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Blizzard Adds Tinfoil Hat to Solve Armory Complaints

Journal written by PlatyPaul (690601) and posted by CmdrTaco on Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:48 AM
from the can't-be-uglier-than-spellstrike dept.
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A blue post on the WoW forums shows that blizzard's official stance on player aversion to the Armory will be addressed by adding a new item, the Tinfoil Hat. "While the Tinfoil Hat provides the wearer with added protection against mind control and other befuddlements, the hat's most interesting and truly unique property is that it completely removes the wearer's character profile from the Armory website and provides enhanced privacy for its wearer!"
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  • I put on my robe and tinfoil wizard hat. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Spazntwich (208070) on Sunday April 01 2007, @10:50AM (#18566965)
    And cast +5, Insightful.

  • omg (Score:5, Funny)

    by Sobieski (1032500) on Sunday April 01 2007, @10:54AM (#18566991)
    major league baseball is watching you /dance!

  • I cast level 10... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Alaria Phrozen (975601) on Sunday April 01 2007, @10:56AM (#18567003)

    I put on my robe and tinfoil hat...?

    Man I am really looking to the new WoW sequal, WHoA!

    And if you go to their forums you'll see everyone is posting "blue" except the CMs which are all level 1 trolls :)

    • Re:This is... (Score:5, Funny)

      by wootest (694923) on Sunday April 01 2007, @11:18AM (#18567123)
      One day every 365.2425 days. Somehow, I think you'll survive this time too without the high-quality, in-depth Slashdot reporting we all know and love.
      • Given the dups which will surely happen during the week, I don't think it is wise to say it lasts only one day per year...
  • ...can it help me to escape this April Fools Day curse that seems to be cast upon us everywhere?
    • While I don't like the game very much, I do think WoW has done a fantastic job of bringing RPGs to the masses.

      Not to mention espousing the many benefits of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to corporate leaders nationwide.
  • I got fooled. I was excited for a minute.

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by 0racle (667029)
      I wasn't (though no one is going to believe that), but personally I think such an item would be funny as hell. They added the Sword of a Thousand Truths after the South Park episode, so maybe all the conspiracy theorist Dark Elves have some hope.

  • Plausible (Score:3, Funny)

    by SanityInAnarchy (655584) <ninja@slaphack.com> on Sunday April 01 2007, @11:16AM (#18567119) Journal
    WoW does have real items such as "The Unstoppable Force" (a wicked-looking hammer/mace/scythe thing), and its companion, "The Stoppable Force" (a simple wooden mallet). It also has, I'm told, items which you can fish up which turn you into a ninja or a pirate.

    So, this Tinfoil Hat item would not be entirely out of character for them, either as an April 1 joke, or as an actual, real improvement to the game.
    • [Tinfoil Hat] Increases the chance that the wearer will resist Mind Control, but at the expense of having intellect reduced by 100 and chance to resist Fear reduced by 75%. Doubles the effect of Paranoia against stealthed black helicopters.

    • Re: (Score:1, Informative)

      by omegakidd (592638)
      If you go fishing in the Barrens you will find Deviate Fish pools. Just fish those up, and cook them to make Savory Deviate Fish. Eat one and you could turn in to a ninja or a pirate. The fish can be used in Alchemy to make a an Elixir of Giant growth which will increase your size and do +8 stam to fit your new size.
    • They also have "The Immovable Object" (a shield) to compliment, sold from the same guy. i haven't yet seem what happens when they meet. =D
    • And don't forget the "Tenacious Defender" - "It has the power... to move you" http://www.thottbot.com/i24091 [thottbot.com]
  • Fool me once shame on me. Fool me twice shame on you.

    • Fool me once shame on me. Fool me twice shame on you.

      Maybe there's some obscure joke I'm missing here, but, I think you've got the saying backwards-- the point is that it should be your own fault if you get fooled twice by the same person for similar things (whereas, it is clearly wrong of someone to fool you in the first place, hence, fool me once, shame on you). Seriously, no fooling!

      ... OK, so the fact that I have nothing better to do than post this comment is pretty darn sad.

    • It's the other way around.

      Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

      Shame on you for being deceitful.
      Shame on me for believing you twice.
    • Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me.
    • Fool me once... uh... uh.... shame on you.

      uh.... A fooled man can't get fooled again.

  • This is funny, laugh (Score:4, Insightful)

    by SL Baur (19540) <steve@xemacs.org> on Sunday April 01 2007, @11:48AM (#18567301) Homepage Journal
    http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/tinfoilh at.xml [worldofwarcraft.com]

    Equip: Hides the wearer's profile from the Armory.

    Equip: Allows the wearer to see "the truth." May lead to an incontrollable urge to share "the truth" with others.

    Use: Grants the wearer immunity to all forms of mind control for the next 10 sec...or does it?

    "On behalf of the International Gnomish Conspiracy, I've got to inform you that we're almost out of tinfoil."

    Requires Tin Bar (99), Fused Wiring (4), Troll Tears (8), Heavy Leather (4), Star Ruby
    I'd like one just for the joke value, but that's going to be too expensive to buy in the AH. Bummer.
  • If you cut holes in your tin foil hat so your pony's ears fit through, does it lessen the effect? I wouldn't want Stardust to be turned into a Government sleeper agent.

    Ponies of Death - OMG!1! too scary!
  • The screenshots and their captions are... interesting.
    Tonight, we dine in Hellfire Peninsula! [worldofwarcraft.com]

  • HERES A DIME (Score:4, Insightful)

    by IamWhoIam (998642) on Sunday April 01 2007, @02:16PM (#18568069)
    I have been reading posts all damn day deriding the use of humorous stories, on our beloved slashdot; on this famous day of the fools. Granted some of them are less than hilarious, but just the same there is some humor in all of them. If those of you that are such sticks in the mud (thats a polite term for heads up your asses) that you can't take one day out of your over serious lives to enjoy a bit of humor you indeed have a sad life. Here is a cyber dime. Go buy your self a sense of humor

    Oh yeah I am out of mod points so those of you that have any left mod this as insightful.

  • A long while back, like a year ago, some friends convinced me to record this joke song I wrote called "Foil Hat".

    I know, it's stupid. I know...

    but I thought it was funny to sort of go along with this announcement.

    There's a link here... http://music.download.com/ianbasore/3600-10606_32- 100897264.html [download.com]

  • I had a friend play a Gnome who had a Mechanical Squirrel as a Warlock pet - he was an engineer.

    Well, when he put on the Tin Foil Hat, the Mechanical Squirrel went all haywire and started chattering on about "Coffee! Must have Coffee!" and other such things.

    So, don't use both.

    • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

      by Alaria Phrozen (975601)
      You sir are the grinch of fun day. I have the perfect idea for an outfit that you could wear, and while IAMACD (I am not a Costume Designer) I'm sure your giant hemorrhoid will simply dazzle.

    • Re:cripes (Score:5, Insightful)

      by notque (636838) on Sunday April 01 2007, @11:00AM (#18567039) Homepage Journal
      Seriously, all this April 1 faux-story crap is neither amusing nor interesting. What's the fucking point?

      The real question is how the hell so many of you have the time to complain about it. You know it's going to continue. You know when it will stop.

      Here's a change for April Fool's day, Go outside!

      • Re: (Score:1, Redundant)

        by Sigma 7 (266129)

        The real question is how the hell so many of you have the time to complain about it. You know it's going to continue. You know when it will stop.


        Some of us work for tech support, and today is Sunday during the day time.

        Here's a change for April Fool's day, Go outside!


        That would be derelition of duty.

        • Some of us work for tech support, and today is Sunday during the day time.

          Here's a change for April Fool's day, Go outside!
          That would be derelition of duty.
          And reading Slashdot during work hours isn't?

    • Re:cripes (Score:4, Insightful)

      by repvik (96666) <slashdot@kynisk.com> on Sunday April 01 2007, @11:08AM (#18567081)
      Agreed. It's much more fun when there's just a bunch of regular stories and one subtle april fools story. This isn't funny, reading slashdot today is useless instead of interesting.
    • My favourite thing about the April 1st posts every year, is reading the commens, and seeing that there is always a solid 10% minority who bitch about the April 1st posts.

      It has become a Slashdot tradition to have the day filled with bogus stories designed to amuse, and for the most part, they seem to succeed.

      If this doesn't appeal to you, I might suggest going somewhere else for your serious tech news for the day?

      - Scott

      • My favourite thing about the April 1st posts every year, is reading the commens, and seeing that there is always a solid 10% minority who bitch about the April 1st posts.

        It has become a Slashdot tradition to have the day filled with bogus stories designed to amuse, and for the most part, they seem to succeed.

        If this doesn't appeal to you, I might suggest going somewhere else for your serious tech news for the day?

        I only come to slashdot to complain. This is the one day a year I get to complain about the stupidness of of having 100% intentionally bogus content, rather than my usual complaint, which is about the 15% unintentional bogus content. Really, it's all just complaining about the chimps they have as "editors". Dupes, blatant astroturfing, misleading titles... good thing they don't pay these guys for this, right?

    • So do you yell at your kids for making a noise while unwrapping their Xmas presents too?

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