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Topic: All Your Base Are Belong to Us
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Dave Thomer
Guardian of Peace and Justice in the Galaxy
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posted 03-21-2001 03:02 PM
   
Anyone check out this week's Onion and the last short item on the left -- Congress Adds 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us' Amendment To Bankruptcy Bill? It's the most prominent example of the All Your Base phenomenon I had seen (until I found the 3/12/01 Fox Trot strip on the web), and I was just wondering -- how much, if at all, have you come across it in your web travels?If you're thoroughly unfamiliar with All Your Base -- it's a line from an incredibly poorly translated introduction to a video game. The text has become some kind of wacky Net in-joke. For more details, check out this site. |
Pattie Gillett
True Believer
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posted 03-23-2001 05:10 PM
A) This is frightening on so many levels.
B) I guess if we ever get notnews.org shirts made, we can't we get this put on the back because it will be, like, so five minutes ago, right?  |
Stephanie
One of the Regulars
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posted 03-27-2001 09:36 AM
I have never heard of this whole "base" thing before, but it is referenced in MBTV's most current Soprano recap. They put it in where some Russian mobsters come to beat up Janice (Tony's sister) because she stole this Russian moll's (I know, so 20's) leg because the Russian has the record collection that Livia (Nancy Marchand) had left her and Janice wanted to do a trade. "He's polite at first, saying, "Give us leg and we go. Repent on yourself or all your base are belong to us." Okay, not that last part." If you could make sense of my explanatory sentence without having seen the show, my hat's off to you! |
Dave Thomer
Guardian of Peace and Justice in the Galaxy
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posted 04-09-2001 05:33 PM
What I really find amusing is the number of people clamoring to announce that their use of 'All Your Base' officially signals the end of the phenomenon. It's like it's become cool to be the guy that makes things not cool, or something. I'm getting a headache. |
Earl Green
True Believer
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posted 01-08-2002 02:11 PM
On the other hand, there are plenty of video game catchphrases just waiting in the wings to become meaningless flash-in-the-pan pop culture reference points. I was recently playing a Japenese game based on the anime' characters of a specific studio, the most popular of which was exported to the U.S. as "Battle Of The Planets." Most of the game's dialogue is in Japanese, and there's not a lot of it then because, being a fighting game, it's mostly grunting. But the announcer/narrator speaks in very clear, though heavily Japanese-inflected English, and the fellow they hired to do this voice was apparently very intense: "Your - game - is - OVER!" "You - are - HURT!" and so on. Almost Seinfeld Soup Nazi intense. I just find that amusing for some reason. |
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