# OK who works for Turbine? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 17, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-works-for-turbine/445736 "2008-04-17T15:39:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-works-for-turbine/445736/1 "2008-04-17T15:39:09Z")
From the LOTRO update notes for Roheryn: > [@](#): > > Some skeptics believe that this isn’t a natural phenomenon at all, that it was engineered by the Pharmaceutical Companies in order to increase the profits of their blockbuster products such as Conhuith, Lhinestad, and Milkthistle. The **Straight Dope:** Common Poison/Disease/Fear/Wound effects (debuffs) will have shorter durations at lower levels, while later levels they will have higher durations. Note the capitalization. (I added the bolding.) Who is it? 'Fess up, now. It really would be neat if a Doper did work there. RR ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-works-for-turbine/445736/2 "2008-04-17T15:54:10Z")
“Straight dope” as a term for insider information has been around a long time … far longer than the Straight Dope community or Cecil’s column. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-works-for-turbine/445736/3 "2008-04-17T16:32:54Z")
I agree that the straight dope is a term that predates uncle Cecee or the SDMB. however The **S** traight **D** ope is a proper name which refers to uncle Cecee and our little playground. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-works-for-turbine/445736/4 "2008-04-17T17:08:13Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] “Straight dope” as a term for insider information has been around a long time … far longer than the Straight Dope community or Cecil’s column. [/QUOTE] That’s why I added “Note the capitalization.” Turbine being a fairly small company, the odds are that none of them are Dopers, but I thought it was amusing, anyway. RR ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-works-for-turbine/445736/5 "2008-04-17T18:09:52Z")
It’s possible though not highly likely that I might have been the influence. A friend of mine works there. I go visit him a couple times a year (I got a tour of the company once), and normally we just post on another (small population/post volume, more or less private) message board, where I’m pretty sure I’ve posted links to Unca Cecil’s work before. So if he happened to read one of those linked columns, maybe he picked up the reference there. (Another poster at this other board was a member here for a short time; I can’t recall if she posted anything.) If anything, it’s a good excuse for me to shoot him an E-mail. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-works-for-turbine/445736/6 "2008-04-18T13:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] If anything, it’s a good excuse for me to shoot him an E-mail. [/QUOTE] If you do, tell him to keep up the good work. I love LOTRO. RR ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-works-for-turbine/445736/7 "2008-04-18T15:30:26Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] I agree that the straight dope is a term that predates uncle Cecee or the SDMB. however The **S** traight **D** ope is a proper name which refers to uncle Cecee and our little playground. [/QUOTE] Or it’s the title of a section that, being a title, would also be capitalized.