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« on: April 01, 2006, 04:19:43 am »
That's really bizarre. Is/has anyone else seeing/seen some weird gibberish about science fiction - a "time travel emporium"?

It has BSG:TOS! Ugh. Is this a joke, or the work of a hacker?

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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2006, 04:35:48 am »
Your description doesn't make a lot of sense. What's "BSG:TOS"?

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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2006, 04:46:35 am »
http://www.chronocompendium.com/birthday/aprilfools.png

Don't know how long that will still be availabe, but that's the image on the page he's talking about. The April Fools page is also loaded on the main page.

EDIT: As of this edit, the image is http://www.chronocompendium.com/aprilfools.png

I only get a short glance at the April Fools page right now...

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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2006, 05:17:24 am »
That's the teaser. Delete your cookies if you want to see the original.

Yeesh, and the sun hasn't even risen. What's with you guys?

Oh, and I still don't know what BSG:TOS is.

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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2006, 06:03:10 am »
"I'm getting the hell out of here."

That cracks me up. I'm going to have to save this for prosperity.

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Quote from: Ramsus
Oh, and I still don't know what BSG:TOS is.


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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2006, 10:28:45 am »
Wow... man at first I was... WTF? HAS SOME EVIL DESTROYED THE SITE! and then I realize, haahha funny april fool's... whats with the Chrono Break thing?  I mean it funny yet wierd...

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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2006, 02:42:43 pm »
You know, if I didn't think to actually click on that picture, I would have assumed the site got hacked.  Funny :)

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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2006, 03:40:39 pm »
Yeah, I'm going to upload the picture to the encyclopedia and link it under "Event Pages" for future viewing after April Fool's passes. I didn't want to do a CHRONO BREAK ANNOUNCED news post, since that hits way too close to home for die-hard fans. I instead desired to throw together a bunch of Sci-fi characters ravaged in MSPaint and make the site seem like a really crappy old style fansite. The Steve joke refers to stupid usernames with tons of numbers, like "Mary359078135091895098@aol.com." And I felt it needed something else, so I wrote the Kato / Mitsuda story based off something Hadriel wrote months ago about how Kato and Mitsuda were probably frat buddy friends.

There's a paucity of female time travelers out there, so mostly guys appear in the image. Nonetheless, I'm a fan of Tasha Yar from TNG, so I stuck her in there with the Chrono Trigger joke. GrayLensman obviously appears above her.

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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2006, 03:49:56 pm »
:!:

*Gets to work writing GrayLensman / Tasha Yar X-Men Mutant Turtles crossoever lemon fanfic...*

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« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2006, 03:53:43 pm »
For anyone who's curious, they are:

Left side of page, going down:

Q, from Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Time Traveler, from H.G. Well's The Time Traveler (movie)
Captain James T. Kirk, from Star Trek
Doctor Emmett L. Brown, from Back to the Future
Lt. Starbuck, from Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Daniel Jackson, from Stargate

Right side of page, going down:

The Gray Lensman, from E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series
Lt. Tasha Yar, from Star Trek: The Next Generation
Lt. Commander Data, from Star Trek: The Next Generation

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« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2006, 08:42:49 pm »
Do explain the symbolic meaning behind the characters you've chosen and their depiction in the image.

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« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2006, 10:06:29 pm »
Except for me, they've all time traveled, and I've dimensional traveled.

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« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2006, 04:11:48 am »
Hardy har har.

Realized it after waking up this (yesterday, I suppose) morning. Was irked, then amused.

Care to explain the selection of pictures? BSG:TOS? Really.

But seriously, it was quite early. I had no business being up at such an ungodly hour (as I am now), but I wasn't anticipating anything for some time.

Besides, the fact that it was April 1 didn't exactly penetrate the haze veiling my mind at the time.

Nice one, though. Much better than the GameFAQs one, which was rather drab.

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« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2006, 01:59:26 pm »
Definately amazing. I happen to be a fan of all the Star Treks, although the newest one along with DS9 I thought were terrible. Seeing this really brightened up my day, since I am just recovering from the flu.