RoxStar Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 What does All your base are belong to us mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrylic Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 It was a mistanslation from Japanese to American. It think it was supposed to mean something like "All your bases now belong to us." Thats what someone told me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman21 Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 "All your base are belong to us" is a stock phrase arising from an interesting translation used in the Sega Genesis version of the Japanese video game Zero Wing (the arcade version of Zero Wing does not include the quote). It is sometimes abbreviated AYBABTU. The phrase is simply one line from the game's introductory cut scene, which is subtitled and poorly translated. In late 2000 and early 2001 a huge number of altered pictures, GIF animations, and Macromedia Flash animations exploiting the popularity of this phrase swept over the Internet and just as suddenly seemed to slow to a crawl. It has been used as a caption for almost any photograph since the heavily overloaded word "base" (along with homonyms such as bass and compounds like base pair) seemed to make the phrase mean almost anything. It is one of the most commonly quoted examples of Engrish, which is the use of English-like phrases in Japanese. The cut scene transcript goes as follows: 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'!! Operator: You know what you doing. Captain: Move 'Zig'. Captain: For great justice. The final phrase "for great justice" appears also to have been adopted by various groups as their slogan, and there is also some adoption of "move 'zig'" (which resembles that of "Let's Roll" - a universal command to action) and "Somebody set up us the bomb" (basically "uh-oh!"). The AYBABTU phenomenon is constantly declared dead, yet it is still seen on the Internet. Some people who play multiplayer games like Counter-Strike have been banned from servers for constantly repeating this phrase. Basically its a poorly mistranslated saying from and old game. It really has no meaning, but depends on the condition it is used in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 I see. Wow, how much did they pay those translators? And did they even have an editor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breton Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 By the way, here's the video that sparked it all: http://www.scene.org/redhound/AYB.swf Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Fisher Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I found that movie to be... frankly quite stupid. Meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by Sam Fisher I found that movie to be... frankly quite stupid. Meh. I found it funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockerD Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I found it funny aswell heres some pics I found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabulousjedi Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Somebody set us up the bomb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman21 Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 i just watched the video. I thought it was funny, and somebody spent a long time on it. Its kinda sad actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrylic Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Its not sad snowy. Its happy. Its great. All your base are belong to us. It was a life style for me for a while. Now thats sad. The movie, is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Girl Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 All your Base is very sad... *blinks* ...and very old... I can't believe its still around... ..I remember my first AYB expirence... ...I was young and foolish then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 That was great! I wonder if I can download that song from somewhere.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Girl Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 the Laziest Men on Mars website. Can't remember the URL now... ...i'm sure anywhere on LimeWire or Kazza. or Na--- Na... *weeps* Napster! wah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 I remember the good old Napster... We downloaded and shared songs.... others got in trouble... *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I have always wondered what that meant... Clicky Hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Another stupid nerd thing, like l337 speak... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by Darth Groovy Another stupid nerd thing, like l337 speak... NERDS RULE! *Runs out of thread with Nerd Flag* I thoguht it was classic. Somebody set up us the bomb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman21 Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by Acrylic Its not sad snowy. Its happy. Its great. All your base are belong to us. It was a life style for me for a while. Now thats sad. The movie, is not. Oh, ok I'll take your word for it. I honestly had never heard of that saying until like yesterday or something. So I was all like "hey, not knowing junk is annoying! I'm going to look it up!" And then I looked it up, and thats why I got that big ol' bunch of words in the third post. Don't I have a way with words? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockerD Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by Darth Groovy Another stupid nerd thing, like l337 speak... 4 words "Revenge of the Nerds" nerds get girls *goes to watch it* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by snowman21 Oh, ok I'll take your word for it. I honestly had never heard of that saying until like yesterday or something. So I was all like "hey, not knowing junk is annoying! I'm going to look it up!" And then I looked it up, and thats why I got that big ol' bunch of words in the third post. Don't I have a way with words? I've heard it awhile ago, when I first came to LF..... Obi and Matt (and C'Jais, too, I think) were saying things like "All your bass belong to river" *joins RockerD in "Revenge of the Nerds"* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrylic Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by ZBomber I've heard it awhile ago, when I first came to LF..... Obi and Matt (and C'Jais, too, I think) were saying things like "All your bass belong to river" I got a good one. All your n00bs belong to satan. Nah, just jokin' there. ALL YOUR EYELASHES ARE BELONG TO ME! *Withers away* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 I don't get it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrylic Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by RoxStar I don't get it.... What I said...theres no point. Well, not really. I usually say eyelashes in real life for no apparent reason. o.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 why is it so freakin famous? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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