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The Second Annual [Quarantimes] Thread

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  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    It’s very easy for a prank, unintentionally or otherwise, to feel like bullying to the recipient.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    it's fine if you know your target well and know they will take it well and enjoy it, but I would really hate it if someone pulled, for example, the soda cans on a string behind my car thing on me.

    That prank video of tricking someone into looking down a water bottle to see where an egg went then squirting them with it and smashing the egg on their head just seems incredibly mean to me.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Veggie tray in the donut box is good, funny, harmless

    Showing Groundhog Day exactly once (lolololol) on Groundhog day is good, funny, harmless

    Some of the other pranks can be good and funny, or they can be seen as harassing depending on the state of mind of the recipient.

    The classic of covering everything in foil for example could be funny or it could suck depending on your context and history with the recipient. Mostly harmless, but may not be funny if you have a poor work relationship with people for whatever reason.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    Yea the group has to be down for pranks, and capable of not escalating into fucking asshole territory.

    A different guy at this job, who always took things too far, once put a dead mouse in the breast pocket of the work uniform of another coworker while it was hanging in his locker. It obviously was not received well when discovered that evening during shift change.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    We had some low level pranking at my last job but it was amongst like minded people who were all known to be on-board with the idea. Mostly things like putting stupid labels on stuff, or glueing someone's mouse to the table. There were people who absolutely Did Not get pranked and it was because we all knew they would find it upsetting, not funny. In general you really only want to engage in these things with people who you are completely sure will take it in good humour and ideally react in kind, otherwise it definitely will come off as bullying or just random meanness.

    There's also an art to hitting the right prank level, which usually requires knowing the person extremely well. Eg. a few months ago I swapped the tea in my friend's tea drawers (she has two), exactly maintaining the internal layout while switching the macro location. This was a very carefully crafted prank - just low level enough to sound totally benign to most people, but I knew it would drive her Completely Fucking Nuts (and it did). However, if I'd wanted to be totally disinvited from ever entering her house again, I would have hidden her water bottle.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    The planned next prank is to replace all the framed photos in her house with pictures of her dog. We're waiting for the heat to die down a little first.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Among the many "pranks" I have been subjected to in my lifetime it's very difficult to forget the time someone slipped a dead pigeon into my lunchbox.

    Veggies in the donut box? Funny, because it's not targeted and there is no harm. Pranks targeting a particular person? I hope there's a good relationship between those people beforehand otherwise that's basically bullying. Being a coworker is not enough. I would be pissed off at something like I came into my office and found it covered in sticky notes, because then I have to clean up a mess someone else made before I can do anything actually productive.

  • DidgeridooDidgeridoo Flighty Dame Registered User regular
    Veggies in the donut box is an office prank I would typically greatly enjoy, just a funny little subversion of expectations that I would smile at and then go about my day.

    Right now though my nerves are so dang frayed from this quarantine shit lasting over a year it's a 50/50 shot on whether I'd flip the damn table and storm out of the office, or burst into tears

    It's all hypothetical anyhow since we're still on mandatory work from home where I am, ha! Ha ha. haaaaaaaaaaaa

  • IronKnuckle's GhostIronKnuckle's Ghost Registered User regular
    Vaccine! In my body! Making me impervious to all infections! I will live forever!!!!

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    I wl literally be secluded on an island on April 1st. Not because of fools day, but it's a nice side bonus.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    I don't do april fools jokes, really.

    I mean I'll do the "I'm moving to Texas! April fools!" non-joke

    but one time, the very best nurse friend I have (as evidenced by possibly endangering her job for a gag) let me borrow a gown and take a single photo in a hospital bed
    I sent it to my friends and was like "I have a butt infection, it's really bad, they don't know what to do. I'm not joking, I know it sounds like I am because it's a butt infection, but it's very serious."
    that was the day all my friends thought I was gonna die of a butt infection.

    That joke was for nobody except me, which is generally how april fools jokes go. it's never a joke for the person it's being played on, it's entirely for the perpetrator.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Back in middle school I was having lunch outside with a friend and I got pooped on the shoulder by a seagull. It was April 1st and when I called my mom I remember her making me swear I wasn't joking before she would come and bring me a spare shirt.

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    I wl literally be secluded on an island on April 1st. Not because of fools day, but it's a nice side bonus.

    The prank comes when you think it's time to leave the island.

  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    I wl literally be secluded on an island on April 1st. Not because of fools day, but it's a nice side bonus.

    The prank comes when you think it's time to leave the island.

    Guess I'll be living in a fancy two story beach cottage from then on!

  • IronKnuckle's GhostIronKnuckle's Ghost Registered User regular
    Hey folks, is there any reason that a bike ride after getting the shot is a bad idea, assuming I'm feeling fine?

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    I would beware suddenly getting very exhausted, your body is trying to kick all its energy into the immune response as it does when you catch a real illness and that saps your energy and can make you fatigued very suddenly. It's probably better for your body to rest and let it focus on that even if you don't notice yourself feeling tired. For like a couple days anyway.

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    If you get the shot and then like have a half hour bike ride home or whatever you should be fine as long as you didn't have a reaction in the 15 minute waiting period.

    I wouldn't plan on riding anywhere after a couple hours though. That fatigue can come on strong and out of nowhere.

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  • IronKnuckle's GhostIronKnuckle's Ghost Registered User regular
    Good points, thanks. I think I'll just do a couple laps around the neighborhood.

  • TayaTaya Registered User regular
    When I was in college I had a bunch of N64 games on my desk with my prized copy of Harvest Moon 64 in front. My jealous friend would always pick up the cartridge and put it in the back of the line so he wouldn't have to see it. One day I printed some Harvest Moon 64 labels and taped them to the rest of my games, so that when he went to move my HM64, there was another one behind it. It was a great prank, you had to be there.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    That is the best harvest moon game too

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    yeah even the flu shot can leave me feeling drained all afternoon.

  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    We had some low level pranking at my last job but it was amongst like minded people who were all known to be on-board with the idea. Mostly things like putting stupid labels on stuff, or glueing someone's mouse to the table. There were people who absolutely Did Not get pranked and it was because we all knew they would find it upsetting, not funny. In general you really only want to engage in these things with people who you are completely sure will take it in good humour and ideally react in kind, otherwise it definitely will come off as bullying or just random meanness.

    There's also an art to hitting the right prank level, which usually requires knowing the person extremely well. Eg. a few months ago I swapped the tea in my friend's tea drawers (she has two), exactly maintaining the internal layout while switching the macro location. This was a very carefully crafted prank - just low level enough to sound totally benign to most people, but I knew it would drive her Completely Fucking Nuts (and it did). However, if I'd wanted to be totally disinvited from ever entering her house again, I would have hidden her water bottle.

    Way back when, my grad school advisor got in trouble for eating in lab. Mind you, this was because he walked into lab eating a banana and walked right up to the health & safety inspector doing an inspection we’d known about for weeks while eating it. So naturally the lab got dinged for that. The next April Fools Day, the grad students created a miniature crime scene on the boss’s desk in lab, with a banana peel surrounded by caution tape and marked with little evidence flags.

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Just got jab 1 scheduled for Friday afternoon. As a bonus my boss, whom I've never gotten to meet in person, has his set up at the same time!

  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    My husband just got the first Pfizer shot!

    I got the Moderna vaccine. Clearly, together we will be extra protected.

    If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Yeah, but when the Pfizer shot turns us all into vampires and the Moderna vaccine turns us all into werewolves it's going to get real awkward at the dinner table.

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  • DessertedDesserted Dessert desertRegistered User regular
    After I quit my job last year I thought of a fun prank I wanted to do on April Fools Day. The plan was to get an empty pizza box from one of the local places that we ordered pizzas from regularly and put a frozen DiGiorno in there, although I probably would have included a couple of real pizzas as well because they were cool people and fun to work with.

    But then there was the whole covid thing and almost everyone there got laid off, so it didn't end up happening.

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    That is the best harvest moon game too

    it's the simplest but definitely not the best

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    That is the best harvest moon game too

    it's the simplest but definitely not the best

    is there another harvest moon where time stops in the green house allowing you to both make money AND enjoy your day?

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Yeah, but when the Pfizer shot turns us all into vampires and the Moderna vaccine turns us all into werewolves it's going to get real awkward at the dinner table.

    Especially when the J&J shot I got turns me into a super hunter of vampires and werewolves. Awkward!

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  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    Looking forward to the West Side Story reboot where the gangs are the Pfizers and the Modernas.

  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Yeah, but when the Pfizer shot turns us all into vampires and the Moderna vaccine turns us all into werewolves it's going to get real awkward at the dinner table.

    this is fucking bullshit, if I knew this ahead of time I would have delayed my appointment to get Moderna

  • shalmeloshalmelo sees no evil Registered User regular
    Chall wrote: »
    Looking forward to the West Side Story reboot where the gangs are the Pfizers and the Modernas.

    I really like AstraZeneca
    Gimme the spike! AstraZeneca
    I'll drop the mic, AstraZeneca
    then go ride my bike, AstraZeNEca

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  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    shalmelo wrote: »
    Chall wrote: »
    Looking forward to the West Side Story reboot where the gangs are the Pfizers and the Modernas.

    I really like AstraZeneca
    Gimme the spike! AstraZeneca
    I'll drop the mic, AstraZeneca
    then go ride my bike, AstraZeNEca

    "How do you solve a problem like Corona"

  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Scheduled my jab last night
    Today I found out the state invited 11,000 people whose eligibility date wasn't supposed to be for... 3 weeks later were invited to schedule as well.
    Really really hoping I get jabbed.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Yeah, but when the Pfizer shot turns us all into vampires and the Moderna vaccine turns us all into werewolves it's going to get real awkward at the dinner table.

    Especially when the J&J shot I got turns me into a super hunter of vampires and werewolves. Awkward!

    I thought we'd established that the J&J shot was going to turn people into bird monsters.

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    I enjoy a good prank so long as it isn’t physically harmful or demeaning, and the prankee is up for it.

    Several years ago, we replaced all the family photos in my mate’s house with edited versions with my brother’s face photoshopped in place of his.

    They didn’t notice for like a year and loved it so much that they still have half of them up today.

  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    The drug store chain my parents have their prescriptions at sent out invitations to join their waitlist since they're both 60+ (which Ontario is giving AZ to, with Pfizer/Moderna only just starting on 75+s) though my city hasn't been given any of the initial doses so no idea when they'd be given out

    Of course only time'll tell if we get hit by the splash damage of the EU wanting to do export bans to be dicks to the UK so we could be waiting even longer, yaaaaaaaaaaaaay

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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    German government just early April fools pranked the whole country.

    Monday night federal and state governments agreed on a Easter lockdown with Thursday, April first being treated as a holiday, no shops opened, Saturday only groceries open in addition to the normal Easter holidays Friday, Sunday, Monday.

    Lots of complaints and confusion whether that meant no work for everyone on April first. "But what about the economy?".

    Wednesday morning government met again and took it back, no extra holiday, everyone please continue getting infected at work.

  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    David_T wrote: »
    Followup from the last thread:
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    Real fine detail in the printing, I'm looking forward to getting the v2 deck (with a custom tuck case).

    The v2 has arrived.
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    Back of the tuck has the owl also in black, top has the DT runes, sides has runes for health and prosperity. As for the card, the filled-in moon really anchors it well. I think the only thing I'm not entirely sold on is the outside star, it should probably just be the 5 inside the trees, but yeah, well chuffed with how this turned out.

    Also already have a pink Sakura variation designed and considering getting one of those made, and a borderless deck with silver-gilded edges already made and on its way, for a fake hotel and casino. Fake casino cards are very popular in playing cards.

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