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I'm still relatively new to Something Awful despite lurking the forums for a couple of years, so I'm looking for some of the best things that came from the SA forums and website. I was originally going to make this a thread about recommending threads in the forum but I felt that was too boring and generic, so I decided to make this thread a "Best of SA Thread". This is a simple thread. Just bring up and discuss your favorite things that came out of SA. This includes: • Threads (Both that are and are not archived.) • Articles. • Videos. • Reviews. • Artworks. • Let’s Plays. • Forum/Internet Drama. • Internet Memes that were ran straight into the ground. • Goon Projects. • Anything else that was produced from SA. Goons go hog wild. modedit: This thread is going to be neither a new forums drama thread nor a secondary meme thread. You can post really actually 'the best' drama and memes, but if it gets out of hand gently caress you. Same thing goes for Let's Play drama. EPW 1/25/13 Somebody fucked around with this message at Jan 26, 2013 around 03:50 |
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3373573 edit: Yours is a bit more broad, so I dunno.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 05:46 |
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My favorite front page articles have always been Fashion SWAT. The best one is Halloween SWAT. The horrible elvis costume discussion still makes me laugh. Also the Karnov Playset. pitlo fucked around with this message at Jan 21, 2013 around 05:55 |
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The essential-est: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3017810 (fun starts on page 13) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5y3NQi_RAY
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 05:56 |
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My favorite front page article series by far is the Blue Stripe logs. http://www.somethingawful.com/series/37.php They're all great, but I particularly like the very first one about the replicator repairman, the Predator blacksmith one, and the Terminator one.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 06:18 |
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4chan
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 06:24 |
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Sagebrush posted:My favorite front page article series by far is the Blue Stripe logs. Those are great. So are the DynaMars Corporation articles.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 06:26 |
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cymbalrush posted:The essential-est: No, this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bV9iNStEI tribute.avi is the single greatest goon creation with .avi in the title.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 06:28 |
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Mr. Scabbs was the thread which got me to subscribe after lurking the SA forums for half a decade. That wasn't even the thread title, just the name of the main character. That story alone was worth $10. I don't have a link and you'd certainly need archives (if it's even still around) but I thought that someone made an offsite copy at some point. I always suggest Mr. Scabbs when these "best of" threads come along, so if anyone has links to this wonderful story please help me out. It was a Super Zombie CYOA that didn't devolve into "EAT YOUR OWN ARMS" and became a rather epic read. EDIT: Pizza Matrix was amazing as well!
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 07:31 |
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/were-all-gonna.php I consider this the test for anyone looking to post on these forums. If you find it funny at any point: you are one of us. I said this last year but one thing I loved about SA when I joined was everyone was an rear end in a top hat to each other (but not a troll) and you were expected to be one back if it was warranted. Nowadays it seems like you'll run afoul of an SJW if you even crack one off-color joke.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 07:40 |
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I always liked this moment:
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 07:50 |
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One time I exploited the platinum user file attachment system to give myself an avatar that exceeded the size limits, then everyone else in YCS followed suit, then the exploit got fixed. that was a cool couple days
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 08:38 |
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My favourite classic SA moments: When Goons ate dog/pet food for a mod challenge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fIA7ivqId8 Also, the whole "At hospital, lost fingat" fiasco with the those funny goon responses for a goon wanting to get rid of his Gamecube. And the explosions, lots of explosions. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/com...enge-fingat.php More recently: A goon asking other goons to vote for him in the Logies (our Australian and shittier version of the Emmys) to point out the flaws in their voting system and to make up the most ridiculous acceptance speech. It got a lot of Australian press coverage.  http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3526065
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 09:56 |
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Best post in history of anything, ever By Kimani quote:So you're working out and getting buff so you are strong to do what?
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 11:46 |
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Well well well, for front page articles you can't beat anything done by Zack "elpintogrande" Parsons. In particular this prison craigslist kinda series of frontpage articles. And something I always recommend to read: THE LAND. Brief synopsis: guy wants to build a utopian paradise and gets money from goons or something and buys some land in hawaii, fucks everything up, gets most of his poo poo stolen, and eventually lives in a literal shithole. Honorable mentions go to the low carb thread, zyborne clock thread, and a bunch of different E/N meltdowns.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 11:56 |
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We're pretty good at collaboration work. Back in 2007, you'd see several MSPaint/PhotoShop/Choose Your Own Adventure threads in GBS every week until people stopped coming up with good ideas and the mods started cracking down harder. One of my favorites is the Goon Tower, followed by the 2012 Presidential Campaign Trail. And behold, Goonbase.jpg, at the height of MSPaint's popularity in GBS (and an assload of pop culture jokes that went out of style years ago). Make sure you're looking at it in its full 3725x4277 sized glory. And then there's this memorable little guy, aka the Zybourne Clock of Choose-Your-Own-Adventures. Goons clamored heads over heels for official Microbe merchandise until the whole thing just fell apart from demand and pressure. CYOAs haven't been the same since.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 11:58 |
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"Tell me ways to make her first time special"TangerineDream posted:I would go with a dinosaur theme
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 12:12 |
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When goons raised over $50,000 dollars to help the Japanese earthquake/tsunami disaster just to permaban one dude.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 14:29 |
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Could you please elaborate? I have faint memories of that, but i don't remember who or why it was that incurred the Goons wrath.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 16:33 |
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The What tripped El Hadji Diouf? GBS photoshop thread generated some amazing animated gifs which got reposted all over the internet and then they escaped the 'net and went on display at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.
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Francostein posted:And something I always recommend to read: THE LAND. Brief synopsis: guy wants to build a utopian paradise and gets money from goons or something and buys some land in hawaii, fucks everything up, gets most of his poo poo stolen, and eventually lives in a literal shithole. I'm only on page two and it's already so great, all these random people "I have no idea what I'm doing but let me come out there and help tame some gnarly jungle!" e: Vernii, trying to give fair warning, before everyone jumps down his throat 
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kid sinister posted:
This exchange sums up the way the island guy went about things pretty nicely.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 19:26 |
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 SWAP.avi Also, this image: 
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 19:43 |
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The most engrossing thread I have ever read has to be Martin Random's Roommate. The further you go through it the more painful it gets... but its impossible to stop without finding out what's coming next. First thing I ever read on SA and it made me sign up immediately.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 19:51 |
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Thors Bitch! posted:Could you please elaborate? I have faint memories of that, but i don't remember who or why it was that incurred the Goons wrath. The guy in question didn't even commit a huge offense, he just posted a lovely 'do my homework for me' thread.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 20:05 |
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The P-P-P-Powerbook is easily one of the top SA creations of all time. A real feel-good story 
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Creepy Goat posted:The P-P-P-Powerbook is easily one of the top SA creations of all time. A real feel-good story Crap, I completely forgot about this! Here's a condensed version by the way, since the links in that OP don't work anymore.
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Fragmaster Vids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxY8yQRJW08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 21:15 |
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Reviews you say?quote:Something awful indeed - Michael Higgenbacher - Jun 27, 2009
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 21:23 |
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Pretty much anything involving Bitcoins. Is it an easy target? Yes. But by the same token, is it also an endless font of stupidity and humor? Also, yes.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 21:34 |
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No other thread has made me laugh quite as much as the Poop-Shelf thread.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 22:01 |
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My favourite thing to come out of the forums is the Hitler Auditions, particularly:POTUShead posted:no one else understands what its like to have skinheads as your biggest fans. your only fans. smelly white trash whispering "fourteen eighty-eight, brother" in your ear at sam's club. there's no such thing as a discrete sieg heil salute but those dumb motherfuckers try it anyway, right there next to the frozen shrimp platters. It still cracks me up.
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Look at all the empty spaces still left in Gooncity.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2013 22:12 |
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...40&pagenumber=1 'Margarita Time' is amazing. I don't want to spoil it too much but you'll never look at a cocktail the same way again.
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The Dog Classifieds. Holy poo poo. http://www.somethingawful.com/series/18.php More recently, this article by Jedidiah was great: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/new...-video-game.php
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Curtis Got Slapped By A White Teacher. http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3364241 This is my favorite thread of all time, and it's one of the only things to ever make me laugh so hard I can't breathe. You do need archives to view it, but long story short is that a small black kid got slapped by a white teacher and the kid's mom writes a 40 page manifesto demanding financial compensation in ways like free trips to Disney Land for life (paid for by the school district, of course), free visits to meet the President, VP, etc., free dental and health care for everyone in their immediate and extended family, and $250,000 up front (because her son has a million dollar face, and the teacher slapped 1/4 of it  ). She sent this thing to like 250 people, including the President, Secret Service, Bill and Hillary Clinton, their school superintendent, etc. It's completely batshit insane, and it's one of the funniest things I've ever read. So since the SA thread is where the letter got posted for the first time, one of the first posts became the Google preview if you searched "Curtis got slapped by a white teacher", producing the greatest picture in the history of the world. 
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Keyboard Goop is still the best thread posted on these forums. http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3221068
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I always liked this:  Probably because it was one of the first threads I really saw take off.
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Dr. David Thorpe's interview on G4 always cracks me up, mainly because he describes the website so accurately.quote:It's actually somethingISawful.com
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Zybourne Clock has been mentioned, but this particular manifestation deserves attention by itselfquote:Johnny Fiveaces powered down the magnabike with a not quite unhearble hum and checked his chronometer. “drat.” he hissed threw his clinched teeth which were surrounded by the stubble of five days where in he had not shaven himself at all. It was almost chromodawn at Clashpoint. Alreddy the sun was sitting Walliston’s Hill ah blaze like so much molten meddle or a coin, gyreating in the air, tossed there by the uncaring hand of an imaginary god that doesn’t exist, borne from the interior minds of the hobbled masses. The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel that was orange. drat, he, Johnny, thought. We thought we were opening a new beginning with our mad dreams of time travail but ironically the only time now is the time of which we’re out of. It’s almost humorous. Yeah, I could almost laugh, if I hadn’t cried that part of me away when my parents were maccasared by Dr. Malaprop and the government sanctioned murderers of “CAPITAL”.
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