Happy April 1st

i know fira was decipher...

Glenn the Great - ?
lightnin-z - ?
Zelda64GLD - ?
Fira - ?
GamerMan - ?
punkonjunk1024 - ?

... DD could have had a role, but a small one... meaning he was a henchman rather than a leader, so he must have been either punkonjunk or zelda64...

pineconn wasnt pineconn the whole time... either he was logged off or he could have been in on it.

more likely logged of, unless hes trying to throw us off by guessing himself.

gerudo could have been one... would fit in nicely with gamer man. i noticed...

oops too much info =)

glitch was lightnin-z... strange impulse...

breaker did the same thing as gerudo. i think hes Z64.

thats all but 1. who is DD's alternate...

EDIT: nope counted wrong. :P thats all.

EDIT 2: OMG!!! the prank fixed my edit problem!!!

EDIT 3:... no i didnt count wrong. one left. and while im here, im proud of my little "im beaten but im not done" speech when we waged war =P

K, assuming MM is right, which I think he is, that places Dechipher as Fira.
Rules out quite a few possibilities...

I also like Breaker as Glenn. Just feels right.

ctrl-alt-delete wrote:You were on the right track with your matrix...why stray away from that now?

Because it considers only Dechipher, Masamune, Archibaldo, biggiy05, mattwdr, and yourself. This is what it looks like right now:

The green border signifies that exactly 3 of those is correct. The gray border signifies that exactly 1 of those is correct. Odds are good that Dechipher played Fira. Okay, I'll make another guess with only those six.

Glenn the Great - Archibaldo
lightnin-z - Dechipher (going against my hunch about Dechipher's being Fira)
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Masamune (which seems illogical)
GamerMan - ctrl-alt-delete
punkonjunk1024 - mattdwr

Pineconn wrote:Because it considers only Dechipher, Masamune, Archibaldo, biggiy05, mattwdr, and yourself. This is what it looks like right now:

The green border signifies that exactly 3 of those is correct. The gray border signifies that exactly 1 of those is correct. Odds are good that Dechipher played Fira. Okay, I'll make another guess with only those six.

Glenn the Great - Archibaldo
lightnin-z - Dechipher (going against my hunch about Dechipher's being Fira)
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Masamune (which seems illogical)
GamerMan - ctrl-alt-delete
punkonjunk1024 - mattdwr

Wow...I am extremely impressed. You are really fucking serious about this...

Still wrong though.

I tend to get determined. 😉 Okay, ONE more guess.

Glenn the Great - ctrl-alt-delete
lightnin-z - Archibaldo
Zelda64Gld - Masamune
Fira - Dechipher
GamerMan - biggiy05
punkonjunk1024 - mattdwr

I think I already guessed that...

Hold on a sec...:

DarkDragon wrote:One of the conspirators has offered 1 year of premium membership to the first non-Masamune member to match everyone correctly.

I'm sure that any admin could do that. And I'm pretty sure that "one of the conspirators" is willing to pay for the year of premium MEMBREship.

Cripes, I'm hovering over this thread like a hawk.

just looked back at our "revolt" thread...

i think we had too much fun killing fira lol.

i did enjoy poking the dead body with a stick though =)

Pineconn your guess is closer than some have been...

As for the Glenn impersonation, it seemed off when he PM'd me about banning and such. He's not the type of person to be happy about having people above him.

Pineconn wrote:I tend to get determined. 😉 Okay, ONE more guess.

Glenn the Great - ctrl-alt-delete
lightnin-z - Archibaldo
Zelda64Gld - Masamune
Fira - Dechipher
GamerMan - biggiy05
punkonjunk1024 - mattdwr

I think I already guessed that...

You get really close then you go 3 miles in the opposite direction.

I will give you credit for trying and since ctrl-alt-delete is posting who is who later I'm just going to say my name is one of your more recent guesses.

Revfan9 wrote:There's no point in trying to guess. It was a horrible day in this forum's history and it should all be put in the past and forgotten. That aside, there's absolutely no way to know which members were who. It's pure guessing, there's no fun in it.

It was a joke. If you took it that seriously and got that upset over an online forum playing a joke then you need to spend some time away from the computer.

I don't know if this is exactly fair as one of the new overlords was technically played by 2 people.

Without even looking at the matrix, here we go...

Glenn the Great - Archibaldo
lightnin-z - mattdwr
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Dechipher
GamerMan - ctrl-alt-delete
punkonjunk1024 - Masamune

Yeah. That one was way off.

Ooh! You guys don't post the answers yet! I'm just getting in on this and have some catching up to do, along with posts to read and clues to decipher. 😉

Btw, I thought whomever did glenn and lightnin-z did an outstanding job! I wasn't really here much when glenn was still around but still think one of you guys nailed it pretty square on. 😊

I'll have a list shortly. lets see now.....hmm.

EDIT;

Glenn the Great - ctrl-alt-delete
lightnin-Z - decipher/archibaldo
Zelda64Gld - moocow?
Fira - biggiy05
GamerMan - mattdwr
punkonjunk1024 - Masamune

still getting th list....damn, the problem is there are more staff than conspiritors....and Zelda64gld could be played by anyone.

EDIT2: damn I fucked up the list. probably ony two are correct now. any more hints?

Okay, looking at this thread, these two seem to be correct...

Glenn the Great -
lightnin-Z -
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Dechipher
GamerMan -
punkonjunk1024 -

...I need to think some more about who the others are.

Glenn the Great - DarkDragon
lightnin-Z - Masamune
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Dechipher
GamerMan - Archibaldo
punkonjunk1024 - Breaker

I don't know why people stopped guessing DD.

Glenn the Great - mattdwr
lightnin-Z - ctrl-alt-delete
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Dechipher
GamerMan - Masamune
punkonjunk1024 - DarkDragon

Am I close?

[Edit]
Okay, I took another look at Pineconn's logic matrix, and I came up with this:

Glenn the Great - mattdwr
lightnin-Z - ctrl-alt-delete
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Decipher
Gamerman - Masamune
punkonjunk1024 - Archibaldo

Masamune was Gamerman. That much I am sure of.

Skulkraken wrote:Glenn the Great - mattdwr
lightnin-Z - ctrl-alt-delete
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Dechipher
GamerMan - Masamune
punkonjunk1024 - DarkDragon

Am I close?

No. I will post a list of the staff members that were involved just after 10:00 AM today, April 3rd.

Once somebody guesses correctly, they will be awarded with a premium membership paid for by one of the staff members that was playing a part.

Then, us staff members will reveal how it all went down...from start, to finish...more funny stuff will be posted, so look forward to it.

We will also make a poll as to who played their character best.

Hopefully, all of you members enjoyed the prank. It took a lot of planning and hard work on the parts of the staff.

As the staff, we feel like we achieved the ultimate goal. Driving members to login, post, and just be active, even if only for one day. A few people noticed that it was the most members we had logged in for quite some time. We hope you guys all decide to stay around, and see what we have in store for you. This was just the first part of a plan to drive activity around here.

Hopefully, we also gained some new users...I think 15 people registered on April 1st. Even though half of those were duplicate nicks, it is still something to be proud of. To those of you that are just joining us, welcome to AGN. We hope that you enjoy your stay, and we look forward to getting to know you. Check out Zelda Classic, if that is not already the reason you are here. It is a pretty awesome project, and we would like to see you contribute.

To the newer members out there...we hope you got a brief lesson in the rich history of AGN. To anyone that was upset, please, do not be. It was all in good fun...and we feel like the ends justified the means. I have said it before, and I will say it again. This was the best April Fools joke I have seen on a message board...so many people were fooled, even knowing it was April 1st...Some of you really believed Glenn had taken over again. Epic funniness.

To those of you that chose to play along with our little joke(Icey, Jennifer, Feasul, Pineconn immediately come to mind...), we really appreciate you joining in on the fun. You guys helped to make it more real, because you were far more believable.

Finally, to those of you that chose to revolt, that was some funny stuff. I know I can speak for Dechipher and myself when I say that the coded thread that was posted in Shattered Earth was epic, and will forever live on as one of the coolest things that we have ever seen on AGN. Hopefully, the other staff agrees with me on this point.

All of that to say...we hope we changed the way you look at April Fools...sometimes, it can be so annoying, which is why we tried to be resoundingly different. We hope we gave you some good things to remember about this place...the way those before us left good memories as well.

Happy belated April Fools, everyone. I had a blast. Here is to trying to top it next year.

Well, if you want my opinions on who did what...

I don't think Glenn spoke in quite the proper way. Everyone wants to say he acted like arrogant and full of himself, etc, but they miss all the subtlety, all the politeness overlapping, yet conversely dripping with sarcasm, all using very fancy words and making references to weird things like masers. Instead he just acted really blunt and to the point about his superiority, which just isn't accurate. Glenn sounds more like... a less rambly me with more attitude? XD

Lightning-z, ignoring the few posts that were for some reason in correct english, more or less worked. The wording was bang on, the typing is a little hard to match perfectly because it's mostly a magical degree of flaws but there's a few things he kept constantly getting wrong. Though I can't remember what they were anymore to back up that statement XD

Zelda64gld didn't make up any really fresh shit and made a lot of old references, though that's appropriate. But the script was bang on because Zelda64gld, I'm pretty sure, was scripted in the first place. I could be mistaken but that always seemed accurate as there were many times he used the same spellings.

I missed Fira and Gamerman, and don't really know what those whole things were about.

Such are my contradictory opinions! Mwhaha! *escapes in a dirigible with cape furled*

Zelda64gld was a real member, once upon a time. He wasn't originally a script. Btw, I played no part in the craziness.

I thought Zelda64Gld was just TSA when TSA was an admin.

Am I wrong on that count?

Icey wrote:I thought Zelda64Gld was just TSA when TSA was an admin.

Am I wrong on that count?

Yes.

So lightnin-z was actually two people, correct? I suppose if anyone has a chance of guessing correctly they'd need to know if one of the lightnin-z persona was also playing another role.

Breaker wrote:Yes.

Then he told me some whoppers. Big suprise.

Okay, I'll try again. Time for wild guessing!

Glenn the Great - Prrkitty
lightnin-Z - Freedom
Zelda64Gld - biggiy05
Fira - Dechipher
GamerMan - Masamune
punkonjunk1024 - vegeta1215

I can't make a logical guess right now. I need the official list of pranksters to do it.

Damn, I was sincerely hoping to earn a delicious bancake! I'll have you know I was guilty of flaming on at least two occasions... here and here!

I wasn't around when Fira, GamerMan, and PoJ were at their best, (worst?) but now I wish I was!

ctrl-alt-delete wrote:Rofl. In other news, lightning-z has seriously updated.

http://www.lightning-z.com

AlphaDawg wrote:Damn, I was sincerely hoping to earn a delicious bancake! I'll have you know I was guilty of flaming on at least two occasions... here and here!

I wasn't around when Fira, GamerMan, and PoJ were at their best, (worst?) but now I wish I was!

It's Sping time! What better time for another worthless update promising an update? It's been five years now Mr. Prior, give us something! Anything!

If those count as flames, then you need to revive the KTC...or the OoTP...because you just might be perfect as a human being.

As for the guessers, stay tuned. 10:00 AM Central.

People that were involved, in alphabetical order.

Archibaldo
biggiy05
ctrl-alt-delete
Dechipher
Masamune
moocow/Sean

I will not be posting a reply if you are wrong. I will just credit the first person who was right.

Ready. Set. Go.

Good luck.