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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:54 pm
by Dr. Nil
@johnsmith
I made another one for the Trumble (with some Korean letters inspired by your use of East Asian spam).
Credits
Billboard 1, front: Griff - Edible Arts Graduates
Billboard 1, back: Griff - Bibeian Lethal Brandy
Billboard 2, front: Griff - Laveian Tree Grubs
Billboard 2, back: Griff - Laveian Tree Grubs
Billboard 09, front: johnsmith - Bibean Lethal Brandy
Billboard 09, back: drnil - Status Quo
Billboard 10, front: Charlie - Benulobiweed Pallas
Billboard 10, back: Charlie - Benulobiweed Condor
Billboard 11, front: Charlie - Benulobiweed Merlin
Billboard 11, back: Charlie - Benulobiweed Swift
Billboard 12, front: Charlie - Benulobiweed Falcon
Billboard 12, back: Charlie - Benulobiweed Kestrel
Billboard 13, front: johnsmith - Monu Surprise Pills
Billboard 13, back: drnil - Trumble
Billboard 14, front: Griff - Cat Preserves
Billboard 14, back: johnsmith - Monu's Preservatifs
Billboard 15, front: Griff - Murrgh's Used Craft Showroom
Billboard 15, back: ramon - Grand Theft Astro
Billboard 16, front: johnsmith - Barry's Dry Docks
Billboard 16, back: johnsmith - Teance Tourist
Billboard 17, front: Judebert - Boyracer Phreak Attack
Billboard 17, back: Judebert - Boyracer Phreak Attack
Billboard 18, front: Judebert - Raaleian Edible Poet
Billboard 18, back: johnsmith - Blue Screen of Death
Billboard 19, front: johnsmith - Aesbion Tourist
Billboard 19, back: johnsmith - Aesbion Tourist
Billboard 20, front: johnsmith Goat Soup
Billboard 20, back: johnsmith - Lance & Ferman FdL
Billboard 21, front: ramon - Star Sports ZG Hockey
Billboard 21, back: ramon - Beyond Witchspace
Billboard 22, front: johnsmith - A Droid Is for Life
Billboard 22, back: johnsmith - Pilkerson
Billboard 23, front: johnsmith - Bugg-Off!
Billboard 23, back: johnsmith - Orerve Tourist
Billboard 24, front: johnsmith - Diso Tourist
Billboard 24, back: johnsmith - Lance & Ferman Missiles
36 slots taken - 12 to go.
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:18 pm
by Griff
Wow, all the ads you guys are doing are great!
Dr, sorry to be a pain, i swapped the poet jam one on page 4 for this one:-
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:48 pm
by Dr. Nil
I'm honestly sorry that I made a mistake in the credits for that one
I don't know if you noticed but it's corrected now.
As long as you make a new post with the replacement as you did, I should be somewhat able to keep track of it. So that's no trouble.
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:34 pm
by Griff
Hi
heh, no, i din't notice the mistake in the credits, i changed the ad because i posted the poet jam one when i was a bit drunk and it didn't seem so funny the next day!
thanks again for all your work creating this .oxp and thanks also for including the ads i've submitted, some of my puns are pretty awful!
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:22 am
by ramon
Griff wrote:some of my puns are pretty awful!
Nah, they're good..........well they make me laugh anyway.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:13 pm
by Ramirez
Just a belated thought on the navigation buoys - not only are they small but they're also symmetrical, so that a pilot can approach them from any angle before turning and lining up with the station. If you approach a nav-billboard edge-on it might be difficult to get that exact alignment without having to move around to another face, which would be a real pain when docking manually. Just need to make sure that the advertising doesn't prevent the buoy being used properly.
I like the 'East Asian spam' billboards - it's a cliche I know but the oriental style would fit particularly well with the corporate states. Another idea for the 'Flavour Expansions' thread...
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:36 pm
by ramon
Thought I'd take this oportunity to advertise my own oolite crafts.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:24 pm
by stevesims
Having these ad-boards would be very cool indeed.
The idea of foreign language adverts is also a good one. I feel though that it's pretty important for those adverts to make sense in the language they are using...
I would run the Korean one past my wife (who is Korean) but she's got a bug up her bum about games being a waste of time.
So instead in order to kill some time here at work I decided to try getting Google Translate to tell me a translation of the Korean advert text. Apparently "?? ??? ?? ??" means "Degradation life hazard evil Oh".
Good old Google Translate - always good for a laugh!
At a previous job I did a rough first-pass translation of a web site into Korean using Google Translate - my wife was offended by the results.
(She's an odd woman, to put it mildly!)
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:06 pm
by Captain Hesperus
I'd beware of this one since it looks too much like a bull's eye for most wise-ass Ooliteers to miss out on!
Captain Hesperus
"It wasn't my fault! It looked like a viable target, so I shot! What do I call a viable target? Small, vulnerable and unarmed, obviously!"
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:52 pm
by lolwhites
By the 32nd Century, wouldn't HUDs be able to translate and display billboards in the pilot's native language?
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:41 pm
by TGHC
LOL
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:02 pm
by Kroc
In all respect, it's the 21st Century already and we still have computers that can barely do speech-to-text, let alone understand a conversation. I don't blieve progress will be all that swift, even in the 32nd Century X3
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:30 pm
by Captain Hesperus
Maybe they use a kind of universal 'Common' language, you know like Esperanto?!?!?!?!?
Captain Hesperus
"'La mango estis bonega! Dlej korajin gratulonjn' al la kuristo?'* Are you sure that right for 'Come on, it's a good bargain for 12 tonnes of Radioactives?"
*See Red Dwarf series 3 'Kryten'.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:20 pm
by lolwhites
I thought there was already a system used to make billboards at football matches look different depending on what country you were watching the game in,So viewers in the UK would see them in English but in Germany the ads would appear in German. So 32nd century billboards might transmit some sort of universal signal which the HUD translates into the native language.
Then some bright spark might sell you an ad-free HUD for 10,000Cr
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:22 pm
by LittleBear
"My hovercraft is full of eals"
"There is a frog in my beide. Please remove it"
"I wish to purchase that inflatable beach ball."
Its Queeg, he's taking the smeg!