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Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Lottery of Babylon posted:

I liked the thread with the guy who needed to rehome his dog because taking it for walks was cutting into his WoW time.


No, the one that chewed through the wall was a less extreme murderdog breed.

That was the same guy that was raiding while his child was being born.

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Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Yeesh, and people gave me hell for quoting cram me sideways. :wtc: is this poo poo?

Funny.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

President Ark posted:

how is it forbidden when that poo poo is in like 90% of the posts in gbs/fyad/byob these days

like, we get it, you're saying a Bad Word, but it stops being funny after the nth repetition

Please show me more funny posts like this, I would enjoy reading them.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Good news, I've had a probation in the queue for you since yesterday

Strange that it hasn't been approved...

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm3TjRxntQk

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

TetsuoTW posted:

The Everest thread is brimming with the kind of person I never want to encounter in bars, airports, or life.

People with a sense of humor?

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

theflyingorc posted:

i would want that person to die

Of exposure, on mount everest.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Actually using goodreads is probably the sickest burn in there.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Outside investigation of a plane crash reveals that the majority of Chinese pilots lie about their level of experience, leading to this post:

Haier posted:

China: The RPG -

You start off at Level 01 when you leave on your quest. Instead of trying to gain XP, you focus on collecting gold coins. When you have enough gold coins, you go to the nearest tavern and trade the gold coins for a scroll that that proves you are Level 24, even if you are still actually at Level 01. While collecting gold coins, you encounter a monster and try to give him gold coins instead of fighting. The monster tries to fight you, but you complain that you are now embarrassed because you are not ready to fight him, and that the monster should feel shame for embarrassing you. The monster laughs and leaves while you try desperately to pay off anyone that saw you weeping before the monster.

One day while out looking for gold coins, you meet a man from a distant land. He is a Level 17 and spent much of his life getting the XP to level up so high. You wave your Level 24 scroll at him and he scratches his hairy chin and says "That's fake." You feel embarrassed and curse him under your breath.

Another day, you have your tunic raised up while squatting on the side of the wagon path, letting loose a hot stream of oily diarrhea, when you hear a jingling from above. You look up and see the words. Finally, after 30+ years, you've achieved Level Two status. You're so shocked that you accidentally let go of your tunic and poo poo on the back of it, while pissing into the top of your boots. Never mind that, you've got work to do. You run back to the tavern and pay the money to fix your scroll. It now says Level 25. You've made it at last. You can now marry that girl from down the street who demanded you must be at least Level 25 and have an income of 2000 gold per year. Your life is complete. You get married and wait for retirement. Once retired, you wait for death.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

They buy avatars. Lowtax is makin' the big bux.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

It's not the ants quote it's the one where a strong, powerful, and beautiful horse slowly takes over a man's life and then the world as he is forced to live in a stable and feed only on hay.
I can't find the quote either.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Randyslawterhouse posted:

It's beautiful... :allears:

What happened to Abe? Did this actually destroy him?

No, Abe continued to get owned for many months later, until his final ownage came at the hands of a 12 year old boy he was trying to start a twitter harassment campaign against for the crime of saying the word fag. The small prepubescent boy called him a loser for caring about the internet this much, and said it wasn't very grown up of him. Abe died later that day.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

Riyadh- Controversy erupted amid the White House Press Corps today as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer denied reports that President Donald Trump touched the dreadful Orb to gain its power.

“This is ridiculous. Donald Trump pledged to the American people that he would resist the beguiling siren song of the Orb, and he has done so. This is yet another distraction by the failed Democratic party trying to block President Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda.”

Hours later, President Trump tweeted “Yes- I touched the Orb. Obama wouldn’t listen to the song of the Orb. Big mistake! Insulted allies and the Orb!” When asked for comment, Spicer said “I think the President’s tweet speaks for itself.”

Op-ed, NYT: Once Again, President Trump Crosses a Red Line
…have we forgotten the lessons of the past so easily? Yes, the Orb’s melody is alluring and seductive, but the power it grants corrupts body and mind. Who can forget Dwight Eisenhower’s famous farewell speech, in which he warned of “the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Orb?” We cannot know the Orb’s true intentions for mankind, but it is all too easy to imagine that they are hostile and alien.
We say to Donald Trump: reject the politics of division! Reject hatred! And reject the Orb, for though its lambent glow soothes the mind, the terrible power that crackles across its surface will bring you no peace.

Op-ed, WSJ: Liberal Critics Overstate the Dangers of the Orb
…yes, we know the Orb may not have our best interests at heart, but we should trust the Orb to act rationally. It is in the best interests of the Orb, now that Donald Trump has been suffused with its vast might, to work for America, not against it. If we cannot trust the President of the United States to safeguard the might of the Orb, then who can we trust? An Orb Working Group, its members drawn from the elite across fields, will be able to strategize the best way to harness the Orb’s awful might and transform our society just as it has transformed Donald Trump’s living flesh into bitter, cold darkness.

Tweet, RealDonaldTrump account:
Haters and losers say that Orb cannot be trusted. I have absorbed Orb and will carry it within my soul! #MAGA!

8.2k replies 7.4k retweets 45k likes

posts from r/the_donald, thread entitled “INCREDIBLE: he touches the Orb! CUCKS BTFO!!!”
MAGA_MAN_X

fellow pedes i can’t believe he’s done it again!

volkisch1487

cucked SJWs at my school cant stop cryin about this, rofl

trumpinTN12

This is really Presidential. This is a breath of fresh air after 8 years of 0bungler.

Rachel Maddow, 6/27/17 broadcast (partial transcript)
…and his skin, it’s turned midnight black. I think I see rainbows moving across it, like an oil slick in sunlight. But just so you know, the White House is denying all of it. They’re denying that he’s taken on the Orb’s power, they’re denying that he’s grown to twelve feet tall, they’re denying that anything happened at all. Lightning struck the White House 452 times last night, according to meteorologists. This is not normal.

Tweet, LouiseMensch account
Sources have revealed to me that #orb was planted by #Russia, #Putin. Supreme Court preparing Articles of Exorcism as I write.

12 replies 180 retweets 100 likes

#Neverorb, Erick Erickson, Redstate.com
…the Republican Party used to stand for something greater than the pulsing Orb and its horrible keening drone. I remember that, even if the bootlickers in Congress don’t. The Orb has no regard for human life, not even the life of the unborn. Hey, Paul Ryan — why does your budget allocate $0 to faith-based family centers that offer alternatives to abortion, but $800 billion to a massive basalt monolith in the middle of Washington DC?

Sean Hannity show, 7/12/17
HANNITY: These liberals, they fear the Orb. They’re afraid of it.
GINGRICH: You know, it’s sad, it really is, because the Orb wants what’s best for America, for all of us, and-
HANNITY: Exactly! The Orb loves us! The Orb-
[crosstalk]
GINGRICH: It’s like I said in 1994, the American People don’t want big government. They want a vast, glowing Orb that swells up to block out the sun.

Bernie Sanders, speech, 8/16/17
…and I don’t think it’s right that President Trump now walks around outside for days at a time, plants wilting wherever he plants his massive feet. I don’t think it’s right that our President, a billionaire, gets to be twenty feet tall and exude an oily darkness while the regular, hard-working people of this country slave away for long hours for a minimum wage that’s not enough to feed a family. I don’t think it’s right that every night the pool at the foot of the massive basalt altar in DC — paid for with tax money, yours and mine — must be filled with sacrifices of blood, hair and teeth. Not when millionaires and billionaires pay less tax than at any time in the last century.

Barack Obama, GQ interview, 9/2/17
…I don’t want to sound overly critical. But when I was President, I didn’t touch the Orb, for a very good reason. And, you know, I wanted to. I could have easily. I heard it singing to me in my dreams, a song that melted away like morning dew when I awoke. And I could have… (he loses focus for a moment)
I could have touched it. But I didn’t. And I think that was the right choice for the American people, and when you look at the boiling cloud of gnats that used to be our President, I think you’ll agree with me.

Headline, Washington Post
CROP FAILURES ACROSS MIDWEST

Life Force Drained to Feed Orb’s “Endless, Terrible Hunger.”

Blog Post, fivethirtyeight.com
The Disappearance of the Upper Midwest in a Vortex of Madness Could Doom Trump’s Re-Election Chances

From “The Orbs of Our Fathers,” an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic
…I knew from the moment I saw it what the Orb was. I knew what it represented, even when others chose not to see. The Orb is America. The Orb is white supremacy, hatred and disregard, the disregard that communities of color face every day. The Orb is Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is the Orb. His body has evaporated, but we see him now reflected in puddles of oily rain, on our television screens, in our dreams. He is screaming, only screaming. That scream is the hate-cry of white supremacy, the message that never leaves us.

Why is the President Screaming: a special report by CBS News
JOHN DICKERSON: Experts say that that the power of the Orb may have consumed President Trump and now feeds on his soul. What does this mean for us as a Nation? Was it a mistake to touch the Orb?

REINCE PRIEBUS: No, John, not at all. These reports are yet more distractions from the liberal media. The President is deep in contemplation of the Orb’s mysteries. That’s why he isn’t seen outside these days.

JOHN DICKERSON: Do you have an explanation for why every reflective surface on Earth shows the President’s screaming visage at precisely 4:22 PM each day? Or why the great black Monolith of the Mall has cracked right down its face?

REINCE PRIEBUS: Listen, if you want to sit there and criticize every little thing the President does, you have that right. I can’t stop you. But frankly, it’s counterproductive, and it’s a little sad when the President’s agenda has been such a success. I mean, the crops are growing again, they’re-

JOHN DICKERSON: The farmers are saying that the crops are twisted and swollen with unholy power. They’re inedible. They’re useless.

REINCE PRIEBUS: We’re growing for export. We knew there would be resistance when we set out to make America great again, there will be hiccups, but…

Inaugural Statement from Mike Pence
…and in the weeks and months to come, we know there will be questions. Where is President Donald Trump? Why do we still hear him screaming, faintly, at the edge of our hearing? What has become of the baneful Orb that hung low in the sky like a second sun? My fellow Americans, I do not have all the answers for you. This should be a time for healing, a time for people of all faiths to come together and bow their heads in thankfulness that the Orb’s awful designs have been averted. I never expected or wanted this, but I solemnly swear to do my duty as your President, to heal a wounded nation, and to stand strong against the alien menace of the Orb wherever it threatens. I pledge that I will never touch the Orb or any other item of cosmic, unknowable power.

Alex Jones show, 11/25/17
…and he’s heading to Beijing next week for a summit. Can you believe that? We all know that they’ve recently unearthed a gleaming cube of alien metal from the ruins below Xi’an. What is the President hiding? Why won’t he tell us whether he plans to touch the Cube?

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

It's not as if the Obama post isn't derivative of Pynchon anyways.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Being There is a good book.

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Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

the something awful forums: I don't have empathy so I don't understand why people feel sad when others die

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