These two users participated heavily in the PR thread, and had no idea this was a prank. I commend both users for their polite and respectful handling of the situation -- even in the face of all the absurd arguments and discussion happening around them. Internally, we were making bets as to when these two would "crack" and go off on a flame spree. But they maintained their composure throughout, which was remarkable.
I actually stopped posting about it because I was a little scared of it being an April Fool's joke, especially after Tangerine said something about posting a "brutal response" that ended up not really addressing any of my points in particular, and just kind of generically belittled people. And right from the get-go I was tearing my hair out about
this post and that was probably the first time that I thought X-act might just be trolling us, but by himself; I thought it might have been some kind of weird setup for his 4000th post or something, but obviously I stopped thinking that as soon as people started actually supporting the formula.
But besides that, I had a long PM conversation with a member I know from a completely unrelated competitive community discussing this at length, and basically just put way too much time into laying out exactly what my thoughts/reasons were for opposing any sort of anti-hax proposal of any kind. I guess you could call it a huge waste of time, but on the other hand I really like to do that sort of stuff anyway so this was almost just a good excuse to act like I know what I'm talking about.
But anyway, this was pretty much amazing. Agreeing with Tangerine that AncienRegime was godly, I'm probably biased because I was the one playing "ping pong" with him but his responses were just really believable and appropriate. It's kind of funny because if this weren't a joke, I'd pretty much consider him a gigantic asshole. If that doesn't say "mission accomplished" then I don't know what does.
Tangerine was crazy as hell, I was seriously just kind of confused and shocked by most of his posts and "we don't need your plebeian opinions" was the best line ever. You were really intense but I just thought that was your "overdrive" mode or something... was slightly frightening lol. oh god and "lemmiwinks is the only one to make decent points in this thread," that was just plain hurtful lol
Jumpman was pretty amazing going from "skeptical" to "having a half hour conference call with DJD and X-Act." In hindsight I'm not sure whether to consider that really really suspicious, or somehow strangely appropriate. I also remembered you talking about playing Poker on #biuret or something a couple months ago, and I didn't really know what to think about that at all lol.
I didn't really think too much of reachzero's sig either and was just kind of "disappointed" when he started "supporting" the formula. I thought it was just some really retarded extension of his position against unbanning Evasion, but in hindsight it was probably a stupid thing not to at least bring up in arguments or something.
Oh, and it was kind of weird that Qibing sort of expressed support of the formula in #biuret, but didn't write a novel about it on Smogon. I was almost disappointed >_>
Tangerine said:
Yeah, the entire BlueCookies bit was planned. The entire thing ended in about 8 minutes which... in reality might be a bit too fast. Surprised no one caught onto that.
I read the first two posts, and by the time I finished, I refreshed and the thread had two more posts and was locked. Again, I just kind of had a question mark above my head and moved on, lol
But, something like this had better never be implemented.
lol