can see in the Guild Wars screenshot, their feet don't really look "clubbed".

Box Turtle
Tortoise

That said, my point was just that some species of turtles that don't belong to the tortoise family are still terrestrial. Sometimes you have to stray from reality a little anyway.

EDIT: Changed tortoise picture because, while accurate, it wasn't a real one. :P

Phaern Majes · Mar 31, 2006, 03:13 AM // 03:13

One thing: "Turtle Clan, MOVE OUT!"

quickmonty · Mar 31, 2006, 03:17 AM // 03:17

Can you make turtle soup with a tortoise?

Canadian Bacon · Mar 31, 2006, 03:21 AM // 03:21

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Originally Posted by quickmonty

Can you make turtle soup with a tortoise?

I think so. When my mum was a kid, she had a pet tortoise named Toby. One day he got lost, and they later foudn out that Toby had been made into soup by some old lady.

Blind Rage · Mar 31, 2006, 07:31 AM // 07:31

the siege turtles have legs so they are in fact tortoises, the turtles at cavalon and other places like the luxon settlement in kryta are actual turtles tho

Vermilion Okeanos · Mar 31, 2006, 09:47 AM // 09:47

Can anyone believe that the dev didn't put in Ninja Turtle? Even thou all these assassins are poofing all over the place.

j/k

but really, those siege turtle look like they came out of desert, as their camofludge color is yellow. I guess cantha got really really yellow beach sands.

Big_Iron · Mar 31, 2006, 11:12 AM // 11:12

How about a terrapin?

Go Terps!

-Loki- · Mar 31, 2006, 11:55 AM // 11:55

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Originally Posted by Vermilion Okeanos

Can anyone believe that the dev didn't put in Ninja Turtle? Even thou all these assassins are poofing all over the place.

Give one of those Kappa some Assassin skills. ZOMG, Ninja Turtle.

art_ · Mar 31, 2006, 11:57 AM // 11:57

Rathcail · Mar 31, 2006, 12:15 PM // 12:15

Teenage Siege Ninja Turtles?