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2023-04-15 01:41 dustin  
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thanks  Arno  for your fantastic homepage, without which i wouldn't probably be playing bd anymore today! :)  
  
color symbolism:  
red: bravery, strength, valor, hardiness  
white: peace, honesty  
blue: vigilance, truth, loyalty, perseverance, justice  
  
or (if the flag is seen as a symbol of society):  
red: the people  
white: the church  
blue: the nobility  
  
"je maintiendrai" (i will maintain, dutch: "ik zal handhaven") is the official motto of the country, and it can be found in the dutch coat of arms. one might wonder why a dutch motto is written in french language - this is because it originally belonged to a french princedom and made its way to the netherlands via several inheritances.  
  
 Arno , i think this is a perfect motto because your homepage does so much to maintain the world's best retro game! :d

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2023-04-15 01:42 dustin  
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and of course ^ will always maintain his searching for \\\! :d

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2023-04-15 17:06 Arno  
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Thanks  dustin ! :-D  
  
As additional info:  
It is claimed (but not generally agreed by historians) that the Dutch flag, or actually, its predecessor "The Prince's Flag" (orange-white-blue) is the world's oldest tricolor flag and inspired many others, as depicted in the following family tree of national flags:  
<a href="https://preview.redd.it/mpja7tknvw981.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=d60ade4701b2eedfe8aefe40952d3d9ab8666ef8" target="external">https://preview.redd.it/mpja7tknvw981.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=d60ade4701b2eedfe8aefe40952d3d9ab8666ef8</a>  
  
(Yet again, this seems a rather popular view to me, and probably is historically not fully accurate... :-)  
  
One tiny correction: the word 'werelt' in the title (which means 'world') should be spelled (at least in current Dutch spelling) as 'wereld'. ;-)

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2023-04-16 01:33 dustin  
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 Arno , thanks for the correction, it was actually a simple oversight. i loohad the word "world" translated by different sources, and all translated it "wereld" but somehow i still wrote "werelt". i was probably distracted by the german word "welt" in my head. luckily there were no solutions yet, so no problem to correct the title :d  
  
very interesting historical extra info! :d

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2023-04-16 02:12 dustin  
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for everyone - additional info  
  
one more fact related to the motto: the aforementioned french princedom called itself "orange", and that's still the national color today (although it's no longer a part of the flag). for example, football fans will probably know that the dutch national team calls itself "oranje", so now you know the origin of this! :d  
btw, the french city "orange" still exists today!

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2023-04-17 09:05 Arno  
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This is actually a well-timed topic, since "king's day" is nearby: the 27th of April to be precise. This is our yearly national celebration day when all the dutch are wearing orange clothes.  
  
The origin of this national color is indeed the princedom of Orange. This princedom was inherited by the army chief and ancestor of our current royal family, Willem van Nassau, who was named "willem van oranje" (which is translated as "william of orange") afterwards.   
In fact, today our royal family still carries the name "van oranje", which is probably also a reason why the color is still popular. :-)

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2023-04-17 13:07 nesdori  
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interesting info! :)  
  
btw  dustin , is it intentional decision to set bonus \ value to zero? it's possible to get at least 2 bonus \; it would be nice to get 3 for each stripe and color of the flag but i don't see a way to get more. it there will be one more Η it would be possible to get 9\ from it. so if the base requirement for it is 8 like for the rest, it would then be possible to get 3 bonus \ :)

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2023-04-17 22:40 dustin  
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 Arno : VERY INTERESTING!  i had read about willem van nassau during my research, but i missed the fact that the royal family still carries the name! :d  
  
 nesdori : oh! :d i had built the cave without the motto at first, where definitely no bonus \\\ were possible, so i set the value to zero. later, i did some research and found that it would be a nice thing to add the motto, but i absolutely didn't take the possibility into account that this would give possible bonus \\\! now that i read your comment, of course i know what you mean :d   
  
but now i don't want to delete  Arno 's demo. how about cloning and re-uploading the cave with more \\\ required? would you have fun recording a demo? :d

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2023-04-17 23:27 dustin  
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ok, i could also have seen the idea by watching  Arno 's run; here the last Η could also have given 9\\\ :d

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2023-04-18 12:40 Arno  
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a run with bonus\ would be nice indeed! :-D   
i actually expected the exit would be below the slime, although the method of "digging into the slime" in my run is also a way to deal with the limited space to smash bflies.