Suggested Loading Messages (Courtesy of AA Players©)
- Eating Yogurt and Cornflakes...
- Tomatos are vegatables...
- Theres no place like....Awww damn...
- Hi Mrs. Darkbite...
- Running from Evil Clowns...
- I saw Momma kissing Santa Claus...
- Shooting Clay Pigeons...
- 3 million hours till next respec!...
- Taunting Monkies...
- Making really long posts with lots of math...
- Making Bacon...
- Getting Coffee for the road...
- TRUCE!
- Getting Punted...
- Getting Pwned...
- Forcing tank through car wash...
- Hunter
- Thinking inanimate objects are out to get me...
- Dee dee dee...
- Finding "they"...
- Voting so I don't die...
- Heads shoulders knees and toes...
- Ubering teh huemans...
- Tripping over the server...
- Finding the shineys...
- Finding a pointed stick...
- Eating the banana...
- McTowelly
- Making new loading messages...
- Virus detected! infected file: windows. Deleting...
- Using the farce...
- Living with mother...
- Ganking lowbies...
- Eat your vegetables...
- Sending nerf requests...
- Constapated...
- Sigoya stole Geordi LaForge's visor!
- Resistance is probably rather effective...
- Pleading for more dev time...
- Oh no! i a-splode!
- Opening file:: porn42.jpg...
- There's no place like faction chat...
- What happens here, doesn't get advertised...
- Sensei
- Desynching...
- Looking for ornaments and hazard kits...
- Balancing the factions... Again...
- Hyena
- Whipping the hamster...
- Delaying the load...
- Phishing. b bck l8r...
- Identifying target. Oh, its u again...
- Greaterix
- lolz use hax!!
- lolomgroflcopters
- rly? yah rly...o rly? yah rly....no wai!!!
- Deathhand
- yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah...
- Parking Officer class in town to mess with your build...
- K...i...l...l...i...n...g framerate...
- Considering spawning mommabite...
- Making loot just disappear!...
- Calling GM to make Loot appear, who needs magic?...
- Zone is already in use...
- Corrupting ignore list to stop combat log...
- Delirium
- Zzyn, those ornie/kits dropping yet?
- Blondi
- Pulling out the NERF Bat...
- Trying to choose which smiley to use...
- Waiting for Devlor to finish getting his Epic...
- Waiting for GM to restore the map...
- You been here long?...
- Sterns
- Spawning Momabite as your momma...
- How do I get out of my Car?
- Save a Kitty..By Nerfing...
- Loading Faction Chat...
- What impact can a kid do to the faction chat?
- How can I mess up a respec?
- How can I save a kitty from the overpowered humans?
- When the movie of the Killer Frogs come out?
- How do I run over a kitty?
- Can I kill a kitty for a outpost token?
- Attempting to give a damn about saving kitties...
- Humans wuv killing kitties! rawr
- SgtMajorX
Loading Messages:
- Scoring Citizens...
- DeathRace 2000 reference .
- Readying Final Countdown...
- Rocky movie reference.
- Infesting Cities...
- SimCity humor.
- Cradling Liberty...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Looping in Marketing...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Venting Radioactive Gas...
- Simpsons episode were Homer gets to work at home and has to repeatedly press a button to "Vent Radioactive Gas".
- Cooling Turbos... / Spinning Wheels... / Wiping Windows...
- Auto-related phrases .
- Juicing Nuclear Warheads...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Trimming Fat...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Extracting Molars...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Hitting... / Running...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Spreading Rumors...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Adding Cover Sheet...
- From the movie Office Space - the cover sheets on the TPS reports. .
- Cheating...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Saving, Taking Half Damage...
- Common comment after an attack in Pen and Paper RPGs.
- Burning Building...
- Reference to the movie Office Space.
- Minimizing Maxes... / Maximizing Mins...
- Jokes regarding "min/maxing" or "spreadsheeting".
- Pwning Up...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Herding Nerfs...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Celebrating Entire Catalog...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Making It Happen... / Pushing The Edge... / Going the Last Mile... / Going the Distance... / Bringing Joy...
- Motivational phrases .
- Going for Speed...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Bruising Hearts... / Spacing Out...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Reading things off the internet...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Getting offended...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Pwning for the fjords...
- From Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit "pining for the fjords".
- Disabling Safe Search...
- Google's Safe Search options humor.
- Burning The Chair...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Summoning Moon Dragons...
- Fantasy MMORPG humor.
- Deleting Snakes with Laser Eyes...
- Fantasy MMORPG humor.
- Queueing for Frozenwolf...
- A reference to the almost always broken Frostwolf US-WoW server .
- Removing Copulating Insects from Beards...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Going All In... / Waiting for the Flop... / Hoping for the River...
- Poker references.
- Tampering in Darksided Stuff... / Tainting Money...
- Regarding the money from the "Trading Spouses" TV show .
- Teaching Goldfish to Bounce...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Blowing Nose With Sleeve...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Loading Backseat Drivers...
- Computer pun : "backseat driver" is a colloquialism.
- Quivering with antici...
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show reference.
- Zesting Oranges...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Invitating...
- Auto Assault convoy assembly humor.
- Effortlessly Eliminating Germs...
- Cleaner commercial reference .
- Airing Grievances...
- Possible "Festivus" (Seinfeld) reference .
- Running Blades...
- Bladerunner : a cult sci-fi movie
- Attacking Darkness...
- Dead Ales Wives skit about PnP RPG players.
- Paving Roads...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Stamen has a slow car...
- Auto Assault Developers inside joke. Stamen is the nickname of one.
- Purposefully Destroying Trees...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Adding More Cowbell...
- SNL skit where the producer (Christopher Walken) keeps telling the band tha tthe song needs more cowbell.
- Connecting Connection-Load Loaders...
- Loading screen humor.
- Populating Backwater Planets...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Smashing Dishes, Breaking Plates...
- Two of the things that Bilbo hates!" from Lord of the Rings movies.
- Pretending to Load...
- Loading screen humor.
- Locking Boxes...
- Fantasy MMORPG humor.
- Patching Space-Time Holes... / Fixing Glitch...
- Auto Assault engine humor.
- Loading the Jump Program...
- A reference from the movie The Matrix.
- Releasing Hamsters...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Twisting Nerves...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Sending Bovine Interrupts...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Selling Short on World Peace Futures...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Ignoring Temptation Hobgoblins...
- Fantasy MMORPG humor.
- Powering Up Little Factories...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Establishing Mood Lighting...
- 3D graphics & Special Effects humor.
- Grabbing Relatives and Hitting Absolute...
- Math & coding humor.
- Permutating Absolutes & Relatives...
- Math & coding humor.
- Holding Back...
- Auto Assault humor.
- Initializing Missle de Fences...
- A reference to a Flash parody with a Frenchman.
- Mixing Futuristic Flavored Sugar Drink...
- Auto Assault Post-Apocalyptic humor.
- Removing Non-Sci-Fi Colors...
- Auto Assault Post-Apocalyptic humor.
- Generating 20 Questions...
- Random questions generator humor.
- Adding Rendering Space...
- 3D graphics humor.
- Adjusting Radiation Levels...
- Auto Assault Post-Apocalyptic humor.
- Analyzing Solar Flares...
- Auto Assault Post-Apocalyptic humor.
- Sampling Local Weather...
- SimCity reference.
- Initializing Initialization Routines...
- Loading screen humor.
- Angrifying Osterakes...
- Auto Assault joke, in reference to taunting Osterakes (weak mutated wildlife).
- Do Not Trust the Antelope...
- Inside joke.
- Embiggening Spoon Algorithms...
- This is a dual reference. "embiggen" is a made up word from the TV show "The Simpsons" from the Springfield town motto, "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
- Urge to kill rising
- This is a reference to 8-bit theater where the Black mage get frustrated with Fighter and says; "Urge...to...kill...rising"
- NOOOoooooooooo...
- A reference to Darth Vader from Star Wars Episode III, or Luke Skywalker from Episode V. Made popular on the interwebs by ytmnd.com
- Downloading guns... lots of guns...
- Reference to The Matrix, just before Neo and Trinity do the lobby battle. Neo, while in the construct says "Guns, lot's of guns".
- Plotting AI Strategery... / Strategerizing...
- Reference to a Saturday Night Live episode before the 2000 elections, in which an actor portraying president George W. Bush used the word Strategery in a speech.
- It puts the lotion on the Osterake...
- Obviously from The Silence of the Lambs, a play on "It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again".
- Belonging Bases... / Setting up the Bomb... / Making Time...
- Setting up the bomb... Making time... A reference to a game on the Sega Genesis called "Zero Wing" including a horrible Japanese to English translation, including the phrases "All your base are belong to us", "Somebone set up us the bomb", and "You have no chance to survive make your time".
- Tightening graphics on level 3
- This is a reference to an early nineties commercial for becoming a videogame tester. It was downright hilarious. It featured 2 kids around age 18-20 playing videogames on a couch, spewing such smarmy lines as "Wow, when you said we could get a job playing videogames, I couldn't believe my ears!". Then some lady comes around the corner and asks how it's going, and one of them responds "The graphics on level 3 need tightening", to which she nods and walks away. This was also on ytmnd.com.
- Powering Up "Laser"
- A reference to Austin Powers, when Dr. Evil does the "quote unquote" gesture with his fingers every time he annunciates "Lay-zer"
- Adding More Cowbell...
- A Saturday Night Live skit including Christopher Walken and Will Farrell. It's a documentary on Blue Oyster Cult recording "Fear the Reaper", and Walken (playing the genius producer) keeps suggesting they add more cowbell, which will lead the song to its impending success.
- Jumping Sharks...
- Refers to the two-part episode of Happy Days, when Fonzy is preparing to literally jump a pool full of sharks. They ended the first episode with a still frame of him just at the top of the ramp, and started the next one finishing the clip of him successfully jumping the shark. Since then, Jumping the Shark is a term used to described when a television show, or any other production, begins to pull dangerously cheesy plotlines that almost begin to beg for viewers.
- Burninating the Peasants...
- ww.homestarrunner.com 's very own Strongbad draws a dragon named "Trogdor the Burninator". He then goes on to sing a hilarious song about him, including the line "Burninating the Peasants" when describing Trogdor's awesome daily activities.
- Boiling... Mashing... Sticking in Stew...
- A flash animation featuring a remix song including audio from the scene in the Lord of the Rings trilogy where Samwise Gamgee is explaining to Gollum what "taters is".
- Snate Kills Bumbledore...
- reference to the 6th Harry Potter book, where Snape kills Dumbledore. The phrase was actively used also on ytmnd.com.
- Knowing Damn Right...
- I'm pretty sure this is a reference to a Jerky Boys prank call, where they impersonate a foreign man named "Kerpahl". He accuses another foreign neighbor of kicking his dog, and continually proclaims, rather scornfully, 'YOU KNOW DAMN RIGHT!' through a thick east Indian accent.
- Bringing It On... / Getting Served
- A reference to Teen movies.
- Adding Rendering Space... / Reflooring Z-Buffer...
- 3D Graphics humor. The latter being an alternative to Rebuffing Ze Floor?
- Loading Embarrassingly Large Library...
- Libraries are sets of functions used in coding. It's a programming joke meaning be lazy code less, use libraries.
- Cleaning Elf Paste from Tires...
- Bashing of other MMORPGS, a genre of games that is over populated by games in a fantasy setting involving elves.
- Loading for Teh Win...
- A reference to the popular phrase used by gamers "for the win" to describe anything that is cool or useful(often abbreviated as "FTW"). In this case used sarcastically.
- LFG UBRS/LBRS/BRD/DM PST...
- A World Of Warcraft reference meaning "Looking for group Upper Blackrock Spire/Lower Blackrock Spire/Blackrock Depths/Dire Maul Please Send Tell" The please send tell is a remenant of old MMORPG's where the whisper/private message command was /tell. PST still retains the meaning of private message although the /tell command itself is commonly replaced with /whisper.
- Joining the Dark Side...
- A Star Wars reference.
- Loving It...
- Obviously a McDonald's advertising campaign reference.
- Hating It...
- Opposite of "Loving It", a McDonald's reference.
- Displaying Flippant Loading Message...
- A reference to Auto Assault and its flippant loading messages.
- Punching Kittens...
- Refers to another game development company that will only be known as "The Big Purple J". During its final death throws, the last big meeting was announced which all the devs knew was the big layoff. As we trudged into the conference area where this meeting was being held, one of the programmers said "This is going to be more fun than punching kittens," which elicited a dirty look from the studio manager who happened to walking by.
- Kicking Puppies...
- Added after protests for being biased against kittens and the Punching Kittens loading message.
- Running Over Thoroughly Punched Kittens
- Presumably a reference to or based on "Punching Kittens" above.
- Knowing your Role...
- A "professional wrestling" allusion to a catchphrase from The Rock.
- Braking for Hawtpants
- A reference to a popular fan movie for Star Wars Galaxies in which the viewer sees Boba Fett's Slave 1 ship fly off into space with the bumper sticker 'I brake for hawtpants'. Hawtpants being speedo like attire for characters in the game.
- Pushing the button
- Lost: Entering the numbers from lost is often called "pushing the button" on the show. The devs are obviously fans of the show.
- 4... 8... 15... 16... 23... 42
- The numbers from the ABC show "Lost".
- Reticulating Splines
- A kickback to Sim City 2000 which featured a feminine voice that would announce that the system was "Reticulating Splines" while generating a map to play on.
- Searching for Whales
- Reference to Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home. This is the one where they have to find humpback whales and transport them to the future.
- Nerfing Pirates, Buffing Ninjas
- A internet culture reference regarding to major sects of coders and hackers.
- Not Asking for Directions
- Auto Assault is a driving game and "ask for directions" is popularly associated with driving in American culture.
- Obsoleting Orcs...
- Another bash of the MMORPG genre of games. A genre which is mostly populated with either Elves, Orcs or both.
- Powering Batteries, Speeding Turbines
- Reference to the Batman TV series, in which, when starting the Batmobile, Batman would recite the litany "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed".
- Reading Paragraph 84..
- Paragraph 84 is the first paragraph you are instructed to read in the old skool PC game Wasteland.
- Protecting Terrible Secret of Space...
- A reference to a flash video where 2 giant robots "are here to protect you from the terrible secret of space" (or killing everyone.) It was originated off of a ICQ prank by Lowtax on SomethingAwful.com
Thanks to all who contributed to these message descriptions:
Novalith, Arcys, Freedo, Pradyne, Mordican, kerupt, Corran109, Loucifer, Azoran, Loktofeit, Destroid, Hasruto, kilak, JohnOC, Savage16, Nismo, MrQuizzles, flora and Sigoya.
