Bombadil
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WOW!

I got this with my first click of the day.


...and this on the second...

Znirk
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Watcher wrote:
This one's pretty neat.

Shouldn't that be "smitten"?

Bombadil
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Znirk wrote:

Watcher wrote:
This one's pretty neat.

Shouldn't that be "smitten"?

It's true!!!

I didn't know the past of smite was smote...

stigant
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Actually, you're both wrong. You must remember that the denizens of the Eighth speak not English, but Simpuhl English. They are similar, but subtly different. In SE, the present passive form of any verb is formed by adding 'ed' at the end. Its simpuhler that way. So the present passive tense of smite, in SE, is smited.

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So, I guess they've had it wrong again...

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Pinnacle
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Smote or smitten?
Past tense is 'smote'.
Past participle is 'smitten'.
Used in a sentence:

I smote the roach.
OR
I have smitten the roach.

The proper text of that dialog box is:
Every time you click this bar, a roach is smitten.

So yes, it should be smitten, but it's not always smitten.
English is a strange language.

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That's better... ^^

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Swivel
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Pinnacle wrote:
Smote or smitten?
Past tense is 'smote'.
Past participle is 'smitten'.
Used in a sentence:

I smote the roach.
OR
I have smitten the roach.

The proper text of that dialog box is:
Every time you click this bar, a roach is smitten.

So yes, it should be smitten, but it's not always smitten.
English is a strange language.

Hurray! Someone cares about grammatical correctness! Pineapple Pinnace, you have struck hope in my heart. Or should that be "stricken"? Well, the dictionary says that either is acceptable.

Grammatically, the passive form is being in the sentence in question (Every time you click this bar, a roach is ...), and the situation is complicated. Let's tranfer the sentence to the active form:

Every time you click the bar, (someone or something) smites the roach.

The English Zone wrote:
SIMPLE PRESENT and SIMPLE PAST
The active object becomes the passive subject.
am/is/are + past participle
was/were + past participle

The past participle form is usually used for passive verbs. The dictionary (Merriam-Webster), as well as other sources I've looked at, says that you can do either "smote" or "smitten". So I advocate CaravelNet's movement towards grammatical ambiguity (and therefore a movement towards grammatical correctness.)

However, smote is also the past tense of "to smite", thus creating a bit of confusion. Another example of this is "to bring" (I brought, I had brought).

About "a roach is smited": I'm ashamed.

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StuartK
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'I will smitzor the roach'

'The roach was smitzorred'

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I like this one:

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Jeff_Ray...
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Just to tell you, after i clicked the bar, it showered my screen with DROD monsters! There's a huge goblin, queen-riding goblins, eyes, wubbas on my icons, and a tar mother on the incomplete part of the bar! This isn't fixable, and i guess unintended. It only happens if you're autist, young, that your username is Jeff_ray... and that you have tons of uncompleted projects, but Agaricus5 breaks the flowing river of craziness.


Indeed, my computer is french... jo it's maybe another reason the the herd to come and play there.


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one begins to wonder how much time is being put into keeping bar clickers entertained rather than working on TCB.

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What people says about my thing? Indeed, it all started with the tar baby appearing. I heard a fart. Then, a seep appears and the tar baby come out of the screen. Then, a roach jumped out, then a bar hole uncorked, causing a shower of monsters. Then, what was in the pic appeared.

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mrimer
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stigant wrote:
one begins to wonder how much time is being put into keeping bar clickers entertained rather than working on TCB.

No potentially productive time at all, my friend.

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49% not done!

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coppro
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With no particular reason at all:

51%

Doing the math, based on the time between 50% and 51%, TCB should be finished at approximately Local Time:07-14-2006 at 03:00 AM, if the percents are in fact 1/100th of the full time. However, we are in the computer world, so when that happens, I'll eat my sock.

Come on. Be done by now. If you aren't then I will be very very angry that Caravel lied to me. If not, then I will be very very happy that they were ahead of schedule.

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Yellow_Mage
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I've been clicking, poking, and stroking (heheh) the bar like something rotten, getting a good couple of hundred under my belt. I was addicted this time. Maybe because of the new messages, and it looked like it was fun so I kept on clicking.

I was whispering "you're bad", in it's ear, but it didn't whisper back at me. "You've been getting more clicks from other people!!! We have to break up this relationship!!!". So I'm done with her (for at least 24 hours). I was wondering why she was so secretive, why wasn't she giving me goodness...



350? Not that geezer with the hat again...

Since you have to be registered to gently tap the bar, I wonder if all individual taps are counted. Also I would like that the word "click" and such variants are refrained from use and should be changed to taps or prods, for clicking sounds too violent, and I have never clicked the bar too hard, regardless of who tar baby that was (wasn't mine...).

coppro wrote:
Doing the math, based on the time between 50% and 51%, TCB should be finished at approximately 03:00, if the percents are in fact 1/100th of the full time. However, we are in the computer world, so when that happens, I'll eat my sock.

This message will be revealed in 31 weeks, 1 day.

I would love you to eat sock.

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coppro wrote:
Doing the math, based on the time between 50% and 51%, TCB should be finished at approximately Local Time:07-14-2006 at 03:00 AM, if the percents are in fact 1/100th of the full time.

The percentage points roughly correspond to 1/100th of the work that goes into making the game. Some parts might get done more quickly than others. For instance, Point 51 is added thanks to team members having built several new rooms. The next percentage point might take more or less time than this one did. Also, Erik's initial Adams Number threw the accuracy off a bit, but I'm going to work from that point anyway.

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I feel so lucky!


edit:
I just realized this!!! After I got my seep, I looked at my profile. There is a new tab there! It is labeled "bar goodies". When I clicked on it it said: "You have collected the following Bar Goodies:", and had a picture of a seep underneath.

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RoboBob3000
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I'm sorry you guys, but I totally fail to see what is so interesting about bark licking.

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/me feels left out. It don't be work in Konqueror!

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++++++++++++
 52% 
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Just clicked the bar about 250 times and got my first pot of +13/+4 points!

All of the normal messages seem to be about as common. And apparently that seep thing is a rare.

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Huzzah! I got click #15000!


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Andy101
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Wow!!! A negotiator, just what I always wanted!



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Chaco
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About the 350 thing: The more important thing to notice is that there are down red gates, as in they'll go up when all the trapdoors are dropped.

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RoboBob3000
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About the 350 thing: What's the 350 thing?

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Chaco
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That would be the image in this post. You can also get to the post by clicking the colon in DROD: TCB.

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Huh?





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RoboBob3000
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Chaco wrote:
About the 350 thing: The more important thing to notice is that there are down red gates, as in they'll go up when all the trapdoors are dropped.

Perhaps they're open yellow doors right after an orb that would close them had been clicked.

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Swivel
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I seem to have a penchant for bar-related literature.

POLITICAL AD:

Every time you click the bar...
The bar is poked.
A line of code is added.
A roach is smitten and/or smote.
An hour goes by.

The bar started on about Nov 6th, 2004, or about 32 days ago, according to sources who have wished to remain anonymous. About 29 days ago, the click counter started.

Currently, there are about 15646 clicks. This implies a whopping 540 clicks per day, or 23 clicks per hour (using sig figs). There are 1/23 hours per click. The interval between clicks is about 2.6 minutes (1/23 hours).

If that's so, then how can an hour go by in 2.6 minutes?

It also should be noted that 15646 hours is about 650 days. However, this is about 22.4 times more than the sole 29 days that have passed.

I seems as though the DROD team is flawfully inconsistent -- that is, a gaffe occurs when they get things right.

Vote for Tetris... they are credible enough to be consistent.

This message has been sponsored by (name undisclosed).

Blasphemy! Blasphemy!