Poll: How Do You Feel About April 1st Internet Tomfoolery?
By maryvarn on April 2nd, 2010Posted In: NPC Blog,Polls,Random Geekiness,World of Warcraft
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Whether it was forum puzzles or a new Matchmaking Service, a Battle.net Neural Interface costing $14,999, the new Equipment Potency Equivalent Number, or the new armory characters, Blizzard kept at least some of us entertained yesterday. And they weren’t the only ones. The Google logo was….different, Amazing Super Powers replaced their home page with audio renditions of their comics (screen-capped here since I knew it wouldn’t last, but the comedy gold is in those audio files), and Think Geek had their store stocked with fake but very inspired goodies. Felicia Day even got in on the action by announcing a new animation deal: Lil’ Guildies. WoW.com went all out for the day, announcing that their corporate overlords, AOL, was pushing them in a new direction. Every two hours in fact. They started the day as Mass Effect Insider (I missed that one!), then quickly underwent the following changes: Twilight Insider, Gaga Insider, Muscle March Insider, Farmville Insider, Plants vs Zombies Insider, and finally, Saturn Six Insider, the news site dedicated to bringing you the latest from Blizzard’s new MMO. I screen capped them so I could enshrine the hilarious photoshop work on the logos and and links, but you can still check out the individual posts on the site. Twilight Insider was my favorite, and included an announcement about the new Twilight graphic novel.
But alas, if Twitter is any indication, yesterday’s shenanigans were not for everyone. So I ask you dear readers, what did you think?
I’m liking this one too:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/races/two-headed-ogre.shtml
it’s awesome.
people ought to know by now not to look at internets on April first if they aren’t into this stuff.
one more thing to mention: Tauntaun sleeping bags.
I enjoy the gags when they are well done. Blizzard always does great stuff, as does Think Geek. I would totally buy the monolith action figure.
I enjoy the online pranks, but not the real life ones. My own MMO released cookies that you feed to your shop ingame and make it grow to huge sizes, with no limit…complete with photoshopped images of shops towering over cities. Meanwhile, someone in real life convinced me he got his girlfriend pregnant at 17, lol.
I don’t mind web site pranks. I dislike it when people pull shenanigans in their journals or weblogs about their personal lives, like announcing they’re pregnant or whatever and then saying it was only a joke. That is just mean and unnecessary.
Basically I like the good-spirited, harmless stuff.
The worst thing about it was the lack of any really good ones, the one I most enjoyed was just a RickRoll. That’s kind of sad isn’t it?
I like the well-done jokes like Blizzard’s Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number and El’s news item about aquariums in Cataclysm. I don’t feel compelled to complain about the jokes I don’t like, however.
Oh, and I was hoping YouTube would keep the Text mode.
Internet is the only place where I find April Fools jokes remotely funny. Usually. And that generally comes from having such a high degree of absurdity that there’s pretty much no question that it’s an april fools thing. It’s the constant back-watching, second-guessing, and paranoia that makes april fools’ day my least favorite day of the year.
Blizzard usually does good stuff.
I love all of the nerdy pranks that get pulled on April Fools. There were some funny ones this year like BUNGIE’s announcement of Halo Chess. Great stuff.
I saw one about Goodnight Moon being added to Biblical canon. That was epic. One of my friends posted a link on facebook that appeared to be a newspaper article about how she accidentally caused a security alert at an airport. When you clicked the link, it sent you to a site that said “April Fool” in big letters.