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Most of the sub forums (TVIV, BSS, etc.) where spun out of GBS because is was really hard to find threads.
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Ratjaculation posted:- No open sans a better time. also stairs
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Nathilus posted:good old swap, u know if a thread starts with "so guys i found these brazilians who will tape any kind of porn for nearly no money and..." its gonna be a classic loving thread. So SA pioneered going overseas for cheap labor? Our legacy is call centers in India. 
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Billy J. Swarth posted:I think you're correct to a degree, where the culture around here seems less to be creating and more cannibalizing. Yeah, that was kind of my long-winded point to it all. Make it a safe-haven for creativity again! If you build it, they will reference an old movie.
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Hogge Wild posted:make it happen i happened years ago smh
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Pomp posted:photoshop arms and mouths onto dicks This thread was amazing and if anybody still has a copy of the Gary Busey one I'd kill a few nuns for a copy.
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Back in 2001, a guy from my college introduced me to SA via Cliff Yablonski, we'd laugh at the weird pictures and check out JeffK, Fireman Comics, etc. (don't remember the forums though) This guy was a stereotype Internet nerd of the era, black trenchcoat and shades, sideline selling CD-Rs full of porn, used Leetspeak only half-jokingly, wouldn't shut up about The Matrix. He was OK though. Anyway, some other guy from our class invited him to a LAN party at the weekend. I half-knew him so I went along too, being a deadbeat student. Now this other guy was a bit more socially awkward and he used to wear a dog collar (not a clerical one, an actual collar you'd put on a dog). As he explained about two weeks before he dropped out of college completely, this was a symbol that he'd recently "come out" as a furry, which we thought was a bit weird but eh whatever - we were only going there to play Quake 3. We got there and I'd say there were about 20 guys including us, friendly enough. We played Red Alert, ate pizza, drank beers, usual LAN party stuff. As people got talking more, it became pretty obvious that we were the only non-furries there but I guess it came with the territory and nobody was being particularly weird or anything (past normal nerdy stuff). We got a bit further into the night and I mentioned to my buddy there'd been an update on SA a few days back (new pages added to Cliff Yablonski Hates You) and he hadn't seen it, so we checked it out and had a laugh at the pictures. At that moment, some guy passing noticed and went "Oh God, is that Something Awful?" and the room fell silent. Yeah, it turned out SA was very well known within the furry community at that time, due to their websites frequently being Awful Link of the Day. It became rather heated and whilst I don't think we were in much danger, we were ultimately cornered in some guy's kitchen at 1am by a dozen drunken, angry furries shouting us down for being fans of a website devoted to destroying their lifestyle (their words). We claimed to not know any of this evil side of the website and they calmed down, but it became a bit awkward and ultimately we made our excuses and left. I'd like to thank Lowtax and SA for this surreal memory.
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Betacord posted:Back in 2001, a guy from my college introduced me to SA via Cliff Yablonski, we'd laugh at the weird pictures and check out JeffK, Fireman Comics, etc. (don't remember the forums though) This guy was a stereotype Internet nerd of the era, black trenchcoat and shades, sideline selling CD-Rs full of porn, used Leetspeak only half-jokingly, wouldn't shut up about The Matrix. He was OK though. lol
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Al Cowens posted:More noise than signal. i appreciate the timeit took to blur out my lol
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Betacord posted:Back in 2001, a guy from my college introduced me to SA via Cliff Yablonski, we'd laugh at the weird pictures and check out JeffK, Fireman Comics, etc. (don't remember the forums though) This guy was a stereotype Internet nerd of the era, black trenchcoat and shades, sideline selling CD-Rs full of porn, used Leetspeak only half-jokingly, wouldn't shut up about The Matrix. He was OK though. Yeah, this is hilarious. -there was a LOT more edgy/questionable material -everyone was the "x" in the OP
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Betacord posted:Back in 2001, a guy from my college introduced me to SA via Cliff Yablonski, we'd laugh at the weird pictures and check out JeffK, Fireman Comics, etc. (don't remember the forums though) This guy was a stereotype Internet nerd of the era, black trenchcoat and shades, sideline selling CD-Rs full of porn, used Leetspeak only half-jokingly, wouldn't shut up about The Matrix. He was OK though. lmao
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ArbitraryC posted:That's a good way to put it. I remember a thread about this guy who worked in a 5 star hotel and he basically wrote a bunch of stories about specific nights or events where he was doing james bond poo poo. I spent ages reading that thread but I think now everyone is too self aware and would feel compelled to make fun of it as being poo poo that didn't happen nerd fantasies. Sort of like how we have a billion popular thing is bad threads I think we currently have a culture where everyone just has to point out that they're above this that or the other. ooohhh i get it so, like, lets just stop calling out stdh anymore.
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It was pretty awesome. One night the forum server had to move locations and Lowtax instituted Chaos Night where every single post would exist only for the 12 hour period between the move and the server being rebooted. Thus, there was no way to punish people for anything they did. It was loving bananas. Imagine when GBS relaxed its rules last Halloween and multiply that and you'll get an idea of what it was like. The other thread I really remember was the one about Martin Random's roommate who was insane and probably on drugs. It ended with him playing the saxophone in a bathtub filled with "fecal lasagna" while Martin Random crept through the house like in the Blair Witch Project. Probably fake, but it was hilarious. It's this story: Oh and there was another guy who's wife was gonna sodomize him with a big purple dildo named Frankie. He was very scared of this happening. I also lurked here for something like a year before I even started posting because that's what everyone did back in the day or you got yelled at to lurk more and banned. It was a good time. A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:Actually what set the tone for SA in general was how the Internet sort of imploded upon itself in 2000. Thousands of "internet companies" without any business model were folding left and right, search engines took months to update/refresh the indexes and everything was getting absolutely smothered in popup ad farms and spam. Some companies like xoom and filesharing myspace decided to ride along and pretend there's nothing wrong going on, even if the service was completely defunct but oh if we can eke out just one more flashing banner ad out of this poo poo before tearing rear end to Mexico. Some companies had more realistic outlooks like "Jim we really need to pay the mortgage on this platinum-lined fussball table and that server with eleven SCSI drives in it", or, what happened to Lowtax, "yeah we totally didn't fold, please mr. Richard Okeyoon-kaka please give us a few more months and we'll pay what we owe you for writing on our amazing internet web site." Lowtax then created SA on which he was blowing steam in the early days, writing about the horrible cesspool the internet had become and also his retarded feline family. It was a personal blog, half a decade before blogs became a "thing". So just like now except the crash hasn't happened yet and they call them "apps" these days. axeil fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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In the early years I remember GBS being full of long and elaborate personal stories, all of which I thought were real because I was a teenager.
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Betacord posted:Back in 2001, a guy from my college introduced me to SA via Cliff Yablonski, we'd laugh at the weird pictures and check out JeffK, Fireman Comics, etc. (don't remember the forums though) This guy was a stereotype Internet nerd of the era, black trenchcoat and shades, sideline selling CD-Rs full of porn, used Leetspeak only half-jokingly, wouldn't shut up about The Matrix. He was OK though. this is great
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Betacord posted:Back in 2001, a guy from my college introduced me to SA via Cliff Yablonski, we'd laugh at the weird pictures and check out JeffK, Fireman Comics, etc. (don't remember the forums though) This guy was a stereotype Internet nerd of the era, black trenchcoat and shades, sideline selling CD-Rs full of porn, used Leetspeak only half-jokingly, wouldn't shut up about The Matrix. He was OK though. TLDR He got mouth raped by furrys.
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Betacord posted:Back in 2001, a guy from my college introduced me to SA via Cliff Yablonski, we'd laugh at the weird pictures and check out JeffK, Fireman Comics, etc. (don't remember the forums though) This guy was a stereotype Internet nerd of the era, black trenchcoat and shades, sideline selling CD-Rs full of porn, used Leetspeak only half-jokingly, wouldn't shut up about The Matrix. He was OK though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xK6Tjfsr2Y is all I remember - the rest is all just a NyQuil haze. also: "True...I guess we'll see what they decide...but I def. want to share these WONDER YEARS torrents I made...best show ever, in my opinion...others should have them too (they have no plans to release this series on DVD -_-)"
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GBS was actually funny and produced good content. Also, DPPH
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Lots of mock threads on specific subjects and people, some of which were popular enough to have multiple sequel threads over the course of many years. Massive post ahead.
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Some guy drew GBS as a vomiting superhero woman as some kind of gently caress you, but it was actually really awesome and everyone came up with avatars for all the other forums. If Lowtax had posted that "meet me at the office" thread 10 years ago I feel like more people would have been there and he would probably still be dealing with the occasional random weirdo showing up. We've all gotten older and lazier/less willing to do random crazy poo poo. The only thing I really miss is the old photoshop threads. SirRobin was really talented. ohnobugs fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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Melchior posted:The one thread I wish I could find was the one where the goon had written and sent e-mails in his sleep. They were later read out loud by fragmaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24MJwogGN9s I found it by googling the exact phrase "my salad brain my salad brian".
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That recent-ish thread on Seasteading is a good sample of what SA was like around my regdate - tons of hilarious art and fiction making fun of some obscure group of retards. Also D&D was full of Ron Paulites but was somehow more bearable than it is now. Also DPPH. I can't stress this enough.
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i posted a comment 10 years ago "you have my fives!" and a bunch of people emptyquoted me because it was the perfect response i think it was referring to a photoshop that involved the matrix revolutions
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I miss the MSPaint threads, there were some really good artists contributing regularly to those at one point. I also haven't seen as many of those long running epic threads following someone's drama on another site/blog, like brainless baby lady and her affair with a preacher or whatever. Or pile-ons like the mentioned dollfuckers and creepy pageant people making weird photoshops of their own kids using fake body parts. I always considered those a success when people on the other sites started hating on the ppl making the threads, or better making an account here to try and reason/threaten. Maybe they were rare then too and I just remember them better because nostalgia.
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Posting elf p0rn nudes got you permabanned and June was Endboss Month.
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GBS was very serious in terms of rules and moderations that had good photoshop threads and interesting reads in between all the threads that made it look like 'digg', providing this sort of quality posting was of course encouraged and was a sure way to become a forum superstar...gbs seemed almost like a meritocracy during this time. Automotive Insanity was probably the best car forum around in terms of lack of bullshit info or bad taste, and had a pretty diverse range of content and posters. Ask/tell and PYF were the basic bitch forums but PYF was good for quick reading and Ask/tell was full of collective goon knowledge and wisdom. thats all i can remember. i finally bought an account after reading for years and getting sick of looking at giant pictures of lowtax or geriatrics oh and Dr. David Thorpe and Your Band Sucks owned. Mariana Horchata fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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Methanar posted:smelling his sister's panties ITT I will defend a guy who sniffs his sister's panties
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I first discovered SA through a link on the esteemed internet website Drew Curtis Presents Drew Curtis' Fark.com Honestly though, the funny things that made the forums so great in those days, like the photoshop threads and the outlandish stories, are pretty old hat by now and probably wouldn't impress anyone that isn't blinded by nostalgia. The old days were good because all the zany internet humor was new and novel and you couldn't really get it anywhere else during that early period. Also, it's really loving weird to be looking back over the last decade of my time on an internet forum. Getting old in the internet age is going to be a real mindfuck.
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More photo shop threads. Helldumping. Some pretty epic work/life stories. .....S'bout it really. And themed threads with Supergirl flying and singing in the background.
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These forums still make me laugh more than any other site on the web. Sure, sometimes it seems like that sense of magic is gone, but I just chalk that up to nostalgia and aging.
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