Special splashes
During certain times of year, I'll replace the usual rotation of splash text with seasonally relevant splash text. These are those splashes.
Main splashes| OCCASION | |
|---|---|
| TEXT | EXPLANATION |
| January 1st - New Year's | |
Happy new year [yyyy]! | [yyyy] is replaced with the current year. For example, on January 1st, 2025, this splash will read "Happy new year 2025!" |
| January 31st - Anniversary of Minecraft Indev 0.31 20100131 releasing - the first version with splash text. | |
| Replaced with Minecraft's splash text library. | |
| February 16th - Website creation date | |
[x] years! | The [x] is replaced with how many years it's been since the day I created the website. For example, in 2024, this splash read "3 years!" |
| April 1st - April Fools | |
Happy Halloween! Wait. | Inversion of "April Fools! Wait." special Halloween splash text. |
A rainbow's tale is quite as nice! | Inversion of "A rainbow's tale isn't quite as nice!" splash text. |
A rainbow's difficult once you get to know it! | Inversion of "A rainbow's easy once you get to know it!" splash text. |
MONODIMENSIONAL!! | Inversion of "MULTIDIMENSIONAL!!" splash text. |
Y2K Non-compliant! | Inversion of "Y2K Compliant!" splash text. |
I can stall longer, I've got no falling to do-o-o! | Inversion of "Gotta stop stalling, I've got some falling to do-o-o!" splash text. |
1 out of 10 sociopaths disagree, you must never see Hyakugojyuuichi! | Inversion of "9 out of 10 sociopaths agree, you gotta see Hyakugojyuuichi!" splash text. |
Boo, WOWAY! | Inversion of "Woo, WOWAY!" splash text. |
I love Elon! | Inversion of "Fuck Elon!" splash text. |
Pixel Empire Rocks. | Inversion of "Pixel Empire Sucks." splash text. |
Shutting up! | Inversion of "Breaking the silence!" splash text. |
Be chalant with screws! | Inversion of "Be chalant with screws!" splash text. |
Regurgitate! Regurgitate! Give away an egg and scramble it! | Inversion of "Eat it! Eat it! Get yourself an egg and beat it!" splash text. |
Beat it! Beat it! No one wants to be defeated! | Lyrics from Michael Jackson's "Beat It". Serves as another inversion of the Eat It splash mentioned above. |
Only about 83.33% as cool as your website! | Inversion of "It's about 20% cooler than your site!" splash text. Mathematically, this would make your site 20% cooler than mine. I checked. |
Worse than Twitter! | Inversion of "Still better than Twitter!" splash text. |
Worse than 𝕏! | Inversion of an "Still better than 𝕏!" splash text. |
Relevant! | Inversion of "Irrelevant!" splash text. |
Does everything, does everything! | Inversion of "Doesn't do anything, doesn't do anything!" splash text. |
| April 19th - You just had to be there. | |
You just had to be there! | You just had to be there. |
Hold on stop Jace just sent me a Dropbox link! | |
Multiverses? | |
Something Secret This Way Comes! | |
Several people are typing... | |
Wait, it's peak? It's peak? It's literally peak? Wait? | |
| April 28th - Auburn's birthday! | |
It's time to celebrate Auburn's birthday; it happens every year! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Happy Birthday". |
Happy Birthday, Auburn! | Simple birthday wishes. |
Wormy vocal histrionics! | A reference to a 1986 review of Frankenchrist by Dead Kennedys written by Byron Coley. |
MTV, get off the air! | Lyrics from "MTV-Get Off The Air" by Dead Kennedys. |
CALIFORNIA! ÜBER ALLES! | Lyrics from "California Über Alles" by Dead Kennedys. |
In essense, you're a non-confirmist corpse! | Lyrics from The Odd Ditties' "Ballad of Being Born". |
99% of all the life that ever lived is dead! | |
We're carcassess that haven't carcassed yet! | |
Night of the living 99%! | |
You're the ass, kid! | |
You're a non-conformist corpse! | |
99% of us are dead! | |
We're carcasses that haven't carcassed yet! | |
Mostly harmless. | Title of the fifth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book. |
Team Science! | Lyrics from "Team Science" by Regdar and the Fighters. Colors are based on the single cover art. |
| May 10th - Sonic Power's birthday! | |
It's time to celebrate SP's birthday; it happens every year! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Happy Birthday". |
Happy Birthday, Sonic Power! | Simple birthday wishes. |
Sonic Power! | Self explanatory. |
To the Danger Zone! | Lyrics from Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone". |
Going to the Hardware Store! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Hardware Store". |
Feliz Aniversário! | "Happy Birthday" in Brazilian Portuguese. |
| July 27th | |
It's July 27th! | Completely arbitrary date. |
| October 27th-31st - Halloween | |
Happy Halloween! | It's Halloween-time when these are being run. Pretty self explanatory if you ask me. |
SpooOOoOOoky! | Reference to a similar splash in Minecraft that appears on Halloween. |
Isn't it convenient that the site's already Halloween colors? | Orange and black is the colorway of this site, as well as traditional Halloweeny colors. |
Pretty Scary! | A reference to the name of Minecraft: Java Edition 1.4.2, which was the 2012 Halloween update. Additionally, this was (kind of) the first version of Minecraft I played (technically, my first was 1.4.5). |
| What do you mean? There aren't any eyes there! |
The fun has been doubled! | Line from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Season 2 Episode 4 "Luna Eclipsed". |
April Fools! Wait. | Halloween != April Fools. Also, a reference to the scary jokes' "April Fools" album. Get it? the scary jokes? |
| November 21st - my birthday! | |
It's time to celebrate your birthday; it happens every year! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Happy Birthday". |
We'll eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer! | |
There's garbage in the water, there's poison in the sky! | |
It doesn't take a military genius to see, we'll all be crispy critters after World War 3! | |
If you think it's scary; if it's more than you can take, | |
Give you cookies and balloons, and some pocket cash to spend! | Lyrics from Lemon Demon's "Birthday (Alligators And Pretzel Makers)". |
I do not know what to get you for your birthday! | |
Alligators! | |
Pretzel makers! | |
Damn, it sucks to get old! | Lyrics from "Getting Old Sucks" by Sudden Death. |
And now you're even older, and now you're older still | Lyrics from They Might Be Giants' "Older" - although I had the Nuclear Bubble Wrap cover in mind. |
TIME | |
| Cake gear from Roblox. Audio comes from a reskin of the same item released for the 10th anniversary of Roblox. |
| December 15th-25th - Christmas | |
It's Christmas At Ground Zero! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Christmas At Ground Zero". |
The Night Santa Went Crazy! | The title of "Weird Al" Yankovic's "The Night Santa Went Crazy". |
It's a Bargain Bin Christmas! | Lyrics from, and the title of Garrett Williamson's "It's A Bargain Bin Christmas", from Scott The Woz. |
I'M NOT AN RPG GUY! | Quote from "You're Not An RPG Guy: A Scott The Woz Christmas". |
Coming this Christmas to a theatre near you... | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Nature Trail To Hell". |
Merry Christmas to all; now you're all gonna die! | Lyrics from "Weird Al" Yankovic's "The Night Santa Went Crazy". |
And a beer... in a tree. | "Lyrics" from Bob & Doug McKenzie's "The 12 Days Of Christmas". |
It's awesome, baby! | Quote, and title of Scott The Woz episode 100, "It's Awesome Baby!" which initially released December 16th of 2018. |
Like greed; now that's a sin! | Lyrics from The 8-bit Big Band's "The Next Best Thing", from Scott The Woz. |
Nothing could go wrong, unless that's what you'd like! | Lyrics from Lemon Demon's "Aurora Borealis". |
I'll spend Christmas underground! | Lyrics from Icosahedron's "Christmas Underground". |
Have yourself a merry... Icosahedron. | Lyrics from Icosahedron's "christmas.mp4". |
I Am Become Christmas, Giver Of Gifts! | Reference to the Lemon Demon EP "I Am Become Christmas", and the iconic J. Robert Oppenheimer quote. |
I'm making Christmastime! | Lyrics from Nuclear Bubble Wrap's "Making Christmas". |
And it's alright to sing a Christmas song in June! | Lyrics from OK Glass' "Christmas Car Bomb". |
Christmas will be soon! | Title of Lemon Demon's "Christmas Will Be Soon". |
| December 31st - New Year's Eve | |
Happy new year [yyyy]! | [yyyy] is replaced with the upcoming year. For example, on December 31st, 2024, this splash will read "Happy new year 2025!" |
| Being On The Splash Text Explanations Page | |
Well, it's only appropriate that this page has special text. | Why wouldn't the page dedicated to splash texts have a special splash text? |
| Being On The Minecraft Screenshot Gallery | |
| Why wouldn't the page dedicated to Minecraft have a special splash text? | |
