"Assimilate. Assimilate. Assimilate."

Tofu Man · Post by **Tofu Man** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:48 am

[ Community -> Article ] - News related to <a href="http://www.duckandcover.cx/archives.php ... y=135">Top Story: Duck and Cover's 10th Anniversary</a>

And thus, Duckandcover.cx was born. Founding father Killzig (not the original Dacker**, that honor befell <a href="../../forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2">Soulfish</a>) dixit, ten (!) years ago today, on the very first DaC** thread, hopelessly out-armstronging Neil Armstrong.
<img title="Some occurrence of no real importance." src="http://www.rocketcityspacepioneers.com/ ... strong.jpg" alt="Some random insignificant event." width="513" height="389" />
Wish you'd thought of that, eh, twat?
 
The <a href="../../forums/viewtopic.php?t=3&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0">thread in question</a>, a 422-page behemoth with posts spanning 6 years, started with a question:
<blockquote>
 Have you signed this yet?

<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/fo2src/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/fo2src/pe ... a>
</blockquote>
-dub Killzig, inciting stone-age dackers to join the quest for free Fallout 2 source code. Well, have you? 10 years later, 2003 (!) people have, making it the most remarkable evidence of how online petitions work.
So stick around, pallies, DaC** is 10 and we have cake*. And forever remember the immortal words of wisdom of our own Killzigathustra:
 
ASSIMILATE. ASSIMILATE. ASSIMILATE.
 
 
<img title="Dac's new logo" src="http://www.brainlesstales.com/images/20 ... -cover.jpg" alt="Dac's new logo" width="497" height="406" />
I'm moving to have this be our new logo.
*no we don't 
 
**Update: According to new info hot from the frontlines, I am the actual twat Duck and Cover's REAL birthday is January 3, 1998, so he/she/it is actually 14 and a bit. Today's date merely marks the move to our current .CX address and the start of these here forums. Don't worry though, this still calls for celebration. Also, apologies to the 2 middle-aged chinese women-spambots who read the piece before the edit for any confusion.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:27 pm

It's ten years since we broke away from Gamespy. Interplay bitched them out when Killzig revealed Black Isle's development of "Fallout Fantasy" which turned out to be Lionheart.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:44 pm

Congratumalations DAC! We're still much cooler than NMA.

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:52 pm

VasikkA wrote:Congratumalations DAC! We're still much cooler than NMA.

Yeah, I've nevar quite understood the allure of enema.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:56 pm

It cleans your butt.

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:48 am

Just like my hot sauce.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:11 am

Only the DACkiest can stand proof against a hot sauce enema.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:00 am

We're officially older than the mental age of the average fallout 3 fan. I'm proud.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:02 am

Hard to believe it's been almost 4 years since Bethesda fucked us in the ass.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:09 am

And yet, the HIV hasn't even progressed to full blown AIDs.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:01 am

Fallout 4 will be made mostly of concentrated super AIDS. One teaspoon of super AIDS in your butt and you're dead within a year.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:49 am

10 years ago DAC moved to duckandcover.net, don't remember when we switched to .cx (it was because someone forgot to pay the bills IIRC)

The founder of Duck and Cover was someone called Jay. I believe Kreegle ran/owned DAC when it moved from GameSpy to duckandcover.net?

SoulFish was just some server tech dude I think

edit: found this http://www.falloutwiki.com/Duck_and_Cover

People in charge of Duck and Cover
JimmyJay86 (the summer of '04)

Tofu Man · Post by **Tofu Man** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:29 pm

Gimp Mask wrote: edit: found this http://www.falloutwiki.com/Duck_and_Cover

That'd be cool to have on DaC permanently, even if some of it seems shaky. For instance, Koc told me 3rd of Jan, not 13th; or about Kreegle being the boss in 03 when when this forum went up the boss apparent was Killzig.

Edit- Also, who the hell is editing the page? I could have sworn that

Killzig had an incredibly stupid idea of giving admin powers to Megatron and Spazmo

was originally "a Kubric sort of idea" or something. Maybe I was high when I woke up, fuck knows.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:57 pm

Gimpmask is right. We moved to .cx when the site went dark for like a summer and then Darkunderlord took over or something. We refer to the time as the Dark Summer.

JimmyJay86 didn't really do much during the summer we were out besides I think just get the forums up but not the whole site. He blamed it on not having the passwords required. Saint Proverbius came in and brought DU then Teatime to take over.

That wiki that gimpmask posted actually seems fairly accurate. I guess Ausir wrote it?

This is all cool how we have our 10th anniversary (even if it's not) around the same time that Wasteland 2 got funded.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:17 pm

Tofu Man wrote:or about Kreegle being the boss in 03 when when this forum went up the boss apparent was Killzig.

Killzig was definitely an admin back then already and taking care of a lot of Dack stuff, but I'm pretty sure Kreegle owned the domain, paid for the hosting etc. It's been ages though so I could be wrong

Edit- Also, who the hell is editing the page?

I changed it to say Kubrick today, it seems someone changed it back already

Post by **King of Creation** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:16 pm

I think when Teatime and I took over, we were still at thevats.net. Then it was decided by someone to get the .cx domain in memory of the goatse escapade. I think that was late 2003, maybe 2004?

Post by **Retlaw83** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:00 pm

I was around for the transition and made duckse in memoriam. It was a collage of all the pictures from the post your pictures thread made into a goatse.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:19 am

That wiki article forgets to mention our glorious victory in DU's war of terror.

Post by **King of Creation** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:42 am

The war of terror resulted in some bad shit though, like the fact we still don't have a techie

Anyone want to volunteer for the job?

Pizzahut Lover · Post by **Pizzahut Lover** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:54 am

King of Creation wrote:The war of terror resulted in some bad shit though, like the fact we still don't have a techie Anyone want to volunteer for the job?

me.