i don't think Shambler was joking 

no. 

Then... what? He fucked your sister? Killed your cat? Put babies on spikes?

or...

You're an asshole. 

1) DKT was actually a fairly good game if you bothered to play it rather than just going along with the general sheep view of slagging it off. Yes the first episode and the buddy AI sucked, but apart from that it was nice (not great, but good) and had some cool ideas (tip, play through the last 3/4 in coop on your own).
And Romero is arguably legendary given he designed your favourite fucking game (among others), and Quake 3 showed what happened when iD lost him as a designer.

2) April Fools is a fucking retarded excuse for a "tradition" anyway. It's even more pathetic on an international medium (ie, the net) where users local time can differ by nearly an entire day (although more likely about 18 hours). 12 hours is bad enough, 30 hours of 'jokes' just makes my eyes bleed.

Now shut up and get the fuck of my internet. 

That should of course be;

get the fuck *off* of my internet

(and I probably should have added a 'fuck' between shut and up since I'm not sure my disdain showed through clearly enough) 

your disdain is well metted on nothingness itself 

ok then. 

First, are we all forgetting the great pranks of the past, like when PlanetQuake had the front end of the site diverted to Geocities. Come on! That was fucking brilliant. 

Now is your chance to shine in the mighty embers of a flamewar.

Though I agree with your opponents that Romero gets way to much gratudious criticism and he is probably no where near being the douchebag the media makes him out to be. 

Oh yes, the inability to access/trust information for an entire day really makes my life better/amuses me/serves any kind of vaguely useful purpose. 

It's not really a flame war. I just hate April Fools with a burning passion. My disgust at the renewal of the old "DKT suck! huh huh huh" line is just a side thing :) 

I was saying nonentity's anger turned from a sharply focused bitch slapping and then, well, he lost focus and he started punching drunk at April's Fools Day, or something about the relevance of time frame and how we should be sensitive to the fact some kid in Botswana might not find April Fool's relevant to his particular condition, or something like that. I don't fucking know but it was an ugly last round. 

It's not about relevance (or lack of). It's about stupidity and pointlessness. 

When I was a kid. They would do things like replace my M&Ms with Skittles. Instead of the warm, loving, I would even say, womb-like taste of chacolate, I would instead be assaulted by the burning sensation of citrus flavors sputtering like a bukake rainfall upon my tounge. Such impressions can burn in you soul forever. Come to think of it, I hate April Fools too. 

Grindspire: thanks for reminding me what a whiney little angstbitch you are. 

HeadThump; It's not the pranks I mind, they're just silliness, it's April Fools on the net I object to.

scampie; How could you forgot? I'm obviously not whining enough these days :p 

the masters of doom, carmack + romero + wilson = success (plus of course many others) 

Great book. I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially the bit about how they played Carmack's elaborate version of D&D and Romero rolled the dice to become the most powerful or make the universe collapse in on itself, and the D&D universe collapsed =)

I will never speak a bad word about Gamespy because they gave me a free book with no hassle! 

Have you managed to get a hold of Doom yet? Let me know, I can help you out there. I will be down for a day or 2, while I format and reinstall everything. 

Quake II rendered in SIRDS (simple image random dot stereogram):
http://www.esom.org/rhy/quird/

I got about two rooms through the game before I gave up. 

I missed u! 

I was thinking func_ was lost forever..... sight.... 

Never realised how much I actually visit it until it went down! 

This messageboard SUCKS! 

When you meet up again it's like you've never been away.