Topic: Anyone else hate April 1st on the internet?

You would think I'd love any sort of prank or joke seeing how most of my posts include (admitidly bad) jokes, but I hate April Fools jokes on most websites. I don't mean small ones like the DS VC on the front page, but the ones that make it hard to find the information you're looking for. I can't remember which site it was but a few years ago in college we were supposed to go online and find info for a group project in history class, we were given 30 minutes and then had to be ready. It was April 1st and the only site that we could find that had the exact thing we needed kept giving us a new URL, sending us to different articles on the site. After about 20 minutes it finally gave us the message of something like "April Fools! Boy are you persistent!" If our professor hadn't been cool, we would've gotten an F for the assignment (thankfully my group was made up of his favorite students, you know the kind that could use his office as our own hangout and such). A joke like an obviously fake news story is fine, but some of these sites go a bit too far.

POKEMON KART CONFIRMED FOR WII

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/28723

Its all a bit of fun.

Ooh Pokemon Kart :3

Yay! Thank you Rowdy. I was starting to feel like a kill-joy in the BREAKING NEWS thread.

I think it sucks, and completely misses the point of April Fools.

BREAKING NEWS: Nintendo decided to sell all of its franchises to Sony!!!

My favourite April Fools joke ever:

It does not help when I hate nearly everything to begin with.

I doubt many people would understand its references, but Runescape have done a pretty funny April Fools day joke this year (at least I hope it is an April fools joke).

Whereby they state that a real-life theme park based around Runescape is to be opened.

Obviously, it relies on several in jokes and references to the game.

Fully agreed with you, Rowdy. Especially as the vast majority of "pranksters" are not even half (or a third, or an eighth) as funny or clever as they seem to think they are.

I love april 1st online. Don't know what you people are complaining about.

I also love April 1st online!

Yeah I like April 1st too. Yeah there is some terrible ones but theres also some funny ones too,NL's was great today,I fell for it as I was bleary eyed when I read it.~wish it had been true though ~ ;-(. At least these days I usually catch on quick,when I was a kid I'd be fooled all day long,I remember beliving that Aliens had landed after seeing one prank news report,gotta say I was pretty gutted when I found out it wasn't true

I hate April 1 ^st for a completely different reason; people use it as an excuse to be stupid. I remember in my middle school the kids planned to not pay attention to the math teacher for the whole class and act as if he wasn't there. I didn't go along with it because it was completely BS, but I had to sit through a painful 15-minute lecture afterwords that was about respect and (in short) not being a moron. People really need to get punched in the face for being so utterly stupid.

Yes.
Cannot wait till today is over.

Very much so. That DSi VC article was just plain cruel, and a number of other sites are being just plain obtrusive. April Fool's Day should die. Seriously.

I have to say the NL DSi VC did get me for a moment but I did laugh afterwards. lol

There are some other forums I go to that have articles such as "Microsoft buys out Nintendo!!!!!OMFG"
Those type of articles are too obvious and stupid.
No humor at all and are too obvious.

April fools can die.

Omg my dog got ran over!!!
Derr april foools! D:

No.

I thought you left?
Welcome back!

I was about to crap my pants when I saw the "VC on DSi" thing then I almost crapped my pants again when I found out it was an April Fool's joke.