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

[<pau...@mi...>]

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

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

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

    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


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

[Tobias <tob...@gm...>]

Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb pau...@mi... um 16:21:
> Greetings,
Yeah, greetings,

>  I have just been informed about your little game whose goal is to travel 
> along until Redmond is reached.

Well, this aim has been dropped.

>  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.

A fat penguin is a wealthy penguin! :)

> 
>  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.

Well, the 'Revenge in Redmond' idea is nice for us geeks (you are of
course a special type of geek on living on the evil side, who
doesn't/isn't allowed to think like we;) ), but we already dropped it in
favor of a general world travelling story.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul Nice
> - Microsoft employee

Respect, I didn't think there would be Microsoft employees that are brave enough
to communicate with Free (as in Freedom, NOT as in free beer) Software
developers through 'their' Free Software communication tools.

Greetz...

Tobias Gläßer

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
> 
> 
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> 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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> > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
> > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
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"There is a lot of speculation and I guess there is going to continue to
be a lot of speculation until the speculation ends." - George W. Bush on
October 18, 1998

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

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

Just to out him....Ricardo is the one guilty of this rather witty prank.

:)

-Chris

"Why, of course, the people don't want war... Voice or no voice, the
people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders... All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It
works the same in any country." - Nazi Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg
war-crimes tribunal

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

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:23:51AM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> It was obviously a april fools day joke.

Yep. ;)  (Check the headers closely)

-bill!

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

[Tobias <tob...@gm...>]

1st April, hmmmm :))

-- -- -- 

Greetz...

Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb Tobias Gläßer um 17:23:
> Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb pau...@mi... um 16:21:
> > Greetings,
> Yeah, greetings,
> 
> >  I have just been informed about your little game whose goal is to travel 
> > along until Redmond is reached.
> 
> Well, this aim has been dropped.
> 
> >  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.
> 
> A fat penguin is a wealthy penguin! :)
> 
> > 
> >  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.
> 
> Well, the 'Revenge in Redmond' idea is nice for us geeks (you are of
> course a special type of geek on living on the evil side, who
> doesn't/isn't allowed to think like we;) ), but we already dropped it in
> favor of a general world travelling story.
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Paul Nice
> > - Microsoft employee
> 
> Respect, I didn't think there would be Microsoft employees that are brave enough
> to communicate with Free (as in Freedom, NOT as in free beer) Software
> developers through 'their' Free Software communication tools.
> 
> Greetz...
> 
> Tobias Gläßer
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Super-tux-devel] Super(Fat)Tux

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

Well, let us hope there is nobody actually at that email address,
because I made sure that he got a copy of my letter.

C.A.W.


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On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 09:31, Tobias Gl=E4=DFer wrote:

> 1st April, hmmmm :))
>=20
> -- -- --=20
>=20
> Greetz...
>=20
> Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb Tobias Gl=E4=DFer um 17:23:
> > Am Do, den 01.04.2004 schrieb pau...@mi... um 16:21:
> > > Greetings,
> > Yeah, greetings,
> >=20
> > >  I have just been informed about your little game whose goal is to tr=
avel=20
> > > along until Redmond is reached.
> >=20
> > Well, this aim has been dropped.
> >=20
> > >  I got surprised right way, since I have not ever seen anything unusu=
al at=20
> > > Redmond, so I wonder what will
> > >  Tux, the fat penguin, do at such place.
> >=20
> > A fat penguin is a wealthy penguin! :)
> >=20
> > >=20
> > >  Futhermore, you talk about Revenge in Redmond... I never heard about=
 any=20
> > > penguin that was abused in such area. If so, report to the competent=20
> > > authorities.
> >=20
> > Well, the 'Revenge in Redmond' idea is nice for us geeks (you are of
> > course a special type of geek on living on the evil side, who
> > doesn't/isn't allowed to think like we;) ), but we already dropped it i=
n
> > favor of a general world travelling story.
> >=20
> > >=20
> > > Cheers,
> > >=20
> > > Paul Nice
> > > - Microsoft employee
> >=20
> > Respect, I didn't think there would be Microsoft employees that are bra=
ve enough
> > to communicate with Free (as in Freedom, NOT as in free beer) Software
> > developers through 'their' Free Software communication tools.
> >=20
> > Greetz...
> >=20
> > Tobias Gl=E4=DFer
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > -------------------------------------------------------
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> > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
> > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
> > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3D1470&alloc_id=3D3638&op=3Dc=
lick
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Re: [Super-tux-devel] Super(Fat)Tux

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

 Heh, I couldn't let the day pass way ;)

 I was thinking of sending a letter like from the sourceforge folks saying 
that the project would have to be removed from their database, since 
Microsoft was preparing a lawsuit... ;)
 I guess that will have to wait until next year... Ooops, now I have to think 
about something else :D

Have a nice fools day,

Ricardo Cruz

Em Quinta, 1 de Abril de 2004 16:28, o Chris Spencer escreveu:
> Just to out him....Ricardo is the one guilty of this rather witty prank.
>
> :)
>
> -Chris
>
>
>

-- 
Keep it short for pithy sake.

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

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

>  I was thinking of sending a letter like from the sourceforge folks saying 
> that the project would have to be removed from their database, since 
> Microsoft was preparing a lawsuit... ;)


Gah!  Yeah, I'm glad you didn't do that.  It may have ended up in a lot
more trouble than it is worth.

-CAW