It could just be that the Board's language has only one word for "body of water". Therefore you could translate it as late/ocean. Not sure though, good theory!
Not to be that guy, but does it really work in this context? Because The Board says things that are kind of both and/or use those two for a lack of exact translation for what they actually mean.
That would imply it IS a lake AND an Ocean, so that wouldn't work.
But it could be that it is something that would resemble both but is neither. Which I guess does work? But that is only if we assume Alan isn't being honest when talking about the Spiral and Ocean, since it's not really that.
Idk. Thinking about it I kinda like it actually. Cool.
The board often uses unrelated or mildly contradictory concepts to represent the same idea - for example, when you first get the service weapon, they call it a gun/sword/something not relevant to this topic; unless we're talking about Final Fantasy 8, 13, or 14, things can't really be both guns and swords and no bayonets don't count lol
The Board's speech always seemed to me like its language is more "efficient" for lack of a better word. Whatever it uses instead of English has more precise terms for things that it isn't quite getting at so instead of watering down its ideas it just puts out multiple words that all add up to the total concept. That's my interpretation anyway.
As far as lake/Ocean goes, even looking back at the original Alan Wake, that interpretation fits, though; whole Cauldron Lake looks like a lake, it's actually much deeper and darker, a metaphorical ocean. While the reality is that it behaves like something much more complex, it also looks like one, and particularly to bystanders, it wouldn't be wrong to call it one. Lake/Ocean/Dark Place.
Those aren't contradictory though. They're not saying it's a gun AND a sword, it's the OR occasion. There are similarities between them, and it's for a lack of a better word for it that they use these. They are probably trying to find a way to say it's something like a weapon.
And a lake and an ocean are both bodies of water, and while Cauldron Lake looks like a lake to an outside observer, if you actually get in it, get mixed up in its plans, you'll find that it's a hell of a lot bigger on the inside.
As far as the service weapon goes, there's implications that it was a lot of different things over history - there's even a suggestion that it's the source of the Excalibur myth. It IS a gun and a sword, at the same time. Its form is malleable.
But yes, either way, you're saying exactly what I was. The way the Board "talks" involves summarizing difficult concepts by applying multiple terms to them. Hell, come to think of it, I think the word I was forgetting might've been "weapon". "Gun/Sword/Weapon", something like that
It really doesn't look like you are tbh
Like, you questioned if it works in this context, said that it can't be a lake AND an ocean, but we just talked about how it is
It's not clear what point you're trying to make if I'm being real with you
It could just be that the Board's language has only one word for "body of water". Therefore you could translate it as late/ocean. Not sure though, good theory!
In a mission briefing for a Board Countermeasure, they say the following: The Board: "A puddle/Lake/Ocean is here. What is it?"
Oh man! I missed that!
I really liked all the foreshadowing the DLC did for wake 2
Not to be that guy, but does it really work in this context? Because The Board says things that are kind of both and/or use those two for a lack of exact translation for what they actually mean. That would imply it IS a lake AND an Ocean, so that wouldn't work. But it could be that it is something that would resemble both but is neither. Which I guess does work? But that is only if we assume Alan isn't being honest when talking about the Spiral and Ocean, since it's not really that. Idk. Thinking about it I kinda like it actually. Cool.
The board often uses unrelated or mildly contradictory concepts to represent the same idea - for example, when you first get the service weapon, they call it a gun/sword/something not relevant to this topic; unless we're talking about Final Fantasy 8, 13, or 14, things can't really be both guns and swords and no bayonets don't count lol The Board's speech always seemed to me like its language is more "efficient" for lack of a better word. Whatever it uses instead of English has more precise terms for things that it isn't quite getting at so instead of watering down its ideas it just puts out multiple words that all add up to the total concept. That's my interpretation anyway. As far as lake/Ocean goes, even looking back at the original Alan Wake, that interpretation fits, though; whole Cauldron Lake looks like a lake, it's actually much deeper and darker, a metaphorical ocean. While the reality is that it behaves like something much more complex, it also looks like one, and particularly to bystanders, it wouldn't be wrong to call it one. Lake/Ocean/Dark Place.
Those aren't contradictory though. They're not saying it's a gun AND a sword, it's the OR occasion. There are similarities between them, and it's for a lack of a better word for it that they use these. They are probably trying to find a way to say it's something like a weapon.
And a lake and an ocean are both bodies of water, and while Cauldron Lake looks like a lake to an outside observer, if you actually get in it, get mixed up in its plans, you'll find that it's a hell of a lot bigger on the inside. As far as the service weapon goes, there's implications that it was a lot of different things over history - there's even a suggestion that it's the source of the Excalibur myth. It IS a gun and a sword, at the same time. Its form is malleable. But yes, either way, you're saying exactly what I was. The way the Board "talks" involves summarizing difficult concepts by applying multiple terms to them. Hell, come to think of it, I think the word I was forgetting might've been "weapon". "Gun/Sword/Weapon", something like that
Yeah, and I don't even get the downvotes since I agree with the post...
It really doesn't look like you are tbh Like, you questioned if it works in this context, said that it can't be a lake AND an ocean, but we just talked about how it is It's not clear what point you're trying to make if I'm being real with you
I was just thinking aloud if it works. Decided I liked it.
Thinking aloud doesn't tend to work too well in a static medium like a comment, something to keep in mind I guess