eirenicon comments on The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 September 2009 05:21PM

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Comment author: eirenicon 21 September 2009 05:06:29PM 2 points [-]

This is what I've got. I suspect some of the characters I couldn't place are from anime/manga, which I've never been interested in. Otherwise, in rot13:

Gur guerr vqragvpny-ybbxvat oblf: Gbz Fjvsg?

Gur zvqqyr-ntrq jbzna jvgu n "dhvgr crphyvne qrzrnabe": Nyvpr.

Gnyy zna jvgu n funirq urnq: Ybhvf Jh.

Obl jvgu gur fpne ba uvf sberurnq: Uneel Cbggre.

Zna jvgu gur fubpx bs lryybj unve: Wbua Pbafgnagvar.

Obl va benatr jvagre pbng: Xraal.

Gur gnyy zna jvgu chcvyf "yvxr fgnef va gur avtug": Qernz (gur Raqyrff).

Gur zna jub bayl fnvq "Trg ba jvgu vg!": Wbua Pyrrfr, V fhccbfr?

Gur Anzryrff Bar vf sebz Cynarfpncr Gbezrag.

Gur Qbpgbe jvgu gur fpnes vf gur Sbhegu.

Gur jbzna jvgu gur fvyire ubbc: Kran.

Gur thl jub yvtugf gur gerr fghzc ba sver: Envfgyva Znwrer, V nffhzr?

Gur zhfphyne zna jvgu gur yragvphyne pelfgny: N Yrafzna (Ivetvy Fnzzf?)

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 22 September 2009 03:06:03AM 0 points [-]

For the first one... you mean the ones with the numbers on them? I don't quite understand why you think they are who you seem to think they are.

Comment author: eirenicon 22 September 2009 04:54:36AM 1 point [-]

I thought the numbers were some clever Tom Swift reference, although for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. Swift popped into my mind because there have been at least three Tom Swifts about which it was unknown if they were the same person. I have no idea what those numbered characters might be from.

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 September 2009 05:44:19AM 5 points [-]

It's three different versions of Shinji Ikari, each coming from a different fanfic: "Thousand Shinji", "Shinji and Warhammer 40,000", and "Once More With Feeling".

Comment author: gwern 22 September 2009 09:59:25PM 1 point [-]

Ah, I was wondering about those - I recognized the Eva characters instantly (I consider myself something of an Eva expert), but I couldn't figure out where the deuce the Shinjis were from (since I've long shunned Eva fanfics).

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 September 2009 04:20:12AM 1 point [-]

The first one made me laugh out loud. Three copies of Tom Swift hanging around, um, Asuka Langley Soryu...

The rest are correct, except that Wbua Pyrrfr is more of a generic representative for the show as a whole, and for Ivetvy Fnzzf I had in mind KK, not VS - though on reflection, VS would probably fit in better with the crowd.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 22 September 2009 04:29:44AM 0 points [-]

Hrm, I thought it was supposed to be specifically "vg'f" thl sbe gur zbagl clguba bar.