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lol

I know Fred is a funny bastard, but this is quite sadistic...

oh thank god!! i knew Fred wasn't crazy!! i was getting mad that id have to buy megashit now...

Planning thread now published: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2190

Enjoy! Comments on the planning thread and results posted in it after the act welcome here in this thread.

Great sense of humour.
Brilliant!

You appreciate what you had if you face to loose it ...

This was a good one!
Didn't fool me, but sure gave me a good laugh
A well thought out and implemented april fools joke!

I will admit to having some afterthoughts about it though, like "could this actually be real?"

I just had to log back in to fb because of this. Bruce sent them a takedown notice for the page, and this was the process I had to follow after entering my password:











I sent him an email saying "just ask". No sense of humour... or perhaps MegaSquirt4 is about to become a real thing?

Fred.

I agree that the page was funny, and well done. The problem is, you can't be President for Life of the "Mega$quirt $uck$!!" club, constantly heap scorn and derision on their code, their schematics, and their business practices - and then expect them to laugh at a cheeky bit of satire.

I wasn't really expecting them to laugh, however displaying some common courtesy and manners is a good start. If you have a problem, go to the source, don't go to a third party as a first step. That's just childish and sad. If you can't get a resolution from the source, sure, leverage available tools. I'd forgotten about the page, and considered it rotting with about 3 likes on it. If he'd just said drop it, I would have immediately done so.