2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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all your base are belong to us
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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In 2001, this amusing mistranslation spread virally through the Internet,
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bringing with it a slew of JPEGs and a movie of hacked photographs, each
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showing a street sign, store front, package label, etc. hacked to read All
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your base are belong to us or one of the other many supremely dopey lines
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from the game (such as Somebody set up usthe bomb!!! or What happen? ). When
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these phrases are used properly, the overall effect is both screamingly
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funny and somewhat chilling, reminiscent of the B movie They Live. The
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original has been generalized to All your X are belong to us , where X is
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filled in to connote a sinister takeover of some sort. Thus, When Joe signed
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up for his new job at Yoyodyne, he had to sign a draconian NDA. It basically
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said: All your code are belong to us. Has many of the connotations of
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Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated (see Borg ). Considered silly,
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and most likely to be used by the type of person that finds Jeff K.
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hilarious. Prev Up Next All hardware sucks, all software sucks.
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