So first, several versions ago, pumaman puts a joke option called make my game with joke options and when you press ok the program 'laughes' at you for choosing those options.
this has offended at least one person (who posted a complaint about this not so long ago)
ok.. so it was a small joke which really wasnt that big and offensive.. ok...
but now, CJ puts another 'joke'. the 'joke' is that when you try to open the program on 25/12 it gives a dumb message (which some find amusign and funny, but that's not the point) and closes the program. hence : ags disables itself. i dont know if pumaman just put it only on this year and he is gonna remove this from next versions for good, it does not matter.
oh and the 'change the date' thing : an average user can't figure it out.
i guess the joke could still be called mildly annoying if it just put the message and let the program continue starting. but it doesnt.
How would you feel if your operating system just chose some random day in the year on which it would not start?! well that's exactly the same thing. I bet some people are gonna leave AGS because of this (they wont post or anything, but they'll leave).
i think pumaman gone a bit too far this time. waaaay too far.
and yes, i understand this is a free service and bla bla bla so im NOT complaining, im advising pumaman to limit his jokes to silly unworking options or even although the regular boardies will stay, many others will leave.
edit : oh and just to clarify : this isnt a troll or a flame if you can't figure it out yourself :-\
"shouldn't every joke have limits?"
Maybe, but the better question is..
"Did Pumaman cross a limit with this joke?"
Answer is No.
'change the date' thing : an average user can't figure it out.
why are they using ags? :P
Quote from: Sylpher on Thu 25/12/2003 21:54:54
"shouldn't every joke have limits?"
Maybe, but the better question is..
"Did Pumaman cross a limit with this joke?"
Answer is No.
dont you think that forcing people not to use a program at a certain day is crossing the limits of good taste let alone the limits of a good joke?! (and as i said. workaround which aren't conventional (and this workaround ISNT conventional (common sense)) is like cheating. so if you're using this program on 25/12 its against what pumaman wanted with his 'joke'. dont judge a joke by its workaround.
and without the 'workaround' it does cross many many limits of good taste
As i see it, you are the only one that has a problem with it so far. Also, the workaround is common sense, imo and so what if you can't use AGS on one day of the year? what's the problem? :|
Actually, I found the joke pretty funny (and I don't even celebrate Christmas today).
well i dont think i should continue to argue over this subject as you are too busy defending yourself and getting affected by peer presure and have no time to listen to common sense...
think about this...who the heck, is so boring, to start AGS on christmas?? I am! And second, if you are as a person that boring to start AGS at christmas as I do... why not start it again? and again??? and again!!!!! It's teh FUN!!!11111
ok... so marcus, every1 (that is able to make a game with AGS) knows to change the date! ;D
peer pressure? what the hell are you on about now?
Quote from: Harvester on Thu 25/12/2003 22:21:39
Actually, I found the joke pretty funny (and I don't even celebrate Christmas today).
the joke was funny and while it can be found offensive in some ways, its not what im talking about.
if all it did was showing that 'joke' and when you press ok it lets you into the editor itself, then it was ok and i wouldnt say a word or say "ha! that's funny" or something.
also minimi - not everyone celebrates christmas.
also while only a litlle people dont know how to change the date, only a limited portion of them would think or care about changing it (take the post in the tech board for example)
i really dont know why im bothering here, you dont listen to anyone but yourselves.
and im sure there are enough people who agree with me they are just either left already, dont feel like creating an account and posting or care to much about their image to post.
also i do hope im talking here with highschool/college people and not adults. (not that high/college people cant be adults but they're allowed to be non-adults too)
so, the joke was Okay but the fact you couldn't use AGS for one day, for some reason, went too far?
oh and
"i really dont know why I'm bothering here, you dont listen to anyone but yourselves."
because you have not given one good reason for us to understand your POV
yes. you cant force people to not use something on one day and think its a funny joke.
its a practical jokes if anything, and they're not so funny.
You don't find it the least bit odd that you are the only person who seems to care? Or is this one of those scenarios where everybody else is crazy you are the only sane one?
And the reason you are getting so much slack is cause you are being an uptight prick. Yes you are. No just be quiet and listen a second you are! This is a forum built on comedy. Most adventure games very backbone is humor. Practical jokes such as little willy and the classic 'Helm Vs. Eric' battle is the very backbone of this community..
If you are gonna come stomping in here like you know what the hell this community is all about you can stomp stomp stomp but it isn't gonna do anything. If CJ wants to make ags pop up with a transvestite in a bunny suit every 30 seconds he can do that. Because he makes the program. Who the hell do you think you are? His second brain? I mean WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?
HAS EVERYONE GONE CRAZY? IT IS THE HOLIDAYS!
/me blasts off to x392-22
(Note: Point being simmer down there cowboy before you get your rope stuck in a pinch, ya dig?)
one day, is it really worth getting so upset about because you are unable to use it?
nope. not at all.
Quote from: marcus on Thu 25/12/2003 21:38:29
I bet some people are gonna leave AGS because of this (they wont post or anything, but they'll leave).
i think that's just a little bit silly and that you, yourself, are taking this joke too far, so i wouldn't bet too much money, plus didn't somebody start a thread about this "joke" about a week or so ago?
im not upset. im just trying to make you see that you're wrong. and since you are too close-minded or just simply lackeys to care, then ill stop.
oh and i wouldnt call 5 people 'everyone' not that i care about numbers...
too bad nobody understands that its wrong to deny people the right to use a product and label it as a joke. i'd label it as a mean product or something or a defected product...
and today
and today
and today
d00d, there's like, 4 of these stupid threads going on
i'm gonna label you, as Sylpher excellently did, an uptight prick
who the hell are you to say i'm wrong? it's my opinion and i'll do with it, what i like.
Quote from: marcus on Fri 26/12/2003 00:11:01
yes. you cant force people to not use something on one day and think its a funny joke.
its a practical jokes if anything, and they're not so funny.
I'm beginning to think that
you are the practical joke, dude. ::) I tried to start AGS and got the practical joke-message too. When I read it I got more tempted to grab a couple of beers with my friends than just sit around and point 'n' click.
In a way CJ saved my whole evening, he saved my very soul and damn that beer tasted good! ;)
OMG MARKIS IS RYGHT!!! AGS IS FULL OF JOKES!!1! OMG CHRIS JONEZ WHTA WERE YUO THINKIGN!!!1!! I SAY WE AERS BOYCOTT AGS UNTIL CRHIS JENOS REMOVES TEH JOKES!!!1!!
DO YUO SEE ME GO LOL???? NO!!!1! TEH DECEMBER 25 JOKE IS SO OFFENCIVE!!! CJ HAS GONE [bold]TOO FARp/blod]!!!!
I SAY WE IS JOIN MARKIS'S SIDE CAUSE HE OBVIUSLY KNOWS TEH FUNNY WEHN HE SEAS IT!!!!!1!!!
If this is a joke post, then kudos. If not, and "Marcus" is serious, then I think you need to read the part on the ags page that says ags is not for everybody....
Okay, everyone let's calm down and look at the facts.
Sometimes a joke can go too far. But it really depends on who the joke is told to. A person decides what and what not they wish to be offended by.
Marcus here has chosen to be offended, let's not make fun of him for doing so. He has a right to his oppinion. His only fault is not giving other people a right to their oppinions.
Here is why I believe him to be wrong.
AGS is free. CJ has slaved away to make it so you can use it, his only payment is your gratitude. If you have suggestions for AGS, and he sees it's importance he tries to work it in.
There is an easy work around to CJ joke. Adjusting your clock settings isn't rocket scientist. It's something an average user should know how to do. CJ assumed that most of the people working with the software would be somewhat competent (not saying you aren't marcus). In fact you can do it in three seconds. Double-click your menu bar below, on the time, and everything else should be self-explanatory.
Now, the last point I make, and perhaps the most important is this. You wouldn't be so angry with CJ if AGS was crap on a stick. In fact you'd probably just say so and never use it again. But, the truth is, that AGS is an easy powerful engine that facilitates the making of an adventure game. Even if you didn't know the work-around. AGS works wonderfully 364 days a year (365, if on a leap year). And once again, AGS IS free.
It's with this logic, that we see your anger is really because the engine is sooo good and useful. You're mad that you can't use this engine for one day. And what does this say about AGS and CJ? It says that you love both, you think that AGS is a great engine, and CJ is the creator of said engine. So your anger is the product of your love. So instead of being angry with CJ for one joke and one day, congradulate him for the other days the engine has worked for you like a dream.
I hope you can now understand why people aren't taking you seriously, now.
-MillsJROSS
And anyway, I'm sure we'll be on version 2.9503 by next christmas...
I don't know... I always liked little "easter eggs" in programs and games.
Wutz uh troll?
Quote from: marcus on Fri 26/12/2003 00:05:48
also i do hope I'm talking here with highschool/college people and not adults. (not that high/college people cant be adults but they're allowed to be non-adults too)
Oh well, the day is over and now there's no reason to be sad anymore, we can run AGS again! Woo!
I just REALLY want to know what you ment by that Marcus? What does that have to do with anything ever at all? I'm 22 years old and I graduated from college last May, can I participate in this conversation or am I to adult?
I'm not trying to be a jerk I'm just totally confused.
And yes, I agree with Mills. When all is said and done AGS worked every single day but one [technically it still worked] so why not post a hooray for that instead of a boo for the one day?
Also, I'm 22, yet I'm still in university (read 'college' to USAers) -- does that classify me as an adult or a college person?
Also, I found the joke non-offensive -- If I am indeed a college person, why is it that I'm the only non-adult person (between marcus and myself) with a sense of humour?
Oh fuck it, I'll tell it like it is: Marcus, you're retarded if you're going to knot your panties over something so insignificant!
Why don't you just write a letter to Dennis Leary's agent if you want to start a crusade against offensive humour?
Why pick something so insignificant to bitch about like a MINOR JOKE IN AN ADVENTURE GAME CREATION UTILITY???
If CJ does change it, what exactly have you achieved, genius?
I'll tell you: SWEET FUCK ALL!!!
You could have spent your time doing something constructive like painting a picture or putting your cat in a microwave oven.
Seriously, you would utilise more potential with the aforementioned "cat in microwave oven" scientific experiment than you would in your complaints about a TINY ANT'S TESTICLE-SIZED JOKE IN A COMPUTER GAME CREATION PROGRAM!
Hope that clears things up.
P.S. HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEAR!
I'm grandpa and i'm gonna take a nap now...
Oh, DGMacphee, son, watch your filthy mouth young man, or you'll have to clean toilets again.
Bite me, gramps! ;D
Quote from: MillsJROSS on Fri 26/12/2003 05:45:23
It says that you love both, you think that AGS is a great engine, and CJ is the creator of said engine. So your anger is the product of your love.
This is so mature and wonderfully written I think I'm gonna cry. :'(
do ants actually have testicles?
Now I'm sure I had something witty to put on this line, but I forgot it... anyways....
I could have started AGS yesterday (25th), but I didn't. If you find this joke so offensive, why don't you get an older version?`I'm using 2.56, and the joke's not in it. But as I've seen the message, it does say "take a day off", so why don't you just follow that?
Who knows if CJ has planted in there more of these jokes? LIke if you try to start AGS on new years eve after 10 o'clock PM, it tells you to go blast some rockets instead of making a game.
Why am I always so late from these topics that everying wise has already been said?
I once knew a Markis. He wet his bed while his electric blanket was on and electricuted himself...
I think what I'm trying to say here is that he was lame, and so are you...
...lame, that is. Not a electric blanket-bed wetter.
Or maybe you are!!! :o
Heh, you just KNOW someone left because they were mad the program shut off on christmas. Anyone who gets offended at everything like that would probably leave for another reason, if not that. I seriously doubt that you are correct here.
I agree that the average computer user doesn't know how to set their clock differently, but the average AGS user is not the average computer user. Anyone who can't set their clock is going to have a hard time figuring out how to do anything in AGS. I kind of wonder if you're defending this just because YOU couldn't set your computer clock differently, which is just funny.
I'm not resorting to peer pressure, because immediately after reading your post I felt this way. You come off as one of those annoying people who screams bloody hell over any little thing that could possibly, maybe, slightly offend one person in 400,000.
Yes, I agree. Joke gone too far.
We must boycott AGS now. For good. No one should every use AGS, anywhere, for any purpose, so we can send a clear message to Chris Jones........ "Screw you, and your free program too. We hate it's convient features, and the fact that it allows any schlep off the the street to make a decent game, despite having no useful programming knowledge. You sir, are an ignoramus for creating such a program, and how dare you put jokes in it. For shame. Forsooth. Forever we hates you, Baggins. Theif. Theif. It stole our precious. We hates it forever." So, in the name of the Horned King, Lord Sauron and Darth Vader, Chris Jones we curse your name to the hallowed halls of evil doers. You wank. Or something.
Bt
hey, if you are dissappointed, ask Chris your money back!! ;) (i've heard that he will even send 10 times the money you paid back to you)
At Christmas, you eat Turkey. You Marcus, are a turkey. Therefore, two turkey's are related.
I could understand being upset if this were software you had bought at a store. But since this is a free program and CJ asks no money in return for it, you should just be grateful that you even have AGS.
I'm just happy to have a program like this to use, and i'm not the greedy type to tell the programmer what to do. How would you feel if CJ decided not to do AGS anymore and decided to say Screw You All because people are nitpicking about the most minor things.
Just be happy you are able to create adventures with AGS and you don't have to dig deep into your wallet to enjoy such a wonderful program
BG
Maybe CJ should put a random date in there so that AGS stops working randomly on certain days. Now THAT would be funny.
Zing!
EDIT:
Er, I, um, agree with the fact that that would indeed be quite a hilarious spectacle. :)
"You could have spent your time doing something constructive like painting a picture or putting your cat in a microwave oven."
I find this joke higly offencive!!1!!11!!
;)
well you sure can take things out of context... not only i know its a free pro... infact why am i saying this?? I FREAKING SAID IT IN MY FIRST OR SECOND POST! so reread it please.
and densming - was that sarcasm?
Then why don't you explain why changing your computer clock is so hard? Or evidence that anyone was pissed off enough about this subtle, harmless, funny joke to just stop using AGS? None of that was explained, because you just assume most AGS users can't change their computer clock, of which I can humbly assure you you are wrong.
How do I turn my computer on? :'(
Quote from: marcus on Sun 28/12/2003 16:13:27
and densming - was that sarcasm?
uhh.... yeah.
But I think it really would be funny. I mean, hey, Microsoft does it with Windows, and I laugh every time IT stops working on me.
Shouldn't every joke have limits?
Yeah sure ... so should every thread ;)
])]v[
"Okay here's what you do. On Christmas day if you want to use AGS you need to set your computer clock back. To do that you double click on the clock and go ... [meaningful pause] ... Tell you what folks if you can't figure out how to set your computer clock back please ring your call button and Tommy will come over and hit you on the head with a tack hammer because you are a retard."
(http://screen7.adventuredevelopers.com/fun/dayofthejoke.jpg)
Hehehe....
This is the best thread I've read in a long time.
If only everyone was as tight-arsed as my fat friend marcus.
Awww.... I love you, markie-poo.
Really, I do. I think it's your big head that attracts me...
That was probably a bit mean...
Oh, what the hell....
i HAVE, however, finally got the energy to register as a member. (Well, obviously not YET, but straight after this, I promise you.) It will probably deflate the flaming a little. And it gives you something else to talk about aside marcus.
Who was that masked man?
Fatman.
Just because he is doing something for free doesnt mean he can toy around with us like that. next day, he'll fake a virus or something, not that it will change soem of your's opinions...
Actually, it's because it is free that CJ can do anything he wants to. And I don't think CJ is about to program a false virus. In fact, in his latest version the x-mas joke isn't even present.
So far you are the only person who has this view that CJ's joke went too far. Like I said, you can only get offended by something you want to get offended by. But truthfully, you've probably offended CJ more, by not taking this to him personally. If you were offended by his program, then you should have complained to him, without involving the community.
I find this thread that you started is going too far. You didn't want an adult conversation (only high-schoolers and people from college), and look at how people have responded. So people here have been treating you like a kid, isulting you, childishly, but you have been acting like a kid, in being too stubborn to examine our arguments. I can see if you were pissed if CJ made a real virus. But a joke is a joke, it is not made to offend. CJ's intention was not to offend. He made a joke that was easily bypassed, and so you lost a day with AGS? But what your doing to yourself is far worse, than CJ's joke. You're alienated yourself from the community (as no one has shared your view on the joke), and how do you expect the community to treat you or a game created by you?
-MillsJROSS
I think the joke didn't cross any limit.
If the message appeared when you try to save (and didn't let you) ruining all your day progress, I would understand it has produced a damage and your complain. Or maybe if AGS were an antivirus, the disabling joke for a day could bring problems.
QuoteI bet some people are gonna leave AGS because of this
If somebody leaves AGS because He doesn't know how to change the clock, this will be good for him, because he has not (IMO) the knowledge needed for using a development environment like AGS is.
By the way I'm going to propose several solutions:
- Change AGS licese to be "accept-dissabling-one-day-joke-ware".
- Create a separate distribution without jokes (and only for developing serious adventures...).
- Add a change clock tutorial to de tuts section.
- Complete the "Create my game" function (you will lose a day but the next day you could make a whole new game).
-Try not to offend so easy, be openminded and try to see the intention behind the other's acctions.
Quotehe'll fake a virus or something
I think next AGS version will format your HD and kidnapp your girlfriend (the last part only in beta versions)
Quote from: MrColossal on Fri 26/12/2003 07:50:27
Quote from: marcus on Fri 26/12/2003 00:05:48
also i do hope I'm talking here with highschool/college people and not adults. (not that high/college people cant be adults but they're allowed to be non-adults too)
I just REALLY want to know what you ment by that Marcus? What does that have to do with anything ever at all? I'm 22 years old and I graduated from college last May, can I participate in this conversation or am I to adult?
I'm not trying to be a jerk I'm just totally confused.
since you're still here marcus can you explain that please? you never did
Okay, I'm done laughing so I can finally post in this thread...
First, thank you Marcus. Because you started this thread I was just in time to start up AGS to see what you were talking about... I had only 15 minutes left.
[mature]
Since it's been a long time that I was a university student (sometimes I wish I didn't drop out :)) I take it that I fall into your category of "mature" posters. Well, too bad, IMO Chris' joke was one of the best I encountered in a long time. So much for maturity I guess...
Anyway, advice from a real old person: you are taking yourself way too serious. Lighten up, it will make your life a lot easier...
[/mature]
I think the joke is hilarious. Especially since it's true. You should spend Christmas day with friends or family. Then you can spend the rest of the year working on your game! :)
I just can't wait until Pumaman sees this thread. Everybody go find safe shelter, this ain't gonna be pretty.
Let me know when its safe to come back.
Marcus, not trying to be mean, but you had a full day to work on backgrounds for your game. Then the day after christmas, you could put them into AGS.
Shawn :)
I just can't believe this thread is still alive... I feel like putting something like that in all my programs, just to spite this guy...
Here is 50 cents, go buy a sense of humor.
Quote from: BuffaloGamer on Tue 30/12/2003 02:08:35
I just can't wait until Pumaman sees this thread. Everybody go find safe shelter, this ain't gonna be pretty.
Oh yeah, because CJ is know for his temper. He'll probably ban us all too...
I'm going to be as tactful and mature as I possibly can.
GET FUCKED, MARCUS!!
It took you guys long enough!
Now, we just gotta wait till the Laura Bow thread is locked and peace will flower upon the world!
This is a valid point, so thanks for bringing it up.
I did actually take a moment to think about whether it should refuse to start, or just give you the message and then load anyway.
I was in a bit of a mischevious mood at the time, and I was also going to add a similar thing for after 9pm on New Years Eve, and also for the 1st April. But, I thought that adding all three of them would be taking it too far, so I settled on just the Christmas joke.
I was careful not to add anything like this to the game engine - after all, people should always be able to play your games, whenever they want.
However, I thought that it would be a bit of a laugh to prevent people working on their games on Christmas Day. After all, it's one day a year to sit back and relax, why not use it as such. And of course, if you really want to make your game anyway, you can adjust the system clock.
QuoteHow would you feel if your operating system just chose some random day in the year on which it would not start?!
That's not a fair comparison at all, though. There are plenty of reasons why you'd quite reasonably want to use your computer on Christmas Day.
I equate the AGS 'feature' to if Microsoft put a similar thing into Visual Studio, where it wouldn't allow you to compile anything on 25th December. And I think that would be rather funny, and fair enough.
QuoteI'm advising pumaman to limit his jokes to silly unworking options or even although the regular boardies will stay, many others will leave.
Thankyou for your advice, however it seems from other peoples (sometimes rather emotional) responses that this isn't necessarily the case. And if somebody did stop using AGS because of this 'feature', then that's their choice and they're free to do so.
Quotealso i do hope I'm talking here with highschool/college people and not adults. (not that high/college people cant be adults but they're allowed to be non-adults too)
I'm sorry, what? Because I'm a guy who works for a living, you don't want me to reply in this thread?
I am terribly sorry, please ignore my post.
(http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif)
My god, you are funny, Marcus. No one has made me laugh like this in years. Your ignorance alone kept me rolling on the floor laughing for a full hour.
I'm interested to know why:
"its wrong to deny people the right to use a product and label it as a joke"
I think that the fact there's an apostrophe missing in the quoted sentence is "wrong". In English we use apostrophes to point out where we've dropped letters (or to denote posession).
Notive how I've used an apostrophe to point out the absence of " ha" in the phrase "we have"... Indeed, I've used one to point out the hidden presence of " ha" in the phrase "I have" twice now!
This is my justification for suggesting (in a friendly way, naturally) that you work out your punctuation because it's wrong.
I'd apreciate if we were given a similarly backed up explanation of why it's "wrong" to deny people the right to use "a product" (is AGS a "product"?)
Can I just say that this is the greatest thread I've seen since I've come back to the boards? As much as the Dec 25 joke is funny, the conflict in this post is just unbearably hilarious.
That swaying text thing is cool, especially when you hover the mouse over it.
Quote from: Captain Mostly on Tue 30/12/2003 23:10:53
(is AGS a "product"?)
In the expression 3 * 4 = 12...
12 is a product.
Very amusing thread. I think if there was any oversight or crossing of boundries, it has its root in the fact that not everybody celebrates Christmas. A better method may've been to give the notice with a subclause stating that if you didn't celebrate Christmas or if you were anti-social, you could change your system clock or hit Alt-I-H-A-V-E-N-O-L-I-F-E to continue. Either way, I think it's a damned good joke and am sorry that people anal-retentive enough not to find it amusing feel the need to gripe and moan about it.
Marcus, you twit, haven't you learned that there are no magic words in a proper debate? Resorting to informing people that they are brainwashed/immature/stupid/unwilling to listen to your point-of-view, doesn't mean that you've validated your opinion. You've merely managed to deflect proper questions and answers. If you'd posted to let the community (and CJ) know that you didn't appreciate the joke and wanted to know if anyone shared your opinion then it would've been accepted differently. If you'd politely asked CJ not to include this bug/feature in future versions then at least you would be considered. I certainly hope that this doesn't dissuade CJ from throwing other easter-eggs into future versions (easter-eggs being one of the best parts of adventure games).
This is the first time I've read this thread, It's pretty silly too, I can't believe it's gone this far, and I'm actually dissappointed AGS didn't wish me a happy new year, I loaded AGS just to see if it would before I read this thread and was let down.
Oh well.
I'm sure people will live on for the other 364 days of the year, I'm glad Redrum pointed out the Easter Egg a few weeks before so I could test it out cause otherwise I wouldn't have known about it seeing as I didn't switch the computer on on Christmas, well untill 3 days later when the rest of the world caught up to christmas.
I can't recall in this thread anyone else being offended as much as Marcus, oh well, I guess there's always one, and always pleanty of people who like to keeps these things going, It's all just Entertainment.
Thank you Marcus for creating this thread (This is not sarcastic [I think])
QuoteHow would you feel if your operating system just chose some random day in the year on which it would not start?!
Actually, that happened twice to me :P. It wasn't fun... Bill Gates went too far with that joke >:(
Quotealso i do hope I'm talking here with highschool/college people and not adults. (not that high/college people cant be adults but they're allowed to be non-adults too)
I'm 15, so what? Does that make me too young to post here? Or does it make me unable to change my computer's date? I knew how to do that back to the older days when I thought that renaming .bmp to .jpg would automatically turn the bmp into jpeg (that was a loooooooong time ago :P).
I think that the fact it doesn't allow you to use the program is what makes the joke really funny. I believe that you are the one who goes too far... I agree with you that some people might get offended (as this joke actually calls AGSers "lifeless nerds"), but do you really have to take that seriously? I didn't.
And yes, maybe you really wanted to work on AGS at Christmas, but as it was said a lot of times before, ppl can just change the date. If they don't know how to do it, then they probably (but not necessarily) can't even use AGS. Oh, and I don't think that the joke was enough reason to make somebody quit AGS.
PS I think it would be really funny if you started AGS again and it said something like "Okay, if you insist.... NERD!" and then it worked... 8)
after reading messages on page 2:
to MillsJRoss: "Amen!"
to DGMacphee: "Amen!"
after finishing rest of the thread:
Oh guys, what's the point discussing something so pointless here? Do something useful instead, like an adventure games or something...
Oops, I'm guilty too now...
Just think of all the Easter Eggs people never find! ;D
Hehe that's funny, at least this free programme told you why it won't work that day, which is different from some expensive commercial OSes which won't explain about their failure...
/me calls in Little Willy, ANDY P3N1S, Nigel Manning Smith to the party!
sooo easily offended, aren't we?
I'd understand, if AGS displayed a message:
Surprise! A cleaning was performed in your messy computer! Merry christmas!
...and formatted whole hard disk...
Actually, I think that raping AGS, the joke, CJ and marcus is enough already.
well lets c here. i have accually read the entire thred of this post but hey. AGS is a free programs that according to u's dont work on xmas day. that means 1 out of 365 days that it doesnt work. Other programs require you to pay for there full use. otherwise you'll get a 30 day trial (most of the times anyway). that means 335 days out of 365 u have to pay for it. and usually features are disabled during the 30 days that u get free. AGS has all feature enabled 364 days of the year. GET OVER IT. i could do more maths but i dont think so
I think I can talk because I´ve met CJ personally in Mittens...
I firstly was a little suspicious about him, you know, that jokes that the people does about him (CJ=JC and all the stuff...), I was afraid about him being some kind of SuperEgoMan or something.
Actually he was silent, quiet, allways seemed to be thinking in something... But when he talked everybody listened, he has some special charisma and a very sharpened sense of humour, one of the funniests I can remember. I respect him, 1% as a AGS programmer and 99% as a friend and buddie...
Now... knowing his sense of humour... Can Markus and CJ to agree in making this thread together? ???
;)
Quote from: Lance Farlandstrong on Fri 02/01/2004 14:16:10
I think I can talk because I´ve met CJ personally in Mittens...
I firstly was a little suspicious about him, you know, that jokes that the people does about him (CJ=JC and all the stuff...), I was afraid about him being some kind of SuperEgoMan or something.
Actually he was silent, quiet, allways seemed to be thinking in something... But when he talked everybody listened
Eh, that was just because we were paranoid about getting trojans in AGS's runDLL at that point.
Quote from: marcus on Thu 25/12/2003 21:38:29
oh and just to clarify : this isnt a troll or a flame if you can't figure it out yourself :-\
If this isn't a troll OR a flame, how do I get the magic axe from the enchanted laundry?
And also AGS is free! The last thing I got for free was a cold, though I admit that
was working on Christmas day. You know what they say: Don't look a gift horse in the easter egg.
What the... this thread is still going? :-\