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Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

SCROTO TURBOSPERG posted:

want to make content? lazy? too lazy to make content? dangerously lazy?

there's a bot for that.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903317&pagenumber=2&perpage=40

This thread is some of the most fun I've ever had on the forums. It's a really good text generator. You know how most of those predictive text things are really funny but the authors give the bot a lot of nudges and editing to get something good? This thing will crap out comedy gold without that. You may have to have it give it a few shots but it'll make a side-splitter out of drat near anything with some time.

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Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Sentient Data posted:

In case anyone missed it, this thread covers how to make the legit best wings I've ever made, complete with a kick rear end stolen buffalo sauce recipe

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3886762

Perfect, I was looking at making some wings this week so your timing rules.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

barbecue at the folks posted:

There's a new Casino/Gambling Stories Thread and I've just spent a sick day reading all the good (and often pretty depressing) tales of people throwing their money away into a black hole. Special recommendation for jase1's pool hustling stories, dude has led an interesting life!

Jase1 has had ask/tell threads in the past about hustling pool that were really good reads.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

I checked a few offsites and didn't see anyone bragging about it.

The stalker googles himself and keywords a lot so he may have just stumbled across it on his own.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Heated Gaming Moment posted:

Everyone post in the PHIZ pics thread. They are welcoming!

I was honestly surprised PHIZ still existed. What other threads would you recommend if I want to check the board out?

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Anyone who liked this thread should check out the GiP Idiots thread:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3894960&perpage=40

There’s a link in the OP to the original thread- all 400+ pages of it. Hours and hours of high quality entertainment.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

That is an extremely Timecube style OP and I am there for it.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
Domestic violence and emotional abuse can easily turn your life into a nightmare. I’m a straight white cis male and I ended up on the receiving end of some truly awful, block out your Wednesday for your partner to scream about wanting to kill herself type stuff for months a while back.
It hosed me up, for a while. I couldn’t bring myself to be in a relationship again for years, and I still usually disconnect a fair bit.

gently caress abusers and gently caress lowtax.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

JacquelineDempsey posted:

I'm sorry you had to deal with that, Ugly. And you too, Fleta, and... poo poo, anyone who's had to deal with an abusive partner/family member. I've had a few in my life. Much as I've been kvetching about my current lovely situation, I have a husband who genuinely loves and supports me, warts and all, and I wouldn't trade that for all the money and Buick Grand Nationals in the world.

Ugly, your post made me want to comment because it's important for people to know that emotional abuse is every bit as damaging --- if not more so, and I know that's a somewhat spicy take --- as physical abuse. Bruises heal, bones mend, but healing a damaged mind is a helluva lot trickier, messy, and with longer-lasting effects. And it's so much easier for the abuser to get away with it when people aren't asking "hey, where'd you get that black eye?" No one sees how wrecked your neural pathways gets in situations like that.

When I heard the poo poo about Lowtax beating women, I felt disgusted. When I watched Logan's FB apology video, I felt nauseous and confused. When it came out that he, the abuser, coerced her into making that video, I literally puked into the wastebasket next to my desk. Because I've been that woman, the woman so scared of being alone, so broken, that she would make a loving FB post apologizing for coming forward, still so enthralled by her manipulative abuser... ugh, I'm feeling queasy again.

I don't know wtf my point is except: not all abuse is visible. And as Ugly pointed out, it happens to menfolk as well. My husband has some horror stories about women he dated before we met, and I can sometimes still see the damage they left him with. And it pains me.

Be good to each other. Be good to yourself. And my PMs are always open.

Also, sounds like Burt could use a cold bowl of dicks for breakfast.

I will say that physical abuse almost always has an emotional component, but it’s not quite the other way around.

When I tell people about the abusive relationship I was in it’s often not taken seriously- I was teaching Krav Maga and doing amateur MMA at the time, after all, how could I be abused? But you can’t punch your way out of emotional blackmail and suicide threats. And the worst part was, my ex told everyone that I was the abusive one and I was so gaslit I was legit worried I had been. I was lucky that my ex and I had the same friend group and they all were like “no, we were there, you were entirely too patient and stuck in too long.”

I know this isn’t really the thread for talking about this kind of thing, but like JD, my PMs are always open if anyone is having a poo poo time of a relationship. If you’re in the NY area and being abused I can either get you to a shelter or at the very least have a couch you can crash on for a day or two while you sort things out and find permanent options. Be good to each other, motherfuckers.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

JacquelineDempsey posted:

Went to check out Burt's pathetic half-assed apology and saw he's currently eating a 1 day probation.

Reason? "Placeholder"

I smell a ban hammer a-comin'...

(thanks Barudak)

Probably a longer probe for now instead of a ban, I read a post from VideoGames in another thread that the mods aren’t doing bans until Jeffrey owns the site since Lowtax would still get any rereg money.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
GBS 2.0 really hosed up this subforum for a while. I’m glad it’s back to being pretty good, but I miss crazy news threads like the Boston bombing one.

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Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
The one good thing to come from GBS 2.0 (besides Hellbastard getting run out) was that a lot of lovely people stopped hiding they were lovely. The problem is that it took years before the ban caught up to them. How long was PCOS Bill making GBS threads the place up for after that?

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