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Playing through Super Mario RPG and arriving at Star Hill. Hmm, dreams coming true? Methinks someone on the dev team might be a goon!
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Guys, there's an enemy in Kid Icarus named "Eggplant Wizard"! What an obscure piece of SA history to name something after! Just goes to show, you never know where goons are gonna pop up.
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The bonus level hidden in Super Mario Odyssey where you fly using Mario's red winged hat and collect the red coins is believed to contain a hidden reference to Tribute.avi. if you set your system clock to 9/11/2001, the Twin Towers appear in the center of the level after collecting the sixth coin. If Mario hits either tower, yakety sax is heard faintly in the background while the tower ignites and collapses.
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pokemon diamond/pearl had some SA stuff that is so blatant and well known it doesnt even qualify as easter eggs
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Hey goon sirs, in The Sims 4 if you remove all the doors, windows, and toilets, within 6 in-game hours your sims will poo poo their pants. is a sly reference to Something Awful?
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Making Johnny Fiveaces a major character in Cyberpunk 2077 (and even having him potrayed by Keanu Reeves) was a bold move. Its a shame they had to slightly change the name for legal reasons, but its super obvious that its supposed to be him.
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As of December 29th, the most ambitious pant making GBS threads simulator - Goon Citizen - has crowd funded over $335,000,000 dollars
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there was that mission in grand theft auto 5 where that girl makes you carry a laser printer for like 2 miles
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I remember the streamer who found a reference to "the battle of wounded knee" in some game and said it was a Skyrim reference
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you broke my grill posted:I remember the streamer who found a reference to "the battle of wounded knee" in some game and said it was a Skyrim reference its a classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEjdihKnYk
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In has been theorized that Duke Nukem's catchphrase of "Eat poo poo and Die" is a veiled reference to the Something Awful subforum "gently caress You and Die"[6][7]. While some[who?] have criticized this theory, its defenders cite chapter 8 of Duke Nukem Does the Internet as evidence that Duke bowdlerized the title out of concern of directing impressionable children to websites intended for adults.[8]
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In raunchy N64 game Conkers Bad Fur Day there is a boss named "the big mighty poo", who's main attack is throwing, well, poop at you. This is of course a reference to my posting.
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Grand Thaft Thauto.
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The astrophysical event known as the "Big Bang" was put in the cosmos as a reference to the something awful forums poster Mooey Cow's ability to do an immense sexual intercourse
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Mario's original name Jumpman was actually a take on the classic something awful gaming slang "shootmans".
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The lower taxes button in simcity is actually a reference to Richard 'LowTax' Kyanka
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In GTA if you type the cheat “granos” you immediately get a five star wanted level
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I’m Mass Effect 3 when you hook up with another character of the same sex, there’s a 10% chance of getting a cutscene where Shepherd says “I’m gay”.
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i think the game brigador has actual somethingawful stuff in it, for some ungodly reason
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Grand Thaft Thauto. Grand Shaft Thoto
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philip seymour hoffman overdosed as an homage to tcc
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HORSE-SLAUGHTERER posted:when i equip the unique YCS/186 gauss rifle in new vegas, im fondly reminded of the ycs death spiral where the whole forum was full of making GBS threads dick nipples and suchlike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoKlxjIMGFc
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GolfHole posted:i think the game brigador has actual somethingawful stuff in it, for some ungodly reason It's because its developer Gauss was a part of the handful of actual game devs like Josh "Ropekid" Sawyer who posted in YCS and later migrated to the Badgame offsite when it was shut down. They all throw sly hidden references to each other and the website in their games; New Vegas has the YCS/186 Gauss rifle and Brigador has a vehicle called the Rope Kid and buildings with YCS signs on them. Also some of the pilots in Brigador are named and modeled after YCS/Badgame posters, like Phallic Baldwin appearing as Phil Bromlin
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Doctor Dogballs posted:pokemon diamond/pearl had some SA stuff that is so blatant and well known it doesnt even qualify as easter eggs the "I like shorts!" kid in red and blue is an in-joke about a thread in GBS, isn't it?
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:the "I like shorts!" kid in red and blue is an in-joke about a thread in GBS, isn't it? nah it turned out that's just literally what the kid says. there are only so many ways you can phrase it. the translation should just barely predate SA
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Fur20 posted:nah it turned out that's just literally what the kid says. there are only so many ways you can phrase it. One of the translators for the early pokemon games is Douglas Dinsdale. He was involved in the translations up until gen 4 (diamond / pearl). There were some in-jokes in Diamond/Pearl, and I believe he confirmed it in their Let's Play thread.
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There was a banhammer in loving morrowind of all games. Plus the johnny five aces reference in fallout new vegas. ...trap sprung?
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:the "I like shorts!" kid in red and blue is an in-joke about a thread in GBS, isn't it? The English translation of Pokemon Red and Blue were released in 1998, it would have taken you five seconds to look this up and piece together that the line predates the existence of SA. The actual order of things is: -The English translation of Pokemon Red and Blue come out in 1998 and has an NPC that is a little boy whose dialog is "Hi! I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear!" -Because the line is so funny and weird it was quoted a lot online by fans of the game and became a meme over the following decade an even returned in future Pokemon games. -in the 2010 Let's Play thread entitled Let's Horribly Break Pokemon Blue the goon Douglas Dinsdale identified himself as the freelance translator Nob Ogasawara, who translated every mainline Pokemon title up until Pokemon Platinum. He claims to have translated and written the shorts line, though he wasn't the only translator working on it so he blames things like Mr. Mime being give a gendered name without considering that future games might give individual Pokemon genders on other people. Presumably he felt comfortably outing himself and speaking candidly about his work because in 2008 The Pokemon Company stopped hiring him. Fur20 posted:nah it turned out that's just literally what the kid says. there are only so many ways you can phrase it. According to Legends of Localization the line is funny and noteworthy because it's actually a pretty inaccurate translation of a conversational line (he literally translates it as "Shorts are nice and easy to move around in! Why don’t you wear some too?") that turns it into a clunky non-sequitur exclamation. I would hesitate to call it a bad translation though because IMHO having a line that's funny and memorable is way more valuable than having one that is more technically accurate to the original text but unremarkable. quote:The first thing I notice is that the Japanese shorts line feels like a self-observation and a suggestion directed at the main character. The Japanese line also mentions that shorts are easy to move around in, which fits the character and the setting. He’s a Pokémon trainer and has to go around training and fighting and catching stuff in the wilderness, so being properly clothed is important. https://legendsoflocalization.com/a-look-at-pokemon-and-comfy-shorts/ ...of SCIENCE! fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Making Johnny Fiveaces a major character in Cyberpunk 2077 (and even having him potrayed by Keanu Reeves) was a bold move. Its a shame they had to slightly change the name for legal reasons, but its super obvious that its supposed to be him. I mean, Silverhand is an abusive pill-addled narcissist, so Fiveaces reference aside, the character is clearly based on Something Awful's founder, whose name has been lost to time.
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Cliffy B once ended a Gamepro(?) interview by asking "Do you have stairs in your house?" and the interviewer had no idea what he was talking about. And they printed it anyway.
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In Sonic and Tails, when tails is almost elbow deep in Sonic's rear end, and Sonic is making that crazy ahegao face and moaning out his "Aaawwwwwaaaa JEEEEZZZuuussss TTTAAAAAIIILLS" speech that's actually an insider reference to a classic Goons With Spoons thread.
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Before he got famous, Lil Yachty was a moderator on the GameFAQ forums and had access to user's private messages. One of those users was our very own LadyAmbien, and she had struck up a conversation with a developer for Watch Dogs. On his first mix tape Lil Yachty strongly implied that the Ban Hammer melee weapon found in Watch Dogs was a nod to our forums. Though there's no proof that stunt got that developer into her pants, there's also no proof that it didn't work either.
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Isometric Bacon posted:Doom 3 had SA open in one of the computer monitor tabs if I remember correctly. You're thinking of Final Fantasy: Spirits Within and WinZip.
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some lady in Rage wears a YCS shirt, referencing the former Something Awful subforum closed for racism.
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In Dragon Age: Origins, the OST has songs sung in English. This is a hidden tribute to the something awful forum BYOB who's official language was made English by the new owner. (According to the stickied thread if you want to speak 'gobbldy guk' you can sign up for a free reddit account)
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Paladinus posted:You're thinking of Final Fantasy: Spirits Within and WinZip. There are computers in Postal 2 that have Old Man Murray on them, which was a game humor website that was part of the same loose affiliation of early-00s humor sites like Something Awful and Seanbaby. Its writers ran Portal of Evil and would go on to write the Portal series, just to further drive home how seemingly everyone in that circle aside from Lowtax managed to get breakout success. Reality Protester posted:some lady in Rage wears a YCS shirt, referencing the former Something Awful subforum closed for racism.  I would legit love some kind of oral history or compendium of all the YCS references that made it into actual games but I can totally see why people would be hesitant to publicly associate with an edgy ironic 00s humor subforum whose legacy is a race realism friendly offsite. It's also why Portal of Evil was completely memoryholed after Portal came out, and even then there's at least one thinkpiece trying to trace the line from their 00s edge and ironic misogyny to gamergate. https://www.mic.com/articles/180888/erik-wolpaw-chet-faliszek-old-man-murray-untold-origins-of-gamergate-harassment-abuse-gaming-culture   Dignity Van Houten posted:In Dragon Age: Origins, the OST has songs sung in English. This is a hidden tribute to the something awful forum BYOB who's official language was made English by the new owner. (According to the stickied thread if you want to speak 'gobbldy guk' you can sign up for a free reddit account) *in Halo title screen voice* ~huuurf de duurf its beee whyyy oh beee tiiime~
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