Note from 8lackSphinx: Marcus Lindblom is titled as “marcus1999“. Error messages and blank chats have been omitted. Otherwise, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, spelling, and other errors have been retained to keep the original spirit of the livestream.

bbgangzombie: I think the whole localization process from back in the day is just fascinating.

marcusl999: One thing I actually kind of like is the fact that there’s lots of things that people speculate about, and I would hate to kill some of that with answers…

bluetoad136498: I think giygas’s name is much better in EB than MOTHER 1

skyrunner14: Actually, anyone know if Giegue kept his original name in Mother 2?

zincomog: maybe “geeg” just sounded weird

strtofu: oh my god. this is perfect for me to just totally lose my brain to.

marcusl999: Unfortunately, there wasn’t much process

skyrunner: yes

Mod annk_: Giygas is one steaming hot potato bad guy

awelcruiz: Was it hard trying to translate the Mr. Saturn dialogue?

poetrader: KILL THEM

skyrunner14: And Giygas doesn’t?

jb2448: Oh, but answers resolve such burning questions!

kingdarian: No, we’d love to hear all the juicy details.

bluetoad136498: Giygas is a cool and perfect name

Mod elobocodfish: I think answers would be very welcome

bluetoad136498: not for a baby

marcusl999: Do you guys really want to know how we translated Giygas?

chrisbluestone: yes

bbgangzombie: Oh, if you don’t want to answer, I won’t force you…

bluetoad136498: yes!!!!

skyrunner14: Yes!

morgil27: yes

cptncupcake: The truth and the fiction can both be interesting!

bluetoad136498: everyone wants to know that!!!!

kingdarian: YES

raymaster32: Yup

Mod elobocodfish: YEs, absolutely.

zincomog: man yeah

chrisbluestone: If I pronounce his name wrong one more time. . .

torchicblaziken: How is it even pronounced?

awelcruiz: Sure, why not?

jb2448: I listened to that podcast Q&A you did, and my friend really enjoyed your method of recollecting information.

strtofu: i think “gyiyg” is the closest thing to a canon romanization of ギーグ

marcusl999: Actually, how about just the pronunciation

Mod elobocodfish: I assumed Gigas as in Giant as a kid.

skyrunner14: Guess that answeres that XD

bluetoad136498: it is guy-gas I think

xenosns: no, please don’t

kingdarian: No, tell us everything~

Mod annk_: Gee-gus

skyrunner14: Why Xeno?

bluetoad136498: I want to know

xenosns: i just like to be contrary

zincomog: it’s been 18 years we should learn everything while we still can

bluetoad136498: this is an age old question

strtofu: i think “gyiyg” and “giygas” are both sufficiently lovecraftian

morgil27: inquiring minds wanna know

cptncupcake: The world deserves to know!

vince340515: I like to think that after the events of Mother 1, Giegue grows evil and powerful and AAAARGH, and is then called Giygas.

jb2448: Shall we end this pronunciation war once and for all, or will it rage on through all of eternity?

bluetoad136498: yeah but giygas is better

skyrunner14: I know in the Japanese, Itoi based it on walking into that movie…

bluetoad136498: end the war

chrisbluestone: In Mother 2 isn’t he still called Giegue?

bbgangzombie: Yes.

skyrunner14: But how’d you come up with the English version?

bluetoad136498: no

awelcruiz: WE WANT THE TRUTH!

bbgangzombie: Well, Gyiyg on the title screen

alex44343: Giygas (also known as Giegue) is an evil alien with psychokinetic powers, and is the main villain for the role-playing games Earthbound zero and Earthbound.

strtofu: yes

bluetoad136498: We all want to know!

kingdarian: Yeah, it’s still GIegue/GYIYG in Japanese.

zincomog: i’m very strong

morgil27: you’re torturing us

bbgangzombie: Goodness, don’t tackle the poor man!

strtofu: The antagonist is “giigu” in both games

bluetoad136498: we must know the truth

marcusl999: So in Japanese it’s pronounced like “Geeg”

skyrunner14: He’s probably typing his answer now, calm down guys __;

bluetoad136498: we know that

2sang: I want to know yes

strtofu: correct

awelcruiz: I would like to know, if that’s okay.

jb2448: Nope, Gyiyg, Chrisbluestone. Giegue was the name used for the English prototype of Mother 1 (EarthBound Zero).

awelcruiz: PUUU?

bluetoad136498: but it is not as good as giygas

jb2448: (Called Earth Bound at the time)

torchicblaziken: Such fitting music just a few seconds ago…

chrisbluestone: lol

awelcruiz: I KNEW IT!!!

yoshistar_baxter: You need to speak to the monkey first! D:

kingdarian: YES! I’ve had it right all these years!

bbgangzombie: Hahaha

bluetoad136498: those theories that state that giegue and giygas are two different aliens

skyrunner14: Chewy, you forgot to talk to monkey

cptncupcake: So for 18 years, we’ve been pronouncing it wrong!

raymaster32: Well, I’ll be damned. I pronounced it guy-gas this whole time

bluetoad136498: I have been wrong!

cptncupcake: You cannot conceive the form of Giygas’s name!

awelcruiz: Admitidly, I used to say “guygas” as a kid, but said “geegus” when i got older.

strtofu: I kind of like “Gyiyg” simply because it defies English spelling conventions, and thus kind of dispels any pronunciation controversies

schythedd: Who all is still hosting this event?

morgil27: Geegus!

bluetoad136498: guy-gas is cooler we all know that

bbgangzombie: I’ve always pronounced it Gee-gas, haha.

marcusl999: I’m just glad you were pronouncing it at all

strtofu: and the kana makes the pronunciation clear

marcusl999: anything is better than nothing

strtofu: i used to read it as “gigyas”

bluetoad136498: talking to you is perfect!

alex44343: guygas

strtofu: then one day i looked at it and thought “wait, what the HELL is that?”

chrisbluestone: BBGang, Ji-gas?

bluetoad136498: XD

bbgangzombie: No

bbgangzombie: Hah.

strtofu: Japanese monkey cave, bane of gaijin everywhere

chrisbluestone: Gi-gas?

awelcruiz: What was that, lightning?

jb2448: And, even though the war should have ended, Word of God didn’t affect personal preference, and the future refused to change.

bbgangzombie: …sure

tragicmanner: Hey, I’m back. Has anyone been keeping a chat log? And if so, could you PM me that last 30 mins on starmen dot net?

awelcruiz: Or a camera flash?

torchicblaziken: Just reminded me of that guy who read it as “City Gas”.

marcusl999: So, I’m going to run… I promise that after having been away from the fan community for all these years, I’ll be around

bluetoad136498: oh those caves!

awelcruiz: Bye.

zincomog: thank you marcus

bbgangzombie: Thanks so much for answering my questions!

poetrader: thank you, marcus!!!

krawky398: Yes, playing though Mother 2 first, that monkey cave was awful…

tragicmanner: Thanks Marcus!

cptncupcake: I hate to repost a thought in chat, but I have to. If you write a book, an article, anything, I want to buy it.

kingdarian: Thank you so much for all of your insight! It’s been amazing!

bbgangzombie: It’s like talking to my hero

jb2448: Cult

vince340515: It’s been loveleh!

tragicmanner: Have a good evening

krawky398: Thank you and see ya Marcus

jb2448: cuullllt

xenosns: Thank you Marcus

awelcruiz: Monkey hole sounds dirty.

marcusl999: And I’ll answer questions along the way. Hopefully help with the documentary

Mod elobocodfish: Thanks for stopping by Marcus

jb2448: Thank you for your answers, Marcus!

cptncupcake: Thank you, Marcus. We love you!

oppthumbs: Thanks for stopping by, Marcus, thanks a lot!!!!

stuffgamer1: Wow, this is still running, eh?

marcusl999: Are you going to be at PAX again?

raymaster32: Thank you so much Marcus, I’ve never had an experience much like this.

blair32: by thwy way, the twitchtv app on the ipad sucks, I cannot get this working

Mod elobocodfish: Look forward to you on the doc, thanks for your work on earthbound as well

poetrader: which ppax?

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