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    Default Ok, this is a funny bit of irony.

    I just saw this and I had to scan it.





    You have one guess as to what he's saying.

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    I don't get what's supposed to be ironic about it. o_O

    Also, the whole point of the meme was how Engrishy the English translation in the European version was. I'm sure whatever he's saying in Japanese there sounds normal and natural if someone translated it properly.

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    It's not just the fact he's there, but what he's saying.

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    Too small to read, sorry.

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    Joke fail!
    <Sothy> its the internet <Sothy> who cares

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    okay, I'll bite...

    what is he saying?

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    That is the section of Japanese that was translated into "All your base are belong to us". I think the real translation is something like "CATS has taken over all of your bases" or something like that. ごめんなさい、その漢字を読むことができません。I am not sure of the exact translation because I don't know most of those Kanji. I read the proper translation once, though.
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    Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance or unintended connection that goes beyond the most evident meaning.


    i understand what you're getting at, but i don't think that word means what you think it means.

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    It's only ironic in the Alanis Morisette-defined version of the word.
    "And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"


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    Quote Originally Posted by smork View Post
    Too small to read, sorry.
    No it's not!

    Geez. For a forum called import gaming I figured there would be a few more japanese readers in here. NEver mind.

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    Kanji is hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bombman View Post
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    i don't think that word means what you think it means.
    You keep using that word....I do not think it means what you think it means.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bombman View Post
    No it's not!

    Geez. For a forum called import gaming I figured there would be a few more japanese readers in here. NEver mind.
    You can know how to read Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana) and still not be able to read something, because of Kanji. For instance, I can read about 150-200 kanji at the moment, but there are about 2000 commonly used, and I don't know the Kanji in that screenshot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobra Commander View Post
    You keep using that word....I do not think it means what you think it means.
    lol, I was just thinking of that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bombman View Post
    For a forum called import gaming I figured there would be a few more japanese readers in here. NEver mind.
    yeah guyyyssssssss you all suck! You should all go commit seppuku!

    Heh, that the only asian word that I know, and I doubt that it's actually written correctly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bombman View Post
    No it's not!

    Geez. For a forum called import gaming I figured there would be a few more japanese readers in here. NEver mind.
    Yes it is! The kana are OK to read because it's easy to read them when they are small but I can't read the entire top line. It's just a collection of pixels all running together.

    Maybe it's easy to read on your computer, but where I am reading it now, I can't make out shit.

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    This thread has confused me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobra Commander View Post
    You keep using that word....I do not think it means what you think it means.
    hahaha. glad someone picked up on that.

    couldn't remember the exact quote, but glad someone did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bombman View Post
    No it's not!

    Geez. For a forum called import gaming I figured there would be a few more japanese readers in here. NEver mind.
    Yes it is. My wife is Japanese and she can't even get all of it. It IS too small to make out some of the characters. Plus, there's no furigana to help. It makes both of our eyes bleed.

    In other words, you suck because you don't know what you're talking about and find that picture funny (not sure how it is ironic).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breetai View Post
    Yes it is. My wife is Japanese and she can't even get all of it. It IS too small to make out some of the characters. Plus, there's no furigana to help. It makes both of our eyes bleed.

    In other words, you suck because you don't know what you're talking about and find that picture funny (not sure how it is ironic).
    if you couldn't see the kanji how do you expect to be helped by furigana

    what a ridiculous argument

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