cda posted:

IK CHALLENGE: Be an Internet Tough Guy*

*gender nonspecific

I love almost everything about BYOB except for one thing: I fuckin' hate it when people do probes by request. A probation should mean something: either that you hosed up, or that you pissed off an authority bad enough to make them mash their sausagey little fingers all over the button in a vain attempt to stop you from owning them. Probes you didn't earn are bullshit. It's like getting a teardrop tattoo without killing a dude so you can look tough. With all due respect to the IKs that do them, I'm not going to take probe requests, I'm only going to probe people that earn it.

Here in BYOB that means pretty much nobody would ever get probed because we're a fairly well-behaved bunch: kind, courteous, creative, caring. Basically as long as you're trying, you're not going to get in trouble. That's wonderful, but sometimes even the gentlest soul wants to toughen the gently caress up already. Get held to a higher standard.

I wouldn't want to encourage people to start posting real bad to get probed, but that's ok, because there's this cool thing called consent. Look it up, but only if you want to. See what I did there.

If you would like to spend the month as an Internet Tough Guy, being held to a higher standard for your posts, then post your consent in this thread. Here's what it means:

1) If your posts are not good, you're going to get probed for it.
2) If your posts are good, but not good enough, you're going to get probed for it.
3) If you're already thinking up a bunch of rules-lawyering bullshit about what good enough means, this challenge is not for you.
4) If you stop posting because you're getting shook, you're going to get probed for it. You have to keep posting.
5) If you get probed, the probation reason may accuse you of committing tough guy crimes, real, or imagined. Your rap sheet is your permanent record so think carefully about this because if these forums don't collapse, one day a few years from now some dickhole might click your rap sheet and think you really did the things I wrote about.
6) I might be mean to you. If you can't see that it's because I love you, this challenge is not for you.
7) I may give you other challenges to prove you're an actual tough guy.
8) You can't get mad about any of this, it's just for fun.
9) You can drop out at any time and nobody is allowed to razz you for it, you just won't get the gangtag. See below.
10) Other stuff that I haven't even thought up may happen. But you can deal with it because you're a tough guy.
11) Your posts in the chat thread are exempt. You can continue posting like a wimp there if you want to.

At the end of the month, if you want, you will get a special Internet Tough Guy Gangtag. What does it look like? I don't know, because it doesn't exist yet, but there's lots of talented people in BYOB and I'm sure someone will come up with a good one. Whoever makes the Internet Tough Guy gangtag may have it without having to do all the other stuff.

Internet Tough Guy Roll Call:

Putty posted:

tl dr

cda posted:

IK Challenge: Oldies for Newbies

This challenge is only open to relative newbies. I get to decide who they are, but if you think you're a noob you probably are.

There are a lot of great posters who posted in BYOB at one time or another and helped create the chill, funny atmosphere that we all enjoy today. Sadly, they've moved on or faded away, leaving us with only the legacy of their good posting. Here's an opportunity for you to learn a little bit of BYOB history. Choose a name from the list:

beer pal
salmiakki
WetNightmare
dogcrash truther
bo-pepper
WD-40/Lil Cunty/Jimi Changa
Ace of Baes/Nacho Destroyer
bacalou
ron color
pig slut lisa
Captain No-mates
smoobles

(note, i am he and posting smiling/classicist were on this list but then they posted a couple of days ago so...owned)

Research your poster and write an essay including:

1. What their posting style was, with specific examples.
2. What made them a good BYOB poster, with specific examples!
3. Some choice quotes of their best material.

If you do this to my satisfaction, FluffieDuckie has promised to mail you some cool BYOB stickers that you can put wherever you want.

Post in this thread to say who you're going to research and post your essay here too.

drilldo squirt posted:

Can't believe I'm not on this list.

cda posted:

IK CHALLENGE: Be an Internet Tough Guy*

*gender nonspecific

I love almost everything about BYOB except for one thing: I fuckin' hate it when people do probes by request. A probation should mean something: either that you hosed up, or that you pissed off an authority bad enough to make them mash their sausagey little fingers all over the button in a vain attempt to stop you from owning them. Probes you didn't earn are bullshit. It's like getting a teardrop tattoo without killing a dude so you can look tough. With all due respect to the IKs that do them, I'm not going to take probe requests, I'm only going to probe people that earn it.

Here in BYOB that means pretty much nobody would ever get probed because we're a fairly well-behaved bunch: kind, courteous, creative, caring. Basically as long as you're trying, you're not going to get in trouble. That's wonderful, but sometimes even the gentlest soul wants to toughen the gently caress up already. Get held to a higher standard.

I wouldn't want to encourage people to start posting real bad to get probed, but that's ok, because there's this cool thing called consent. Look it up, but only if you want to. See what I did there.

If you would like to spend the month as an Internet Tough Guy, being held to a higher standard for your posts, then post your consent in this thread. Here's what it means:

1) If your posts are not good, you're going to get probed for it.
2) If your posts are good, but not good enough, you're going to get probed for it.
3) If you're already thinking up a bunch of rules-lawyering bullshit about what good enough means, this challenge is not for you.
4) If you stop posting because you're getting shook, you're going to get probed for it. You have to keep posting.
5) If you get probed, the probation reason may accuse you of committing tough guy crimes, real, or imagined. Your rap sheet is your permanent record so think carefully about this because if these forums don't collapse, one day a few years from now some dickhole might click your rap sheet and think you really did the things I wrote about.
6) I might be mean to you. If you can't see that it's because I love you, this challenge is not for you.
7) I may give you other challenges to prove you're an actual tough guy.
8) You can't get mad about any of this, it's just for fun.
9) You can drop out at any time and nobody is allowed to razz you for it, you just won't get the gangtag. See below.
10) Other stuff that I haven't even thought up may happen. But you can deal with it because you're a tough guy.
11) Your posts in the chat thread are exempt. You can continue posting like a wimp there if you want to.

At the end of the month, if you want, you will get a special Internet Tough Guy Gangtag. What does it look like? I don't know, because it doesn't exist yet, but there's lots of talented people in BYOB and I'm sure someone will come up with a good one. Whoever makes the Internet Tough Guy gangtag may have it without having to do all the other stuff.

Internet Tough Guy Roll Call:

Matoi Ryuko posted:

PSL is a mod of business and finance

drilldo squirt posted:

Can't believe I'm not on this list.

vanisher posted:

I want to be a real hardcore ITG, sign this poster up please.

ethical hamjobs posted:

seems h*cked up and d*mb as g*sh-d*ng h*ck to me!!! SIGN ME UP, PADRE.

gonna get them sweet hosed up gangtags for sure now. YOU JERK.
won't even h*ckin probe me, j*miny.

cda posted:

A coupla tough guys, eh? Well. we'll see...

gently caress My rear end posted:

also to up the anty winner of the tough guy challenge I'll donate 50 bux to SA and 50 dollars cash to the winner (PayPal)

cda posted:

Everyone who survives wins so you might want to rethink that compadre.

gently caress My rear end posted:

the toughest of the tough guy (your pick) gets the grand prize

birds posted:

hwhat do the byob stickers look like just wondering

cda posted:

The stickers reminded me to put luvcow in the list of BYOB good posters who have left us

cda posted:

Not all of these are BYOB stickers but you should be able to tell which ones are. I think like three of the "mature content" ones are BYOB too: pill bottle, depressed gay teen forum, and visit sunny byob

http://www.redbubble.com/shop/byob+stickers?cat_context=u-stationery&accordion=product

eonwe posted:

I haven't posted a lot in the yob lately, and I think this is a good challenge. I will endeavor to make a funny post or two here.

cda posted:

Is this you saying you want to be an internet tough guy or are you just saying you're going to make some funny posts.

eonwe posted:

ya

cda posted:

wtf dude, "ya" doesn't answer an either or question

cda posted:

It's not appreciation month.

cda posted:

IK Challenge: Oldies for Newbies

This challenge is only open to relative newbies. I get to decide who they are, but if you think you're a noob you probably are.

There are a lot of great posters who posted in BYOB at one time or another and helped create the chill, funny atmosphere that we all enjoy today. Sadly, they've moved on or faded away, leaving us with only the legacy of their good posting. Here's an opportunity for you to learn a little bit of BYOB history. Choose a name from the list:

beer pal
salmiakki
WetNightmare
dogcrash truther
bo-pepper
WD-40/Lil Cunty/Jimi Changa
Ace of Baes/Nacho Destroyer
bacalou
ron color
pig slut lisa
Captain No-mates
smoobles
luvcow

(note, i am he and posting smiling/classicist were on this list but then they posted a couple of days ago so...owned)

Research your poster and write an essay including:

1. What their posting style was, with specific examples.
2. What made them a good BYOB poster, with specific examples!
3. Some choice quotes of their best material.

If you do this to my satisfaction, FluffieDuckie has promised to mail you some cool BYOB stickers that you can put wherever you want.

Post in this thread to say who you're going to research and post your essay here too.

the littlest prince posted:

Manifisto posted:

I am an internet TOUGH GUY. I am so tough that I do not need to use capitalization and punctuation, BUT I use it sometimes anyway because gently caress consistency. my first proof of toughness will be to go over to coupons and deals and throw my weight around a little. like I might post a "deal" that, while providing value for money, is not appreciably superior to what a bargain-hunter can find on a regular day with just a bit of perseverance. or I might maliciously misspell something. whatever it is, it will be a signal that we yobbers are tired of being pushed around by coupons and deals and we are ready and willing to fight back in our own confused, self-deprecating, circle-jerky, inoffensively nice and welcoming way. take that, fuckers.

Matoi Ryuko posted:

PSL is a mod of business and finance

the littlest prince posted:

I decided to research Ace of Baes. Here is my essay.

Ace of Baes is a good byob poster. He or she posts good jokes and brings smiles to the faces of the municipal BYOB forum. Let's first talk about Ace of Baes him/herself, and then his/her posts.

Ace of Baes was given their name in an honorary ceremony by the Duke of Spain. It happened in a classic case of mistaken identity, after they walked right through the gate of the royal palace right after guards left it to detain a grifter a few meters away. Ace was looking for a restroom but hooked a right into the garden, right onto the stage, and walked into the outstretched arms of Carlos Oswaldo. What he didn't know yet is that this title carries official duties. As such, he is dutybound to match up good BYOB posters with the waifus or hoosbandos that best compliment them. Sorry to cross into another poster's territory here, but we all know that poster salmiakki has a wonderful waifu Onichichan, but that pairing was made by none other that Ace of Baes. And smoobie with her wonderful hoosbando Handako too. I'd like to tell you that you too could get your own waifu, but though he still retains the title due to traditional rules, the official period of duty has passed and Ace longer performs it.

Ace's posting stlye can best be described as electic. Many posters prefer to use a single gimmick, and let me clear they do quite well, quite well indeed! But Ace adopts multiple styles, weaving them as though posting were a single fluid language. In one thread you'll get a punny one liner that implies that the US is an economy of smiles, and in another, a symbolism-laden short story about a butt. I remember when I first saw Ace's famous post that is known as the pokemon poke poke. Though a normal poster would not have been able to make this so drat funny, and in fact it probably would have seemed cruel and probably quite gory, Ace's interpretation elevated it into BYOB's golden paradise. Never since has BYOB laughed quite so hard, though we may have come close.

In conclusion, Ace is the Bae of BYOB.