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A non-goon asked me a question. Something I never really thought about too much. But it's actually an interesting question, because it's about the biggest in-joke of the entire site. Why did Lowtax name this website Something Awful? Is there any meaning to the name other than the most obvious?
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Nov 11, 2014 11:40
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Could someone please tell me what this smiley is supposed to mean, and what its code 'henget' means? 
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Nov 22, 2014 00:42
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 People paid money for that? 
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Nov 25, 2014 09:19
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Lowtax works in mysterious ways, that a mere goon could not begin to understand.
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Nov 28, 2014 00:34
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 has a red poop on its head.I've been playing too much Binding of Isaac haven't I?
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Jan 7, 2015 10:39
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There's a bunch of new ones again, I think.
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Jan 26, 2015 12:06
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Picnic Princess posted:Here's the stupid Youtube video Haha, that big girl is a typical American drama queen, while Chloe is a stoic Finn.
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Jan 31, 2015 11:41
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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. "School sucks" is a cultural lie that only exists among the first world non-nerd population.
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Feb 1, 2015 10:20
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What's this 'fishmech' thing about?
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Mar 8, 2015 22:19
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Met posted:Smiley roundup! We got a bunch of new ones.  is from an LP thread I think. It's Frog from Chrono Trigger.
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Apr 28, 2015 09:28
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haveblue posted:
That's from a game?
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Oct 2, 2015 22:24
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gets used all over the place.
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 hOI!!
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Oct 11, 2015 09:40
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Never forget it's the LP subforum that brings in those dollars SA needs to stay alive.
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Oct 23, 2015 21:55
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Paladinus posted:Ironically, the most misused forums smiley is the one that signifies irony.  , but unironically.
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Feb 17, 2016 20:28
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I am of the opinion that hens have a right to be free and ungotten.
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Feb 18, 2016 20:31
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Speaking of in-jokes, have a thread about radium. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3766598
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Mar 3, 2016 22:18
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Why do so many people have this avatar?
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Mar 6, 2016 18:33
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What's  supposed to mean?
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May 4, 2016 06:25
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Guillermus posted:I always thought 17 and 18 were augmented humans, but they were androids... What a shame. But they are augmented humans/cyborgs. Android's not really the right term. That's why 18 could become a mother later on.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:09
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Buttcoin purse posted:Lowtax temporarily turned GBS into a thing based on the dog toy Rowdy Trout. In the Photoshop Phriday article you can see that "swimming with spunk" is something the packaging for the product says. The smiley shows someone slapping someone else with a trout because that's a thing you could do in mIRC. mIRC is an IRC client. IRC is an old protocol for Internet chat from back before everything was web-based. I'll tell the people in the SA irc channels that you called them old. Seriously, IRC is still in mainstream use because it's stable and runs well. For instance twitch chat has an IRC backend.
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Nov 25, 2016 17:10
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Guess where this is: It's the big entrance gate of the Carlsberg brewery, in Copenhagen. It's been there for ages and it doesn't seem like they're going to destroy that gate any time soon.
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Apr 9, 2017 08:20
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Okay which of you goons made this site? http://itisamystery.com/
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Aug 20, 2017 13:34
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Double Punctuation posted:I'd say it was probably Dylan Shepard. Dylan Shepard thinks it's important to put his boy scout achievements on his resume.
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Aug 20, 2017 13:46
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Garrand posted:Alex Jones was wrong. SA is not a Cia backed operation; it's IRS backed and they're taking down all the tax evaders now. That's perfectly fine, I have no obligation to pay taxes to your government.
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Aug 23, 2017 16:31
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Horses do have object permanence but the connection between their left and right hemisphere is worse than an ancient 56k modem that's connected with a bunch of loose wires that shortcircuit half the time. So the left side of their brain doesn't really know what their right side is doing and vice versa. One half of their brain might get spooked if you go around their back. Also, it's not like their short-term memory lasts long. Apparently they did a test once with a horse on one side of an arena, and a couple of buckets on the other. They'd drop a horse snack in one bucket and use something to cover the smell, and it turned out the average horse only knew which bucket to go to to get the snack if they were released within 3 seconds.
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Feb 5, 2018 20:15
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 Ground-flooring this one. Someone in the OSHA thread just bought this for some reason. It's a fire diamond used to identify dangerous compounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFPA_704 Normally all three numbers go up to 4, that's the most dangerous level possible. Someone joked about making it go up to 5 somehow, and then someone combined it with  .Actual usages? No clue. Edit: ^^^ dammit it took me several minutes to remember that was called : five :
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Feb 8, 2018 21:20
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Possibly useful for responding to good chemistry jokes Maybe, but all the good ones argon.
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Feb 8, 2018 21:33
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E: wrong thread
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Mar 31, 2018 10:52
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Guillermus posted:You guys using Slack? I thought that everyone went to discord at this point. Slack is specifically made for companies. You have this closed down system with this really decent security policy & terms of service so that even the most paranoid companies can use it safely. It's possible to invite contacts at a supplier/customer to specific channels as long as their company uses Slack as well. Discord is just a chill place for gaming chat and other non-important stuff, where you should expect that anything you post is public forever. Sensible companies don't use it for their internal communications. Most IT companies seem to be using Slack nowadays.
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Sep 25, 2018 18:29
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Yeah, Jira's a ticketing system for administering Scrum- and Kanban like processes. There are a bunch of alternatives available too. Slack is just a chat app/webpage where you can make channels, private chats, whatnot. You can also embed images or other files to quickly share them and it has markdown support so you can put in code snippets and stuff.
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Sep 25, 2018 22:58
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Buttcoin purse posted:I remember when this was a thing IRC was used for. I guess Slack is better because instead of: Or "@channel the server is on fire." @channel just pings everyone.
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Sep 26, 2018 07:18
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Severity 2: 
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Oh also, for those wondering about Scrum and Kanban, both are workflow processes designed to get idiot managers and idiot customers off your case so you can actually focus and get work done without them annoying you with nonsense questions while you're in the middle of things. Further details don't really matter unless you're planning to actually start using it. Anyway, when used as intended, the processes do what they're designed to do really well. In the 2 out 2 software companies I've been working at so far, Scrum was used as intended and it worked really well, increased our focus, and our general happiness with the job. However, the goons who post in the dev forums are constantly pointing out how bad scrum is or how badly it has been implemented in their company, and how management actually abuses it to annoy them even more. That seems to be quite common, frankly I don't know why people even put up with management like that, and yes, that would cause any software dev to go insane.
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Sep 26, 2018 07:30
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There have been serious studies into these movements. Turns out, the REAL deal with them is that there are so called "gurus", which spend all their time swindling stupid people for thousands of dollars where they claim they can teach the people the 'magic words' to say in court to get out of any case. The stupid people believe this because they've seen people go free after court cases after lawyers said complicated words they didn't understand, so they figure if they just learn these words they can go free. Many of the 'gurus' are most likely in on the whole deal and grab their money and get their asses out if a real court case is on the way, but in public they will always say it really works because that's how they get new people to swindle. The bad thing is that this sort of nonsense eats away a lot of the court's time, which is taxpayers' money... and there have been several cases where these idiots got aggressive, threatened judges, and in at least one case, traced down the judge's home address and shot him dead there.
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Oct 6, 2018 08:24
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Dareon posted:Overly complicated, makes you look like a lunatic, usually doesn't work... You're talking about most of the SA vanity smilies, right?
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Oct 8, 2018 07:03
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Potrzebie posted:The current increase is awards for donating to zdr. So, is everyone who is trying to keep these forums alive in deep poo poo?
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Dec 28, 2018 07:42
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Zesty posted:It is a good thread. Rated 4. You can give ratings other than 1 or 5???
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Feb 17, 2019 09:30
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Captain Hygiene posted:Oh hey, this thread's back. Just in time for me to wonder why/how on earth are there two I think someone made the image and then two people bought it as a smiley around the same time.
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Sep 6, 2019 18:31
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smiles in the list, identical as far as I can tell aside from the hover text?
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What is done by hand is putting the smilies on the smiley page in categories. And I don't think anyone really bothers doing that anymore.
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Sep 9, 2019 06:36
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Data Graham posted:Oh my. I mean yes, you can use Party Parrot as a Service (PPaaS) to make your own. Or just get a few from Cult of the Party Parrot
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Sep 11, 2019 06:23
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has a thousand cousins in every slack I've seen in the last few years. But 
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DarkHorse posted::v -> -> pogchamp?
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