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Week 31: Badly Translated Video Game Quotes (and Famous Youtube Videos)
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Note: From this point on the Overlord will only be nominating two people. The rebel may then choose to save one of the two, and if they do so the overlord must name a replacement that is not the Rebel. Regardless of whether they use their power or not, the Rebel will always vote in the elimination

Week 31 Overlord Challenge: Dammit Krystal


As the previous Illuminati Overlord, Mannequin will not be participating in this challenge.

In front of you are 12 video game quotes that have been translated back and forth through multiple languages and now do not look very similar to the original quote. You must PM me what you think each quote originally was before turning into these messes. You will receive 1 point for each correct answer. The player with the most points will be the new Overlord. If there is a tie, a tiebreaker will come in that is adjusted to be either easier or harder depending on what is needed.

1. I'm talking about the war.
2. Mr. president, if you need help ninja, don't you, my brother got kidnapped,...
3. Back home, and family
4. Employees can choose from
5. If a lot of the tower
6. If you die, and if you want, RUB
7. Since the ball and tire
8. All your base belongs to us
9. Open, and I'm not a cucumber, he said.
10. Yeah, a lot of secrets!
11. Very impressive!
12. Disease
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I guess I'll be the first to point out the obvious

3. "Go home and be a family man" - Guile (Street Fighter II)
8. "All your base are belong to us" - CATS (Zero Wing)
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10. "A miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)

maybe?
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2. "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?" (Bad Dudes)''

maybe?
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i'm thinking the last one could maybe be "This guy are sick" from FF7.

it might not be, though. just the first thing i thought of
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Kefiroth
Dec 28 2014, 08:13 PM
2. "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?" (Bad Dudes)''

maybe?
That's what I thought of immediately on reading it, so probably not a bad guess.

11 could be a ton of things, first thing I thought of was the SSBM announcer saying "wow, incredible" but a lot of generic success messages could go here
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I'm terrible at these.

1 could be "I have covered wars, you know?". Maybe.
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Okay, actually these are hard and the only ones I knew were 2 and 8, which you guys already got.

I may still think about it more later, but results are unlikely. I'm uncertain how I could google for these things. I mean maybe some sort of "reverse translation" program could help, but that might be far-fetched. I mean a program that runs a final sentence back through translators once or twice (in all the different ways) and reports the significantly different English results so that one might be more easily turned into a quote than what we see now.
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Cucumber has a lot of weird "synonyms" such as money-related things and choice/liberty.

Maybe 9 is someone demanding that someone open (or do something else) and saying that's not a choice?
Still not sure what the quote could actually be though.
Maybe something like "I'm not at liberty to say.."?

Edit: I found this: "well, I'm really not at liberty to say" on here http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Half-Life
It's probably not correct, but you're free to use it if you come up with nothing else.
Edited by Dreamwalker, Dec 29 2014, 01:24 PM.
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7 hours left. Who wants to send whatever we have found?
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WHY aren't we sharing answers with scorpio?
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Well my opinion is that Scorpio might turn on us and so it's a needless risk.

I kind of thought we'd be getting more of these answers though. About 4 hours left now and our list isn't looking very extensive.
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1 might be "War. War never changes" from Fallout
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7 = "Do a barrel roll" ?
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This is really hard.

11. It's super effective!
12. You have died of dysentery

...maybe?
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5- You must construct additional pylons
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Kefiroth
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"It's super effective!" for 11 makes sense, especially in the context of TES2 (specifically because of a certain previous challenge)

the Starcraft quote for 5 also seems like more or less a sure thing.

12 I'm leaning more towards the FF7 quote, but the Oregon Trail is also a good guess. One of you should send each.
Edited by Kefiroth, Dec 30 2014, 02:44 PM.
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1. "I have covered wars, you know"- Dead Rising/ "War, war never changes"- Fallout
2. "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?" (Bad Dudes)''
3. "Go home and be a family man" - Guile (Street Fighter II)
5. "You must construct additional pylons"- Starcraft
7. "Do a barrel roll"- StarFox 64
8. "All your base are belong to us" - CATS (Zero Wing)
9. Well, I'm really not at liberty to say- Half-Life
10. "A miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)
11. Wow, incredible!- SSBM/ "It's super effective!"- Pokemon
12. "This guy are sick"- FF7/ "You have died of dysentery"- Oregon Trail

Here's everything we've got so far.
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4. "A man chooses, a slave obeys" or "A man has a choice"- Bioshock
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Awesome job, Cody (and others)!

Feeling the pressure to do well this week?
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I guess when we have multiple answers we should have at least one person submit each variation.

And I guess #6 is the only one we still don't have any answer (right or wrong) for yet.
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1. "I have covered wars, you know"- Dead Rising
2. "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?" (Bad Dudes)
3. "Go home and be a family man" - Guile (Street Fighter II)
4. "A man has a choice"- Bioshock
5. "You must construct additional pylons"- Starcraft
6.
7. "Do a barrel roll"- StarFox 64
8. "All your base are belong to us" - CATS (Zero Wing)
9. "Well, I'm really not at liberty to say"- Half-Life
10. "A miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)
11. "It's super effective!"- Pokemon
12. "This guy are sick"- FF7

Here's what I'm submitting, no clue for 6. Anyone else can submit variations if they're online in time.
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Cody, since it looks like you may be the only one to submit at this rate, I think it'd be better to list "A man chooses, a slave obeys" instead of "A man has a choice" for #4.

I think "slave" is what got translated into "employee" on that one.
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For the ones that you have two listed, I'm going to say the ones I personally find more likely, just in case not all of Gemini is online to submit all the variations.

1. "I have covered wars, you know"- Dead Rising/ "War, war never changes"- Fallout
The first one seems more likely because of the "I" in it and the single instance of a "war" word.

11. Wow, incredible!- SSBM/ "It's super effective!"- Pokemon
The second one seems more likely because we know Mayo likes to include Pokemon in challenges. If there's not another Pokemon quote, this is for sure Pokemon.

12. "This guy are sick"- FF7/ "You have died of dysentery"- Oregon Trail
The second one seems more likely because it's a far more famous quote. I can also see "You have died of" condensing very well in some other language to just a word or two, thus allowing it to then condense to a single word with relative ease.
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Most of our answers seem to be listed here:
http://www.gamesradar.com/best-video-game-quotes-all-time/

But I can't find anything there that would seem to apply to #6. I'm thinking the word at the end of #4 is some kind of acronym, as that would explain the capitalization. While in English the acronym may not be a valid word, it might remain spelled that way when translated to another language, and then in that language it might be a valid word with a definition roughly the same as "rub".
Edited by Dreamwalker, Dec 30 2014, 03:31 PM.
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OK, I revised my answers to include your suggestions.

I also threw in “X-Men, welcome to die!” (X-Men Arcade) for 6 because I hate to leave one blank.
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Yeah, that's listed there so is a good choice. At least it has a comma and the bad grammar could've messed up a translation. I'm not sure how the "if"s appear though.

I also considered something along the lines of "Press X to die." or "Press X to not die.", since press and rub are kind of similar or maybe a single capital X can somehow change into a completely capital word in another language. But I'm not sure if those are actual video game quotes.
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I'll be sending this. cody, please confirm that for the ones where we doubt I have sent the version you didn't.

1. "War, war never changes"- Fallout
2. "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?" - Bad Dudes
3. "Go home and be a family man" - Street Fighter II
4. "A man has a choice"- Bioshock
5. "You must construct additional pylons"- Starcraft
6. "Hold X to pay respects" - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
7. "Do a barrel roll"- StarFox 64
8. "All your base are belong to us" - Zero Wing
9. "Well, I'm really not at liberty to say"- Half-Life
10. "A miserable little pile of secrets!" - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
11. "It's super effective!"- Pokemon
12. "This guy are sick"- FF7
Edited by ArchangelBaruch, Dec 30 2014, 03:51 PM.
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Baruch, you don't need to change everything.

Since there's 4 players, we should decide the TWO options we want to vary. 2^2 = 4.
There's seriously no way Mayo didn't include a Pokemon reference.
Also, "wow" is less similar to "very" than "super" is.
Edited by Dreamwalker, Dec 30 2014, 03:40 PM.
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So I leave Fallout and FFVII, but put back Pokémon?
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And are whichever those guys who are sick in FF7 important? I played FF7 but don't remember that quote. Dysentery is much more memorable.
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What about "Hold X to pay respects" for 6?
Edited by Cody11533, Dec 30 2014, 03:46 PM.
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I played it in Spanish, so I can't tell.

Right now the only change with cody is #1, post before is updated.

EDIT: where is the respects thing from?
Edited by ArchangelBaruch, Dec 30 2014, 03:45 PM.
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It's from this year's Call of Duty.
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My recommendations (including the two I recommend varying).

Actually, I'm not confident at all that my #9 is right, since that's just some random quote I found while searching potential stuff online, but if you have nothing else then I guess we're stuck with it.

1. "I have covered wars, you know"- Dead Rising {{{OR}}} "War, war never changes"- Fallout
2. "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?" (Bad Dudes)
3. "Go home and be a family man" - Guile (Street Fighter II)
4. "A man chooses, a slave obeys" - Bioshock
5. "You must construct additional pylons"- Starcraft
6. “X-Men, welcome to die!” (X-Men Arcade)
7. "Do a barrel roll"- StarFox 64
8. "All your base are belong to us" - CATS (Zero Wing)
9. "Well, I'm really not at liberty to say"- Half-Life
10. "A miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)
11. "It's super effective!"- Pokemon
12. "This guy are sick"- FF7 {{{OR}}} "You have died of dysentery"- Oregon Trail
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Dec 30 2014, 03:44 PM
What about "Hold X to pay respects" for 6?
I'm not seeing it.
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1. "I have covered wars, you know"- Dead Rising
2. "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?" (Bad Dudes)
3. "Go home and be a family man" - Guile (Street Fighter II)
4. "A man chooses, a slave obeys"- Bioshock
5. "You must construct additional pylons"- Starcraft
6. X-Men, welcome to die! (X-Men Arcade)
7. "Do a barrel roll"- StarFox 64
8. "All your base are belong to us" - CATS (Zero Wing)
9. "Well, I'm really not at liberty to say"- Half-Life
10. "A miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)
11. "It's super effective!"- Pokemon
12. "You have died of dysentery"- Oregon Trail

Here is what I sent. Baruch can do the alternates on the first and last.
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OK, sent.
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Okay, so maybe Choco can only alternate the first (from what Cody posted) and Kirby can only alternate the last (from what Cody posted)?

(assuming they show up here)
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I PM'd Kirby and Choco in case they hadn't sent anything yet and happened to come online in these final minutes. I told them what the plan was here for them to send.
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>_<

Well done!
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Sorry about the tie, Cody. I shouldn't have gotten you to change #12.
On the other hand, if Kirby had been online, the variant I told him to send would've scored 8/12, so we could've avoided the tie that way.

But the tie might not be bad. It buys you guys more time to think about whether to nominate 2 Taurus, 2 Scorpio, or a Taurus and a Scorpio. And which people in particular.
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Eh, I think it's better if one of us concedes (I volunteer, this victory has been cody's). No need to make mayo work hard for nothing.

I think nominating two Taurus is a must. If we attack Scorpio right now, after lucky's monologue last time they'll join forces with Taurus.

And we'll be in disadvantage.
Edited by ArchangelBaruch, Dec 30 2014, 04:22 PM.
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If I were Scorpio, I'd be paranoid regardless whether or not I was nominated, but yes, I might try just slightly less hard in the Rebel comp if I'm not nominated initially. Slightly.
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BARUCH VS CODY TIEBREAKER ROUND

1. On the way I'll go.
2. The cake is not a lie.
3. Red warrior, the thickness of the food need.
4. It's a miracle that I never
5. But the Lord of the castle
6. You spoony wrote on the Jews
7. Come
8. It's very dangerous for me

Is 2 "The cake is a lie", or is that too obvious?
6 is clearly "You spoony bard!"
8 might be "It's dangerous to go alone."
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5 may be "But your Princess is in another castle."
Edited by Dreamwalker, Dec 30 2014, 04:29 PM.
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Dec 30 2014, 04:21 PM
If we attack Scorpio right now, after lucky's monologue last time they'll join forces with Taurus.
If they knew what was good for them, they'd have already done that.

This time though, it seems like there was no co-operation going on between any non-Gemini, even within the other teams themselves.

Personally, I'd recommend going after the most powerful Scorpio (Cocainius or Swift)
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I'm surprised with 6, how "spoony" survived the translation.

Unless you definitely want to stall I'll concede after sleeping, in a few hours.
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7 might be "Get over here!" from Mortal Kombat
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3 is probably "red warrior needs food badly" or whatever that gauntlet quote is.

Sorry for missing submission, got stuck doing something that took a little longer than I was expecting.
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