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Richard Davey
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:14 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 09:27
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Heh.. congratulations... oh and I logged how many attempts it took you!

Cheers,

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:27 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 10:06
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Wow...was that my comp messed up or april fools joke? Apollo became Google...so i typed 'darkbasic' and hit 'search' and it came to this page...

interesting

ah..nice one.



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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:30
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It's taking people an average of 4 attempts!

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:31 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 10:06
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Quote: " It's taking people an average of 4 attempts! "


I think i got it on 3...unless i refreshed...not sure


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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:32
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It only counts searches I wonder if anyone tried swearing at it... or searching for "blitz"

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:34
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Nice one
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hehe, very witty


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HAHAHAH - Top marks, loved it

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:36 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 10:07
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It should come up with that clever phrase if the swear word is anywhere in the search string...has to try three times to get the proper message about my mouth

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:40
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Very clever indeed... but I would've thought 'April fools' or something along those lines would've let me in .

Now excuse me while I think up more excuses for my painful amount of tries

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:49
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Freaking hilarious!!!

Took me 2 tries (although, I clicked around alittle, in the options, whatnot).

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I was about to swear at it, I was putting things like TGC rules....

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:53 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 09:54
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b00. Yeah, I put "Rich is gay". No wonder it wouldn't let me in lol. Finally got it though! It was too easy and I was reading into it. That's what I get for thinking!

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oh yeah, and everybody saying it was time related didn't help!!!


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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:54
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ionstream - took you 4 attempts actually

Neofish - you win so far, 36 attempts!

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 09:57 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 09:58
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Really? I thought all I tried was "april fools." I may have exited and re-entered the site when I clicked the Google image.

Interesting IP based login, I couldn't get the page to appear again.

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Yeah i rule!

I hardly think typing things like "Panda" and "a" counts...

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i think first that was my internet problem. lol! good one!

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I must have somehow managed to guess it right BUT spelled it the wrong way round, thus me making loads more guesses. I wasn't really repeatedly clicking that button..


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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 10:00 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 10:03
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Rich, it's 5 pm here, so I had no thoughts of April fools. Heh, typing TGC got me here.

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Searching 8,058,044,651 noob posts
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Didn't see that at first, ROFL


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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 10:01 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 10:07
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Anyone get it on the first try?

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I did, but I muddled the letters up, not realising what I was doing. Well life goes on..


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April 1st... 'tis always a good day.

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 10:09 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 10:10
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im hungry..... didnt realise april fools yet been too busy with my great o powerful life.... which dont exist...

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 10:11
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I didn't type a thing--- just clicked 'I don't like April 1st' That was great
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That wasn't there! Rich you cheat!

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it's still 7 pm march 31st for me. i was so confused, and never really figured out what happened. i think i took about 3 tries. oh well. good joke!

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I just snuck around it by entering from the developer site directly into the forums... seems you might have forgotten a route... Not that it didn't make me cuss though...

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I just got totally punked by that.

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Actually I believe it's cookie based, I've had to get past it thrice from the 3 different PCs using the same home network.

Anyways it is most clever... but the people getting in with the 'I don't like april 1st' and darkbasic logo have it a lot easier than the people who tried in the first hour or so

Btw, nice Star Wars reference

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 10:19 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 10:20
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Quote: "April 1st sucks. Whats it celebrating anywho?"


It doesn't _celebrate_ anything.

Quote: "I just snuck around it by entering from the developer site directly into the forums... seems you might have forgotten a route..."


Nope, there's no "backdoor". You either have the cookie or you don't.

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Dang it! I wasn't expecting any April Fools Day jokes on the 31st of March. It scared the crap out of me! Until I saw the I dont like April Fools Day button. Very clever and funny, but a day early for me. *crosses fingers* It only took me one try to get in! *looks around* Ok! Fine! I don't know how many it took!*uncrosses fingers*

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Hey, it's only 6:24pm here. Cheater!

But gotta admit, is was pretty good!

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Oh that was good. I was was freakin out at first and after a couple try's i used the backdoor like G man.

Btw,thanks for the fixes and new commands.YAY!
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DANG..I even sent you an email...LOL

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took 4 attempts for me, lol, i even posted on my teams forums asking if something was wrong. Even though its not April 1st yet here, that was a pretty good one .

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Guys this is an April 1st thread - take the goth chat to another thread please, I'll remove it from here now

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Indi, I'm sorry mate.. but you made me laugh the most so far (via MSN)

indi says:
hi mate, are you working on the forum?. Im getting a googled page with a darkbasic triangle in reference to where the forum was.

Rich says:
hmm not sure why

indi says:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/gs.php

Rich says:
strange... wonder how that happened...

indi says:
i have no idea, brb ill try a mac and surf it

(he did eventually get it of course, but it was a true April 1st gotcha)

Cheers,

Rich

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ROFL nice one rich I tried it once and went "what the heck?" and retried it. Took me three times before I saw the dbp pyrimid in the google logo..

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 11:11 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 11:12
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I still haven't got it. What was it???

EDIT

Oh, that simple eh . Must've taken me about 10 gos.

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Quote: "©2005 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 noob posts"




I felt like an idiot when I sent you that E-mail...

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Quote: "I felt like an idiot when I sent you that E-mail..."


I laughed when I read it

It's catching quite a few people out.. but thankfully most see the DB pyramid and think "hmmm" (well, people not called Indi anyway) heh

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hahahahahaahahah taht was funy

Richard Davey, r u on tgc?

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I was shocked!
I was like: Cool! DarkBASIC has their own google pic!

but then I was like: wait a second.. I clicked on the forums!
I typed in DarkBASIC on first try, then it took me here..

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Yeah, I think it may have taken me 3 tries to finally figure out the pyramid wan't from Egypt..... I ended up looking really closely, then I asked Aura, and *bang!*, i'm in. It's still the 31'st here...

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Hey, that was great! I got it on the second try.


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Well, I thought it was moronic and childish. But if it floats your boat, go for it.
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Funny, but it's not April 1st here! Totally threw me off a couple times until I spotted the extra button.

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I clicked the "i hate april fools" button the second time. However I never searched anything cause I thought the first time I hit my google bookmark on accident. So I got it in 2 even though the log may say 0 or 1 or something else, who knows.
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Great job, Rich

So THAT's what you were asking about google for, eh?

I did the same as Billy, thought I'd hit my Google bookmark instead of the forum on, then I tried to use index.php to get past it, then I noticed the button

Great job!

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tee hee



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