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Sunday, April 2, 2006

Jaded

Maybe the internet should just shut down on April Fool's day. It seems that nearly every news site on the internet thinks that it is still funny and original to pull these "prank stories" out of their asses.

Kotaku's on some zombie rampage, ThinkGeek went through its cycle of fake products again, 1up has Lord knows what, and random stories are popping up on message boards from smaller sites, which is followed by the inevitable seven pages of people asking "iz it reel??" even if it was proven fake on the first page.

What makes it worse is the fallout of these pranks- most of us remember the "Realistic Ocarina of Time" remake story from EGM, and how there are still probably people out there who think that it's fact. You're journalists- albeit internet journalists- show some integrity.

(I didn't see TheOtaku's banners, but I'm assuming it was something MSpaintey, to which I say "meh.")
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