April Fooling, Part 1 [Apr 01, 2004, 11:51 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
"Oh, I just gotta know. If you're really there and you really care! 'Cause baby
I'm not ... F-F-F-Foolin', Ah F-F-Foolin'. Not F-F-F-Foolin', Ah F-F-Foolin'!"
- IF Quake is now available, loonyboi providing an Inform programming language text version of the game.
- Doom 3 sourcecode leaked! Thanks Dave.
- Half-Life 2 to Use Serious Engine 2.0.
- Larian Studios announces CaRPG. Thanks HomeLAN Fed.
- The World of Warcraft Community Site has word on the two-headed playable race in the upcoming MMORPG. Thanks A6.
- Blizzard Entertainment Announces .999~ (Repeating) = 1. Thanks Frans.
- The Pterodon Website has a new version 1.61 patch for Vietcong and Fist Alpha that will run the game 45% faster and adds iSmell support. Thanks Frans.
- UT2004 Production Suspended, UT2004 LE Released for Free.
- Microsoft Halts Plans for Xbox 2, Halo 2 in Jeopardy.
- Need for Speed 8 is Gold.
- Gaming Nexus Interviews Senator Lieberman.
- Auran announces "Trainz Simulator Too, adds a huge range of features never seen before plus a massively multiplayer option interfaced into real world railroad traffic operations."
- Hostile Intent has been acquired by Valve Software.
- Google Copernicus Center is hiring. Thanks Brian A. Thomas.
- Art & Logic's Martian Outsourcing. Thanks Ant.
- AMD to drop Athlon 64 taxonomy for Intel's. Thanks Mike Martinez.
- MPEG-21 goes naked!
- 1 Minute DVD Burning. Thanks Mike Martinez.
is the multiplayer beta part of the download? i didn't see how you get in a multiplayer game.
but ya nin, it is very cool. i'm more of a fps fan than a text adventure guy, but it was wild reading the descriptions and imagining myself actually in the game.
but ya nin, it is very cool. i'm more of a fps fan than a text adventure guy, but it was wild reading the descriptions and imagining myself actually in the game.
IF Quake is no joke, i played some of it.
I think I saw you in the multiplayer beta. Thing is, you have to type really fast to get any frags. They should be implementing hotkey shortcuts soon.
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"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" -- Dick Cavett
mocking the TV-violence debate
I think I saw you in the multiplayer beta. Thing is, you have to type really fast to get any frags. They should be implementing hotkey shortcuts soon.
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"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" -- Dick Cavett
mocking the TV-violence debate
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Also, it may be 1 gb of STORAGE, but they say nothing about bandwidth... from the article, it seems they're targeting it to be a place to store old emails, not constantly retrieve things (and even searching them won't require downloading them, it's on google's server), so they may put a low monthly bandwidth cap, and offer packages for larger sending.
Hmmm... cyborgs and mutants Assaulting each other in Autos? Best game idea ever...?
This one is eerily funny for some reason... mwa ha ha ha!
This comment was edited on Apr 1, 19:11.
This one is eerily funny for some reason... mwa ha ha ha!
This comment was edited on Apr 1, 19:11.
Haha! New one up on the WoW beta site...
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/
Two-Headed Ogres Added as a Playable Race in World of Warcraft
And carrying on the tradition they started years ago, Bungie's, Pimps at Sea (I still think they should actually make this) has been updated as well.
http://www.bungie.com/products/pimps/pimpsatsea.htm
ROFL!
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- W. Somerset Maugham
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/
Two-Headed Ogres Added as a Playable Race in World of Warcraft
And carrying on the tradition they started years ago, Bungie's, Pimps at Sea (I still think they should actually make this) has been updated as well.
http://www.bungie.com/products/pimps/pimpsatsea.htm
ROFL!
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- W. Somerset Maugham
"And then, suddenly and without warning, it turned into a real-life case of hungry, hungry hippos."
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just how long does it take to burn a DVD on, say, an 8x drive?
Bruned about 5 4.7 DVD+Rs last night and took between 8 and 9 minutes, depending on the movie I was backing up. This is on a Plextor 708A
You cannot make anything fool-proof. The fools are too inventive
You cannot make anything fool-proof. The fools are too inventive
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www.doomworld.com has a good one..
Haha, that one was good. I'm surprised they're the only site that did it.
Apparently Scott Kurtz's PvP has been picked up by Universal Press Syndicate: http://www.pvponline.com/
Poor Scott, if he would learn to write grammatically he could make a pretty convincing fake press release...
Poor Scott, if he would learn to write grammatically he could make a pretty convincing fake press release...
dammit, I came up with idea about 5 years ago!!
apparently you dont admin servers anywhere 
(that's not a personal attack, readon)
of course, webmail is different than say outlook, but from an administration point, people have come accustomed to using email, as file storage. I'm partially apart of that problem too. but I admit using msn and yahoo webmails for the purpose of having files or "registered" emails of important things accessible from any location, but it's still storage
Just a thought...
(that's not a personal attack, readon)of course, webmail is different than say outlook, but from an administration point, people have come accustomed to using email, as file storage. I'm partially apart of that problem too. but I admit using msn and yahoo webmails for the purpose of having files or "registered" emails of important things accessible from any location, but it's still storage
Just a thought...
www.doomworld.com has a good one..
I agree with blue on the "stuck in the 90s" theory. just bought a 160gig a few weeks ago, I mean.. 1 gig is like nothing these days, I dont get it why people complain when games such as UT2004 is 5.5gigs, calling it "too big", i mean ~100GB is like the smallest HDD you can get these days.. Besides, google is smart, they KNOW most people will use less than 50 MB anyway, so they'll probably have some scalable system handling it..
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I agree with blue on the "stuck in the 90s" theory. just bought a 160gig a few weeks ago, I mean.. 1 gig is like nothing these days, I dont get it why people complain when games such as UT2004 is 5.5gigs, calling it "too big", i mean ~100GB is like the smallest HDD you can get these days.. Besides, google is smart, they KNOW most people will use less than 50 MB anyway, so they'll probably have some scalable system handling it..
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IF Quake is no joke, i played some of it.
Apparently GameSpot did a run of 1st jokes:
Godfather 2072
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/01/news_6092630.html
David Bowie in SWG
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/01/news_6092599.html
And the GTA: Port-au-Prince we already saw
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/01/news_6092598.html
Godfather 2072
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/01/news_6092630.html
David Bowie in SWG
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/01/news_6092599.html
And the GTA: Port-au-Prince we already saw
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/01/news_6092598.html
My favorite, thus far, is Fark.com's April Fools' jokes.
First of all, you'll randomly connect to some weird page of
theirs when you bring up the site, sometimes.
Second, there are all sorts of crazy filters going on in
the forums. From 1337-speak to yokel(sp?).
Great fun.
-Hyatus
"da da da"
First of all, you'll randomly connect to some weird page of
theirs when you bring up the site, sometimes.
Second, there are all sorts of crazy filters going on in
the forums. From 1337-speak to yokel(sp?).
Great fun.
-Hyatus
"da da da"
Yeah Blue! Bustin' out the old skool Def Leppard... (When they were an actual rock band) Nice.
this raises another question i've had for some time now. just how long does it take to burn a DVD on, say, an 8x drive? is it the same speed as a CDR? burning 700mb at 8x takes long enough, i can't imagine a few gigs.
At 4x, dvds take about 15-20 minutes to burn 4.5 gig of data. I'm assuming 8x would half this...
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Har har har
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/01/news_6092598.html
hahahah... that's my favorite so far.
a funny thing about the 1 minute DVD burning article; i wonder how many april fool's gags that were posted years ago seemed impossible at the time, but are completely doable tday? i guess that's what some of you were getting at with google's 1 gig email announcement, but it might be funny to dig up some old articles.
this raises another question i've had for some time now. just how long does it take to burn a DVD on, say, an 8x drive? is it the same speed as a CDR? burning 700mb at 8x takes long enough, i can't imagine a few gigs.
ROFL Ted!
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- W. Somerset Maugham
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- W. Somerset Maugham
"And then, suddenly and without warning, it turned into a real-life case of hungry, hungry hippos."
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- Stephen Colbert
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