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het posted:I'm fairly certain that feature has existed for a decade at least. IIRC, it was turned off for years, then the World Cup thing happened, then re enabled. Then FYAD complained so they shortened the time.
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| # ? Aug 7, 2012 21:02 |
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het posted:I'm fairly certain that feature has existed for a decade at least. Nah, I'm certain it was off up until that point. The minute-long prohibition lasted for a little bit, like a few days, but then was shortened to 10 seconds.
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| # ? Aug 7, 2012 21:23 |
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tbp posted:The Breaking Bad thread owns because 95% of the posters have been failed by the American school system and thus cannot understand the basic concept of a narrative, leading then to be utterly astounded at every event in the show. There are a few in there that clearly do get it but it's incredibly difficult not to get exasperated all things considered. You just can not understand my disappointment in finally watching and catching up this summer and anticipating the after show discussions.
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| # ? Aug 7, 2012 21:51 |
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Werebear's constant attempts to rereg and plug his crazy right wing website were amusing, at least until he decided it was right to post a dream he had about Obama's car exploding.
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 00:35 |
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Francostein posted:I heard he was a little girly, but I didn't know he was FYAD's Fishmech. Were you previously manycros or whatever it was? Either way this is the best post I have read in a long, long time. Thanks, dude.
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 06:20 |
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As bad as the TVIV Breaking Bad thread can be, it's still not as bad as one of the ones at Penny Arcade, where a guy blamed everything that happens on Skyler. See the only reason Walt starts/keeps selling meth is because he feels emasculated by that nagging shrew of a wife and how dare she be resistant to the idea that her husband is a meth cook. He actually used the word "emasculated". I swear to god I wanted to die.
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 06:56 |
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Golly this is interesting 
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 07:00 |
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If I gave a poo poo about the characters on Breaking Bad I'd probably read the TV/IV thread or maybe start watching the show again or something. Anyway, here's an unfolding drama: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...40&pagenumber=1 Guy catches his creepy roommate holding a Smart Phone against a vent that leads into the OPs bedroom, presumably to records the sounds of the OP and his girlfriend having noisy sex. What does the OP do about this? Kick the creeper's rear end? Tell his girlfriend? Bust the creeper in the act of recording and threaten to expose him as a creeper? Get a restraining order? Buy two ball gags so the happy couple makes less noise during sex? Why, no, none of the above. In typical goony fashion, the OP does nothing that would actually solve the problem and instead, walks around miffed and stuff and doesn't even tell his girlfriend. "Oh, how boring, he doesn't do anything? Why are you telling us about this thread, then?" you may be wondering. Well, the E/N "advice" about the situation is well worth reading the thread. Oh E/N
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 08:28 |
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Apology posted:If I gave a poo poo about the characters on Breaking Bad I'd probably read the TV/IV thread or maybe start watching the show again or something. Yeah, now I understand how people who don't play video games felt after Mass Effect 3 came out.
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 09:08 |
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Kyoon has resurfaced in SAS. http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3500420
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 23:52 |
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This one isn't really that funny to me after thinking about it because the goon involved is obviously sincerely autistic and can't quite get it through his hosed up brain that he can fix the problems he has. Well, after flipping out about jokes for a few pages he posted that he's basically going to buy a shotgun and go Omar on a mirror. So I guess admins or mods this is a situation in which it would be an ownage manuver to alert someone so that he doesn't die. http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3500402
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 00:54 |
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They've locked the thread and know about it so they're probably doing something.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 01:05 |
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tbp posted:This one isn't really that funny to me after thinking about it because the goon involved is obviously sincerely autistic and can't quite get it through his hosed up brain that he can fix the problems he has. Well, after flipping out about jokes for a few pages he posted that he's basically going to buy a shotgun and go Omar on a mirror. Holy poo poo that guy makes Ulillillia look like Don Draper. I feel so bad for the poor guy as he clearly doesn't get jokes and probably thinks XKCD is the height of humor. I hope nothing bad happens to him and he gets the help he needs, quickly.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 01:13 |
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That guy's a piece of poo poo and I hope he does it.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 02:15 |
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The more of that thread I read, the more I think he got all of his life lessons from reading Catcher in the Rye every day since he was twelve.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 02:18 |
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I love how on the first page a self-described "guy who's alone and loving it" tells the OP that he's perfectly fine and that his problem is just that he just needs to stop caring so much.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 02:58 |
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:That guy's a piece of poo poo and I hope he does it. But if he does it you won't be able to post about him in the PYF probations thread 
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 02:58 |
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...6#post406372595 I kinda called it with the XKCD thing I posted earlier, jesus christ. I couldn't imagine going through life not getting humor or people. That has to be one of the circles of hell, man.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 03:05 |
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Man, it's really weird seeing a person who has less of sense of humor than a dog, like pugs get jokes better than that guy does.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 03:10 |
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Francostein posted:I kinda called it with the XKCD thing I posted earlier, jesus christ. I couldn't imagine going through life not getting humor or people. That has to be one of the circles of hell, man.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 05:08 |
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I love the Breaking Bad thread because where else am I going to talk about the Best Show On Television but I hate it because it's basically a four-way battle between the really deranged misogynists who seem to have this voice in their head screaming stinkyhole stinkyhole stinkyhole stinkyhole every time Anna Gunn comes on screen, the sociopaths who are like "yes, everything Walter has done is completely reasonable and how I would behave in his situation", the people who conflate disliking Skyler with being a misogynist and get all  every time someone is called out on being creepy, and people like me who just want to watch the loving show because it's a goddamn great show.Oh, and recently there was a derail with some people from TCC insisting that the manufacture and sale of crystal meth is, in fact, not the least bit dodgy from an ethical standpoint and people can do drugs responsibly you know and it's not Walt's fault if addicts can't control themselves, all he's doing is supplying a need  Basically anything stupid that can be said about women, drugs, crime, storytelling, morality, or cops will probably show up in the Breaking Bad thread. I haven't seen the Korra thread but I wonder if it is really as bad as the Breaking Bad thread gets.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 05:39 |
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Korra thread is not nearly as bad as the breaking bad thread given what I have heard of the breaking bad thread. It was annoying. There was a character who wore a mask and people kept making funny/serious/dumb guesses as to who he was every five posts and that's why the thread was temporarily closed. There wasn't much that was worse that I can remember or that anyone else had touched on. Yeah, there was a lot of political discussion but the writers invited that discussion with how they framed the villains, AND because the last series had been full of eastern mysticism and difficult issues handled intelligently. Korra just turned out to not be that smart a show. I am very mad at this.  Apparently someone got so mad at spiderhyphenman for closing the thread that he posed as spiderhyphenman and started harassing the mods about my little pony, so the thread will not be closed again.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 05:46 |
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Yonic Symbolism posted:Apparently someone got so mad at spiderhyphenman for closing the thread that he posed as spiderhyphenman and started harassing the mods about my little pony, so the thread will not be closed again. Wait, that's what that thing was about? Holy poo poo, how loving petty can you get?
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 05:53 |
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Basically the trainwreck in Korra came at the end when a lot of us (me included) sperged too hard about the ending, mainly because they did the typical cartoon 'and the finale is a double episode!' thing and we felt it was rushed or sloppily done. So basically at that point of the thread it's just posts of 'wait what? This is dumb' snowballing and feeding off eachother to go from 'this is a dumb ending' to 'THIS IS THE WORST THING'. Then of course add in the typical internet 'someone disagrees? Well now I must prove they're objectively wrong about their enjoyment/not-enjoyment of this', and the people who couldn't accept 'nah, I'm not a fan of the show' being idiots in the general chat thread. Also, yea, the OP had his own little ruleset where he wanted the show to be taken super seriously, y'all, so that made it weird.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 07:03 |
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tbp posted:This one isn't really that funny to me after thinking about it because the goon involved is obviously sincerely autistic and can't quite get it through his hosed up brain that he can fix the problems he has. Well, after flipping out about jokes for a few pages he posted that he's basically going to buy a shotgun and go Omar on a mirror. why would you sign up for a comedy forum if you don't like jokes?
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 12:53 |
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Quite a few years ago somebody posted a thread in GBS about some photo he took of his "lil bro" that had a ghostly apparition of a gerbil or something in it. It was a pretty dumb thread that lost traction pretty quickly and died off. The weird thing it about and the reason I'm posting about this is that the guy posted the exact same thread verbatim like an entire year later. Anyone remember this stupid poo poo or was this a fever dream of mine
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 14:57 |
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dick cheese posted:why would you sign up for a comedy forum if you don't like jokes? He only made one post a year ago (the day he joined) about some serious issue in D&D so I don't think he quite enjoyed SA.
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dick cheese posted:why would you sign up for a comedy forum if you don't like jokes?
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 15:22 |
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TetsuoTW posted:The dude made it pretty clear how well he understands inter-human communications, I'm not convinced he even realized it's a comedy site. This would honestly not surprise me, he probably just got linked straight to D&D by someone else.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 17:35 |
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TetsuoTW posted:The dude made it pretty clear how well he understands inter-human communications, I'm not convinced he even realized it's a comedy site. "Hmmm it seems these people here at 'Something Awful' agree that the internet DOES make you stupid. I think I've finally found my bastion of humorless, serious, debate!"
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TetsuoTW posted:The dude made it pretty clear how well he understands inter-human communications, I'm not convinced he even realized it's a comedy site. The internet's a massive refuge for people with Asperger's, major introverts, all kinds of oddballs who aren't very good at communicating with people in real life. And this guy couldn't even handle that. Says it all, really.
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dick cheese posted:why would you sign up for a comedy forum if you don't like jokes?
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Glitterbomber posted:Also, yea, the OP had his own little ruleset where he wanted the show to be taken super seriously, y'all, so that made it weird.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 20:19 |
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het posted:A surprising number of people sign up for the site because of Let's Play, it's certainly possible that that was the first comedy he encountered on the site I think he would have been happy as a clam over in the 'pos.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 20:27 |
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Lance Streetman posted:Wait, that's what that thing was about? Holy poo poo, how loving petty can you get? If it was someone genuinely mad at me over the thread and trying to get me banned or probated or something then holy poo poo dude who probably isn't reading this what the hell is the matter with you?
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 20:31 |
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That Qvist guy is such a buzzkill he even ruined making fun of his E/N thread. We were all like "haha this guy doesn't understand jokes let's keep this bizarre trainwreck going" and then he was like "I'm going to kill myself. Goodbye." 
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 21:08 |
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Well keep your eyes on your local newspapers and if anyone sees an obituary of a 25 year old single man who "loved software" and "hated shenanigans, hijinks, buffoonery, and flim flam of any sort," chime in.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 22:01 |
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het posted:A surprising number of people sign up for the site because of Let's Play, it's certainly possible that that was the first comedy he encountered on the site Let's Play is no laughing matter.
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| # ? Aug 10, 2012 23:11 |
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:(..., and an episode of the original series that is incredibly polarizing and the mere mention of it invariably leads to multipage arguments even today despite airing in 2007) You don't have to answer, but I'm really curious which episode this was.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I love the Breaking Bad thread because where else am I going to talk about the Best Show On Television but I hate it because it's basically a four-way battle between the really deranged misogynists who seem to have this voice in their head screaming stinkyhole stinkyhole stinkyhole stinkyhole every time Anna Gunn comes on screen, the sociopaths who are like "yes, everything Walter has done is completely reasonable and how I would behave in his situation", the people who conflate disliking Skyler with being a misogynist and get all I've started watching it on Netflix and the biggest stinkyhole of all is still Walter. His buddy offers him an awesome job in the first couple episodes, and then even offers just to flat pay for the treatment. But he's all like, "No, working an honest job for good pay is for chumps. I'll just put my life, my family's lives, a bunch of other people's lives at huge risk by slinging meth, just because I never learned to use the magic phrase, 'Yes. Thank you.'" Jesus, like no one has every gotten a job because his friend recommended him. What a loving psycho.
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