Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: saint on April 01, 2007, 10:48:05 am
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(Front page news discussion thread)
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Have a nice weekend Saint, Congrads on the sale. ;) ;)
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Sweet! Our plan worked! My cut, for keeping up about 30% of the forum activity going, hopefully will arrive within a week. Niiiice. :cheers:
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If it is not delayed April 1 joke, then all the best and we will miss you. If it is a joke :laugh2: :laugh2:
Remember today is April 1
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Bah! It's a joke. There's no money in this stuff.
:P
But if it's real, then can I pay to have access to Post Hell?
;D
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if its not a joke
congratulations - cant knock you for getting a reward for your work.
personally i cant see that itll work as a pay site, other net sites are sold for their potential in advertising due to the high user levels, is this site up there with the myspace usership.
what about the forums are we all just gonna have to go somewhere else, the thought of having to pay to get advice from 'friends' seems a bit wierd.
and premade devices being the way forward, that doesnt seem right ,why do all these people call it a hobby ,if theyd happily buy premade stuff, kneivel how bout you bet you cant wait to but some plastic panel much better than that rubbish you knock up ;)
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It better be a joke, I still haven't finished my cab yet, if not congratulations.
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Congratulation! :cheers:
Its always nice to get a big wad of cash. :applaud:
For some reason, today is a big news day, First Google's free broadband ISP( http://www.google.com/tisp/ ) and now this.
I wonder what other big news today will bring.
Anyway, Congrats again!
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Thats almost as funny as the Google TiSP.
http://www.google.com/tisp/
BTW it should and most likely be the other way around - You make enough money on book sales that you buy out Ultimarc, X Arcade etc.
That would sound more logical.
Nice try anyway. :laugh2:
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Ha!
sorry ark_ader! beat you by 34 sec's
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It’s a joke… but some of the stuff sounds pretty cool any chance of actually seeing some of those features in the near future.
P.S. happy fools day. :dizzy:
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I realized the date about halfway through the 2nd paragraph. What an amazing day to have such a life changing experience. Saint, congratulations. Now when people are pulling pranks on you in the years to come you can allways ignore their tomfoolery and remember that more importantly than being April 1st, it's the anniversary of your greatest day.
What a great time to be alive, I can't wait to see the changes. :cheers: I've been thinking there has been too much talk of building arcades on this site and not enough gaming. I also think that all the high quality and heavy components that we are currently using are totally overrated. Thank goodness some huge commercial company has the sense to change this site into what it should have been before, a site for Buying Your Own Arcade Controls (cheaply made of course) and playing arcade games on-line or on your iArcade. :applaud:
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Nah... Saint wouldn't do that... But if THIS is an April Fools joke, he did a very good job at it!!
Hey Saint! How much was that check for?
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Well done, saint. Well done.
*sigh* I'm not a negative person, but jeebus I hate this day. :timebomb:
... you had me going for a minute there. Though at least the change/shutdown wasn't due to disgruntled members of MAMEDEV "ending it." That would've really shocked and saddened me.
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I've been thinking there has been too much talk of building arcades on this site and not enough gaming. I also think that all the high quality and heavy components that we are currently using are totally overrated. Thank goodness some huge commercial company has the sense to change this site into what it should have been before, a site for Buying Your Own Arcade Controls (cheaply made of course) and playing arcade games on-line or on your iArcade. :applaud:
sorry cant resist,
you think that on a site called build your own arcade controls, theres too much talk about building arcade controls.
what were you hoping to find.
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:laugh2: :laugh2:
Nice
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....bastard! You got me! It took until I got to the cheap plastic cases to get me to wonder, then the ROMz in an I-Tune type interface solidified that fact that I had been...well... "HAD!"
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IT was painstakingly obvious when Saint used the very outdated "Kewl". ;D
Side note, this actually DID happen with another hobby forum I was a member at.
www.diyprojectorcompany.com
That really sucked, and did have me worried here...but only for a second.
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Nice one saint.
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I've been thinking there has been too much talk of building arcades on this site and not enough gaming. I also think that all the high quality and heavy components that we are currently using are totally overrated. Thank goodness some huge commercial company has the sense to change this site into what it should have been before, a site for Buying Your Own Arcade Controls (cheaply made of course) and playing arcade games on-line or on your iArcade. :applaud:
sorry cant resist,
you think that on a site called build your own arcade controls, theres too much talk about building arcade controls.
what were you hoping to find.
Yeah, I was just running with what Saint started. I do agree though if that had been a serious post it would have been pretty dumb. I guess my sarcasm didn't carry through very well.
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I am so gullible.
Kudos to saint. Got me good.
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:laugh2:
It had me going until about half way through. :)
Nicely done.
Randy
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Had me going too...then I remembered it was parents anniversary today (4-1).
I was sitting there cursing Saint...That bastard sucked me into this...and now he is leaving me high and dry! LOL!
You got me.
Xam
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heh nice one
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See? People do read the front page!
:applaud:
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Wow,
I must be getting really gullible in my old age.
I fell for the tron story yesterday.
Then my daughter hands me a detention notice for being truant from class.
The notice said she left school with her boyfriend.
While I am yelling at her she's just playing it off like it was no big deal.
Then after about ten minutes of this she just starts laughing her butt off and says "april fools".
She had gone to the office and asked them for a detention notice then had one of her teachers fill it out.
Then today this story....
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See? People do read the front page!
:applaud:
or just pretend to, by reading experimental links from the front page! :D
I would of totally fell for it 'cept I was warned before reading the front page. However I was still freaked out...'till I read the word plastic.
:cheers: Happy April Fools Day BYO'ers
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Nice April fools there man. I think posting the date (which you seldom do) kinda made it obvious, but that's just me.
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I bet Kevin the Media Mogul over at that rag Gameroom bought you out huh?......I KNEW that man was crazy......
(April Fools!) :dizzy: :cheers:
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The existing content of BYOAC will be available for purchase for those of you who still want to go it your own, but frankly the commercial stuff was destined to wipe out the build-your-own hobby for some time now anyway so I expect that piece of the site to get little attention.
:laugh2:
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See? People do read the front page!
There's a front page (http://img116.exs.cx/img116/934/z0tdntknw.gif) ?
;D
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I've been thinking there has been too much talk of building arcades on this site and not enough gaming. I also think that all the high quality and heavy components that we are currently using are totally overrated. Thank goodness some huge commercial company has the sense to change this site into what it should have been before, a site for Buying Your Own Arcade Controls (cheaply made of course) and playing arcade games on-line or on your iArcade. :applaud:
sorry cant resist,
you think that on a site called build your own arcade controls, theres too much talk about building arcade controls.
what were you hoping to find.
Yeah, I was just running with what Saint started. I do agree though if that had been a serious post it would have been pretty dumb. I guess my sarcasm didn't carry through very well.
curse you bf, :D
this means i fell for two then
and i thought us brits had the edge on sarcasm
i didnt catch that 'kewl' was a clue i just thought all americans had bad spelling.
see, sarcasm. ;)
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Had me for about 10 seconds... That would totally bite!
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OK, you've got me of course. It's a hoax. I did not sell out for a bunch of money . . .
It was a very small amount of money and a box of Twinkies.
--- saint
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OK, you've got me of course. It's a hoax. I did not sell out for a bunch of money . . .
It was a very small amount of money and a box of Twinkies.
--- saint
I would have offered a Spider Man action figure...