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According to one troubled Kyoto employee, staff haven't been paid for this month. Could be an indication that they are indeed going into liquidation soon. Word from management has claimed this months wages are delayed until the 19th at the earliest, but who knows? Is there a punchline to this joke? Doubt it.

Please take a moment to appreciate my artists impression of what will happen to the Nova bunny. Do you know how hard it is to draw blood trails on a trackpad? <--------------this hard--------->

Many of you, gamers and 733+ hackerz especially, will be familiar with the term "all your base are belong us", but how many of you know where it actually comes from? Turns out its a Japanese Engrish blunder that the geek hordes quickly made famous. It was originally used in a badly translated Sega Genesis (thats Master System, right? Sorry, my early console history is a little sucky. All I had was an Amstrad, then straight to a 386 PC) game called Zero Wing, check it out on the video.



Do you know any other classic geek terms and phrases that came from Japanese?