ANOTHER CHINESE EARTHQUAKE BRBRBRBRBRBRBEBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBR
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[_<1,13>]we're[_<1,18>]whalers[_<1,17>]on[_<1,18>]the[_<1,20>]moon[_<400,13>]we[_<1,20>]carry[_<1,18>]a[_<1,20>]har[_<1,22>]poon
[_<1,22>]but there[_<1,23>]aint no[_<1,15>]whales[_<1,23>]so we[_<1,22>]tell tall[_<1,18>]tales and
[_<1,20>]sing our[_<1,18>]whale[_<1,17>]ing[_<1,18>]tune
[spuh<300,19>kiy<300,19>skeh<300,18>riy<300,18>skeh<300,11>lleh<175,14>tih<200,11>ns] [seh<300,11>nd][shih<100,19>ver<500,19>sdaw<300,18>nyur<300,18>spay<300,11>n] [shriy<300,19>kiy<300,19>ng][skow<300,18>swih<300,18>ll][shah<300,11>kyur<300,14>sow<300,11>ll] [siy<300,14>llyur<300,16>duh<300,13>mtuh<300,14>nay<300,11>t]
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I have no idea what's going on in this post, but is that a DecTalk command?
Moonbase Alpha has DECTalk as text to speech, and so in-game chat is spoken out by DECTalk. Anything stupid is immediately 10x funnier when a robot says it earnestly, especially when that robot has to interpret it.
AEIOU repeating is the famous example, and spawned Moonbase Alpha covers of songs and similar text to speech implementations (like in R.E.P.O.).
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
What is aeiou?
:)! :)! :)! :)!
This would be read aloud as: S M I L E exclamation point! S M I L E exclamation point! ...
(it would spell out the word "smile" instead of saying it)
This was perhaps the densest TTS runtime to character count.
[suh<500,19>mbah<250,26>diy<200,23>wah<400,23>nstow<200,21>dmiy<200,19>]
[thuh<200,19>wur<500,24>lldih<200,23>sguh<200,23>nah<200,21>rrow<200,21>miy<200,19>]
[ay<200,19>ey<200,26>ntthuh<200,23>sh<100,23>awrrpihs<200,21>tuh<200,21>llih<200,19>nthuh<200,19>sheh<500,16>eh<300,14>d]
[shiy<200,19>wah<200,19>slluh<200,26>kih<200,23>nkay<250,23>dah<200,21>fdah<200,21>m]
[wih<200,19>thhxrr<200,19>fih<400,24>ngrr<275,23>ae<200,23>nhxrr<200,21>thah<200,21>mb]
[ih<200,19>nthuh<200,19>shey<425,26>puh<200,23>fae<200,23>neh<400,21>llah<200,19>nhxrr<200,19>for<400,21>hxeh<400,16>d]
--
[weh<400,19>llthuh<75>yxiyrr<125>star<125>tkuh<75>mih<75>nae<75>ndey<75>dow<125>ntstao<125>pkuh<75>mih<75>n]
[feh<125,19>dtuw<75>thah<75>ruw<150>llsae<75>nday<75>hxih<75>thah<75>graw<125>ndrah<75,23>nih<75,19>n]
[dih<125,23>dntmey<150,26>kseh<150,24>nsnaa<125>tuw<125,23>llih<150,21>vfor<175>fuh<175>n]
[yx<25,14>orbrey<150,23>ngeh<150,19>tsmahrtrr<75>buh<100,16>tyx<25,14>orhxeh<150,19>dgeh<150>tsduh<150,14>mb]
[sow<75,23>muh<150,26>chtuw<75,23>duw<175,28>sow<75,23>muh<150,26>chtuw<75,23>siy<150,28>]
[sow<75,23>wuh<150,26>tswrao<175,24>nwih<125,23>thtey<75,21>kih<150>nthah<75,19>bae<125,21>kstriy<125,19>ts]
[yx<25,14>uwllneh<75,19>vernow<175>ih<75>fyxuw<75>dow<150>ntgow<150>]
[yx<25,14>uwllneh<75,23>vershay<175,19>nih<75>fyxuw<75,16>dow<150>ntgllow<200>]
--
[hxey<150,23>naw<300,19>_<100>yx<100>rae<100,16>nao<150,19>llstar<300>_<100>]
[geh<50,19>tyx<50,16>rgey<150,19>mao<150>n<300>_<100>gow<400>plley<450,23>]
[hxey<150,23>naw<300,19>_<100>yx<100>rey<100,16>raa<150,19>kstar<300>_<100>]
[geh<50,19>thaa<50,16>show<150,19>ao<150>n<300>_<100>geh<400>tpey<450,23>d]
[ae<150,19>nao<400,23>tae<400,26>tgllih<150,24>trr<150,23>sih<150,21>sgow<225>ow<450,19>d]
[ow<150,19>nlliy<150>shuw<150,21>tih<150,19>nstaa<150,23>ar<450,21>sbrey<150>kthaa<300,19>mow<250,21>ow<250,23>ow<450,16>lld]
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