12-12-2013, 04:51 PM
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Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Herndon, VA
Posts: 3,176
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Re: When will the first official game hint be released?
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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
In olden times, former GDC member Dave Lavery used to post hints right here on CD, from which we could learn the exact nature of the FRC game -- IF we could decode them. Unfortunately, Dave's code was exceedingly complex. Something akin to translating all the technical facts into Kurdish, all the historical facts into Navajo, all the numerals into Chinese, and then scrambling the characters, re-encoding in EBCDIC, and then posting the final text in pig-latin. That explanation is actually a bit oversimplified. No one ever really understood any of Dave's hints.
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"No one ever really understood any of Dave's hints."??? How can you say that??!?!! I understood every single one of them!!! (and so did Bill Murray!) 
-dave
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Last edited by dlavery : 12-12-2013 at 04:53 PM.
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