ThinkGeek announces April Fools’ Day product line-up
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Feel free to lend a hand in the comments. In an effort to maintain my optimism on this unholy holiday, I've ranked the internet's April Fools' pranks from best to worst. Pepsi 1893? That can't be a thing! And yet, it is. April Fools' Day brand activations have become so powerful that real announcements will be mistaken for lame gags simply because of their vicinity in time. We know the whoopee cushion is on our metaphorical office chair, and yet we sit nonetheless. "Look," says the April Fools' gag, fretted over by a billion dollar publicly traded entity, "we can have fun, too!"Īnd the April Fools' publicity stunt works. I imagine April Fools' Day is like a pagan festival for publicists, copywriters, and junior marketing directors, who on the first of April get to ignore their bosses and put that MBA in Creative Writing to good use. You get the sense, on April Fools' Day, that a certain set of people really love their job. I agree the annual day of pranks and goofs has become a shallow excuse for brands to cloyingly plea for our attention, but sometimes that desperation can transcend into genuine humor. Another’s autistic son went into total meltdown.īut the community is giving this year’s “prank” two big thumbs up.I love April Fools' Day. Mojang literally made someone’s daughter cry. Many people thought they had completely, irreparably messed up their game with recently-installed mods.
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In which someone thought it would be a good idea to update the textures to look like absolute crap upon loading the game. This is like an anti-April Fools’ prank.Īnd fans are a lot happier with it than Mojang’s 2018 Minecraft April Fools’ prank. “Hey if you throw a signed book into a Nether portal…” Then when people try it, and it doesn’t work: “April Fools’!”īut it does work. It’s a deliciously meta prank, because this is the kind of rumor someone would spread online as an April Fools’ joke. The really fun part of this is if players discover a truly amazing dimension, they can share what they wrote in the book with other Minecraft fans, who can use it to generate the same world on their machine. Minecraft April Fools’ Prank Gone Right Source: Twitter Apparently, Mojang has rigged up the game to hash any string of characters from a book into a seed.Īnd the worlds generated are absolutely stunning. Go through the portal, and you end up in a randomly generated world. When you throw the book into the portal, it changes color. All you have to do is write anything you want in a “Book and Quill” and sign it. Then someone discovered that throwing a signed book into a Nether portal generates a very random Minecraft world on the other side. When the game finished loading, they heard the start-up screen sing “Mojang!” in the classic SEGA style. Upon booting up Minecraft for the day, players quickly noticed something wasn’t quite the same: The boot screen appeared slightly different. Mojang called it “20W14infinite,” likely because there’s an infinite number of new dimensions. Minecraft players discovered a new snapshot for Minecraft on April Fools’ Day. Mojang Releases Randomly Generated Dimensions Their 2020 Minecraft April Fools’ prank is one for the history books. Mojang really outdid themselves for April Fools’ Day this year.
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