The Real About Page
So this is the real reveal I suppose you could say, but only to a degree. First let me take a minute to clear up a couple things about the site.
We were not hacked, anyone can post in comments with the name admin, you guys should realize that. Also hacked? Seriously? Kind of an easy out don’t you think. Not our style. With that the site will not be coming down, and is here to stay in all it’s glory. We chose not to make these posts on the main page of the site because we want it to remain just as you came to love it.
Next on to the girl in the Youtube video (see post: http://antispore.com/2008/09/10/proof-ea-is-converting-children-to-beleive-in-evolution/) has nothing to do with the site. Sorry folks but conspiracies only stretch but so far.
Finally, who did just biblically enrage, Rick Roll, and expose Poe’s Law on this fun corner of the internet? No it wasn’t EA, Will Wright, Anonymous, /b/, 4chan, the goons, etc. Sorry folks but they don’t get to take credit anymore then you get to give it to them. I’m happy to say all of this was the plan of just two and we two are not associated with any of those aforementioned or left out organizations, persons. So lets find out about the two that are responsible.
A:
So my first thought isn’t to thank you guys/gals, but instead to let you know just how hard it was to keep this going. I felt like a kid that had somehow gotten stuck in a Christmas Eve version of Ground Hogs Day, sans Bill Murry of course. But I was watching closely and knew exactly when I wanted to end it.
K had come to me with this idea for the site and I said lets run with it! By the way, it’s only 15$ to register a domain, even privately, I’m sorry to all those people that think this is WAY too much money to waste, but hey maybe the economy will turn around soon. K had the idea and I set us up and running in no time (read 15mins). I knew this was going to be a great chance to put Poe’s Law to the test and you guys didn’t let me down in the slightest. I will say we were slightly worried with all the death threats folks were leaving here and in the email account. I mean seriously folks, take a look at yourself and really think that one through next time someone challenges your views.
K wasn’t sure how this should end in light of the hate, but I knew from the start there was only one way I wanted to walk out of this, and that was Rollin’. I let K write the posts mostly about the game, my touches came into the personal posts, as with the final dive into the Bible. Probably my biggest joy from this project has been the positive reactions to my Roll.
I’m not much for talking unless there is a project connected to it, so I will leave the rest to K to explain, he’s more fond of stats and records then I am, and just leave you with this:
“21. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never gonna give you up. 22. “Never gonna let you down.” 23.”Never gonna run around and desert you.” 24. “Never gonna make you cry.” 25. “Never gonna say goodbye.” 26. “Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.” 27.”Never truly believe anything you read on the Internet. There will always be cases of Poe’s Law.”
K:
First, I’d like to say that I hope people understand that the posts I contributed to this project were made in character and in no way represent my actual views.
Mr. Will Wright, you are a brilliant man, please keep on keepin’ on.
Electronic Arts, you publish some great games, but you need to figure out how to do it without treating your loyal customers like criminals.
Episcopal Church, I think it is pretty cool that you are progressive enough to move forward and accept all types of people. I personally think that love for all humans is a key message in the bible that should be practiced by all, religious or not.
As our first project in this series, the concept behind the site was not only to experiment with Poe’s law, but to create controversy where there was none, end it all in a funny way, and hope that no one wanted to kill us afterwards.
I hope everyone had a good laugh in the end, and I hope that those who have not yet figured it out do soon… I don’t want people to be angry forever.
I chose spore because the game actually did a pretty good job meeting somewhere in the middle of creation and evolution and so there was almost no controversy surrounding it. Additionally, since it had just been released, there was already a lot of online discussion about the game.
I knew the project would attract a lot of attention from the gaming community, but it really exceeded my expectations. The first day was off to a slow start, but by the second day Kotaku picked it up and traffic exploded. I honestly didn’t expect us to get much more attention than that, but by the 3rd day our traffic had almost tripled. Finally traffic started to slow so A figured that the 4th day would be perfect for ending with a subtle Rick roll.
On the Rick Roll scale, we rolled more people than the Shea Stadium roll, but less than the April fools Youtube Roll.
My biggest surprise out of the whole thing was the sheer number of incredibly angry comments that at the time of this writing are still coming in a day after the Rick roll. I expected maybe a few hundred tops.. but we received more than 7000! and mostly from people who did not take the time to speak very calmly or rationally. But hey, it is the internet, what can you expect?
Favorite comment:
From Asssombrero:
“Best spoof site I’ve ever seen; you’ve succesfully proved atheists are bigger whiners and every bit as petty, venal, abusive, aggresive, malicious and generally unpleasant and enormously fucking stupid as
the God squad. And you’ve proved it in such a short time.”
Favorite blog post:
From Matthew Shafeek - Paused
“It’s increasingly difficult these days to trick people. We’re an ever skeptical species, especially over the internet. But this one definitely got us*. And not only did it get us, but it also managed to pull the rug out from underneath us right as we were already standing on top of our soapboxes. Awesome. I tip my hat to you, sir/madam, whoever you are. Well done.”
Stay tuned to AK47Project.com where we will post our other projects after they are revealed to the public.
If you like numbers, graphs, statistics, and more detailed info, we will be making the data available after the AK47 Project concludes.
230 responses so far
Best rickroll ever. Asssombrero nailed it with his comment.
Kudos, you two. Kudos. I just found this site today, and I cannot stop laughing. Brilliant work, and I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for your future shenanigans.
Oie, where you cats inspired by the old Bonsai Kitten routine or what?
cute and good pull, or are you all really insane religious freaks in disguise, mind is jared what can I say.
Anyways twist people and give a site dedicated to Scientology. see what movie idols you can spur.
Peace kids
Teehee. This is just fantastic trolling.
I was diplomatic and everything to a genuine cause you bastards you all stupid bastards
your*
Wonderful. Simply wonderful.
How much money did you earn on this site?
nice didn’t take long to figure out with the sept 11 part
Oh I love it. I did think it was real and even left a comment (not not a death threat or cursing them).
The problem is that there are people that DO believe this and do display this attitude so indeed I would agree with Poe’s law. I am an atheist and know people in real life who truly believe all kinds of things and even think it gives them a right to try and coerce and even force others to adhere according to their own beliefs.
Rofl. Brilliant. I didn’t see it untill today (the 13th) after finding it on Australian Gamer. Best net prank I’ve seen in a while. There were some slight giveaways reading through it but you still had us trying to decide whether to laugh at some more right wing extremeists, or at some really good trolls xD. Keep up the good work when the opportunity arises.
It was brilliant
Realised very early on that this was a spoof, but spent ages reading all the comments of the complete idiots out there lol.
The best bit is so many people on the final post DON’T REALISE THEY’VE BEEN RICK ROLLED.
Pure genius, I for one shall be eagerly following your project and looking out for number 2!
Very well done gentleman, I will be awaiting project #2.
Simply Simply Awesome. Who made the penis monster anyway? That made my day.
As an agnostic person, I have no issue either way, but I can see extemist people from both sides, and it scares me. Good job calling these people out of the woodwork. May they take a good hard look at themselves for being so awful.
yes u also proved that when people are outraged they wont even read a full post lol, I love the last step of it as i was one of those people! Epic rick roll!
seems to be alot of youtube comments around lmfao
Congrats on a few days of pure entertainment.
I too look forward to future projects.
deserve an Epic Cookie!
epic win
MAKE LOVE TO ME.
awsum =] sorta had me tricked till u started moaning about lego and quoting the internet from the bible. what comes next?
the real thing you guys proofed is how people can be cought up in nonsense like this , taking a lot of people with you down the drain..
if this is how you spend time in life.. i would reconsider and do something usefull to society instead of fooling around like some patethic little children..
you proofed yourself how you can waste a lot of time in a non-constructive way
grow up…
Fail.
It’s obvious these Christians radicals are just tired of being told how stupid they are and are trying to cover it up with a failroll and fries.
afsdfnasrpgnaoergioroq4oq34temvsg9t90iomgodsfbmokmh0oqwyq3itq30t5q2r0hkhnl;kvgnmldzmfgpat-q2t95yuofaw9o00tsmdpaeo0 PEN IS
Ahhaha i luaght so long !!!!!!
God it’s FAKE !!!
It’s just a game , not real world , you fucking gay
You is crazy american , why other world not make site antispore , why this site made american ?
Cos america is crazy country , u think america holy conutry , but NO , america it’s holy shit.
All world not love america , only Georgia and Ukraine love america.
Dude, your a fucking retord! (Yes i spelled that incorrect by purpose, because retord is a way better word than retard)
Listen, all the material shown here are not pictures/movies from EA, they are made by the users of the game, this means: EA can not be held responislbe, not for creatures with huge penises, nor for human-like creatures mating. The object of the game; is to give the user the possibilety to make an alien race in ANY way they wan’t, this means u can make it as you desire, with no limits, therefore you can also make human-like creatures mating, you can also make creatures with big penises, because there’s no limits.
This game is in no way anti-religious, nor unsuitable for children… should they happen to make a creature with a big penis, that came out of their mind, and was not something EA put into it. The only thing they can experience in this game is their own fantasies, should u therefor say this game is unsuitable for children, u must also say their own mind and fantasy is, and should u forbid them to play the game, u must also forbid them to think ever again. The game is as i also said not anti-religious, evolution has pretty much been proven, and that evolution excists, doesn’t mean that god doesn’t. A lot of people says that it does, since it in the bible says that god created it all over 7 days… therefore evolution cannot have happened, since it was as it is now, in 7 days… but it also says: “a day for god is like thousand years, and thousand years is like a day” this means that 7 days for him could be 7 million years… and who says he didn’t led evolution to happen?
If your gonna put up a site like this; u’d better look into the game your making an anti-site for, obviously, u didn’t cause if you did, u would have known that these pictures and movies where made by users not EA… if you did however look into the game, ur a freaking retord, that didn’t understand what you where playing, and i would suggest u turn off your computer and never turn it on again, because ur IQ is simply not suitable for such complex a device.
Heh, this had me going for a bit. Much Rage within my room when I read this site. I enjoy getting into Creationist/ID/Evolution debates with hardcore Christians. It passes the time. So uh, you might want change a couple of things to make it less obvious to people who know their enemy regarding usage of ID and Creationism.
But yeah, good going. lol’d in relief when I discovered this section.
FUCK YOU CANT BELIEVE THIS BS RICK ROLLING
now really, stop the atheist bashing. if crazy oppinions like that would have been uttered the first time on this webpage everyone would have known its a joke. BUT your fraud only could have worked cause there are really crazies out there who think like that, who could really have this oppinion, as every religion is getting more and more fundamelistic everything becomes necessary, and when atheists send you death threats because of that its not really mannered but thats fine with me , cause stupid ppl in general should just die
oh yeah im trolling.
I laughed so, so hard when I came across the rickroll hidden in Bible verse. That was genius. Hat’s off!
Also LOL WUT, give it a rest.
The drama is over. No more is to be had here, unless you want to count all of the stupid people who *still* haven’t noticed. Go find somewhere else for your drama fix, you’re not going to whip us up against these people successfully.
P.S.: YOU are fail, troll.
simply: LOLZ!
i’ll admit, i was formally rolled by this site. job well done gents. although i would like to comment on the following:
“Favorite comment:
From Asssombrero:
“Best spoof site I’ve ever seen; you’ve succesfully proved atheists are bigger whiners and every bit as petty, venal, abusive, aggresive, malicious and generally unpleasant and enormously fucking stupid as
the God squad. And you’ve proved it in such a short time.”
i think one of the reasons that people who are critical of religion take on these characteristics is because the rationality of people whose religious beliefs translate into guidelines for public policy is often skewed by the emotional weight of their sense of self-righteousness. This self-righteousness often gives them these very same characteristics, and it has a reciprocal, reactive effect. one could compare this to being accused of being a rapist or a child molester. These accusations would enrage any decent, upright man, who violently rejects such behavior and reprehensible and disgusting. but he can’t show his rage visibly or else he looks more like an unstable, irrational, emotionally volatile individual who might be capable of doing these things. the established dialogue between people on the Atheism/Secular Humanism side and people on the Devoutly Religious side has, like any matter of public debate, of course been polluted by any number of ignorant, foolish, and deconstructive statements. But i would also say that the anonymity of internet discourse makes it %100 more likely to fall victim to vulgar responses and pointless one-liners, so judging an entire group of people whose only unifying characteristic is their religious beliefs (in this case, Atheists) is from a similar vein; in short, it is an ignorant generalization that only serves to make more people defensive. (there are many people who call themselves Christians within the responses to the blogs on this page, and their responses are just as belligerent as those who seem to be Atheists).
Speaking to the nature of the public discourse on Religion at large, arguments from Religion and from God are often self-justifying and commit logical fallacies in the sense that they take for granted something ought not to be taken for granted (i.e. the absolute truth of their beliefs and the existence of God). a sensible person knows that there are reasonable, intelligent people of many different religious backgrounds who have come to much different conclusions about the nature of Religious Truth than they personally have. and yet Religion today is used as a sledgehammer by many people who believe that public morality should be enforced based on a code of Ethics that comes from The Bible. There is no rational way to debate pros and cons with many of today’s devout Christians: they believe they are right because they know what God said, and what the Bible says, so anybody who disagrees with them is simply wrong. there is no point-counterpoint, no quid pro quo, no exchange of ideas, and no intellectual compromise. the Religious Right in American politics (see the Christian Coalition) is proof that there are literally millions of people who, as Barack Obama likes to say in his speeches, “use religion as a wedge.” it is this myth that a secular humanist or Atheist cannot be a truly moral or ethical individual that causes so much resentment on the part of people who are Atheistic or just simply not religious. don’t believe me? then show me a person who could get elected President in the United States without having a professed faith that is decidedly Judeo-Christian. Even Mitt Romney caught heat for being a Mormon. We have developed a cultural expectation that our national leaders are guided by some sort of religious compass, and that Atheists are somehow evil or selfish simply because they don’t believe in an afterlife or the existence of God. This only further serves to inflame the outrage, ire, and afore-mentioned resentment that so-called “Atheists” feel when they see people who seek to make their religious beliefs a matter of public policy, instead of individual devotion.
I believe Poe’s Law is undeniably astute precisely because fundamentalism is so hard to distinguish from behavior that is just simply irrational. part of what makes parody a form of humor, and what makes all comedy what it is, is the fact that it is either ironic or irrational. fundamentalists often take on both of these characteristics when they pursue activities related to their religious convictions, specifically when their beliefs cause them to pursue these activities in a public, interventionist manner. by this i mean everything from people who make hold signs up that say “GOD HATES FAGS” to people who believe gay marriage should be illegal because The Bible says it is immoral, despite the fact that they can offer no rational, secular basis for why it is not a good idea to make it legal (such as the possibility for fraudulent filings between heterosexual men and women for tax purposes). the fact that fundamentalists of this nature not only cannot, but -will not- offer any other justification for their beliefs other than the fact that their Religion tells them it is immoral makes rational discourse with them difficult, if not outright impossible. and yet there are countless individuals in America who eat, sleep, work, vote and life life according to these beliefs. In the political arena, they tend to be Conservatives who preach individual freedom and limited government, and then contradict themselves by championing Morals legislation.
TL;DR version: the anonymity of the internet makes people unaccountable for their actions, and so therefore they will say and do things under the cover of a screenname that they would not do otherwise in person. This, combined with a public discourse between Religion and Non-religion that has long-since turned sour, creates an environment of resentment, distrust, and quick-draw one-line responses that are filled with vulgarity and ignorance. While I agree that there are plenty of ignorant, foolish Atheists in the world who take themselves far too seriously, if i had to choose who was less “petty, venal, abusive, aggresive, malicious and generally unpleasant and enormously fucking stupid,” i would side with Secularists far before i sided with those who are devoutly religious. Organized religion has a much richer history of pettiness, venality, abuse, aggresion, maliciousness, unpleasantness, and enormous fucking stupidity (world is flat, sun revolves around the earth, etc) than any secular moral tradition on record. while i by no means hold modern Christians accountable for the transgressions of the church in ages past, the things that have been justified in the name of religious morality, in my eyes, are far more disgusting, irrational, and “enormously fucking stupid” than anything that secular morality or Atheism has created.
And I said: Blessed be the creationists, for they shall have heaven and stuff.
I really shouldn’t have said this, no.
Dear Antispore, people like you are the reason for every bad thing in hell.
You should really go to hell, but this’d be unlike me. Curses.
I must admit, that was truly incredible. I tip my hat to you fellows, even I left an angry post. Congratulations, and this truly proves the bizarre qualities of our internet culture.
I was Rick Rolled!
Lol!
*looks back at slightly rude comment he left*…I feel like an asshole now…
*shakes head in disbelief*
I feel kind of stupid. But that was the best troll i have EVER seen. EVAR.
Nice jobs boys/girls/whomevers. A++
@mack:
Your tl;dr version still tl;dr.
Aaah you motherfucker! Genius! Caught and ENRAGED me proper. Mother…Fucker!
Lol, not really a satire, but you actually frustrated me enough to make me think that it was at first.
Very nice Rick-Roll by the way.
Thankyou for planning this, it was an awesome idea that was brilliantly executed. It was also very entertaining.
It has made me realise how little most of us really listen to others before we put our own opinions forth, how quick we are to assume we understand someone else.
Thankyou
well done, i feel like such an arse, u rolled me good, and i promise from now on, hand on heart, i will always read what is on the internet first (ye right)
a-…..wow…… i was about to post saying that u were makin an ass of urself but, u made an ass of all of us. this is pure art, great job.
trolling at its finest
thats so stupid bcs of you idiot very much bpeople were thinking that we (the chritians) only believe taht way but….
I DONT BELIEVE ON GOD AND I ONLY BELIEVE ON EVOLUTION THIS CRAP MADE ME ANGRY I NEVER GO TO CHURCH AND GOD DOES NOT EXCIST IT WAS STUPID TO MAKE THIS SITE AND I WANT A SORRY FOR THAT!!!! I DONT WANT TO LOSE MY RELIGION BUT I DON BELIEVE ON THIS CRAP (GOD AN CRETIONISM)
im so angry that you made thousends of racists against us and thats not ok
i bougth Spore too
im watng for a sorry
Malorgrocg Baum (artist name)
Malorgrocg Baum said that God doesn’t “Excist” and don’t believe on “Cretionism”, he is “watng” for a sorry.
im sorry my english is not the best but there are some errors in it but…
nobody is perfect
Malorgrocg Baum (again -.-)
Wait, If read that correctly, you are “chritian” and don’t believe in “Cretionism”?
epic lulz
my religion is christian that doesnt mean that i believe if you want to talk with me my msn is JeffCigrand@hotmail.com
or icq 310638161
so you dont want that i explain it to you?
but if you have questions about evolution and tthe space just let me know i wll try to explain it to you!
bcs i think youre not smart enough to make a real name just Anonymous
little child XD
Malorgrocg Baum (LOL im still laughing about you XD)
Please, look at the definition of Christian:
Christian - A person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic religion centred on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
How can you be Christian and don’t believe in God? This is illogical.
And sorry for using Ad Hominen before.
Also AK47Project is what we call “Troll”, and anonymity is very important, if you think that I’m dumb because my name is “Anonymous”, you’re trying to use Ad Hominen.
im sorry but christian is a religion not the way i am seeing the world but maybe it is because we youse this word in europe for our religion but where you life it has another mening
This site is completely brilliant. Almost had me fooled at first. I wish that I would have had this idea. You people are awesome.
Given how many comments you have I know you may not read this one, but I wanted to thank you anyway. Unlike some, I didn’t laugh out loud but it made my day none the less. Perhaps my whole week. Brilliant. Thank you much.
that was awsome i had fun reading posts. lol so hard when i realized the rickroll
people who are making death threats need to calm down and take a chill pill cause a stupid vidiogame is no reason for killing no matter what the reason.
thank you for the weekly entertainment. made my wednesday more awsome than it already was cause that was a fun day. anywho BLARG!!! good game
ps. i apologise for the random typing it is late and my brain not fuctioning properly. so and nonsense in my post is to be expected
wow its been a long time since someone’s been able to get me this frustrated. GREAT WORK! i haven’t felt this kind of restless rage since the days of jack thompson…
i took all my mates out for a drink on the day that jack thompson got disbarred btw…
what did you guys do?
OMG can you fucking Christians not fucking complain about every fucking game that comes out, its been proven countless times that the world was NOT created by god and yet i have failed to believe there is a god because all you fuckers do is complain about every game that comes out. So what you expect every game to be made for Christians?, maybe people don’t believe in this shit unlike you. Leave the world alone and go die somewhere in a cave where no one will ever find you.
rofl at people that rant in here xD
I really hope that those ranting in here are joking themselves…
To the admins: you guys are awesome, best rick-roll ever.
God is real, believe me, and he does support sex before marriage. That’s why it’s so common now.
I just wanted to let you know, the FSTDT.com community salutes you, you really had us all going.
Now that is truly a great thing.. though a slight give away was the addition of the ‘jack thompson’ thing.. no one is THAT dumb.. but wow people feel into that net quickly…
Kudos!! A brilliant Joke that keeps me laughing at the flamers and religion bashers on the net.
Awesome rickroll. You got that song stuck in my head, dude! “Neva gonna give you up, neva gonna let you down…”
…
I knew from day 1 it was a spoof, but I can’t believe so many people fell for it anyway. All comments are a testimony to your ingenuity + skill and human gullibility. Hats off.
One of the best rickroll’s I’ve seen so far, keep up the good work :’)
I reckon this is just a lie because one of the death threats really got to them, or their family.
Great hoax. It shows again that the so called ‘anti-fundamentalists’ are the same violent, intolerant short sighted idiots as those they pretend to ‘rebel’ against. Most interesting reply is from Leighton who believes its a conspiracy in a conspiracy. Or does he ? One question though: would you have had the balls to create the same hoax from a muslim or jewish creationist point of view ?
Leighton.
This is the internet, death threats are totally meaningless.
Nigel C:
We have so many balls, it is hard to see where the balls end and more balls begin.
And people *still* don’t get it. Nice. Hats off to you for perhaps the most epic rickroll short of rickrolling Rick Astley himself! Also, I hope you keep the site up for a while for more lulz and for a possible reference should I make a rant about ignorance someday. Good stuff.
I luv U guyz
Who ever made this site is an idiot.
The bible has killed more people than this game.
I hope you’re one of them
When you die, you will see that everything you was thaught was a lie!
Please, READ the real about page before commenting.
I’d like to respond to one of your “Favorite Comments” you posted above.
“From Asssombrero:
“Best spoof site I’ve ever seen; you’ve succesfully proved atheists are bigger whiners and every bit as petty, venal, abusive, aggresive, malicious and generally unpleasant and enormously fucking stupid as
the God squad. And you’ve proved it in such a short time.””
I thought you were seeking out to demonstrate that it’s extremely difficult to tell the difference between satire/sarcasm and genuine fundamental Christian extremist positions. I think you’ve demonstrated that quite well. You represented an extremist viewpoint and got some pretty impassioned responses as a result. Yes, you were being sarcastic, but represented a very close-minded and prejudiced viewpoint very well - so well that it took this intelligent reader reading this post to fully convince me that it was merely satire.
Furthermore, I don’t think you should be surprised that some people took you seriously. After all, the folks at http://www.godhatesfags.com represent a nearly unbelievably extreme viewpoint and they are totally serious. I wouldn’t doubt if they made a sermon *actually* condemning Spore. But let me move on to my point:
However, I wonder if making the above one of your favorite comments you have not yourself fallen into a similar trap. Not all atheists responded with vitrol. Not all atheists send you death threats. On the contrary, there are a great deal of intelligent, thoughtful atheists, such as myself, who are quite gentle - but nonetheless justifiably appalled by extremist Christian viewpoints. I am very sorry that you received those nasty threats. They are totally unjustifiable. But I have a feeling that the kind of person who would spew that sort of vitrol would spew it no matter what their religious persuasion - or lack thereof. In sort, don’t fall into the trap of condemning one extremist, closeminded viewpoint (condemning extreme creationism/anti-gay sentiment) while taking another (namely, that you’ve proved that atheists are as “every bit as petty, venal, abusive, aggresive, malicious and generally unpleasant and enormously fucking stupid as the God squad”)
You’re awesome.
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW….
cant believe i couldn’t see this coming
Haha those guys don’t read the declaration xD
Ok I was also rick rolled… never thought this was kind of a joke/test whatever..
really amazing the law is definetly true!
Leighton, did you click on the AK47project.com?
Wow. Biggest pair of time wasters ever.
I’m not into death threats or anything, but you nailed the attitude of the average christian, nicely done.
But rickroll? Isn’t that a bit old? Uncool.
@Adam
Also, read the definition of Poe’s Law more closely. As for your main “point”, here’s how those things typically go down on the internet:
Atheist:
Moderate Religious People: We sooo don’t care.
Extremist Religious People: YOU’RE DEAD MEAT YOU !
Atheists: A-ha! You Religious People have shown your TRUE FACE FOR ALL THE WORLD TO BEHOLD! You are bad, bad people!
Moderate Religious People: But it wasn’t us! It was those extremist retards, and there’s no way they represent us - we’re way more numerous than them, and also completely different! Stop acting so stupid with those dumbass assumptions!
Atheists:
Here, the tables are turned. Oh, what have here? A representative of the atheists BAAAAAW’ing and blaming it all on extremist retards who are apparently completely different than your average atheist, and also telling those attacked by them not to act stupid by making dumbass assumptions? My oh my, how unexpected. Oh, well. I guess this is my cue to smug it up a notch (I’m not any religious but those self-righteous never-wrong no-dissent-brooking atheist morons tend to annoy the fuck out of me even more than the self-righteous never-wrong no-dissent-brooking theist ones).
Huh. Where did that first sentence go? Oh well, it wasn’t that important anyway.
Hey, the fake tags dissapeared - that’s where. Let’s try this again, without that first sentence and square brackets for fake tags:
@Adam
Read the definition of Poe’s Law more closely. As for your main “point”, here’s how those things typically go down on the internet:
Atheist: [Some random stuff offensive to religious people] [Commence smugness]
Moderate Religious People: We sooo don’t care.
Extremist Religious People: YOU’RE DEAD MEAT YOU [insert a string of expletives of your choice]!
Atheists: A-ha! You Religious People have shown your TRUE FACE FOR ALL THE WORLD TO BEHOLD! You are bad, bad people! [Commence supersmugness]
Moderate Religious People: But it wasn’t us! It was those extremist retards, and there’s no way they represent us - we’re way more numerous than them, and also completely different! Stop acting so stupid with those dumbass assumptions!
Atheists: [Some bullshit] [Commence SUPERSMUGNESS X-TREME]
Here, the tables are turned. Oh, what have here? A representative of the atheists BAAAAAW’ing and blaming it all on extremist retards who are apparently completely different than your average atheist, and also telling those attacked by them not to act stupid by making dumbass assumptions? My oh my, how unexpected. Oh, well. I guess this is my cue to smug it up a notch (I’m not any religious but those self-righteous never-wrong no-dissent-brooking atheist morons tend to annoy the fuck out of me even more than the self-righteous never-wrong no-dissent-brooking theist ones).
“However, I wonder if making the above one of your favorite comments you have not yourself fallen into a similar trap.”
Look at the advertisements: they are extensively promoting ‘The God Who Wasn’t There’. The people that wrote this aren’t going to defend someone just because they think alike. I’m an atheist, but realize that the majority of people that hold ANY mindset are going to be stupid. Essentially, several of the atheists were responding with ad hominems that added nothing to the discussion (i.e. I saw ‘Christianity should be banned’ with no argumentative backup, for instance), just like Fundamentalist Christians often do in real life. It’s important to make sure that you don’t fall into the trap of rationalizing everything in simple, summarized terms, as many commentators of all affiliations did on this website. When the Poe was revealed, they decided that if they didn’t include that comment, atheists would get to escape without criticism; NOTHING is above criticism.
TL, DR version: No one deserves a free ride, even if they are within your own ideology.
As for the site administrators (who won’t be seeing this message) and other people who haven’t had enough mind games, I direct you here (now defunct) or here (active) to see if you can guess whether they are spoof or reality… and engage in discussion while doing so. Both websites deny the Poe consistently, but make sure you look at their rhetoric very carefully before passing judgment.
I hope the next AK project will be even more elaborate than this one! (Unfortunately, I guessed ‘Poe’ the instant I saw this. It was too non-confrontational to be for real; if you had engaged your readers as though you were real, you would have fooled a LOT more people.)
*I think that comments that have links in them are set aside for moderation, and I’m pretty certain this website is no longer going to be viewed by the mods, so I’ll repost this comment without links.*
“Look at the advertisements: they are extensively promoting ‘The God Who Wasn’t There’. The people that wrote this aren’t going to defend someone just because they think alike. I’m an atheist, but realize that the majority of people that hold ANY mindset are going to be stupid. Essentially, several of the atheists were responding with ad hominems that added nothing to the discussion (i.e. I saw ‘Christianity should be banned’ with no argumentative backup, for instance), just like Fundamentalist Christians often do in real life. It’s important to make sure that you don’t fall into the trap of rationalizing everything in simple, summarized terms, as many commentators of all affiliations did on this website. When the Poe was revealed, they decided that if they didn’t include that comment, atheists would get to escape without criticism; NOTHING is above criticism.
TL, DR version: No one deserves a free ride, even if they are within your own ideology.
As for the site administrators (who won’t be seeing this message) and other people who haven’t had enough mind games, I direct you here(1) (now defunct) or here(2) (active) to see if you can guess whether they are spoof or reality… and engage in discussion while doing so. Both websites deny the Poe consistently, but make sure you look at their rhetoric very carefully before passing judgment.
I hope the next AK project will be even more elaborate than this one! (Unfortunately, I guessed ‘Poe’ the instant I saw this. It was too non-confrontational to be for real; if you had engaged your readers as though you were real, you would have fooled a LOT more people.)”
(1): blogs4brownback(dot)wordpress(dot)com
(2): calvinists4conservatism(dot)wordpress(dot)com
You sir, blew my fucking balls away. Good job
Well, I just found this site today (late on the 14th) and was actually quite surprised by how tolerant and reasonable some of the arguments were (compared to how these things often go, anyway), then I got to the final entry, ACTUALLY READ IT and things fell into place.
Since then I’ve been reading the comments and am quite shocked and disturbed by some of them. Frothing rants about how you should die, shut up, kill yourself, will burn in hell, or smugly looking forward to the day when you die and see, somehow, that there’s no life after death.
Mostly amused, though. The hypocrisy of those people who are so eager to dive in and call you idiots for criticising a game you’ve never played, that they never actually bother to read the thing, is delicious. All the babies chucking their toys out of the pram and shouting cover-up when they find out they’ve been had is equally fantastic.
I can’t really put it better than that Asssombrero quote though, so I’ll just leave it at ‘Well done, now do it again!’
Wow, even on a page which states clearly that this website is a parody, there are hoards of atheist zealots flocking to insult the Christian (often even more than they insult the Christian Perspective). Hats of for such a wonderful parody; it isn’t often that someone can expose the true colors of humanity. Even a group dedicated to exposing ignorance is entirely ignorant about the well stated fact that this site is satirical. What the internet–the world in general, actually–needs is a society of rational and careful beings. People who act on impulse, be it those who hate spore for its evolutionary ways or those who maliciously comment on any christian blog, should pay more attention. Let’s just all get along?
Props dude.
I’ve haven’t got much to say…. other then….
Great job guys
Best rick roll ever
Hats off to you. That is easily one of the greatest trolls/rolls I have ever seen. Splendid job.
Holy fucking fuck. You guys are rollgods.
Gratz, best joke ever. I believed u. BTW: I have left comments but not rude one’s. (I am christian so I have manners :P)
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@ Admin : in that case I’m looking forward to more controversy. The point is that creating satire from the alledged point of view of christian fundametalists, like you guys did in this case, is relatively safe. It wont generate any serious deatthreats from overzelous ‘christians’ or ‘atheists’ and I doubt people in the less openminded regions of the American Biblebelt, let alone in other parts of the world will go on the streets and demonstarte, burning flags and ephegees. And neither will the more shortsighted ‘anti-religeous’ . The fact that you can get away with this prank (because despite the whole ‘Poe’s Law’ justification, it is after all most of all a prank) proves that the two ideologies involved, and those subscribing to them, are still more tolerant than meets the eye. One doesnt have to be a biggot to expect more extreme reactions if the people who did this experiment would’ve chosen to pose as an Iranian Imam or a Rabbi from Tel Aviv.
Allthough a lot of the angry posters on this site have a very big mouth, I’m sure most of them just have that attitude on-line or when they’re drunk with their friends, and not much true motivation, or even the brains to pose a serious threat. I do however believe that if this prank was pulled from a muslim or jewish point of view you’d have to face the same trouble as the danish cartoonist, Borat, and similar satirists with an intellectual edge. Not because I believe that they are morally inferiour or more agressive, but just more highly strung when it comes to making fun or critisizing their believes and principles.
Anyway, like I said : keep up the good work with exposing mankind as a hilarious monster. I just wish you didnt use that awful Rick Astley song …
and pardon my spellingerrors, too bad you dont have an edit function.
Mr. Flibble is still very cross for being rickrolled. Very cross indeed. Well done none the less.
STUPID SINGLE MINDED PEOPLE…GOD MADE US EVOLVE FROM MICROBS…adam nd eve is a bunch of crap
Anonymous isn’t an organization, or an association. We are all Anonymous whether you think so or not. You are two of us. Hail Xenu!
This site proves that any extremist, whether a ‘free speech & tolerance’ preaching leftist OR a ‘love thy neighbor & forgivness’ preaching right winger are usually the biggest hipocrites. The ‘forgivers’ will usually be the first to condemn you to hell for opposing their view and the ‘free speech’ crowd are usually the ones telling you to shut up and that you have no right to FORCE (by speaking) your views on someone else.
If someone (or some site) has a different opinion than you, ignore it . Who the #$%& cares! Opinions don’t hurt people. Threatening or telling them off is NOT going to change their views. It’s the extremists on both sides that preach violence as a means of getting their views out that we need to fear.
In conclusion, brilliant rick roll and as you can see at the top, FIRST POST BIOTCHES!!!!
Well i got suckered ROFL. well done guys
Ahh… so, this wasn’t the rally cry against EA I was hoping for afterall…
Well, at least the atheists were exposed for what they are: kinda scary, and tl;dr commentators.
Fantastic work guys.
I was waiting for a site like this (but for real) to appear around Spore’s release date, so well done for pre-empting it. I don’t think a real one could possibly be created now without people linking to this constantly.
Thanks for the lulz!
Brilliant rickroll alright, damn fine work. I actually bought it and was considering an email(polite and even handed, mind) explaining why exactly spore did not portray evolution in an in any kind of way realistic manner, but laziness prevailed as it always does, and a good thing too. But in fairness now, did we really need proof that the majority of the internet is composed of ignorant, intolerant fuckwits?
Bravo on the brilliant prank. I actually should have known that this was a prank when i read the comments and all the ones that spoke opposite of your “oppinion” were up, as most religious extremests would have removed such hatred.
hohohoho))))))))
SPORE is the best!!! lol!!!
всякой хренью заниметесь…америкосы…
Great job you two,
You guys had me up until the jack thomson post, but that post was pretty iffy. Nevertheless I still came back on every day to check and I just loved the rick roll. But what really made me laugh was just all the hate that kept on coming after you outed yourselves. I couldn’t believe people were just so set in their beliefs that they wouldn’t even take the time to read your post before mouthing off to you. You truly showed us a dark side of human nature as well as the close-mindedness of these atheist who say that they are smarter than christians.
Congrats!
I actually had a talk with my family about this talking about how vituperitive (I KNOW I spelled *that* one wrong) Nice job though, I’m normally much much more skeptical. *runs off to research Poe’s Law*
Wow…I should’t post while busy…that was supposed to be vituperitive you were…I’m going to leave now before I make any more of a fool of myself.
Again, i want to give props to you two guys who behind this brilliantness. Well done.
Teehee! I can’t believe people are still posting angry comments; even on after the Rick Roll. ^_^ Others are also still trying to tell those angry posters to STOP and they’ve been TRICKED. This is funny. Kudos.
This is definitely going in a page of gaming history.
You rock so hard. God must be so proud of you.
If only there were a way of sending a little tap on the shoulder to all the disrespectful types who left comments and didn’t bother reading the real about page. I’m just kinda shocked at some of the language on that page, and I’m not even easily offended by swearing! When the world learns tolerance of different points of view it’ll be a much better place.
Personally I do believe in evolution, and I’m a Christian. I really don’t see why people find the two theories so wildly incompatible. Not only do we have to look at Genesis as document written before people had the concept of scientific theory (Genesis as a literary framework for or simple explanation of the more complex idea behind it), but also translation is if anything an imprecise art. Just because “day” refers to 24 hours in English, people are hung up on this idea. The original Hebrew word is apparently less decisive about this, leaving it open for this “day” to be a different length of time.
We humans shouldn’t think we know the answers to everything because we blatently don’t, but evolution seems to make sense and after all, all things are possible with God!
God bless you for bringing an interesting spin on this debate, and we can only hope that the people who troll-n-go will come back and read this page soon!
I think the hilarity has worn off now.
D’oh, suckered in again. Nice one lads, this is some funny stuff..
I’ll be keeping an eye on your other stuff for shits n giggles..
who are you??? mail-me
Okay guys, someone said to me this site was a great “rick roll” and yet, after reading some posts i couldn’t believe it was a joke. I kept thinking “that guy told me it was a joke because he wants it to be a joke but it can’t be” until i saw the two about pages on the menu.
Yes, Poe’s law is serious bussines.
SHUT UP GOD FREAK
If one of you is female please let me have sex with you.
HAHA you seem very dedicated to this cause and i think parents should be made aware of blah blah blah….. you suck,god hates you,you have nothing better to do wow you should go live in a hole and use the bible as toilet paper
The best part is seeing that people are still making serious comments, arguing for or against religion and spewing all kinds of invective. So much rage over one (imaginary) person’s web blog. I’m not sure if we’re seeing something new (the power of the internet) or something old (the quickness with which people jump on a bandwagon without bothering to do even the slightest bit of research). Good stuff, though.
Good job.
i think u guys are pretty naive and stupid if you believe that only god could have created the world and all the animals, and that because it says in a BOOKS that evolution didnt happen then it must be true.
Another thing is the fact that you say that children shouldnt be exposed to this game when in fact its helps creativity and that there is much worse games out there such as ones you KILL people in, thats right KILL people in. I would have thought that is much much more worse then a game where you can create an animal and see it change and adapt to the environment, WOW the people who thought of that game must be shot for doing something so terrible, NOT!!!!
wow im amazed that they know what 4chan and /b/ is.
Arrgh, i hate you guys. Seriously this was the only site to blow off the steam from my chill pills already out. They should be here in like a few hours but yeah. I guess this actually wasn’t a serious site. Gotta keep on the guard because there’s actually some sites that are serious. It actually looked like it was serious until i looked here. Lol…
Ya’ll are bastards…..nice job guys. But Rick Rolls are seriously getting on my nerves….
Ты либо немного ебанутый, либо полный еблан!! Тока идиоту может предти в голову такая хрень, или ты просто ярый фанат-извращениц!! Может тебя неудавлетворяют материальные члены, и ты решил прибегнуть к виртуальным!! Мой тебе совет: пройди 5ти летний курс лечения в психушки, пожет твое представление о мире изменится!!!
Но пока что, ты ДОЛБАЁБ!!!
Lol I just found this site and posted two insulting comments before realizing all this XD.
Are you a little mother-fucker or full ass-fucked-holy-13years-boy! Only idiot might come to mind such crap, or you simply hard fan-pervert! You is unpleasured by material cock, and you decided to use virtual! You my advice: Get 5th year course of treatment in mads-house, might your view of the world will change!
But you still HolySheet!
Cute blog - except for the fact that Spore pretty much validates everything that Creationism espouses. I mean, OK so the role of ‘creator’ is sacreligiously occupied by the player, but if the game was a true demonstration of “Evolutionary principles” then everything should happen in the game without the need of a player-creator-god.
And EA isn’t going to make any money out of that concept.
OMG - which does beg the question - who made the software that God is running to tinker with us…?! If it’s EA - where’s the expansions????
^_^
Anyway, well done on the trolling.
“Catholic Church says theory of evolution is compatible with the Bible”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26747166/
Curiously, everyone keeps talking about how this was a great “rick roll”, but I see no mention of Rick Astley anywhere. No links to the song, no lyrics, no funny rick roll spore creations, nothing… This appears to be an excellent “troll” to me, not a “rick roll”.
well, as for mocking all the people who instantly hated this site, it should be noted that there are people like this in the world, and there are probably real websites like this on the internet, and… they are really fucking annoying…
p.s. now that i am bored of this site, (i found it after it became known that it was a fake) i think i will head off to be angry at PETA… i hate them…. cheers, and congratz on the success of this roll
Hi. I am TV’s Noah. I host a nerd radio show in Pomona NJ. Antispore.com was a main topic of discussion last week. Saying things like: “If this guy (I know I assumed) is so offended by the naked woman, they why did he post a video of it on his site? What an idiot!” For a 2 hour show antispore was a good half hour of it. This week we discover that we have been rick rolled HARD. You went from jackass of the week to our personal hero. Long story short, we want you on the show. Get back to me if you can, and I hope you have more up your sleeve.
Congratulations on this site, u really managed to ruffle ppls feathers! almost got me until i read “never gonna make u cry”…lmao!
Good stuff though, seriously. such a shame that ppl resort to death threats, there’s just no need at all. if ppl are that bothered by christians or any other religion for that matter, they should all be safe in the knowledge that they have wasted their entire lives worshipping sumthing that doesnt exist. isnt that enough?
I dont go for the religion thing at all, my uncle is a priest and i respect his beliefs, i’d never sit there and tell him everything he’s based his life on is bull shit because then i’d be just as bad as the ppl who tell me i’m gonna “go to hell” because i don’t do what they think is right. you’re rightin saying that some ppl really need to have a good think about the way they react to things like this. hopefully a lesson learned!
good luck with future, take it easy
STUPID CREATIONISTS, GO TO HEAVEN AND EAT SHIT.
Brilliant.
Christianity is a dumb and corrupt religion…As is this site that makes no sense and is in so many ways, retarded and fanatical. Goodluck with God, jackass.
“Rick Roll??on 17 Sep 2008 at 2:36 pm 129
Curiously, everyone keeps talking about how this was a great “rick roll”, but I see no mention of Rick Astley anywhere. No links to the song, no lyrics, no funny rick roll spore creations, nothing… This appears to be an excellent “troll” to me, not a “rick roll”.”
You missed:
“21. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never gonna give you up. 22. “Never gonna let you down.” 23.”Never gonna run around and desert you.” 24. “Never gonna make you cry.” 25. “Never gonna say goodbye.” 26. “Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.” 27.”Never truly believe anything you read on the Internet. There will always be cases of Poe’s Law.”
SOLAMENTE CON LA RIQUEZA DEL VATICANO, ESTAIS DANDO LOS CRISTIANOS, UNA IDEA DE LO FALSOS QUE SOYS.
Get a job, you obviously need something to do during the day and this fruitless attempt to FUD up the game of Spore by showing 1 or 2 perverted creations and Will Wright comments being taken out of context is going to accomplish nothing in the end, except filling the Internet with more nonsense.
Tips for you on your site: If you want people to actually read what you type then use indentations and proper paragraph structure, everything you write on your main page is just a big block of text. Big blocks of text are no fun (Bible Included), especially when they’re about how you were fortunate to grow up brainwashed by fundamentalists Christians or whatever and how you’re making a “difference” because youtube took down a video that was obviously offensive to more people that just you and your followers.
Please keep in mind that your God not only created you, but the entire Spore development team and all the game’s players. Perhaps he has plans for the human race to advance beyond our nationalistic and religious views to a true spiritual and scientific future to perhaps one day find him? Let me ask you, has your method found him yet? (besides in your own head) Mindless worship?
I think God’s waiting in the center of the universe where the bang happened, and will only speak with those that have obtained a social level advanced enough to actually travel to him. He doesn’t crap a poop about your suburban life or family, he probably laughs at how feeble minded you are for building this site when you could have been out doing his (God’s) work, like finding TRUTH through scientific study.
Good luck with your site, it’s ugly, olives and greens? Seriously? Put some Archangels and HUGE crosses or something to make this place seem truly Epic and worthy of worship. Maybe a picture of a buffed up and tatted Jesus wearing a tank top? That’d be totally sweet.
Have a nice day.
la verdad creo que webs como esta lo que hacen es ayudar a embrutecer mas nuestra muy estupida sociedad, bociferendo valores que deben ser replanteados y evitando el desarrollo de la sociedad. si quieren seguir con los principios de hace mas de 2 siglos, es su decision, pero no intenten oscurecer el sol que cada dia nos enseña que las cosas cambian y siguen cambiando.
LOL NOOBIUS how about READING THE PAGE PHOOL? ITS ALL A HOAX ! THATS WHAT THIS ENTIRE PAGE IS ABOUT!
“quote” Malleon 13 Sep 2008 at 8:43 pm 44thats so stupid bcs of you idiot very much bpeople were thinking that we (the chritians) only believe taht way but….
I DONT BELIEVE ON GOD AND I ONLY BELIEVE ON EVOLUTION THIS CRAP MADE ME ANGRY I NEVER GO TO CHURCH AND GOD DOES NOT EXCIST IT WAS STUPID TO MAKE THIS SITE AND I WANT A SORRY FOR THAT!!!! I DONT WANT TO LOSE MY RELIGION BUT I DON BELIEVE ON THIS CRAP (GOD AN CRETIONISM)
im so angry that you made thousends of racists against us and thats not ok
i bougth Spore too
im watng for a sorry
Malorgrocg Baum (artist name)
“/endquote”
Piss off back to your hole.
LOL! I loved it.
Now I shall eat your flesh!
Truly yours,
The Ancient Serpent
Funny shit mate
BWAHAHA, weeeell done! My god, I totally believed you and the truth came to my mind sooooo slowly… hee hee… good job.
Ha! this is a great prank!
but here is what i really have to say; grow up. if you are going to spend your time pulling pranks on others, at least do it on youtube or somewhere else. What you are only proving is how little of a life you have, and how little self esteem you have.
So was it a troll when you were a fundamentalist?
Or is it a troll now that you’re not?
What if your an atheist pretending to be a fundamentalist so that we all think atheists are intollerant pricks and then we can say “those atheists are intollerant pricks” because we think your a fundamentalist and you’ll say “yes they are” but THEN you actually say “ha ha, I’m an atheist” and we all go “holy shit” and declare a jihad on your arse and then you say “no I’m not really” so we say “praise baby Jesus” and then everybody else says “shut up you moronic prick” because they don’t know what to think either so they just assume you’re “one of us” so then they start fighting with each other; “shut up, Jesus boy” “No you shut up” “you shut up” and then everybody says that everybody is a sodding brain-dead bastard so that we don’t know WHO to believe and we all get a headache and don’t want to play on the internet anymore - not even to abuse those idiotic sixteen year old twats who think they know more than philosophy professors - and so nobody logs on anymore - not even the wankers who keep saying “Yes, I agree” on RichardDawkins.net - and so it ends up that there’s no more internet because we don’t know which narrow minded bigoted arsehole to trust anymore???
I’ll bet you didn’t think your irresponsible little prank would DESTROY cyberspace, did you…?????
[...] 19, 2008):Apparently, a horde of professional and amateur atheists noticed it also: One site, AntiSpore.com, appeared to be set up to counter what one poster, a self-described concerned Christian parent, [...]
the trolling continues even on this page..
and people still fall for them.
SPORE IS AMAZING YOU LITTLE midgets DOWN THERE, leave it alone or you will see my bumchum in hell.
P.S.
STOP PRAYING TO ME, IT’S GIVING ME A HEADAKE
I was getting pretty steamed there for about five minutes until I started reading the comments and figured it out. Great job!
The saddest thing is that there really are people who think like this. See http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2008/06/exploring-creation-museum-americas-new.html
this controversy AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGERS me I shall be sure to keep a place for you IN HEEEEEELL for all the others VISIT MY PERSONAL BLOG it has pictures of me and my girlfriend karen and also when we were on vacation in malasia 11th comendment thy shall visit my personal blog
and everybody add me to your facebook (username: god) and add me to your msn god@hotmail.com
i love you. marry me.
not really, but you mada an awesome troll.
i fucking love u guys
Well, I now regret what I said at first.
Damn, I’ve been had. Well done.
That guy over there.
I can’t believe people on this post are still tricked. It’s almost as if people willfully don’t read.
Dude, its a fucking game you need to chill.
FLAME WARS!
Heh, got me there, Nice one.
I have seen some stupid $hit in my life, but this….all I have to say is
FLAWLESS VICTORY!
I DONT LIKE U
Have never seen so many people agreeing on the same thing and yet to see such one sided comments on the net. Even pedophiles have more sympathizers! Bashing religious people seems to be the trend and you’ve just exposed atheist as the jehovah’s witnesses of the net! Today its trying to push their views forcibly on people on the internet tomorrow it’ll be handing out leaflets at doorsteps and trying to convert you . Brilliant mate this site could probably achieve legendary status.
OMFG I can’t believe the rickroll at the end was the only passage I skipped reading, thinking “no not anymore bible crap”…. kinda spoiled the roll effect for me but still great site; thank you for introducing me to this “Poe Law”
Why cant you just accept the fact that not all people have the same beliefs that you do. i went to catholic school for 13 and i can tell you from a Catholic-educated view that you should be more respectful to people who don’t believe in what you believe in. STOP CENSORSHIP!
“After all, their billions in revenue and all the advertising in the world are no match for the power of God.”
so explain to me why god is worried about a fucking video game?
sigh. i have to say also, that the unecessary stress on people’s lives is rather unwanted…>P
Stop the Aethiest bashing. You are incredibly insensitive. Its not an attacking on christian values, its a game, nothing more. Its meant to entertain not to prove a point.
Okay, as you can see by my name I do indeed believe in God, and I must say, this has got to be one of the stupidest “anti-somethings because it goes against Gods teachings” website that I have ever seen.
If you are trying to call peoples attention to the fact that this game encourages evolution of the idea of creation, then you may aswell go ahead and make a site for every other game in existence, as this is what gaming is about. Making yourself better in the game to continue onto new and better levels.
This is completely idiocy. How can you know how the universe began? How do YOU know that we didnt evolve from some lesser being? The answer; you cant. This is simply you trying to force your beliefs onto the masses, which in my mind, makes you a tyrant and a dictator.
The only thing that you have accomplished by making this site is getting alot of regular, sane people to become angry at you. MORE people will now buy this game for themselves and their children BECAUSE of YOUR hate for it. If someone REALLY hates something, then people tend to take notice and say-”Hmm, maybe I should check this out myself and see what its about!.” In essence, you are providing EXCELLENT free advertising for EA, and I know that they thank you for it.
One last thing, you think that your little “attacks” on Will Wright make him cry or lose sleep? Get real, he doesn’t care what you or any of the crazy “activists” in this world think. You want to start a crusade that would actually HELP someone? Fight for the cause of people wasting space on the internet and causeing problems.
Good day.
YOUR A MORON, ITS A DAMN VIDEO GAME FOR KIDS YOU ASSHOLE
you people are INSANE!!!
mankind has made animals of his own… the german shephard, fox terrier, pitbull terrier and many more. This is selective breeding, same as evolution, dummy.
i belive in god and i go day by day beliving and worshiping him in my own way by enjoying all that he has givin us i agree Grand theft auto is way to violent by why spore god gave us a gift other creatures do not have its the ability to ask why he gave us free will so that we can do as we please and to see what we can do i do not belive spore is anti-christinan if i might add do we all remember the passion christians supported it even though its extremly violent. even though we do not condone violence of any shape. people who belive violence is bad and did not fight the passion are hipocrites spore is not bad its a kids game. its fun just like how a artist paints and cant wait to see it when its done. its the evolution of a drawing so why not let people think that animals evolve or mutate its a fact of life. i belive in both but i see it as a combination of evolution and creationism. we have facts of evolution and we have our belifs we should see that god made the first celled organism then like a painter added more to see its finished creation adam and eve are gods paintings he made them to look like him yes but he had to start somwhere. also we are all a part of god am i right are we taught this in the bible. so would it be wrong to belive that god gave us evolution to show us how he made us. is it wrong to belive that god is talking to us. is it wrong for us to be hipocritical is it wrong to allow violence if it benifits us. now i know i am but a mear man of his creation and i am young but please i ask all of you to think about it. this is why i am Lutherin to support god but not kill in his name. and not to wave power over people there is a old saying take everythinh you read with a pinch of salt . and i dont think god would want us to force our will on people if you read the bible it says it there clear as day if you read it deap enough. i thank you for you time and hope you can see my point.
-Michael T. Henry
Just read this after posting angry comment on other page, now i feelz like an asshole.
Sorry for the whole “you guys are stupid fascists” thing…..
“… evolve from a ’spore’ into demon-like intelligent space creatures that violently take over the galaxy.”
Actually you are the one that saves the galaxy from a “demon-like” intelligence
Congratulations on a great troll and epic rickroll.
You had me going for the brief time I read it, although I didn’t read the earlier arguments too closely before dismissing them as just plain silly and browsing elsewhere. Sadly, somewhere out there someone probably DOES subscribe to the views presented on this page - Poe’s Law couldn’t work if there wasn’t a behaviour for it to imitate.
Now I find it hilarious that even this post has spawned an argument; certain hypocritical Christians suggesting that this proves “all atheists are morons” (exactly the sort of argument they hate being used against themselves - and as an added bonus suggesting that moderate atheists are hypocrites for defending themselves even though they weren’t the ones making stupid blanket attacks against Christians in the first place) with certain reactionary idiots amongst the lesser ranks of the atheists (and Christian evolutionists) who STILL HAVEN’T GOT THAT THIS ISN’T REAL. IT’S A JOKE.
It’s also hilarious that people on both sides jumped right into the debate without reading one another’s posts, whilst commenting on the “irony” of the other side not doing so. Seeing an atheist making blanket comments about all Christians making blanket comments is only outdone by seeing a Christian comment making a blanket comment about all atheists making blanket comments about all Christians etc.
Of course, the true lesson here is that no-one ought to target the entirety of any other system of belief and accuse all of its practitioners of anything. Sadly there are people on both sides of the argument here who have eminently failed to learn it.
TL;DR version: The statement “All suck”, where is any broad religious or non-religious group, is false.
after posting last night as a concerned Christian, who thought i was addressing some one who shared my beliefs, and yet took a too radical stance. I must say i am impressed, unfortunately your “persona” was very real to what i see amongst main stream, cultural, American Christians. To me this seems a shame, that American Christians do take radical positions rather then remembering to love as the Lord loved. Nevertheless, i must say, good job with the character
Epic win. I had read about the antispore.com and because of the articles I thought it is a real thing… until I actually visited this site and I thought it was hilarious (and very subtle). I was laughing even more after I read the rickroll. Amazing job, can’t wait for number two.
Who is God?
God is a kind of extratrrestian Creature that wanted to Help the HumanRace on their Way of Evolution.
Think: You fly with an Spaceship to a planet that is in the phase of Stoneage, so you go with a Allround Car around the Planet and Talk with your Team over Walkie-Talkie an fly with Jetpacks etc.
So they Think you are a God!
That is what happened on Earth Many Years ago.
Read: Erich von Däniken - Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (Memories on The Future)
Not like it’s a new point to make but you’ve made it most succinctly and undeniably: idiots are idiots no matter what religion or “non-belief system” they come from. Leave the Christians alone now, world - it’s getting tired to pick on them.
You started it because some outspoken fundies got their voice out there with such ridiculous statements as “God Hates Fags” - I guess those who got worked up and tarred the whole of Christianity with the ‘crazy’ badge are the same people who decided that all muslims support the killing of westerners and the non-human status of women.
Get a life - now everyone who says Christianity as a whole is stupid because they see blogs of this nature (from real Christians) are equally as narrow minded and foolish.
Thanks for proving the point, guys - awesome rick roll! A true legend!
DAMN, most awesome rick roll EVER!
Even God Himself laughed at this Rick Roll!!!
Great job!
It’s sort of interesting. The people who’ve actually caught on are still bashing the site! Whoever made this, I tip my hat to you. Truly astounding. You really had me tricked for a while!
lulz
There is no such thing as bad publicity.