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April Fool’s Damage
Funniest: City of Heroes wins, hands down, but I’m old-school and biased.
Almost Most Disturbing: World of Warcraft forums translates each and every post into Blizzard’s vision of roleplaying.
Not A Joke But Should Be: If you live in Austin, hope you switched off of Time Warner! (UVerse worked well for us after the first few days’ jitters.)
Most Disturbing: after a hailstorm damaged my front windshield, someone thought it’d be funny to knock out an entirely unrelated window of my car three days later. Thanks, humanity.
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about 1 year ago
I’m keeping a list of the MMO comedy:
http://www.examiner.com/x-5353-MMORPG-Examiner~y2009m4d1-April-Fools-Roundup
about 1 year ago
Then don’t forget the Archivist class for D3: http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml
about 1 year ago
Hmm, I stumbled across this one in my travels today. *cough*
http://outsider.mdyindustries.com
about 1 year ago
CoH is funny, but I prefer Starcraft’s salute to Voltron, being a fan of the show. That link about TW irks me, since I live in Rochester.
about 1 year ago
Thanks for that link to CoH Golden Age! I was laughing out loud remembering diku days.
about 1 year ago
Hah, the CoH one is fantastic.
about 1 year ago
I read all the interfaces on COH that was funny. Wonder how those people survived.
Mercury’s outsider is great too! Highly suggested.
about 1 year ago
I love the way you can see the player’s fury gradually building up.
about 1 year ago
Ahh that brings back memories.
Love the items on the floor… “a drugs, a drugs and a drugs”.
Genius.
about 1 year ago
Lum needs to post more heavily on general game news items on future April Fools Day, so we fellow grouches have a place to take shelter.
about 1 year ago
City of Heroes makes me happy.
about 1 year ago
I know this is an april fools deal, but what other charges are applied for setting up U-Verse besides the monthly fee. I noticed something about “conditioning the phone line” mentioned at their website.
I’ve hated April Fool’s Day ever since I found out I couldn’t play as the Connery Bond in GoldenEye.
about 1 year ago
Sorry to hear about the window. Humans, an awesome species really, make me wonder how the roaches would do if we’d just nuke ourselves and give them a chance.
about 1 year ago
Man Lum you and schild have more in common than you think. The hail totalled his car and TW totalled his internet. Happy Spring!
I think the Blizzard post transformation prank was awesome. Particularly since their game has motorcycles. How do you RP in a fantasy game with motorcycles…
about 1 year ago
The setting for WoW has long had tanks and airplanes. Riflemen and mortar squads. The motorcycles aren’t that out of place.
Not every fantasy world has to have a medieval tech level.
about 1 year ago
If there were magic, and magic items in the world, I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t use magic to power gadgets like you’d use any other power source.
about 1 year ago
@squirrel
WoW is very steampunk in many places (anything dealing with gnomes, goblins or titans for instance). The motorcycles I’ve seen in game seem steampunk’ish to me.
about 1 year ago
Its enough to make you wish to be eaten by a grue just to make it stop.
about 1 year ago
My brother got fired from his job yesterday for some bullshit, made-up charge.
He wasn’t notified of his status until two hours after being told everyone in his section got a raise.
No fucking joke.
about 1 year ago
@Freakazoid
So which one is the april’s fools?
about 1 year ago
@Freakazoid
Either the charge wasn’t made up, and your brother deserved it…or they were looking for a reason to fire him anyways because they were ticked off about something else he had been doing wrong. In which case he may have deserved it, but we’ll never know for sure.
about 1 year ago
Interesting how many Internet douchebags have remarkable psychic powers to know your brother’s situation well enough to render judgment, eh Freakazoid? “Well, the way I see it, your brother either deserved it, or he deserved it.” Because, you know, the economy’s fine, capitalism is a kind and fair taskmaster for us all, and you’re a commie pinko to think otherwise.
Anywho, April Fools was fun. I rather liked EverQuest’s class names.
about 1 year ago
@geldonyetich
YOUR PANTIES, UNTWIST THEM. Nah kidding, yeah that guy was a douche, I’m still wondering though, which part is the april’s fools?
about 1 year ago
I would totally play the CoH MUD.
Although, I totally agree that the TWC thing is amazingly retarded to new heights. When I first read that, I had hoped it was a joke… but knew it wasn’t. I’m currently in Austin as well, with TWC, so… Heck, I can use up a month worth of Bandwidth a day just using Hulu and Netflix. Sadly UVerse isn’t in my area of the city yet.
about 1 year ago
@geldonyetich
Ranger = Corpse
God that still hits so close to home it has to be funny even all these years later
about 1 year ago
@Raad
Neither is the april fools. They both really happened.
about 1 year ago
@Freakazoid
Wow, that sucks =/