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#1 GORDO

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 10:07 AM

Long story short. Was reading this: http://www.cracked.c...o-games_p2.html about hidden easter eggs in videogames. The last bit is about pissed off programmers hiding text messages in the code, and ended up here: http://home.comcast....reak/Tetris.txt which includes the following bit:

*** F003 ***
Now that the show is over and we have jointly excersized our
constitutional rights we would like to leave you with one very
important thought. Sometime in the future you may have the
opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so
called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same
people would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be
back next jury to complain about a book or even a T.V. program.
If you could be told what you can see or read then it follows that
you can be told what to say or think. Defend your
constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for
you. Thank you.
*** F003 ***



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Posted 29 March 2012 - 10:11 AM

Nevermind.

Edited by Gocab, 29 March 2012 - 10:13 AM.


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Posted 29 March 2012 - 10:25 AM

Long story short. Was reading this: http://www.cracked.c...o-games_p2.html about hidden easter eggs in videogames. The last bit is about pissed off programmers hiding text messages in the code, and ended up here: http://home.comcast....reak/Tetris.txt which includes the following bit:

*** F003 *** Now that the show is over and we have jointly excersized our constitutional rights we would like to leave you with one very important thought. Sometime in the future you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next jury to complain about a book or even a T.V. program. If you could be told what you can see or read then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you. *** F003 ***


So the programmers of Comcast's TV version of Tetris are BoC fans. Cool.

Just to be clear, the original speech (which can be heard on BoC Maxima, unaltered - at least the 'Boards of Canada' bit) was originally taken from an adult video VHS cassette (probably a Rodox video production). BoC added in the music.

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 02:09 PM

Long story short. Was reading this: http://www.cracked.c...o-games_p2.html about hidden easter eggs in videogames. The last bit is about pissed off programmers hiding text messages in the code, and ended up here: http://home.comcast....reak/Tetris.txt which includes the following bit:

*** F003 *** Now that the show is over and we have jointly excersized our constitutional rights we would like to leave you with one very important thought. Sometime in the future you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next jury to complain about a book or even a T.V. program. If you could be told what you can see or read then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you. *** F003 ***


So the programmers of Comcast's TV version of Tetris are BoC fans. Cool.

Just to be clear, the original speech (which can be heard on BoC Maxima, unaltered - at least the 'Boards of Canada' bit) was originally taken from an adult video VHS cassette (probably a Rodox video production). BoC added in the music.


It was the N64's "New Tetris" or whatever, made by H2O, which is/was in Vancouver, CA.

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 10:47 PM

Just to be clear, the original speech (which can be heard on BoC Maxima, unaltered - at least the 'Boards of Canada' bit) was originally taken from an adult video VHS cassette (probably a Rodox video production). BoC added in the music.




Funny how the music in the background to the speech is Abercrombie's Timeless, which BoC are supposed to have sampled on Everything You Do Is A Balloon.

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Posted 29 March 2012 - 10:58 PM


Long story short. Was reading this: http://www.cracked.c...o-games_p2.html about hidden easter eggs in videogames. The last bit is about pissed off programmers hiding text messages in the code, and ended up here: http://home.comcast....reak/Tetris.txt which includes the following bit:

*** F003 *** Now that the show is over and we have jointly excersized our constitutional rights we would like to leave you with one very important thought. Sometime in the future you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next jury to complain about a book or even a T.V. program. If you could be told what you can see or read then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you. *** F003 ***


So the programmers of Comcast's TV version of Tetris are BoC fans. Cool.

Just to be clear, the original speech (which can be heard on BoC Maxima, unaltered - at least the 'Boards of Canada' bit) was originally taken from an adult video VHS cassette (probably a Rodox video production). BoC added in the music.


It was the N64's "New Tetris" or whatever, made by H2O, which is/was in Vancouver, CA.

I think you mean Vancouver, BC. Or Vancouver, WA.

Vancouver is NOT in California.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 06:42 PM



Long story short. Was reading this: http://www.cracked.c...o-games_p2.html about hidden easter eggs in videogames. The last bit is about pissed off programmers hiding text messages in the code, and ended up here: http://home.comcast....reak/Tetris.txt which includes the following bit:

*** F003 *** Now that the show is over and we have jointly excersized our constitutional rights we would like to leave you with one very important thought. Sometime in the future you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next jury to complain about a book or even a T.V. program. If you could be told what you can see or read then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you. *** F003 ***


So the programmers of Comcast's TV version of Tetris are BoC fans. Cool.

Just to be clear, the original speech (which can be heard on BoC Maxima, unaltered - at least the 'Boards of Canada' bit) was originally taken from an adult video VHS cassette (probably a Rodox video production). BoC added in the music.


It was the N64's "New Tetris" or whatever, made by H2O, which is/was in Vancouver, CA.

I think you mean Vancouver, BC. Or Vancouver, WA.

Vancouver is NOT in California.


CA can also mean Canada.

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Posted 01 April 2012 - 07:56 PM




Long story short. Was reading this: http://www.cracked.c...o-games_p2.html about hidden easter eggs in videogames. The last bit is about pissed off programmers hiding text messages in the code, and ended up here: http://home.comcast....reak/Tetris.txt which includes the following bit:

*** F003 *** Now that the show is over and we have jointly excersized our constitutional rights we would like to leave you with one very important thought. Sometime in the future you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next jury to complain about a book or even a T.V. program. If you could be told what you can see or read then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you. *** F003 ***


So the programmers of Comcast's TV version of Tetris are BoC fans. Cool.

Just to be clear, the original speech (which can be heard on BoC Maxima, unaltered - at least the 'Boards of Canada' bit) was originally taken from an adult video VHS cassette (probably a Rodox video production). BoC added in the music.


It was the N64's "New Tetris" or whatever, made by H2O, which is/was in Vancouver, CA.

I think you mean Vancouver, BC. Or Vancouver, WA.

Vancouver is NOT in California.


CA can also mean Canada.


lol news to this Canadian.

#9 Xyrofen

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Posted 01 April 2012 - 11:30 PM

"CA" is used in sports events to denote Canada on scoreboards and there also exists the ".ca" suffix to Canadian domains.

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 01:50 AM

Nice find!

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 11:29 AM

"CA" is used in sports events to denote Canada on scoreboards and there also exists the ".ca" suffix to Canadian domains.


Nice find!

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Posted 04 April 2012 - 11:15 PM

Read that article and that rant as well. It was pretty entertaining.

And Joyrex, the guy states "Boards of Canada" in the rant. He doesn't quote the BOC Maxima version. So he was, indeed, referring to the BOC boys.

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Posted 06 April 2012 - 07:34 AM

And Joyrex, the guy states "Boards of Canada" in the rant. He doesn't quote the BOC Maxima version. So he was, indeed, referring to the BOC boys Music Has The Right To Children version

Semantifix'd !

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Posted 10 April 2012 - 04:08 PM

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Edit: Wut?

Edited by Murveman, 10 April 2012 - 04:10 PM.


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Posted 10 April 2012 - 04:13 PM

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Edit: Wut?


He was making it even more specific that the one in the video game code was the MHTRTC version (that says "Boards of Canada" instead of "pornographic film") and not the BoC Maxima version.

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 07:23 AM


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Edit: Wut?


He was making it even more specific that the one in the video game code was the MHTRTC version (that says "Boards of Canada" instead of "pornographic film") and not the BoC Maxima version.

That's what I had thought, but I did state that it wasn't the BOC Maxima quote.

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