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RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




When did 'I'm the X' become a running thing?

Example:



Code Jockey posted:

I'm the solitary shrimp that escaped the aspic

I'm also the plastic aquarium plants used to decorate said aspic

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RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Xander77 posted:

How many game (much less LP) specific smilies actually found any use, anyways? I guess :ocelot: is occasionally appropriate, and :smaug: gets a bit of generic fantasy play, but otherwise?

There's always :psyduck: and all its other forms of course.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Acne Rain posted:

what does that express

whatever you want it to mean man

excitement

anticipation

overstimulation

etc

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




This whole time I thought it was supposed to be that Jesus recreation that went horribly wrong.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012





[img]http://i.imgur.com/Xv3vRph.png][/img]

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Darth TNT posted:

2016, year of the gotten hen.

:vince:

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




prefect posted:

There is dumber stuff people have paid :tem: for. :dunkedon:

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Improbable Lobster posted:

Yes, but :dunkedon: is really bad.

:shittydog: and :shittypop: are good though

Yeah basically.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




I can't find it for the life of me, is there a normal version of :confuoot: that I'm just glazing over?

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012





:cheers:

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Jackard posted:

Japanese ogres wear tiger loincloths. That's how you tell them apart from Shrekian ogres

Wait, ogres and oni are the same thing?

I'm not even trying to be a smart aleck I'm genuinely curious because I don't know.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Hirayuki posted:

Yeah, "oni" is often translated as "ogre".

Huh, learn something new eventually within a year.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

It's like dragons and wyverns; to most people the same thing, and only the spergs really care about the difference.

I care so much :argh: GET IT RIGHT, HOLLYWOOD!

Well, dragons, wyrms, and wyverns are all totally different things aren't they?

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Malachite_Dragon posted:







:colbert:

E: I make an exception for the dragons in Skyrim because in a setting where lizard people descended from trees- not out of the trees, from trees- poo poo is hosed up enough as it is.

Yep, that's basically what I thought which which one was which looked like. I never really had a good grasp on wyverns though, because I'm only just now noticing their claws and wings are connected.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Wanamingo posted:

Aren't dragons also intelligent creatures, while wyverns are wild animals? Not really sure where wyrms fit in.

I always thought wyms were just the big snake like dragons like a Rayquayza or Shenron.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Android Bicyclist posted:

I just want to say that I am happy :caro: exists.

I'm gonna need context because I just know where the text is from.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




fool_of_sound posted:

Caro was a crazy goon who decided to he wanted to be a sniper and/or medic in the middle east. He went to do so, got captured, and ended up in a Syrian torture death camp. Everyone assumed he was dead, which is when the avatar was bought.

He was not dead somehow, and now he's coming back for revenge against GIP.

Oh poo poo. What a story.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




What's with everyone popping up with this avatar?

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




shadow puppet of a posted:

You get it for being identified as a mental case by a certain special someone in threads where they frequent, because you've annoyed them with your excessive dedication to posting in a topic they like or once liked reading about.

I get given that av (and a few variants) a lot.

This is not the answer I was expecting.

What's Eonwe's claim to fame that got a smilie made after him/her? :eonwe:

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Facebook Aunt posted:

I bet zie was just loving with you. Mods are goons too.



E: Didn't :iamafag: and :awesome: names used to be reversed? But then somebody got sick of awesome being overused, so they switched it. So you'd have to call yourself a fag to use the popular smilie, and using awesome would get you an ugly smilie with no transparency.

Thankfully, now that :razz: exists you don't have to do that anymore.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Overwatch is a videogame that people had a lot of fun trying out in the open beta. One of the characters, a robot named Bastion, was generally credited with the most spectacular play of the game because he would turn into a turret and minigun people to death. He was very accurate. Now this exists.

:potg:

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




prefect posted:

:sad:

(I don't actually know anything about the game, but I hadn't seen this posted yet.)

What, you don't know about Overwatch? Do you even play videogames? :smugdon:

(I'm hoping on your bandwagon!)

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Collateral Damage posted:

The Overwatch threads also contributed :zenpop: which is another of the game's characters, Zenyatta, doing an :eyepop:



And also a ton of avatars and gangtags, as you can see on him too.

Mostly the gangtags though. Avatars just kinda happened if anyone posted a good comic or something in the chill thread and that inspired someone to want to make it into an avatar.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Besides Gunnerkrigg Court and Undertale, I can't really think of anything that came out and got a lot of people to make avatars like this.

edit: I mean, I know Dangan Ronpa got people to buy accounts but I don't think people went as far as buying a ton of avatars too.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




AlphaKretin posted:

Says someone with a Lum avatar. :v:

Not that that's a thing that came out but still.

Don't you be sassing my avatar. <:mad:>

But tbh I'm talking about people buying avatars of a thing themselves. I didn't buy this one. I like it, I'm glad I have it, but I'm not the one who paid for it. Still really appreciate that I got Lummed though. :)

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




quiggy posted:

Yeah the game's been out a week and we already have :potg: and :zenpop:, I'm sure it can't be much longer before some idiot venerable forums user buys more.

It feels less weird that that's happened since the game had like two months of open beta for people to try it.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




CellBlock posted:

People have been streaming the game on Twitch since like October.

Yeah, so I'm bad at timeframes.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




prefect posted:

Is that what it's called? I just think of it as "a team fortress 2 game".

That's not a perfect description but it's whole lot better than calling it a MOBA.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Overwatch thread strikes again. :dva:

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




:brrring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFGQG8I68h8

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Top Hats Monthly posted:

Well that's not even good

Collateral Damage posted:

The overwatch chill thread has been good for Lowtax wrt smiley income.

:zenpop:
:widowsnypa:
:potg:
:ohyeah:
:dva:
:brrring:

People are just making smilies now.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Collateral Damage posted:

I'm going to regret asking, but what's with the clockwork woman?

Unlike Dr.s Wily, Light, Gero and Ivo Robotnik, that kid is a lovely engineer who couldn't make an android without a big wind-up key in its back.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Rarity posted:

None of this explains why the little professor girl is pregnant

The answer is probably either a watermelon, a pillow, or a cat.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Jackard posted:

I dunno :potg: seems useful

Probably just me but I don't think people are going to be using :brrring: or :dva: that much. No idea on :widowsnypa: though.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Zemyla posted:

As opposed to the old days when we would dig them from the smiley mines, I assume.

Hey, why don't you tell me, you're the one who's been here since 2008!

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Are those Lying Crooked Hillary... I guess, gangtags(?), supposed to be ironic or serious?

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Lamprey Cannon posted:

They're for people who have perma-toxxed for Hillary in the C-SPAM toxx thread, so that should presumably answer your question.

Ah, that's finally the comment that makes it sink in, thanks.

Also, coconout

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Karate Bastard posted:

I've heard rumors of thermostats in direct sunlight, barbecues put so close to plastic paneling to warp and melt it, wall socket wiring somehow rigged to start fires, putting more mass into the house than he dug out to make the foundation so over time it'll sink into the swamp, but I don't have facts or understand them too well. I put something into the SAclopedia on groverhaus but maybe someone who knows better could add to it?

There was also the insulation in the stairs.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Where did Groverhaus take place? I can believe Mississippi.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




BBJoey posted:

endlessly repeating years old jokes is kind of what goons do

It's always new to someone!

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RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




I thought we had a lmao smilie?

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