April Fools
Seems like a creative way to celebrate Easter: New beginnings. New blog! Or maybe because it's April Fools.
Who knows, really.
I love and loathe Easter. I mean, it's good for some fun, it's generally an enjoyable day to spend time with the people you appreciate. On the other hand, the Internet becomes a minefield of lies and everybody has their own joke to tell, usually in the form of fake announcements.
Oh wait, I'm talking about April Fools. Yeah, I keep mixing up the two today for some reason.
Why did I make this blog? For a one-off joke? Actually, no. It's a weird thing for me. I don't do April Fools all that well. I don't have a lot of talent for pranks, and whichever pranking talent I got, I got it from my dad... whose biggest joke is to randomly say "Merry Christmas" at the end of phone calls with my mom, no matter the time of year.
As a result, while I do indulge in the yearly pleasures of April Fools, I tend to be... um... weird about it. It's become some bizarre bit of meta-comedy with time, as I do these on my main blog, Planned All Along. That blog began in July 2013, which means I've made 5 April Fools articles so far. If we count this year, that is.
2014: I reviewed Bugs Bunny: Lost In Time, a game for the original PlayStation. I don't own a PlayStation, in fact I don't even own that game! But I played aplenty at a friend's house when I was young, and for that reason I knew what to talk about. Still comes off as an odd duck in my timeline of reviews, due to the fact I was almost exclusively eviewing Nintendo games at the time.
2015: I post a review of the song His World by Crush 40, while pretending to be the Internet music reviewer Todd in the Shadows. Tried to copy his style for a review, which was pretty challenging. For bonus points, it tied into my reviews that month, as I was looking at two Sonic games.
2016: I reviewed Sexy Poker, an actual WiiWare game, and made myself as lecherous and pervy as I could be.
2017: My weirdest April Fools so far, I reviewed the video-game themed album Starbomb, by the band Starbomb. I think it became something else completely by luck, like a sort of meta-joke. I was planning to hate on the album, because I knew what it was like, and I wanted to make my reactions as exaggeratedly negative as possible. Then I listened to the thing, and I ended up utterly hating it. Though I remained fair in my review, the original joke turned into a truth. Though, with how much love the album gets, Iwouldn't be surprised if I left fans confused. "Is he still joking, or is he serious?" And to this day, I hope this article of mine confuses people. "He says he's serious, but this is April Fools, so he could be lying, but then again it seems genuine, yeah but everyone BSs on April 1st, so maybe..." Heh. That's funny to me.
2018: The review is Super Mario Galaxy, and in all fairness, it IS a review, not just a joke - but I pretend to be 40 years older than I am now, and throw in plenty of references to things that may have happened between 2018 and 2058 (such as an edgy Mario spin-off where Yoshi carries a gun).
Now, this blog started on April Fools, but is it a serious thing?
Yes.
Actually, I had that idea in my head for a while, some kind of secodary blog removed from the main one, something where I can ramble freely. Share my thoughts on everything: Video games, the media, reviews, real life, and everything else. I thought it would be as good a time to start it today.... were everything has to be taken with a grain of salt, were people doubt every new announcement may be a lie, where everything seems too good - or too outlandish - to be true.
On April Fools, telling the truth may be the best joke of them all.
Who knows, really.
I love and loathe Easter. I mean, it's good for some fun, it's generally an enjoyable day to spend time with the people you appreciate. On the other hand, the Internet becomes a minefield of lies and everybody has their own joke to tell, usually in the form of fake announcements.
Oh wait, I'm talking about April Fools. Yeah, I keep mixing up the two today for some reason.
Why did I make this blog? For a one-off joke? Actually, no. It's a weird thing for me. I don't do April Fools all that well. I don't have a lot of talent for pranks, and whichever pranking talent I got, I got it from my dad... whose biggest joke is to randomly say "Merry Christmas" at the end of phone calls with my mom, no matter the time of year.
As a result, while I do indulge in the yearly pleasures of April Fools, I tend to be... um... weird about it. It's become some bizarre bit of meta-comedy with time, as I do these on my main blog, Planned All Along. That blog began in July 2013, which means I've made 5 April Fools articles so far. If we count this year, that is.
2014: I reviewed Bugs Bunny: Lost In Time, a game for the original PlayStation. I don't own a PlayStation, in fact I don't even own that game! But I played aplenty at a friend's house when I was young, and for that reason I knew what to talk about. Still comes off as an odd duck in my timeline of reviews, due to the fact I was almost exclusively eviewing Nintendo games at the time.
2015: I post a review of the song His World by Crush 40, while pretending to be the Internet music reviewer Todd in the Shadows. Tried to copy his style for a review, which was pretty challenging. For bonus points, it tied into my reviews that month, as I was looking at two Sonic games.
2016: I reviewed Sexy Poker, an actual WiiWare game, and made myself as lecherous and pervy as I could be.
2017: My weirdest April Fools so far, I reviewed the video-game themed album Starbomb, by the band Starbomb. I think it became something else completely by luck, like a sort of meta-joke. I was planning to hate on the album, because I knew what it was like, and I wanted to make my reactions as exaggeratedly negative as possible. Then I listened to the thing, and I ended up utterly hating it. Though I remained fair in my review, the original joke turned into a truth. Though, with how much love the album gets, Iwouldn't be surprised if I left fans confused. "Is he still joking, or is he serious?" And to this day, I hope this article of mine confuses people. "He says he's serious, but this is April Fools, so he could be lying, but then again it seems genuine, yeah but everyone BSs on April 1st, so maybe..." Heh. That's funny to me.
2018: The review is Super Mario Galaxy, and in all fairness, it IS a review, not just a joke - but I pretend to be 40 years older than I am now, and throw in plenty of references to things that may have happened between 2018 and 2058 (such as an edgy Mario spin-off where Yoshi carries a gun).
Now, this blog started on April Fools, but is it a serious thing?
Yes.
Actually, I had that idea in my head for a while, some kind of secodary blog removed from the main one, something where I can ramble freely. Share my thoughts on everything: Video games, the media, reviews, real life, and everything else. I thought it would be as good a time to start it today.... were everything has to be taken with a grain of salt, were people doubt every new announcement may be a lie, where everything seems too good - or too outlandish - to be true.
On April Fools, telling the truth may be the best joke of them all.
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