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Babelien Lyrics, Do They Mean Anything?

Rather DashingRather Dashing
edited November 2008 in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Probably not.

babelienlyricscm1.jpg

Now, you can strain your eyes and spot-check me on this all you want, but I think that's this:

01100111011010110
01010110111
101010111010001
01011101110100011
01011

10101000110
01100111011010110
01010110111
101010111010001
01100111011010110
01010110111

101010111010001
010111011110100011
01011
10101000110
01100111011010110
01010110111

It seems like, no matter how you splice it(plain text, hex, etc), you don't get anything that makes much sense.

But if anyone else wants to take a crack at this, feel free. And if a Telltale employee wants to proclaim the futility of my squinting and transcribing for translation, they can do that too. ;)

Comments

  • YellowtailYellowtail
    edited October 2008
    Yeah it's jibberish. Shame really, that had potential.
  • ReverendTedReverendTed
    edited October 2008
    Yeah, if it's not possible to make anything out of it, that's a disappointing missed opportunity!

    The fact that it's the same 6 lines repeated a few times in different orders does seem to indicate that it was randomly copied-and-pasted.
  • YellowtailYellowtail
    edited October 2008
    Yeah, it's a shame. It should have been like this:
    01110010
    01101111
    01100011

    01101011
    00100000
    01101111

    01101110
    00100000
    01100010

    01100001
    01100010
    01111001

    Or this:
    01101100
    01101001
    01101101
    01101111

    01111010
    01100101
    01100101
    01101110

    00100000
    01100001
    01110010
    01100101

    00100000
    01100001
    01110111
    01100101

    01110011
    01101111
    01101101
    01100101

    By the way, those meant -
    rock on baby
    limozeen are awesome
  • PhlipPhlip
    edited October 2008
    Interestingly: All but one of the lines has an odd number of bits.

    Coincidence?

    [edit] Actually, 2 (you have a typo in your fourth line, it's missing a '1'). Still they're the same line as each other.

    Actually, the whole thing seems to have a similar sort of pattern as you'd expect from a pop song's lyrics... most of the lines and two-to-three-line phrases are repeated a couple of times through the song.

    The individual lines don't look particularly random... it alternates too often for that (nearly 2/3 of the pairs of digits are alternating... which is about what people tend to do when making up random patterns of bits, but way more than the 1/2 you'd expect from a real random pattern).
  • ArrkhalArrkhal
    edited November 2008
    The fact that it's the same 6 lines repeated a few times in different orders does seem to indicate that it was randomly copied-and-pasted.

    You know, "same 6 lines repeated a few times in different orders" does describe a lot of music nowadays.
  • AARSTAARST
    edited November 2008
    It's really too bad.

    I played through Mass Effect last week and there is one mission where an AI (or VI) had gone rampant. Just before you destroy it, it sent out one string of binary, constantly repeated on all radio bands.

    01001000
    01000101
    01001100
    01010000
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited November 2008
    Oh yeah, that was fucking CREEPY. And for those who look into this sort of thing...it really made you think about what you just did, and almost feel BAD about a fictional, artificial intelligence.

    ...I really do love western RPGs.
  • someguyfromazoosomeguyfromazoo
    edited November 2008
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    Oh yeah, that was
    fucking
    CREEPY. And for those who look into this sort of thing...it really made you think about what you just did, and almost feel BAD about a fictional, artificial intelligence.

    ...I really do love western RPGs.

    Woah there, hold the language!
  • HolyxionHolyxion
    edited November 2008
    Wow, now I wish I had finally gotten around to learning binary.
  • someguyfromazoosomeguyfromazoo
    edited November 2008
    It's the developing lyrics of the song "Useful to Boot".
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