This is my least favorite day of the year...
Well, it's still March 31st here in New York, but in some places, it's already April 1st. And I fucking hate April Fool's Day. Now, don't get me wrong, I love a good practical joke, something in good fun, something light-hearted. I still think that some of Blizzard's old jokes were hilarious, as are some of Google's.
But my least favorite kind of gag is one that hijacks normal viewing experiences. Such as when I went to TASvideos.org and found an announcement that the site was being taken down because it was proven that tool-assisted speedruns are impossible. They link a thread involving a solitary example (Blades of Steel using uninitialized memory, a very strange occurrance indeed, as this would make proper RNG manipulation completely impossible), and act as though it spells doom for the site. Adelikat- whom I've always felt is a bitter and spiteful bastard- had a private thread brewing since the 24th, and made the "decision" public today.
While this is clearly a joke... the kind of damage it will do to the community isn't funny. Some believe it's true, others know it isn't, but the fact remains, Adelikat took down the site for this "joke" and will need to live with the fact that, on Friday, he'll need to say "Just kidding! Can't you take a joke?!" and wonder why everyone sees the trollface superimposed over him.
There were ways to No, no, I'm not even going to dignify this: It was a BAD IDEA and someone should have had the stones to tell him "No."
People wonder why I hate April Fool's Day. Well, it's because it ruins lives. All for a joke.
But my least favorite kind of gag is one that hijacks normal viewing experiences. Such as when I went to TASvideos.org and found an announcement that the site was being taken down because it was proven that tool-assisted speedruns are impossible. They link a thread involving a solitary example (Blades of Steel using uninitialized memory, a very strange occurrance indeed, as this would make proper RNG manipulation completely impossible), and act as though it spells doom for the site. Adelikat- whom I've always felt is a bitter and spiteful bastard- had a private thread brewing since the 24th, and made the "decision" public today.
While this is clearly a joke... the kind of damage it will do to the community isn't funny. Some believe it's true, others know it isn't, but the fact remains, Adelikat took down the site for this "joke" and will need to live with the fact that, on Friday, he'll need to say "Just kidding! Can't you take a joke?!" and wonder why everyone sees the trollface superimposed over him.
There were ways to No, no, I'm not even going to dignify this: It was a BAD IDEA and someone should have had the stones to tell him "No."
People wonder why I hate April Fool's Day. Well, it's because it ruins lives. All for a joke.