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Even in the less-bad of times, April Fools’ Day online is hell, full of dumb, bad humor from brands (even Mariah Carey agrees!), which is second only to solemn remembrances and tributes from brands in the Bad Things Brands Do Rankings.
I assure you this is real. Or was, rather, since Spaghettios wound up apologizing for their tweet about Pearl Harbor, which does put the Baby Nut stuff from the other day into perspective a bit. All of that was a prelude to the news that, while not official, someone did go back into CATS to add a bunch of buttholes, and it brings me some great pleasure to bring it, like a cat with a dead mouse in its jaws, to you.
Also I found out I can do that in the newsletter, this would be such a nightmare visually if I did that for every item though so we’ll just sprinkle it in there every once in awhile. This video might be what helps us get through this thing, not unity or helping each other out, just good ol’ catgooch.
Watch This: THE MATRIX TRILOGY - Now available on Netflix
Not exactly an overlooked work like other things I’ve highlighted, but last year was the 20th anniversary of the original Matrix’s release and to celebrate the film was given a brief rerelease in theaters. Even as someone who rewatches the films pretty frequently, I was too young to see the original in theaters, only catching it on DVD (remember that DVD? Pretty much everyone had it like people had Akon on their iPods back in the day), so seeing it on the big screen was a treat. As someone that owns an unreasonable number of copies of the films on disc, I’d recommend you take this chance to go and watch the whole trilogy, which is better (and in some ways worse) than you remember. While some of the CG was questionable even then and has aged poorly, the Matrix sequels open up the universe in some weird and interesting ways, partially by making Morpheus more of a small sect leader, and that his opinions do not necessarily represent those of Zion, LLC.
Okay I promised not to use it sparingly but there really aren’t many other jokes than the text itself.
Whatever you have to do to get the supplies in I guess.
It never occurred to me that CNN’s Chris Cuomo and NY Governor/all-around scumbag Andrew Cuomo were brothers, and there’s no way there’s only 13 years between them because side-by-sides make it seem like more of a father-son thing, but this seems like a reasonable request.
Animal Crossing, a fantasy game where you get to go outdoors and fish sometimes, has, throughout its history, had a stock market-like mechanism where you can buy turnips from one of the traveling vendors and then offloading them based on a market price that fluctuates throughout the week. The latest entry has, through the added online travel to other islands, now created a whole separate industry where people will post their island’s current sale prices and people can flock over and sell their turnips on that island. This has in turn created a huge logjam for people trying to get in on high sale prices and created a whole bureaucracy and need for systems to manage the crowds. You know, escapism!
Speaking of Animal Crossing, Kotaku’s Chris Person is an all-around funny person on Twitter, and he’s created a hellscape of custom patterns for the game and is offering them to everyone through the game’s QR code/app functionality.
From the “sounds like April Fools but is actually not” Department, they brought back YTMND! Thanks to a bunch of donors and backend work, the site’s been revived and updated for modern web browsers, so now you can get all of this in full Retina resolution, the way the lord intended.
Finally, as someone who had a subconscious fear that the calendar would flip over into March 32nd or some wild nonsense, this really made me feel seen.
