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Kazinsal posted:My favourite SS13 saga is the discovery of fractal foods. Some folks realized you could make a sandwich with six foods and then bake it as a cake. They then discovered that if you then cut the cake into sixths, you could make a sandwich out of it that exponentially increased the name of the ingredients in the sandwich. This was repeated until it killed people’s clients and it was dubbed the crashwich. People took it one step further when a chemical called Anima (I think it was called) got introduced. It's one of the game's secret chemicals and from what I remember requires quite a bit of work to get, including exploring the special adventure areas which exist as a entire pve style realm to explore and find cool and weird poo poo in. Now, what anima does is fairly simple: Any object that gets some of it on it will become "alive", basically turning into a floating enemy that naturally hates everything and will attack whoever is closest by smashing into them repeatedly. Now, some insane bastard came up with the wonderful idea of making one of those crashwiches and deciding to sprinkle some anima on it. Now, normally a crashwich is only dangerous if you mouse over it or someone somehow interacts with it since the client crashing only happens when it tries to load the insanely long name. This living crashwich though would happily attack anyone daring to get close, so once some poor guy got inevitably bonked by a sandwich with a name the length of an entire novel, their and everyone in line of sight's client crashed. Which meant they could not run away or in any way defend themselves, nevermind even attack the flying sandwich of doom so their bodies were stuck mindlessly standing around and being attacked, which of course meant that whenever someone decided to walk to that area of the station their chatbox would almost instantly try to spell out the client-killing word that is the name of the living crashwich. This essentially created an entire zone of the station that one couldn't get close to without their client dying, and of course there was no way for anyone to warn about this happening. Sadly I forgot how the round ended, I can only assume that the poor admins upon hearing that most of the station inevitably became mindless husks due to a single food item they had no choice but to restart the server.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:My favourite was the chemistry issue that the people programming the drat thing couldn't figure out how the gently caress it worked and had to just lock down a bunch of stuff. Goons made explosives with potato chips and water and the guy who made the game almost had a stroke about it. Popecrunch posted:I couldn't figure out how you goatfuckers STILL managed to be terrorists with potato chips and water. YOU FOUND A WAY. I had two coders on IRC combing through reactions trying to figure out exactly how you motherless fucks were managing to make potato chips and water into explosives, and they had no loving idea. It shouldn't have been possible. It couldn't have been possible. I fear for the safety of the world if the people who managed to find a way to do murders with mother loving potato chips and goddamned water ever get recruited by a real world terrorist organization. The headlines the next day will read something like WE'RE ALL hosed: SOME NERD KILLS 3/4 OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION WITH A USED BANDAID AND THE SQUEAKER FROM A DOG TOY. THIS SECURITY PHOTO SHOWS THE SUSPECT PURCHASING A STICK OF GUM. DOES HE WANT FRESH BREATH, OR IS HE FINISHING THE JOB? OUR ONLY CONSOLATION IS THAT WE WILL PROBABLY NEVER SEE IT COMING. FILM AT 11 IF WE'RE LUCKY. OR UNLUCKY. gently caress IT. WHATEVER. -(AP)
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Mar 25, 2021 07:24
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they did that essentially by splitting individual water molecules
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Mar 25, 2021 07:33
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I'm kinda pissed off that Reddit had a pedo mod. That's SA's thing and they fuckin stole it
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Leavemywife posted:I've got a saga I wanna ask about. What the hell are puckins, and why do they need defending? puckins are very important and need defending in the most extreme. Uh, spoiler/warning: this ends in a murder suicide. User forbiddenforum posts in TFR asking about using buckshot in a shotgun. Initially it's just talking about buckshot vs bird shot and then he posts this quote:Turners in Fountain Valley Thanks Another post in that thread contains this paragraph quote:-I have very poor english, Not everyone Is good at english you know.I can also tell whats wrong due to my english knowledge(full college prep) But have no clue how to fix it, I run into a brain stump.My names William Freund(check that old gas thread I made I think I left my drivers license on a pic there),Talking like boris Is fine for me.I already Know im not worthy off SA with my grammer and english but this is the firearms forum,And I think the buckshot that has dissapeared is a important problem...I would have bought a One of the secuirty sites camera appeartus and put it around the house. It takes a little bit for the thread to realize what he's saying but the rest of the thread is them trying to tell him that no, you can't kill someone in defense of your pumpkins. Most posters just thought he was a dumb gimmick poster based on other nonsensical but unrelated threads he had made. It doesn't even run 2 pages and is gassed and he gets a week probation. About a week later this thread is made https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1711278 quote:I was listening to John and Ken talk about that shooting in Aliso Viejo a few days ago and my memory jogged to that 'lol hevy-shot buckshot' thread from a week or so back... The news article links in the OP are all dead but this is the story here https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-30-me-shooting30-story.html quote:Two days short of Halloween, a 19-year-old Aliso Viejo man wearing a paintball mask and dark cape terrorized his neighborhood Saturday morning by gunning down a woman and her father in their home and taking aim at others before committing suicide, authorities said. This article has more information on Freund himself, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-01-me-shooting1-story.html Apparently the dude was really struggling mentally and posted on a number of forums and talked about trying to kill himself previously, including a support forum for people struggling with aspergers who tried to help him and alert attempted to find his parents to alert them of the issues he was posting but failed. Garrand has a new favorite as of 07:48 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Thing is about SS13 is that both the platform it runs on and the codebase for the game itself are, seperately, the programming equivalent of something that makes Groverhaus look well planned, structurally sound, safe and sensible.
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Greader posted:People took it one step further when a chemical called Anima (I think it was called) got introduced. It's one of the game's secret chemicals and from what I remember requires quite a bit of work to get, including exploring the special adventure areas which exist as a entire pve style realm to explore and find cool and weird poo poo in. Now, what anima does is fairly simple: Any object that gets some of it on it will become "alive", basically turning into a floating enemy that naturally hates everything and will attack whoever is closest by smashing into them repeatedly. That's beautiful
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Leavemywife posted:I've got a saga I wanna ask about. What the hell are puckins, and why do they need defending? It was an unwell guy who had a paranoid obsession with people damaging the pumpkins growing in his front yard and was asking for advice on guns to deal with these criminals. The whole thing culminated with him killing at least a person or two and getting arrested, if memory serves. It might be in the OP of this thread - not sure. Edit: I see this was already answered above, and I forgot the suicide part. CaptainSarcastic has a new favorite as of 07:45 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 07:43
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yeah but what happened to the pumpkins
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Mar 25, 2021 07:43
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Not a saga but I loved a Pet island poster (mod?) posting about how she had such a bad gas problem that her talking bird would make fart sounds like it was trying to communicate with her because she farted so much
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They tried deleting it but the lag from the crashwich attacking everyone in sight ate their admin commands so they had to reset the server.
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Scarodactyl posted:No offense meant, but I don't think making the OP less helpful will improve posting.
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Mar 25, 2021 08:13
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I think we should keep the helpful OP but also include references to phantom sagas that didn't happen
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Tunicate posted:I think we should keep the helpful OP but also include references to phantom sagas that didn't happen Given the run of luck we're having I'm sure at least one will turn out to be real.
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Here's another one, I vaguely recall some drama around whether or not it was animal cruelty to squeeze your cat with tongs. I think EPW was caught up in it around the time they crashed out? Does anyone remember how that went down?
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Deformed Church posted:Here's another one, I vaguely recall some drama around whether or not it was animal cruelty to squeeze your cat with tongs. I think EPW was caught up in it around the time they crashed out? Does anyone remember how that went down? I don't remember this happening on SA but I do remember a bit from an old F Plus episode where someone asked Quora or some other idiot question and answer website if it was normal that "when I squeeze my cat poop comes out". This may not sound relevant, but I can't help but feel these incidents were somehow related.
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Also, what was the deal with ribkid? Is it true he killed someone?
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Iirc the rumor was that he killed the ceo of some mining company but the guy who did it was like 10 years too young to have been the rib kid.
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Who was that one person... I think he was somebody in the Democratic machinery who was trying to promote some really dumb form of lobbying as if it was a revolutionary way for people to interact with politics, and they were staggeringly like Ignatius J. Reily? Had a name like... Bobby Boingo? Byoko?
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Brian Boyko I believe it was Found the thread, phone posting so no quotes or anything https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3634476&pagenumber=1&perpage=40&userid=0#post429671431 Garrand has a new favorite as of 10:45 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Garrand posted:Brian Boyko I believe it was Some say student Brian Boyko still hasn't rediscovered his faith in America to this day He was volunteer for Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor whose big sell was "my first step after winning the election will be to resign immediately"
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Keith Atherton posted:Not a saga but I loved a Pet island poster (mod?) posting about how she had such a bad gas problem that her talking bird would make fart sounds like it was trying to communicate with her because she farted so much This just reminds me of an amazing Pet Island thread some years back where the OP had inherited an ancient parrot from a cantankerous elderly relative, and the parrot's entire vocal repertoire was racial slurs and imitations of long chain-smoker coughing fits. I'm not sure the guy got any advice, or that there was any to give besides "yep, that's your parrot situation, have fun."
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steinrokkan posted:Some say student Brian Boyko still hasn't rediscovered his faith in America to this day I will always remember Brian boyko because I mentally always sing it like that south park song about Brian boitano. What would Brian boyko do if he was here right now
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I think I've told the story a few times on SA, but I met Brian Boyko once by chance (a few goons were at a coffee shop talking goon stuff, and he invited himself over), and he was weirdly defensive about male masturbators. It was a weird time.
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Now that I'm all caught up, I'll just throw in my two cents: It's entirely within the prerogative of the original poster of a thread to edit the original post, or even close the thread. ACES CURE PLANES closed and rebooted the Anti-Food Porn thread after one of its years-long prolific contributors was permabanned for, as someone memorably put it, "having the wrong kind of pornography." That was ACES' call to make, but I think they also put it to the thread, citing the lingering bad taste it left, and no one really seemed to mind. The reboot has gone great and was fortuitously kicked off by the now-renamed fizzymercury's series of posts in which described ingesting mercury as a child. That said, the PYF tradition tends to be that of subject-area megathreads. I like 'em and I think most of the regular posters here do, too. An extremely Internet Dad analogy to make would be that PYF is an chat server and each megathread is a channel on that server: there's nothing stopping a user from participating in multiple thread, but each thread definitely develops its own feel and microculture that's a subset of the PYF culture, which is itself a subset of (etc etc). All that's to say that closing an ongoing megathread is traditionally not done without a pretty good reason. I agree with everyone that's said that a separate PYF drama thread would be an absolutely terrible idea and I'm pretty firmly against it. The tradition seems to be to document and discuss events that will eventually be regarded as sagas in this thread as they happen, and that's fine so long as that discussion doesn't turn into a second front for a war being fought elsewhere. Easier said than done, but it's been getting a lot better lately. I know this thread gets a lot of traffic from people who don't otherwise read or post in PYF, and that's great! It's good to have a relatively low-temperature place to learn about forums-wide events. After reading the last few threads since LITERALLY A BIRD put her suggestion / question to the community, my preference is to leave this thread running as-is. It seems the spirit of inquiry into strange events and personalities of the forum's past that she felt might be missing just needed a little push-start, and it seems to have gotten that.
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Antivehicular posted:I think I've told the story a few times on SA, but I met Brian Boyko once by chance (a few goons were at a coffee shop talking goon stuff, and he invited himself over), and he was weirdly defensive about male masturbators. It was a weird time. Somehow, that doesn't remotely surprise me.
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Garrand posted:This article has more information on Freund himself, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-01-me-shooting1-story.html  Oh god. Wow, that's horrible.
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Deformed Church posted:Here's another one, I vaguely recall some drama around whether or not it was animal cruelty to squeeze your cat with tongs. I think EPW was caught up in it around the time they crashed out? Does anyone remember how that went down? the best I can do for you is this tumblr bc I think it was a thing in the YOSPOS cat thread, like... in 2012? anyway that thread is really really long so no way am I digging through it to confirm
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Tunicate posted:I think we should keep the helpful OP but also include references to phantom sagas that didn't happen Like the guy who brought water bottles into the movie theater to piss into?
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The most important thing about goon sagas is to mix up elements of them, like the way people will mix up the various dogfuckers or mix up Groverhaus and the FYAD parody posts about Groverhaus.
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i routinely mix up old gbs superstars and i dont intend to fix that
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Is there a list of the different "eras" of SA and what made them special/different? Im sure in 10 years ive been around for more than one, and I vaguely remember the "grammar nazi" era, but my memory is so poo poo the rest is in a fog
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Mx. posted:i routinely mix up old gbs superstars and i dont intend to fix that I remember when 50 ft Bastard used to post comics about his insanely hot extremely preggo GF who had a flaming skull for a head.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I remember when 50 ft Bastard used to post comics about his insanely hot extremely preggo GF who had a flaming skull for a head. He was the guy who got driven off the internet when FYAD opened, right?
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hellbastard's mom, the incredibly hot lady with a flaming skull, who a games mod wanted to turn into a living toilet
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:He was the guy who got driven off the internet when FYAD opened, right? You're thinking of the wikipedia editor that BYOB drove to live on a wild pig reserve in hawaii by constantly claiming "weedpunk" was a literary genre.
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They might have done him a favour there.
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Bismuth posted:Is there a list of the different "eras" of SA and what made them special/different? Im sure in 10 years ive been around for more than one, and I vaguely remember the "grammar nazi" era, but my memory is so poo poo the rest is in a fog goons can argue endlessly about the different eras but imo "old SA" ended when the piracy forums were closed
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There are two eras: Before dark souls and after dark souls
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Garrand posted:puckins are very important and need defending in the most extreme. Uh, spoiler/warning: this ends in a murder suicide. I was not expecting that. I wanted a cute story about someone who didn't know how to spell pumpkin, not death and mental illness.
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