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Title: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: blowfish on April 01, 2008, 08:25:30 am
I recently was reading a thread, and I saw something I posted, but I didn't remember posting it.  I was about to post a post saying so, until I realized that the forum mixes around all of the user names. :mad: Did you guys really have to play such a joke?

Oh and BTW, its blowfish talking if you can't tell.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: jdjtcagle on April 01, 2008, 08:28:07 am
Same here!  I posted some pics...

(http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/476/64055180za5.jpg)

(http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/945/43715836ho9.jpg)

(http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6030/49419167jt8.jpg)

(http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1892/14666976fq7.jpg)
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Shade on April 01, 2008, 08:30:21 am
Come on, it's fun :) Try vising one of the creation vs evolution threads, they are even more epic now that every user name is picked at random ;) And anyway, if it bothers you that much, you can still identify the true poster by hovering the mouse over the username.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: blowfish on April 01, 2008, 08:31:22 am
It even changes signatures etc!

THE WORLD IS DESCENDING INTO CHAOS!!
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: shiv on April 01, 2008, 08:41:27 am
Oh... Please have some mercy and remove this 1st april "feature" :P
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Turambar on April 01, 2008, 08:43:28 am
i dunno, this is kinda funny
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: blowfish on April 01, 2008, 08:44:28 am
i dunno, this is kinda funny

Maybe, once you know its happening.

The first time I saw it, I was freaking out until I realized what it was.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: jdjtcagle on April 01, 2008, 08:50:22 am
*Reads Colecambells personal info in last pic*

Awwww... nip it! :P
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: IPAndrews on April 01, 2008, 09:22:06 am
I missed that one.   :(
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Snail on April 01, 2008, 11:46:03 am
Hey it's normal again.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: blowfish on April 01, 2008, 01:09:22 pm
Hey it's normal again.

No its not.  I don't know if its just normal in site support or something, but I can still see it in other threads.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 01, 2008, 01:12:18 pm
Uhh, testing testing... one, two, uh... two... three...

Edit: Hot piss! Yeah, Site Support seems to be "normal". (How normal is HLP, anyways?)
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Snail on April 01, 2008, 01:47:51 pm
Cool.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: jdjtcagle on April 01, 2008, 01:53:00 pm
*sigh* The only place where I feel I can be myself...
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Snail on April 01, 2008, 02:02:09 pm
Let's all migrate here for the day. :D
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Polpolion on April 01, 2008, 08:33:45 pm
Any old members (specifically admins) remember a guy called Mr Vasudan? Apperantly, he was banned. I got his identity once when I posted; he only had one post, so I'm curious: Was he a pornbot or something? Or just some huge asshat?



...Man, that's what this forum needs. A list of all banned members and their crimes. That'd be awesome.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Droid803 on April 01, 2008, 09:23:50 pm
This is a LOT more fun than RICKROLLEVERYWHERE!  :lol:
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Goober5000 on April 02, 2008, 12:22:12 am
Any old members (specifically admins) remember a guy called Mr Vasudan? Apperantly, he was banned. I got his identity once when I posted; he only had one post, so I'm curious: Was he a pornbot or something? Or just some huge asshat?
:lol: I had forgotten about him.  He somehow acquired administrator privileges.  I've attached the printable version of the thread.

(BTW, this was way before I became an admin or even got significantly involved on HLP, so don't blame me. :p)

[attachment deleted by ninja]
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on April 02, 2008, 12:38:24 am
Hey Goob, I were you. And you posted something way off-topic :p

Does post count have anything to do with how often a name is chosen? I seem to have disappeared from HLP...
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Goober5000 on April 02, 2008, 12:46:34 am
Your chance at being chosen increases in direct proportion to the number of times you posted in the past 15 days.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Kosh on April 02, 2008, 03:46:25 am
Ok, it's past april fools, can we turn this (and that rick rolling thing) off now?
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on April 02, 2008, 06:03:22 am
/me identifies himself.

Oh...no wonder the sidebar was messed up. I posted as SNAIL, edited as DARK HUNTER, someone who has never posted, and COLONEL DEKKER. :eek2:

I thought it was a forum bug and PMed terran_emperor and TrashMan.

It's good to fall for a joke like this every year. :lol:

One more thing...the Announcements page is still half-cocked. :wtf:

...actually, so are quite a number of the other sub-forums.

I edited as Snail and Colonel Dekker again! :drevil:
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on April 02, 2008, 02:32:34 pm
One more thing...the Announcements page is still half-cocked. :wtf:

...actually, so are quite a number of the other sub-forums.
Seems to be fixed now. They've started thinking about next year :nervous:
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: vyper on April 02, 2008, 05:51:30 pm
I missed the fun this year. It actually sounds creative...
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: an0n on April 02, 2008, 05:54:09 pm
I still think the April Fools Day Fiasco was funnier.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Flipside on April 02, 2008, 07:03:14 pm
I thought the wailing and gnashing of teeth that followed was even funnier, but maybe that's just me....
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: an0n on April 02, 2008, 07:35:21 pm
I like how the end of March is basically when Goober's supply of crayons runs out and he lashes out by finding a way to cripple the forums.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on April 02, 2008, 07:39:09 pm
I still think the April Fools Day Fiasco was funnier.


So did I. I didn't find Rick Rolling very funny, though. It just makes me feel like  :beamz:.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Polpolion on April 02, 2008, 07:47:45 pm
I still think the April Fools Day Fiasco was funnier.


So did I. I didn't find Rick Rolling very funny, though. It just makes me feel like  :beamz:.

You weren't here for that though. AFAIK, anon was referring to 2005. The one I missed by like two months.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: an0n on April 02, 2008, 07:53:32 pm
I thought it was earlier than that.

But, basically, they decided to pretend I'd hacked the forums and gone on a deleting spree.

Only, because Goober's a spastic, he didn't just hide the forums. He actually deleted them and pretty much killed the forums for like 2 months.

And the whole time I was on IRC fanning the gossip flames, pretending to be Styxx and saying 'I' had given 'an0n' full access for some reason. And kode was pretending to be me.

It was a cluster**** of hilarity.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Polpolion on April 02, 2008, 08:07:41 pm
I thought it was earlier than that.

But, basically, they decided to pretend I'd hacked the forums and gone on a deleting spree.

Only, because Goober's a spastic, he didn't just hide the forums. He actually deleted them and pretty much killed the forums for like 2 months.

And the whole time I was on IRC fanning the gossip flames, pretending to be Styxx and saying 'I' had given 'an0n' full access for some reason. And kode was pretending to be me.

It was a cluster**** of hilarity.

That "Bork Bork Bork!" joke was the April Fool's joke the following year, wasn't it? If so, then it was in 2005. AFAIK it went:

2005) "The Anon incident"
2006) Bork Bork Bork!
2007) ---- (Unofficially John Doe)
2008) Rickroll, Usernames.

...Man, I've been here longer than I think. It's strange how stupid I was back then, and how amazingly far I've come since then. Yet I'm still stupid. Although, most of us are in a sense. :p
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on April 02, 2008, 08:09:31 pm
You weren't here for that though. AFAIK, anon was referring to 2005. The one I missed by like two months.
I thought it was earlier than that.

But, basically, they decided to pretend I'd hacked the forums and gone on a deleting spree.

Only, because Goober's a spastic, he didn't just hide the forums. He actually deleted them and pretty much killed the forums for like 2 months.

And the whole time I was on IRC fanning the gossip flames, pretending to be Styxx and saying 'I' had given 'an0n' full access for some reason. And kode was pretending to be me.

It was a cluster**** of hilarity.

Ah, my apologies.

Regardless, I thought that this year's April Fool's joke of mixing up all the posters was fun. I only entered the fray in the last few hours, but it was still fun nonetheless. Now the moderators will have to think of something for next year...and it had better not be that huge-corporation-buys-us joke that I saw on CTG Music (http://www.ctgmusic.com) and replacementdocs (http://www.replacementdocs.com).

I thought it was earlier than that.

But, basically, they decided to pretend I'd hacked the forums and gone on a deleting spree.

Only, because Goober's a spastic, he didn't just hide the forums. He actually deleted them and pretty much killed the forums for like 2 months.

And the whole time I was on IRC fanning the gossip flames, pretending to be Styxx and saying 'I' had given 'an0n' full access for some reason. And kode was pretending to be me.

It was a cluster**** of hilarity.

That "Bork Bork Bork!" joke was the April Fool's joke the following year, wasn't it? If so, then it was in 2005. AFAIK it went:

2005) "The Anon incident"
2006) Bork Bork Bork!
2007) ---- (Unofficially John Doe)
2008) Rickroll, Usernames.

...Man, I've been here longer than I think. It's strange how stupid I was back then, and how amazingly far I've come since then. Yet I'm still stupid. Although, most of us are in a sense. :p

Well, it's good to have a bit of stupidity up there. It keeps us from getting nerdy.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: blowfish on April 02, 2008, 09:50:57 pm
I wasn't around in '05 and '06.  What were "The Anon Incident" and "Bork Bork Bork!"?
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on April 03, 2008, 03:34:47 am
I've heard somewhere that an0n got admin rights... But I wasn't around here either.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: karajorma on April 03, 2008, 04:51:39 am
You even have a post from An0n explaining, yet still you ask. :p
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: blowfish on April 03, 2008, 08:38:25 am
Didn't see that post... :nervous:
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Polpolion on April 06, 2008, 03:52:40 pm
Just out of curiosity, what were the pre-anon incident April Fool's jokes, if there even were any?
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Goober5000 on April 06, 2008, 04:09:12 pm
2004 was Olde English (one of my personal favorites)

Before that there was one where he and she were switched, and another one where all the letter e's were removed.  I forget when those were done, though, as I wasn't around as regularly back then.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: CP5670 on April 06, 2008, 04:17:33 pm
I remember the he and she one. "I" also became "you," and "you" became "we." :D
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 06, 2008, 04:21:07 pm
Now that sounds like a lot of fun. Wish I'd seen it.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Droid803 on April 06, 2008, 04:30:04 pm
Yea, those seem more fun than RICKROLLEVERYWHERZOMFG.
The username switching was hilarious though - it created the "We are mobius" thing  :D
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Snail on April 06, 2008, 04:57:50 pm
Yea, those seem more fun than RICKROLLEVERYWHERZOMFG.
The username switching was hilarious though - it created the "We are mobius" thing  :D

Well you have to admit that RickRoll Everything was kind of funny. I memorized the lyrics.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Droid803 on April 06, 2008, 05:43:57 pm
Partially due to the fact that you had posted it in a rainbowtastic thread. That was well done.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: achtung on April 08, 2008, 03:42:03 pm
Rick Roll was funny, name-switching was even funnier.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 08, 2008, 03:47:44 pm
Rick Roll wasn't that funny but it did have that certain April Fool's feeling in it. And the name switching... Ah yes, that was hilarious. Nothing cheers up the day more than seeing karajorma asking for tech support, with an0n giving him clear and professional-sounding instructions.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Snail on April 08, 2008, 03:52:54 pm
Rick Roll wasn't that funny but it did have that certain April Fool's feeling in it. And the name switching... Ah yes, that was hilarious. Nothing cheers up the day more than seeing karajorma asking for tech support, with an0n giving him clear and professional-sounding instructions.

Teh lulz
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 08, 2008, 04:29:31 pm
Rick Roll wasn't that funny but it did have that certain April Fool's feeling in it. And the name switching... Ah yes, that was hilarious. Nothing cheers up the day more than seeing karajorma asking for tech support, with an0n giving him clear and professional-sounding instructions.
:lol: Got a screenie?
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 08, 2008, 04:38:23 pm
Rick Roll wasn't that funny but it did have that certain April Fool's feeling in it. And the name switching... Ah yes, that was hilarious. Nothing cheers up the day more than seeing karajorma asking for tech support, with an0n giving him clear and professional-sounding instructions.
:lol: Got a screenie?
As a matter of fact, smartass, yes (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/lolkara.jpg). Except that apparently it was "WMCoolmon", who gave the answer. Nonetheless...
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 08, 2008, 04:42:41 pm
Smartass?
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 08, 2008, 04:44:34 pm
Sorry. I'm a bit drowsy. That thing just suddenly popped into my mind and I had to, just had to say it. Guess I've heard it somewhere.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 08, 2008, 04:47:41 pm
I know how you feel.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Zoltan on April 08, 2008, 05:18:43 pm
Rick Roll wasn't that funny but it did have that certain April Fool's feeling in it. And the name switching... Ah yes, that was hilarious. Nothing cheers up the day more than seeing karajorma asking for tech support, with an0n giving him clear and professional-sounding instructions.
:lol: Got a screenie?
As a matter of fact, smartass, yes (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/lolkara.jpg). Except that apparently it was "WMCoolmon", who gave the answer. Nonetheless...

That's nothing, try this:
(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o142/BTC08/mobius.jpg)
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Droid803 on April 08, 2008, 06:02:40 pm
Rick Roll wasn't that funny but it did have that certain April Fool's feeling in it. And the name switching... Ah yes, that was hilarious. Nothing cheers up the day more than seeing karajorma asking for tech support, with an0n giving him clear and professional-sounding instructions.
:lol: Got a screenie?
As a matter of fact, smartass, yes (http://koti.mbnet.fi/reiler/lolkara.jpg). Except that apparently it was "WMCoolmon", who gave the answer. Nonetheless...

That's nothing, try this:
(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o142/BTC08/mobius.jpg)

Epic.
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 08, 2008, 06:18:17 pm
 :lol:
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: Mongoose on April 11, 2008, 03:12:41 am
Damn, and I poked my head in here last week to see what you guys had cooked up.  How'd I manage to miss all this? :lol:
Title: Re: Did you guys really have to do that
Post by: colecampbell666 on April 11, 2008, 07:32:16 pm
By coming 10 days late.