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I Realize This Is April 1st


stewart

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I just got the following e-mail from Micah

 

> Hey Stewie;

>

> You remember all the stuff that used to go here years ago? Well all

> that and since the site still provides the access codes has landed me

> in a lot of hot water. That's why I've been away. I've been in

> court. Basically, Atari has been paying attention to us afterall. Not

> for Xenocide though but the past. To make a long story short, I

> lost. The deal my lawyer worked out was I have to give up "casual

> and personal" use of computers for a period of two years. That

> means I can only use a computer at work and for work related

> things. The cops busted in here and took all my computer stuff

> away for the duration. The sentence hasn't been handed down yet

> so I'm writting this e-mail at a buddies house.

>

> What this means for you guys is that at the end of July XcomUFO is

> no more. That's when my licence expires. Can you let everybody

> know. My lawyer advises me that if I'm caught logging in, it will be

> bad. Let everyone know how sorry I am about this. Thanks.

>

> -Micah

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What? No more XcomUFO forums after July 2005? Say it aint so! :Cry:

 

And if I may be so bold: what does "You remember all the stuff that used to go here years ago?" mean? Same question for: "Well all that and since the site still provides the access codes has landed me in a lot of hot water." Access codes? Say what? :blink:

 

Obviously, Atari has their shorts in a wad over something that transpired here long ago. Why they are pursuing this matter now is even a better question. :angry:

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Assuming it's in the context of the games:

 

My guess is that the access codes refers to the copy protection codes in the manual that you had to enter. This was prior to the official 1.4 patch that officially removed copy protection from the game. As for the other 'stuff', I really haven't a clue, but if I had to guess, was the game 'hosted' on the site for a while?

 

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The one thing I really hate about April Fools is that it's next to impossible to break any serious news or whether or not any seemingly serious news is just a joke in very bad taste. I mean it. It's worse still when you take into account the time difference and the folks in the Pacific are already on the 2nd of April while those in America are just waking up for the 1st. Agh!

 

- NKF

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But is that the same Micah? DOB 11/05/82, while the one here on the forum has DOB ehrr... well, a different one, too lazy to check but it ain't the same one :)

 

edit: 27/01/81, unless he's been lying to us all these years of course :P

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Guest Azrael
Still, I think the most important thing right now is to know whether or not it is a joke...

 

 

*Regains conciousness, and repeats Paladin's question*

 

You should read all posts.

 

haha, the man has a sense of humor.

 

The lady is quick. :P

 

 

haha, the man has a sense of humor.

 

 

The lady is quick. :P

Indeed Mr. Funny Pants! :) But on a more serious note, DID you hear from Micah?

 

 

Nope.

 

but I found the answer to the mystery right here.

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You mean I actually HAVE to answer?

 

Note the date on the police report. Note what Micahs middle name is in the police report. Note Micahs email address [email protected]. Note the d as in David.

 

Our Micah is more like this or that.

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Our headmaster at my school pranked the entire school. He said that "tommorow you can see the blue moon, a very rare phenomina, that occours when the sun, moon and Earth are lined up correctly. You can see it at 6.30 in the morning." And if it wasn't because it was a SATURDAY, and i was SO FRICKIN TIRED and overslept it by 6 hours, i'd go up and see it.

 

Everyone belived it.

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In the immortal words of South Park's twitch, "AGGHHHH!!!!"

 

I've never been a fan of April fools, particularly since this joke could so easily be true. Just because a crime was commited in the past, does not mean it can't be prosecuted in the today.

 

Nice sig Kafros!

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Ty! :D

That's the 3rd one I changed today :P :D

 

Well, I dunno if any "crimes" have been done in the past, right now all these issues are solved and we work on a free, from-the-sratch project, for the fun of it, wishing that one day we will be able to enjoy our work due to one more reason (playing it :P :D)

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  • 11 months later...

What? No sick April Fools day joke this year? <_>

 

- Zombie

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Well Ufo2000 has decided to remove all win32 applications and go dead COLD UNIX. Windoze sucks too bad. =p GUI may even become more complex, but with the notion of improved graphics.

 

edit: oh and the server is up

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It's these blasted time zones. When it's April fools day on one side of the planet, it's either well past it on the other, or it's a day early. It really messes up the timing. ;)

 

- NKF

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It's these blasted time zones. When it's April fools day on one side of the planet, it's either well past it on the other, or it's a day early. It really messes up the timing. ;)

 

- NKF

Consider yourself lucky it's already April 2nd by you. I have 7 hours left. ;)

 

- Zombie

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