Talk:All your base are belong to us

Archived

Almost all references have been removed from the main page and archived here due to the near-infinite possible number of references that had been or could be added to the page.

I google translated it and it was gone wrong

Google Translation
Engineer: It seems that an explosive was set up by someone.
Correspondent: Vision comes to the main screen.
CATS: Thanks to the cooperation of the federal army, all of your bases are CATS.
CATS: At the very least, cherish the few remaining lives ...
Captain: Enjoy. ZIG! !
Captain: Hope for our future ...

-- 05:19, 9 September 2019‎ 109.201.38.56

Recent deletion

Is the section below that has just been deleted notable enough to be included under the "Mentions in media" section of the article? -Justiyaya (talk) 11:52, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

On January 19, 2019, American Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat from New York) tweeted "All your base (are) belong to us" in response to a poll by Hill–HarrisX that 45% of the polled Republicans approved of Ocasio-Cortez's suggested implementation of a 70% marginal tax rate for individuals making over $10 million per year.

The deletion is reverted by another editor -Justiyaya (talk) 12:08, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

I think it's about as relevant as can be. It shows that the meme has escaped well beyond the traditional confines of video games and even made it into political discourse. It's cited in a reputable source by a celebrity politician. This isn't some backwoods obscure personal blog it was cited in. If this isn't noteworthy, I don't know what is. JordiGH (talk) 06:08, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

I don't think it's relevant enough. A throwaway remark isn't a notable reference. Orpheus (talk) 17:25, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

I had similar questions when I came across the page. I wavered over deleting it, but decided that it was worth keeping as a notable use of the meme in a context that is possibly farther reaching than it has ever been used before. Basically I have much the same feelings that @JordiGH has. We have to be careful how we think about what's worth noting; the meme isn't worth mentioning on AOC's page, but it is worth mentioning on this one. — HTGS (talk) 22:03, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

I see this conversation is old, but should any new readers come along, like me, who are just now seeing this, I would like to confirm my belief that the AOC content is very relevant and an excellent add. God bless and happy editing. MarydaleEd (talk) 01:46, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

References

It’s only still here because the Woke Revolution controls Wikipedia. Alexandermoir (talk) 04:44, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Damn. You're on to us. Herostratus (talk) 07:45, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm making a change to the text for clarity, as the existing phrasing may perpetuate a misunderstanding of what marginal tax rates are.

On January 19, 2019, American Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat from New York) tweeted "All your base (are) belong to us" in response to a poll by Hill–HarrisX that 45% of the polled Republicans approved of Ocasio-Cortez's suggested implementation of a 70% marginal tax rate for individual income over $10 million per year.

The marginal tax rate is on the income in excess of the cutoff, not on the individual as a whole, as stated in the original text, and this is a common misunderstanding used for anti-tax propaganda. The linked description of marginal tax rates is also unnecessarily confusing; I may tackle that next. JohannVII (talk) 21:23, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Possible “Fat Princess” addition

In the game “Fat Princess” for the PSP, if your team captures every outpost on the map, the announcer proudly says, “All your base are belong to us!” Would this be a relevant reference to include? Semicolin1 (talk) 02:09, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Semicolin1, inclusion of certain references has been a hot topic on this talk page since the article's creation. The consensus was to only include references that received widespread media attention (like the AOC tweet or the YouTube maintenance message) and that other references would be included in a "list of references to "All your base are belong to us". That list was deleted years ago, so unless the reference in "Fat Princess" received widespread media attention, I think it's ok to not mention it. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 14:14, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

GA Review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:All your base are belong to us/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Kusma (talk · contribs) 16:50, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Will review this, should not take longer than a few days at most. —Kusma (talk) 16:50, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Section by section prose and content review

• Lead: Why do you have a dozen citations in the lead? There doesn't seem to be a strong reason to have any.
• Mention that the Sega Mega Drive is called the Genesis
• What is "EDM"?
• In the body, the music video isn't posted on Something Awful, but Newgrounds.
• The body starts quite abruptly with the transcript. Some "background" should come first (try to have the body work without the lead). What is meant by some other examples of text?
• History: The first references could be seen in 1999 and the early 2000s when an animated GIF of the scene references to what? what scene?
• The Laziest Men on Mars redirects to AYBABTU, not a helpful link.
• The Jeffrey Ray Roberts sentence is a bit long. Why do you include the years of birth and death? They do not seem relevant here. The sentence also fails verification, it is not in the Time reference.
• user Bad_CRC user of what? make it clearer that this is a username?
• widespread media attention why that many references? Better to have one that says "widespread attention" than to demonstrate widespread attention by many links.
• There is a lot more history in the sources that you don't even touch, for example in VG247, any reason why?
• The poor translation could be explained earlier, perhaps as background; it doesn't fit so well where it is.
• The meme was addressed by Toaplan's Tatsuya Uemura (the game's programmer and composer) and Masahiro Yuge (composer) in interviews during the 2010s. He Better not to put the information in parentheses. Who is "He"? You just said it was two people.
• The anniversaries seem to me to be "mentions in media", not "history".
• The "Mentions in media" section seems totally random and disconnected. What is special about the 2004 NCSU thing that you mention it twice (once in "History", once here)? Why don't we get Musk's "all our patent are belong to you"? Nothing between 2006 and 2019?
• AOC: yes, she used that on Twitter. Was there any response to it that explains why her use of the phrase is significant?

General comments and GA criteria checkbox

• There is very little about the original video, making the article seem quite incomplete. Nothing about the many photoshops it was made from (in fact, the US-50 image would be believable as a screenshot from the video); the music contains more text than voiceovers of "all your base are belong to us", ... There are reliable sources for this, for example [1] [2] [3]
• There is nothing about the other memes and catchphrases from Zero Wing: "Somebody set up us the bomb" was a widely used quote back in the 2000s, and "For great justice" still is.
• That the game has been re-released on Steam first without the iconic scene but it was later added as a patch seems quite a large omission [4].
• The first of the video links is broken.

Sorry, I don't think this is close to being a GA (but I did enjoy the trip down memory lane; I think I heard about this somewhere on Slashdot in 2001 or 2002, and Slashdot was full of All Your Base jokes back then). The lead doesn't fit the body, the writing is made up of choppy short paragraphs that aren't connected well, and you barely touch the flash video that went viral back in the day. There are verification issues, but there clearly are enough sources out there (and used in the article, but not exploited properly) to verify 90% of the KnowYourMeme article, which (while not classified as a reliable source per WP:KNOWYOURMEME) currently seems superior to the Wikipedia one. I hope my comments will be useful for a rewrite. —Kusma (talk) 21:11, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

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Warcraft III cheat code

In the 2002 Blizzard game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and the expansion game Frozen Throne, there is a cheat code built into the game that allows the player to instantly beat a level. The code is “allyourbasearebelongtous”.

Sources: https://www.ign.com/wikis/warcraft-3/PC_Cheats_and_Secrets_-_List_of_Warcraft_3_Cheat_Codes

https://classic.battle.net/war3/cheatcodes.shtml 108.35.145.233 (talk) 14:30, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

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