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Lottery of Babylon
Apr 25, 2012

STRAIGHT TROPIN'

Avenging_Mikon posted:

You forgot Let's Play.

The great secret of Something Awful is that the only non-quarantine forum is Coupons. All other forums exist solely to keep Coupons safe.

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Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

Lottery of Babylon posted:

The great secret of Something Awful is that the only non-quarantine forum is Coupons. All other forums exist solely to keep Coupons safe.

Secure. Contain. Protect.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Lottery of Babylon posted:

The great secret of Something Awful is that the only non-quarantine forum is Coupons. All other forums exist solely to keep Coupons safe.

Don't know if you're a fresh 2012 or a re-reg but if you're the former I'm really bloody impressed you figured it out so soon.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

mind the walrus posted:

Don't know if you're a fresh 2012 or a re-reg but if you're the former I'm really bloody impressed you figured it out so soon.
He came here from TV Tropes in the time of their great purges.

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

HMS Boromir posted:

Do people, like, get banned at all for being unabashed fans of genocide in there? Or is GiP some kind of panopticon for crazies

They had a thread where they posted their favorite pictures of dead Middle Eastern people with "funny" captions, they have "ask a cop!" threads where any kind of question that isn't pretty much flattery ends in probation and people crying that sitting at home on payed leave is as bad as being shot to death, they have a 16 page thread about their severe mental illnesses about how many of their comrades blow their brains out after leaving active duty and a 13 page thread where they desperately ask each other if they're hosed up enough to jump into a decent wellfare program and free drugs.

GIP is hilarious, it's filled with the same broken people as TCC but they're given guns and (legal) depression pills.

Anyway here's a thread where goons posted their dicks just to play a game one week earlier.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3662776&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=261

Flame112
Apr 21, 2011
Not even the whole game. I'm pretty sure it was just the demo.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Flame112 posted:

Not even the whole game. I'm pretty sure it was just the demo.

It was for a Super Smash Bros 3DS demo that some Club Nintendo members received codes for via email (a four-pack of them) a week before the public release of it. The only difference between the two is that the Club Nintendo version didn't have the thirty-use limit of the public version.

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer

Neddy Seagoon posted:

It was for a Super Smash Bros 3DS demo that some Club Nintendo members received codes for via email (a four-pack of them) a week before the public release of it. The only difference between the two is that the Club Nintendo version didn't have the thirty-use limit of the public version.

Apropos of nothing, but at first glance I thought your name was Needy Seadragon. And now I'm pretty sure it should be.

some plague rats
Jun 5, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Trig Discipline posted:

Apropos of nothing, but at first glance I thought your name was Needy Seadragon. And now I'm pretty sure it should be.

On the other hand the Goon Show was pretty much the Best Thing

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!
From a thread where some goons were honest to God baffled why people would differentiate between hot-dogs and German sausages.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Yeah, but some sausage makers stick to the meat parts they can't use, while others expand the "parts they can't use" to include hoofs, bones, wood pulp, old E.T. cartridges, and so on.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

The MSJ posted:


quote:

Rent a horse for pornography sessions
Anyone interested can sent a PM

Dsmif posted:

I'm going to assume they meant to type photography and messed up?

Solice Kirsk posted:

You know what assuming does? It puts an rear end into u and me.

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Mans posted:

Anyway here's a thread where goons posted their dicks just to play a game one week earlier.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3662776&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=261

I like how Madeupfred's ban reason sounds like he wouldn't have gotten banned if his dick didn't look so weird.

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth
anyone have some more of GiP greatest hits?

sub supau
Aug 28, 2007

Volume posted:

I like how Madeupfred's ban reason sounds like he wouldn't have gotten banned if his dick didn't look so weird.
Well, not all of us can be Big Dick Rasputin.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Mycroft Holmes posted:

anyone have some more of GiP greatest hits?

It's well worth going in there and just checking it out. I highly recommend the Lets Talk About Idiots thread.

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010




TwoPair posted:

Man, the next Mega Man game is gonna suck.

Doctor Bishop
Oct 22, 2013

To understand what happened at the diner, we use Mr. Papaya. This is upsetting because he is the friendliest of fruits.

Pookah posted:

It's like a hat came to life and ran (flapped?) away to sea - totally fedorable.


:haw:

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:

I didn't think it was possible to find anything sexually exciting about the writing of Neal Stephenson or Isaac Asimov, but Big Yud's clearly spent at least a few slow evenings clumsily mashing together sticky copies of Anathem and Second Foundation and growling "now kiss!"

And in the lazy afterglow, as he drifts off to hedonic-utility-maximizing catgirl dreams, he repeats, prayerlike, "All roads lead to the Bay Area, and that is where all startups end."

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

thetoughestbean posted:

I'm a feminist who shaves and showers regularly. And, yes, maybe I am projecting because I have been a victim of bullying and still bear its scars. This doesn't invalidate my feelings.

I'm well aware of how "insufferable" certain nerds can be. What I'm not aware of is how that makes them undeserving of basic human respect!

Honestly, I get that some people's actions are toxic and unacceptable (which different political ideals, the inability to grow hair on your cheeks, and poor fashion sense definitely aren't), but to just relegate these people as jokes without even trying to understand them or the reasons behind their actions help to serve no purpose but to worsen the problem by becoming a bully yourself.

client
Aug 19, 2010


Lmao that I even thoguht for a second that that quote came from somewhere other than the lets play forum.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Urinals can be read as art but, generally, are not. The same can be said of videogames.

cyberia
Jun 24, 2011

Do not call me that!
Snuffles was my slave name.
You shall now call me Snowball; because my fur is pretty and white.

ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:

timb is an rear end in a top hat genie
"i wish for an apple smartwatch" "granted have fun typing with your digital crown"
"i wish for my iphone to reach the ground" *tim cuts off ur legs*

an overdue owl
Feb 26, 2012

hoot


Astrofig posted:

As recently as 2009 stories drifted out of the Middle East of Coalition soldiers making necklaces of slain insurgents' ears or fingers, or of tossing dead kids (that they killed) on the hood of their Humvees and driving around town with them, showing off the slaughter as some form of psychological warfare.

Kurtofan posted:

That reminds of an episode of Star Wars Clone Wars where the Jedi are looking for a clone traitor and discover that one of the clone is making a droid fingers necklace.

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

thetoughestbean posted:

Honestly the whole "Jorts" character left a bad taste in my mouth. I understand that the villain must be fought, but it felt like he was just a butt of a joke. Every other character felt like they were sympathetic, hell, Mordecai was reasonable to the point of being unrealistic. But the "nerd" character? Nope, just a pathetic person who wears stupid clothing and likes stupid things like bit coins. The fact that he was the villain felt added to only point increase how pathetic he was, and I didn't like it. Every time the character was discussed the tone was filled with mocking and scorn, especially from Ambisagrus.

As a person who has been treated very similarly, it made the podcast very uncomfortable for me to listen to.

thetoughestbean posted:

It wasn't the characters that made me feel uncomfortable. It was the players.

The whole thing just felt uncomfortable to me, that's all. I felt that every other character was portrayed somewhat three-dimensionally, which I really liked, like the fact that the Student Council member was kind of an rear end in a top hat but who still tried to be somewhat proactive and useful and the School Guardian who was a rebellious teen who still really liked the school. The characters felt at least partially sympathetic, only for everyone to suddenly agree that a pathetic, friendless MRA straw man was okay to completely vilify without any semblance of an attempt to al least try to understand why he felt the need to do what he did. It was really jarring when everyone was portrayed as human and then suddenly one guy wasn't.

I know that the culture around nerd-dom is really toxic right now because of MRA-types doing really lovely things. I understand the desire to vilify them and to fight against everything they stand for. I know the amount of harm they can do and have done, as well as the catharsis that comes from fighting Jorts-like characters. However, I don't think that just stereotyping people with those views as completely villainous and pathetic, rather than trying to understand why they have those views, will do any good for anyone.

thetoughestbean posted:

I really did like the characters! I do wish I could have seen his character be a bit more explored more is all, I suppose.

Also, the fact that every player felt that it was okay to start insulting him and making fun of him for having different opinions (even if said opinions involved Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Fedoras instead of Communists) triggered really bad memories where I was bullied for having very liberal views in a Catholic middle school. So even if my ideals are on the opposite side of the spectrum, I ended up empathizing with Jorts.

So, I suppose my reaction was 50% projection and 50% wishing that Jorts was less of a straw man. Just food for thought.

He just finds things very problematic :shobon:

Hat Thoughts
Jul 27, 2012
Endlessly bullied nerds used to either grow tougher skin, become bullies, or kill themselves, but now they have unlocked the secret 4th option of watching other nerds play games on the computer and debating about how problematic various aspects of video games are.

Hat Thoughts has a new favorite as of 06:56 on Sep 25, 2014

Grandmother of Five
May 9, 2008


I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
It is hard to believe that those who follow the grown up version of the smelly kid from middle school who was allowed to bring and play his GBA in homeroom class, because they can't summon up the strength to play a videogame with their own hands and fingers and have to watch someone else do it, might stupidly useless people.

Brasseye
Feb 13, 2009

Mans posted:

He just finds things very problematic :shobon:

Im glad somebody is finally confronting the toxic fedora MRA culture that surrounds let's play podcasts.

Protocol 5
Sep 23, 2004

"I can't wait until cancer inevitably chokes the life out of Curt Schilling."
*lets' play regular stares at emergency contact line on gamestop job application form, sweating profusely, before scrawling #gamergate*

Saint Drogo
Dec 26, 2011

That's pretty sweet really. Feminist and fedora united in butthurt against a common enemy. :unsmith:

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Grandmother of Five posted:

It is hard to believe that those who follow the grown up version of the smelly kid from middle school who was allowed to bring and play his GBA in homeroom class, because they can't summon up the strength to play a videogame with their own hands and fingers and have to watch someone else do it, might stupidly useless people.

I don't even understand what you're supposed to watch in that LP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Z2T4d4e9s

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT
From the meme thread loss.jpg

fullroundaction posted:

This is pointless.

Full Battle Rattle posted:

No, there's seven.

UmbreonMessiah posted:

Funny, I could have sworn there was supposed to be eight...

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

You forgot this:

Trabant posted:

Here's a quick guide to browsing the thread, hth


Grape Juice Vampire
Aug 1, 2009

Ozz81 posted:

From the meme thread loss.jpg

:vince:

I miss the CAD threads.

Hat Thoughts
Jul 27, 2012

Bob Morales posted:

Thinking about having a couple stickers or t-shirts made up with a logo for our 'gym' on them.

Not 100% decided on the name. Either Janes Street Muscle, Janes Street Gym, or Janes Street Iron

It can say Street or St. I want a font that looks bold and powerful. I would be okay with a weight or a muscle man being part of the logo.

I'm not partial to any specific colors but something that looks good in monochrome might be best.

$30?




CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reminds me of the Goons design my logo thread.
Most of the images are gone unfortunately, but the best one still remains on page 2.

Possibly :nws:

Arsonist Daria
Feb 27, 2011

Requiescat in pace.

Palmersaurus posted:

Reminds me of the Goons design my logo thread.
Most of the images are gone unfortunately, but the best one still remains on page 2.

Possibly :nws:
http://i.imgur.com/xs9k4Qf.png

Well I don't see what's nws about that.

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Izumi Konata posted:

t4eacher: today we're going to learn about the war of 1812
me: *storms up to front of classroom holding copies of books like "lies my teacher told me" and "a people's history of the united states" high up in my hands*
me: stop the lies! stop the lies!
class: (joining chant) stop the lies! stop the lies!
me: how could theey have really murdered 6 million people without us knowing? it seems pretty dubious tbh
class: (silent)

CATTASTIC
Mar 31, 2010

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

Well I don't see what's nws about that.

I was being considerate to the people who don't work at dickgyms.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


PsychicToaster posted:

Glad I was on the toilet when I saw this thread, because I really did poo poo myself laughing.

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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

thanks, i wound up using $6 clear shower safety treads

i know im gonna get mocked for this, but it's a much better grip, thin, sticks really well, protects the back, doesn't show at all from the front, and and putting a double layer in the upper right hand corner eliminates the camera wobble. the stainless steel apple logo is still shiny but not reflective, and still looks reasonably handsome. overall it suits my needs p well.

"Reasonably handsome"

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