Inside jokes and obscure references
By
Aghast,
Posted on: 2005-02-04 17:31 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Close. The crate in Raiders is 9906753.
So maybe the 5th just grabbed the wrong one? 
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...Please tell me you know that because you went and looked it up.
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One of the ones I think is fairly obvious is Cutlass Isles in Peregrine.
If you've ever been over there you know that the whole place is literally SWARMING with Rikti monkeys.
The famous Lucas Arts adventure game series involving monkeys and pirates was, of course, Monkey Island.
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How about Jurassic Park? Viscious little creatures roaming freely on the ravaged landscape of a once well-developed area? Nearby, an island with extinct behemoths living in a large community, Site B from the second movie/book?
That's what I first thought when I saw those islands.
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My personal favorite is from the early (read Lowbie) missions for natural origin heroes. The mission to retrieve crate # 9906769 from the 5th Council. I wonder if this could be a reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark and the crate in which the Ark is stored at the end of the film?
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Close. The crate in Raiders is 9906753.
So maybe the 5th just grabbed the wrong one?
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Eh, I probably just read it wrong. I actually booted up my copy of the movie and looked at it, but a digital remix of an analog master is kinda hard to read on a 36 inch HD monitor. I still think its one of the more amusing in jokes in the game thus far. That and the repeated comments from NPCs to not look into the crate...
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Close. The crate in Raiders is 9906753.
So maybe the 5th just grabbed the wrong one?
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...Please tell me you know that because you went and looked it up.
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Of course. 3 seconds on Google.
As for StrayLight, I believe that's the name of the orbiting mansion which houses Wintermute and 3Jane in William Gibson's Neuromancer series.
Edit: On further checking, it's the Villa StrayLight.
Speaking of inside jokes... WHAT IS WITH THAT KILL SKULS STUFF?
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Speaking of inside jokes... WHAT IS WITH THAT KILL SKULS STUFF?
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It's a secret. You have to be part of our secret club to get in. The no BlueMoneyBoys club.
There are a few movie references in the Reapers' dialogues when menacing civilians.
"Brains!" comes from Steve Martin's "The Man With Two Brains". (And a good many other places too, I imagine.)
"The leg bone's connected to the knee bone" comes from an old children's show called "Readalong". It was sung by Mr. Bones.
"Think of it as an early organ donation". Descended in spirit from the Live Organ Transplant sketch in "The Meaning of Life".
"Fresh parts are always best." I believe this comes from Dylan Thomas' screenplay "The Doctor and the Devils". It has been made into a movie, but I prefer to think of it as a screenplay.
As for the Four Seasons in the Hollows, the 60s band was Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons.
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The Gaspee - The HMS Gaspee was a British navy ship that was burned by American colonials after it ran aground while chasing a suspected "smuggler" in an attempt to collect taxes from the itinerant Americans. It was a fairly large event leading up to the Revolutionary War.
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Did the ship "founder"?
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The ship was destroyed off Rhode Island, the location of Paragon City.
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Speaking of inside jokes... WHAT IS WITH THAT KILL SKULS STUFF?
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It's not entirely unlike, you know, how "Anime is teh s.uck."
Anyway, it's why pickup groups have a bad rep.
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I once encountered a pair of Rikti who were commenting on recent events in the story arc - Rozen and Stren.
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I stumbled across these two last night. It's a good thing I was stealthed, because I was laughing too hard to fight for a bit.
By the way...Rozen and Stren are dead.
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I didn't have the heart to fight them.
I even walked all the way back to the entrance with them fruitlessly slashing at me with their swords.
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"The leg bone's connected to the knee bone" comes from an old children's show called "Readalong". It was sung by Mr. Bones.
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There's a Christian song (I think probably one of the Southern US sects of Christianity developed the song) called Them Dry Bones (or Dem Dry Bones) about the prophetic visions of Ezekiel. This is where the song your thinking of draws most of its lyrics from.
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Freaks discussing recent events in story arc named Rosen
and Stern (after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two characters from Shakespeare's "Hamlet"...or, possibly, more recently, from the Tom Stoppard film "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead")
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They're Rikti named Rozen and Stren. 
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Speaking of inside jokes... WHAT IS WITH THAT KILL SKULS STUFF?
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Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
Then you'll understand.
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One that just popped up today -
In a mission I was just given by a contact in Founders Falls, I'm supposed to go talk to a "Mr. ZikZak".
This is a reference to the 1986 cyberpunk series "Max Headroom". The ZikZak Corporation was the main sponser of Network 23, where the main character Edison Carter worked. It was their new subliminal advertising technology "blipverts" that was the main plot point and mystery of the pilot film and episode.
The name of the head of the corporation ZikZak was a further pun/play on words in reference to the title character.
In the pilot episode, Edison Carter is making a getaway while his "operator", hacker Theora Jones, and a corporate hacker named Bryce are helping and hindering him by turns, trying to raise or lower a traffic barrier that blocks his escape. Theora locks it finally in the "up" or safe position, but Bryce has the last laugh, as he flips up a ground based barrier that makes the motorcycle crash and Edison to fly off the front handlebars and impact with the upper barrier.
When the corporate president and the young hacker try to figure out what Edison found out, they (imperfectly) copy his mind into the computer system, thus inadvertantly creating the famous A.I. "Max Headroom", which amusingly, was the last thing Edison saw before he hit the barrior, and the first thing Max stutters as they bring him to life in the system.
All of which is a roundabout way of explaining to those who have never seen the series why it is such an amusing thing to find out later in the series that the head of the powerful Japanese Zaibatsu corporation ZikZak, is one mister "Ped Xing". Which is a common abbreviation for "pedestrian crossing" in the west.
Anyway, the Devs are obviously having WAY too much fun with all the references. I too caught the "Oscillator Overthruster" and fell over laughing at it. As well as caught the comic book refs in Perez Park and the horror film refs in Dark Astoria. The game is fun enough on its own, but all the little "throwaway" humor really adds to the verisimilitude. I can't get enough of it!
I may have missed a post here or there on the thread, but has anyone mentioned the restaurants? Back when I lived in Vegas there was actually a Supermex down the street from my apartment. 24 hour mexican food, how I miss thee... Also, the Up-n-Away Burger is a mock of In-n-out Burger, some of the best cheeseburgers and shakes you'll find in Nevada and California.
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Original member of the Dream Team Aeon, Virtue division
"A base here or there is a small price to pay for good mad science."--Arbiter Daos
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What I love about the "Guns Ammo" shop in KR is it's located directly across the street from a bar...
...bad city planning, perhaps?
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You've never been to Texas have you.
Or should I say "Y'ain't been to Texas, I reckon *spit*"
Just realized:
Bone Daddy isn't just a Skul (kill...kill...KILL!!!ONE!!) boss but a movie as well. One of the few that actually gets to me might I add.
Ok, so since at least one person wants to know where the memetic (I'm pretty sure that's not a word, but it shoud be) "Go. Hunt. Kill skuls." comes from, and not everybody has the time to go through the hundreds of pages of posts that now contain these words, I thought I'd do a search for the words by date and show the earliest results.
FirePlug (Jan 28, 2005, 13:47)
"One of my secondaries (or tertiaries, or quarternaries, or whatever) reached level 9 yesterday. He's an Illusion controller, and I gave him the AE blind power.
I REALLY wanted to try this in a group, but nobody from my SG was on, so I took the chance of clicking the "seek team" button.
I was invited by someone, and immediately saw the group msg "Kill Skuls". I took off across the zone to find the team leader, when I saw someone else enter the team, and the leader again said "Kill Skuls".
He was all the way across the zone, so it took me a minute to get to him. I found him in a secluded lot, pressed up against the wall, just standing there.
I stood behind him for about three minutes. While I waited, I checked the missions, he had two "skul" missions, and seemed to be just standing there watching the numbers drop on them.
When I finally figured out that he had no intention of doing ANYTING himself, I did a "/G I should go kill skulls for YOUR missions while you sit in the middle of a lot with you thumb up your *^&%?", and quit the team
Why would anyone even bother to play this game if this is how they are going to do it?
And why would ANYONE join a team, and then go out killing solo? If you're going to be hunting by yourself, why sign up for the team?
The con men and the conned. I don't understand either one..."
imvicious2u (Jan 28, 2005, 14:55) responds with:
"Duh...You want i should kill skuls boss?"
Upsen_Downs (Jan 28, 2005, 15:53) responds to imvicious2u with:
"Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls"
everybody happy now?
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LiquidX
Warriors missions dealing with Platonic Solids and
Pythagoreans, both mathematics references.
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Actually, its more then just Mathmatics references, its actual history. The Pythagoreans were an actual group. (Fun bonus. If you've seen Reign: The Conqueror by Peter Chung, then you also know of the Pythagoreans)
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Yes only in Reign: The Conqueror they were leet ninjas that could transform and looked like they belonged in an S&M bar, much as all of Chung's work ..
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LiquidX
Warriors missions dealing with Platonic Solids and
Pythagoreans, both mathematics references.
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Actually, its more then just Mathmatics references, its actual history. The Pythagoreans were an actual group. (Fun bonus. If you've seen Reign: The Conqueror by Peter Chung, then you also know of the Pythagoreans)
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Yes only in Reign: The Conqueror they were leet ninjas that could transform and looked like they belonged in an S&M bar, much as all of Chung's work ..
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And the thongs.... OH LORD THE THONGS! *pours salt in eyes*
This post is where it came from, I gather...
oops - double post
Not sure if this was intentional or not, but during a story arc (think it was World Wide Red), I was asked to rescue a Dr. Hedia Lamarr. Now if anyoneone remembers the Mel Brooks movie "Blazing Saddles", I believe the part played by Harvey Corman was named Heddie Lamarr. Coincidence?
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My personal favorite is from the early (read Lowbie) missions for natural origin heroes. The mission to retrieve crate # 9906769 from the 5th Council. I wonder if this could be a reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark and the crate in which the Ark is stored at the end of the film?
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Close. The crate in Raiders is 9906753.
So maybe the 5th just grabbed the wrong one?