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Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps) has an early start on the festivities.  Look on the bottom left corner.

They always manage to do something that I wish they'd keep all year, like the treasure view they did two years ago.

Here's one from Amazon (I think):
www.amazon.com/dashbutton

If that's a joke, they put a lot of effort in. The terms and conditions are all fleshed out, with no indications of it being a spoof.

Amazon Dash is real and was announced months ago, AFAIK.

Does it post bullshit in the politics forum too ?

 :Love_Letters:

Took me a second...  :awesome_for_real:

Señor Administrator seems to be correct. I did a quick Youtube search, note the date of the upload.


(http://i.imgur.com/Nd18h0l.png)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYXuXX48m8

John Oliver's views on April Fool's Day.

My bad on the Dash. I'd never heard of it and the timing seemed suspect.

Microsoft Surface Watch (https://twitter.com/MSAU/status/583045612100329472)

You're not the only one who thought it was a joke: https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=amazon%20dash%20button%20april%20fools (https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=amazon%20dash%20button%20april%20fools)

April 1-1:

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researchers-confirm-existence-force

Title says it all. Didn't get more than a :roll: out of me, but they are not paid to be funny, so...

April 1-2:

https://com.google

Yes, it works. Background is that TLD domains can be basically anything now, if you can afford it ( > 100k $).

You can now "add music" in every Youtube video while watching. It's 2 1s parts of Sandstorm. Button on the lower right.

One link to handle this entire matter:

The Guardian April Fools' Day 2015 Liveblog (http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/01/april-fools-day-jokes-2015-the-best-from-around-the-world)

I like how his entries get increasing annoyed and ALL CAPS the longer the day went on. Poor guy.  :-P


(https://i.imgur.com/qXIbJ2z.png)

Hook up app for your followers in WoW (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/18486737/new-garrison-feature-tindr-for-followers-4-1-2015)

My mother pulled the best April Fools prank ever and had me at 4am...tomorrow.

I still burn with bitter regret at not getting my birthright.

(edit...I mean in 1970, not some weird timey wimey thing)

My grandfather's funeral and morning wake was on April 1st 2011. Talk about the land of opportunity wasted. From the wake, to the church, to the graveyard... so my places and things to be had.  All for naught.

(http://i.imgur.com/EGLn5bt.png)

Unvigintillion.  :uhrr: 

Thank god there was an article about big numbers around here for me not to comment on this saying they are just making up words.

While not technically an April Fool, the Urban Mech video for MechWarrior that came out today was hilarious.

UrbanMech: Death Blossom  (https://youtu.be/inLK05VFIdY) This one?   :wink:

The quotes are better than the footage.  I'm surprised you people are old enough to get the reference. 

Soo, Landmark decided to waste some of their programmer's time creating an item that changes the game graphics.... Called the retro-izer.

Video of the effect:
Retro-izer in Landmark (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBWGfUsuw0&feature=youtu.be)

Not exactly the most effective use of programmer's time IMO, especially when the recent patch has broken so many things.

I'm sure the 15 minutes that took really impacted their bugfixing schedule.

The patch last Friday had no less than 50 issues with it, and the hotfix yesterday (https://forums.station.sony.com/landmark/index.php?threads/hotfix-notes-31-march-2015.54153/) fixed many of them and broke about 30-40 other things. Still cannot open chests that were on my claim since last year... So yah that 15 mins is kind of important.

edit to add link to fix notes yesterday.

Got to let programmers be free sometimes or they go crazy, burn out and quit. Not always in that order.

I'm sure the same graphics guys also do the gameplay stuff like chests as well.

Um, yeah, it looks more like somebody ran this through Adobe After Effects.

No, they added an item into the game that changes the graphics.. That would mean it involved at least parts of the items team and parts of the graphics team. All besides the point, and derailing what was supposed to be a funny thread.. Needless to say many of the Landmark players are not amused.

(http://emblemsbf.com/img/50724.jpg)

Came out with a "fake" flavor today for my company.

Within 5 minutes, 2 stores wanted to order it.

 :ye_gods:

Bacon?

Toothpaste.

 :awesome_for_real:

Yum!

https://www.caskers.com/shotclocktm-by-whiskeylife/ (https://www.caskers.com/shotclocktm-by-whiskeylife/)

(http://i.imgur.com/kFMF2in.png)

Would unironically buy except for the bulleit

Toothpaste and OJ would have been better.   :awesome_for_real:

it was a "menthol is disgusting" joke more than a disgusting For Real joke.

What's your business?

Wah?  Bulleit is quite tasty!

Yeah, I've come to enjoy Bulleit as my go-to bourbon. The connoisseurs have problems with it, but I like it.

my favorite hentai site was closed down by FBI today. for 5 seconds before some wrestler appeared and taunted me on screen.
I feel much happier now.  :awesome_for_real:

More old folks here than you know !  Surprised you're surprised.

And Yes, that was the video.  It made me laugh anyway.

Jeremy Clarkson joins The Guardian's campaign for climate change and tolerance (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/01/jeremy-clarkson-joins-guardian-drive-for-fossil-fuel-divestment?CMP=share_btn_fb)

nicotine addiction

.. and business is good. 8-)

Down with Big Tobacco! Up with New Tobacco!

Path of Exile changed all of their reactive skills like Cast on Crit, Cast When Damage Taken, etc. :why_so_serious:
(http://i.imgur.com/W6p0nfs.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/DxEJnq1.jpg)

Bulleit is literally mass-produced bourbon made by a mega distillery here in Indiana basically just poured into a different bottle.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/your-craft-whiskey-is-probably-from-a-factory-distillery-in-indiana.html

Now, the mega-distillery makes legit good stuff, but you're paying even more of a premium for what is a fancy bottle.

My preferred poison:

(http://i.imgur.com/LI4Pffol.jpg) (http://imgur.com/LI4Pffo)

*puts bulleit down for being mass produced in a factory*

*immediatly references the most factory mass produced whisky in the world as his prefered drink*

*is Fabricated*

 :awesome_for_real:

I have no problem with it coming from a factory and not small batch artisanal or what ever.  As the article mentioned, they distill a ton of different recipes for different companies, and only some rebottle their basic stuff.  Bulleit has its own distinct mash bill, and I'm quite fond of it over others (though not my favorite).  So I'm paying for the flavor, not just a bottle.

This practice is fairly common in craft brewing as well.  Many of the larger craft brewers with their own bottling line and excess production capacity will actually brew and bottle the beer of smaller companies for them (called contract brewing). They just send along the recipie (and a check).  Doesn't bug me at all as long as the end product is good.

As for Black label.... I've always felt both red and black label were ass.  I mean I can sip it, but only if somebody bought it for me.  I'm at the point where the only scotches I can really stand drinking are in the $80-100 a bottle range or above.  Below that threshold, I almost always prefer sipping good bourbon instead.

It's not so much the "mass produced" thing so much as the "This is our artisanal bespoke bourbon!" thing when it in fact basically just bought from a mega-distillery.

Apparently there is an emerging market for artisanal bottles.  :why_so_serious:

I should look into outsourcing my artisanal sourdough bread to Indiana.  Save me all sorts of time.

Eh, I only care about flavor, I couldn't care less about what ever BS story they came up with to sell it (though the fact companies are allowed to lie so much is pretty fucking stupid and shouldn't be allowed).  However, I really don't know anybody who thinks Bulleit is a small artisanal bourbon.  It's pretty much the standard bourbon in most bars now, and has a large amount of advertising money obviously put behind it.  It's god damn everywhere.  People (hipsters) who cared about only drinking small batch artisinal alcohol abandoned Bulleit loooong ago (and moved into several of those other Bourbons mentioned in the article.   :awesome_for_real:).

Bulleit Rye is made in Indiana, bourbon is Ky. I won't deny the bourbon is mass produced, though. Won't stop me from enjoying it.

My wife and I got cocktails recently; hers was Makers and mine was Bulleit. Makers just tastes watery to me now. 

A lot of microbrews use large factory operations to brew their beer for them, too.  Brooklyn Brewery did that for a while before getting their own space, for instance.

Last year, one of my coworkers brought in mint Oreos and replaced some of the icing with tootphaste.  We don't talk as much as we used to. 

Maker's Mark used to be pretty good, but wound up in a different trap of the same kind, where they wound up literally watering down their own product in order to stretch it enough to meet demand (making it up with pure grain alcohol to reach the same proof level).

But I'm not much of a booze connoisseur, I prefer fru-fru chick drinks like a Cosmopolitan. All distilled liquor tastes like a mixture of ass and paint thinner, and I'd rather skip the ass (which is generally a result of the 'aging') then cover the paint thinner with sweetness.

--Dave

I disagree with what you said.

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your testicles.

I'm pretty sure most distilled liquor tastes like liquid ear wax.  I've tested this.  Having said that, Gin is GREAT for toothaches.  Just remember to spit it out after you swish it around. 

I realize that I'm late to the game, but this made me laugh harder than it should.

(http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/343294/slide_343294_3561813_free.jpg)

My favorite April Fool's prank so far.

Is that a prank?

I assume it was a prank on whomever's phone number they used.   :awesome_for_real:

Absolutley. It's the modern version of signing people up for a few hundred magazine subscriptions with "bill me later"

That's what I assumed.  Imagine an inbox full of Chewy sounds...

Every time I think about it I laugh.

'Hi, this is <insert name here> Rwweeoooooooooarnnnghhhh!'