ubercharged.net

Another year of blatant rick rolling and half-assed joke posts out of the way.

I think everyone saw through the lame ass ubercharged attempt at an April Fools joke in about 2 seconds.

The really impressive one though, was the one pulled by Control Point, uh I mean “Oober Control”. Which has been several weeks in the making, and I am proud to say I had a helping hand in. Congrats to Doubtful. The only one who picked it was an Ubercharged.net/Control Point combined hoax.

And who was that dashing and handsome sounding New Zealander doing the voiceover in one of the ads in the podcast?

BTW – If any big company DOES actually want to shower me with cash to put their name on this blog… BRING IT ON! I have no morals.

Here’s how it went down:

Never tell your password to anyone.
madlep: Yep, I’m good now
Nailhead [CP]: oh ok
madlep: oh man, now the tele entrance went down… anyway
madlep: and a spy got me :/
madlep: Anyway, I’m out of game and good to talk now
Nailhead [CP]: first off, I wanted to let you know that ooberservers.com is buying the podcast and will make lots of changes to it (unfortunately for the worse). It is a REALLY good offer though. :/
madlep: congrats. All that name spamming paid off
Nailhead [CP]: I guess so.
Nailhead [CP]: Secondly, I wanted to see how believable that claim was. The truth is, I lied.
madlep: Yeah, its plausable
Nailhead [CP]: We’re planning on a crazy April Fool’s Day episode and we’re going with the “sell out” idea.
madlep: Got me
madlep: haha, I like it
Nailhead [CP]: To make it a bit more believable, we’re going to mention it here and there on the show leading up to April 1st. That will be our “first” episode under a new management.
Nailhead [CP]: The reason I’m telling you about it is because you run a popular TF2 blog and could maybe help spread this rumor.
Nailhead [CP]:
madlep: This is a nicely thought out plan. I love a decent april fools bit. I’m in. What do you need?
Nailhead [CP]: and maybe you could get in on some of the fun too.
Nailhead [CP]: I was thinking that somehow you could get “leaked” information about the purchase. I’m not sure exactly how though.
madlep: “anonymous source” is always good
Nailhead [CP]: It would be cool if the community first hears about this from you and not from us. We could, in turn, be somewhat annoyed that the word got out too early, before we could properly tell the public.
madlep: I’m liking this. I’m lazy, and I usually only remember its april fools the day before, and replace the front page with a splash page saying “OMG HAXED BY 1337KIDS” on april first.
Nailhead [CP]: hehe
madlep: I could say that a game server rental company approached ubercharged about advertising on the site, and they mentioned buying control point
Nailhead [CP]: We’ve been plotting for a few weeks now
Nailhead [CP]: ah nice!
Nailhead [CP]: I lke that.
madlep: Of course, I was “morally repulsed” by the idea and had to let the community know
Nailhead [CP]: most excellent
madlep: So when do you want to kick this whole thing off?
Nailhead [CP]: I was thinking before the next podcast maybe?
Nailhead [CP]: before next Wednesday
Nailhead [CP]: perhaps over the weekend?
madlep: yup. no probs
Nailhead [CP]: haha nice, this is gonna too cool.
madlep: hah. Yeah, looking forward to a bit of mayhem
Nailhead [CP]: We’ve been trying to think of the kinds of restrictions that ooberservers.com would put on the show.
Nailhead [CP]: One would be to make it a 30 min show.
madlep: You’d have to roll the same annoying ad every 5 minutes
Nailhead [CP]: ooh yeah
madlep: Contractually bound to have at least 15% of the air time devoted to ooberservers.com
Nailhead [CP]: haha
Nailhead [CP]: I’m going to redo the whole intro and outro too.
madlep: Forbidden to mention any site that isn’t on the “ooberservers.com game network”
Nailhead [CP]: Control Point, brought to you by ooberservers.com
Nailhead [CP]: ah yeah
madlep: ooberservers.com is a professional organisation as well. No “game handles” are to be used at all – even when referring to community members. All people must be addressed by first and last names
Nailhead [CP]: maybe we announce that there will be a flood of new servers too.
Nailhead [CP]: lol
madlep: and you guys have to wear a tie while recording
Nailhead [CP]: too funny
madlep: 20 new servers
madlep: all with in game ads
Nailhead [CP]: yeah, people are gonna hate the saturation of servers.
Nailhead [CP]: we could announce that our forums will be closing and new forums on ooberservers.com will be up and ready.
madlep: haha yeah, and all sigs must have a reference to ooberservers.com
Nailhead [CP]: also, video episodes are forbidden as well as streaming.
Nailhead [CP]: hehe
madlep: all episodes must be purchased over iTunes – and are ladden with DRM
Nailhead [CP]: ooh yeah, moving over to a pay per episode model.
Nailhead [CP]: Good stuff!
madlep: Yeah, this is gonna rock. Anyway, late here. I’m gonna crash
madlep: Good luck with it
Nailhead [CP]: cool thanks!