Temper Tantrums #52 - Za Woka Genava

Temper Tantrums (the GBAtemp webcomic) - issue #52 "Za Woka Genava"
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Man don't embed the symbols from the same website you used to encode them, the only hassle was to type them on my mobile screen:
Cypertex:

GSVIV RH ML SRWWVM NVHHZTV GSVIV YFG GSVIV RH Z SRWWVM NVHHZTV SVIV

When analyzed this phrase had the highest probability:
THERE IS NO HIDDEN MESSAGE THERE BUT THERE IS A HIDDEN MESSAGE HERE

But there is in the comic, really, it's called simlish, but my phone battery is dead so...
 
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I was just about to post that too haha
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edit: Oh I see what you mean, you can just look at the link and see it's bionicle albeit shifted up a bit
 
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Man don't embed the symbols from the same website you used to encode them, the only hassle was to type them on my mobile screen:
Cypertex:

GSVIV RH ML SRWWVM NVHHZTV GSVIV YFG GSVIV RH Z SRWWVM NVHHZTV SVIV

When analyzed this phrase had the highest probability:
THERE IS NO HIDDEN MESSAGE THERE BUT THERE IS A HIDDEN MESSAGE HERE

But there is in the comic, really, it's called simlish, but my phone battery is dead so...

Oh, never heard of that one! Transcription (left to right):

Gabe?!
I don't want to talk about it.
kiss
fdjalfjeoivewfjpov
 

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I was just about to post that too haha
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edit: Oh I see what you mean, you can just look at the link and see it's bionicle albeit shifted up a bit
Yup, "shifted up" means he probably encrypted it with the "insert some phrase as key" function of the website (it should be substitution? I'm not that good with this stuff); luckily, the same website is able to guess the original meaning thanks to our language being not that complex;
I wonder what the key was however...
Edit: ok, it was an Atbash cipher, the "key" was just the alphabet in reverse order.
I was hoping for some more easter eggs :P
 
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Typo, the last symbol is U, not O. Just your friendly neighborhood Grammar Nazi passing through. :wink:
Oh sorry I never converted them all over completely I guess. I had solved it by converting each of your symbols into a latin letter and then trial and error - knowing that "there" was the most common 5 letter word in english.
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The Sims, one of the games you had fun playing being an Evil God way before that game genre got invented.
You, sir, clearly have never played any of the original sim cities (sim city or sim city 2000). B-)

Let me quasi-illustrate how some of my internal thought processes went:

Me: okay...let's see how my little people are doing (note: this was before RCT coined the word 'peeps')
Populace: taxes are too high!
Me: sure thing...let's lower these
Me: *fiddles*
Me: hmm...if I lower taxes on average, I'll end up losing money. Better cut back on...
Advisor: YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
Me: whoa...what's that guy's problem? *lowers road funding and taxes*
Me: there...I'll barely make money, but as long as they're happy...
Populace: crime is too high!
Me: What is this? Are all my inhabitants thrown out of the neighboring town for complaining or something? I just lowered...
Populace: what's with this road? This city sucks!
Me: HEY! :angry:
Me: ...okay...time to send in my little friend: :tpi:

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Monster: *breaks down half the city*
Me: *dispatches police and fire brigade to the other end of town*
Me: MUHAHAHAHAHA!!! :tpi:
Populace: I hate it here!
Me: true...but since there's no way to satisfy YOU, I better satisfy myself. :creep:
 

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You, sir, clearly have never played any of the original sim cities (sim city or sim city 2000). B-)

Let me quasi-illustrate how some of my internal thought processes went:

Me: okay...let's see how my little people are doing (note: this was before RCT coined the word 'peeps')
Populace: taxes are too high!
Me: sure thing...let's lower these
Me: *fiddles*
Me: hmm...if I lower taxes on average, I'll end up losing money. Better cut back on...
Advisor: YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
Me: whoa...what's that guy's problem? *lowers road funding and taxes*
Me: there...I'll barely make money, but as long as they're happy...
Populace: crime is too high!
Me: What is this? Are all my inhabitants thrown out of the neighboring town for complaining or something? I just lowered...
Populace: what's with this road? This city sucks!
Me: HEY! :angry:
Me: ...okay...time to send in my little friend: :tpi:

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Monster: *breaks down half the city*
Me: *dispatches police and fire brigade to the other end of town*
Me: MUHAHAHAHAHA!!! :tpi:
Populace: I hate it here!
Me: true...but since there's no way to satisfy YOU, I better satisfy myself. :creep:
In the original sim city I would expand too quickly and make too many police stations and fire houses - then I wouldn't make enough revenue, and so I would have to cut funding which actually made things worse in the long run.

That's when I was being a good mayor.

When I was a bad mayor I would stack industrial centers next to residential along with powerplants to make crazy pollution. Then I would seriously underfund the police and tax at just a high enough rate to keep my profits maxed. At that point I would build the Mayor's house on a little island with parks and other amenities for me to enjoy alone.

Needles to say the green haired advisor dude was constantly playing me little freak out animations saying everyone was unhappy. So I build another casino and go on with my day. Panem et circenses.
 

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