WRUP: We're all April Fools here edition
Oh, sure, I could jump straight into the regular routine of seeing what the team is playing this weekend, but in light of the recent holiday, let's start by finding out the team's favorite April Fools' pranks:
Anne: There are far too many, but I am loving the Diablo Gamer Blanket.
Amy: I have yet to pull it off, but I want to use cardboard to create a little windowbox on the windows at one of the law school office suites, then fill that box with packing peanuts. From the outside, it'll look like I've filled the whole office. It's two gags in one -- first when the victim thinks his office has been filled with peanuts, and then when they discover it hasn't! Comedic pranking with minimal cleanup.
Basil: My favorite gag is probably my own -- I rick-rolled over 2,000 people this year. I am happy.
Daniel: I'll come out and say it: I thought WoW.com did it up right this year, especially with Twilight Insider and Gaga Insider. Love Glue Gunnin' indeed.
More prank-ridden hilarity -- and we'll probably get around to talking about what we're playing this weekend -- after the break.
Elizabeth H.: Gmail was announced on April 1st. It was days before people realized they weren't joking -- I mean, really? An entire gigabyte of email storage? Ludicrous!
Joe: Several years ago when I was in college while a friend was showering, me and a group of friends cleared his room out of everything leaving only his empty desk, bed without sheets and closets and drawers empty. It was basically back to before he moved his stuff in. When he went to get the RA, we put everything back just as it was and left campus before we could be spotted. We then called him from Friday's asking what was taking so long for him to meet up with us.
Kelly: I am a fan of Blizzard's, through and through. Last years' Starcraft and WoW gags were my favorite. I honestly would love to see Kael'thas Sunstriders Azeroth's Best Dance Crew. :(
Lisa: I'm actually trying to avoid the April Fools' stuff, because my kids have been pounding me with the PvZ song for the last two weeks ... and at this point, I suspect there may really be a zombie on my lawn...
Rich: Simple one that can be used any time for office fun: using Netsend (Windows) to send important-looking but completely made-up Windows messages to your colleagues. My personal favorite: "Your system has experienced catastrophic failure. Please do not touch anything."
Tyler: I'm not a prankster, never have been, and after the fail showing for WoW.com, it's easy to see why. I can laugh really well at myself, though. My college roommate once filled my entire bed with water balloons. He didn't actually intend for me to jump on my bed -- I guess they were just being stored there there for a water fight my roommate and some friends were having later -- but I got home earlier than expected and instantly flopped up on my bed, completely soaking myself, my blankets and most of the floor around me. Ahhh, fun times.
And back on topic, here's what everyone's playing this weekend:
Allison Robert (@AllisonRobert): Sunday is going to be all Easter events with the fam, and we canceled raid for the holiday. Probably just going to take it easy for a few days.
Anne Stickney (@Shadesogrey): Lich King Lich King Lich King DEFILEDEFILEDEFILE -- can I just mention I hate Defile? I hate Defile. Also writing, and apparently I am cooking a ham for Easter, which I completely forgot was this weekend until a not-so-subtle email from my aunt entitled "You are cooking a ham for Easter." Go figure.
Amy Schley (@wowlawbringer): This weekend -- the Lawbringer must think of a topic for Monday. Also, I still have hundreds of pages of text to go through in creating my outlines for finals. Finals are less than a month away? /gulp
Brian Wood: I'll be raiding ICC, talking with former WoW.com hunter columnist Brigwyn on the Hunting Party Podcast, and spending way too much time stocking the guild bank for the new WHU all-hunter guild.
Basil Berntsen (@outdps): This weekend I am going to be playing with the target dummy and trying to get my hunter DPS addon out for real.
Chase Christian (@madsushi): Raiding some more ICC heroics and playing some SCII beta with my brothers; it's about time I got to dropping Dark Templars on their unsuspecting bases.
Daniel Whitcomb (@danielwhitcomb): With the Easter Holiday, I'm probably going to be at church, out running errands or at the big Easter potluck come Sunday.
Elizabeth Harper (@faience): Attempting to tame the weed-ridden nightmare that is my back yard. Oh, and I'll probably check in to see what the readers think my Choose My Adventure shaman ought to play.
Elizabeth Wachowski (@leeatwaterlives): In a shocking development, I actually started playing some WoW again. Otherwise, I'm working on the ambulance each night this weekend, and our local college basketball team is in the Final Four, so most of my time will be spent transporting drunk, obnoxious Duke students to the ER. Please ... please, West Virginia, beat Duke and spare my weekend.
Joe Perez (@Lodurzj): I will be spending some quality time in WoW getting ready for monday and taking Sindragosa-25 down her last 27% and then getting ready to spend some time with the Lich King-25. Finding some time to finish up Scrubs starting with season five and since I'm still plenty addicted to ME2 so ... probably another play through on that one ...
Kelly Aarons (@Cadistra): Uuhh ... hopefully getting Blizzard billing to unlock my account. Again. For the third time. Then, I am throwing my physical authenticator in the trash, and using the Android app. Then ... comics.
Lisa Poisso (@emused): Wondering why, oh why the Alliance players in Trade chat on my realm seem so very, very young and why, oh why, I'd never noticed that all the Horde players seem to do is relentlessly camp lowbie towns. It's a wild, wild world. /violin
Mathew McCurley (@gomatgo): I am slowly becoming less WoW-unemployed and might be doing some Lich King-25 this weekend while still trying to find a new 10-man. Also, I am preparing some cool addon stuff and doing some writing.
Michael Sacco (@mikesacco): Playing Pokemon HeartGold and a myriad of other games I had the good fortune to purchase. Games, man. They crazy.
Rich Maloy (@stoneybaby): Big Crits raids on Saturday and Sunday so, given the holiday, we'll probably raid ICC on Saturday and then ToGC and/or Ulduar on Sunday. Should be a fun weekend. As per usual, Saturday is qt w/the gf, and Sunday is sleeping in and getting things done in preparation for the week.
Robin Torres (@cosmiclaurel): I will be working on my professions on Robinemia, so that she will be ready for the next Choose My Adventure questing session. There will also be STO, PvZ and Lego Universe. And of course, I will be Shaking My Bunny Maker on Sunday.
Tyler Caraway (@Murmurs): I have no clue what I'll be doing this weekend to be honest. Mostly some digging into some theorycrafting for WoW while passively leveling an alt. I doubt I'll be doing many, if any, 10-mans this weekend, as Easter at work always leaves me completely dead.
So now tell us, dear readers -- what are you playing this weekend?