Megathread: April Fools' Day 2022 on the internet
As is tradition, here's the (late) thread to collect this year's April Fools' events:
Over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun interactive activities, games, and so on. A lot of these can be quite clever and interesting so I think posting about them in general is fine, but in the interest of preventing them from completely taking over Tildes, let's try to keep as many of them restricted to this thread as possible. Ideally, a separate top-level comment for each individual item would be good.
If something particularly discussion-worthy comes up (like an ARG or activity that a lot of people want to talk about), a separate thread is reasonable, but please make sure it has the "april fools day" tag. That way, if anyone wants to avoid seeing the April Fools' Day threads, they can use the topic tag filters and filter that tag out.
I'm going to use the "official" styling for this topic (that's usually only for ~tildes.official topics) to make it stand out more to try to encourage people to notice it. If you notice people making individual topics for April Fools' Day things that don't really warrant their own topic, please (nicely) encourage them to delete and post in here instead.
LockPickingLawyer brings back his wife's beaver so he can tell us how to fill it.
LockPickingLawyer's April Fools videos are easily my favorite on YouTube. Previous years' videos:
My 18-Inch Long Johnson
Getting In My Ex-Girlfriend’s Back Door
Getting Into My Wife’s Beaver
Manipulating My Tiny Coq
StackOverflow has introduced filters. Finally, I can browse StackOverflow in style.
I... unironically love the
Lisa FrankFrisa Lank one...The fact that "BookFace" is authored by "Tom" is very amusing to me.
I also happened to have a pair of red/blue anagylph glasses, which I tried on their "3d" view, but sadly the colors aren't quite right for the pair I have, so it just looks blurry.
I was looking something up and couldn't see a thing, then I remembered I was messing with the StackOverflow filters. Broke my brain for a second.
No kidding, the rest are varying degrees of annoying but I wouldn't mind keeping that one permanently!
Mojang released a minecraft update that simplifies the game and fixes all inventory issues by removing the inventory.
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/mojang-studios-release-new-astonishing-update
Twitch streamer SmallAnt is currently streaming a playthrough attempting to beat the game. https://www.twitch.tv/smallant
Reddit is doing the /r/place thing again (only works on new.reddit in case you go and don't see it). I'm only really interested in seeing the timelapse that will get posted after it's all done to see the waves of subs come and go.
Hackers leak lichess source code
I think someone did this joke before with Linux, but it's still mildly amusing.
Forgotten Weapons - it's a rifle from Fallout 3. It shouldn't exist, but someone made a functional replica of it. Wow. Ian also gives a very matter-of-fact account of the history of this 280 year old rifle from the year 1993.
Watched this during breakfast this morning.
Despite all the little bits of lore and Ian's ability to just go into it completely straight faced, I'm laughing at the idea of someone completely unware of the Fallout games going into this video utterly lost on what the hell he's talking about and wondering why he's giving dates that are in the future.
I really liked Linus Tech Tips' video - https://youtu.be/Slwai2Jhy_A
Although telling you it's an April Fools video kind of ruins it.
Sponsorblock gave that one away for me:
https://i.imgur.com/50oVyTd.png
green on the timeline = "sponsor segment", yellow = "unpaid self-promotion segment"
Beautiful.
heardle
this site lets you listen, in 1 second increments, to a song. The less song you need to guess it, the better.
It's a rickroll.
Sun-Maid unveiled a new more extreme version of their signature product.
That actually looks tasty!
Factorio Friday Facts #369 - To the moon
WestJet does space flight now. The video is really good and packed full of little jokes, and they also have a full landing page with more information on their space-flight service.
My favourite part is that you can book a one-way ticket...
It seems like a lot of the over-the-top, elaborate April Fool's pranks from Google, Microsoft and the like have died off.
Good riddance. It got way past the point where it was fun and just sort of became more annoying than fun.
I think we have the pandemic to thank for that. I vaguely remember people saying they were gonna take April Fool’s off in 2020 because of everything being shut down. And I don’t remember anything happening in 2021, though in fairness the last time I remember anything April Fools related was when I was in high school.
This Old Tony turned a cube on a lathe.
For those of you not machinists or familiar, lathes are used to make things round.
Due to me watching that yesterday, this video from 2018 just showed up in my recommendations:
Machining a Cube on a Lathe
Which reminds me of this old tweet:
cfrabbro, my fine Canadian friend. You must learn to open things in an incognito window! But yeah, I am diligent about curating my youtube watch and search history, along with Don't recommend channel option, to keep things like 10,000 things you didn't know about hinges, you won't believe #3,784! out of my recommendations.
Also, I had Jamaican for lunch today.
I frequently use Don't recommend and selectively clear my viewing history as well, and so my YouTube recommendations are usually pretty good. This was the first time in long time that something so unrelated to what I typically watch showed up in it. That's part of what made it so amusing to me. :P
And nice. What did you end up ordering this time? I made Beyond Meat Bibimbap for dinner tonight, which was bloody delicious, so my jealousy of your lunch isn't quite as bad as it otherwise would have been. ;)
Well, do feel free to continue down the machining youtube rabbit hole, it gets fun!
Didn't know what I wanted for lunch, but Monday is my dine out day so had to find something and when my wife asked if I knew where I was going and I said no, she responded with "Well, if you go to that Jamaican place again I'll take a meat pie!" which set off our friendly banter back and forth of "You mean a patty? Yeah, a hand pie! So, a patty then? Yep, one of those delicious turnovers!"
So a patty for each of us and as it was a little cold and going to rain heavily (soup weather), I ordered gumbo for lunch and curry chicken to save for dinner. The gumbo was delightfully rustic and absolutely delicious. I'm a big soup (and therefore gumbo) fan and this had levels of constant spice and flavor I haven't had in pure Cajun restaurants. Instead of individually chopped/separated meats, it was all cooked whole and prepped a bit before being packaged up for me. It had deskinned chicken drumettes (the drum part of the wing), shrimp, and crab. The chicken had obviously been stewed in the gumbo and was fall apart tender, moist, with flavor penetrated throughout. The crab was cooked in the gumbo whole and he pulled it out quartered it, and then put it in the container. So it ended up being more akin to the Ethiopian and traditional Indian restaurants I've been to where you're very much expected to use your fingers to eat instead of just utensils as I'd pull out a piece of chicken with my spoon and dig in like it wasn't just sitting in soup and I'd do the same cracking open the crab to get at everything inside. I'm accustomed to such in places like this as they rarely use boneless meat, but this is the first time I've seen such in soup. One of the many benefits of a hole in the wall shop that mainly feeds their local enclave.
I wasn't expecting the gumbo to come in a quart container, as a result gumbo was had for lunch and dinner. So the curry chicken will be dinner tonight.
LOL, that's delightful. :)
And damn, that sounds amazing. I'm fully back to being super jealous again, since I'm a huge soup (and gumbo/stew) fan too. And I absolutely love the more rustic/traditional preparations like that as well.
Beat me to it. I had watched that at some point, and when I read the above comment, I was inclined to nitpick that "acshually, that's possible", couldn't find my source though.
RFC 9225: Software defects considered harmful
This also pricks at my distaste for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful, excellently done. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments for other April Fools' Day RFCs.
First thing this morning I got pretty annoyed, in a "I'm an idiot" sort of shameful way. Good Mythical Morning released a We Spent $1,000,000 At The Dollar Store video, which actually got me excited to watch since I wondered what they could have possibly spent all that money on. And it took me far far far too long into the video before I finally realized what day it was, and what they were doing. :(
Buckingham Palace Tube station to open for the Queen's Jubilee
Ian Visits – 1st April 2022
Vitalik Buterin wrote the best defense he could of Bitcoin maximalism.
It's still April 1, and I have to plug this.
World War II is an excellent channel looking at history week by week. Today, they released The End of Hydra? presented as a real documentary. It was clever, well-made, and with a few cute surprises.
just came across this one today:
The Operations Room is a really interesting military history channel with animated diagrams of historical battles
they published F-14s vs MiG-28s - May 1986, a Danger Zone in the Indian Ocean which is animated and narrated exactly in their normal style, except describing the final scene in Top Gun
The Operations Room posted a video today about the real life incident that inspired that scene...
The REAL Top Gun Battle, Gulf of Sidra 1981 - Animated
SourceRuns uploaded Half-Life 20 Trailer and Hunt Down The Freeman: DWaHMoV in 32:25
In doing so, they managed to make HDTF look somewhat enjoyable, which is impressive.
Not technically online, but The Price Is Right did a few pranks on the show today. Like food falling out of the fridge, dropping tons of ping pong balls on a ping pong table, giving away a car for one of the intro prizes, etc.
Need to get one last thing in. Not specifically internet. But Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel swapped shows.