Topic: April Fools wankery (Read 5324 times)

Metal Slime · « **on:** April 01, 2008, 06:49:05 AM »

It happens every year. The internet has a race to see who can pull off the biggest April Fools joke online.
Here's the best I've seen so far: http://movies.ign.com/dor/articles/863515/legend-of-zelda-movie-trailer/videos/legendofzelda_filmtrailer_040108.html
I expect most of it to die after a day so I want to see the best of it before it does.

Brentai · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2008, 07:46:22 AM »

Oh, thanks for reminding me that it is today.

ADDENDUM: Pizza Hut changing its name to Pasta Hut. Even my spam mail thinks it's funny.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2008, 09:08:51 AM »

ThinkGeek has a surprisingly, and depressingly, believable one.

Al Baron · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2008, 09:28:23 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxw91PSTRq8

Kazz · « **Reply #4 on:** April 01, 2008, 11:25:00 AM »

[spoiler]Why do the Gears sound like cows?[/spoiler]

And, probably old, but click on any given "Featured" link on Youtube's front page.

Also, Blizzard comes out with no less than 4 quality jokes.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #5 on:** April 01, 2008, 11:58:12 AM »

The thing I hate most about some of these April Fool's stuff is that sometimes the joke stuff looks far more interesting and fun than the stuff that's real.

What I'm trying to say is that I wish the Bard class was real.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2008, 12:33:13 PM »

You know they'd just use bots to hit every note perfectly.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2008, 01:10:19 PM »

This one actually had me going for the first few panels.

Norondor · « **Reply #8 on:** April 01, 2008, 01:21:11 PM »

Quote from: Kazz on April 01, 2008, 11:25:00 AM

[spoiler]Why do the Gears sound like cows?[/spoiler]

You'll note that they sound like that in SSBB as well.

Thad · « **Reply #9 on:** April 01, 2008, 01:57:59 PM »

Ouch.

Al Baron · « **Reply #10 on:** April 01, 2008, 02:36:27 PM »

So, how do you want your Rick-Roll today, Blocktards?

With some Russian Standard? I hear it's a content nazi's favorite.
Maybe mixed with a bit of Lua?
David Sirlin's serving up some with his competitive card game.
Of course, there's always Rick-Roll Classic.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #11 on:** April 01, 2008, 02:43:57 PM »

Google's got quite a god damned lot of these things.

Also: Minus.

Edit: re: Google: Oh wow, I missed like half of them.

Al Baron · « **Reply #12 on:** April 01, 2008, 02:54:34 PM »

Quote from: Bongo Bill on April 01, 2008, 02:43:57 PM

Virgle.

Funny enough, I fully expect Google to get in on this whole 'space thing' eventually.

Also, an especially unfair You Don't Know Jack episode.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #13 on:** April 01, 2008, 03:35:56 PM »

if Google devoted as much time to finishing their stuff as they do to april fools jokes, they wouldn't have half as much beta shit.

Thad · « **Reply #14 on:** April 01, 2008, 04:02:51 PM »

Because Google uses "beta" the same way the rest of the industry does.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #15 on:** April 01, 2008, 05:57:04 PM »

No, their meaning of 'beta' is more like 'we didn't really finish the interface for this but we got tired of programming so uh you guys can have it'

Mongrel · « **Reply #16 on:** April 01, 2008, 07:10:39 PM »

Yeah, the Virgle thing was all over work.

Too bad most of the employees couldn't see it since thier internet access is locked out.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #17 on:** April 01, 2008, 08:50:35 PM »

XKCD's threw me off at first. If only because Questionable Content used to be in my bookmarks.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #18 on:** April 01, 2008, 08:57:37 PM »

This thing.

Thad · « **Reply #19 on:** April 01, 2008, 09:08:08 PM »

...Oh right, THAT'S why Mom sent me a virus alert.

I hate this fucking day.

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