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RIP Brewkakke https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3204587
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Apr 30, 2020 12:24
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The impression I've got about TCC is that it probably does provide some good information for people who are going to do drugs anyway. It also seems to have a higher miss to hit ratio than other subforums, which is not great because if someone gives bad information in GWS the worst that's going to happen is someone has to eat a bad meal but if someone gives bad advice in TCC someone could die.
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Apr 30, 2020 12:58
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His first post about them was in September 09, shocked at how long it stays in your system. It killed him two months later. It’s crazy how quick a habit like that can progress.
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Apr 30, 2020 12:58
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Is that the "I lost a week and ordered a piano" stuff?
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Apr 30, 2020 13:04
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Thots and Prayers posted:It's not Monday anywhere in the world right now CSS. You'll have to trust us that you're on Day 6-7-8 of your trip. Phenazepam: It's not Monday anywhere in the world right now e: ^^ it sure is! Shasta Orange Soda posted:Oh Jesus. I had exactly two beers with some eyeballed phenaz on Sunday night. All I remember is hanging out with my roommate, listening to music, and playing video games.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:04
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Moon Slayer posted:The impression I've got about TCC is that it probably does provide some good information for people who are going to do drugs anyway. It also seems to have a higher miss to hit ratio than other subforums, which is not great because if someone gives bad information in GWS the worst that's going to happen is someone has to eat a bad meal but if someone gives bad advice in TCC someone could die. TCC had to make a rule specifically for "don't ask people to ID random pills you found on the floor", because people were finding horse oestrogen or dog laxatives in the street and then eating them because TCC told them to.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:39
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Sleeveless posted:I also wouldn't be surprised if the longrunning conspiracy theory that some permabanned poster with a grudge is in a shadowy position of power at a tech company intentionally tanking the site's ranking in search and social media algorithms out of spite is actually just the result of having a publicly-readable section about firearms. I wish I knew where I saw that so I could properly cite sources, but I definitely remember Lowtax talking about it at some vague point in the last half-decade or so.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:48
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The Kins posted:IIRC there actually was a long-running stretch where a banned furry working at Google was artificially tanking SA's search ranking. Apparently they eventually got caught and fired. Lowtax ran some tests to prove he wasn't paranoid. https://www.somethingawful.com/hogosphere/google-hates-sa/ I believe that the reveal that they caught the guy was either a tweet by him, or someone else who worked at google posted in GBS that they knew of it.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:51
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Would really not surprise me that someone at Twitter is also holding a grudge against Lowtax for similar reasons.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:51
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Moo the cow posted:Lowtax ran some tests to prove he wasn't paranoid. That is crazy.
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Apr 30, 2020 13:54
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Moo the cow posted:Lowtax ran some tests to prove he wasn't paranoid. Those "tests" are from 2007, there's no screenshots to show what the results were like at the time but now most of them show SA right as the top result. Maybe back then the hentai and fleshlight banner ads on the front page articles kept it from showing up in regular search results, or all the links to other sites like Seanbaby and the forums triggered the part of the algorithm that keeps sites that try and manipulate search rankings from showing up, or maybe Google was keeping it from showing up but because the people who had been the victims of goon swarms had complained about it or the slur-filled chatlogs dunking in mentally ill people rather than an individual grudge. Trying to find meaning in search engine decisions is the parable of the blind men trying to figure out what an elephant is times a million, and until people actually post the receipts there's no reason to take this more seriously than any other conspiracy theory blaming the algorithm and shadowbanning for why you aren't getting enough likes.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:11
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Nowadays TCC is constantly telling people not to do drugs.  I'd assume there's a survivor effect.
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Moo the cow posted:Lowtax ran some tests to prove he wasn't paranoid. Ah, the famously reliable Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka.
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Apr 30, 2020 15:33
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Moo the cow posted:Lowtax ran some tests to prove he wasn't paranoid. you know, when you are running tests to prove how sane you are...
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Apr 30, 2020 15:57
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Sweevo posted:TCC had to make a rule specifically for "don't ask people to ID random pills you found on the floor", because people were finding horse oestrogen or dog laxatives in the street and then eating them because TCC told them to. How is finding drugs on the ground common enough for this to be an issue.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:42
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EasilyConfused posted:How is finding drugs on the ground common enough for this to be an issue. Probably they fell off the back of a truck and down onto the ground.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:48
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EasilyConfused posted:How is finding drugs on the ground common enough for this to be an issue. Once when taking the city bus in Tallahassee I saw a guy find a rock of crack under his seat. He offered to split it with me as he assumed I was a fellow druggie. Why? Because he saw the dragon on my t-shirt and assumed it meant I was also into heroin.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:50
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EasilyConfused posted:How is finding drugs on the ground common enough for this to be an issue. I have found random pills on the ground at least a dozen times in the last year or two. If you’re out and about in a college town on a Saturday or Sunday morning you’ll definitely find little glassine baggies with pills in them surprisingly often. Sometimes it’s MDMA, sometimes it’s Zantac that someone probably sold as MDMA to make a quick buck. I always run them through a pill identifier for shits and giggles before I put them in the drug disposal.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:52
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Soylent Pudding posted:Once when taking the city bus in Tallahassee I saw a guy find a rock of crack under his seat. He offered to split it with me as he assumed I was a fellow druggie. Why? Because he saw the dragon on my t-shirt and assumed it meant I was also into heroin. And? How was the crack?
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Apr 30, 2020 19:22
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Soylent Pudding posted:Once when taking the city bus in Tallahassee I saw a guy find a rock of crack under his seat. He offered to split it with me as he assumed I was a fellow druggie. Why? Because he saw the dragon on my t-shirt and assumed it meant I was also into heroin. Lucky he didn't step on it, that could have led to his mother's back being broken.
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Apr 30, 2020 19:42
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Inceltown posted:In a cspam thread the other day we were talking about forums superstars who would make a better POTUS than Trump. I'm pages behind so not sure if this has been answered, but iirc this was not a game but some female chipmunks cartoon. Also shout-out to my fellow Puzzle Pirates from back in the day!
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Apr 30, 2020 19:43
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EasilyConfused posted:How is finding drugs on the ground common enough for this to be an issue. Ever played Space Station 13?
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Apr 30, 2020 19:45
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Unobtainium posted:I'm pages behind so not sure if this has been answered, but iirc this was not a game but some female chipmunks cartoon. The chipmunks movie from the 80s I believe. I watched it constantly as a kid and tbh there are a disturbing amount of panty shots as well as a musical number with the girl chipmunks in belly dancer outfits
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Apr 30, 2020 19:53
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EasilyConfused posted:How is finding drugs on the ground common enough for this to be an issue. i once saw a friend of mine find a pill on the sidewalk, say "oh sweet" and eat it. i was like what the gently caress dude, he said "it's an ibuprofin, no big deal" and i said that the identity of the pill was not the point. this same guy once found a plastic bag on the subway with a small amount of white powder inside, and tested the contents on his gums. it was cocaine. it was good cocaine. it was really, REALLY good cocaine. he was on his way to a job interview. he did not do well in the job interview. also i was once hard up for weed during spring break. my guy was out of town, my other guy was out of town, so i walked down to the corner to see if there were any street dealers around. no luck. on my way back home moping and hanging my head, i spotted a dime bag under a bush. thanks weed fairy
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Apr 30, 2020 20:34
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Here's a nice smiley combo:   Edit: When did D&D get renamed to Advanced C-SPAM, and C-SPAM to D&D Basic? 
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Apr 30, 2020 20:50
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Clearly I should look down more often when I'm walking.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:06
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
Long enough for a bunch of people to scream at each other about it in QCS: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3921719
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Apr 30, 2020 21:10
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EasilyConfused posted:Clearly I should look down more often when I'm walking. you can find many drugs this way. my ex used to routinely bring be pills she found to look up on the internet for her
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Apr 30, 2020 21:26
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EasilyConfused posted:How is finding drugs on the ground common enough for this to be an issue. Just this past week I was walking not a block away from my house and saw a cute little velvet bag lying in the street. Picked it up because it was pretty, and inside there was a jar full of what I think was meth inside (idk, it looked like little shards of glass and powder, and given my neighborhood, that wouldn't be a surprise). edit: tossed the jar, kept the pretty bag, in case you're wondering JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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Apr 30, 2020 21:31
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Back when I used to drive a cab I would find ludicrous volumes of coke, ketamine and burner phones at the end of a shift. Enough that I ended up finding a guy to resell for me, and for a while was basically a drug dealer. And this was in a quiet, well to do town with no real night life or student population. I can only assume Real Cities have knee-depth crack rocks in every public space at all times. Never, ever found heroin, though. If a junkie drops a baggie it hits him in the back of the head, I swear.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:35
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Disgusting Coward posted:Back when I used to drive a cab I would find ludicrous volumes of coke, ketamine and burner phones at the end of a shift. Enough that I ended up finding a guy to resell for me, and for a while was basically a drug dealer. And this was in a quiet, well to do town with no real night life or student population. I can only assume Real Cities have knee-depth crack rocks in every public space at all times. I imagine that if you hit the homeless they explode in a shower of drug baggies like rings after sonic gets hit
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Apr 30, 2020 22:13
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Here's a nice smiley combo: It confused the hell out of me when I was trying to find the TrumpLOL thread
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Apr 30, 2020 23:17
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Spanish Manlove posted:I imagine that if you hit the homeless they explode in a shower of drug baggies like rings after sonic gets hit Finding bags of drugs on the street is the closest thing we have to video game powerups.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:25
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To be fair, sometimes the ground is only figurative and the pills you're needing to identify is your partner's stash after they died from an OD.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:31
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Ghostlight posted:To be fair, sometimes the ground is only figurative and the pills you're needing to identify is your partner's stash after they died from an OD. Found them on the ground after I stole the bottle from grandma's purse & dropped it.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:52
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I put this post together for the funny quotes thread a while back but it's relevant now and definitely a saga:Moon Slayer posted:Looking at that gassed thread led me to the banlist for another permabanned goon whose reason for being banned was "dead." I checked out the thread and found a classic:
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Apr 30, 2020 23:57
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VanSandman posted:Ever played Space Station 13? Just lol if you find floorpills in ss13 and don't eat them What I'm saying is I'm bad at ss13
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May 1, 2020 01:25
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Moon Slayer posted:I put this post together for the funny quotes thread a while back but it's relevant now and definitely a saga: I love this so much
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Honky Dong Country posted:Just lol if you find floorpills in ss13 and don't eat them That's playing SS13 as intended It's eating mystery floorpills in real life that is dumb and bad and worthy of derision.
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