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Dark Fury Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

He's rigged the door's lock up to some arbitrary achievement system

I climbed down to El Inferno. It turned out that Calaca (a really bad guy, you can see him on the wall poster below) turned its "El Diablo" into a rooster, exiled him, and took over the hell.
In Devil's Tower I meet the rooster...

"...to have rigged these doors' locks up to some sort of arbitrary achievement system..."
I was wondering if you could explain me what "rig up to" and "arbitrary" here means. Any help is welcome.
  

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g. using wires, ropes or whatever, in an improvised or makeshift way. "arbitrary" essentially only has one meaning, per the dictionary, but it is not very clear what "arbitrary achievement system" refers to just from that one sentence.

— GPY

  • g.
  • using wires, ropes or whatever, in an improvised or makeshift way.
  • "arbitrary" essentially only has one meaning, per the dictionary, but it is not very clear what "arbitrary achievement system" refers to just from that one sentence.
  • Is there any more information in the story about what it entails?
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"rig X up to Y" means to connect X to Y, e.g. using wires, ropes or whatever, in an improvised or makeshift way.

"arbitrary" essentially only has one meaning, per the dictionary, but it is not very clear what "arbitrary achievement system" refers to just from that one sentence. Is there any more information in the story about what it entails?
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Thank you for your reply, GPY! I proceeded a little further. On the first floor there are three doors (the bronze, silver and golden one) "connected" to this system, On the floors above are "torture" rooms. They are mere challenge rooms, where depending on you performance, you can attain bronze, silver, or gold medals. You get the medal - the corresponding counter above the first-floor door increa
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Sorry, I don't understand what "arbitrary" means in that situation (beyond what it says in any dictionary).
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I see. Probably some sort of misuse of the word.
Just to bring this to the end, could you tell me a little about the second definition of "arbitrary" from dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/arbitrary)

2. decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a
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Dark Fury2. decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statute.
If meant without the usual connotations of e.g. sense 1 at that link, it is a rare technical meaning. It seems unlikely to have any relevance here.
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I see. Thank you for your help, GPY!
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Sorry, I found more info! Maybe the following examples will be able to show that it's not a mistake:
In the article http://www.cheatcc.com/extra/whyyoushouldntcareaboutachievementstrophies.html you can find: "arbitrary awards" and " arbitrary Achievements and Trophies". M
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Dark FurySorry, I found more info! Maybe the following examples will be able to show that it's not a mistake: In the article http://www.cheatcc.com/extra/whyyoushouldntcareaboutachievementstrophies.html you can find: "arbitrary awards" and " arbitrary
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I think I get the point, GPY. Thank you,
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Dark FuryI see. Probably some sort of misuse of the word.
As far as I can tell from the very limited sample of dialogue that I have seen, this seems to be good English, written by a competent speaker. It is certainly not the sort of mangled nonsense that you sometimes see in translated games. Rather than a misuse, I think it is more likely to be the usual mean
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