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Grout posted:I feel so loving old right now.
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raditts posted:Pele. I think her biggest moments involved making out with another girl goon at one of Lowtax's goon meets, followed by the time she went to visit not-girl goon Oddjob, who proposed to her at the airport (and the first time actually meeting her) and proceeded to post a thread about it. That thread was glorious if only for the first page or two where people posted "Congratulations!" without knowing the whole story mixed with posts consisting solely of "hahahahahaha" by people who did. quote:fookoof came out of the closet to say: I really wish I could find the GIF that goes with this... Edit: Here's the thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=182849
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Satisfaction Guaranteed posted:Also, does anyone remember the OLLLDDDDDDD avatars? The ones that went by postcount? 
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Overbite posted:[img=fiestacat] Is this still bannable? Lowtax used to have a seething hatred for this picture.
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Dec 22, 2011 03:11
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My first exposure to Something Awful was those trolling icq chatlogs that lowtax used to do. Talking to the parenting expert about shaking his kid up in the "punishment box" was about the funniest poo poo ever.
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When's the last time we had a Lowtax-sanctioned forum invasion? Those were always good for some laffs.Satisfaction Guaranteed posted:COME BACK SKEWLOOSE!! "HERE COMES THE CYCLOPS"
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Computer viking posted:Would this be the guy who claimed to be on the run from his ex(?) who had contacts in the police? Ahhh, jbarwick and Frankie the purple dildo. One of the few threads I remember. 
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If you've been around for awhile, you can GO BACK IN TIME by looking at your avatar. They are numbered, so you can roll back the numbers. Here's my list!        Please note the bouncy alien avatar that EVERYONE seemed to have around here before 2002. I made my frame by frame and it was an awesome thing to have for about a year.
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I always like threads like this because they bring out all the old timers that I enjoyed reading back then. Now I have no clue know who's posts are worth it to read. I am just glad gimmicks are gone for the most part. Posters like Human 2.0 and that guy who would make up those fake stories were horrible. I can't remember that guys name. He would start out the post with a plausible story and then it would turn in to some stupid twist at the end (I know I am in the minority about not liking him).
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Dec 22, 2011 03:25
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Petr posted:One thing I miss is the random word filters. We still have the "loving" filters and such for non-registered users, but it was pretty funny to wake up one day and discover that overdiscussed topic X had been filtered to YAMS YAMS YAMS YAMS. Miracle farts was great.
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JP Money posted:Does anyone remember that flamethrower thread? That's what got me to join after lurking a while. That poo poo was awesome. And thanks to SA I can't tolerate any gun forum outside of TFR. Nowhere else can I get good info on poo poo without any of that HEH FOR WHEN THE And in the event someone that stupid actually shows up, they get mocked relentlessly and driven off.  Also, the Frankie story.
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Nomenklatura posted:The SA anime forum is one of the most benign, tightly controlled fora on the subject anywhere on the Internet. Oh, it was glorious.
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Earwicker posted:I think front page content is still good, though I don't read it as often as I used to. The forums culture has changed and become somewhat more mainstream, but this was really part of the same process happening to internet culture in general, its not really an SA specific thing. It has become a bit more insular, and is no longer one of the leading generators of content like it used to be, its become eclipsed to an extent by sites like 4chan and especially reddit. Part of that is because traditional messageboards are themselves becoming a bit outdated, and also because SA asks for more effort from OP's. Overall I think what is responsible for making SA different is really the interent itself changing rather drastically over the last decade. I don't think its really a "better or worse" issue. Awhile back I read a great article about the natural progression of forums. Essentially it talked about how they started off with a lot of young adults and sort of mature with their users. Many form their own cliques and memes and thus it's harder to attract newer members to replenish the older ones. It is interesting to see the progression. The sub-forums are much more mature. I'd put SAS at or above any of the sports specific forums out there. Same goes for games and other sub-forums. I think that's pretty cool to have such a dynamic forum that doesn't lose quality as you get more specific. GBS is much different though. Used to have more tomfoolery (someone did mention e/n threads helping that out) and now seems more like politics-lite.
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It has been a while, hasn't it? The forums have gotten older. Now we mostly have jobs, I think. I seem to remember a goon meet in Costa Mesa with maybe 15% of the total active posting population, right after SA Forums posters were called goons. Was this the second goon meet? Third? Anyway, goatse.cx was brought up, and (a few days later) became A Thing. My '01 forums self wished I'd registered after that meet, instead of a few months later, because now my regdate is the youngest of the 'old ones.'
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Everything used to just kind of be in GBS as well, now a lot of content has moved to various subforums, and the the subforums have started to branch off of each other in various ways. There also used to be a lot more ban-me threads. The last one I can remember is the guy jizzing on his keyboard shavings and then eating them. I do miss the threads where we could see the rantings of someone who had gone insane.
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Man the SAAN forum invasion... Seems like a lifetime ago. I remember a few of them stuck around.
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The Bible posted:This place used to be fairly conservative, too, believe it or not. I mean, it was no freep, but compared to today, it was quite different. A lot of capital-C conservative posters got permabanned in 2008 because they'd Toxxed themselves on McCain getting elected.
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My good friend Waterhaul registered 2 accounts after we spent so much time lurking in Ghost Story and Photoshop threads. I can remember reading Cliff Yablonski in the computer labs back during my first year of college (02-03). During the summer I went through a stack of CDs in my desk drawers - folders and folders of smilies, gifs, loving happycat, a lot of goon creations, that picture of lowtax in the pool.  A lot of stuff that doesn't entertain me anymore, but more the knowledge that it once did.
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I try not to think about how long I've been here. I still don't get FYAD. The biggest changes really seem to be that the community felt much more close-knit in the past, which was probably just a function of user size more than anything. That, and with fewer specific subforums people probably interacted across their groups more. GBS has really changed though, it's true there were a ton of crap threads you might have to wade through, but some of them could really turn into comedy gold on accident. I'm not sure Yorba Linda Water District would make it on the modern day forums (though I do believe that was actually FYAD started, so maybe?). All in all though, SA by far is one of the best forums around that I've seen.
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I joined because I thought the Photoshop Phridays and ROMPit Reviews were hilarious (especially the Revolution X one). The first threads I remember reading were: -Pele's banme thread -One goon convincing another goon to drink his own piss for medical diagnostic purposes -A goon getting Andrew WK to sign a Fiestacat picture Dear Lord, I am old 
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VextheGrey posted:
There are very few forums that are even close to SA in just usability. A few of my friends read some forums where 1/2 page sig blocks are still...cool? I love seeing the old goons... Joined when it was free. We are a dying breed.
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I joined during the Zidane thread, and it was just so amazing watching all the submissions come in. I couldn't believe that one message board could contain so much talent. Before registering I had never given any thought to where funny poo poo on the Internet actually came from. I used to post on message boards that were so narrow in focus and so small and insular that coming to SA was like some yokel going to the big city for the first time.
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putt putt posted:My good friend Waterhaul registered 2 accounts after we spent so much time lurking in Ghost Story and Photoshop threads. I can remember reading Cliff Yablonski in the computer labs back during my first year of college (02-03). Ribkid best kid.
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Rocket propelled hobo rocket propeller: From: http://forums.somethingawful.com//showthread.php?s=7c15178d4cc8f3e10f33a45f1c1cc27c&threadid=2472116
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Biggie Shorty posted:I'm not sure if The Pizza Matrix or the JudoHobo would be funny to goons today, but back then it was the funniest poo poo ever. Ha, I just dug up my copies of Pizza Matrix and Judohobo compilation videos the other day. Oh, and Captain America Star Wars. The Captain America renderings still creep me out.
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Satisfaction Guaranteed posted:COME BACK SKEWLOOSE!! I remember I had just gotten "I SEE INVISIBLE DUMPTRUCKS" before Lowtax put in the avatar buying thing. I do miss the excellent Photoshop Fridays and invasions. The Sony Dating Game invasion was probably the funniest thing I'd ever seen. I'd been reading it at work and was laughing too hard to describe it.
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Lobok posted:I joined during the Zidane thread, and it was just so amazing watching all the submissions come in. I couldn't believe that one message board could contain so much talent. Before registering I had never given any thought to where funny poo poo on the Internet actually came from. Every so often I click a Cracked.com "photoplasty" update and goons are still among the best funny photoshoppers on the web.
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:There also used to be a lot more ban-me threads. The last one I can remember is the guy jizzing on his keyboard shavings and then eating them. I do miss the threads where we could see the rantings of someone who had gone insane. I'm still kicking around.
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I remember getting probated for making fun of goons for talking about their fake internet dress-up doll personae in a gaia online thread and thinking this place isn't what it used to be
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Pedrophile posted:I know the story behind I heard  happening. I turned and saw the shadows and realized it wasn't something I wanted to see. Also I remember when Mayor Wilkins was Sorata. And Pelee, oh those pictures are forever burned into my mind. And GoonCons, those used to be a blast. The forums are a completely different place now. A lot of the oldtimers wandered off. I met a lot of them at meets and they were all cool cats. Or maybe they are all just in a nursing home now without internet. Who can say?
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I remember the days of rampant poo poo and piss related threads too. There were so many that almost every thread would end up in stories of horrible bathroom-related incidents. Then the mods declared poo poo & piss-related humor to be a bannable offense for a while.
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Did SA spawn YTMND? And what did bigpeeler do to become so hated by goons? I remember that he was considered a GBS Superstar back when he was MSPainting pictures of him working at the zoo and whatnot.
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The Third Man posted:I remember getting probated for making fun of goons for talking about their fake internet dress-up doll personae in a gaia online thread and thinking this place isn't what it used to be These days, even "Scientologists(their ads, anyways)and furries(don't get me started)" seem to be off limits....
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To see SA in its golden years was magnificent, though it had some growing pains to get through before being the stable, awesome resource it is now. It seems like it should get more recognition for being such an awesome site, but I don't mind being an internet hipster, knowing full well that most of the internet humor you find these days originates from here. I'd say that I'm proud, but you guys would call me a douchenipple and tell me to go gently caress myself.
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Bexx posted:I heard Could you explain this one? Did a bunch of goons go out camping and two of them just couldn't keep from screwing?
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Sheen Sheen posted:Did SA spawn YTMND? http://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php?userid=27436 He is possibly one of the worst attention whores ever on the forums, with only that chick who impersonated like 3 people topping him.
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