April Foolishness 2008 Catch-All
Monday, March 31st, 2008 - 9:26pm
Usually you're not supposed to believe what you read on the internet, but April Fool's Day takes that mantra to the extreme. Sometimes it's juvenile, sometimes it's funny, but most of the time it's a bit aggravating. Sometimes, though, there are a few gems, such as the whole Pandaren thing with WarCraft. Post such gems here. I'll start with the makeover that the Wookiepedia got. Good luck trying to translate all that.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
LOTRO is getting in on the action. I got a kick out of this:
http://www.lotro.com/article/521
Starcraft 2's website had a expose on the new "Tauren Marine" but it's been taken down for now
McChuck wrote:
Pirate Bay is moving to Egypt.
"This is way, way more bad boy than you're gonna be able to handle." - Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me.
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My home on the web
Try watching the featured videos at http://uk.youtube.com/
Some comic switch around:
http://www.questionablecontent.net => Dinosaur Comics
http://www.qwantz.com => XKCD
http://xkcd.com => Questionable Content
Computers don't make errors. What they do, they do on purpose. By now your name and particulars have been fed into every laptop, desktop, mainframe and supermarket scanner that collectively make up the global information conspiracy.
-- Dale Gribble
Lego Halo in the April EGM.
That's all I've seen that hasn't sucked.
Hopefully, Still Alive from Portal as free DLC for Rock Band isn't an April Fool's joke, or I'll be very sad forever.
XBL Gamertag: Effin Bear | PSN Name: Effin Bear | Steam ID: MechaSlinky | Wii Console Code: 5185 2886 9649 1657
Woot is having a fake wootoff. Selling the same item over and over and over...
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Quintin_Stone wrote:
Achieve360Points.com is available in a pinkish/purple skin. And only a pinkish/purple skin.
ThinkGeek is selling Super Pii Pii Brothers.
XBox Live Gamertag: SaintFaucet
German websites keep the retardation coming - just like every year - Microsoft to buy Sony (LOLROFLCOPTER etc. pp.) or Gears of War 2 being released on PS3, too (LOLERCOASTER!1) - have they not read The Gilbert?
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. YTMND IS DEAD.
OMG WTF?! ROFLCOPTER DOWN!! SEND LOLERFORCEMENTS!!
Also:
Destructoid is now Foxtoid News. And yes, I would pay to watch the O'RLY Factor.
XBL / Art / Blog / Buy me!
Pioneers to the first Martian colony, sponsored by Google and Virgin. Any takers?
"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is kind of stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
I'm highly anticipating what my brother's been surely planning. He gets my mom every year, even though she tries to prepare herself.
He's such an evil bastard.
"I'm absolutely retarded. Not 100% sure why." - atom
"Dhelor + intarwebs = Great ideas." - wordsmythe
"Do I what I do: hate everyone." - Quintin_Stone
Blizzard have outdone themselves. Cleverly, they had an obvious joke, the bard hero class and one that I was personally very very very slightly taken in by until I got to the page, The Molten Core console game which would have been totally awesome as a concept.
It will do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
- AE Houseman, trailblazing XBL user
XBox Live
Xfire is 1337.
Xbox Live gamertag Druidpeak
I got rick rolled by Think Geek. I think I'm gonna go home now.
Baba Ganoush1
GameFAQs is rick rolling too, but as far as I can see that's all they are doing. They used to pepper their site will little pop-ups.
Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...
Google will let you apply to join the first permanent human colony on Mars, and Gmail will now let you send emails to the past using an e-flux capacitor.
Gmail is now letting you backdate your emails with the new Custom Time feature.
Bah, need that feature for the forums. I need to move this post back 3 minutes.
That Molten Core page is excellent. Gotta love the concept art vs. screenshots.
The free Space Hulk remake guys, Teardown (http://www.teardown.se/), made an announcement that they had gotten the okay from THQ to return to work after their initial C&D letter. Sounded plausible and certainly the kind of thing I wouldn't post as a joke if I was actually wrestling with the issue. Rock Paper Shotgun were not amused, having reported it.
I hate April Fool's. This morning I wondered for a moment whether our foreign minister had actually been fired over suggestive SMS text messages sent to an erotic dancer or not. (He had:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7323940.stm)
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"This is way, way more bad boy than you're gonna be able to handle." - Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me.
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My home on the web
I assume everyone has seen the BBC flying penguins? It's extremely well done.
It will do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
- AE Houseman, trailblazing XBL user
XBox Live
The Legend of Zelda
Coming to Theaters, April 1, 2009
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The Google Wake-Up Kit:
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html
Pretty lame for a bunch of smart people.
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Totally!
Fedaykin98 wrote:
That is made of pure win.
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xkcd sends you to Questionable Content.
And the LOTRO gag also appears on the launcher window.
kuddles wrote:
I laughed pretty hard at these.
Needz moar cowbell
Go cry, emo human
Good job, Blizz.
XBL: kilanash / PSN: kilanash / Steam Community
And Questionable Content sends you to Dinosaur Comics, which sends you to XKCD. I was so very confused this morning when my tabs weren't in the regular reading order, took me a moment to figure it all out.
I didn't notice that XKCD had replaced Dinosaur Comics. I read them both and didn't notice the order. However, when I got to my XKCD tab and saw a comic I don't read, that's when I realized the old switcheroo.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
The Dwarf Fortress Wiki has a cute attempt.
Rat Boy on Newlywed Ackbar wrote: