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What's cracking me up is the number of people who seemed to seriously think Tom and the gang were planning to turn NG into some Chinese propaganda site. And that the best way to vent their spleen about it is through reviews of the "Chinese" movies submitted yesterday. These reviews have been hilariously vitriolic and I've been cracking up as I've flagged them.

Noobs. Gotta love 'em!!!

People take shit too seriously, especially on the internet. In my opinion, Newgrounds didn't go far enough.

At 4/2/09 03:04 PM, GiantPugStudios wrote: I want to hear the publics opinon did they go too far with the "china" joke?

Yes. The wordfilter was funny, the BBS was annoying yet still amusing overall, and the layout was downright painful. I demand a monetary compensation for all the pain I endured that day.

I spent most of the day on /b/ trying to escape the pain-inducing layout.

At 4/2/09 03:31 PM, Strategize wrote: Okay Tom did this because of the recent banning and removing of YouTube off the chinese internet. Communist China also wants to regulate what can and what cant be said on the internet 24/7.

I know about the long-term attempts by the Chinese government to censor the Internet. I didn't specifically know YouTube had been censored, but I could've made a guess that it was. After all, YouTube being censored isn't all that uncommon if you look at a sample of some developing countries in certain parts of the world. I'm pretty sure Turkey have banned YouTube more than once for example. Obviously there's the long-term efforts to ban mention of things like Tiannamen Square protests of 1989 in China, which isn't restricted to the Internet.

I wasn't aware a single event set it off, which confused me. To an extent, that's why I didn't "get" the joke, in that I thought that it was random. It's not that I can't take a joke, because I found quite a few things funny about it, and I like to think I can be funny when I want to. After things had been changed back though, seeing things like "kill all chinese, kill all communists" (not really an actual quote, but I've seen things around) who saw the joke as a piece of evidence that "you're either with us, or you're a communist", in this case Maoism = all communism. That made me feel slightly uncomfortable. I've been experimenting with things lately, but I've been critical of what little I know of Mao. And then his cold stare was everywhere.

That being said, the story of his death makes me giggle slightly.

Ah, blame how things have been with me recently, or something. I'm one of those idiots that thinks too much.

If you haven't heard about this than you need to get out more.

I think I've just established through this incredibly pointless, taking-things-too-seriously-yet-again post that I'm hardly going to get out more.

Oh, but the things Tom posted in his news post were hilarious :)

Knew I'd forgotten something.

At 4/2/09 03:48 PM, rule34 wrote: I spent most of the day on /b/ trying to escape the pain-inducing layout.

Wow...I cant tell whether I should laugh or cry.

This joke was actually very tame compared to the shit in the Assassin section.

Nah it was a pretty good joke. I'm just glad that it didn't stay like that.

I think Tom Fulp should've posted pics of himself naked, cutting his dick up with a potato peeler and feeding it to his newborn baby, while he shat on his wife's dick. That would've turned me on so fucking much.

At 4/2/09 04:20 PM, crimsonballs93 wrote: I think Tom Fulp should've posted pics of himself naked, cutting his dick up with a potato peeler and feeding it to his newborn baby, while he shat on his wife's dick. That would've turned me on so fucking much.

I think it's time for you to leave.

It hurt my eyes :/

I got a chuckle or two from it. They layout gave me a headache though, too bright and red.

No, they didn't.

I personally loved it. My favorite part was how they replaced all instances of the f word with the lord "liberate". That was awesome.

I was pissed until i realised it was a joke

At 4/2/09 03:53 PM, ChillyCheese wrote: Wow...I cant tell whether I should laugh or cry.

Why? I'm a /b/tard. Overall I actually prefer /b/ to Newgrounds, and the rest of 4chan to /b/. Plus /b/'s April Fool's (I say /b/ because it was strictly placed on /b/, the rest of 4chan was normal) was actually pretty funny, and at no expense to my health.

My only complaint was there were about three or four CP threads on /b/ yesterday and every time I refreshed there was at least one of them on the first page.

4chan's April Fool's was to switch the font to Comic Sans MS on /b/.

China blocked my daily pervert fix. They were destined to fall.

I found it hilarious how people were getting so worked up about it.

The youtube upside down video was annoying though >:(
Clever. But annoying :D

At 4/2/09 05:04 PM, Lazyfeet wrote: The youtube upside down video was annoying though >:(
Clever. But annoying :D

I noticed that too, but after awhile it went back to normal. Was I just lucky or did that happen to everyone?

Wtf?
Is Newgrounds trying to be racist or something!?

No way, I miss it terribly to be honest. I would rather have the chinaman over any other level icon. It'd be great if they replaced level 60 with him.

At 4/2/09 03:35 PM, portalwarpedJP wrote:

At 4/2/09 03:33 PM, liqourish wrote: yesterday was just a joke?

no, it's called april's fools day because someone wanted to give it a random name -_-

Or as we like to call it, China Rules Day.

Eh. It was one day we couldn't look at some flashes on here. It's not that big a deal. And if Tom wants to have a little fun while the rest of the year we use this site for free, I think it's fair.

YES how dare they rise my police rank, and whistle rank, and put that sexy man as my level icon...sniff...ONLY TO TAKE IT AWAY THE NEXT DAY! you cruel bastards!

At 4/2/09 03:04 PM, GiantPugStudios wrote: I want to hear the publics opinon did they go too far with the "china" joke?

They went beyond far. We couldn't
- see out medals
- see what is under judgement or not
- watch 17+ or adult rated flash
- post in the forums for the day
I'm just happy they end it

Let's hope they won't do it again

No, it didn't go to far.

If anything they didn't go far enough.

They should've replaced all the tankman's on the site with Russians from Alien Hominid, they should've made all those alts spamming up the general forum also spam up the Politics forum for the epic wins, and they should've made it so normal users could post as long as they had "China" set as their account location.

Those, to name a few things.

All in all it was very well done, i loved it. The only thing I didn't like was the fact I couldn't get medals that day.

I didn't really mind not being able to post, cause I was banned that day anyway.

They but the chat up then took it down now that is a sick joke.

At 4/3/09 03:19 PM, Vinny99 wrote: Wtf?
Is Newgrounds trying to be racist or something!?

It's not racism. It's political satire.

They really outdone themselfs with the joke.

Well it was kind of racist.