Well, not as happy as v1 being out but ...
For the one that don't remember/were not on the forum at the time, beginning of Aug 2015 I proposed a crazy bet on GPB v1 release date: I said that I was ready to take bets 5 to 1 about GPB v1 not being released before. More explicitly, I was ready to put 10E on the table and lose them if GPB v1 was released before 1 Jan 2016, but win 50E if not. The bet was essentially a joke, as the odds were just insane; I was pretty sure nobody would take. But then, that's without factoring in the effects of alcohol on UK residents: matty0l215 took the bet. So I sent him 10E at the time.
As miracles happen, but only rarely, matty0l215 lost the bet.
The happy ending is *not* that I won the 50E of course: stealing candies from (not so sober) baby is not funny :)
The happy ending is that matty and I agreed to donate the money of the bet to a charity (http://worldcancerresearch.org/ (http://worldcancerresearch.org/)). Matty actually went the extra mile, donating 50GPB (which is substantially more than 50E).
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If we had done this on a larger scale for all the past GPB betas, cancer would probably be history by now :)
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LOL ;D
well done Boys, a great result for everyone :)
"You gotta love dem crazy bikers"
PS: time to make a new bet then?
Very nice guys! 8)
Here's my bet : if PiBoSo release his "Irish Road Racing Simulator" in 2016, I'll donate 15€ to Riders For Health (http://www.riders.org/), which represents two weeks of gas for a medic in Africa :)
Nice to hear that! My faith in humanity has been restored........ Well done Max and Matty! ;D 8)
Roll on GPB V1.0 for Christmas 2016(Let us pray!).... No I'm not intoxicated, and I'm not going to place any bets on that date either! LOL! :P ;D
Hawk.
Good destination for your'e won bet Max, which you already won ofc when you started it ;)
Good job
Quote from: RiccoChicco on January 02, 2016, 02:15:13 PM
Here's my bet : if PiBoSo release his "Irish Road Racing Simulator" in 2016, I'll donate 15€ to Riders For Health (http://www.riders.org/), which represents two weeks of gas for a medic in Africa :)
I like it !! Blends well with GPB. We should think about organizing something along these lines:
- 1 milestone (*), 1 target date: donation promises centralized somehow.
Should we do this for GPB v1 (which is supposed to happen before the road racing project) ?
Of course the promises should be in the form "If target date is met, I'll donate X, else I'll donate Y", with X > Y ... a little extra incentive for our beloved dev team :)
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(*) Pun intended
Quote from: PeterV on January 02, 2016, 03:50:08 PM
Good destination for your'e won bet Max, which you already won ofc when you started it ;)
Indeed. By today's standards, the money was safer than if it was in a bank :)
Happy to add excitement to the forum :D
I might even be willing to go again :P