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Golden Sun Hacking Community => News & Announcements => Topic started by: Charon on 02, April, 2011, 08:44:17 PM

Title: April Fools!
Post by: Charon on 02, April, 2011, 08:44:17 PM
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Happy April Fools!

That's right! Anything that happened yesterday was obviously April Fools... but today was an extension of that joke! I never really did "destroy" the forums, or "hack" into the server... that never really happened. I sure put up a convincing show, didn't I!

Special thanks goes to Atrius and Overlord Kain for working with me to make such a hilarious April Fools joke! Especially Atrius, for working with me to create such a convincing "late" April Fools joke!

You maybe were too surprised to notice, but when I supposedly "hacked into the forum" and "destroyed the website", I was really giving all "banned" members 5 coins for participating, as well as any member that changed their avatar to a Slowpoke-related thing 3 coins.

And if you still think that we were serious, just ask Atrius. We worked on this while we went along, and I used the account "goldensunmaster97" to communicate with him while my other account was "perma-banned". I was laughing so hard my cheeks started to hurt after a while!

I guess I really do live up to my name, hmm? Long live the balance between Luna and Sol!
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: MaxiPower on 02, April, 2011, 08:47:52 PM
I knew 97 was you.

However my thinking it was you was for a different reason, I thought you were being all lovely lovely with Atrius to earn his trust..

anyway welcome back Charon

but that was a sick joke, and may I ask why kain was let in on it?

PS.. cough cough, weres me coins, i had a slowpoke up hahaha :D

edit 2: wait did I already spend them coins then? darn, give me more for making me sad haha :P
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Drick on 02, April, 2011, 08:48:09 PM
Well this was incredibly silly!
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas on 02, April, 2011, 08:50:01 PM
Hmm.. I did question to myself how you be able to even do that if Atrius ALREADY demoted you... (I was surprised he didn't remove your admin powers for real.)

And I definitely did notice my increase in coins. (of 3, but I thought it was strange... )

I also had the strange suspicion that Kain using other accts. that someone else might be doing the same thing at the same time as well.. but I never gathered that it was goldensunmaster97.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: leaf on 02, April, 2011, 08:50:25 PM
You cheeky bastards!

Well played. Well played, indeed.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Charon on 02, April, 2011, 08:51:45 PM
Quote from: charleysdrpepper on 02, April, 2011, 08:50:01 PM
I also had the strange suspicion that Kain using other accts. that someone else might be doing the same thing at the same time as well.. but I never gathered that it was goldensunmaster97.
Pretending to be a real-life slowpoke all day was actually quite difficult, mind you. I had to resist the urge to use punctuation.

By the way, what I actually did was I put the forum in Maintenance Mode, then I just copy pasted the css sheet to a txt file, then deleted it. That was me "destroying" the forums. haha.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Rolina on 02, April, 2011, 08:52:25 PM
Wait... Kain?  My best friend Kain?  YOU were in on it?

We need to talk.
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PRIVATELY.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Atrius on 02, April, 2011, 08:52:49 PM
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Happy April Fools!
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: MaxiPower on 02, April, 2011, 08:53:50 PM
Quote from: Atrius on 02, April, 2011, 08:52:49 PM
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Happy April Fools!

sholololololol
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Kain on 02, April, 2011, 08:56:36 PM
Could have made a new user group with admin powers but it looks like a regular user.  I'm sad I was away for most of the show however.

Atrius and Charon:

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Role:  hee hee hee
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Charon on 02, April, 2011, 08:58:06 PM
Actually, he said that what he did was he changed the forum's code so that regardless of my class, I would have Administrative powers no matter what. He changed it back though, for your information. ;)
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Atrius on 02, April, 2011, 08:59:08 PM
True, I really did demote her to being just a regular user, but I also added a hack to the forum's code that still let her use Admin powers.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Kain on 02, April, 2011, 09:00:35 PM
Nice.  That's our programmer for ya.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Charon on 02, April, 2011, 09:02:03 PM
Yup, and thanks to that, I was able to "pretend" to hack back into the server and change my profile back to administrator and wreak havoc!

Thanks a lot, Atrius! Best April Fools joke ever xD
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Kain on 03, April, 2011, 09:50:35 AM
Man...there were a lot of good pranks pulled yesterday, but this one took the cake over everything else.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Shinigami on 03, April, 2011, 11:37:21 AM
I missed the fun part...
Curse my brother for getting the computer at the time!
Ah well...
I actually believed that Atrius took away your admin powers...
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: zman9000 on 10, April, 2011, 03:33:04 AM
I know I am late but...
WHAT THE HECK DID I MISS!!!!!!!!!!!!

But man! if you did all this, this year next year will be boring

You know It would have been even more convincing if you had used my account to troll Role....

Edit: On second thought that would have been a bad idea... Role might have hacked back and destroyed my account..... In fact any one in her position would have............
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas on 31, May, 2011, 01:23:15 AM
Yeah, so in the end, she'd be in on it and the joke would be on you?

I think.

As for next year being boring? How can you be so sure? I agree with you, but we could always have a day of fooling the new regulars... How fun would that be?
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: zman9000 on 31, May, 2011, 10:13:44 PM
yep... but it wou;d have to be just as good or even better.
do we even have any new regulars since I joined?
I think I'm the newest one... and is been 3/4 of a year (about)

and even so we would have this topic for it. because they would know whats coming.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: dwkjohn on 31, May, 2011, 10:40:26 PM
Hey. I'm a new regular. I just joing maybe a week or two ago i don't remember exactly. I am pretty easy to prank as long as you don't drag it out for a long time.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas on 31, May, 2011, 11:08:18 PM
Having everyone use your avatar would be good enough for April Fools in my opinion.

Douchbag, douchbag, douchbag...

Imagine.

April Fools 2012 Douchbag Special.


(That was a compliment.)
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: dwkjohn on 31, May, 2011, 11:12:01 PM
Someone could make the website play the mp3 of it (which i have i you want it) repeatedly to go with that.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Charon on 31, May, 2011, 11:36:53 PM
That would be more annoying than funny though, and it could eat up weaker connections. Plus, despite being a fairly funny avatar, "douchebag" by itself is kind of lacking and just juvenile.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas on 01, June, 2011, 12:28:51 AM
Annoying and funny... they both can be used for April Fools. It's not quite the most creative idea, but still. It's simple, and to the point. (To me, anyway.)

Also, music playing? I'm sure if that was to play on the site there should be some way to turn it off, even if it is on the Settings page. (I know you can mute the volume, but I mean to keep the mp3 from loading at all.)
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: dwkjohn on 01, June, 2011, 12:37:37 AM
If you want the mp3 you might have to google it and get it yourself because it is apperently corrupt on my computer. I will probably try to find another copy anyway.
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas on 01, June, 2011, 12:42:33 AM
Okay, thanks for the offer.

Anyway,an even better idea on April Fools that can be sorta universal...

Put the funniest thing you can find in your avatar and/or signature.. (don't tell anyone about the reward, or what it is, etc.)

At the end, the top funniest people can win a badge and prizes.. the other people who participated would get a consolation prize.

(Something like that.)


EDIT: I recommend that they would have to post in a certain topic to even be qualified as "most funniest"..
Title: Re: April Fools!
Post by: Charon on 01, June, 2011, 08:29:19 AM
We should probably start planning April Fools a little later than 2 months after the last one.

We will not be doing anything with any sort of autoplay music content because that can destroy some people's browsers, especially those with mobile browsing (if it doesn't block it). We will also not be doing anything with offensive language because it comes down to being immature and petty.

An award for "funniest" member could be given out, but it might be more appropriate to just have an award ceremony at a different time; maybe in October to celebrate the initial release of the TLA editor.