I fell for the AMD buying Intel one because it was so dry that it didn't feel like a prank and I still follow hardware news because of said self hosting.
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I saw the James Bond new casting one and was skeptical, but also half believed. I was skeptical enough to Google for other sources and the joke was spoiled by the top result.
Literally the only joke I saw today was from Lockpicking Lawyer
Dito, most major outlets and companies that used to do fun things in the past for marketing or for fun have stopped. It used to be my favorite holiday, now adays... Its dry and the humor just isnt there anymore.
There's just not much worth being happy about right now. Its kind of silly to be doing a light-hearted marketing push while people are being shot by their government.
I didn't see any jokes today, awww, now I kind of wish I did...
I think just all the days are fools days now
Yeah, feel the same, curated RSS feeds also contribute significantly.
The amount of BS flying daily in the 'media' and with AI slop makes every day April Fool's anyway. A constructed environment means the BS detector doesn't have to be on 24/7, which becomes tiresome.
My favorite April Fool's joke was convincing my then-elementary age kids that they missed April Fool's Day. Somehow I managed to do this completely deadpan. Them coming home from school and immediately yelling "DAD YOU TRICKED US" was the icing on the cake. They're teenagers now and still talk about it. Good times.
Recently though, I've grown a distaste for AF jokes in general. I fell for two of them within 10 minutes of waking up. One was a youtube creator (miniminuteman's "Atlantis" episode" that he's actually been working on for months), and the other was a buddy of mine on a Discord we're in telling us that he blew his engine in his only vehicle.
To be fair though, in years past I would find a photo of a wrecked vehicle that matched one of mine, same year/make/model/color, and post it on social media captioned with something to the effect of "well that was short-lived" or "luckily it was just me" or whatever. The last time I did it was a few years ago, my wife (then girlfriend at the time) called me within 10 minutes of posting it, clearly panicked, and demanding to know if I was at the hospital 😂 I should have looped her in, in hindsight. But I don't do it anymore anyway because 1) everyone caught on 😅 and 2) fuck Facebook.
April Fools
I'm not much for the standard April Fools pranks. They start put with humor, but will inevitably be taken to far as each person involved tries to one—up the other.
The only April fools joke I really encountered yesterday was modded Minecraft refused to launch until I changed the date to today. Too bad I didn't figure it out until late in the day and my kid was upset they didn't get to play because the stupid thing stopped loading right before the main menu