Talk:All your base are belong to us/Archive 2

message: No mention of the episode of Futurama (Tales of Interest I think) which is based around various video games - one of the aliens/sprites (from some game I don't know) gets off a UFO and says 'All your base are belong to us...'
:It is mentioned in the now-archived, seemingly endless list of media references. --BRossow 01:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Futurama 

message: I don't know how to change this, but the image of CATS talking says that AYBABTU is copyrighted. It's not. Orville Eastland 23:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A note on the main image

message: :Removed the following text, which seems to be a speculative digression. --Rootbeer 2002-04-04
:It seems all but inevitable that the various strange urges compelling people to bind various ideas to these memes will eventually conspire to make them mean something - although most likely there will be no consensus on that meaning, and new meanings will spawn faster than old ones could be agreed on.  
This part was moved to viral meme and rewritten:
:A parallel is to the phrase "no problem" which means everything from "really, no problem, I've taken care of it and will completely indemnify and insure you for all risks of trusting me and against every conceivable threat to the maximum of my own ability" to "I have just sold you and your firstborn into slavery, to this nice man."  Context defines the whole of the meaning, and the use of any phrase at all is perhaps to convey only a tone of voice or a choice of timing and conveyance.
this part was rewritten too in no problem
:propagation via the Internet
Total number of recent edits of "AYBBTU" = 12 
Total number of recent edits of "syllogism" = 1 
Say's it all really... :)
:, almost seeming to imply a strange alien English dictionary of their own behind the odd phrasing.
I removed the bit above.  "Strange" & "odd" are redundant, "almost seeming to imply" is so nebulous as to say nothing.  The above is highly subjective: "seems" is uncertain, "imply" is subject to interpretation, "almost" reduces the information content to zero.  In short I could say that the sentence above certainly indicates a need for editing.  :-)  --Koyaanis Qatsi
::Best Usage Ever: at an anti-GMO protest, a giant mutant corncob with the caption ALL YOUR BASE PAIR ARE BELONG TO US. --Montrealais
:::Do you remember where and when? That could be good to have in the "AYBABTU offline" section. -- — Gwalla | Talk 22:49, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed parts 

message: It is to be noted that "All your base" is by no means the first piece of thoroughly opaque slang to have come to currency. In eighty years, studies of slang will likely still record exactly where the expression came from, and from what context -- but we will not be appreciably closer to understanding the original context of the 1920s slang expression, "23 skidoo". --FOo
: Or even (ironically given your username) foobar and foo Jeff schiller 15:23, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not completely ''sui generis'' 

message: I removed:
* Starcraft, which includes a map named AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs. The map consists of two landmasses, with three bases clustered on each, linked by one long, narrow isthmus.
Starcraft and the extension Starcraft Broodwar were released 1998, three years before according to the article the phrase became popular. If somebody creates a fan map, the only way it becomes important is when the map is widely used. I don't know if it is, but this was misleading anyhow. --Ados 15:38, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starcraft 

message: there should be something said about "Chinglish" the old "Good Good Study, Day Day Up" 好好学习， 天天向上
:That would belong at Chinglish, not here. --DopefishJustin (・∀・) 02:16, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinglish 

message: I just noticed someone removed the entry for the Escape Velocity Nova game in the AYB references section, claiming it to be "unrelated". Well, just take a look at this screenshot. Looks like it is related indeed. The Easter egg is real, and so is the reference. It wasn't me who put that entry on the article, but it took me about one minute searching on Google to find out whether the thing is "unrelated" or not. I'm posting this here, so that you people know why I reverted the article to the last version. I did some minor changes to the entry as well. – Mackeriv 00:25, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine...I admit I didn't adequately check it, but the description! "Where you can see cats occasionally flying around the universe" what does that have to do with AYBABTU? --Ilyanep (Talk) 23:55, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: After reading the new revision...this is much better. --Ilyanep (Talk) 23:56, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The Easter Egg might not refer to the AYBABTU phrase directly, but it's related to the whole "AYB phenomenon" instead. If people haven't decided to keep repeating that phrase and create tons of photoshopped pics years ago, the fad would have never started... and I'm sure that little Easter Egg would have never been inserted into that game, because it is the phrase that made the world notice the existence of Zero Wing and all the little elements pertaining to it (like CATS himself). The way I see it, this article deals with the AYB phenomenon that spread out within the Internet years ago, as well as the effects of it. Not just about the opening sequence text. That's just what launched the fad. Your argument on that is still valid, but this is my opinion. =]  – Mackeriv 03:45, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Escape Velocity Nova 

message: This seems to be unrelated. Should it be deleted? --Qwe 16:42, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: "All your bases will belong to me" is proper grammar.  Unless someone can show that it has roots in "All your base are belong to us", I think it's an entirely different statement.  I, for one, think it should go. --Lebob 06:51, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I am pretty sure this line is not in Yuri's Revenge, but is however in the last Allied mission of Red Alert 2. (On the Kremlin mission, when Yuri is about to send a wave of Kirov airships.) --Ferretgames 16:35, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yuri's Revenge 

message: From http://www.1-800-translate.com/Japanese.html we get this little gem: 
Christian era 2101
The fight began. 
I say that on earth the captain did it how!
Explosive substance seems to have been set an engineer by someone. 
Communication entered the captain a communication person!
It is なにっ the captain!
A vision comes to Maine screen a communication person. 
The captain || in front of おっお!
Restless だ sleeps CATS, and it is you. 
All CATS had your base by cooperation of the federal government force CATS. 
Your warship will be the end CATS soon, too. 
The captain || ばっばかなっ!
CATS thanks your cooperation. 
CATS prize to the utmost small amount of life. 
CATS || ハッハッハッハッハッ:
A communication person || the captain. 
It is a departure order in all ZIG planes the captain!
The captain cannot but already entrust them. 
The captain || in our future || hope:
The captain asks. ZIG!
Hmmm. --204.52.215.107 05:30, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  How an automatic translator did at the "All your base are belong to us" speech 

message: At present the article includes the text "The method used was nefarious and viscious." I presume that should be either "vicious" or "viscous", but neither makes much sense, so I'm not sure to what to correct it.
:Hmm... that whole paragraph looks to me like it was added by said "men aged 16 and 17", who clearly thought they were being very funny and clever indeed!!!1!1!oneoneone. I've trimmed it right down to bare "facts", but unless someone can find an external reference to back up the bit about closing the school, I'd say it can be removed altogether as not particularly notable (we already mention "...graffiti on various structures..."). --IMSoP 20:56, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling correction needed 

message: Wasn't there a issue of Time magazine that featured Cats on the cover, and an article about AYB? Or was that photoshopped?
--AndrewNeo 18:31, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That was photoshopped. -- — Gwalla | Talk 23:25, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The cover with CATS on it was made up, but the AYB phenomenon really came out on the Time Magazine, some years ago I think. The had a tiny note about it, I heard. That's official. --Kaonashi 03:32, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time Cover 

message: I would love to see a president yell "all your base are belong to us" on an election or something. That would give him some votes... --Ice Cream Reaver 23:29, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That wouldn't be proper English .... making it just perfect for Bush! :) --Marc NL 22:38, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presidents 

message: It says in this article that 'All your base are belong to us' is meme. Saying it is a meme presupposes the existence of memes which is POV information. 
See Internet phenomenon(talk page).
See Meme (talk page).  --Maprovonsha172 23:42, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You are slapping a NPOV label for that?! Pardon my incredulity, but meme appears twice on the page- first as a category, which as has been explained to you elsewhere is not POV since the word is widely used, and secondly in a phrase to the effect (I'm paraphrasing here) that 'some people see "All your base" as an example of a meme' which ought to be neutral enough even for an anti-meme zealot like you.  I'm removing the label in lieu of a *real* NPOV violation.  I'd appreciate everybody else's comments as well. --maru 23:49, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely asinine and stupid. Beyond, in fact. Removal supported. --FCYTravis 04:30, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internet Meme? 

message: Under the entry of games referencing AYB:
In Chrono Trigger, Ayla says "What you say?!" as part of her dialogue when first meeting the rest of the party.
Chrono Trigger came out in 1995, well before the AYB meme.  Ayla is a cavewoman in the game, and her method of speaking is reflective of that.  I don't think this is a true reference. (Unsigned comment by User:199.94.221.169)
:I agree with 199.94.221.169 about the English Chrono Trigger translator(s) was trying to imply primitive language speaking abilities not AYBAB2U. The consensus is that the meme fad started in 2001+. I removed it. --Chill Pill Bill 00:47, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chrono Trigger? 

message: I saw a graphic somewhere of a Wikipedia all your base. I will try to find it. --Zscout370 (Sound Off) 21:32, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Here it is. --Zscout370 (Sound Off) 06:50, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If a company that holds a copyright no longer exists, what happens with regard to copyright restrictions? --BRossow 00:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

text: What! --Maru 15:06, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia AYB 

message: 1. Should be "exact" as the ending transcript is later in the article, in all caps?
2. Is there really a comma in the first line (Narrator: In  A.D. 2101, war was beginning)? Or should it be two seperate lines, like in the animation? Bayerischermann 00:41, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the transcript be exact? 

message: AYBABTU as an idiom?  -- Zondor 15:08, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idiom 

message: In Fahrenheit 9/11, someone screams: "What happen!" during the war-part of the film. Is this legit? Where in the movie is this? It could very easily be unintentional if it's real-life footage. M.C. Brown Shoes 10:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fahrenheit 9/11

message: Planet Tribes flash animation has a nice dance remix of AYB. I've tried to find a high quality version of this song, but could only find other, not so good, ones. Does such a version exist or is the flash animation the only source for it ? --Hdante 14:04, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The song is "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. It was on MP3.com until MP3.com shut down in 2003. --Damian Yerrick (all your base are belong to me) 03:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  High quality remix?