any Cartoonists here?

Gandalf Parker · #1 January 10th, 2004, 07:54 PM

If some user ever DOES write a Prima Strategy Guide, or Dominions for Dummies, we will need cartoons. Some of the stories here would make great short jokes or cartoons.

Like the image of a player yelling at his monitor "You STUPID MAGE! That wasnt what I told you to do! I AM YOUR GOD. LISTEN TO ME"

Or maybe a 3 square cartoon with
HE: "Honey? What does Nagot Gick Fel mean?"
SHE: "I think its Swedish"
SHE: "I bet it means some thing like you have been playing this game too long go check on your family"

-- It's hard on the ego of a god-gamer when the virtual inhabitants turn out to be atheists.
- rodger.mckay

[ January 10, 2004, 17:58: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

alexti · #2 January 10th, 2004, 08:14 PM

Right, so what "Nagot Gick Fel" means?

With my very limited knowledge of Swedish I could only decipher it like "something went wrong", but it'd be interesting to know the correct translation.

johan osterman · #3 January 10th, 2004, 08:16 PM

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Originally posted by alexti:
Right, so what "Nagot Gick Fel" means? With my very limited knowledge of Swedish I could only decipher it like "something went wrong", but it'd be interesting to know the correct translation.

You are correct

Kristoffer O · #4 January 10th, 2004, 08:17 PM

N�got = Something
Gick = Went
Fel = Wrong

Pretty straight forward. Nothing to fuzz about

Gandalf Parker · #5 January 10th, 2004, 08:30 PM

Im sorry, I knew that and should have included it for the curious. Its just that I always use it the other way. As the Hand of Fate stepping in to remind me to look up from the computer occassionally.

Thilock_Dominus · #6 January 10th, 2004, 08:57 PM

I do drawing in my sparetime, I could give it a try...

Thilock_Dominus · #7 January 10th, 2004, 09:20 PM

I'm not the greatest to do drawing, but here are some samples:

Jungle Danger

Vampire

Twilight Childhood dream

PhilD · #8 January 10th, 2004, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
N�got = Something
Gick = Went
Fel = Wrong

Pretty straight forward. Nothing to fuzz about

Yeah, sometimes this kind of trick to translation doesn't work too well.

There's this play in French where there's a pretentious character who tries to impress with his lore, and he says something like:

Omnis a Deo scientia. Omnis: All. A Deo: Science. Scientia: Comes from God. All science comes from God.

(bonus points to any non-Frenchman who identifies the play)

Gandalf Parker · #9 January 10th, 2004, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by PhilD:
Omnis a Deo scientia. (bonus points to any non-Frenchman who identifies the play)

FAUX PAS DES CONNUS, Un toast au people polonais, acte 5
or
FALSE STEPS OF KNOWN, a toast with the Polish people, act 5

Wish I could say I knew this but one of the things I am really good at is Internet research.

[ January 10, 2004, 19:59: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

PhilD · #10 January 11th, 2004, 01:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

quote:
Originally posted by PhilD:
Omnis a Deo scientia. (bonus points to any non-Frenchman who identifies the play)

FAUX PAS DES CONNUS, Un toast au people polonais, acte 5
or
FALSE STEPS OF KNOWN, a toast with the Polish people, act 5

Wish I could say I knew this but one of the things I am really good at is Internet research.

That's not the name of the play as I knew it, but it does take place in (a very fictitious) Poland.