Hello again

Posted by Scott_AW on April 19, 2012, 12:33 p.m.

Well after a nearly year long mental journey, I've come back to say a few things…

But first, here's what game stuff I've started doing.

First I dropped the Black Shadow 3d project do to various limits and blocks in its developement.

So instead I've decided to use the Build engine to make something else, currently called Project OCD. I have a few videos of it on youtube. Mixes voxel models and sprites to create an 8-bit RPG sci-fi look. Currently only a few maps and not too much in story and characters yet.

I also started making a MOO clone in GLBasic targeted to handhelds, but thats on hold…

However I've decided to work on The Crawl in GLBasic, having the editor for PC/Macs and the game itself playable on a handheld. Moving more to classical movement like Eye of the Beholder, but smooth transitions since its 3d. The map editor is getting closer to completion and I've added the feature for having height maps, so it combines The Crawl game with the COW RPG I had slapped together in gamemaker awhile ago.

But anyways, I had a bit of a discovery, which sort of put me in an insane state of mind and began researching and studying things…weird things.

A lot has to do with reading on ancient religions, cults and paranormal stuff.

The largest amount of info though has been found using Audcatity and good old back-tracking. Which is where you reverse the audio and listen for words. Surprisingly I found a lot and attached a zip below that has a bunch of text files. Most are from musics, most are incomplete and not totally accurate. I can probably tell you the source of the conversation if you can't figure it out.

Some of the txts have both forward and backward translated conversation or statements.

Most is only the semi-translated reversed words.

Here's a few things…

Say = Yes

Illuminati = Eat Animal

Obama's 'yes we can' comes out as 'hail satan'

In some of Obama's reversed speeches he talks about a moon god.

Not to say that republicans are any better…I haven't done any Bush speeches.

One of Justin Beiber's most known song mentions he wants to rape the world, also he calls out Yahwah.

Christian rock has been know to contain the name Lucifer in the lyrics.

Try some yourself, or even just record yourself and hear what you're really saying. ;)

I'm not totally sure what is going on yet, but its some kind of game between One, which I guess is god, but then it turns out Christians and related religions are actually using Zeus as god.

Also I've heard of a god/demon by the name of Azule. There is spirit called Zero.

Lucifer apparently is also called Luci, Sarah and apparently is also Lilith.

Eve has been branded the sinner, and is actually Adam's second wife, which was previously Lilith.

Lilith is connected with Zero, Satan is actually connected with God, or One. Devil is actually -1.

The universe and earth are shaped like eggs. Earth has it's own soul, as do other planets.

Apparently there's connections with gods between different relgions and may be the same ones, and thus there are fewer.

Fun times.

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Comments

leemcd56 11 years, 11 months ago

Yo, welcome back.

Acid 11 years, 11 months ago

You were one of the more interesting devs on this site.

Zhiko 11 years, 11 months ago

I wasn't around back when you were, but welcome back anyway.

Cesque 11 years, 11 months ago

Quote:
Here's a few things…

Still crazy, I see.

Taizen Chisou 11 years, 11 months ago

Who are you…?

Welcome back?

Toast 11 years, 11 months ago

FOOLISH NEW MEMBERS

Lorik 11 years, 11 months ago

You rang?

Cesque 11 years, 11 months ago

Quote:
Obama's 'yes we can' comes out as 'hail satan'

This reversal had me confused for a while, but then I understood it.

An approximate allophonic transcription of "yes we can" would be [jɛs wi kæ̃n]. If we reverse the order of the phones, we get [næ̃k iw sɛj], approximately "Nank eww say".

It's quite obvious that the "sa" in "Satan" is reversed "yes", but what about "hail"?

The diphthong [iw] is not permitted by English phonotactics (syllable structure), and as such, your sound perception tries to approximate it. Many varieties of English vocalise "l" ("Holmes" -> "Homes"), so [j] plus [l] plus an epenthetic vowel gives you [ejl], or "ale".

But reversing speech doesn't reverse the order of the phones, it reverses the order of the entire sound wave. While fricatives such as "s" and sonorants such as "n" generally retain their backwards shape, plosives such as "c" are very asymmetrical, so reversing them turns them into gibberish. The difference between "c" and "s" is nicely exemplified by this spectrogaphic analysis chart.

Thus, a reversed "c" may just as well sound like a "h", giving us "hail". Since plosives become gibberish backwards, it's not surprising very few plosives other than "t" (which is quite distinctive in American/Canadian/Australian English due to flapping) appear in all of Scott's backwards language examples. But I digress.

What confused me is that there's a whole extra syllable before [-k iw sɛj]. So I googled "yes we can backwards" and lo and behold, people have interpreted "yes we can" backwards as "thank you satan", which makes perfect sense, because it incorporates [næ̃k iw] as "thank you".

In short, other people have syllabified [næ̃k] as "thank" because of the nasal nucleus, and interpreted the following syllables as "you". Scott, on the other hand, has dropped the initial syllable and attached the garbled-up backwards [k] segment to the following diphtong, becoming "hail".

There's one more mystery to solve. Why is it "Satan", not "sayid" or just "say"? Again, this has to do with reversal impacting phonetic boundaries. Since "y" appears in the onset of the sentence, it takes time for it to rise towards, which gives us some mumbling in reverse. The mumbling is interpreted as an extra syllable, which people interpret as "Satan", apparently, because there aren't many other words starting with "say" followed by a sonorant. There's an example here, the "say" -> "say-(tan)" part is a big stretch.

Acoustic phonetics. It works, bitches.

Rez 11 years, 11 months ago

I just remembered who is studying for a phD here.

Mordi 11 years, 11 months ago

Good to have you back. I was wondering where you went.