Outing the in-jokes: a thread about Something Awful smilies. :confuoot:

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Len: Jan 21, 2008

Caseus Maximus posted:

They really look a lot like teeth. Sorry.

I can't see teeth at all when I look at the smiley so he isn't alone.

# ¿ May 18, 2012 21:02

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# ¿ Jul 14, 2025 01:34

Len: Jan 21, 2008

I just realized all the smilies have alt text.

# ¿ May 21, 2012 00:31

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Why is there a banner ad for a camgirl?

# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 21:16

Len: Jan 21, 2008

KnifeWrench posted:

Same reason there're banner ads for other products/services?

Those ones usually give some sort of context about what you're clicking on. This one doesn't it confused me.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 21:25

Len: Jan 21, 2008

So it's just a thing some goon thought was a good thing to spend money on. Gotcha. Though the "WTF DON'T CLICK" test is effective.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 21:31

Len: Jan 21, 2008

High School teaching was so long ago I don't remember if I learned about Wounded Knee there or on my own watching tv and reading. I don't remember them teaching about how atrocious we were to the Native Americans though. Though, my school did teach abstinence only sex ed so it wouldn't surprise me if they glossed over that entire era of US history.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 06:05

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Where did the current practice of spoiler tagging :nws:

images come from? It just sort of appeared one day.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2013 13:43

Len: Jan 21, 2008

What is going on in GBS? I feel like I'm missing something.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2013 06:20

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Does anyone know when and why goons started using The Year of our Lord and TYOOL so much? It just kind of started in the last couple months.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2014 00:57

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Sagebrush posted:

It's TYOOL 2014. How can you not have heard of this expression before?

I didn't say I hadn't heard it. I probably heard the expression in The Decade of Our Lord the 90s. Just wondering why goons decided to start using it now.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2014 11:59

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Eschers Basement posted:

Go to google.com and enter relevant terms?

I mean, if you don't know how to do internet searches by now, I don't know what to tell you, man. I can't even imagine trying to navigate the internet just through available hyperlinks.

"Leavemywife" "car accident" "murder" "drunk"?

# ¿ Apr 2, 2014 21:06

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Insertnamehere31 posted:

That's a nice gimmick you have there. Very funny. I'm sure you will have a long and productive posting career here at something awful

What the hell is about?

That one line became a gigantic meme that was never mentioned again after the one update too. But you know goons. :regd08:

# ¿ Apr 5, 2014 19:17

Len: Jan 21, 2008

GelatinSkeleton posted:

No it doesn't

Depending on the context it could be. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbit_King

# ¿ Aug 23, 2014 15:13

Len: Jan 21, 2008

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

No, seriously--it means frisbee golf.

If it came out of the games subforum it does not mean frisbee golf. Look inside yourself you know it to be true.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2014 16:24

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Android Bicyclist posted:

I've seen that image before but didn't know the context, and now I'm irrationally angry at the parents for pulling their kids out of school just to go to Disneyland. Don't they care for their kids' education?

An 8 or 9 year old is not going to miss that much over the course of three days.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2014 07:13

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Pneub posted:

I just felt like I should save this for posterity to help answer a potential question in the future:

My least favorite gbs trend.jpg

# ¿ Nov 23, 2014 23:49

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Hipster_Doofus posted:

I've seen that before, and I did notice that Chloe was almost bizarrely unexcited, but then she IS young enough to still be in a safety seat, ergo, she doesn't know yet that school sucks, or that ANY part of life sucks. For her, going to Disneyland is just another (albeit, particularly cool) part of her so far awesome life. But yeah, goons.

Last time I saw that posted some goon started posted about the retarded kid. Because what child has a teddy bear? Only retards apparently.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2015 16:25

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Wasn't there a post like that only it was written by a 15 year old? I remember him being like "everyone is dumb. I'm smarter than the world." and getting laughed out of e/n.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2015 00:05

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Lizard Combatant posted:

Huh? How does that work?

Probably Radium

# ¿ May 7, 2016 10:44

Len: Jan 21, 2008

What do you mean GBS was unfunny and hostile? You don't think a front page that's just "what if Seinfeld was set in (time period)" or all the "ITT we are (blank)" weren't FANTASTIC?!

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 15:12

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Facebook Aunt posted:

Everyone knows the only thing you have to do is operate a can opener and every cat within earshot will wake up and find it's way to you.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 19:39

Len: Jan 21, 2008

What's with the new GBS trend of posting Krusty?

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 03:00

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Antivehicular posted:

I want to say it's one of the Star Citizen developers' wives dancing, because the Star Citizen forum is/was definitely cool and not weirdly obsessed with Star-Citizen-adjacent women

If it's Sandi she isn't adjacent she's the head of some department and shows up in most of the videos. Jesus why do I know that I don't read more than the crash course drama thread.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 22:10

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Len posted:

If it's Sandi she isn't adjacent she's the head of some department and shows up in most of the videos. Jesus why do I know that I don't read more than the crash course drama thread.

Vice President of Marketing so for once it isn't just goons going down the creep well, she really does have something to do with the game? Can I call it a game?

# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 22:18

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Pastry of the Year posted:

the fact that I can't use the SA smiley set in every single messaging application I use frustrates me every single day

The iOS app gives you a smiley keyboard in imessage. Us Android people get hosed though

# ¿ Feb 15, 2018 14:06

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Sereri posted:

Is that still a thing? I thought they removed it after Apple rejected like half the emoticons

It works on my iPad so I think so? It's a bitch to navigate though

# ¿ Feb 15, 2018 14:56

Len: Jan 21, 2008

This seems as good a thread to ask as any.

Is there a reason so many people being on top of a page edit their post to provide a picture or a new point in a conversation? It's like they can't just accept they hit the top of a page responding to something so they have to add new content.

Was that a punishable offense at one point or are goons just being weird?

# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 22:59

Len: Jan 21, 2008

jobson groeth posted:

Lots of people don't care to catch up on the 3,000th derail about whether an ephebophile is a sandwich or not and so skip a bunch of pages. You're being courteous to them by posting actual content that is relevant to the thread to get them back in.

Occasionally you get a rule of dog or some such where the first post on each page must offer up an image to the mods.

Except they even do it in threads like "post irrationally irritating movie moments"

Quote a post, elaborate on the irritating moment, then edit in something new. It's on topic and adds to the conversation. I don't get it

# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 23:07

Len: Jan 21, 2008

I Said No posted:

This is from the very end of the game, might want to state that so as not to spoiler anyone.

The very end of the game if you went looking for spoilers on how to get there because it sure as hell never tells you how to get there.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2019 01:18

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Are we really trying to claim putting words on top of pictures started on SA? Is that a serious thing?

# ¿ Feb 24, 2019 17:02

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Before it was closed because of the infighting the griefing thread had a guy who posted videos of him and his buds "totally owning" streamers but going into the games they were in and shouting about how they were going to rape and murder their 5 year old.

Sure most goons aren't insane but those aren't the ones that stand out in memory

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 14:04

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Vavrek posted:

The Something Awful Propaganda thread is amazing, but I'm not widely steeped in Goon Lore, so some of the references go past me.

What's the story being referenced here?

Super old Photoshop of a mailman fighting a dog for his mail bag. And the dog has shoes on

Edit: beaten with source

# ¿ Sep 9, 2019 11:53

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Nuevo posted:

What are you even doing if you don't have and in there? also and are infinitely useful.

Generally I just upload anything I attempt to reply to something with and it doesn't exist in Slack already

We don't have a Slack but one of my coworkers emails reaction images to me sometimes. I have absolutely attached :iiam:

in an email when we hosed something up because our order entry team just does stuff sometimes

# ¿ Sep 13, 2019 11:55

Len: Jan 21, 2008

IUG posted:

Ah, I think Cheetos ripped those off then. I've had something similar in America once when I was a kid.

Ah, they still exist, and they're loving expensive on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Cheetos-Cheese-Snacks-Paws-Ounce/dp/B06WVCWQXV

Just go to Walmart where that exact bag is dirt rear end cheap located in aisle A7 right now

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Cheetos-Paws-Cheese-Flavored-Snacks-7-5-oz-Bag/111711657

# ¿ Oct 21, 2019 02:07

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Ruzihm posted:

This is surely just a retelling of info that's already in here but

It was 8 years ago so it's okay to forget

My Lovely Horse posted:

What I remember - only vaguely, mind, but I'm sure I've read it at least two times in different threads - is that people were talking about buying one of them, and someone trolled them by buying it with the wrong name attached. Of course then they just made another one to attach to the name they were going to use and bought that.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2020 22:24

Len: Jan 21, 2008

titties posted:

It's not necessarily a new thing, when i was a kid in the 80's my grandfather would yell at me for "showing your (my) rear end" any time i threw a fit or whatever.

Also there was that song a few years back which had the line they can eat my whole rear end / more specifically they can eat my rear end hole

It's Kanye and kiss not eat

# ¿ Aug 29, 2020 05:45

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# ¿ Jul 14, 2025 01:34

Len: Jan 21, 2008

Platystemon posted:

You're a monster

# ¿ Oct 25, 2020 15:56

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