All Your Base Are Turned Five 223
Subm writes "All your base are turned five! According to AYBABTU: The History, 'June 5, 2000: The Zero Wing Dub Project is posted at OverClocked - the first original AYB humor.' Before then there was only an oddly (brilliantly?) translated game. But five years ago, someone set up us the bomb!" The Flash Video is, of course, still available.
After reading slashdot for so long.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:After reading slashdot for so long.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:After reading slashdot for so long.. (Score:1)
I realized it's name was spelt with a capital "S".
(Yes. I realize my earlier post had a grammar error in it. I'm also unsure of my usage of "it's" in this post. This post is made in jest. Don't take it seriously.)
Re:After reading slashdot for so long.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:After reading slashdot for so long.. (Score:5, Informative)
If that is true, and you weren't just adding to the humor of the "grammar nazi in jest" content, there is an easy way to remember when to use it's versus its. Because it's is a contraction, you can always use the full it is whenever it's is appropriate. So try saying it is in your head, and see if it sounds correct. If it does, use it's. If not, use its.
In your post, you should have used its, because it isn't correct to say, "I realized it is name..."
Re:After reading slashdot for so long.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:After reading slashdot for so long.. (Score:2)
Tom's hardware - uses an apostrophe to denote possession.
It's hardware - would be consistent with that rule but there's a special case which says you must use its.
Re:I always used to get "its" and "it's" wrong (Score:2)
Except for "one's".
Re:I always used to get "its" and "it's" wrong (Score:2)
I'm all for knowing language, but most people don't really care (as is obvious from the lack of proper speech), so it's best to keep the rules simple and easy to remember.
Get the LITTLE book. (Score:2)
"The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have no apostrophe." [bartleby.com]
Try to get the 3rd edition, though. The 4th is much weaker.
Best advice evar: "Omit needless words." [bartleby.com]
Re:After reading slashdot for so long.. (Score:3, Informative)
AYB Vs. Valantine's Day... (Score:5, Funny)
#205633 +(3675)- [X]
WallJam7: roses are red
WallJam7: violets are blue
WallJam7: all of my base
WallJam7: are belong to you
Re:AYB Vs. Valantine's Day... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:AYB Vs. Valantine's Day... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:AYB Vs. Valantine's Day... (Score:5, Funny)
Sigh.
Ob. Spelling nazi (Score:3, Funny)
Re:AYB Vs. Valantine's Day... (Score:2)
Re:AYB Vs. Valantine's Day... (Score:2)
The irony of it? GTech (and particularly the CS department) hardly has any women at all to begin with. I'm convinced that most of the women they show in the stats are either professors or janitors.
Makes you wonder who wrote that though...spooky!
5 Years? (Score:3, Insightful)
the original AYB game was funny (especially for the 4 people who actually played Zero Wing), but it has started to get old.
I think the biggest problem is that there are still, believe it or not, people who have never seen it. They see it for the first time and then insist on showing all of us again.
Re:5 Years? (Score:2)
There are alway ppl that haven't experienced things older ppl have, but eventually they come to realize that the world's been turning for much longer than they've been around.
While we're having a story about a bad joke (Score:4, Funny)
In Soviet Russia us belong to your all Base; err... belong us are to all your base
Ah! Screw this!
Re:While we're having a story about a bad joke (Score:2)
Re:While we're having a story about a bad joke (Score:2, Funny)
Re:While we're having a story about a bad joke (Score:2)
In case u've been living in a cave for past 5 year (Score:5, Informative)
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
I remember the day that I saw the flash movie (on gaming force I think)- it literally dropped me to the floor.
Time sure goes fast...Or am I just getting too old for my own good?
Re:In case u've been living in a cave for past 5 y (Score:5, Funny)
hmmmm..... reverse it...
Bomb the U.S., upset somebody.
*tinfoilhats himself*
Re:In case u've been living in a cave for past 5 y (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, when bush started waffling about Operation Infinite Justice (demonstrating that he doesn't have a clue what infinite means, but I digress), what was the first thing I thought of?
For great justice.
And "Al Qaida" literally means "the base". (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:And "Al Qaida" literally means "the base". (Score:3, Informative)
I had to look this up just to verify that and yeah its correct according to various sites including the Air Force's Air University Webpage.
Link [af.mil]Re:In case u've been living in a cave for past 5 y (Score:4, Informative)
If anyone is interested, this is how the manual puts it (yes, I actually have the game):
Space Piracy
The year is 2101 A.D. The Milky Way Federation, the galaxy's governing body, has made public its (sic) plans to construct stategic defense bases in eight different locations. The purpose of the bases is protection against intergalactic crime. The Federation's prime concern is a band of space piractes led by Cats, the flamboyant cosmic freebooter who is secretly plotting his biggest performance...
Two years later, the bases were completed and operational. Despite the new defense network, tragedy struck. Ten Strike Force attack craft docked aboard the Federation 1011 Star Cruiser were destroyed by a bomb that had been planted aboard the mother ship!
Shortly after the explosion, the ship's operator recieved an odd signal. The Captain ordered the viewer turned on, and who should appear but Cats himself!
"Nice to see you all. I've taken control of each and every one of your bases. Today will go down in history as the day the Milky Way Federation was destroyed by one man - me! Ha ha ha ha..."
One attack craft remained undamaged. The Captain, without hesitation, ordered the ZIG-01 "Zero Wing" into battle. You must fly the attack ship to each friendly base and drive Cats' forces out. The fate of an entire galazy rests on your shoulders!
The only things I can note about this is that Cats is "flamboyant", make of that what you will, and that this seems to imply your ship is the only one working, yet the intro seems to imply at least three Zigs are working.
Later the Getting Started bit of the manual suggests "Follow the story screens to get a better feel for the task you're about to take on." I kinda feel that advice may leave someone far more confused than if they just read the story bit of the manual really.
And no, I will not transcribe the other seven language versions that are in the manual.
Re:In case u've been living in a cave for past 5 y (Score:3, Interesting)
We do need to give the translators credit where credit's due:
has made public its (sic) plans to construct
Note that its == posessive; it's == "it is", so the plans of the Federation are accurately described with "its" versus the contraction form.
Why for do you incorrect grammar? (Score:2)
Its is the possesive form of it. It's (the contraction of it was, it has, it is) would not fit in such a space. As such, your (sic) is incorrect.
Remember, friends don't let friends incorrect grammar in a quote!
made public its (sic) plans (Score:2)
The appostrophe is only used in the contraction for "it is," not the posessive "belongs to it."
Re:In case u've been living in a cave for past 5 y (Score:2)
It's not really a contradiction. Think of it as "order of operations" instead. Contraction takes precedence over possession. "It's" might be the proper form for either the contraction or the possessive, but contraction takes precedence and possessive is relegat
Korea (Score:1, Funny)
Re: In a post 9/11 world... (Score:2)
Re:Korea (Score:2)
Blah. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Blah. (Score:2)
Re:Blah. (Score:2)
Zero Wing was valuable for a while (Score:2)
move zig (Score:5, Funny)
Re:move zig (Score:2, Funny)
Re:move zig (Score:2)
I think you meant to say "Somebody set up us the pie".
Happy AYB-Day! (Score:1)
All your base meme graphs (Score:3, Interesting)
You know, you've got to wonder... (Score:4, Interesting)
Lord knows there's lots of potential. "Don't see" or "Don't sleep" in Korean comes close to "vagina" and "penis", and Microsoft's first effort to build a brand in Asia (not quite sure where) ended up with something that came out as "small and soft".
Re:You know, you've got to wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You know, you've got to wonder... (Score:2)
I'm not sure. I got it from Google News [google.com] last year, and its been in my bookmarks ever since. Still makes me laugh.
Re:You know, you've got to wonder... (Score:2)
For the same reason that, if you're rock climbing, you yell "ROCK!" if you drop your lunch down the cliff-- because no one will know to duck if you yell "LUNCH!"
Likewise, no one will come to rescue you if you yell "CHOCOLATE!"
Re:You know, you've got to wonder... (Score:2)
Re:You know, you've got to wonder... (Score:2)
I think we all know what Bill was thinking...
"Small and soft" (Score:2)
Speakers of English can easily infer that the company name is really short for Software for microcomputers, but all in all, Microsoft means small and soft, also in English, if you are to take it literally.
(My humble apologies for being unable to write out characters; Slashdot
Re:"Small and soft" (Score:2)
Re:"Small and soft" (Score:2)
'flash video still available' (Score:4, Funny)
All your Rhapsody are belong to us... (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.pwned.nl/ayb/ [pwned.nl]
Re:All your Rhapsody are belong to us... (Score:2)
Re:All your Rhapsody are belong to us... (Score:2)
Re:All your Rhapsody are belong to us... (Score:2)
Admit it, you love stupid memes (Score:2)
In case you missed it, this [newgrounds.com] is the best of the more recent Zero Wing parodies.
Ode to McBride (Score:5, Funny)
AYB impressed me so much.. (Score:2)
Then I bought Sonic and Sonic 2 - great fun. All in all, I am grateful to those Japanese developers, for their warped translation.
Is there a statute of limitations (Score:2)
for jokes on Slashdot?
Re:Is there a statute of limitations (Score:2, Funny)
Yatta! The flash madness continues (Score:4, Interesting)
Sticky Night of Love [newgrounds.com]
And of course, the Yatta flash.
Original Yatta video [albinoblacksheep.com] for context.
Yatta Flash [albinoblacksheep.com]
Plenty of Engrish [wikipedia.org] and epilepsia-inducing pictures.
Thank you slashdot. Oh, boy do I look forward to having my friends send me a link to this funny AYBABTU thing that they just discovered.
Re:Yatta! The flash madness continues (Score:2)
From my movie review web site... (Score:2)
phenomenon web
all your base are belong to us
want must shake your zig
What the hell... (Score:2)
Now I wonder why these news are considered so important that there's a need to go these great lengths to get them on Slashdot four years after they were posted?
I can understand looking back at Apple's switch to Intel in 2010 to see where they went, but the AYBABTU meme?
Culture (Score:2)
It must be asked: what did they _really_ say? (Score:2)
Re:It must be asked: what did they _really_ say? (Score:5, Informative)
Reminiscing (Score:3, Funny)
It wasn't until I was ungrounded that I found out the truth.
I'm not sure which version I like better -- hackers screwing up the pr00f of 0wn4g3, or that the Japanese could not translate to English.
As a sidenote, I just bought myself a shirt that says "REFLECT BABOON it does no matter where you come from" and one that says "HIPPOpoTAMUS brother it takes care when playing GEE THANKS" here in Japan this week. This is of course balanced out by the kanji mistakes on Tian's [hanzismatter.com] site.
My Zig (Score:2)
Re:My Zig (Score:2)
My favorite pic (Score:2)
Another aniversary (Score:2)
There were heroes on both sides (Score:2)
All your base are belong to us...
Now that would have been a prequel!
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
the joke was dead four years ago... when I saw an all your base t-shirt at a hipster clothing store.
All your memes are tired and ancient. (Score:2)
All the kids are into it.
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:5, Informative)
Whoever modded this offtopic is in sore need of understanding.
The parent post refers to another video game that also was not well translated, namely the American Final Fantasy II. At one point, a character named Bard (Who is a Bard) is moping over the meaninglessness of his existance. Another character, Tellah, cracks him on the head and shouts, "You Spoony Bard!"
For a picture of Bard and Tellah, just go to the games page. Bard is standing on the left, with blond hair and a red cap, and Tellah is on the right with white beard and hair and a purple robe and glasses.
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Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
You mean Edward right?
He might have been the most useless character in the history of video games, but he did have a name and a history.
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
Sorry. It's been a while.
I did alot of wall candy when I was a kid.
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
No need to thank me -- we do as we must.
That and I'm rather fond of that game.
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
"How was it?"
"Yes, it's better now."
It's referring to the start of the game boss, but damn is it confusing and funny sounding, seeing as grammer would have them referring to the now dead monster.
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
Did he do other games too?
We could find stuff like:
Some your ship are belong to die.
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2, Informative)
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
(Ninja Kids)
"Sammy you!"
(Violence Fight)
"The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"
(Bad Dudes)
Re:GNAA Announces Immediate Release of OSX_x86_YHB (Score:2)
what are the odds?
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
Re:All Your Base Are Dull Now (Score:2)
"The cat lost its teeth." is the only correct way to write it. "The cat lost it's teeth." is completely wrong and no English teacher will tell you otherwise. That would mean "The cat lost it is teeth."
Glad I could help.
Re:all your first posts are belong to us (Score:2)
Re: all your first posts are belong to us (Score:2)
> Slashdot was created in 1997, which means that "first post" meme is 8 years old.
Actually, the fp meme wasn't original equipment. IIRC it's slightly more recent than the portman/petrified/grits silliness.
Re:all your first posts are belong to us (Score:2)
http://web.archive.org/web/19971221012817/slashdo
Zero Wing on "Teh Lunix" (Score:2)
Just grab an emulator [google.com] and pirate the ROM [google.com]. Toaplan is dead, and it's not illegal if you don't get caught.
Re:Or, as Nino Brown would so elegantly put it... (Score:2)