Re: [Super-tux-devel] Super(Fat)Tux

[Chris S. <csp...@ca...>]

Chris,

It was obviously a april fools day joke.

-Chris

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 09:24, Christopher A. Webber wrote:
>     Hello... assuming someone wasn't duping your email address in
> sending that, I'd like to give a reply.  SuperTux has begun to take a
> different different direction over the last month, and the "geek
> humor" of the game is being entirely removed.  I don't expect you'd
> kept quite updated with all the SuperTux news, so I understand how you
> may not have noticed such.
>     Ingo, myself, and a few other artists have been working on new
> graphics for the game.  If you would like to take a look at the new
> direction we are heading, Ingo has a mockup of the game here:
> http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/milestone1/images/supertux-gamescreen.jpg 
> This was decided quite a bit ago, but it is a transitional process. 
> We have been working on replacing the BSODs with snowballs, the
> laptops with ice blocks, and such.  The reason for this is that the
> team (mostly) agreed that the game needed to be good in its own right,
> and not because it was Microsoft bashing, or whatever.
>     So you asked, what would Tux be doing once he got to Redmond?  The
> answer is simply, nothing.  He isn't going there any more, and in
> fact, he hasn't been planning to go there for quite a while.  And in
> regards to your joke about Tux being very fat, yes, he is very
> conscientious about that.  He wants to go on a diet, but he loves
> herring so much, I just don't know if it is going to happen any time
> soon.
>     Any way, hope that answers a few things, and sorry about any
> confusion.
> 
> Regards,
> Christopher Allan Webber
> 
> 
> |
> The bottom line 
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:21, pau...@mi... wrote: 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> >  I have just been informed about your little game whose goal is to travel 
> > along until Redmond is reached.
> >  I got surprised right way, since I have not ever seen anything unusual at 
> > Redmond, so I wonder what will Tux, the fat penguin, do at such place.
> > 
> >  Futhermore, you talk about Revenge in Redmond... I never heard about any 
> > penguin that was abused in such area. If so, report to the competent 
> > authorities.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Paul Nice
> > - Microsoft employee
> > 
> > 
> > 
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