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ionstream
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 14:21
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51st post. Go for the gusto, jim!

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Mr Underhill
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 14:27 Edited at: 4th Apr 2005 05:36
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LOL, good one, Rich!
I gotta try something like that next year.


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hmm...

Here I am ranting on in chat thinking I'm seeing things! I forgot I clicked to go to the forums (my start page is google) and I'm wonder why the heck I'm seeing the tgc pyramid on google!

Dirty trick


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Dave J
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 16:22 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 16:25
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I got it first go, but then I went back to try other things just to see what would happen.

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Foxy
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 16:27
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Sneaky but funny all the same! Nice one Rich, your genious shines through once again.

Gaming resources.

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BatVink
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 16:52
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This is just not funny. I have reinstalled the operating system this morning, thinking I had a virus that I couldn't track down.

Looks like I won't be around for a while, Dark Basic is not very high on list of things to reinstall.

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Robot
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 17:15
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I got in in one

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David T
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 17:18
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@Richard Davey 2: if this really is another user, just double space our name. It'll come out the same.

Afternoon guys.

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 17:22 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 17:24
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First thing to do when your browsing goes amiss is to check the address bar. Rich didn't disguise that it was a TGC-hosted fake google (g.php). Plus all other sites would work fine. Reinstalling the OS seems a wee bit overreactive to me

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David T
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 17:24
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Should alter it so when they click the images etc. tab it sends you to a google images search for "april fool".

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Robot
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 17:32
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that would be funny...or maybe someone laughing at them...

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 18:17
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I just got in now - it 6:17 pm over here, and I tried to get on at school - when it went to google I almost got banned 'coz we are strictly not allowed to use google (Luckily the librarian was on the other side of the room).

Last night I was looking up at the stars and said "Where the hell is my roof?!"
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David T
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 18:23
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Not allowed to use Google but can use forums? What sort of backward world is that?

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Dsarchy
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 18:47
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lol nice one
better make sure it stops at 12 though or the joke is on you
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Dark Flame
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 18:49
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2 attemps lol!

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AlexI
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good one you need to add when you click on the google symbol it serches for april falls day or something, the pyrimids really reveling though at first i had google open and the TGC site open on the forums and though my pc had crashed though i was wrong.
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Jimmy
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 19:13
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aahhhh, refreshing

i am new at coding, but i think i can do darkbasic or maybe darkbasic pro
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 19:21
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Quote: "What if I don't want to use Auto-Drink™?

No problem – simply turn off Auto-Drink™ on your Google Gulp preferences page. "



lmao

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 19:53 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 19:54
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Quote: "This is just not funny. I have reinstalled the operating system this morning, thinking I had a virus that I couldn't track down."


That's hell of a virus that defaces Google with a DB pyramid

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 20:12
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Heh.. over on Blitzcoder they've done something similar

http://www.blitzcoder.com

Kudos to the web dude there for a good sense of humour.

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 20:16
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This is one of the best I've seen all day:

NASA discovers Water on Mars:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc_big.jpg

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 20:28
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Hehe, good one.

The best and most elaborate one I've seen was when a national paper ran the story that The Proclaimers are not related, and one of them had surgery to look like the other one (as if you'd pay to look like a scots geek). The best thing about these though, is that some people are stupid enough, my dad always falls for them regardless of how incredible they are.


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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 20:38
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Almost every indie/mod development team has either posted a cease & desist email telling them to shut down or claimed they've been hired by some games company and are going to work on the next Half-Life 3 or whatever. Unfortunately, no matter how many of these you read, people still manage to fall for them, even after being told it's a joke!

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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 20:46
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Ha ha ha - I was expecting something April Foolsish;
I searched once to see what would happen and then clicked on "I don't like April Fools Day".

The DB pyramid gave it away instantly, I had April 1st on my mind when I went to the forums anway.

Made me laugh anyways...

Coming April 1st - a treat in the WIP board
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Quote: " Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time"

Does it invariably taste something like tea, but not quite?

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 21:54
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This definately falls into that catrgory of "How to be a complete b'astard". This definately falls into 2nd place. First place being the bomb disposal pic if anybody's ever seen it.

Anyway, very funny

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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 22:06
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Quote: "Quote: "This is just not funny. I have reinstalled the operating system this morning, thinking I had a virus that I couldn't track down."

That's hell of a virus that defaces Google with a DB pyramid "


OK...so nobody fell for my puny, futile attempt at retaliation.

I have to say in my defence that playing dumb technophobe in places like PC World is an enjoyable experience, and my attempt here just proves that anyone who knows actually knows what they are talking about doesn't fall for it.

Try going into PC World, saying you need a PC "just for word processing", and see what they try to sell you. Then starting playing stupid, and asking why you need a 256 Meg graphics card and 250 Meg hard drive for word processing.

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Nice to see everyone is still using Windows that I wrote...
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Posted: 1st Apr 2005 23:56 Edited at: 1st Apr 2005 23:56
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grgh can everybody PLEASE get back to quasi-normal? All of these name changes are giving me headaches

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2005 00:04
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I'm actually Squidgy, or was I Jess...or Raven, or Rich..damn! Forgotten who I really am!

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I'm back, without the space. I'm test driving the new name.
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Heh.... Very good... But me, forgetting it was april first clicked on I don't like april 1st....

Anyways, my home page was google, and I went to the forums bookmark... And I'm still at google... then I saw DBP pyramid, and thought hermm... Free advertising?

Then I compared the two pages with some Tom Jones in the background playing.

And I clicked teh evil button.

Now, WE DANCE!!!


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Posted: 2nd Apr 2005 00:46 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2005 00:52
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I was working last night around midnight and needed to get to the forum. Needless to say it took me about 4 attempts to figure it out.

Strangely enough the nagging thought of "why is the DB logo on the goggle site", was in the back of my mind after attempt 2!

This was an outstanding prank!
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Heh.. more April 1st fun.. this time from GameWallpapers.com

http://www.gamewallpapers.com/members/getwallpaper.php?wallpaper=wallpaper_pac-man_64_01_800.jpg

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lol, BatVink,
I got the joke... So did Exeat, I'm surprised everyone else didn't

I mean, c'mon fella's... why would he not touch DBP again after he's just been contracted to write tutorials for it!? lol.

Good to see that noone was REALLY offended by the joke.
Congratulations! You all have a sense of humour! Good Work!

Here's a pat on the back;

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*Places Pat on everyone's back*



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You have to pay for that site... How strange.


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how many times did it take me?

"We make the worst games in the universe."

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it took me one, 'cause i instantly saw the DBP pyramid and thought, "Oh, an april fools joke." of course, it helps that i am rather conscious of april fools day, due to the fact that it is my birthday.
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lmao i came to the site and it was google i ran like five different searches and retried the foum several times i finnally sent a email to the administrator i feel like such an idiot.
i saw the dark basic emblem but it just didnt click untill i noticed the april fools button plus i dont really use google
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i knew it was an april fool's joke. But at first I thought the joke was on thegamecreators and that the forum had been hacked!

then it dawned on me...

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Heh. I fell for it. I admit it. So there. Me stoopid. But I've had problems with the PC today (nice excuse, eh?) and had to do a reinstall of Windows.

Not getting to TGC was just one more little thing in a long chain of things...

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Quote: " grgh can everybody PLEASE get back to quasi-normal? All of these name changes are giving me headaches"


What do you mean?
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Quote: "grgh can everybody PLEASE get back to quasi-normal? All of these name changes are giving me headaches"

How can you get a headache when someone changes their name ?
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Lol, this was hilarious, from the Google Gulp FAQ:

Quote: "5. Well, shouldn't Auto-Drink™ be default-off?

You mean we should cripple a perfectly useful feature just because of a little bad PR?

6. Yes.

Okay. "


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Yoou're a bat.


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Quote: "What do you mean?"

Think about it

Quote: "How can you get a headache when someone changes their name ?"

You might be suprised. Say hello to IRC nick-swapping. There's a reason why there's a ban inforced ban on them

Quote: " Lol, this was hilarious, from the Google Gulp FAQ:"

hehe those google guys are awesome Did you check out teh gmail startpage? LOL gotta love those napkin graphs of infinity+1

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The Google thing didn't get me, Rich had told us in the mods forum he was gong to change the forums
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:o so there's a mods forum now..

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I've known that for ages


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It's been there for ages, ever since I was promoted.

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You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
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