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Post by Darziw Nogaj »

Mega Man is a Commander Keen reference because its a shooter platform video game series.
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let keenreference = "$(find /|grep *)"
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let keenreference = "$(cat /dev/universe|grep *)"
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It's just about time that someone says "I'm a keen reference, therefore I am."
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Well the 2 GBA Metroid games enabled edge grabbing. I'm not sure yet if Keen has been made to crawl yet. Would be funny seeing him morph into a rolling helmet.
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Post by chrissifniotis »

tulip wrote:It's just about time that someone says "I'm a keen reference, therefore I am."
I Keen, therefore I win!
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Post by VikingBoyBilly »

Look! Look! SGA in duke3D :O

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Also our former modder levellord was there:
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edit: even more! :dopefish

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Some letters looks like they're flipped horizontally. Which version of Duke Nukem is this?
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eDuke 32 gtk using the hires pack. Don't remember if it's something Apogee did with the original textures or if this is a little easter egg inserted by a modder. It's the first time I noticed that alien text is legible :dopekeen

edit: found another one:

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Post by VikingBoyBilly »

This is a major keen reference! A 314 page book! :eek

edit: hey, I didn't think i'd be double posting here! How come nobody's translated the duke SGA for me? Do you expect me to do the work myself? :celtic
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Post by Benvolio »

I'm no Nukem buff but I'm pretty sure 'Levelord' refers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gr ... _designer) and that our old friend A. Dean of New Zealand in fact chose to pay tribute to this fellow with her name.
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You mean you can't read SGA already? You bring shame to the name of Keen :no

Just kidding. That last one says...

BLUEYONDAY
SH1TTY
WORLD

P :OPAN
BUTAN

I'll transliterate the rest when I get around to it. If you can tell me what in Garg's holy name those mean I'd love to know.
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Of course we expect you to do the work! After all, you presented this finding ha!

Anyway, this cannot be translated because a lot of symbols don't look like they're from the SGA, even though they look a lot like it. And with the letters that are similar to SGA, what is written makes no sense. I think someone has taken SGA as a basis and made some changes to it, so it would not be SGA (maybe for copyright reasons?). So you need to find the alphabet somewhere. Use noclip cheats to find it.
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Post by VikingBoyBilly »

SGA is suddenly copyright protected? :confused

Like, if John Romero decided to slip in a little SGA into that new game he's making, Zenimax would sue the pants off him?
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Post by StupidBunny »

Those are valid SGA. They're just upside down or backwards. :P

The next one up says

(upside down)
AMERIKA
LOVE OIL
AMERICA LOVE
AMERICA

HTRAM

YAW Y+LIE (or YKLIE? YGLIE? It's hard to tell)
(the next two are backwards instead)
SMALL
GA LA XY

I don't get it either

EDIT: And next up from that is

(also upside down)
SPACE VENDETTA
MERCURY

And after that:

backwards
DN FOREVER
...and upside down
PITERPLUS

Continuing on up, in the "Holoduke Off" one, all upside down:

DESPOTISM

AMERICANS
LOVE OTHER
PEOPLE ONLY
IF THEY ARE
AMERICANS

GLOBALISM

W (or maybe just 3 dots)

And finally with the power plant (all forward again, for some reason):

WHO READ
THIS IS A
SMART MAN
THIS IS A
COMPLIMENR

ALIEN

So there you have it, VBB. Hope these provide valuable insights for beating Duke3D :crazy
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:garg :garg :garg :garg :garg
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