Okay, I might’ve oversold this but, yep, our honk was originally a quack. In our first trailer before our sound designer Em had come on board, most of our sounds had been sourced from freesound.org—we had trouble finding a perfect discrete honk, but eventually found one that was nice and short and sharp from a field recording titled “Geese honking”, or something similar. We clipped it out and put it in the trailer. After the trailer blew up in late 2017, we got a bunch of emails telling us that, actually, this was definitively a duck’s quack. We went back and looked up the field recording, and read the expanded description, which was something: “Several geese honking recorded in a churchyard in Ireland. There might be one or two duck quacks in there, not sure.”
Okay, I might’ve oversold this but, yep, our honk was originally a quack. In our first trailer before our sound designer Em had come on board, most of our sounds had been sourced from freesound.org—we had trouble finding a perfect discrete honk, but eventually found one that was nice and short and sharp from a field recording titled “Geese honking”, or something similar. We clipped it out and put it in the trailer. After the trailer blew up in late 2017, we got a bunch of emails telling us that, actually, this was definitively a duck’s quack. We went back and looked up the field recording, and read the expanded description, which was something: “Several geese honking recorded in a churchyard in Ireland. There might be one or two duck quacks in there, not sure.”
There’s not gonna be a sitewide April Fools gag this year, in case any of the 4 people who still use this forum were wondering about that.
I just can’t be bothered to think up anything that would actually be funny, let alone implement it.
I would do the thing where I keep talking about “my brilliant April Fools gag” but don’t actually change anything, but we did that one a few years ago and it wasn’t all that funny.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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