A while-while back, theferrett posted about a geek shirt.

[conuly]

It was this one. He complained that when he wore it, nobody got it. Quite a few of them were deeply troubled by "all my base are belong to you".

Sadly, I took this as a lack of culture on their part than an excess of geekiness on his. Which leads nicely to this question: what is geek culture? Should I post a culture test at zompist.com about this? One that somebody else would make, thanks, since I only am a pretend geek. I missed out on all the cultural thingies that (as near as I can tell) define geekdom :(

And no, I can not sleep. I think I'm going slowly insane. Or at least agoraphobic. And I can't sleep, either.

Comments

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

It's from an old, badly-translated game called Zero Wing. Here (http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/story.shtml) is a little page that has a gif of the opening sequence that gets quoted everywhere.

Hee, if you don't know the game name, it's really hard to Google for "all your base are belong to us," I bet.

(My icon has never lied so hard.)

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

I think the first time I heard that expression there was a flash animation music video of "All Your Base are Belong to Us."

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a really big part of the craze. It's what made it popular with nearly everyone who could click, type, or otherwise order their computer to do stuff. *grins*