Bungie.net Community
This topic has moved here: Subject: Origin of Frog blast to the Ventcore??
  • Subject: Origin of Frog blast to the Ventcore??
Subject: Origin of Frog blast to the Ventcore??

Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own council will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.” -Yoda

Subject says it all...

  • 12.26.2011 9:24 PM PDT

Best of random chance

I'm relatively new and have no idea, so here.

  • 12.26.2011 9:29 PM PDT

I spend too much time here.. too much time indeed.

I tweet?

It came about when the voice actor of the BOBs was asked to utter a random phrase to use for the assimilated BOBs. Or so says Bungiepedia.

Edit: I guess I should have added it came from the Bungie's other trilogy Marathon.

[Edited on 12.26.2011 9:33 PM PST]

  • 12.26.2011 9:31 PM PDT

<3 PMS Clan-Twitter-Personal Site
Posted by: Deus_Ex_Machina
Cortana 5 is a carbon-based lifeform that frequently visits these forums, currently residing in the United States. Practically every male on the site responds to her posts.

The Joyeuse IP Formula

In Marathon, an assimilated BoB (Simalcrum or "exploda bob") would shout it out at random intervals during combat. The phrase itself? I'm not quite sure what it means. I'd assume it goes with the explosions.

  • 12.26.2011 9:31 PM PDT

Best of random chance

I'm going to stalk you forever after seeing that picture with that story.
Posted by: WinyPit82

  • 12.26.2011 9:32 PM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

13.72 billion years in the making.

On December 1st, 2012, I met Neil deGrasse Tyson. I shook the man's hand, and even made him laugh. Not much else to do with my life now.


Posted by: kashinfist
I'm going to stalk you forever after seeing that picture with that story.
Posted by: WinyPit82


Thank you?

  • 12.26.2011 9:42 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?

It's just some random phrase, I don't believe it is supposed to have any meaning.

  • 12.26.2011 9:53 PM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

"Awesomeness will ensue..."

BEN SPARTAN120


Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
It's just some random phrase, I don't believe it is supposed to have any meaning.


...

Good sir! It is the very embodiment of all that is good and righteous, why, to say it has no meaning is to say life itself has no meaning and life without meaning has no worth!

Everything has meaning!

Everything has worth!

But yeah, it originated from Marathon.

It means something, we just don't know what precisely.

  • 12.27.2011 12:18 AM PDT
  •  | 
  • Exalted Legendary Member

Exalted Unexplainable Member

It's a phrase uttered when the voice actor for Bungie's earlier game (Marathon) was asked to say something random. The random phrase was necessary for false friendly soldiers named simulacrums (assimilated BOB's) that use some type of unreliable technology that's supposed to generate a english sentence to look more like the friendly soldier they impersonate (of course they aren't really friendly, they explode on you, if I remember correctly).

I'd like to point out that these two are the few correct posts in this thread.
Posted by: cortana 5
In Marathon, an assimilated BoB (Simalcrum or "exploda bob") would shout it out at random intervals during combat. The phrase itself? I'm not quite sure what it means. I'd assume it goes with the explosions.
Posted by: Specter Wolf
It came about when the voice actor of the BOBs was asked to utter a random phrase to use for the assimilated BOBs. Or so says Bungiepedia.

Edit: I guess I should have added it came from the Bungie's other trilogy Marathon.

The amount of misinformation in this thread is bad. I'd be okay if there was only two or three lies to make it obviously incorrect, but there're more lies then truth *shakes head*.

  • 12.27.2011 1:10 AM PDT

"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Now try how and why."

According to the Marathon scrapbook,

One of Bob's more unusual lines,"Frog Blast the Vent Core!" caused considerable controversy among fans.What was really said, and what did it mean?Dough explains how this arose:
"The idea was that some of the assimilated Bobs become insane from their conversion and run around yelling nonsense. Alex said to me 'say something random,' and that phrase tumbled from my lips. Totally spontaneous. WHile I could have sat down and thought up something more random than that, it worked out well, since it sounds close enough to a real sentence that it kept people guessing and generated some fascinating (and totally wrong) discussion about what the phrase was and it's meaning. One popular theory was 'God bless the Marine Corp!', which was a fair guess, but still wrong."

  • 12.27.2011 9:12 AM PDT

Is it bad that the first time I heard this I thought it was referring to the part of Halo where you rocket/'nade the core vents?

  • 12.27.2011 7:36 PM PDT

Find me anywhere with Pogo947


Posted by: spartan058 bill
Is it bad that the first time I heard this I thought it was referring to the part of Halo where you rocket/'nade the core vents?


That is what I thought when I first heard it. So you are not alone.

  • 12.27.2011 7:39 PM PDT

Yes, I AM just that awesome.

A drug dealer, a priest, and a computer game programmer walked into a bar one day. The bartender looked at the drug dealer and said "You drug-dealing worm! You prey on the weak and keep the people down by giving them drugs to distract them from the everyday horror of their pitiful existences! I have more respect for the deformed rat that subsists in the county morgue by eating chemical-laden autopsy remains than I do for you!" And with that, he stamped his 300 lb. bulk down upon the drug dealer's gold inlaid suede platform shoe.

The drug dealer shouted "You radge @#$%! I don't gotta listen to this bucket o -blam!-e," and ran out.

The bartender then turned to the priest and said "You preaching dog! You prey on the weak and keep the people down by giving them religion to distract them from the everyday horror of their pitiful existences! I have more respect for the ascaris worm slowly working its way through my lung than for I do for you!" And with that, he stamped his 300 lb. bulk down upon the priest's shiny black patton leather shoe.

The priest screamed "May the Lord forgive you! You'll burn with the other sinners in the hands of your angry God!" and ran out.

Then the programmer said "Save it, I know what you're about to say. I'm a game-programming rodent. I prey on the weak and keep the people down by giving them computer games to distract them from the everyday horror of their pitiful existences. You have more respect for the dog that eats the buckets of guts thrown out in the gutter by Moo and Oink the butchers than you do for me. I'm on my way out. Just don't step on my gleaming white running shoes."

But the bartender grinned, slowly shook his head, and roughly pulled the programmer to his chest. He whispered into the programmer's ear, and the programmer frantically pulled free and ran for the door.

The patrons were bemused by the programmer's sudden terror, but they understood when green chunks of the exploding bartender's synthetic flesh ripped through their bodies, killing every last one of them. And just as the orgy of gruesome death ensued, they each heard the bartender repeat in a bloodcurdling scream his final words to the programmer:

"frog blast THE VENT CORE!"


It originated from this. True story, bro.


In all seriousness, it originated from the assimilated B.O.B's from the Marathon series who, upon walking up to them, would explode, I believe shouting that phrase.

[Edited on 12.28.2011 6:41 AM PST]

  • 12.28.2011 6:36 AM PDT