April 1st, 2011

[Ryex]

ya, you were fine stripe.

[stripe103]

Oh..  thanks.. I guess.

[AliveDrive]

I thought the flaming in recent posts was very real. Up until around last night actually. So you fooled me there

Also, I hope this means that april will be a much less turbulent month than march was.

EDIT: I saw Blizzard with yellow stars (It's like seeing him naked without his red stars )

[stripe103]

But please, for the next time, don't make it this legit. At least have something in it that is not obvious but still not hard to understand if things like these are real or not.

[The Niche]

Nam, in case you didn't notice, I said on several occasions that it was a joke gone too far. I knew all along that it was a joke, it was the rulefagging that pissed me off. I shouted out about april fool's on several occasions, but then I decided that if I played it seriously, I could get some new members at Laptops and Tea.

I am very deeply sorry, however, that I ruined the joke. I can accept that it was largely my fault and I sincerely wish that I could have played along and had a bit more fun than I actually did.

Which, incidentally was quite a lot. Swearing at Nam is quite entertaining.

[tSwitch]

Unfortunately you really can't justify your actions that way.

oh and just for the record, pranks that fool everyone into thinking that they are legit are the best pranks, as pranks are designed to fool people.

[The Niche]

Unfortunately you really can't justify your actions that way.

oh and just for the record, pranks that fool everyone into thinking that they are legit are the best pranks, as pranks are designed to fool people.

I'm not justifying, Nam. I am apologising. So I shall say it again, just to be clear. I am very deeply sorry that I ruined the joke. PHM is also quite sorry, though he's a little bit pissed off about you guys getting angry at us. He's also playing truant and leaving until Sub is unbanned.

[tSwitch]

Sub likely won't be unbanned as he was being disruptive for quite some time just for the sake of attention-whoring.  Posting porn was waaaaaay over the line and as such is not forgivable in these instances.

I'd accept your apology except for the fact that you can't seem to get your story straight, so I'm inclined to believe that you didn't realize it was a joke, and you took it seriously because of it.

[The Niche]

You can accept the apology or you can leave it. I've made it, that's good enough for me.

Don't get me started on this not being a good attitude, I'm not going to argue. It's pointless.

[Blizzard]

@PHM: You were probably the only one who was actually playing a rebel instead of shouting April Fools and flaming the whole time. But as winkio said, you were still mostly just shouting April Fools.

@Niche: If you consistently doubted whether it was a joke or not, then you have been fooled. You were still actively trying to ruin it though instead of just playing along and be a rebel or whatever. I can only say that you ruined the joke for us. At one point I was just fed up reading and censoring (heh, used winkio's account here xD) so I suggested to the mods to end it. Ironically we were discussing everything in IRC. Nobody even bothered to check IRC. xD

@stripe: I hope you're not too mad at us. It seemed realistic to you because you haven't been here from the start. A couple of people figured out where this was going even before we started. If you had been here from the beginning of the day, you would have noticed the inconsistencies in everything. We weren't even trying to cover things up. There's one thing I don't agree with NAMK, though. The best type of joke is not when people don't realize that it's a joke. The best type of April Fools joke is when people can't decide whether it's a joke or not. They keep thinking that it could be a joke, then they think it's serious again.

Oh, and I don't even think the mods knew about this, but I let Blizz use my account for today as well, so we were switching off XD  Which reminds me, time to change my password back.

This was mainly to keep Sub under control while winkio was asleep. Basically a good portion from the moment Sub posted his poll were from me. I think I did tell Ryex and maybe NAMK. I don't remember anymore. xD

All in all, all your apologies are accepted. We tried to keep the joke within reasonable boundaries so people weren't actually banned (except for Sub who couldn't obviously stand being ignored) and we hope that we haven't been too much trouble for you all.
Next year's joke will be less turbulent, we promise. This year was simply a unique opportunity for winkio to take over that we couldn't resist. We knew it would be risky and grand, but we did it anyway.

[The Niche]

It was elaborate and grand and generally amazing. But yeah, the better something is, the worse it can backfire. But since I've given out so much about how you did this, I'mma go off and consider how I'd do it.

[stripe103]

I'm not mad. It is very hard for me to get mad, even if I try. I'm a bit dissapointed though.I saw WhiteRose quoting me in that thread, and acctually, I had text in that message saying like "If its a joke, you've failed.",but I chose not to post it. Some things was pointing at it being a joke, some not. But the fact that you let it go too far took the fun out of it. When I read it was a joke I just felt empty. Not happy, or angry or anything. Just, empty. I've never thought you'd do things like this. Apparently, I was wrong..

And about the IRC.. I'm never on it. After this ill probably be though..

[The Niche]

When I read it was a joke I just felt empty. Not happy, or angry or anything. Just, empty.

Agreement.

[Blizzard]

@stripe: You've come around at the very climax of everything. As I said, if you had been involved from the beginning, things would probably have been different for you.

To be honest, I was actually very touched by your posts. I knew people cared about me, but I didn't expect somebody to care that much. I mean somebody who I haven't met in real life.
*waits to stripe to say that he is actually his long lost brother :O - Tune in next week for a new episode of "CP - The Soap Opera"!*

[stripe103]

You just had to write that last part didn't you.
I'm glad to hear that my posts wasn't a waste anyway.
This is often the way I react at this kind of things. I usually try to protect everyone, even if I haven't met them in real life.

Anyway. I'm off to bed because I don't want to write anymore on my phone. I'll see you all tomorrow.
Good night

[Blizzard]

I usually try to protect everyone, even if I haven't met them in real life.

That's a very admirable trait.

You just had to write that last part didn't you.

Yes, I just had to.

[winkio]

Okay, I don't know why I've been ignoring it, but I have to start clearing up this massive amount of guilt that everyone is collectively sharing.

Time flows in one direction: forward.  Do not let your mistakes hold you back.  Your future is wide open, and you have complete control over it.  So go forward and make your future as good as you can.

That is all.

[Blizzard]

I agree. This was a joke so take it as one. There is no need to feel guilty about it. We still worked it out rather successfully despite the circumstances and that is all that counts.

[The Niche]

Hell, I was just about to slap myself a couple of times and say exactly that.

[Vell]

I basically had no idea whether it was a joke or not. I thought 'it's AFD, so maybe...' but then people seemed to be GENUINELY UPSET about these things so I was like 'is it not...?' and was confused.

I like how you guys caught putting italics-coding in front of the A, though. Nice one.