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Geek Culture / April Fools Day

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 02:59 Edited at: 1st Apr 2013 03:03
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It's the time of year again. The internet usually comes up with some interesting attempts. Don't think Google or YouTube have theirs up yet.

Not sure if I'm going to attempt any myself, I'm not a good practical joker, the best I was able to pull off was convincing people I was converting to Scientology.

Anyway, I loaded up Guild Wars 2 and thought this was a nice touch. The game title music was 8 bit and then when I went to open a chest I found a load of 8-bit monkeys jumped out.



Anybody tried (or seen) anything interesting this year?

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Found the above is an event running from April 1st.

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 03:19
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https://blog.soundcloud.com/2013/04/01/dropometer/

Soundcloud put this up on their blog, pretty sure it's an April Fools joke! At least, I hope so...

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Thraxas
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 06:33
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I quite liked youtube's April fool video.

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Fluffy Rabbit
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 07:10
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@Thraxas-

Remember last year? It's the same joke.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 07:16
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What the hell is this?

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 07:19
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Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4JwPb99qU

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Wolf
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Its 07:14...knocked on my mothers door and told her I'd be a daddy soon. I never had her up and awake this fast

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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 08:40
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Remember last year? It's the same joke."


I don't even remember last week

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Ah, ordered my copy of that new Youtube thing. Shall get here in 2045!

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Jimpo
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Super Adventure Box Commercial:


I haven't got a chance to play it yet, but it looks awesome!

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Google nose!

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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 11:53
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I haven't got a chance to play it yet, but it looks awesome!"


Yeah, I need to figure out where I need to go to play it. I only bought GW2 the other day so I am getting used to it. Still I've been collecting baubles from the 8-bit monsters, I'm sure they've got to be useful for something.

Quote: "Google nose!"


Awesome.

Quote: "Its 07:14...knocked on my mothers door and told her I'd be a daddy soon. I never had her up and awake this fast"


Did she throttle you when you told her the date? Or are you still playing the joke?

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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 13:19
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https://www.razerzone.com/naga-phone-update

Razer did that, I actually thought it was real Silly me.

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Quote: "I need to figure out where I need to go to play it"

You need to go to Rata Sum. If you go back to your starting city and go through the purple Asura gate, that will take you to Lions Arch. From there you can take another Asura gate to Rata Sum and the Super Adventure Box will be right in front of you (if you can see it through the crowd of people standing around it).

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Currently everything on the ThinkGeek homepage is an april fools joke.

I wish some of that stuff was real though.

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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 16:08
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DeviantHeart is a funny one, as a user of the site.

That and the page itself is pretty cute. :3
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mr Handy
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 16:41 Edited at: 1st Apr 2013 16:42
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p.s. salt-cellar gift

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ShellfishGames
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 19:20 Edited at: 1st Apr 2013 19:25
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Even though it's pretty obvious, I thought what Wolfire did is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZK_O1M8PQY

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 19:46
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Quote: "You need to go to Rata Sum. If you go back to your starting city and go through the purple Asura gate, that will take you to Lions Arch. From there you can take another Asura gate to Rata Sum and the Super Adventure Box will be right in front of you (if you can see it through the crowd of people standing around it)."


Cheers.

I decided to record a video of this April fools malarkey.




Video's a bit dark, but YouTube is currently applying extra brightness to the video, so it should be normal soon.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 20:12
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At first, I thought slashdot's joke was legit. I was like wtf man! Then it hit me. Although, it's getting kind of annoying having to translate everything.

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