April 17, 2003

Badger Challenge Winner

We are pleased to announce that Miro Jurisic has won the Badger Challenge, by being the first contestant to send in a solution. Miro apparently has nothing better to do than surf PvT all day, since he sent us the answer less than 1 hour after the challenge was posted.

Here is Miro’s solution:

“pvt -> l337.com -> top link to cafepress -> “shipping” -> “go shopping” tab -> “software” category -> search for “goodgirl” -> go to goodgirlco in search results -> ”!!! It’s ary baby! Art!!!” -> Search -> type “descriptive scientific paper regarding bagers” in the yahoo search and submit

For me , hit #10 is such a paper, YMMV.”

Other contestants may have come up with shorter solutions, but they did not come up with any cunning translocations of hedgehogs, and therefore they LOSE, and do not get the amazing LUCKY PRIZE.

In other news, PT Bruiser has been updated by the author to version 3.1415. This new release includes several of our suggestions, including window transparency changes, metal appearance, and the occasional grunt. Regrettably, the grunting is not continuous, but I suppose we all have our limitations.

Given that PT Bruiser has come out on the losing end of the Badger Challenge, but has also implemented some exciting new bits of worthlessosity, we will leave their score at our original 9.2.

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FP! All your...

...whoa! Sorry, major flashback there!

Posted by: Norman R Andrews on April 17, 2003 01:46 PM

Well my solution did not beta Miro's in terms of time (It's the trackback 1 hour and 18 minutes after the article was posted), but you all did not restrict the challenge to a single winner, but to "anyone who figures out how."

Mine uses the unlocking mechanism, as detailed in the post.

Call it losing if you want, but I think I followed all the rules.

What did Miro win?

Posted by: Michael on April 17, 2003 01:56 PM

Editing the package contents to give yourself an unlock link still works in 3.1415

Posted by: Michael on April 17, 2003 02:06 PM

The LUCKY PRIZE.

Posted by: Jan on April 17, 2003 02:07 PM

I've heard the LUCKY PRIZE is amazing, of course.

Posted by: Michael on April 17, 2003 02:19 PM

Unfortunately, we accept a stipulative theory of language, wherein our single prize is only offered to a single individual. Hence, it is first-come, first-served.

Additionally, by modifying the package, Michael has not stayed "entirely within the PT Bruiser environment", and is therefore a BIG CHEATER.

Posted by: ladd on April 17, 2003 02:37 PM

The lucky prize is also TOP SECRET, so I can't comment on what it is exactly. But I will say that it's very difficult to fill an order for two dozen alligators at this time of year.

Posted by: ladd on April 17, 2003 02:41 PM

Ladd, speaking in his Cheshire Cat persona, said:
we accept a stipulative theory of language, wherein our single prize is only offered to a single individual. Hence, it is first-come, first-served.

Additionally, by modifying the package, Michael has not stayed ?entirely within the PT Bruiser environment?, and is therefore a BIG CHEATER.
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I'm a BIG CHEATER: Woot! recognition! Would I be cheating more or less or just differeently if I added perversiontracker.com to my hosts file with an IP of 127.0.0.1?

I think that Mike Coffeey expects us to cheat since the about toolbar button index.html instructs the reader to create a link if they can't find one. This may be further evidence of the quality of the software.

Posted by: Michael on April 17, 2003 02:55 PM

Of *course* there is only one prize. Look who else concurs:

Worf: "One Riker, one bridge, one prize!"

The Highlander: "There can be only one."

Porky: "Th-th-that's all folks!"

Posted by: Double Worsted on April 17, 2003 02:57 PM

According to the Official Secret Contest Rules, which you can't see, because they are secret, you would only be able to make such a modification to the hosts file if you did it with PT Bruiser in some way.

We do of course allow you to make use of operating system services, but only as accessed by PT Bruiser in its pristine state. I know you're thinking it, but debuggers are also right out.

Admitted, the solution is reasonably clever, but then again, MOST CHEATING IS. cheater.

Posted by: Ladd on April 17, 2003 03:04 PM

Michael:
Shhhh!!! Don't talk about the unlock page, please! Some people want to remain in the magical kingdom of doubt and self-deprecation built upon the foundations of malice and tourment...
Myself, I would have been better off staying in that place instead of asking the Finder to "Afficher le contenu du progiciel"...
BTW, the reason I put it as an URL earlier wasn't meant to generate the link. Not that it would have changed anything. We all know it was pre-arranged. Either with the WWF (the one with Hulk Hogan, not the one with pandas), the ABC (Australian Badger Council), or the BGW (Badgers Gone Wild)...

Posted by: Lex on April 17, 2003 03:12 PM

Ladies and gentlemen of the press. It is with heavy heart that I address you today in front of Australia's Big Scrotum and Badgeratorium on Queensland's magnificent, sunny Gold Coast.

Today, at approximately 6.12 a.m. in the morning, Big Bob the Badger passed away.

His passing was either entirely unrelated to the meal of beef stroganoff, custard trifle and red wine that was inadvertently fed to him at the end of last night's annual general meeting of the Australian Badger Council, or not.

At the completion of last nights ABC AGM, ladies and gentlemen, given the obviously tragic nature of events, and out of respect for Big Bob's family in the Cottswolds, back at his home in the UK ...

Yes, thank you, Kerry. Please don't interrupt, but yes, the family has been notified.

As I was saying, out of deep respect for Big Bob the Badger, it was decided at last night's AGM to dissolve the ABC and invest it's funds on Table 7 of the Gold Coast Casino, where they, too, finally passed away at approximately 8.23 a.m. this morning.

The Big Scrotum and ... Yes, yes Kerry, I'm getting to that. Yes, the Big Scrotum and Badgeratorium will be closed for a week for renovations, and its new purpose and identity will be revealed at the end of that time.

Let's just say, Kerry, that we couldn't think of a better venue for a combined sperm bank and masturbatorium than the Big Scrotum, but I would like to ask you not to speculate any further. We will make an announcement in a week.

So if there are no further ... Yes. Yes, Kerry, you persistently mindless twerp. Who let you in, anyway? Well, to answer your question, yes. I am still a little under the weather, thank you very much, but that isn't vomit down the front of my shirt at all.

Yes, Kerry, it does smell like vomit, but I'm sure the sour cream in that stroganoff was off ... Yes, Kerry, I did have one or two red wines last night, yes, I did.

No, no. I didn't scrape my plate into the badger's feeding dish when I staggered out to chuck up, Kerry. No ...

Look, I'm afraid your attitude isn't very helpful at a sad time like this, mate. Security! Security, remove this man at once. And make him give back my hat ... Well, it bloody looks like my hat, you short-arsed little ...

Posted by: aussie boy on April 17, 2003 03:49 PM

Lex:
It's in the about page, but if you want, I won't talk about the unlock page, although I really want to spread the word. I want to be the only BIG CLEVER CHEATER and deprive others of the opportunity to CHEAT CLEVERLY. Everyone else can follow the L337.com link and play a modified version of Andy Ihnatko's Web That Smut! (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6271/inter005.html)

For me, the game is different. It is an excercise in Black Box Testing to determine the Official Secret Contest Rules by seeing how many of them I can break. I have a few more ideas. First I have to find out how many Secret Official Rules there are so I can tell when I've finished breaking them all...

"Magical Kingdom of Doubt and Self Deprecation"? Hmm. I've been self-deprecating all year. I wonder if I can write off my lowered sense of self-worth on my taxes?

Posted by: Michael on April 17, 2003 06:23 PM

So, now they are using badgers to infiltrate our secret resistance network! Well, Hansel ...

Hansel, put your teeth back in and do up that trouser button. You would have been shot for such slovenliness in the old days. Hansel, can you hear me? Asleep at your post! That's the second time since 1941 ...

Posted by: The Dutch Resistance on April 17, 2003 11:38 PM

How sad that PerVersion Tracker has now capitulated to the Bruiser. I hung out with some Hollywood types up here in Seattle this evening, even tried some of their cocaine (rated 9.3 on the PVT scale), without sleeping with any of their insecure bi-curious males. Would that that could be an inspiration to you-all.

Posted by: Neil Hayden on April 18, 2003 06:13 AM

I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT YA THINK OF THE SITE?

Posted by: on May 1, 2003 01:35 AM

I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT YA THINK OF THE SITE?

Posted by: on May 1, 2003 01:36 AM
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