Inheriting the world.

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Shipgate

Rear Admiral
So I was golfing today at El Monte. It's my favorite golf course around here. And in between these two holes they have a really wide stream and it's got a lot of geese around it and carp in it. The carp kind of give me the creeps. They are always sticking their mouths out of the water and it opening them. It looks like they're gaping for air. Perhaps a lot of fish do this, I don't know much about fish. But I feel sometimes like carp are really trying to crawl out of the water and hang out on the edge of it.

If we really do discover some parasitic disease that eats women's ovaries or have nuclear fallout and we all get wiped out. Carp will be eventually crawling on the ground and developing new nubs that will become legs. And cockroaches will be right there with them. Each species will become the two dominant ones left on the earth. And any surviving humans will start become water creatures with flappers and small brains just like in Galapogos.

One time in Lake Powell there was a carp just sort of wading next our parked boat and I hit it really hard with an oar. It didn't do squat to it. That was a long time ago though. I wouldn't hit anything with an oar these days. Maybe a cockroach though. It takes a lot to kill them.

Do you guys ever observe any species that you feel will inherit this world when humans are gone?
 
Cockroaches...
No doute about it. They can survive a nuclear holocaust... this is were human kind is going... isn't it?
 
Shipgate said:
Hey Straggler, where do you get that quote about the base from? That sounds incredibly familiar.
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all your base are belong to us is from a Genesis game called Zero Wing.
 
I don't know. I've never played that game before yet I know I've read it somewhere. Could it not be in a book? Er...even a WC game maybe? It's driving me crazy because I'm certain it was maybe some passphrase or something.
 
Cockroaches have the advantage over carp because they will eat just about anything, whereas carp don't care for much except canned corn.
 
Canned corn? Surely not. But see, they won't eat just anything now. But once they become surface creatures they will.

I've seen three live cockroaches in my life. I squashed them with extreme prejudice. They'll become ravenous creatures once they were like three feet all and are eating everything.

The carp will just go into the mountains for some reason. Why would they do that?
 
Shipgate said:
I don't know. I've never played that game before yet I know I've read it somewhere. Could it not be in a book? Er...even a WC game maybe? It's driving me crazy because I'm certain it was maybe some passphrase or something.
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I doubt it was a WC game, but it is a fairly famous quote, that game is pretty well known for its horrible translation. You could have heard a friend say it or something.
 
Well, there's TC's All your starbase...

And, really, anyone who's online even partially and hasn't heard of AYB may want to consider coming out of their cave a little more often. I mean, it came out as an internet craze in like 2001 or so, it's not brand new.
 
Still I can't shake the feeling the it goes way before all that. It was specifically "All your base are belong to us." And it was either some passphrase or had to be in a book. I'll have to file this next to my mysterious, "Moth Elevator Memory."
 
The actual game came out in 1989 as an arcade console (intro translated correctly, but ending wasn't), then a few years later was transfered to the Sega MegaDrive system (Sega Genesis system under another name) for the UK and South America markets, with the intro horribly translated by the one guy at Toaplan (producer, dead as of 1995) that had any English knowledge whatsoever, and even that was limited to him learning English in night classes at the time.

Some info on the whole Zero Wing saga.

(I'd link directly to the FAQ, but gamefaqs.com doesn't allow direct linking, you have to trudge through the slow-loading ad page first.)
 
They are always sticking their mouths out of the water and it opening them. It looks like they're gaping for air. Perhaps a lot of fish do this, I don't know much about fish. But I feel sometimes like carp are really trying to crawl out of the water and hang out on the edge of it.
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These carp have been people-ized: they're begging for food.
 
I just remembered now why that quote was so familiar to me. I believe it was in that old game you're referring to. But where I heard it was another game. "Allyourbaseisbelongtous" is a cheat code in Warcraft 3 to skip to the next level. Yeah!
 
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