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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 18th Sep 2003 19:26
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"Gimme da codes"

I've read about this thread a few times. Seems to be some sort of lendary stupid post, but I can't find it.
I wanna read it - anyone know where it is?
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Posted: 18th Sep 2003 19:38
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someone reposted it here in General area about a month or so ago, it's gotta be around.

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Easily Confused
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Posted: 18th Sep 2003 20:52
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Here is the reposting:
http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=15290&b=2

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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 18th Sep 2003 21:57
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Seems to be gone

Any chance of making it available Rich?

I never read it
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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 00:40 Edited at: 19th Sep 2003 00:42
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see two posts up from here, Easily reposted the link


EDIT: scratch that, the link is broken
???

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 01:35
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Sorry, I should've checked the link before posting.

(slaps myself silly with a large haddock)

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 02:10
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LOL


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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 02:43
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When the DB sites moved away from the old Apollo location, surely they didn't lose the database it was stored in. That would be a big loss.

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As I recall, the whole "da codes" thing wasn't even in that, though the guy did say some incredibly stupid things...I swear the "da codes" was derived from something I posted using "teh codez"...oh well

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 05:22 Edited at: 19th Sep 2003 05:31
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The original post was Da Codes and it was definatly Da and originaly Da... sorry

Edit- I see what yer sayin' now. Bit obvious. Nevermind, I didn't say anything... did I? No, not me

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 05:39
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it was just some dum guy a bit like megaman but with out ppl comeing on to the forum to have a go at him.

there are lot of dum thread on the team request forum if you just what to see dum ppl posting dum things.
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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 06:07
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i don't think anyone is gonna forget it ...
i did but then i have a short attention span and even shorter memory. sides just seemed like another newbie that for some reason everyone wanted to have a go at, give him a week alone with DB and he'd of realised he couldn't program put it down, disappear from the forums and life goes on.

instead somehow it turned into as big a thing for this community as "all you base" thing, which again is another thing that completely flew over my head tbh.
didn't see what the big deal was to any other poor japanese translation, didn't see how it was so amusing or why everyone happened to pick that game and infact that one particular line.

Sometimes people are really confusing about these things.
:: mumbles :: wasn't as if no other newbie had ever wanted everyone else to program thier game for them and give them exactly what they wanted with poor english and such.

but i guess atleast it got everyone off the subject of that Gamerz guy - i can't remember his name now, something like 3dgamerz or something silly like that. personally i found him infinately more amusing
especially when he tried to pass 3D Studio Max r3 off as his own DarkBASIC creation ... god now THAT was a classic post

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 10:28 Edited at: 19th Sep 2003 10:31
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It was years ago now. For some reason I got addicted to posting fake DB "Da Codez" plugin objects in that thread. eg. A1345 - An alpha-numeric codez that produces a yellow tank. It can rotate through 180 degrees, but cannot fire missiles. Note that it should not be mixed up with B1345 which is small red lamp, that can fire missiles.

You get the idea. I was very very drunk at the time.

More annoying than that bloke was the guy who insisted that Y2K was no big deal (for us programmers). And wouldn't back down even when I explained how the workarounds work (which caused it to be no big deal). Ho hum...

Cheers

Ps. Oh yeah, I started writing a "Da Codez" game once. Bit like Conquerer (years ago - think Lander with tanks), but you could get "Codez" to get different vehicles un stuff. Damn, what happened to that? And am pretty positive it started off as him saying "gimme the codes", we then said "Da codes", and it got mucked around until it became "Da Codez" for some reason....

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 11:19
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I believe the post was originally by some kid who couldn't speak English properly and he was asking for 'da codez' to type in to make a game. He said he knew he had to type in some 'codez' but didn't know what they were.

The reason we picked on him was because despite us giving him advice such as go buy a book, he replied with: "A book. I hate books. book is stuupid." then he proceeded to throw flames at us, eg: "I ain't scared of all ya @!#$ mother fuuker cats."


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It was a total conspiracy. DB is nothing but hidden codes, there's no manual, you have to know someone who knows da codes. And nobody would tell him what they were.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 12:29 Edited at: 19th Sep 2003 12:30
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I believe it was actually a well known DB expert (fingers pointing to Magallan?!?) who posted that "gimme da codes" message just to have a laugh. The original forums had a bug where posts could not be deleted or something, so people started spamming the board with their own rubbish ... if I remember correctly, Magallan did admit posing as a newbie girl or something (that thread had loads of hits from horny males world over asking for her email address). When people found out the girl was non-existant and just someone having a laugh, they all got upset ... this is why people are a bit wary of a new girl on the forum.
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Nah. The bloke came across as a complete spanner at the time. Would have taken good acting.

Bit wary of a new girl? If you count hoardes of people responding with two word comments to anyone with an "i" at the end of the name and an anime girl cartoon as an avatar, then perhaps...

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 17:24
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I have Da Codes as an HTML document! How can I attatch it to you guys?
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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 17:29 Edited at: 19th Sep 2003 17:38
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This is Da Codes in Zip!


Pincho.



http://www.dannywartnaby.co.uk/rgt/attachments/Da_Codes.zip
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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 17:31 Edited at: 19th Sep 2003 17:32
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edit

n/m my post - thanks pincho
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Lol actually being part of that thread must have been as annoying as this











Still it was funny to read

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Cheers Pincho, I was just cursing myself that I didn't save it at the time.


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[edit] It's ok, but nothing on that one with the mercenaries and trying to sue the email-spammer

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Lol, yes it is.

http://ep.designex.net/Misc/DaCodes/

Uploaded for eternity.


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@Shadow Not Funny? You remind me of an Episode of Fawlty Towers entitled The Germans.
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But I'm not German...

But, seriously, I can't remember that episode - can you explain?

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Oh it just ends with the Germans saying "that's not funny!". The Germans have a persona of not having a sense of humour.

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Or at least the "Pythons" think so...


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i actually regret not seeing that thread when it was taking place. i fully devoted my time to db a few months after that thread.

but still reminds me of the newbies that come and go

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Ironically the Pythons were very popular in Germany.

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that thread is well funny


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Hmm, just checked it out (NTL is going really bad at the minute). Was sure the original thread was a hell of a lot longer than that (pages and pages). I rabbitted on for ages with made up "codez". Unless it was a follow up "Geri-like" thread...

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