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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

both seinfeld and bee movie are funnier than pick

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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

hogge wild is john elway?

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Outrail posted:

Imagine there's a section of highway that has the most lanes in the world. Like 20 or something. And running across it has a one in 10 chance of being creamed by a truck and requires leaving a bunch of litter on the side of the road and the help of poor locals who also have that chance of death and just want to feed their families. Now there's literally hundreds of rich people who pay $50,000 for the chance to run across the highway, dragging the locals with them. Just so they can say they ran across it.

If you can't see why these highway runners deserve ridicule than you're not capable of understanding the Everest thread.

Also imagine that since the highway has been crossed there's other people deciding to do it blindfolded for some reason.

imagine someone making a really tortured analogy

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

theflyingorc posted:

i would want that person to die

i mean i give him credit, he kept it under 5 paragraphs unlike leperflesh's mountain of poo poo

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Oakes Fegley

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Heath posted:

Can someone find the quote where someone describes waking up and starting their day and outlines all of the government-managed tax-funded services they use throughout the day and then goes home to log on to Fox News to complain about how the government can't get anything right?

i got you fam

quote:

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US department of agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the food and drug administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the national institute of standards and technology and the US naval observatory, I get into my national highway traffic safety administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the environmental protection agency, using legal tender issued by the federal reserve bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US postal service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the department of labor and the occupational safety and health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the defense advanced research projects administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

There's no trend with Hicks, there's just a steady supply of teenagers who think his observations are earth shattering because they're dumb teens.

And much like Ayn Rand, Nietschze, and Monty Python, LOL if you don't grow out of that poo poo by like 20.

whats your excuse for not growing out of ASOIAF

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Elohssa Gib posted:

Completely off topic but who is the guy in your avatar, it's driving me nuts.

Colin Kaepernick

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

PenguinKnight posted:

it was when a then mod had a meltdown about a funnyman's movie review for the front page Current Events and quit the forum forever

e: and then seeing reviews from said mod that said stuff about lady planes about a children's movie about what if planes could talk

also a review of Godzilla about how godzilla is the main dudes dad and wants to gently caress him or w/e

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Guy Mann posted:

CD is so dumb, those clowns should be doing more constructive things like making thousands of posts about hating Mt Everest and the Xbox One.

good thing there's absolutely nothing in between those two extremes or you'd look like a fuckin moron

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Somfin posted:

Holy hell, I agree with Tiggum on a thing.

Close overexamination of pop cultural products is loving fun, you twats. And it occasionally produces some very interesting scholarship. I had an ex who's masters thesis was on the horrifying nature of "ownership" in fandom culture, and she used Vocaloid as her primary reference point. That rabbit hole is bug-gently caress nuts.

raise your standards for what is considered fun


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FCKGW posted:

a bloo bloo bloo my brain so goddamn big I sure don't like seeing bros busting their balls on swing sets it's so sad I like Hamilton the musical

Alaois has a new favorite as of 09:32 on Aug 5, 2016

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Somfin posted:

Look at this poopstain who's never gotten drunk and argued about why Andrew Ryan is is a less effective villain than Comstock

you're right, i've never done that, but thank you for the self-own

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Tiggum posted:

Some people find things fun that you don't enjoy (but which do not negatively affect you in any way). For some reason this bothers you. Is that about the size of it?

it bothers me when these people come into threads i read and draw people into pages long arguments about how Zack Snyder is the greatest director since Orson Welles and if you disagree you're just some fuckin shallow nerd who can't appreciate deep readings of lovely boy's pulp movies

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Guy Mann posted:

People obsessively reading a subforum they hate and never post in just so they can helldump weakly in an extremely PYF voice at the slightest excuse is extremely ftw...

Delete your account

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Tiggum posted:

I didn't say that at all. I said it's not an invalid interpretation (because there is no such thing).

okay then, i interpret your posts as white supremacist rantings

you sick loving bigot

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Tiggum posted:

Meaning is created not just by an individual text but by its context and the assumptions that the reader brings to it. An interpretation isn't invalid just because the reader made different assumptions or saw the text in a different context to you.

this is the kind of gross misrepresentation of crime statistics that always gets pushed to the front page of Imgur every so often but they never mention it came from Stormfront. I'm glad you had the guts to source it though

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

I'm not just gonna sit here and let people pretend Bloody Hedgehog is a good poster

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Hogge Wild posted:

Why is Flying Pingu so angry all the time?

why aren't you out rally driving with the rest of your countrymen

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Kay Kessler posted:

He's the one that thought "confirmed bachelor" meant being ultra-straight, right?

*ed mcmahon voice* you are correct sir!

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

every poster on something awful is a bubbling pot of rage slowly boiling over, as evidenced by the fact that they Post In Threads

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Heath posted:

I never see SMG posts outside of this thread, do people actually take his gimmick seriously or what?

everyone in cinema discusso, including himself

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

FlyinPingu posted:

I know it was foolish to think so, but I just assumed that everyone thought DNF was poo poo

the DNF thread was a massive hotbed because former Games mods Louisgod and Axemaniac were HUGE Duke Nukem fans and were anticipating DNF so hard, there was even a gang tag for it.

and then the game came out, it was complete garbage and the gang tag got stealth changed to one about Serious Sam.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Count Chocula posted:

I wish I still had the avatar and angry red text I got for pointing out that guns are often phallic symbols in a Games thread. Any kind of analysis makes those guys so angry.

You're the guy who constantly goes to bat for a game about raping people in the FATAL & Friends thread, you are just a massive fuckin imbecile

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Palpek posted:

The DNF thread might have been the biggest collective meltdown in the subforum's history. It's worth reading just for the pages when the game released and people started realizing how bad this poo poo is and the tone changing from epic brofist 24/7 through all stages of grief after pre-ordering the $100 Balls of Steel Edition.

The best memory I have of it is all of the pro-Duke posters getting angry and accusing anyone who said bad things about the game of coming over from the then-extant Minority Issues in Games thread to troll/stir up poo poo.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Subjunctive posted:

Can someone link the DNF thread already? I'm not finding it in my searches.

it got nuked. no trace of it left on the forums. completely and utterly vanished.

that was the extent of the shame that thread brought

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

hackbunny posted:

Yes, he posed as a lesbian (?) helicopter pilot in the women's chat thread, was outed and banned for ban evasion just as he was getting a funny GBS thread off the ground. Or maybe I'm thinking of Bruiser (remember Bruiser?). Yes, I think that was Bruiser, who ended his career with a spectacular banme (I want to say a long string of goatse and other gross-out posts, but I can't be bothered to look it up), got a perma and so now gets banned on sight

i've never confirmed it, but i'm 99% sure that a few years ago, a 50ft Ant alt account called PallasAthena or something came into the "Stupid things you've heard about guns" thread and started telling stories about being a Hawai'ian(?) woman who worked in a gun store with her brother who had a reoccurring customer who would constantly say the dumbest things. it fit his hallmarks so well and took over the thread so effectively i can't imagine it was anyone else

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Guy Mann posted:

Anybody who cares enough about arbitrary archaic slang to care is worth riling up at every opportunity. I am literally chomping at the bit to decimate them.

chomping and champing are both equally valid uses of that phrase because they mean the same thing :jerry:

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Solice Kirsk posted:

Can't wait for GBS to leak through the rest of the forums the way LF did when it went away. At least YCS just stayed in Games.

nah, all the gbs regulars are stuck in a single QCS thread crying into a void

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

"why are people still making fun of this insanely stupid and funny thing that happened on these forums that were completely verboten to make fun of for years due to the subject's mod status, i don't get it thpbbbbbbbbbbbbb thpbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb thpbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Karate Bastard posted:

In case you're wondering Venom Snake is running a dwarf fortress game in the c-spam trump thread. It's pretty great.

too bad C-SPAM is about to get nuked for threatening to kill donald trump

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Kavak posted:

:lol: Here we go again. Link?

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3680205&pagenumber=13801&perpage=40#post466141307

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

the star citizen forums shouldn't exist

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

who the gently caress has ever served beer in a coffee mug and how can i make them stop

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

TheWeepingHorse posted:

Sure, but that's kinda my point, even? The difference between a stein and a mug is culturally-bound, but it's a real difference nonetheless. "Beer should not be served in a 'normal' mug" is no more or less arbitrary than "Italian noodles should be plated with a fork, whereas Chinese noodles should be plated with chopsticks".

Serving beer in a coffee mug isn't a cultural thing it's a "this person has never even seen a beer before, let alone drank one" thing

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Blind Sally posted:

very carefully

apparently not considering they've been previously permabanned

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

let me tell you about the climate in MY area, and how it makes me a better person than you

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Even if by "gently caress up" you mean "obvious fakepost by a lovely gimmick poster" you're still wrong

Don't sign your post in the middle of the post

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

what is it with goons and jazz, for fucks sake

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Crane Fist posted:

I only listen to harsh noise walls

That's an amazing red title, which Hamilton loving nerds did you piss off?

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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Sir Potato posted:

This was an incredible moment. And people say Cinema Discusso isn't worth reading. Well, it really isn't, but sometimes you get stuff like this and it's just barely passable.

swing and a miss

little munchkin posted:

I assumed it would be from a discussion in the writing subforum (or perhaps the book subforum) because the poster is a writer and talks about how much writing means to them, but like every other discussion that has ever occured in the history of something awful, it takes place within the context of watching someone else play video games

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