Seeing fake headlines just pisses me off tbh
Yes, I love it!
Spoiler
April fools! It sucks, actually.
I like when people take it as an invitation to do something silly and high effort.
I dislike it when it’s just “haha I said a lie to you! April Fools!”
It’s been a good April Fools for me so far. Lots of the former, not much of the latter.
At some point the word prank became synonymous with lie and the day lost what little humor it had
It was more fun before the internet. The local news would make up a silly local story and cause it’s done by pros it came off more official. I like gags, jokes and tricks and think a day to celebrate them is cool and goof but the execution does leave a lot to be desired.
I normally do but just “fakenews comm but on every comm” is pretty lazy tbh
no, the internet ruined it cause theres already so many fake headlines
I enjoyed most of the [adult swim] April Fools bits but I don’t even know if they still do that
What other programming block would ever dub a bunch of fart noises over an episode of Ghost in the Shell?
I think we should rework April Fools as a day where we all get to dress up like clowns. that would be fun. no mean-spirited pranks or gotchas, just a day where everyone gets to be the silliest version of themselves
that’s every day
I like the idea of it (fun goofs) more than the reality of it (lazy lies)
I certainly do not. It’s my least favorite after Christmas, because Christmas lasts for like 3 months. Ugh.
Christmas is a cancer
I think the internet is entirely unusable outside of like shopping for the entire day.
As others have said, its an expected event where 500 corporations post their version of “we’re doing X, haha jk!” and games make fake patch notes that make light of people’s legitimate criticisms.
I’d have to experience some bizarre shit like Michael Douglas in The Game for any of this to be anything more than obnoxious.
I think the internet is entirely unusable … the entire day.
Critical support tho
It’s mildly annoying at best.
It’s crossed over into more annoying than fun, but I’ve gotten some enjoyment out of it occasionally in the past. Not this year really
Used to be that i hung my head at the trough of video game and videogame accessories news. The fake announcements that would come out used to be pretty funny to me back in the day.
I usually just end up falling for dumb stuff though so no
Anyone remember Electronic Gaming Monthly’s April Fools joke of Akuma in Resident Evil 2? Shit got me back as a kid.
This was before I subscribed to EGM, so I hadn’t seen it before:
Goddamn, six A rank knife-and-handgun-only runs sounds brutal as hell. I usually replay the RE games a ton but I take full advantage of NG+.
Also, I got curious and was looking up other game magazine April Fool’s pranks and realized that I had gotten pranked by EGM without even realizing it! 23 years ago I heard a playground rumor that you could unlock Sonic and Tails in Melee if you could defeat 20x enemies in Cruel Melee. I spent many an afternoon trying (and failing) to do so–don’t remember my high score (and sadly, a friend “borrowed” my memory card with all my Gamecube saves many years ago and never gave it back…) but I wanna say it was like 13? Turns out the origin was this EGM feature in the April 2002 issue:
Gotta say, they did a damn good job with those fake screenshots (very cheeky making the unlock date April 1st) and mixing it in with a bunch of legit tips. Supposedly it spread so far that Nintendo Power directly debunked the rumor, although I flipped through scans of the April through August 2002 issues and didn’t see anything of the sort. Did get a little misty-eyed looking back through those old issues, though…wish I had hung onto a few.
I did find a podcast where they interview the guy and (among other things) ask the author, Chris Johnston, about the rumor (segment starts at 34:38). Ngl, it wasn’t super enlightening, so it’s not a must-listen (at least for that segment–haven’t listened to the rest of the podcast), but it was still nice to hear about it from the man himself.
