everyone has decided that april fools day stories are neither funny nor clever.

enough is enough. Surely there is some real news to cover...

...to have something funny in an April Fool's joke. That's why they're called jokes.

False statements and news articles aren't jokes, especially when they come so rapid-fire that they are obviously false.

A real April Fool's joke would make us actually believe it, like the console-qt thing. I actually downloaded that.

...then nothing is. Check out this quote:

"[The orcs] have never really been that important to the [Warcraft] series anyway. We could've had the night elves in Warcraft II instead, and it totally would've been the same."

Anything that lame and in "totally-like-valley-girl speak" has to be made up.

Hey, April Fools is a sign of cheap Easter candy! Quit readin' and buy, buy, buy!

I think the real April Fool's Joke is that all the stories posted by CmdrTaco aren't *really* from CmdrTaco. It's someone else masquerading as him...

Perhaps it's The Satanic SysAdmins [satanic.org]

You know, it would have been a lot more interesting if the story submitter had done a bit more research. The orcs are not simply being removed. They're being -replaced-. Yes, replaced by the Pandarens. http://www.battle.net/war3/pandaren/ [battle.net] (Yes, I know it's an april fools joke, but still...)

Now we're gonna have everybody whine about April Fool's day being over and the jokes aren't funny and blah blah blah.

"waaah boo hoo, i want news blah blah.", I got a better idea, why not participate in the fun? Instead of stating the obvious 'Derr it's a Joke', try going with it: "Heh, it'd be funny if they replaced the Orcs with Wil Wheaton."

One of the aspects of the Slashdot community that bugs me sometimes is you put something new in front of them and a good chunk of them spends their time looking for something wrong with it. I can't tell anymore if it's just people unwilling to change until something is proven or if it's just a case of "if I can find fault in it, I'll appear smarter."

Let's talk about Blizzard for a sec. How many people said "I won't buy any more Blizzard games because of BnetD being shut down?" How many actually EMAILED Blizzard (which would have been FAR MORE EFFECTIVE) and voiced their complaints instead? People are quick to stand up against something, but they're not so fast when it comes to doing something practical about it.

I would highly recommend an attitude adjustment for a portion of this community if they can't find fun in April Fool's day. As it is, they're doing very little to solve the problems that bother them so much.

Since today seems to be the day that the most mod points go towards modding a post as funny, and I'm not funny, can I just ask for them and get them?
Thanks.

Oh, and I almost forgot to add please.

Your boycotting slashdot? Then what the hell are you still doing posting.

Or we could all just learn to embrace the absurdity of it all. Lighten up a bit.