Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

You see good people benefit from empire like this
*deet deet deet*

Bad people benefit from empire like this
*doot doot doot*

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.

I don't suppose there is a griefing thread anymore? Goon culture has changed a lot.

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".

That made for an awkward semester and our social circles still overlap and we frequently run into each other.

Tunicate posted:

starfleet dental's biggest act of griefing involved instituting game-wide space communism

mobilefish posted:

Please look at this English text..

Aggressive regional expansion, if not supported by a corresponding escalation in sales, can lead to nearly irreparable overexpansion and an ensuing scramble to cut costs and personnel.

I don't get this . What is 'nearly irreparable overexpansion' and 'ensuing scramble' here.

I don't get the concept clearly. I can read this ...but I don't understand the internal meaning. Can someone help me with examples what its trying to say ?



Thanks for your time and help.

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:

There is a traveling salesman. He is lost in the countryside, and needs a place to stay as it is getting dark. He comes upon a farmhouse, and asks for shelter. He then negotiates a generous agreement with the farmer, receiving shelter for the night with the possibility of breakfast in exchange for simply exercising restraint in regards to sticking his dick in any one of the three holes in the wall of the barn.

The salesman accepted the offer. He would be a fool not to.

Now do you understand?

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

RFC2324 posted:

Coffee is superior, but only because of irish creme.

My first wild goon sighting was at a bar. Was reading forums while drinking, the 2 dudes next to me identified themselves as a redditor and a chiver(how the gently caress someone still identified as a chiver in 2018 I'll never know) and asked what I was reading, and outed the bartender as a goon when I admitted it was SA.

This is a communist themed bar, as a side note, which makes it all better

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

Captain Hygiene posted:

Did you helpfully direct her to the forums rules?

Captain Hygiene posted:

Did you helpfully direct her to the forums rules?

Matlock, BRB posted:

What is a goon?

Not me.







Sure I may post in the SA forums, and I may chat or play games with a few of you. But I'm not what I would consider, a "goon". A goon to me, is that guy always kicky and ready to take the piss out of ya. I'm a nice guy, I have friends (mostly online but a few acquaintances in real life). I don't have a girlfriend, but I play plenty of online games. I could eat an entire box of chicken mcnuggets.. but I don't. When I am done eating I put the box away for later.

So I've created a term for like-minded "goons" to share. The Un-Goon. I've taken the initiative and submitted a request to get this added to Urban Dictionary as well.

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Captain Hygiene posted:

Did you helpfully direct her to the forums rules?

Splicer posted:

He tried to extend the probe but didn't make it to kitty jail

Pollyanna 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:

Dameius posted:

What is the story on that one?

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

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.

Platystemon posted:

The probation banner doesn’t show up on the app, I thought.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

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.

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.

Platystemon posted:

The probation banner doesn’t show up on the app, I thought.

DarkSoulsTantrum posted:

What was she doing?

Crane Fist posted:

It 100% does, God knows I've spent enough time looking at it

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.

When I let it dry out and croak last summer I didn't get any.

Little Diglett bastards!

therobit posted:

Well, why'd ya fix it if you didn't want to be irritated?

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.

EorayMel posted:

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.

excellent 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?

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.

What’s the winnowing rate? Did you discard 5:1, 4:1, 1:1?

keroppi posted:

HAY ANY1 LIEK TO poo poo AND FUK

WELL, AND FART ON ANIMALS ON FILM/. YO LOL.

LETS SEE YOU DO IT THEN, YO

HEY,, WHY THE LONG FACE...

FARTING AGAIN MAYBE??

PEEING INTO THE TESTICLE SAC LOL WHHAT IF

HAHA WELL THEN

WHAT IF DANDRUFF WAS A SPICE HAHA THEN WOULD YOU EAT IT???

OR poo poo!!

POSITION THIS poo poo BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DOG.

IN THE BUCKET

WELL I SDONT KNOW WHAT YOURE ON

HEY

DO YOU LIKE TO FART IN JARS

PEE IN A JAR MAYBE LADY

LKOL THIS IS CRAZY WITH SEMEN

HOLOCAUST

NOTHING MATTERS IN THE END

VOID

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.

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.

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.

EorayMel posted:

Guess the forum/thread.

Malformed Dance Hut posted:

HAY ANY1 LIEK TO poo poo AND FUK

WELL, AND FART ON ANIMALS ON FILM/. YO LOL.

LETS SEE YOU DO IT THEN, YO

HEY,, WHY THE LONG FACE...

FARTING AGAIN MAYBE??

PEEING INTO THE TESTICLE SAC LOL WHHAT IF

HAHA WELL THEN

WHAT IF DANDRUFF WAS A SPICE HAHA THEN WOULD YOU EAT IT???

OR poo poo!!

POSITION THIS poo poo BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DOG.

IN THE BUCKET

WELL I SDONT KNOW WHAT YOURE ON

HEY

DO YOU LIKE TO FART IN JARS

PEE IN A JAR MAYBE LADY

LKOL THIS IS CRAZY WITH SEMEN

HEY TELL ME ABOUT YOUR JUICE

HOLOCAUST

NOTHING MATTERS IN THE END

VOID

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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.

Goddamn why do I remember this?

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}

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

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

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.

Syd Midnight posted:

quote:

keroppi posted:
HAY ANY1 LIEK TO poo poo AND FUK

WELL, AND FART ON ANIMALS ON FILM/. YO LOL.

LETS SEE YOU DO IT THEN, YO

HEY,, WHY THE LONG FACE...

FARTING AGAIN MAYBE??

PEEING INTO THE TESTICLE SAC LOL WHHAT IF

HAHA WELL THEN

WHAT IF DANDRUFF WAS A SPICE HAHA THEN WOULD YOU EAT IT???

OR poo poo!!

POSITION THIS poo poo BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DOG.

IN THE BUCKET

WELL I SDONT KNOW WHAT YOURE ON

HEY

DO YOU LIKE TO FART IN JARS

PEE IN A JAR MAYBE LADY

LKOL THIS IS CRAZY WITH SEMEN

HOLOCAUST

NOTHING MATTERS IN THE END

VOID