Apr. 1st, 2010

roadrunnertwice: Rodney the Second Grade T-Ball Jockey displays helpful infographics. (T-ball / Your Ass (Buttercup Festival))
LOOK, INTERNET. SEE THIS? THIS IS THE WAY WE ARE DOING THIS THING. (Link is WICKED NSFW, may require familiarity with the original comic.)

Okay but no really, look: April Fool's Day basically sucks, on the internet and also everywhere else; it is, like, a mostly immutable law of nature that April Fool's Day jokes are for smirking unfunny jackasses. Unless you work your ass off and actually create something awesome.

(For example, The GIA. Those guys would pull shit like creating polished and believable "leaked" art assets and fake screenshots for a completely absurd hypothetical minigame in the next big-budget Final Fantasy title, except that there was actually a pretty decent chance that said absurd minigame would have turned out completely badass, with the upshot being that a: we all felt kind of cheated that the dudes at Square hadn't just recognized the genius and run with it, and b: European gaming news rags kept getting punked like months after the fact.)

Anyway, my point is, there's no law saying you have to force your face into some painful rictus of obligatory wackiness today. Either go hard and build shit that people will be laughing just as hard at two months down the line, or take a fuckin' chill pill. I promise, no one will think less of you for not being a jackass today.