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StrixNebulosa posted:This thread makes me smile. I love this place. I remain terrified of posting and I have been here for loving ages. I am mainly posting to say that your avatar is rad as hell and it's a joy to see you post. Hooray for no nazi sexbastards. Well. Fewer.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 22:36 |
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Flint_Paper posted:I am mainly posting to say that your avatar is rad as hell and it's a joy to see you post. I have to second this. I smile every time I see your avatar, Strix.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 00:47 |
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somebody on here anonymously sent me an Amazon gift cert back at the start of quarantine which bought me a hair clipper which literally saved me from getting gender dysphoria over my hair getting too long lol. whoever that was: thank you (i had enough left over to buy a book on Heian-era culture for myself and a scratch pad for my cat, it was very kind) i'm a very low-tier poster but i've really enjoyed my time here. learned a lot, read a lot of funny and/or interesting things, joined a couple discords then immediately quit out of social anxiety. thanks, goons
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 08:05 |
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Flint_Paper posted:I remain terrified of posting and I have been here for loving ages. It's taken therapy and time to get used to posting here, as well as lots of instances of me posting and then not getting probed/yelled at/etc for it. Keep at it, your avatar is real cute too! SneezeOfTheDecade posted:I have to second this. I smile every time I see your avatar, Strix. Cheat at Baba once, win forever, god I love this avatar. PS Don't ever look up a solution for a puzzle game. InediblePenguin posted:somebody on here anonymously sent me an Amazon gift cert back at the start of quarantine which bought me a hair clipper which literally saved me from getting gender dysphoria over my hair getting too long lol. whoever that was: thank you (i had enough left over to buy a book on Heian-era culture for myself and a scratch pad for my cat, it was very kind) "low-tier poster" who cares keep posting, your rapsheet is relatively clean meaning you don't poo poo up threads therefore you're a good one keep at it.
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 16:02 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:It's taken therapy and time to get used to posting here, as well as lots of instances of me posting and then not getting probed/yelled at/etc for it. Keep at it, your avatar is real cute too! I take the opposite view on probes. They're just the price of playing. Obviously this changes when they become longer and more frequent but sometimes you gotta fly close to the sun just to feel a bit warm. Sometimes you just want a cat on there too.
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 22:29 |
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Inceltown posted:I take the opposite view on probes. They're just the price of playing. Obviously this changes when they become longer and more frequent but sometimes you gotta fly close to the sun just to feel a bit warm. Someone posted “the person who does not post out of fear of probation has already probated themselves”. Wish I could remember who.
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 22:31 |
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Inceltown posted:Sometimes you just want a cat on there too. For the low, low price of a six hour probe, I got this on my rap sheet for all eternity: Worth it.
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 22:39 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The person who does not post out of fear of probation has already probated themselves There we go, it's now attributed to you.
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 22:57 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Someone posted “the person who does not post out of fear of probation has already probated themselves”. Wish I could remember who. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3872251#post489120673
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 23:19 |
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Though sort of in tandem of the great Goongle+ wave of 2011, I met my wife and ride-or-die life partner jennyinstereo in 2012. We posted in lovedump (which frankly should come back, we need to now more than ever). We made awful Xmas music together, and soon after, got married and now have two wonderful boys. These people that I love so much wouldn't be in my life (and my sons literally wouldn't exist) without SA. you all. Thank you.
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 18:54 |
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About 10 years ago, the other shoe dropped--my mother was dead, my brother is disabled, and our father's Alzheimer's had accelerated to the point where intervention was necessary. I had to drop my life and go try to impose some order and safety on the brother I barely knew and the father I definitely hated. The house was nearly "Hoarders" bad and the grief was paralyzing. I posted in E/N, hoping for advice and support. I got both. Also, by effectively journaling that experience, I left myself an excellent record of everything that happened and how I felt about it. Since then, I took those posts and wrote them into a complete book. I don't know if it'll ever get published, but I'm shopping it around to agents now. Without the forums, I'd have never finished the drat thing. Without goons, I'd never have believed anyone would want to read about that kind of journey. So, thanks folks!
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 23:09 |
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Oh god, I remember that thread! There was something about a loom you were trying to sell to someone and they kept flaking? Or maybe they wanted to buy it and you didn't want to sell.
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# ? Aug 6, 2020 00:38 |
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Oh god, I remember that thread! There was something about a loom you were trying to sell to someone and they kept flaking? Or maybe they wanted to buy it and you didn't want to sell. There was fuckery around my mom's weaving equipment. A lot of it got stolen by the Other-Pix, a mentally ill woman. I chose to let it go rather than involve the police, because I was so exhausted. Most of that stuff was too hard to sell so it ended up donated to a local weaving group. I actually left almost all of that out of the book because it's depressing, infuriating, and didn't have a good ending. I'm proud to have finished the book, however. It wouldn't have been possible without that E/N thread to mine.
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# ? Aug 6, 2020 20:27 |
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I have made some friends here and got some very good recommendations on like, books, music, comics, games and stuff like that. Honestly, I think what I appreciate most about this dumb decrepit forum is that it's always there.
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# ? Aug 13, 2020 21:58 |
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I got sober eight years ago and the recovery thread in TCC was like my 24/7 meeting. I’d post all of my fears and worries and pink cloud thoughts and the recovery goons would always be there to answer and cajole and comfort. I love how the recovery thread in a drug-use forum on a comedy website helped me get sober. Thanks goons!
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# ? Aug 13, 2020 23:21 |
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Vincent posted:I think what I appreciate most about this dumb decrepit forum is that it's always there. Also this should be the background song to the thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjVQ36NhbMk
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# ? Aug 23, 2020 21:26 |
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ultrafilter posted:For the low, low price of a six hour probe, I got this on my rap sheet for all eternity: Where's the spray from the right girl shoulder coming from?
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# ? Aug 30, 2020 07:44 |
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I don't think I've achieved or learnt anything life-changing through SA, but one time a goon was complaining about their lovely day and how they had fainted in the morning and hit their head on their bedside table and now they had to go to work with a dent in their head and I was like "buddy you should go the the hospital" and the next post in the thread was them like 8 hours later posting from the ICU and that I had probably saved their life. I can always say I achieved one good thing as a poster here
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# ? Aug 31, 2020 13:55 |
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Some years ago I remember a goon who lived close to me (like a city or so away) posting about his bad day cause he had lost his jobs and his kids were hungry. This was way before Uber, so I overnighted a box of nonperishable food to him. Pretty sure the bread got crushed, sorry goon! But he sent me this teary thank you email, which helped me realize I have a lot of things, and if I can help one person a day, I'm doing good. PISS and SASS has gotten me so many amazingly cool art things that I started making paintings and other things for homemade gifts.
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# ? Sep 4, 2020 04:11 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:Some years ago I remember a goon who lived close to me (like a city or so away) posting about his bad day cause he had lost his jobs and his kids were hungry. This was way before Uber, so I overnighted a box of nonperishable food to him. Pretty sure the bread got crushed, sorry goon! But he sent me this teary thank you email, which helped me realize I have a lot of things, and if I can help one person a day, I'm doing good. On that note way back in the day when I had a lot more disposable income than now I gifted a goon some money as they'd been laid off right before Christmas. It was less than I would have spent at the bar on any given Friday night so it's not like it was hurting me and the feeling I got knowing that they could get xmas presents for the family was way better a feeling than booze ever gave me. While I still give to charity when I can it's not the same as the tangible results you get from helping someone directly.
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# ? Sep 4, 2020 04:28 |
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It’s part of the reason I like the goonfund. Yeah there are always going to be issues with scammers and yeah you don’t get a charitable donation, but stuff like this:quote:Goonfund just literally saved my life by funding the stupid expensive prescriptions i need bc i don't have insurance 💖💖💖 makes me happy to contribute / see that others have to. This community is good and the people in it are good.
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# ? Sep 4, 2020 13:23 |
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Jordan7hm posted:It’s part of the reason I like the goonfund. Yeah there are always going to be issues with scammers and yeah you don’t get a charitable donation, but stuff like this: Thanks for reminding me about Goonfund. I had meant to sign up to contribute a few weeks ago. I'm in now. A recent article in our local paper about the current and coming eviction crisis just really pissed me off. So many people facing so much hardship, and I just want to help.
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# ? Sep 4, 2020 16:41 |
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Wait. Goonfund? What is that?
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# ? Sep 4, 2020 18:20 |
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Something Awful saved my life (for the second time, but this one is my favorite) when goons helped me get out of a psychologically and physically abusive relationship with Lowtax back in late June 2020. So many people had and continue to have my back. This website will forever be in my heart and part of my life story. Goons are some of the best people on the planet. Shoutout once again to LITERALLY A BIRD, protector of the forums. She’s my best friend. When I was laying alone with a black eye and assorted other bruises in a lovely hotel in Missouri, she was the only one who reached out—and frequently. The admins pooled their resources to get me out and safely back home. Goons forever, goon for life amen.
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# ? Sep 7, 2020 16:25 |
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I joined in the early/mid 2000's and what got me to reg was some of the epic threads like Bruiser and the Garbage Truck from Hell and I can't remember his username, but the guy who had to whip his kid into shape because of drugs and got him exercising and emptied his room of nothing but a mattress and a box for clothes. Also the guy who found his dad's Vietnam novel and retyped the whole thing into an electronic document. These were just awesome personal stories and incredibly well written. That was what pulled me in at first but from there I started reading A/T, D&D, GWS, and E/N. From there I started wandering across all sorts of subgroups. It's just amazing the amount of information and knowledge in these forums. Everything from movie reviews to tech help to DIY stuff. It's a great way for people to experience things outside of their norms, especially if your options are limited. It was a sad day to hear that the forums might have been shut down, I hope that won't end up being the case.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 19:15 |
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Oxphocker posted:I joined in the early/mid 2000's and what got me to reg was some of the epic threads like Bruiser and the Garbage Truck from Hell and I can't remember his username, but the guy who had to whip his kid into shape because of drugs and got him exercising and emptied his room of nothing but a mattress and a box for clothes. Also the guy who found his dad's Vietnam novel and retyped the whole thing into an electronic document. These were just awesome personal stories and incredibly well written. That was what pulled me in at first but from there I started reading A/T, D&D, GWS, and E/N. From there I started wandering across all sorts of subgroups. Back when the site was huge it was insane, if people were talking about basically anything a ton of people with a lot of expertise in that field would show up and drop knowledge bombs. I learned a ton lurking here back in the day.
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Toad on a Roll posted:Something Awful saved my life (for the second time, but this one is my favorite) when goons helped me get out of a psychologically and physically abusive relationship with Lowtax back in late June 2020. So many people had and continue to have my back. This website will forever be in my heart and part of my life story. Goons are some of the best people on the planet. I think I speak for everyone here when I say I’m so happy you’re doing better.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 05:26 |
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InediblePenguin posted:somebody on here anonymously sent me an Amazon gift cert back at the start of quarantine which bought me a hair clipper which literally saved me from getting gender dysphoria over my hair getting too long lol. whoever that was: thank you (i had enough left over to buy a book on Heian-era culture for myself and a scratch pad for my cat, it was very kind) holy poo poo, I also got an amazon gift cert then from some goon. Goons are cool. Ugly In The Morning posted:Back when the site was huge it was insane, if people were talking about basically anything a ton of people with a lot of expertise in that field would show up and drop knowledge bombs. I learned a ton lurking here back in the day. "And how do you know all this?" "Someone on this website- no they're legit- yes I trust them why- no but- ugh you wouldn't understand."
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# ? Sep 16, 2020 19:45 |
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Way back in like 2011 or so i posted in one of those "i'm bored message me threads" and made a few friends who genuinely helped me out through some bad spots in my early 20s. I know Psyopmonkey was disliked by GBS but she was a lot of fun to talk to and in general a nice person. We kept in touch for awhile but then she got out of the military and got a real life and it's been yeras now. I hope she's doing okay still
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:51 |
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Multiple times within the last 10 years, whenever I've been really down in a hole, I throw myself into a sub-community of SA and find friends there and it's always great. I ran the TBB Secret Santa for a few years and one year everyone got together and got me a really cool gift. I was a Goontube regular for a while and I have more FB friends now. I still check in. Discords aplenty, but I made 3-4 really good friends from an Overwatch Discord that I still talk to. It's the right size of community, where there are enough people to where anything you like, there will be like minds, but not big enough to where you can't make real connections because of an overwhelming amount of input.
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# ? Sep 21, 2020 01:50 |
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Toad on a Roll posted:Something Awful saved my life (for the second time, but this one is my favorite) when goons helped me get out of a psychologically and physically abusive relationship with Lowtax back in late June 2020. So many people had and continue to have my back. This website will forever be in my heart and part of my life story. Goons are some of the best people on the planet. Hearing about goons helping you is what finally motivated one of my best friends to accept help and move in with my people. She still has a broken rib, but she's out, she's with us, and she's safe. Thank you for sharing your story, because this had been a multi year long fight for her, and I'm not sure she would have moved forward without hearing about someone in a very similar situation actually getting out.
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# ? Sep 27, 2020 01:10 |
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Cinema Discusso did so much for making me appreciate film as an artform and break free from the binary of RottenTomatoes/Metacritics scores in determining whether or not a movie was worth watching.While it sucks that I was eventually banned from the forum for talking about movies because I talked about movies in the wrong way, I will still carry the lessons with me.
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# ? Sep 27, 2020 09:40 |
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:Hearing about goons helping you is what finally motivated one of my best friends to accept help and move in with my people. She still has a broken rib, but she's out, she's with us, and she's safe. Thank you for sharing your story, because this had been a multi year long fight for her, and I'm not sure she would have moved forward without hearing about someone in a very similar situation actually getting out. I’m truly honored by this—thank you so much. Please let her know I wish her the absolute best!
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# ? Sep 27, 2020 23:56 |
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I don't have anything as dramatically good as all this, but I've met some really kind and thoughtful people and had some very informed and interesting conversations with them. I'm very happy to consider them my friends. And most people are at least pretty nice. And on the internet, that's a rare thing indeed these days. Kangxi has a new favorite as of 02:45 on Sep 28, 2020 |
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This place actually literally did help me to be less of a bad person. I got in with some goons who weren't shy at all about calling me out for some things like using slurs or just generally being a jackoff. Ironically, I met them through taking the piss out of Dominic Deegan. I genuinely do think that this group of goons helped put me on a better path, and I'm thankful.
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 07:15 |
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For one, seeing & reading the PS Phriday threads not only made me laugh but got me into messing with PS myself to make goofy images & get a smile from people. But honestly, if I had to pick ONE thing, it would have to be Goatse Mugs: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3933628 An idea from years ago, when I was under the name Ozz81. I can't remember the exact thread that started it, but I posted a silly BMP I made in Paint of a design for a mug based on our famous rubbery-anused friend. That image turned into fellow goon Empty Sandwich, who has done pottery & other cool stuff, making a run of hilarious mugs that ended up blowing up into a whole line of different goatse-based items. I never once thought a dumb little joke Paint image I made would explode into an actual product, but it's honestly one of my favorite things. If you haven't already, go get one of the mugs, shot glasses or other assorted trinkets Empty Sandwich has made, he really does a fantastic quality job on everything
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# ? Oct 5, 2020 04:51 |
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Saved to remind me to order when you have stock!
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# ? Oct 5, 2020 13:51 |
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An anonymous goon ordered nearly a hundred bucks worth of delicious grubhub restaurant food to my apartment when me and all my roommates had covid, and it was loving amazing.
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# ? Oct 5, 2020 23:28 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:An anonymous goon ordered nearly a hundred bucks worth of delicious grubhub restaurant food to my apartment when me and all my roommates had covid, and it was loving amazing. As a restaurant kitchen worker, this tickles me in so many ways. Supporting my struggling industry AND helping a goon out? Very blessed. Speaking of restaurants, I was just poking around 3 threads I have bookmarked, the "what's your white whale?", "help me find a song", and "lost SA threads". Sometimes I can help out, sometimes folks help me. But I always like browsing those, because I end up seeing content I may not have stumbled on otherwise. Same for a whole bunch of threads, now that I think about it. It's like when you'd go to a restaurant you've never been to before, and someone at the table next to you gets something that looks/smells fantastic. And you lean over and ask, "excuse me, sorry to bother you, but what is that?" And you end up ordering it, and it's awesome. It's like that, but without even having to ask --- or even pay for it.
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The DIY forum has been a literal lifesaver. I can't imagine how many hundreds of dollars I've saved by opting to do poo poo myself instead of hiring it out. It's nice being able to consult a whole pool of people who know what they're talking about, as opposed to some random teenager working part time at Home Depot. For instance, all the posters yelled at me to get a voltage pen instead of being a cheapskate, and that thing has saved me from two occasions where I would have assumed the power was out, but it wasn't. And I knew, because I listened to the forum and bought a voltage pen.
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