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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Beartaco posted:

Hi, sorry I'm sure this probably got brought up a bunch in the old thread. Did we ever get an update to the guy who's lawyer wife had a perpetually owned stalker? The thread got deleted somewhat abruptly I want to say last year?

The stalker was so obsessive he found the thread and it risked endangering some legal processes. Think there was some risk of poop touching by goons and it was not a good situation

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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Oxxidation posted:

that two worlds post has a hell of a leading paragraph, i'll give it that

what even scrambles a person's brain like that? schizophrenia + way too much internet?

I'm guessing, based on the strict and arbitrary rules, and bizarre mindpalaces, some level of OCD and autism? I know someone very similar to TW who was screened for schizophrenia due to how similar the symptoms were, but only had ocd and autism.

El_Elegante posted:

More schizotypal personality disorder than schizophrenia

yeah this too possibly.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012


holy poo poo I remember refreshing the page because needo the greedo then suddenly it poked its little head in

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Hub Cat posted:

lol

Also found somebody that will be coming off their 100k probe in 33 days.
and uhh hopefully will not come back.
"The terrible things you did to animals as a kid thread!"

I remember that thread and it's truly horrifying. I hope he gets a permaban just in case they decide to post from their prison cell.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

luxury handset posted:

feel like i'm falling through some kind of time portal because i haven't thought about Victor the poster in like ten years and wow, now i'm remembering what a dumb piece of poo poo that dude was

really one of the natural consequences of the effortpost era of d&d, folks with some wild belief systems but who could bang out pages of well formatted arguments got a lot more traction before they got smoked out and shunned

I vaguely remember some dude with checkerboard hair who designed an entire philosophical system that only made sense to him, who spent pages arguing about it's validity in dnd.

Was it the "imagine a marble" copy paste origin? I mostly remember a series of spheres with some meaning attached.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Who What Now posted:

Eripsa? Man, I haven't thought about him in forever.

I think so? Some people were able to glean some meaning after questioning him, but it was some advanced brain force stuff.

Which, to be honest, plenty of philosophy was written by people whose brains just... worked on a different plane then the rest of society. The main difference was that they were able to explain it well.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

luxury handset posted:

you may be talking about eripsa, a philosopher who has a really tough time getting anyone to agree with his ideas

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3462638

it's not so much that his ideas are bad, so much as they are critically flawed and he's not really able to explain around any of the holes goons identify in his pet theory, and this becomes a point of contention because he doesn't really have another pet theory on deck so it's like goons just pissing on his life's work

eripsa is a real phd big brain who is lecturing in universities, so i don't know how much of his problem was not being able to explain his ideas but rather not knowing when to stop explaining his ideas once they were dismissed by the goon majority

Whoa yeah that's it. I'll think I'll take another crack at it after an intervening 8 years of life experience. To think I was just out of high school at the time.

e. I was specifically referring to this thread I think https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3804685&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Captain Hygiene posted:

"So, where'd you say you work at?"
"Uh....MIT"

I wouldn't buy into the branding of colleges, honestly. most people at famous colleges aren't usually smarter, just better connected (or from an inbred clan of old money idiots who donate a lot :ssh:)

Sure, the MITs of the world can afford to buy more extraordinarily smart people because they have old stacks of money, but that's basically branding money for them.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Coffee And Pie posted:

Some greatest hits I’m not bothering to look up because I’m phoneposting :

-“Buffy was a female dog and my depravity knew no bounds”

the fact that morally inept went on for a couple years after that thread was shocking

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

angerbeet posted:

It's not usually the thing itself goons hate, it's how obsessive people become over it.

see: the unbelievably awful and obsessive star citizen thread which metastasized into a doxxing forum for absolute weirdos.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

The Kins posted:

What, again? Wasn't that dumb GDN auth stuff part of that whole PPJ thing?

I'm guessing yes. There's been rumors about a GDN backdoor that can access messages sent by anyone who auth's with the system, so it's probably more of that poo poo.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

oldskool posted:

what the gently caress

The rumor sounds realistic and probable, but also comes from offsite shitstirrers, and I've never seen any substantiation.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Des Moines specifically is a kickass little city, but thanks to Jastiger I can no longer mention that :(

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Charles posted:

I couldn't remember the ad network name but it was eFront. I found it on Wikipedia. The CEO still is a fugitive from the law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_Shaileshkumar

eFront

Seems trustworthy

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

I wouldn't mind a shirt with grover's iraq prediction printed all over it.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

my favorite moron from BMW once made a bet in the csgo thread that he'd get a esports tattoo if a team lost to the roaring reaction of :confused: "OK?"

They lost, he got the tattoo, it was truly horrendous, and everyone laughed.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Nuns with Guns posted:

So basically, Jordan Perterson is Two Worlds

Honestly, not an unfair characterization.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

it's like a comedy bit the way he raises the price like that

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

kyoon was beautiful and pure. timecube levels of utter schizophrenia. he wouldn't even communicate in our language. he would quote someone and just fill the page with word salad, probably convinced he was speaking some eternal enlightening truth.

I miss that kind of detached moonman posting

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Ugh, reminds me of the awful poo poo that would go down on forums when I was 15-16. I remember a group of dudes who had a shared folder of nude pictures of female posters that they would talk about and pass around. Most of those were underage girls.

At the time I didn't think much of it, but looking back, holy poo poo . Those guys sharing were considerably older then me.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

why do people get so weird about poo poo

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Pastry of the Year posted:

Finally a worthy successor.

ma I've finally made it!

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

genes being the sole determinant of intelligence is unfounded and unscien-

Empty Sandwich posted:

I remember 10 or 15 years ago a Jewish scientist positing that Tay-Sachs was basically equivalent to sickle-cell disease: if a person got both of the mutations that make Jewish people extra smart, things went awry.

well, yes clearly my genes are essential to my intelligence :smug:

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

pentyne posted:

Nig nog tryin' to get a hand breezy

other then being absurdly mid 2000's racist, where is this from?

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Psycho Landlord posted:

Wait did this get turned into a saga? That dude made that post because the XCOM thread kept devolving into nerd slapfights about whether or not a particular dumb mod some grogs made was good and Coolguy I think it was suggested that the participants do that as a joke and then we all started posting "settle it the usual way" ad infinitum at people who tried to start further fights about the dumb grog mod, which resulted in them all loving off and the thread becoming readable for a few weeks. It wasn't a serious suggestion about playing chess in the XCOM thread lol

he then went to QCS and very angrily called out VideoGames for not taking his chess suggestion seriously.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Violet_Sky posted:

I might be dumb, but what were Lowtax's other strikes?

wives 1 and 2 😬

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

WATCH BUSH START A loving WAR will be with me till I die

truly the most important shitpost of all time.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

RFC2324 posted:

Tbf pornhub has done a bunch of good with donations and poo poo, so if all this is the result of fan uploaded poo poo that the company couldn't reasonably know about its kinda bullshit to nail them to the wall the way people are trying for.

Its more than enough to trigger an investigation, tho.

The article in question points out exactly why ph is two faced and scummy. In particular, allowing any random to put questionably sourced amateur material, and not requiring a verification and consent affirmation, enables almost all of the revenge and child porn.

Instead, they'd rather have plausible deniability and hide behind 230, because the mountains of rando content they don't have to moderate, makes them money.

It's a really dark and harrowing read.

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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

RFC2324 posted:

Also an opinion piece, iirc. Can't find the link from the bathtub, so someone else will likely verify so they can yell at me

It's an opinion piece that did it's research and interviewed a whole bunch of people victimized by PHs laxity. Some of them even specify they aren't even antiporn.

I won't drag this off-topic, but I highly recommend reading it.


quote:

I don’t see any neat solution. But aside from limiting immunity so that companies are incentivized to behave better, here are three steps that would help: 1.) Allow only verified users to post videos. 2.) Prohibit downloads. 3.) Increase moderation.

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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

quote:

Asterios Kokkinos is a Los Angeles based comedian and long-time collaborator with Dick Masterson.

lmao

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

pentyne posted:

Seraph is taking a break I guess so the mods had to find some other poor soul to slake their bloodthirst on


not sure if it was a gimmick or just brain poisoing, but with hot takes such as

mf'er had been forum banned from both cspam and D&D and, you'll be shocked by this one, ADTRW

Thank loving God. I cannot comprehend how that idiot ecofascist wasn't banned the instant they put a quote from the unabomber under their av.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Flying Zamboni posted:

Yeah I was reading it at the time and LF got into some really weird politics towards the end. Kerning Chameleon's Kaczynski-sona would probably have gone relatively unnoticed there in the last year it was around.

If you want to see it still in action, the Rhizzone is a deeply maoist offshoot of LF

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

thecluckmeme posted:

I miss Kyoonposts

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

did burt stop posting finally?

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

fair, dropped.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Snow Cone Capone posted:

$30 is still a lot of money for a cheesecake tho

OK but what if I ate that whole cheesecake in one sitting is that normal

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

pentyne posted:

When the ghost ship burned down a lot of news pieces focused on the people living in those situations and the vast majority of them seemed like people who just decided that pursuit of a hobby/lifestyle was more important then any manner of stability so you had people in their early-mid 30s living in a warehouse cubicle so they could still make their wire frame art pieces or fancy glassblowing.

It's like Neverland and the Lost Boys except for theater kids who still have to grow up.

thank god not everyone in the world feels tied to a 9-5. I can't imagine how boring our world would be with just corporate suits.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Empty Sandwich posted:

I would imagine it's suspicion about quality and handling of the meat, combined sometimes with soaking to change the flavor.

the only person I know who I'm absolutely sure does it is around 60.

sounds like something that started off as a poverty attempt to salvage poor quality meat, then became enshrined in culture over the years.

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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

if watches bother your wrist, just get a prosthetic arm and attach it there :smug:

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