[King Tutankhamun]

Has anyone fallen for any April Fools jokes yet? Done any good ones on people today?

I found some here at PCWorld:

http://blogs.pcworld...ves/000597.html

The USB Fundue Cooker is interesting.




Nobody has played a joke on me today though today. Too bad we weren't in school then we could fake a seizure.

[Bakayaro]

A friend who got her wisdom teeth removed about 3 days ago pulled a joke on me.

She said she got the wrong teeth pulled... and she'd have to go see the dentist again...

It was still a good laugh, regardless on which side of the joke I was on.

[Quacker]

Dang, no one tried to fool me, so nothing "woo!" exciting happened. We did play a trick on my co-worker saying that her cash drawer was $45 short though.

[SoggyFrog]

My clan's administrator moved the site to "http://april. ... "
It said on the original site that he hadn't paid in 90 days. I wasn't sure if it was an April Fool's joke, I didn't find it funny, and I didn't think to view source

[King Tutankhamun]

I was looking on a fan page fro STALKER game and it said that it might be banned for sale in the US. They really had me going there for a second and was wondering why. Then I found a thread with other people saying the same thing, so it all made sence.

[Sam]

Today at work ( a grocery store), one of the kids got on the loudspeaker and said that the store will be closing in 15 minutes, and didnt say april fools. It was soo awesome, since there were no bad managers working, so they didnt care...all teh customers left, and I didnt have to do any work for the rest of the night :-D

[Lorian]

Lol! Brilliant!

[ZeZar]

I havent fallen for anything ... i was really prowd

I managed to REALLY trick a guy, but its only funny if you were there

[Argalius]

I fell for the april fools joke on AoE3H :{ And I almost fell in another one, yesterday I had a party and they said to take swimming stuff with us, I almost did it.

[Lorian]

Then you get there and discover that they were being serious

[goldenratiophi]

Anyone on Slashdot yesterday? It was flooded with april fools jokes. That was funny.

Also:
http://www.dhmo.org
Anyone else get it?

[av_nefardec]

my chem teacher in high school loved to show people that.

[akya]

Didnt fell for it ^^ but that's what was shown on the allakhazam forum...

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I received this press release last night. I figured I would just post it here in it's entirety and let you digest it.

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SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT, SQUARE-ENIX AND BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE CROSS-OVER GAMING DEAL

- In an unprecedented merger of gaming assets, online gamers will be able to take their existing characters into new and exciting adventures in other gaming worlds.

SAN DIEGO, CA - March 31, 2005 - Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), Square-Enix (S-E) and Blizzard Entertainment (Blizzard), the worldwide leaders in Massive Online gaming, have announced a joint venture where players of any of their games, including the enormously successful World of Warcraft, the granddaddy of online gaming Everquest, S-E's hugely successful online version of the Final Fantasy franchise, and the popular titles Everquest 2 and Star Wars Galaxies, can take their existing characters and move seamlessly into new gaming worlds. Through new technology developed jointly by all three companies, your character will be converted over to the rule set and graphical look of each new game as you transfer back and forth, opening up literally tens of thousands of new gaming possibilities for every player. Players of all these games will suddenly be confronted with not just new zones to play in, but entire new universes.

"We have been looking for ways to add more end game content to World of Warcraft, and this just seemed a natural fit" said Mike Morhaime, President of Blizzard Entertainment. "This gives our players instant access to a range and depth of content that would otherwise take us years to develop through our current schedule. Now you can simply pick up and walk into another universe and open up an entire set of new and unique content"

"The enormous success of World of Warcraft proves that there is a large market for online gaming" said John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment. "We decided that the best way to tap this market is to combine all of our assets into what is in effect one massive, massive-multiplayer game. By opening up more content and variety like this, our player base can only benefit and thrive."

The details of the agreement will be released in more details later. The current timeline calls for the merger to be completed by May 16th, in time for a complete demonstration at the Electronic Entertainment Expo held annually in Los Angeles. The companies have put together a transition team lead by venerable programmer Raph Koster of SOE that will finalize the details of the changes that will be needed in each game to make the transitions from game to game smooth and consistent. "Some things are going to have to change in each game to make this work" said Mr. Koster. "Expect each class in each game to get altered somewhat to allow them to fit into the new rule sets. We are excited about the possibilities of how this can improve the gaming structure of all our franchises."

Each company plans on releasing more detailed statements on their respective websites over the next few weeks explaining to the players the impact of this agreement on their specific games.

About Blizzard Entertainment

Best known for their series Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo®, Blizzard Entertainment (www.blizzard.com, a division of Vivendi Universal Games) is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating many of the industry's most critically acclaimed games. The company's free Internet gaming service Battle.net® provides a forum in which owners of Blizzard's games can play in a multiplayer mode remotely across the Internet and against other gamers from around the world.

About Sony Online Entertainment

Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Digital Inc., is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, with a subscriber base of over 800,000 active accounts around the globe. SOE creates, develops and provides compelling entertainment for the personal computer, online, game console and wireless markets. Known for its blockbuster franchises, EverQuest®, EverQuest II, Champions of Norrath and PlanetSide®, as well as for developing Star Wars Galaxies™: An Empire Divided™, SOE continues to redefine the business of online gaming and the creation of active player communities while introducing new genres on various entertainment platforms. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, with an additional development studio in Austin, TX, SOE has an array of cutting-edge online games in development.

About Square Enix Co., Ltd. and Square Enix, Inc.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Square Enix Co., Ltd. (Square Enix) develops, publishes and distributes entertainment content including interactive entertainment software and publications in Japan, North America, Europe and Asia. Square Enix brings two of Japan’s best-selling franchises – FINAL FANTASY®, which has sold over 60 million units worldwide, and DRAGON QUEST™, which has sold over 35 million units worldwide—under one roof. Square Enix is one of the most influential providers of digital entertainment content in the world and continues to push the boundaries of creativity and innovation.

[Fire Giant]

At my school, I enabled a joke application that displayed random fake error messages on all running clients at random intervals ... pretty funny thing, and some people (mainly teachers, though ) fell for it, and I even got a message along the lines of "There is a virus in the network!"... most smarter people got it, though, at latest when the a fake message told them that water was pouring from their floppy drive or something like that

[King Tutankhamun]

Haha, that's a funny one to play.

I had this one program that revs up your harddrive and says deleting windows, but it displays real file names that you have on your computer.

[Lorian]

King Tutankhamun, on Apr 9 2005, 04:06 PM, said:

I had this one program that revs up your harddrive and says deleting windows, but it displays real file names that you have on your computer.

Wicked! I want it! Lol