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Gotta admit though. If that was real, that ******** died doing one of the best pranks I have ever seen.

xD

I tried researching it a little bit, and I've found mostly forums and comments with mixed results. Most people aren't giving any insightful stuff, but one person did say "its real it was on the news for like a month" and two others said "this was a spoof to a russian tv program, it's fake." and "It's fake. They would never air that on tv if it were real."

For my piece of mind, I'm going with the "fake" option.

Guilds Changes
Over the next few week you'll be seeing one small feature addition and a bunch of UI tweaks to guilds.

We think that people are overwhelmed by the number of guilds, and the difficulty in finding an appropriate one, so we're adding the capability for guild captains to add keywords to their guilds -- that is, five words or phrases that best represent your vision for the guild.

This is part of a longer term plan to make it much easier for us to promote guilds to people; we can, for example, offer them likely guilds based on the interests that they've filled out on their profile.

I always hear from people that keep asking us to do something about guilds, so this is a good chance to demonstrate that guilds are important to you -- fill out the keywords for your guild! We're hoping to get a good set of keywords so that when we turn on keyword searching for the users, they'll be able to find stuff.

(Another way of looking at this: if you fill out your keywords, you'll have an advantage over every other guild that does not fill out the keywords).

The reason guilds hasn't been updated in a while is that it's running on an substantially different source base than forums. It's been on our list of things to renovate; it's just a lot of work that needs to be done to migrate it over, and we're trying to prioritize it against everything else that needs to be done.