April Fools!

[ben_r_]

Man am I glad thats over with! That was scary!

 

[cutterjohn]

WTF is kivan?

You come to temp and you don't know who KiVan is? Shame shame.

He's the guy that founded the website. The mythical member #1.

It's been a LONG time since I've read the history wiki entry, and I've never seen a post by him here...

 

[Agjsdfd]

PUH!
Well done guys....
Felt so real

 

[Verocity]

Damn, yall are good.

 

[ShadowXP]

 

[Laren]

Hello. i got tricked ... thats the best April Fool jokes around!!!

 

[Willemoke]

Wow dude, scared the hell out of me, happy it aint true

 

[Psyfira]

But Cnet buying a community of pirates? didn't believe it for a second

Exactly! I fell for it for about an hour when JPH PM'ed people in a panic about a week ago, but the second I realised the Gamespot/CNet connection it suddenly didn't make any sense. When JPH replied implying he'd misunderstood I just assumed he'd got his wires crossed about some other unrelated issue they'd been discussing and forgot about it. It wasn't until Saturday I put 2 and 2 together and realised it was the pre-planning for the april fools joke.

So yeah, I was playing along yesterday. If you'd picked a smaller unknown company then you would've got me.

In the build-up I missed most of the moderators quitting until yesterday, the only one I knew about was Urza. So in all of this he was the only one who had me completely fooled, fantastic performance on his part.

And I still can't tell if JPH was in on it all along.

(edit: meaning when he sent the PM; he was so in on it yesterday. Shh, Secret Squirrel

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[KiVan]

guys I am too old for these kind of jokes!!
DON'T EVER DO IT AGAIN!!!!

..or at least give me a share of the revenues XD

 

[Westside]

KiVan, your signature is too big, you're gonna get banned.

 

[Mars]

It was a very obvious (or at least to me) that it was fake, but it was an elaborate prank nontheless. You guys took it very far, even censoring out profanities.

EDIT: Forgot to add though, I foolishly believed in the R4 kernel release. It was huge letdown

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[dice]

In the build-up I missed most of the moderators quitting until yesterday, the only one I knew about was Urza. So in all of this he was the only one who had me completely fooled, fantastic performance on his part.

Who said it was a performance?

 

[Defiance]

When Costello said he was resigning that kinda gave it away for me...

 

[BioHazard7]

That is by far one of the most elaborate April fools jokes ive ever seen

. Its a shame some people actually left though.

 

[JPH]

And I still can't tell if JPH was in on it all along.

(edit: meaning when he sent the PM; he was so in on it yesterday. Shh, Secret Squirrel

)

I played a part all right.
Though I was just bait for spreading the rumor.

I was totally convinced the site had sold to CNET. They lied to me

/me slap Thug4L1F3 around a bit with a large trout

 

[laurenz]

I can't appreciate the prank.
Even though I appreciate how none of the crew never doubted about it. It really asks some guts to even attempt such a cheesy prank as this one.

 

[Jdbye]

I couldn't decide whether it was an april fool or not, but I knew inside of me that if it turned out to be real, I couldn't survive without GBAtemp for long.

So I'm happy that it wasn't.