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EllisD posted:Word filters were a thing of beauty. FYAD was full of grandmas Doesn't my girlfriend still filter to bold and sirens? edit: nope.
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I still remember being scared shitless of being banned, even though registration was free back then. It just was a lot weirder. I think I actually lurked for close to a year before finally registering. Also, all those photoshop threads like Stareguy or that fat man whose name I can no longer recall.. It was really fun back then, but I'm glad the forums have moved away from that. Doing that for 10 years just wouldn't have been fun.. Also, I had forgotten all about Pele... drat!
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Dec 22, 2011 01:40
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I miss GameQuoter and Adaptive Systems  also; I just wanted to bbe a moderator
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I remember back when post counts were something that people got really elitist over, then it was free accounts vs paid accounts, then it was reg-date once a lot of us free account holders drifted away. While part of me misses how insane the forums could be at times (see: The Situation), but I think the current forum atmosphere is better than it ever has been. The few times that I've drifted into FYAD, it reminds me a little bit of how the forums used to be, only ... evolved? I dunno how to describe it, but I'm sure I'm not the only one to get that feeling. The forums, especially in the early days, have always been aggressively new and I think that's what attracted me to them. The forums generated catchphrases in the morning, beat them to death in the afternoon, and banned you for using them in the evening, especially back in the early days. I registered here as a freshman in college and now I've graduated, worked a bunch of jobs, and moved into management. I had a brief flirtation with Libertarianism as a result of this forum (gotten much saner since then, thanks). It's been very interesting to see how this forum has grown and evolved in it's style since it first started. I remember Forum Newbie's "Buy The Server" thread back when SA really needed new hardware and seeing how that tradition has continued and grown with the donation thread that's currently stickied is just plain wonderful.
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Wuntvor posted:Also, all those photoshop threads like Stareguy or that fat man whose name I can no longer recall.. Hahahaha poo poo, he was one of my friends and never really forgave me for posting that pic, and all the photoshops that happened afterwards.
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Dec 22, 2011 01:42
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I am still waiting for Mr. Water to post. 
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Dec 22, 2011 01:43
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Anyone else remember the hidden sub-forum of the guy who pretty much destroyed his house when trying to share construction tips? I vaguely recall it now since it's been a while; but I think the poster was trying to show how he fixed a hole in the wall and it just looked like someone poured 10 pounds of cake frosting in a big glob on the wall. Of course, it could've been different as my memory of it isn't the greatest.
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Dec 22, 2011 01:44
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Posts: ONE ZILLION Penis Size: HUGE
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Dec 22, 2011 01:44
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Does anyone remember that flamethrower thread? That's what got me to join after lurking a while.
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Nomenklatura posted:Reddit's been pretty ruthlessly promoted, but it sure as poo poo has its own creepy elements too. They just got rid of that jailbait stuff. There really aren't many gimmick accounts any more. All that I know of is Man in Black's paranormal busting stories and Personman in Let's Play. Maybe Supermechagodzilla counts as well, although he just posts strange interpretations of unpopular media on occassion while being a normal poster the rest of the time.
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Dec 22, 2011 01:45
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It has been interesting to see how changes to the subforums drastically changed the content of the main forums, for better and worse. The same could also be said of who is moderating at the time. It has ranged from free for all to concentration camp at times in some of the forums. All of those things together have made it the best forum though. It's a one stop shop for news, hobbies, and shopping. How I perceive the world would drastically change if it suddenly went away.
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I am trying to recollect and it is all a big blur of funny poo poo. All my goons out there strugglin - hold ya head haha
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Just remembered my favorite text filtering anecdote: At one point the use of the word "goon" in thread titles became really pervasive, as often as not with an adjective or descriptive word followed by "goon", then a colon, i.e., "Alabama goons: Let's burn some crosses!" Lowtax finally got fed up with it and instituted a word filter that replaced "goon" with "child molester". I'm not aware that he announced it anywhere, and people are loving dumb, so before you knew it people were using the term "child molester" just as they'd used "goon", often not even knowing the filter existed. Lowtax eventually felt compelled to post a thread telling us what was happening.
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Psalmanazar posted:There really aren't many gimmick accounts any more. All that I know of is Man in Black's paranormal busting stories and Personman in Let's Play. Maybe Supermechagodzilla counts as well, although he just posts strange interpretations of unpopular media on occassion while being a normal poster the rest of the time. Most recent gimmick I recall was TobleroneTriangular during the 08 election.
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It's really interesting to see how different the quality of posts are from then compared to now. I guess without the rules though it would drop back down very quickly. I never knew old, old SA. I found this place back in '06. I'm not sure how long after that the word filter was added for lurkers (you know, gently caress/gently caress, poo poo/poo poo, etc.) but I got used to it from reading it so much that I can't even see the words gently and caress consecutively without automatically considering it slang for gently caress. I don't even know if that's still there, but I probably wouldn't even notice if it suddenly appeared for registered users one day. Thanks, SA. EDIT: Forgot my favorite one. rear end in a top hat/rear end in a top hat.
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SA up until 05 or so was a lot like Mos Eisley. The presence of DPPH/NMP3s/HITW/TCC email lists, you don't know what you've got til its gone, paved paradise... By today's law anyone who posted on SA back then is a criminal on about five thousand counts
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Fragrag posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&username=gamequoter Thanks. I didn't know you could just interchange the two.
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Previa_fun posted:I am still waiting for Mr. Water to post. I'm still optimistic that someday our prince will come. 
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Zombie Samurai posted:Who was the guy who had a whole subforum just to himself? He could only post there, but others could stop by to torment him. Oswald? I, too, remember this poster, but for the life of me cannot remember his name. All of his posts were invisible to everyone, weren't they? So he could technically post anywhere but no one could see them, except in that one subforum. drat, this is one of those moments where you would say, "it's right on the tip of my tongue." I kind of miss when a lot of the (now) subforums were mashed into GBS. I could always refresh GBS and find something new and awesome/funny/pathetic. Now it seems like only the same 50 threads stay in GBS' front page for up to months at a time. So much more effortless to just refresh GBS than go into individual subforums. I liked having my e/n mixed with my GBS. Edit: Also recalling the hilarity of WORST ADMIN EVER.
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I think i was actually a '99. Man those file forums were nuts. People making elaborate programs to download pieces of files from MSNBC's? hosting site...NMP3s and their crazy strict quality rules...DPPH...... When my angelfire account died several years ago, i lost all my sig army jpgs
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pipian posted:I'm still optimistic that someday our prince will come. Mr Water was the single best thread ever.
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Porthbot posted:also; I just wanted to bbe a moderator I had to wait for weeks before I could register because of that fucker.
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Griz posted:I had to wait for weeks before I could register because of that fucker. Oh yeah I totally forgot about that. drat mind is already going.
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Since no one else seems to have answered the OP on this, anotherone is still here on the forums and that page was more or less the precursor to the SAclopedia.  Tuff Ghost posted:Game Quoter was the best gimmick. You misspelled "Adventures of Jesus." Leopold N. Loeb posted:So, those of you who were around back then, how has SA changed? Is it the same? Better? Worse? If you feel that the overall quality has changed(for better or for worse), what do you think is responsible for making it different? I miss when goons didn't largely hate and try to prove they were less goony than one another in a vicious cycle of pot-and-kettle-blackness. Gooncon '04 was some good times. Supreme Allah posted:I remember someone apparently hosed with Debt. We haven't had attacks like that in a while. I miss when we had forum nemeses like him, British Bulldog, and King Reol.
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rezatahs posted:I remember when fyad used to be funny. I still don't get FYAD. Came for the Photoshop Phriday threads, stayed for  thread
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I still remember the first time I saw Trashbear, and hobo ninja, and patrick duffy's head. Oh god I've been here... so.. long...  What ever happened to Jaded Mensa Op anyway? that was a an awesome gimmick.
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PainterofCrap posted:I still don't get FYAD. thread was really, really out there. Fyad is Fyad. If you try to explain Fyad, you're probably going to fail at it because there's just not words for it.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Mr Water was the single best thread ever. What about the one where some guy asks for relationship advice, then the entire forum just replies with a vomiting fat goon? then someone tried to give some real advice and they got banned
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:
I feel like back in the day, FYAD was "man, you can't explain FYAD. If you don't get it, you just don't get it." But I think the closest thing these days is 4chan, so it's a little bit easier to explain.
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Wasn't there some night when Fyad took over every forum? I remember it was a night when the forums were going down for some huge upgrade.
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Boogaley Moo posted:I miss taco the wonder dog http://www.youtube.com/user/allofthetrash That's him.
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Cactrot posted:Wasn't there some night when Fyad took over every forum? I remember it was a night when the forums were going down for some huge upgrade. That reminded me of another popular thing, someone posting as fast as humanly possible "So what did you do while the forums were down?". The forums were down a lot, but sometimes it was only for all of 3 minutes. It was some e-penis thing to be the first one to make the thread with that topic.
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Aw precious memories. The best gimmick account was superhero icq logs. Also Worst Admin Ever.
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I also remember when Katrina knocked the forums out completely for days. Those were dark times, indeed.
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Hmm, I joined hardForums (mostly for genMay, long before they split off to do their own scarily horrid thing) in 2001 - it had much the same feeling I get from the descriptions of SA/GBS in the same period - unpredictable, wild, with huge swings in quality and odd gimmicks. They also had a good, informative 9/11 thread, including a poster with a webcam in a building looking the right way; probably the first time I got better news info from the 'net than traditional media. edit: The postcount++ sounds immensely familiar, too. I didn't even consider joining SA until years later; you had a slightly scary reputation... (I finally joined for the LP forum; GBS has been a pleasant bonus.)
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fap fap SPLOOGE posted:stuff that isn't about his avatar Where is your avatar from? I have to know!
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HondaRider271 posted:This isn't that long ago, but regdate uh griefing/hazing used to be really common. I'm kind of glad it's gone, but I remember getting hazed for being an '04 despite registering after the files forums were removed. Also, your list of year-based emoticons is incomplete (even though there wasn't much hazing past '08), there's  ,  , and  .I also remember end boss month and BYOB and when ADTRW was terrible and "Why you throw chip" and the invasions and fauxtests and the story of the creation of swap.avi as it was happening (although I didn't have an account back then) and Awful Fantasy III (recently let's played) and TAOC and the winamp plugin with Lowtax's head (Angrylowtax?) and the constant creation of memes. SA was very different in late '01 through mid '04 (I'm not familiar with early '01, etc.), and has been constantly evolving ever since.
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and finally 