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Title: THE april fools prank.
Post by: holy_devil on January 13, 2005, 07:23:19 PM: idea is something of the sort;

i confess or someone bans me for hacking, pr post and all. confessing would be more believeable imo, i'd make some long sob post.

could ditch the pr forum altogether imo if i 'confessed', so it's probably easier to go with that

wanted to get everyones opinions(admin chan gave positive feedback so figured id post) feel free to give suggestions, id would be great if LB or Jhunz could get into this as well ;x

and yes i realize april is a while away, but i want to make this good and i'd probably forget by march =[
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Post by: Vinegar Ninja on January 13, 2005, 07:25:59 PM: I call making the ban
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Post by: lolfighter on January 14, 2005, 02:22:44 AM: Only way I can stay in character is by being mostly indifferent and going v_v a lot.
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Post by: Niteowl on January 14, 2005, 03:50:21 AM: I only worry about what sorta vitriol and ranting this might pull from self righteous regs. Other than that it sounds funny. :)
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Post by: Malevolent on January 14, 2005, 04:25:49 AM: That would be quite hilarious, but Nite could be right. But it would be fun to see how people react even if what they say is a little crazy.
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Post by: BobTheJanitor on January 14, 2005, 07:05:28 PM: This has potential for hilarity. If only we can still remember it in a couple months.
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Post by: Fewlio on January 14, 2005, 10:16:18 PM: Too much work, I think I'm gonna come in and go "*BANNED* LOL APRIL FOOLS oh wait that was the whole channel..." haha get it?
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Post by: lolfighter on January 15, 2005, 06:20:12 AM: No, don't get it. And of course it'll incur ranting and vitriol from our regs. We' handle it the usual way though, by acting aloof and indifferent. And then it'll all be revealed the next day. :D
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on January 15, 2005, 01:54:51 PM: You know, I think this would be found out very soon. Perhaps to make it seem more real, and to fool them even more, do it on the 31st or the 2nd :D
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Post by: holy_devil on January 15, 2005, 02:02:36 PM: Quote
You know, I think this would be found out very soon. Perhaps to make it seem more real, and to fool them even more, do it on the 31st or the 2nd :D
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thats even evil-er >:D me likey. perhaps the 31st so we can reveal it on april fools day?
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Post by: GrayDuck on January 15, 2005, 03:33:23 PM: Dunno why, but I thought about it today. I think it would be funny but agree that it should happen before april 1st. this is how I was thinking it would be effective:

You play during a time that some of our regs (ideally our loud mouth regs) are on - vinnie like the bum he is takes up a spot speccing.... and eventually bans you. You (HD) take it up in #lm and bitch about being banned and also banned from the #lmadmins channel (to give good reason for discussing it in #lm) You and vinnie but heads and being the good debater vinnie is he gets you to say F*CK IT! And quit. (and/or banned from LM). And we sit back for a day or so and watch the rumors fly.

hehehehe I like it >:D
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Post by: lolfighter on January 16, 2005, 08:47:49 AM: I say we sticky this one for the time being. Would be a shame if discussion died out and it dropped off the first page.
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Post by: Malevolent on January 16, 2005, 10:16:41 AM: It probably won't go off the first page, LF. The last posts for other threads was the 5th. ;)
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Post by: BobTheJanitor on January 19, 2005, 09:43:54 PM: For full effectiveness you need to get banned from LM, start IRC drama, get banned from there, start forum drama, get banned from the community, then come back and say lol prank'd.
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Post by: Malevolent on January 20, 2005, 10:35:38 AM: You've been punk'd.
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Post by: Evangelion_2 on January 26, 2005, 03:44:14 PM: HD, you should make a demo with h4x?!
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Post by: holy_devil on February 28, 2005, 09:26:18 PM: okay, march is in half an hour so figured we'd start planning.

this is how i vision it happening:

on say, march 30th, me and vinnie are playing on the server. he awaits for me to do some kill(preferably a decent one where i could be hacking). he then proceeds to ban me from the server, and is like LOL HAX SRY GUYS!?!?.

slide over to forums, where i post in pr saying i was banned from admin channel(rather keep myself in there so you guys can talk to me and vice versa, no one can check anyway =]) and LB or someone proceeds to ban my forum acc(i assume that banning it won't affect my acc right?(pw/whatever)

insert banning me from #lm somewhere in there, probably after the "admin channel ban" =x act as if this was a planned ban for a while imo, because banning me in the case of hacking would actually require input(i must be hiding it very well, after all, been here a while =p)

and let the WTF HD BANT SKILL BANNERS ZOMG begin. maybe do it near the end of the day on the 30th, so people have a day to roast over it. then on the 1st.. we pop the big suprise :D

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how does that sound? any suggestions, comments, etc? and vin, can you guarentee you'll be around on the 30th? as well, just as a backup, we'll need someone else who wants to do it, incase vin can't be there for some reason.

>:D >:D >:D >:D
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Post by: JHunz on February 28, 2005, 09:34:39 PM: I call the IRC bans :D
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Post by: Malevolent on March 01, 2005, 11:51:27 AM: March can't end fast enough. :D

EDIT: I think someone should say in HD's "dual purpose thread ftw, !" thread that they think he really hacks. It would be just that person's opinion. And then later they can say: "See I was right all the time."
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Post by: Vinegar Ninja on March 01, 2005, 04:34:23 PM: the way to really do this nicely, is ban him for the whole day. Then on the second we pretend nothing ever happened. We just delete all evidence from the forums and servers.
it would be hilarious :D
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Post by: Zero7 on March 01, 2005, 05:48:43 PM: Agreed with the above, tbh, we should start instigating that HD hacks soon, probably around the 2nd/3rd week of March.
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Post by: GrayDuck on March 01, 2005, 05:56:45 PM: Quote
Agreed with the above, tbh, we should start instigating that HD hacks soon, probably around the 2nd/3rd week of March.
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hehehe a few weeks ago I was speccing and someone said HD HAAAAX, and I said 'Yeah, I'm watching him' (very seriously). HD quickly admin_chatted NOOOO It's toooo early. But I think I was doing my part to set the stage. :p

nice touch btw saying you don't like the hacking accusations. Whether you meant it or not ;)
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Post by: holy_devil on March 01, 2005, 07:29:42 PM: Quote
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Agreed with the above, tbh, we should start instigating that HD hacks soon, probably around the 2nd/3rd week of March.
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hehehe a few weeks ago I was speccing and someone said HD HAAAAX, and I said 'Yeah, I'm watching him' (very seriously). HD quickly admin_chatted NOOOO It's toooo early. But I think I was doing my part to set the stage. :p

nice touch btw saying you don't like the hacking accusations. Whether you meant it or not ;)
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was part of the plan all along, i've always said it kinda bothers me, but i decided it could play a part in the whole scheme so i went along with the thread =]

perhaps we could do a config thread where i accidently put a cvar thats a cheat one? like in my userconfig i have hdgl_aimbot 1 or something. then after someone notices it(probably think its a joke) i'll remove it and be like LOL BAD JOKE ^_^
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Post by: holy_devil on March 20, 2005, 12:40:17 PM: okay so we're closing in upon the 30th. obviously i'm the one being banned, so i'll leave it up to you guys to decide to cover it up or decide what you want to do :p

but what we have planned thusfar is that on the 30th when a bunch of people are on, vinnie will join the server, spec me for a round or so perhaps, then proceed to be like LOL HAXU!?? THANK YOU COME AGAIN *BAN*

then i'll get banned from #lunixmonster (cuz i'll be bitching like wtf vin and stuff, and say i was banned from admin chan too, but leave me there ^_^) and proceed to post upon the pr forum, get banned shortly thereafter from forums.

sounds good to me, vinnie probably can't wait =p jhunz has dibs on the channel/forum ban i believe. the 31st will be quite the strange day, everyone will be confoosed :X

any suggestions, etc? built this up about as good as i can, been trying to pull some bs stuff off lately as well. staring into walls and moving randomly sometimes as well =p of course its pure chance, i have no idea if im staring at nothing or not >_<
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Post by: Evangelion_2 on March 20, 2005, 02:27:33 PM: Demo...we need to really make the public think you hack :D We can try to make a private game and stage some of this but whateva
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Post by: Zero7 on March 20, 2005, 04:15:27 PM: What we need, is to give it as serious an air as possible, so I'd probably have a bunch of admins join while HD is playing, all go spec, and then have one make some sort of serious sounding denouncement, giving you time for one statement, before being banned.

The rest of the plan sounds good after that. If you REALLY want to make it look complex though, have some other admins banned as well, on grounds of knowing (and aiding? perhaps) about HD.

The idea of a demo is excellent. Pulling it off, won't be as simple, but if we can get one, all the better.
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Post by: holy_devil on March 20, 2005, 05:00:23 PM: i love the other admins in on it idea =p anyone wish to volunteer for that? preferably someone around as long as i have been. maybe device, since he's most likely to assist me in coding a hook? the rest will go as stated above. also, what time exactly do you think we should do the ban? i'll go in a bit earlier obviously, then the other admins can kinda join slowly and vin joins then a minute or so later bans me :o then you all just leave without a word said.

as for a demo, i doubt that will work out very well. personally, i have no idea where to get a ns hook(i know cs stuff but not ns at all :p )
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Post by: Evangelion_2 on March 20, 2005, 06:12:10 PM: I can join in if needed. I can like try to defend HD because I refuse to believe he hacks then some one can convince me enough to change my mind :D
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Post by: GrayDuck on March 20, 2005, 06:52:43 PM: I can't keep a straight face in the name of pranks.

I can be the person in IRC / Forums going wtf m8.
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Post by: Zero7 on March 20, 2005, 07:53:41 PM: If needed, I'll volunteer for being banned as an aide to HD.
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Post by: Malevolent on March 20, 2005, 08:11:32 PM: I'll be banned. It'll make me take a break from NS. :)
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Post by: Lightning Blue on March 21, 2005, 12:55:59 AM: Ban me! Er...nm...
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Post by: Malevolent on March 21, 2005, 10:24:49 AM: While that'd be funny. I don't think anyone would believe it. You could however say you were shutting the server down and leaving the NS community. But you could save that for next April.
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Post by: Fewlio on March 26, 2005, 09:23:34 AM: Quote
While that'd be funny. I don't think anyone would believe it. You could however say you were shutting the server down and leaving the NS community. But you could save that for next April.
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Didn't he do that last year?
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Post by: Zero7 on March 26, 2005, 09:46:34 AM: IIRC, last year's prank was saying LM became a CS server.
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Post by: holy_devil on March 26, 2005, 10:12:03 AM: how about instead of saying you guys specced me (which you HAVENT YOU LOSERS) we say i submitted a demo for a cheater in the admin ftp, and someone viewed it with demofreak, and saw a cheating cvar. proceed as planned from there :?
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Post by: lolfighter on March 26, 2005, 10:29:11 AM: Before this whole scheme fails and the swearing begins, I'll cover my ass: I'm too busy for this stuff. I have a werewolf game to organize. So there.
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Post by: Malevolent on March 26, 2005, 08:22:35 PM: I'll start speccing you HD. :D
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Post by: Nooblet on March 27, 2005, 03:35:40 PM: Ill start posting in the defence of HD saying that blah blah hes all the skills so that it dosent seem all the admins are fighting agenst him. Ill start yelling and maby flaming and being an asshat then you guys can ban me from the forums for being an asshat.
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Post by: GrayDuck on March 29, 2005, 12:34:21 PM: getting down to the wire... whats the master plan?
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Post by: rad4Christ on March 29, 2005, 12:41:14 PM: I shall remain.... silent.

If we over do it, it'll be blown. I'd say the admins make a simple announcement, but keep it hush hush. I mean, it'd be embarrassing to have an admin banned for hacking. Put a topic in IRC to keep the chatter to a minimum, just have LB back up the ban post with a hardline stance on hacking in the LM community.

I'd just hate for alot of theatre and everyone figure it out...
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Post by: Malevolent on March 29, 2005, 04:00:43 PM: Yeah, Rad is right about over doing. We need to finalize who if anyone will be banned besides HD. Who's going to complain about him being banned/stick up for him?

I won't mind getting banned since I'm leaving tomorrow and won't be back until late Friday or early Saturday. So I won't miss out. :p You guys do need to save what people say so I can read it when I get back.

I also recorded a demo of HD now and he said he'd do some weird things, which he did. It won't prove that he's hacking though. You can use them if you want. Only thing is it might be rather laggy. I'll put it up in a bit.

EDIT: There's 2 demos and I need someone to host them. One 4.5 MB and the other's 6.5 MB.
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Post by: GrayDuck on March 29, 2005, 04:06:57 PM: more than HD being banned? that would kill it. It is just supposed to be him I thought.

And Mal I can host it - email them to me - grayducky@gmail (note the y - some bastard already had grayduck).

I'm going to act like I have no clue if I'm around when 'it' happens. that'll be my role (and I'm good at pretending to not know :p)
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Post by: holy_devil on March 29, 2005, 04:35:07 PM: yea lets go with just me, everyone seems to not know about me hacking anyway. male/gray: let me review the demos first, i want to make sure nothing about the joke was mentioned over admin chat during them
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Post by: GrayDuck on March 29, 2005, 04:40:40 PM: I'll link 'em here if mal gets 'em to me.

And to CMA - when I say "I'll host" I mean I'll host in the space provided to me by this great guy who's name also has a color in it.
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Post by: Uranium - 235 on March 29, 2005, 05:27:25 PM: Quote
Before this whole scheme fails and the swearing begins, I'll cover my ass: I'm too busy for this stuff. I have a werewolf game to organize. So there.
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And I just don't like talking to people.
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Post by: Malevolent on March 29, 2005, 09:07:47 PM: Ok, Duck, you should have them. I sent another one because I didn't think the first one went through right, but then it seemed like it did. So tell me if they aren't the right size.
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on March 29, 2005, 11:12:35 PM: So, to gather this all into one post, this is what I've gathered from the thread and some of my own ideas...

Today (30th), vinnie gets on and starts specing, eventually bans HD for hacking.
HD brings an argument to #lm and claims he was banned form admin channel.
HD gets banned from #lm.
It heads to the PR forum and HD proceeds to get banned from the forums.
31st comes, and we stay hushhush about it.
Then on April 1st any and all traces of the banning are removed from public view and we all deny it ever happened. >:D

anything else?
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Post by: GrayDuck on March 29, 2005, 11:58:20 PM: Quote
Ok, Duck, you should have them. I sent another one because I didn't think the first one went through right, but then it seemed like it did. So tell me if they aren't the right size.
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I don't have them as of now - but gmail is sometimes crap when it comes to email attachments I've found - almost like they fall into a void for a few hours...... I'll update this post w/ the links when (if) I get them.
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Post by: Zero7 on March 30, 2005, 04:37:06 PM: for the record, HD shouldn't be unbanned until after April 1st. Probbably April 2nd :) (just to convince the stragglers)
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Post by: Uranium - 235 on March 30, 2005, 06:22:28 PM: Quote
for the record, HD shouldn't be unbanned until after April 1st. Probbably April 2nd :) (just to convince the stragglers)
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Yeah springing early pretty much nabbed em, who the hell expects April Fool's crap in MARCH? Keep it a day longer, then !ub holy, delete AAAALLL the threads, and we all play dumb. Coming out and going 'APRIL FOOLS' just means a bunch of people go 'LOL i NEW IT!!!11eleven'.

As for this, I'll just play dumb, which comes naturally to me.
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Post by: Nooblet on March 31, 2005, 02:01:35 AM: yoink

I have been saying things ingame like when people start talking about HD and the ban I'll say things like I dont agree with the way the admins are acting and that some of us are split and I add some anger into my voice and I try and come off bitchy.
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Post by: DruBo on March 31, 2005, 07:39:22 AM: <UKchaos> lets april fools him back and no unban him
<DruBo|h4x> !k UKchaos please don't joke, this is serious

:D
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Post by: rad4Christ on March 31, 2005, 07:16:29 PM: BTW, we need to clean up this thread, and make it public on the 2nd.
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Post by: Fewlio on March 31, 2005, 10:26:58 PM: Well that's the thing, can't keep a joke a secret.... :p
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Post by: JHunz on April 01, 2005, 08:37:37 PM: Postmortem: we never did get around to leaking the demos. Also, we decided not to go with the silence is golden strategy due to the drama addiction of certain members of our community.