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April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:07 am

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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:13 am

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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:14 am

My favorite so far is Google Nose.
 
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:26 am

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/9369235/Situation_Report_--_April_1_2013-3_31_2013

Blizzard had a pretty nice post about bringing the Warhound back to SC2.

EDIT: oh wow...they actually replaced all the worker models in SC2 with the Warhound XD
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:28 am

I remember when I bought an actual PC game that included aroma technology. Can Google show any tangible progress in the 27 years since?
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:50 am

ThinkGeek has really outdone themselves this year. :lol:
 
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:54 am

Flying Fox wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4JwPb99qU

Nice jab at Microsoft.


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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:24 am

Interesting email from Razer I had today.
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:02 am

Yeah, I thought that was a pretty solid attempt.
 
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:48 am

superjawes wrote:
EDIT: oh wow...they actually replaced all the worker models in SC2 with the Warhound XD

And it's a little confusing because if you're playing a "random" race opponent and they scout you first, you still don't know what they are. :lol:
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:23 am

Last year's, but still my favorite :)
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:37 pm

The joke will be on ThinkGeek when the Eye of Sauron Desk Lamp becomes so highly demanded that they have to release it.
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:42 pm

ludi wrote:
The joke will be on ThinkGeek when the Eye of Sauron Desk Lamp becomes so highly demanded that they have to release it.

I really really really want the Batman family stickers.

If that doesn't become a reality, though, I might just find a regular Batman one and two tombstones...I just thought about that and it makes me happy :D
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:13 pm

Today's xkcd is essentially an incitement to Wikipedia vandalism. The content of the first panel is influenced by the content of a Wikipedia article (the targeted article changes periodically, and is mentioned in the mouseover text of the first panel). I'm guessing that there are a lot of Wikipedia editors pissed off at xkcd today...
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:42 pm

Did you see the bottom panel? $20k+ raised to placate the editors so far... Genius. :D
 
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:44 pm

ludi wrote:
The joke will be on ThinkGeek when the Eye of Sauron Desk Lamp becomes so highly demanded that they have to release it.

You just described the origin of the Tauntaun sleeping bag.
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:48 pm

...and the 8-bit tie, and the iCade... ThinkGeek turned their April Fools jokes into a intentional means to gauge interest in new products awhile ago. It's really great. The best part about their most recent spoofs is how plausible they are.
 
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 2:02 pm

http://hbowatch.com/peter-dinklage-april-season-four/

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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 2:13 pm

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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 2:55 pm

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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:03 pm

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http://scopemouthwash.com/bacon/?utm_source=scopebacon&utm_medium=bacon&utm_campaign=bacon%2Bmouthwash


The funny part about this one is that some of those bacon products (bacon shaving cream) are real.
 
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:56 pm

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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:41 pm

bthylafh wrote:
http://fediafedia.com/

Awesome -- now I can prank my Dad with his iPad. :D
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:43 pm

bthylafh wrote:
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Re: April Fools links

Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:21 pm

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Http 404 error. Even had I clicked that link this morning, that's just nasty. Not funny for Valve to tease like that.

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Re: April Fools links

Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:37 am

Fixed HL Ep 3 Link. It's still there, and it's still cruel.
 
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Re: April Fools links

Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:19 pm

Sargent Duck wrote:
Not funny for Valve to tease like that.

That's good, because it wasn't Valve who did it. :P
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