Yeah this really is the dumbest April fools joke ever. First of all a_skeleton_03ger is like the worst liar and troll out of all the people they could have picked. He could not make this believable on any other day, let alone April first. Second, we would have to believe that LLR is the most retarded administrator in IT history to buy that Mathew Broderick War Games elite hacker yarn in the first place. Next, there is no way if this were legit that a_skeleton_03ger would snipe my account before Lithose. I just point out his bullshit, while Lithose force feeds it to him. Then there is Manessa claiming to be in on the "takeover" which makes it obvious enough that even complete fucking tards know its not on the level, because there is no way that attention whore could go two seconds without bragging about it let alone ten days with advanced knowledge.
This is a poorly executed half assed troll, like many of the ones a_skeleton_03 has done in the past. I mean, the fucker cannot even keep his alts straight sometimes. And sadly, I can't even blame him because the staff here either signed off on it or put him up to it in the first place. Here is how it could have been better:
a) Pick Dom to be the raging Nazi Mod- Groundwork is already down, with him having quit as a mod and getting shit on for over moderating. Dom can actually capably bullshit and knows to not go over the top with the part. Saying Dom back doored in with the emoji add on he "provided" would be more plausible than LLR being incompetent enough to leave someone like a_skeleton_03ger a backdoor to exploit.
b) Don't shaw the people you are dunking on- a_skeleton_03 jerking himself off in the Amod thread is completely flat because he has no one to gloat over. A better troll would have confined people to that thread and even barred them from the Shaw while this was going on. This would have maximized the raging and trolling. Instead, its just him and Manessa over in that thread playing low rent Tyen and Swamp Donkey with literally no one responding to it. It also lets you ban whomever you want without shutting down all board interaction.
c) Comedy is always timing- Do this shit at the beginning of the day or at least before noon. People are already in beer o clock mode and have abundant free time to consider the odds of this being a troll job versus another Tyen/Req situation. Wathcing people waste time at work worring about this board would have been hilarious.
d) Consistency- Ok you want to sell this as ten days in the making... why does a_skeleton_03 have a customized avatar for the occasion but no ready to roll stickied thread with his evil manifesto? Why do we all still have our site currency totals and only the stupid IQs got tampered with? If this is supposed to be a a_skeleton_03 power trip, why not lock the threads he has been shitting in for the past week to sell it more? It is all very schizophrenic in its execution and just telegraphs the troll.
TLDR version, bad troll is bad. If you want to do something like this, make it something akin to the Coffee and TV fake death thing. I hated that guy, but god damn that was a well executed and masterful troll that had people pissed for months. This is just.... sad. sadtits.gif