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Well, it's my 22nd Birthday today - it's been good so far, got presents very early this morning before coming to work. Was in too much of a rush to have a chance to try out my Dad's present - the only thing I'd actually asked for - a mini radio for listening to on the train. Hmm, that's something I miss about childhood - I miss birthdays being exciting the way there were when I was about six or seven.
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Will someone please put me out of my misery and explain where 'All your base belong to us' comes from/why it's funny?
Rediscovered Ox Rom yesterday - had been playing about looking at friends of friends pages and saw someone had linked to it - logged back in and rediscovered precisely why I hate/love it. It's horribly superficial, but it is nice to log in somewhere and have people want to talk to you - it's ego boosting - see, I said this was very superficial. I think that's perhaps why I used it so much during finals last year - I needed to think there were people who cared about me (well that and my general attempts to do everything I could to avoid work). But I hate it, because I feel like I'm being rude all the time - people message me, and I can't reply fast enough to keep up - I get overwhelmed with messages, and then log out, ignoring people, which is rude, but there's not much I can do about it, because as soon as I log in, more people start messaging me! I'm sure that on occassion I tried logging in in the early hours of the morning in the hope that there wouldn't be anyone about - unfortunately essay crises being what they are, even that didn't help.
I'm also in the middle of a feeling completely inadequate phase (inter alia, induced by the lack of books I've read on that books lemming, and my inability to name flowers/trees): despite being an Oxford graduate there's still a hell of a lot that I ought to know, but don't. Ahh well, google's my friend.
Edit Snip so I can make this public.
Will someone please put me out of my misery and explain where 'All your base belong to us' comes from/why it's funny?
Rediscovered Ox Rom yesterday - had been playing about looking at friends of friends pages and saw someone had linked to it - logged back in and rediscovered precisely why I hate/love it. It's horribly superficial, but it is nice to log in somewhere and have people want to talk to you - it's ego boosting - see, I said this was very superficial. I think that's perhaps why I used it so much during finals last year - I needed to think there were people who cared about me (well that and my general attempts to do everything I could to avoid work). But I hate it, because I feel like I'm being rude all the time - people message me, and I can't reply fast enough to keep up - I get overwhelmed with messages, and then log out, ignoring people, which is rude, but there's not much I can do about it, because as soon as I log in, more people start messaging me! I'm sure that on occassion I tried logging in in the early hours of the morning in the hope that there wouldn't be anyone about - unfortunately essay crises being what they are, even that didn't help.
I'm also in the middle of a feeling completely inadequate phase (inter alia, induced by the lack of books I've read on that books lemming, and my inability to name flowers/trees): despite being an Oxford graduate there's still a hell of a lot that I ought to know, but don't. Ahh well, google's my friend.
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All your base, right. Here goes. The actual phrase is "All yuor base are belong to us", with the misspelling. It dates from February 2001, I think, and was a widespread but short-lived internet meme. The actual words come from the introduction to the old Sega game, I think it was, Zero Wing, as translated badly from the Japanese. I'm not sure quite what triggered it, but the meme grew with people PhotoShop-ing pictures of signs and monuments and the like to include the phrase. Then a group called the Laziest Men on Mars produced a song (available in MP3, and I'll MSN or ICQ it to you this evening if you really want it and get in touch - see my profile) called Invasion of the Gabber Robots. To this was added a flash animation containing many of the PhotoShopped pictures. It became a massive hit, lots of people looked at it, the meme "all your X are belong to us" became a silly widespread joke, and then it all got far too popular and died.
There's a whole load of sites on the 'net purporting to the AYB story, most of them differing slightly. Have a Google and I'm sure you'll find the original animation before long. I'm at work and being horribly filtered, so I can't right now, but I'll look at home later if you like.
Ox Rom was after my time, and I rather regret that as it really looks kinda fun. There were times when I could have done with a bit of an ego boost. As you apparently need an .ox.ac.uk addy to register, I'm doomed until such times as my master plan for getting back to Oxford comes to fruition...
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I'm not sure it's worthwhile trying to send me music ( certainly doesn't think it is!;-)) - I have a standard dial up connection at home, so it takes *ages* to download anything at all. But many thanks for the explanation - that's been irking me for a while now.
I suffer from the same problem with government servers as you do - not being able to access my personal email is particularly irritating - I know there's good reasons for it and all, but it's still irritating.
Um - Ox Rom is also intended for recent Oxford graduates, so it might be worth emailing and asking, if you really want one. I signed up using my .ox.ac.uk address, but then changed it when that address expired and they didn't seem to have a problem with that at all.
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I can get my personal e-mail at work, but not anything filtered as "games". They also have a filtering category of "hacking", which filters out many useful techie sites, when they have nothing to do with computer misuse (which is properly called "cracking" anyway, but don't get me started on that). At least slashdot isn't filtered.
I suppose I could have a go at OxRom, but I'll look rather like an aged shark now. When I was back there at the weekend, someone told me that I was from a different generation - ouch. Ho well.
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Thank you for that link - it does work from here, and I do get the idea, but reckon I'm having sense of humour failure, because I simply can't see why it's at all funny.
Hmm - I went to Slashdot last night and thought it was all a bit too techy for me, so didn't explore any further than that first page. Our servers seem to block very random things - anything running java/java script I think - which includes otherwise completely normal sites - so I couldn't get into the Pizza Express website.
Yeah, generations in Oxford are very short - I go back and have lots of people coming up to me and enquiring 'What are you doing here?' - I know it's meant in a nice way, but it still makes me feel a bit rejected;-( I used to be very well known round College - less so in my third year, because I was JCR VP and later Charities Rep.
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All your FsM are belong to meeeeeee!
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Was the peak of it really over two years ago? My.