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Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
Alexa internet traffic rankings are now hidden behind a a subscription paywall. I'd really like to see a graph of the number of unique visitors to this site over the past 5 years.

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Macasaurus
Oct 12, 2012

i heard about innovative recipes involving chicken breasts and cheese

Minimalist Program
Aug 14, 2010
I belive its because people are looking for invites to the gamefaqs spinoff luelinks "eti", op.

Dieting Hippo
Jan 5, 2006

THIS IS NOT A PROPER DIET FOR A HIPPO
Ahoy! My space guild recruiter told me to post my MMO resume here, so here goes:

GrrrlSweatshirt
Jun 2, 2012

Minimalist Program posted:

I belive its because people are looking for invites to the gamefaqs spinoff luelinks "eti", op.

its certainly why i joined

murex
Apr 30, 2009

by Lowtax
forum dead

Lonos Oboe
Jun 7, 2014
I was reading the Forums on and off since 2001 maybe. Lost my old free account and decided to re-reg for the sub forums. I like Games, Dorkroom, Batman's Shameful secret and a few misc. threads. Over the last couple of years I have lost interest in GBS. It's a mixture of some solid threads with a decent roster of posters and contributors. other than that it's frustrating when you see a topic pop up that looks interesting and there are a bunch of snaky 1 line posts about it with any attempt at trying to create momentum ridiculed. It's always the rush to the pithy cynical remark I dunno that the forums are dying. Maybe just evolving with the times and tastes. I imagine social media and reddit or tumblr fill in a lot of those niches SA used to. Certainly a lot less users active than I remember.

Lonos Oboe fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Jun 1, 2015

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Berious
Nov 13, 2005
I think it's 90% goonfleet join for guilds

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

the dong romper pay wall

haris pilton
Sep 4, 2014
I joined so my name would be out there and hopefully kick off a porn career that consists of me giving handjobs to retards.
I find great joy in goon meltdowns.

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
its the premium content, the promise behind every paywall

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
Deep-seated self hate

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
This is probably the last forum on the internet that isn't just a pathetic hugbox.

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
the call of the goatman

Airstream Driver
May 6, 2009

I wanted to see proper swear words.

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!

Windows 98 posted:

Nice new AV OP!

thanks somebody got it for me and i dont know who but its growing on me

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Applewhite posted:

This is probably the last forum on the internet that isn't just a pathetic hugbox.

this doesn't apply to any subforum except GBS unfortunately. Go and talk about how owning a pet is slavery in PI, they will run out in no time

JimsonTheBetrayer
Oct 13, 2010

Game's over, and fuck you Jimson. It's not my fault that you guys couldn't get your shit together by deadline. No one gets access to docs because I don't fucking care anymore, I hope you all enjoyed ruining my game, and there won't be another.
I signed up because the front page content was so goo- bwahahahahhaha I can't even finish it.

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!

Applewhite posted:

This is probably the last forum on the internet that isn't just a pathetic hugbox.


Bitter Mushroom posted:

this doesn't apply to any subforum except GBS unfortunately. Go and talk about how owning a pet is slavery in PI, they will run out in no time

gonna have to agree with the shroom on this one

a lot of forums/threads have some hideous groupthink bullshit. it can be funny to gently caress with them sometimes but usually its just fuckin lame

TVIV is a p good example of this as well. if i didnt hate myself with a deep and unending passion i wouldnt go there ever


also i completely forgot about people that join for guilds lmfao

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Fetus Tree posted:

gonna have to agree with the shroom on this one

a lot of forums/threads have some hideous groupthink bullshit. it can be funny to gently caress with them sometimes but usually its just fuckin lame

TVIV is a p good example of this as well. if i didnt hate myself with a deep and unending passion i wouldnt go there ever


also i completely forgot about people that join for guilds lmfao

I like that variety, personally. Sometimes I want to post about my favorite video games and TV shows without being called a tremendous fag.
Not often, but sometimes.

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!

Applewhite posted:

I like that variety, personally. Sometimes I want to post about my favorite video games and TV shows without being called a tremendous fag.
Not often, but sometimes.

well the point is, you better have the same opinion of your favorite game or tv show or else youll be accused of playing it or watching it the wrong way

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002
TVIV does get annoying with groupthink and live posting but yeah there really is no better option out there to discuss a show you like.


Lol at watching it wrong. Goons can be such loving nerds.

Nagato
Apr 26, 2011

Why yes my username is the same as an autistic alien who looks like a 9 year old from an anime, why do ask?
:nyoron:
gbs is probably the most welcoming forum for outright trolling. i like the circlejerk in yospos but one of the posters started trolling in a thread he didn't usually post in a few days ago and they were all quite fragile and insecure. lol

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!

Shadow posted:

TVIV does get annoying with groupthink and live posting but yeah there really is no better option out there to discuss a show you like.


Lol at watching it wrong. Goons can be such loving nerds.

i dont honestly know why i go there. i dont care about other peoples opinions on things. sometimes people have some interesting information about the show and behind the scenes stuff and cool gifs i guess.

in a thread there for a show i watch some people were preemptively deciding to stop watching the show bc one of the producers or some poo poo is leaving after this season

mind you to this point they all really enjoy the show ffs

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

killmeimmafailure posted:

Lol if you pay.

midnightclimax
Dec 3, 2011

by XyloJW

Nagato posted:

gbs is probably the most welcoming forum for outright trolling. i like the circlejerk in yospos but one of the posters started trolling in a thread he didn't usually post in a few days ago and they were all quite fragile and insecure. lol

it's the only forum where they'll probate you for "kill urself"

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!
idk what yospos is for

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Bitter Mushroom posted:

this doesn't apply to any subforum except GBS unfortunately. Go and talk about how owning a pet is slavery in PI, they will run out in no time

speaking for those that have no voice

respect for you freedom fighter brother

Nagato
Apr 26, 2011

Why yes my username is the same as an autistic alien who looks like a 9 year old from an anime, why do ask?
:nyoron:

Fetus Tree posted:

idk what yospos is for

it's a replacement for lf in the disguise of a computer forum. if you focus your political schadenfreude intently on computers then you can avoid having social justice discussions most of the time. edit: most of the posters there are either from lf or from adtrw originally

this is obviously a sign of being emotionally crippled, but hey, like this thread says why are people even posting here in 2015

Top City Homo posted:

speaking for those that have no voice

respect for you freedom fighter brother

david foster wallace successfully trolled gourmet magazine, by asking them to think about the poor lobsters that get BOILED ALIVE. it doesn't matter how stupid it is as long as the troll works

Nagato fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Jun 1, 2015

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
i just went to YOSPOS for the first time. how does anyone browse this poo poo regularly

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002

Fetus Tree posted:

i dont honestly know why i go there. i dont care about other peoples opinions on things. sometimes people have some interesting information about the show and behind the scenes stuff and cool gifs i guess.

in a thread there for a show i watch some people were preemptively deciding to stop watching the show bc one of the producers or some poo poo is leaving after this season

mind you to this point they all really enjoy the show ffs

Yeah I like when you occasionally get insight you otherwise didn't pick up on.

But some of the hero worship or overly sensitive poo poo gets really loving old. Like in The Americans when post after post was people losing their minds over Phil and that 22 year old playing a 15 year old. We get it. You vote no on pedophilia. Congratulations. Now shut the gently caress up.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Nagato posted:

it's a replacement for lf in the disguise of a computer forum. if you focus your political schadenfreude intently on computers then you can avoid having social justice discussions most of the time.

this is obviously a sign of being emotionally crippled, but hey, like this thread says why are people even posting here in 2015


david foster wallace successfully trolled gourmet magazine, by asking them to think about the poor lobsters that get BOILED ALIVE. it doesn't matter how stupid it is as long as the troll works

aye new troll must be invented on a regular basis

to troll is to know you are alive on this gay earth

Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!

Shadow posted:

Yeah I like when you occasionally get insight you otherwise didn't pick up on.

But some of the hero worship or overly sensitive poo poo gets really loving old. Like in The Americans when post after post was people losing their minds over Phil and that 22 year old playing a 15 year old. We get it. You vote no on pedophilia. Congratulations. Now shut the gently caress up.

that was loving awful tho at the same time quite funny watching people trip over themselves

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Bitter Mushroom posted:

this doesn't apply to any subforum except GBS unfortunately. Go and talk about how owning a pet is slavery in PI, they will run out in no time

tbf that's loving retarded so it's good that those people get run out

Fetus Tree posted:

idk what yospos is for

funy comptuer

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002

Fetus Tree posted:

that was loving awful tho at the same time quite funny watching people trip over themselves

True haha. Though I do wish live posting were done in its own thread. I hate having to skip tens of pages for some of the more popular shows before anything gets interesting again.

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002

concerned mom posted:

Ok here are the rules. Please lurk for a good 2-3 weeks. Do not post! If you want to post read it and re read it and then delete it. Make sure you spell properly and use punctuation! Do not sign your posts or you will be probated. If ice queen is on its best just not to post at all

I love how absolutely accurate this is. This was back when the Internet was serious business.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
All the best TVIV threads are for shows that have finished on tv (usually not the original thread for a show) mostly because all of the stupidity has run its course and you dont have to endure terrible fan theories and live posting, the worst, lowest form of posting.

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002

thathonkey posted:

All the best TVIV threads are for shows that have finished on tv (usually not the original thread for a show) mostly because all of the stupidity has run its course and you dont have to endure terrible fan theories and live posting, the worst, lowest form of posting.

Or some of the annoying obsession over coupling. Goons tend to turn otherwise good shows into a loving soap opera. I don't give two shits if male character A and female character B should get together. Please just stop.

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Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!

Shadow posted:

True haha. Though I do wish live posting were done in its own thread. I hate having to skip tens of pages for some of the more popular shows before anything gets interesting again.

i dont mind some live posting tbh, depends on the show/thread

live posting in the sons of anarchy thread was hilarious bc it was all just pure hatewatch and a good time


thathonkey posted:

All the best TVIV threads are for shows that have finished on tv (usually not the original thread for a show) mostly because all of the stupidity has run its course and you dont have to endure terrible fan theories and live posting, the worst, lowest form of posting.

this is a very good point, was thinking the same thing. im going in that poo poo forum less and less nowadays but i have enjoyed talking about stargate to people

now that gibbis has no real standards for threads, its nice that we can talk about things like star trek here in an environment that doesnt foster such lame rear end posting

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