sorry but thats going a bit too far, These days you can't be too
careful, the girl's life could have been in danger walking out there
alone in the dark like that, they should have ended the joke while
she was still in the house instead of waiting until she reached school.
At 12:29 PM 4/04/2009, you wrote:
Hi
Wow, that there's quite funny.
Another notable one is a friend of ours set his daughters alarm
several hours ahead. So when it went off at 8 AM, it was really 4
AM. So she got ready for school, and walked to school at 5 in the
morning! As you can guess she was not happy, but it was quite funny.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Where to download mota version 4
Hi Jeremy,
Oh, I understand where you are coming from, but the point of the
joke was to see how many people would fall for it, go read the
subject and drive themselves crazy trying to download it, and of
course couldn't. That is the entire point of April Fools Day pranks.
I remember reading some time before y2k about a radio station who
pulled off a really good prank. They told there listeners that the
record companies had released information that all music cds
released were not y2k ready, and that they could call a certain
number to get x number of stickers that made the cds y2k
compatible. As you might expect they got thousands of calls for the
stickers only to get an automated message wishing them a happy
April Fools Day. Thing is the calls kept coming into the radio
station weeks after April Fools Day was over, and even the record
companies had to fend off thousands of angry callers wanting their
stickers right now. In the end the radio station and the record
companies had to go public and let everyone know that it was only a
prank, not to take it seriously, and assure everyone their cds were
indeed y2k ready.
Thing is when I read about it I couldn't help but laugh my butt off
at how many people got duped. Still the prank was serious enough to
cause a wide spread panic, and stores in the listening area noted
a huge drop in music sales because of the bogus y2k problem with
music cds. Like the radio station involved I find it difficult to
believe that many people were duped by such an obvious prank, but
several people were fooled. In the end a simple prank back fired big time.
Jeremy Hartley wrote:
I usually don't respond to messages such as this one, but in
defense of the author,
not that he needs any, I will respond.
First of all, Thomas Ward did say a couple of days ago that he
would release beta
four in a quote day or two unquote. Now, I do realized that his
beta four message
was an april fools joke and I thought it was cool, , but I would
ask that we all
think of something a little differently.
Many of us, myself included have day jobs. What this means is that
a lot of times
we look at subject lines and then file them away for later when
we have the time
to look at the messages.
If one was to just file away the message that beta four was
released, and if they
had read that Thomas was going to release beta four in a day or
two, then they may
have just seen that message and automatically gone to the website,
thinking that
they could grab the beta. Not everyone has the time to read all
the e-mails on
a list, especially when the developer of a game posted before the
april first date
what beta four would be about, and when things come from
developers, especially
talking about a beta release, there are those folks who just see
the subject and
say, "hey, cool, when I have the time, I will download the next
beta from the website,
since I know where to download the game. Why should I read the
e-mail, if I know
where the beta can be downloaded."
Now, I will say here that before I went to the website, I did read
the e-mail, and
I knew it was an april fools joke. But since Thomas,
already posted at the end
ofMarch what the next beta would be, I may have not read the
e-mail, and gone straight
to the website.
So before you make a statement like this below, maybe you should
think about how
people process the e-mails they receive.
.
Jeremy
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