Loading Screen Messages
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This is a list and explanation of the AutoAssault loading screen messages started by Nismo. Thanks. And a big thanks to everyone else who is keeping the list growing.
Embiggening Spoon Algorithms...
This is a dual reference. "embiggen" is a made up word from the TV show "The Simpsons" from the Springfield town motto, "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
The spoon portion is probably a reference to an animated short, "Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt. In this a stick figure repeatedly proclaims that his "spoon is too big".
Urge to kill rising
"I didn't see this as a Simpsons quote, but more a Mystery Men reference, specifically, something Mr. Furious would say." -Dystopian
I'm not sure about Mystery Men, but "urge to kill rising" is often said by Alice in the Dilbert comic. (usually said while trying to restrain her "fist of death") -Cholma
This is a reference to 8-bit theater where the Black mage get frustrated with Fighter and says; "Urge...to...kill...rising" ~daspip
NOOOoooooooooo...
A reference to Darth Vader from Star Wars Episode III, or Luke Skywalker from Episode V. Made popular on the interwebs by ytmnd.com
Downloading guns... lots of guns...
Reference to The Matrix, just before Neo and Trinity do the lobby battle. Neo, while in the construct says "Guns, lot's of guns".
Plotting AI Strategery
Reference to a Saturday Night Live episode before the 2000 elections, in which an actor portraying president George W. Bush used the word Strategery in a speech.
It puts the lotion on the Osterake...
Obviously from The Silence of the Lambs, a play on "It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again".
Belonging bases...
Setting up the bomb... Making time... A reference to a game on the Sega Genesis called "Zero Wing" including a horrible Japanese to English translation, including the phrases "All your base are belong to us", "Somebone set up us the bomb", and "You have no chance to survive make your time".
Tightening graphics on level 3
This is a reference to an early nineties commercial for becoming a videogame tester. It was downright hilarious. It featured 2 kids around age 18-20 playing videogames on a couch, spewing such smarmy lines as "Wow, when you said we could get a job playing videogames, I couldn't believe my ears!" or something to that effect. Then some lady comes around the corner and asks how it's going, and one of them responds "The graphics on level 3 need tightening", to which she nods and walks away. I don't think I've laughed harder in my life. This was also on ytmnd.com. I swear whoever puts these loading screens in is a YTMND user. Fess up buddy!
Powering Up "Laser"
A reference to Austin Powers, when Dr. Evil does the "quote unquote" gesture with his fingers every time he annunciates "Lay-zer"
Adding More Cowbell...
A Saturday Night Live skit including Christopher Walken and Will Farrell. It's a documentary on Blue Oyster Cult recording "Fear the Reaper", and Walken (playing the genius producer) keeps suggesting they add more cowbell, which will lead the song to its impending success.
Jumping Sharks...
Refers to the two-part episode of Happy Days, when Fonzy is preparing to literally jump a pool full of sharks. They ended the first episode with a still frame of him just at the top of the ramp, and started the next one finishing the clip of him successfully jumping the shark. Since then, Jumping the Shark is a term used to described when a television show, or any other production, begins to pull dangerously cheesy plotlines that almost begin to beg for viewers.
Burninating the Peasants...
www.homestarrunner.com 's very own Strongbad draws a dragon named "Trogdor the Burninator". He then goes on to sing a hilarious song about him, including the line "Burninating the Peasants" when describing Trogdor's awesome daily activities.
Boiling... Mashing... Sticking in Stew...
A flash animation featuring a remix song including audio from the scene in the Lord of the Rings trilogy where Samwise Gamgee is explaining to Gollum what "taters is".
Snate Kills Bumbledore...
SPOILER ALERT Probably not needed, but I may as well put that to be safe from people whining.
A reference to the 6th Harry Potter book, where Snape kills Dumbledore. The phrase was actively used also on ytmnd.com. I dunno which dev loves ytmnd, but I'm gonna find out!
Knowing Damn Right...
I'm pretty sure this is a reference to a Jerky Boys prank call, where they impersonate a foreign man named "Kerpahl". He accuses another foreign neighbor of kicking his dog, and continually proclaims, rather scornfully, 'YOU KNOW DAMN RIGHT!' through a thick east Indian accent.
Getting Served
A reference to the movie "You Got Served". A fairly popular but often criticized movie.
Also a reference used in the animated series "Robot Chicken" where Voltron gets beat in a robot battle. --Dragagon
Adding Rendering Space... / Reflooring Z-Buffer...
3D Graphics humor. The latter being an alternative to Rebuffing Ze Floor?
Loading Embarrassingly Large Library...
Libraries are sets of functions used in coding. It's a programming joke meaning be lazy code less, use libraries.
Cleaning Elf Paste from Tires...
Bashing of other MMORPGS, a genre of games that is over populated by games in a fantasy setting involving elves.
Loading for Teh Win...
A reference to the popular phrase used by gamers "for the win" to describe anything that is cool or useful(often abbreviated as "FTW"). In this case used sarcastically.
LFG UBRS/LBRS/BRD/DM PST...
A World Of Warcraft reference meaning "Looking for group Upper Blackrock Spire/Lower Blackrock Spire/Blackrock Depths/Dire Maul Please Send Tell" The please send tell is a remenant of old MMORPG's where the whisper/private message command was /tell. PST still retains the meaning of private message although the /tell command itself is commonly replaced with /whisper.
Joining the Dark Side...
A Star Wars reference.
Loving It...
Obviously the opposite to "Hating it..."
Hating It...
A phrase used by a small group of Colorado University alumni and dropouts to express a foreshadowing of bad things to come to someone else who has wronged the one who utters it, primarily as a warning of impending revenge. Also can be used to indicate when revenge has taken place, if the revenge is not immediately attributable to the source.
Example: Alice walked away from her screen while logged in with her main Mutant character in Tocado. Bob sneaks over and starts offering free cybers to anyone who will listen. Alice catches Bob in the act and pronounces, "Hating it." This signifies to Bob he will at some undetermined point in the future become a victim of Alice's revenge.
The revenge can be immediate (Alice proceeds to punch Bob in the arm and give him a wedgie), or can play out indirectly later (Bob is finishing a bowl of Froot Loops for breakfast. Alice comes along and offers him another bowl. Bob says, "No Thanks." Alice says, "Are you sure?" and proceeds to remove a dirty sock she cleverly placed in the bottom of the Froot Loop box, then shook vigourously, on the day of the original offense. Alice then states matter of factly, "Hating it.").
-SamPenguin
Displaying Flippant Loading Message...
A reference to Auto Assault and its flippant loading messages.
Punching Kittens...
Developer inside joke... (if any of u dev's read this please fill it in)
Refers to another game development company that will only be known as "The Big Purple J". During its final death throws, the last big meeting was announced which all the devs knew was the big layoff. As we trudged into the conference area where this meeting was being held, one of the programmers said "This is going to be more fun than punching kittens," which elicited a dirty look from the studio manager who happened to walking by.
And now you know.
Kicking Puppies...
Added after protests for being biased against kittens and the Punching Kittens loading message.
Knowing your Role...
A "professional wrestling" allusion to a catchphrase from The Rock.
Braking for Hawtpants
A reference to a popular fan movie for Star Wars Galaxies in which the viewer sees Boba Fett's Slave 1 ship fly off into space with the bumper sticker 'I brake for hawtpants'. Hawtpants being speedo like attire for characters in the game.
Pushing the button
Possibly a "Men In Black" reference from which Agent K and Agent J get into their car. A button (which activates a turbo jet mode) appears on the shift handle and Agent K explicitly tells Agent J to "do not push the button, never push the button" or something to that extent.
War Games/Cold War: In the movie War Games a Soldier in silo pulls gun and tells the other soldier "Push the button Frank." The button here will send a 50 kiloton nuclear warhead into Russia. During the cold war the President of the United States had the power to "push the button" and start all out nuclear war. Today, we have a much less dangerous possibility of "nukular" war. Possibly involving microwave ovens.
Or Ren & Stimpy: REN: Now, listen, Cadet. I've got a job for you. See this button? DON'T TOUCH IT! It's the HISTORY eraser button, you fool! STIMPY: So what'll happen? REN: That's just it! We don't know! Maayyybeee something bad?... Mayyybeee something good! I guess we'll never know! 'Cause you're going to guard it! You won't touch it, will you?
Lost: Entering the numbers from lost is often called "pushing the button" on the show. The devs are obviously fans of the show.
4... 8... 15... 16... 23... 42
The numbers from the ABC show "Lost".
Reticulating Splines
A kickback to Sim City 2000 which featured a feminine voice that would announce that the system was "Reticulating Splines" while generating a map to play on.
Searching for Whales
Reference to Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home. This is the one where they have to find humpback whales and transport them to the future.
Nerfing Pirates, Buffing Ninjas
A internet culture reference regarding to major sects of coders and hackers.
Not Asking for Directions
Auto Assault is a driving game and "ask for directions" is popularly associated with driving in American culture.
Obsoleting Orcs...
Another bash of the MMORPG genre of games. A genre which is mostly populated with either Elves, Orcs or both.
Running Over Thoroughly Punched Kittens
Presumably a reference to or based on Punching Kittens above.
Powering Batteries, Speeding Turbines
Reference to the Batman TV series, in which, when starting the Batmobile, Batman would recite the litany "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed".
Reading Paragraph 84..
Paragraph 84 is the first paragraph you are instructed to read in the old skool PC game Wasteland.
Protecting Terrible Secret of Space...
A reference to a flash video where 2 giant robots "are here to protect you from the terrible secret of space" (or killing everyone.) It was originated off of a ICQ prank by Lowtax on SomethingAwful.com
