REKIE TALKS FOR WAY TOO LONG ABOUT TINY SPLATOON SIGN(S?)
I haven't done a splatoonie in a while
sup guys I am NOT in fact dead I just have very very very bad scheduling.
ok now for the fun part, the little factoid nugget sto itch your lizard brain and that discussion today is cool things I found walking around
The little info post by the lobby actually shows the map and layout of inside the lobby with the little bar, locker room and training room specifically. but oh no, this sign is actually surprisingly detailed.
starting from the top the words are written in I think sign font? according to the chart by @ardnin though it doesn't seem to be decipherable but the second work looks like a "three" so there's high chances I'm missing a stupid pun or something. the bold script next to it reads "Fiooe xap" and for my sanity and to save a 6 hour rabbit hole I'm gonna assume that that's gibberish
scooching down a lil I can see something on the right that looks to me like some sort of free WiFi sign lmao. good to know that glen fiddler (crab guy who built the lobby) isn't gonna have to eat his claw. I wonder what the WiFi is like inside it's probably really shitty like mcdonalds
looking at the actual map of the lobbies shows something interesting because the layouts are just ever so slightly different???? the general layout is the same but there's a small few details that have changed in the middle floor mainly on the blocks on the left with another long block extending past the top block and the grating being missing, and the blocks are oriented differently for the stack in the top right corner (copy machine's the same). the right looks a bit different too with the lobby and crabngo in roughly the same place but this funky floor indent is there. maybe it was originally raised who can know. if I had to guess overall the differences then it's probably due to some dev changes and the art team just made it look like the layout at the time which is cool to think. oh yeah and the top and bottom levels are nearly entirely identical so I didn't mention em (the DJ room with the lil jelly djs is included though for some reason). the symbols for each floor don't seem to have a meaning to incase you were wondering (I know you weren't but humour me) being an upside down j (???) a symbol I don't recognise and an "m". weird.
ok moving schmooving down just a wee bit more shows more coloumns with MORE bold script to decipher. what a treat (thank you u/kerfuzzle_ on Reddit for decipher.ink you're the goat I love you so much). I'm gonna be very frustrated if it's gibberish again.
ok so for the first row the first words translate to "yuto" which is probably the Japanese ゆと seemingly connected to leisure? (fitting given that the top floor is the lounge) ok and may I mention DISCLAIMER I AM NOT A JAPANESE NATIVE SPEAKER!!! I will probably fuck up the interpretation but honestly would love it if you wanna correct my assumptions. the next bit reads "cafe", "vakkoos" and "battya"???? ok so cafe makes sense as there's a little cafe upstairs but I have NO IDEA what the other 2 could be. maybe more gibberish but then why would they put in "cafe"??? just to fuck with me??? (the symbols on the right also show the cafe, stairs DJ booth and toilets*)
*toilets are mentioned on both the middle and top floors, but there seems to be a suspicious complete lack of toilets in the lobby as a whole? maybe more Dev relics. (what do our inkfish do when they need to piss or take a dump between matches actually do they like sprint to grizzc-oh wait there aren't toilets there too. what the fuck?? my next blog will be complaining about the sheer lack of toilets around the splatlands)
anyway I grow tired and I've been doing this for a hot min. this post is getting long as hell so it's probably gonna become a two-farter. see you later squid nerds research lab officials!
