It may be the middle of a pandemic,
The forum may go down again at any moment,
the replies to this thread dwindle every year,
but I am incredibly stubborn.

What April Fools Day stuff is happening, online or off?

Also, this would be my 10th thread, but I missed 2014.
2011
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Are the last two years worth of April Fools Day threads still sitting on the front page?
Yes.

Is that relevant?
No.

Because this is the 2019 thread.
I've been making these threads since 2011, and I will cling to this tradition with uncomfortable levels of dedication.
2011
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018

The only year I missed was 2014. I have no idea why.
From 2006 to 2010 we mainly just used Fink's thread here.

Now what jokes is the internet doing this year? Or the non-internet? What's happening?

It's hard to look at the back of the box in my local CompUSA when there are no boxes nor CompUSAs.
Also Joystiq stopped existing years ago and that was the only games blog site I regularly followed (and this one, of course).

I keep hearing things about games I have no idea what they are.
What are the good games?
Any genre, style, online, offline, browser, download etc...

Current chain:

High scores:
1. 98 Comics (June 5, 2018 - Sept 9th, 2018)
2. 30 Comics (Dec 24, 2017 - Jan 19, 2018)
3. 9 Comics (Feb 1, 2018 - Feb 8, 2018)

The premise of this thread is this:

Every day, at least one person posts a comic here.
Someone. Anyone. Maybe it is the same person. Maybe it is different people. Maybe the comics are connected. Maybe they aren't.
Maybe multiple people post in the same day.
They can be amazing high-effort comics or nonsense scribble comics of any genre.

We just try to go as long as we can without having a day where no one posts a comic.
And if we miss a day, we mark the high score and start again.

Not doing this is also an option, but I thought it might be fun!
Comments are also welcome!

On what is probably a completely unrelated note to everything else going on right now, this is going to sound weird, but has Google been getting steadily worse as a search engine over the last few years?

The results seem less and less relevant to what I'm actually trying to find, and more and more spammy.
Also I have to really wrangle it into searching for what I actually want it to search for. (Put individual words in quotes, hit verbatim, do a whole bunch of other stuff).

When I go to Google News and click 'read more' on a story cluster, it brings me to a nicely laid out page, but it doesn't actually show me stories in the cluster I just clicked on?

It's like the bones and connective tissues of the internet are getting sleeker but less functional/useful/informative/illuminating/educational?
Like the edges of the whole experience are being sanded off and heavily processed, and harder to actually steer or navigate in an exploratory sense?
Like it's harder to use it to discover cool internet things that aren't already deeply meme-ified and mediated?
I don't know how to put it properly. I'm feeling a similar vibe with certain parts of Wikipedia now compared to Wikipedia a few years back?

Has anyone else noticed this? The question's not just limited to Google.

Reach for deepest corners.
Rummage the crawling void.
Catalog the cosmic horrors
And tell me what you enjoyed.

The internet is jokes today.
Which ones have you seen?
I'm too lazy to finish this rhyme.
2017.

No but for real, what are people doing today?
I know Reddit has discovered the 2005 magic of Drawball and I haven't really looked anywhere else.

Hey.

You know what we need.
This thread.
Right here.
Because half the time I have no idea what to watch on Netflix.

(While this may be in the TV section, movies suggestions are also acceptable.)

I recently finished Samurai Flamenco, which was good.
I'm in the middle of Freaks and Geeks, which is fantastic.

I also just watched the Mel Brooks version of To Be or Not To Be. You should please do the same.