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"A mercy, Double Fine's on top" 17 Apr, 2005, 15:38 / 20 comments

By Webmonkey


Diligent readers in the Mojo forums have decoded what is probably a clue on Double Fine Action News about the pant-crappingly cool announcement coming Tuesday. Posted on the Double Fine news page late Friday:
Now, here is another clue about the exciting ANNOUNCEMENT that I will be making soon:

Foist celery upon abdomen!
The Mojo forumites assumed it was probably an anagram and went to work. Some potential decodings tossed around include:
Doublefine try some on a PC
Doublefine stop on my acre
A mercy, Doublefine's on top
Yet more Doublefine on PCs
Doublefine art pony comes
Post Doublefine car money
Doublefine: No ESP. Cry moat.
But finally, stumbled upon by readers TyraaRayne and ThorsonWelles, comes the answer most people are leaning towards for the exciting pant-crap announcement set to hit Double Fine's website on Tuesday:
"Double Fine company store."
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20 Comments

  • greenpix on 19 Apr, 2005, 19:53…
    here we go:
  • Jake on 19 Apr, 2005, 19:53…
    Sorry, Double Fine has asked that we censor all url's to the announcement until it's formally announced. :)
  • deadworm222 on 19 Apr, 2005, 19:38…
    Double Fine has apparently sent emails to people kindly asking them to take off the link to the online store for now... http://forums.idlethumbs.net/showthread.php?t=2360
  • Rapp Scallion on 19 Apr, 2005, 06:02…
    Hey, what about putting some Psychonauts pants in the store? I need some new since I've crapped all my old...
  • greenpix on 18 Apr, 2005, 13:03…
    lets guess...what this is all about:
    http://www.doublefine.w1.com/shop/

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    www.greenpix.de
  • greenpix on 18 Apr, 2005, 17:24…
    argh...they took it down. well...believe-there was a shop website, with the categories being: psychonauts, art, toys and something like shirts. It was all there. Pretty rough and incomplete. Just the startscreen an links for my basket and everything. Looked like there was quite a bit of work to do.

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    www.greenpix.de
  • Jake on 18 Apr, 2005, 23:04…
    Or that URL has just been there far longer than we've known about it and it's very out of date.
  • Metallus on 18 Apr, 2005, 18:21…
    I can confirm its existence :P Nice find.
  • tabacco on 18 Apr, 2005, 16:55…
    Heh... they changed the URL :)
  • ThunderPeel2001 on 18 Apr, 2005, 08:36…
    Nicely deduced!!!
  • wufire on 18 Apr, 2005, 01:17…
    Once a doublefine spry tom,
    A fine crumbled yet on oops,
    A scumbled on ye fine troop.

    Double a frenetic moon spy...
  • jp-30 on 17 Apr, 2005, 19:43…
    This is like that book, the Da Vinci code. Only good.
  • whale on 17 Apr, 2005, 18:26…
    Notice the new jobs DoubleFine are advertising at the moment as well - Senior Producer, Network Game Programmer, and Senior Technical Artist. Very high end jobs for a project that's nearing completion don't you think...

    I wonder in all this Psychonauts commotion, what else DoubleFine is planning?
  • itchythesamurai on 17 Apr, 2005, 18:23…
    Yay, now I'll feel good about being a consumer whore again! I hope they have a buncha random crap stuff for sale too.
  • Thrik on 17 Apr, 2005, 16:33…
    Razputin action figures for all!
  • Remi O on 17 Apr, 2005, 16:26…
    "TyraaRane" - you were close though. ;
  • TyraaRane on 17 Apr, 2005, 16:39…
    Note to self: pick a username that's easier to spell next time. ;)
  • Jake on 17 Apr, 2005, 16:29…
    Nice of you to point it out in a comment instead of, you know, just correcting the post. ? ?
  • Remi O on 17 Apr, 2005, 17:34…
    Well, I was wondering if I missed some grand joke seeing that you obviously copied and pasted everything else from her forum post. ?
  • counting_pine on 17 Apr, 2005, 18:49…
    Er, could you take out the "yet more doublefine on pcs" one, it's not quite an anagram.