I have something to confess. For the past several months, I have been using my blog to manipulate and study the human minds by carefully selecting my blog entries' content. You have been the perfect guinea pigs for this project, serving to find how to conquer thw world through psychology. I will subversively take over the world with my knowledge, toppling civilization as you know it and ruling as dictator, harnessing technology to manipulate humanity further. You cannot be allowed to live lest you tell somebody of this. My space ninjas will ensure you experience only a quick and painless death, for your loyalty.

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NYA! That was fun.

Anyways, on to complain about BZP's "prank":

1. It's SO obvious it's a prank! It's on April Fools Day. It has blatant tipoffs to its falsity! It says Lego General Discussion takes up a large amount of bandwidth, when barely anybody (out of the total number of BZPers, I mean) goes there! Not to mention, deleting COT would incur the wrath of thousands of noobs along with the people who actually post meaningful content in COT, which is a move that is clearly a bad one... Noob: "I NEEDS ME ANOTHUR CEE-OH-TEE FIX! SOMG I NEEDS IT BAD!"

2. It's. So. Laaaaaaaaaaame. Badly thought out. Not convincing but at the same time people believe it. Argh. It has nothing to support it, but since a ton of people don't visit COT, they believe it.

3. Which brings me to another thing: Those stupid people who go 'I hope this isn't a joke'. That's rude. Did they know it's not just noobs who've been sleeping near the cleaning solvents who post in COT, but also people who use their brains and actually contribute to discussions? And what about RPGs? Don't give me any 'Well they can just redesign the RPGs to be Bionicle themed' stuff, I know somebody was thinking of retorting with that... Seriously, people can't just assume it's so irrelevant to people who spend time in those forums... LGD and COT are fun places, and it's just rude to brush the people who participate in them off like that...

4. People who're going 'Oh boo hoo hoo the topics are gone' or something. Isn't it already obvious enough that it's a prank?[/bitterMisanthropicRant]

And to quote myself in the Talkback topic for the "news":

Now, if there were rules limiting and punishing people for stupidity, I think the forums would be smoother. This of course means about 90% of the Comics forum and about half the General Discussion forum would be deleted. So I'm glad it's just a prank.

ALSO: JUST BECAUSE LGD AND COT ARE CLOSED, THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS NOT A PRANK. IT'S JUST TO MAKE IT MORE CONVINCING.

Anyways, I didn't get to sleep for a long time last night, despite being horribly tired and sick... My eyelids and eyes hurt, I've been coughing like mad, I'm dizzy and disoriented when I walk, and I only got four to five hours of sleep. Also, while I was unsuccessfully trying to sleep, I kinda hallucinated... I was awake, but I saw all these strange things... Like I thought a pile of blankets was a mountain where bulky robots were forced to labor on the inside of it, and they were trying to escape.. And something about an island...