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Yesterday was April Fools Day, and there were a lot of pranks going on around here. In case you didn't catch them all, or you missed the day altogether, here's a summary on everything that happened.

1) Everyone becomes Anonymous

The most notable change was that yesterday every member's name was replaced with Anonymous. No one could tell who was really online, and all of the personal information on posts were removed so that there was no way to know who was posting what. The April Fools! topic is one example how people reacted to the change.

2) Aeon Demo Rickroll

When you opened the new Aeon demo, you'll find your character standing next to a yellow square (which is supposed to be a treasure chest) and a door. I claimed that I had made a new sound effect for the collect-treasure action and I wanted to make sure people heard it. But when you grabbed it, the background changed to a screenshot from the Rickroll'd video and its music started playing. Even after you quit the level, the music wouldn't turn off, and if you activated the rickroll again, the music would start playing on top of itself.

Along with the background change, the player changed from a box with an arrow on it to an old picture drawn by Catta/Kitti/Silver a long time ago as a suggestion of what the Aeon hero should look like. It was some kind of cat with a sword and shield, and most of us thought it was a hilariously bad idea. No offense, to Catta, though.   (btw, Catta changed her name once again; this time to Silver. To prevent another frequent name change from happening, the staff will not permit her to change her name again for another year.)

3) Midnight's Prank

Last week, a new member called Midnight joined. He made terrible caves and wrote posts filled with a lack of punctuation and horrible grammar. But on April 1st, Midnight posted Midnight Cave II, which had significant effort put into it and showed a skill that was unparalleled to anything midnight had made before. On top of that, the description, as well as subsequent posts he made throughout the day, were written with perfect grammar and displayed a much more intellectual tone.

However, no one noticed this prank, even though he found a way around the Anonymous thing (by posting his avatar image at the end of each of his posts). Midnight was in fact just another fake member, and the whole thing was planned by jell.

4) Quirvy's new cave

This wasn't as big as the other things, but Quirvy posted a new cave: The Rise 2. Except that when you go and load the cave, you get a shockwave error. Unfortunately, I didn't fall for it because I always click "Generate Preview" and in the preview came up the shockwave error tile. Although, if you look at the comments, you'll see an awesome review posted by Midnight.

5) Combopack

There was a new censor that we were passing around, which was :combo pack: (without the space), and it produced this, but both videos were on auto-play.
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Silver
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Friday, April 2 2010, 6:42 pm EST

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Midnight was a prank?!
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Midnight was in fact just another fake member, and the whole thing was planned by jell.
Technically, he derived the idea from a suggestion of mine when we were discussing pranks that we could do, although I actually suggested it to be part of a different prank, which we scratched at the last minute. But I had nothing to do with the actual planning of the Midnight prank, so it was pretty much all Jell.


I came up with the Anonymous idea about 2 hours before April fools, despite the fact that we had been discussing other ideas about a week beforehand.


I suggested that Livio make a new Aeon Demo, and have it include some sort of prank, and that we use Catta's old drawing, but Livio came up with the idea for the Rick Astley background/music. He was also supposed to have put in Deku's music upon release, as another incentive to get you to listen, but didn't.


I actually did take some time into "Rise II" so that it could easily pass off as a legitimate cave when people glanced at the cavecode. I might eventually transform it into an actual cave.


Also, I thought Isa(who suggested we use the weird Trololol video) wanted us to stay away from automated videos this year?

oh, BTW guys,

:rackroll:



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shos
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Friday, April 2 2010, 7:12 pm EST
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yep =]

and the anonymous thingie was very cool. even us, mods, couldn't know who people were. if we wanted to edit posts, we'd have to guess a username at the address bar, and only if we guessed correctly we'd be able to edit the posts.


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btw, i didn't know that the aeon demo thing was a prank, i thought it was planned, lol.
also, jell added a censor that changes jell(capitalized) to Shos, so in quirvy's post, it's jell, not Shos.


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Not anymore he didn't



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shos
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great job changing the censor,

Edit by Q: While I am against the combopack, I'm all for censoring that word.


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'The Last Weekly Update' said:
On Saturday, a new member joined called midnight, and unlike the new members of past weeks, this one seems to be a real person.


Creepy foreshadowing, were you aware of this Livio?



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Quirvy
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Yes he was. Jell didn't announce to us that it was him, but...
1. We normally do IP checks on new users, because of Kitti/cedric
2. It was incredibly obvious that he was making fun of me for when I temporarily changed my name to Midnight.

It took me literally like 3 seconds to figure out that it was Jell.



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shos
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Friday, April 2 2010, 8:47 pm EST
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what word, you mean, quivery?


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Wait what about Kitti/Cedric???


'Livio' said:
You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me.
jazz
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So, the april fools censors include:
: rackroll : = :rackroll:
: combopack : = :combopack:
and what else?
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Ugh, I lost the game...


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You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me.
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The videos are stretching the page badly.
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oh I forgot about the rackroll censor. I saw it put up a while before April Fools, but I don't think I saw it used at all yesterday.

'Yaya' said:
'The Last Weekly Update' said:
On Saturday, a new member joined called midnight, and unlike the new members of past weeks, this one seems to be a real person.


Creepy foreshadowing, were you aware of this Livio?
lol yeah I was aware and I said that on purpose.
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Yeah, I sent several people the rackroll censor through PM's, and then I recall that I posted it on the old transition board in an old "IMPORTANT THAT YOU READ" topic. Isa was not happy about it.

there's also lolzlolzlolz, the miniroll



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whoa! the miniroll! I don't think I've ever seen it, visually. I may have been exposed to it before, but could never find it.
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Could someone please explain to me what happenend between Kitti/Silver/ whatever else I've missed and Cedric?


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You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me.
Livio
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On the old forums, Kitti (and one time, cedric) created some accounts claiming to be new members, and mods compared IPs of posts to confirm that they were indeed not new members but just Kitti in disguise. So now we've got a habit of checking the IP of new members whenever we get suspicious, and that's what quirvy meant in his post.
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Was Kitti my old arch-nemisis? I remember that person...


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You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me.
Livio
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it went like this: Purpleyn => Lilyleaf567 => Kittikiyana => singer_aelita12 => cattatron13 => 12cattatron10 => (change to new site) and now: Catta, Kitti, Silver, along with several unrecorded name changes.
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Yes, I remember Lilyleaf567 having like 5 Cave Galleries. xDD


'Livio' said:
You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me.
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You'd think the midnight thing would be obvious. On March 31st, his posts were so bad he lost 13 karma. On April 1st, his posts had improved so much he gained 3 karma.


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