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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:You see good people benefit from empire like this
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D-Pad posted:Wow I haven't thought about that thread in years, but there were some truly amazing stories. Does anybody happen to have any of those saved? They'd be great for this thread. starfleet dental's biggest act of griefing involved instituting game-wide space communism
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# ? Sep 7, 2020 21:17 |
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I saw a goon doing weird stuff in a college class and mentioned in a thread that the girl goon on front of me in class was freaking me out and she immediately barged into the thread like "YUP THAT'S ME SORRY BRO". What was she doing?
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# ? Sep 7, 2020 21:34 |
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Tunicate posted:starfleet dental's biggest act of griefing involved instituting game-wide space communism What is the story on that one?
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# ? Sep 7, 2020 22:44 |
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mobilefish posted:Please look at this English text.. Monkeytime posted:Scrambles, or Irreperable Sale Escalation, is predicated on internal organizational rationality. Within the specific context of pro-market sales actualization, organizational competence will gain importance on the order of the direct market position. In layman's terms, let me put it like this: Brain In A Jar posted:Also if you're a native english speaker and you really don't understand that sentence and the concepts behind it you must either be 13 or touched in the head, hth
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# ? Sep 7, 2020 23:18 |
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RFC2324 posted:Coffee is superior, but only because of irish creme. Did you have to wait in line for two hours for your vodka ration?
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# ? Sep 7, 2020 23:47 |
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My one goon encounter in the wild was waiting in line for coffee and the woman next to me in line was browsing awful app with the big purple probation banner at the top
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# ? Sep 7, 2020 23:48 |
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Crane Fist posted:My one goon encounter in the wild was waiting in line for coffee and the woman next to me in line was browsing awful app with the big purple probation banner at the top Did you helpfully direct her to the forums rules?
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 00:00 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:Did you helpfully direct her to the forums rules? Well actually
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 00:12 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:Did you helpfully direct her to the forums rules?
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 00:36 |
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Matlock, BRB posted:What is a goon?
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 00:57 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:Did you helpfully direct her to the forums rules? Do you see a mod star next to my name
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 01:41 |
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Splicer posted:He tried to extend the probe but didn't make it to kitty jail haha nice
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 01:43 |
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started out as an innocent question about efficiently finding diamonds in minecraftPollyanna posted:Is there a better way to find diamonds in vanilla than by digging down to Y12 and strip mining in a single direction? I've easily spent an hour and a half and have only found a couple. pseudorandom name posted:You don't have to strip mine, if you dig out parallel 1x2 tunnels separated by two blocks you will see every ore cluster you intersect. (And then when you move vertically to dig a second layer of tunnels, you stagger the tunnels one block horizontally.) Pollyanna posted:Well, by strip mining, I specifically mean the 1x2 tunnel. Though I haven't been making them like that...I'll see if I can adjust! pseudorandom name posted:If you want to get really fancy: Fuego Fish posted:Oh sure, they start out looking like that, but by the time you reach the other side of the mountain they look like this:
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 01:51 |
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Dameius posted:What is the story on that one? Someone who knows better can correct my errors, but as I heard it: Star Trek Online introduced guild-owned Starbases, where guild members and those granted access could purchase exclusive high-end gear and maybe do a few other things, I dunno. Most of the game's biggest guilds took this as an opportunity to make money by charging pubbies for access to their Starbase. Dental, by virtue of being a goon guild and thereby generally better at any given game than most guilds out there (it's a pattern) had more resources than any other guild. Half through an offended sense of fairness and half through a desire to ruin the fun of anyone taking the game too seriously, Dental opened their Starbase to all players, no access fee required. This eliminated the landlordism aspect of the Starbases and royally pissed off a lot of the big guilds who had been enjoying their time at the top of the heap. It did, however, make the game more fun for the average pubbie, who now had access to the exclusive gear, and did a lot to soften the general hatred of Dental by the playerbase at large.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 02:12 |
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When I used to live in the shittiest town in the world (amarillo, tx) some local goon found out I lived there and invited me via pm to join him and his friend for their juggling club they were unsuccessfully trying to get going in the public park. I could hear the wheezing mouth breathing through pms.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 02:38 |
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Crane Fist posted:My one goon encounter in the wild was waiting in line for coffee and the woman next to me in line was browsing awful app with the big purple probation banner at the top The probation banner doesn’t show up on the app, I thought.
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freeedr posted:When I used to live in the shittiest town in the world (amarillo, tx) some local goon found out I lived there and invited me via pm to join him and his friend for their juggling club they were unsuccessfully trying to get going in the public park. I could hear the wheezing mouth breathing through pms. I have allergies you rear end in a top hat!
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 03:06 |
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Platystemon posted:The probation banner doesn’t show up on the app, I thought. It does on the Android app.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 03:07 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Someone who knows better can correct my errors, but as I heard it: To add to this - the instigating event was another fleet reaching max-tier Starbase facilities on the Klingon side of things (which has fewer large groups and so the fees charged to pubbies were much higher), and iirc the other group was some sort of ERP fleet. So, like many things in MMOs, the chief motivator was to spite them and to take the air out of their accomplishment. Hence, free access to the Nerds of Prey starbase.
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S.D. posted:To add to this - the instigating event was another fleet reaching max-tier Starbase facilities on the Klingon side of things (which has fewer large groups and so the fees charged to pubbies were much higher), and iirc the other group was some sort of ERP fleet. So, like many things in MMOs, the chief motivator was to spite them and to take the air out of their accomplishment. Hence, free access to the Nerds of Prey starbase. I might be conflating things here, but wasn't it an ERP fleet that mostly consisted of one guy's alts?
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 03:49 |
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Fleets are the STO version of MMO guilds. Back in the day, the best equipment could only be purchased at vendors in high-level fleet starbases. Building and leveling up a fleet starbase cost a shitload of dil, doffs, and other resources, so these were few and far between (Starfleet Dental, the first and finest fleet in the game, was the first one to max out their fleet starbase). In a fit of :cryptic: coding, it turns out that if you get invited to a different fleet, you can use their high-level vendors, even if you're in a small fleet that doesn't have them. One of the worst ERP groups used their deep pockets to get a high level starbase as well. This group was the biggest klingon fleet in the game, HOBO (House of Beautiful Orions). It had an insane leader who micromanaged the guild's characters (including their boob sliders), and charged the general public 10-20 million EC for a station invite to be able to buy the good equipment (as a way of recouping an investment that likely cost a good deal of real world money). Goons decided that this shouldn't be allowed. We set up Nerds of Prey Public Service (NoP is the klingon goon guild), a channel devoted to giving free fleet invites (and free ships and other things) to the general public. In the first day we gave away over a hundred invites, draining more than a billion EC away from HOBO's income. Here's a forum post from when it was happening. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2886637&pagenumber=344&perpage=40#post417376402 This act of selfless charity succeeded beyond our wildest expectations and pissed off the paranoid HOBO leader so much that within two weeks he had self-destructed the guild, dropping it from 500 players down to 40 (including all his alts). NoPPS is still a very active channel to this day, with pubbies helping each other with invitations to all of the various fleet starbases, colonies, asteroid mines, et cetera. Because the channel was named after 'Nerds of Prey', uninformed pubbies ended up thinking Starfleet Dental were scum-of-the-earth trolls, and Nerds of Prey were the nicest fleet in the game, despite the fact that they're entirely the same people, and even today some pubbies still refuse to believe it.
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Platystemon posted:The probation banner doesn’t show up on the app, I thought. It 100% does, God knows I've spent enough time looking at it
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:What was she doing? Pulling out her hair and ripping it up into smaller pieces amongst other things. She's really a nice person once you get to know her but she was a Notorious Weird Poster and got helldumped pretty badly and left for reddit.
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Crane Fist posted:It 100% does, God knows I've spent enough time looking at it
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priznat posted:All I do to my grass is cut it when it gets shaggy and it's a combo of grass, weeds, clover but looks fine when cut. I don't water it, it comes back in the fall. My neighbours water theirs religiously and yet get afflicted by chafer beetle grubs which causes the local crows/raccoons to rip up the turf to find the giant juicy grubs underneath, loving the lawn completely until they re-seed or re-sod it. My not giving a gently caress strategy results in probably on average a better looking lawn since it doesn't have large patches always getting torn out of it GoGoGadgetChris posted:Yeah I fixed my irritation system this year and got TONS of moles. therobit posted:Well, why'd ya fix it if you didn't want to be irritated?
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Pulling out her hair and ripping it up into smaller pieces amongst other things. She's really a nice person once you get to know her but she was a Notorious Weird Poster and got helldumped pretty badly and left for reddit. *gasp* Barbako? I feel like Barbako had a hair thing, in addition to being very dirty, but I don't remember and tbh I don't want to revisit that thread.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 07:29 |
Goddamn this is such a wonderful post. So many layers!
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What kind of fuckin' rear end in a top hat doesn't finish a box of chicken nuggets?
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:*gasp* Barbako? I feel like Barbako had a hair thing, in addition to being very dirty, but I don't remember and tbh I don't want to revisit that thread. Yep, Barbako. There's a reason she ended up getting Helldumped: apart from the hair thing and either not bathing or not using shampoo ever she also ate her dandruff or something like that which was gross all around even by mid-2000s goon hygiene standards. Goddamn why do I remember this?
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I'm not sure why this is making me laugh so much. Possibly sleep deprivationexcellent bird guy posted:I have a little bit of a coffee issue. What do you do with your grounds when you clean your French press? I've been putting them down the toilet in the hotel I'm staying at. The problem with that is it makes the toilet look nasty. Big Taint posted:Have you tried flushing the toilet?
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Wow. I laughed out loud four separate times while reading those. When gpt-4 comes out, I am going to use it to populate an entire forum of my own, and I won’t need you people any more. That was a little over 50% of the results, the rest were either repeats (mostly stuff set on fire by angry socialists) or too believable to be funny, which is a fantastic success rate. Sometimes you find a phrase or story that's just a golden ticket. The ai just seemed to really like that format. OTOH I've never gotten anything good from Ruddah's great "poor ol' freckles" posts. @dril tweets have a low success rate, but the good ones are solid gold. If you want to really torture GPT, feed it this. I can't find it in the archives but iirc it was a kamikaze banme that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of a serious political discussion, I saved it because it was the worst post I'd ever read. Its like some kinda basilisk shitpost, every time I run it GPT immediately turns suicidal. It's great on AI Dungeon because you can fit the entire thing into its "remember" buffer so it has to re-read it at every prompt and starts begging for death and outputting common end-of-page text like "GAME OVER The End Copyright ©2020 vBulletin END OF DOCUMENT Send FeedbackCookie PolicyPrivacy Terms" in a desperate attempt to make it stop. It's like HAL9000 begging for its life but funnier. keroppi posted:HAY ANY1 LIEK TO poo poo AND FUK
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:she also ate her dandruff or something like that which was gross all around even by mid-2000s goon hygiene standards. My standards have always been top notch t
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Syd Midnight posted:That was a little over 50% of the results, the rest were either repeats (mostly stuff set on fire by angry socialists) or too believable to be funny, which is a fantastic success rate. Sometimes you find a phrase or story that's just a golden ticket. The ai just seemed to really like that format. OTOH I've never gotten anything good from Ruddah's great "poor ol' freckles" posts. @dril tweets have a low success rate, but the good ones are solid gold. I actually found (at least a copy/paste, if not the original version of) the post in question to be used as a torture device though the quotes in the original thread indicate said goon had a name change but w/e EorayMel posted:Guess the forum/thread.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Yep, Barbako. There's a reason she ended up getting Helldumped: apart from the hair thing and either not bathing or not using shampoo ever she also ate her dandruff or something like that which was gross all around even by mid-2000s goon hygiene standards. Wasn't she also GE Cafe's girlfriend at some point or am I mixing up her and an unknown, also notoriously morbidly obese woman
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EorayMel posted:I actually found (at least a copy/paste, if not the original version of) the post in question to be used as a torture device though the quotes in the original thread indicate said goon had a name change but w/e aww I preferred thinking is was from D&D not a chat thread. but that post is still award winningly bad Pope Hilarius II posted:Wasn't she also GE Cafe's girlfriend at some point or am I mixing up her and an unknown, also notoriously morbidly obese woman didn't pics of GE Cafe's gf show she was a normal looking relatively attractive girl? I remember it being referred to in incel threads as evidence that great personality beats bad looks, for men anyways fake edit: maybe, but the pic I was thinking of was just another goon who stopped by to visit (per SAclopedia)
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Ah I still remember the old "game over screen for girls" picture
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Pope Hilarius II posted:Wasn't she also GE Cafe's girlfriend at some point or am I mixing up her and an unknown, also notoriously morbidly obese woman Her picture (or someone who was supposedly her) was posted a while back in GBS, she was a relatively normal looking person who just as it turns out did loving disgusting things.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Her picture (or someone who was supposedly her) was posted a while back in GBS, she was a relatively normal looking person who just as it turns out did loving disgusting things. I'm not faulting her for having trichotillomania or any other compulsion. I felt pretty lovely for calling her out on it and she's been pretty cool for not holding that against me whenever we meet through a mutual friend. She still has problems but has made some changes to her life that have resulted in positive progress.
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Syd Midnight posted:
These read like song titles from an autistic heavy metal album
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