2156: Garfield ad Dino

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Garfield ad Dino
Garfield ad Dino.png
Made by: Nyperold


Explanation[edit | edit source]

A substitution cipher is a sort of code in which the characters in a desired communication are changed to other characters. In this case, letters are changed to other letters, with a few exceptions:

  • Proper names (e.g.: "Ice Mountain") and titles (e.g.: "General") are left alone, even if made up of words that would be translated (e.g.: "mountain" becomes "meidkuad" when not part of a proper name).
  • As seen above, the letter "m" doesn't change.
  • In some forms of the translation, "y" becomes "0", but this is treated as "o".

Other than that, consonants become other consonants, and vowels become other vowels.

A Cheat Token is an item that you purchase for 20 Scarabs (the in-game currency) from one of the eight Cheat Token Wells found on the planet. When purchased, they can be taken back to the Well at the end of the Maze that the Warpstone lets you into. When you drop a Cheat Token into the well, one of two things happens: "The Well looks into your future" and tells you about a character, or an option is added to one of the parts of the Main Menu. The one that's closest to an actual cheat is the one that lets you see the credits without beating the game, but the other ones let you hear background "tunes" (which apparently includes ambient waterfall noise), play the game in sepia (like the colors in Garunda Te's flashback), and, as mentioned, see the subtitles in Dino. But the implementation was sort of shoddy, in that letters and even entire words were missing.

At the time the author made this, and indeed, at the time of this writing, the original strip is the only one that talks about dinosaurs for as much of the strip as it does.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

Ad 2002, u latoe wumo succot StarFox Adventures nuj hocoujot veh kxo Nintendo Gamecube. Umedw kxo kxadwj ad'j bdend veh aj kxo ijo ev a "cudwiuwo" succot "Dino", nxasx aj houcco meho ev a jirjkakikaed safxoh kxuk kxo leaso uskehj xut ke fhedeidso, nus mejkco theffot ouhco ad kxo fcek, udt nej viccu theffot uheidt kxo kamo Fox couhdot kxuk xo xut ke jkuhk khudjvohhadw Krazoa Spirits. (Edo Cheat Token ad fuhdasicuh cokj oei sxudwo kxo jitkakcoj ke Dino, jid ad xuj jemo majduboj, udt oei jkacc ted'k wok ke hout ad av kxo jirkakco nuj "[Dino Talk]" ke rowad nakx.

Je xoho, A uffc0 ad ke kxaj jkhaf, kxo edc0 edo kxij vur kxuk'j kxaj uffhefhauko veh jisx khoukmodk.

In 2002, a video game called StarFox Adventures was released for the Nintendo Gamecube. Among the things it's known for is the use of a "language" called "Dino", which is really more of a substitution cipher that the voice actors had to pronounce, was mostly dropped early in the plot, and was fully dropped around the time Fox learned that he had to start transferring Krazoa Spirits. (One Cheat Token in particular lets you change the subtitles to Dino, but it has some mistakes, and you still don't get to read it if the subtitle was "[Dino Talk]" to begin with.)

So here, I apply it to this strip, the only one thus far that's this appropriate for such treatment.

Original strip: 2011-01-31.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Jon: Tadejuihj hicot kxo Earth.
Garfield: Q
Jon: Udt den kxoo'ho wedo.
Garfield: Nen. Kxuk nuj u cedw duf.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • This is the other strip that had the string "dinosaur" in it when the author searched for it; the first one he found was used in #2142.