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Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Garrand posted:

Wasn't he the 'sexual marketplace' dude? I guess that could have been part of that.

fake e: I actually clicked through and yeah, that's what that was all about.

Sexual marketplace was from a guy with a J in his name, I think?

Or Two Worlds.

gently caress this site has too many creeps.

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Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Vandar posted:

It takes us way too long to get rid of a lot of those chronic bad posters.

It took far, far too long to get rid of Dark Titsanime. :negative:

What happened to him anyways?

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Games is the forum with the least unique subculture, it's totally different people posting depending on which game the thread is about. Some are good, some are fine, some are horribly toxic.

Remember the insane XCOM guy who wanted arguments to be decided by online chess duels?

Wasn't that because of people engaging in a massive war over some xcom mod?

Nuns with Guns posted:

The anime and comic forums noticed he's admin of a hentai website specializing in porn about loving lesbians straight.

lol what?

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Honky Dong Country posted:

What's the story with Brother Jonathan?

He sniffed women's hair on the bus.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

VanSandman posted:

Also, stalking!

:frogon:

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Nuns with Guns posted:


I have to admit, the guy had a good strategy going of being an open an unapologetic creepy idiot but never responding to anyone pointing out why he was wrong or a creep.

That was why he stuck out as being especially bad to me. There's tons of people who post weird poo poo but then they at least have the decency to flip out about it (like burt posting swimsuit photos of his underage? daughter). :v:

It's always considerate when people just use the same username on every site no matter how vile it is, though.

Nice to be rid of him but I hadn't noticed he actually was banned.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Kirk Vikernes posted:

Also, don't forget them stanning for Pornhub when they removed non-verified amateur videos.

Wasn't that a good thing, though..?

pentyne posted:


In short

lol that this person accused me of being a terf.

Acerbatus has a new favorite as of 04:37 on Mar 19, 2021

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

El_Elegante posted:

Someone’s struggling to grasp what it means to “stan for”

I assumed he meant being hyped up for how great it was pornhub was doing that and what a great site they were for doing i.t

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

oldpainless posted:

Brother Jonathan, or “BroJo” as he tolerated or “Beej” as he liked to be called or “BJ” as he loved to be called was, without hyperbole, the worst mod in the history of this site.

for all his flaws I don't think he sniffed women's hair on the bus, encouraged beating children, raped children, encouraged heroin addicts to take up LSD, tried to swindle the forums for computer money, or campaigned for the right for grown men to gently caress teenagers.


There's a lot of competition for 'worst mod on the site', is what Im saying.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

SpiritualDeath posted:

I've never seen so many people miss such obvious classic oldpainless humor. It's not even remotely different from his usual style of jokes, how did these in particular woosh you all so hard lmao

To let you in on a dark secret, there have been a lot of pedophiles and pedophile supporters on this website and some of them pretended to do it as a joke.

is that dude one of those things? beats me, I have no idea who he is.

The track record is not great, however.

e: at least one current mod (or maybe IK?) went to bat for nurge after he was permad for being a pedo, lol.

Acerbatus has a new favorite as of 10:55 on Mar 20, 2021

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Kirk Vikernes posted:

Ah, yes. The classic "person I don't like is a pedo"-bit. Nurge's posting left a lot to be desired but nothing in his rap sheet indicates he was a pedophile. The post that finished him off was a doctored post suggesting that Logan had beat Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka up with brass knuckles.

You can still look at his rap sheet, though I don't know why talking about "Virtuous Pedophiles" was only a regular ban.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3749412&pagenumber=674&perpage=40#post504046578

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

pentyne posted:

You couldn't trying to pitch this idea for a script without getting laughed out of the room for being too implausible.

Pick: "I accused the wrong person of sexual harassment, and I don't feel like enough was done to make it up to me"

also

the 2016 lover "I was falsely accused of sexual harassment, here's my proof it wasn't me"

everyone "dude, those messages are weird and creepy as gently caress"

the 2016 lover "well she never said no, so...."

Like in my entire life I never expected someone to own goal themselves so hard that when being cleared of being the specific person being accused, they outed themselves as having also done similar weird poo poo, just not the specific poo poo in question.

Just this stunning back to back posts

You forgot the absolutely astounding part where people compared harassing DMs to rape, the most galaxy brain take of all time.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Animal-Mother posted:

"Due to his racism and his lengthy screed about getting a blowjob from a baby, we no longer trust this person to be an administrator of the Something Awful forums. He will, however, still moderate the gun section. Case closed."

I made that suggestion as kinda a joke about compromise that would make nobody happy.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Bogus Adventure posted:

like He Who Furiously Masturbates to Anime Titties

You're gonna have to be more specific

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Please tell us more about the Space Goons

The actual SS13 goon drama is incredibly boring :argh: SJWS! :argh: CHUDS! :argh: poo poo, though I checked out of that pretty fast.

Also code leaking and trying to make a version in unity because BYOND is a trashheap

on poo specifically: a long-rear end time ago someone thought it'd be funny to add poop to the game. Every round involved goons revealing their coprophiliac tendencies by rushing to smear as much as possible everywhere as fast as possible.

Kinda funny at first, got taken out because it wasn't actually that funny.

e: also someone had to send screenshots to the FBI, but I forget what that was about

Acerbatus has a new favorite as of 03:52 on Mar 26, 2021

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

My favorite part of this is all of that, in the dark past of 2015, was worth a week probe.

Mister Olympus posted:

good lord this is foul. also what's his username from

he still posts here btw lmao

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tribladeofchaos posted:

Looked at his post history and he does in fact still post here jesus christ. Also, I think this was the saga that got Bobbie Wickham finally demodded and banned since she went to bat for him because of her weird mommy issues.

that was careful drums, who actually did get banned.

maybe someone should make a thread about it but it feels like being banned isnt much of a punishment, probably should still happen anyways.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tribladeofchaos posted:

My mistake I forget that the forums has had multiple terrible dads :smith:

let me tell you bout this guy called lowtax.

at least there was that guy who played 20 hours of WoW a day but eventually cleaned up his act.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Now we can all laugh about how he made posts giving people divorce advice.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3933618&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post506904852

pentyne posted:

Except after improving everything the kid wanted to come back home, and Llijksilk said "lol no" and the only reason that kid wasn't in military school was he couldn't find one cheap enough. Couldn't praise the other 2 kids hard enough though, about how they were so great he didn't want the problem kid in the same house as them.

There's a reason for this he was convinced the trouble son wasn't his, because he was so sure his ex-wife was loving her brother and so it's their son, and basically says he sees all the exact problems the ex had in the kid and was definitely treating him differently compared to the other two kids

Why is the kid I beat broken? the others work fine!

Acerbatus has a new favorite as of 05:19 on Mar 26, 2021

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Regarde Aduck posted:

Was it ever clear why they didn't try and salvage something? I think they ran out of money but instead of anyone sounding the alarm Cboyadee quietly wandered off and got a bunch of contracts for other games and was just never going to tell anyone else it wasn't happening?

edit: I guess my confusion is because I thought Cboyadee was the head of the project but he was just one of many?

They realized that they did not have the money to go as far as they wanted and they got extremely scope crept, so people started dropping out to go work a real job.

The overambition is what killed it. People wanted a straightforward RPG with jokes, and they set out to make an overbloated ARPG.

then enter the gungeon came and did what they wanted to better way faster.

It's a bit of a sad story.


Scarodactyl posted:

My understanding is that it was a gradual process and it took a while for any individual team member to realize how bad things had gotten, and there were also growing interpersonal issues involved which ultimately made the majority of team members want to leave rather than try to salvage it. I think cboyardee leaving was also earlier and not necessarily related to the later issues, at least not directly.
Realistically, salvaging it wouldn't be super easy. The demo we saw had a few good elements (particularly the excellent character creator, and amazing graphics) but also some fundamental issues in gameplay and tone.

Yeah, there's a few funny bits but they didn't fit the first game's sense of humor at all. The Duergar saying "Hi I'm a duergar, the antagonists of this game. Time to die bitch." is kinda funny, but a lot of the first game's humor came from how straight faced everything was without fourth wall breaking jokes.

Failing to pay the old man's rent on time is kinda funny, but a bit more mean spirited.

Then there was so much poo poo that was just edgy and bad, like operating on the cartoon baby chicken (not making this up) to sell his organs or w/e.

The one good piece of writing is an astronaut telling you the story of how he failed to save his home and has nothing left, except it's a completely serious with no joke or anything.

The music and graphics are great but then the writing and gameplay totally fell apart. Too much ambition and a refusal to let go of ideas they liked killed it.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

I'm pretty sure they get a doomboner either from feeding their own bleak fantasies or trying to negatively influence other posters with sadbrains.

Funnily enough the most vocal doomsayers tend to be the most safely ensconced work-from-home IT nerds.

It's usually to justify doing nothing.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
It's like the book Chrome Yellow said.

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats."


I don't think every cspam poster is a monster or anything, but I think that the entire thing makes everyone in it worse off.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

pentyne posted:

Is there any consistent reason or thing that is making the covid threads so insanely bad? By bad I mean the leper's colony has frequently had a spate of people probed for being assholes in the thread, and I remember someone insisting in QCS anyone advising people to lie in order to get the vaccine should be banned/probed.


That guy was from a country that had extremely limited supply so he was understandably upset at the idea until people told him more about the situation in the US.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Vim Fuego posted:

Hahaha, righteous

It was pretty obviously a joke thread to begin with, though.


Found the cspam poster. :v:


steinrokkan posted:

The Book Barn Covid thread is a real den of depravity through and through, though.


Games and Book Barn are covid forums.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

i still never really got the difference between "sabers" and "zaubers" and i think i stopped playing barkley just before the end

Zauber is german for magic.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CaptainSarcastic posted:

That's all true. And I hate to continue the derail any further, but one of the dumbest about using AGP to attack trans women is that if you administer the same questions to cis women you get similar results.


I don't think most people of any gender or sexual orientation get like, aroused at seeing themselves anyways so it's kind of a flawed idea to begin with.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Captain Hygiene posted:


Those who do are perfectly normal in every way!

Yeah lol like I remember some goons were arguing somewhere awhile back that it's normal to be aroused by yourself and all I could think of was that scene.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Solice Kirsk posted:

2019-20 was a hell of a time for the forums. We had the whole Lowtax getting caught a second time, then a forums revolt, then Lowtax being caught a third time, then a forums buy out, then an exposure of just how crazy the first forum's coup actually was.

third time, actually.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Wait, it's ArfJason?


Well that name just doesn't make sense.

Arf Json.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Kchama posted:

Cuntellectual's thing was incredibly confusing and as far as I can tell, Queen Combat was asked by her to get her into the trans discord or something, which involved vouching to the trans discord mods that Cuntellectual was indeed trans, since... trans discord.

Y'know, I did post full receipts for the DM conversation with QC that showed that topic never came up to begin with, though you could argue I might've photoshopped them or something. :shrug:

My complaint at the time was that several people whom I hadn't discussed the topic with at all started PMing me accusatory things about how I was fake trans or lying or a gender traitor. It wasn't a big deal to me since when you troll people yeah sometimes people hit back, but I was concerned when one of my friends pointed out that there were vulnerable people posting in TGRS who might not take it the same way.

Think what you will about me otherwise, but that entire episode was 100% out of genuine concern for other people.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Shortly after I became admin I started a name change thread in GBS and changed like 200 names. I made some good and some deliberately bad and some were just garbage I threw in because it was about 200 names in like two days. I'm surprised anyone kept theirs, and it's fine with me if people didn't like that one.

I didn't care much either way, but I did find it funny how much hate it got considering there were and are people with way more edgy names than 'Cuntellectual'.

My favorite was HP Hovercraft.

Acerbatus has a new favorite as of 03:28 on Apr 6, 2021

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Both of them are from being drunk and angry at racists, but I am a bad poster so they were deserved, unless you're seriously accusing me, the jew, of being a fervent antisemite?

You know who else was part Jewish?:godwinning:

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Who was the goon who kept posting in GiP that he knew what being in the army was like, because his father was?

pentyne posted:

Archive for GiP only goes back to 2008 so I can't find anything more recent but he shows up in this 2008 Navy thread in the OP and is listed as a civilian.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2910083

huh, I always thought that was a reveal

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Charles posted:

You can use the same email twice though? I wonder if the serial reregs know that.

Presumably when they didnt straight use the same name n+1 they weren't trying to make it that obvious?

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

pentyne posted:

so was the story with that was literally people made fun of CascadeBeta, started calling people who defended her "barney" based on her AV, and it got turned into trans hate slur?

The whole "barney" thing was talked up like it was some white dudes in hoods standing outside a black church screaming the n-word while brandishing firearms.

People called CB Barney because of the barney lookin avatar. Other people got called it too when they got upset over something so ridiculous.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Hub Cat posted:

Edgecrusher's stories were mostly about stealing stuff.

I'm pretty sure I read the thread they're talking about it was like ridiculous teenage gang war and the Op was able to expertly dismantle people in fights. I think it ended with his rivals framing him for murder so he had to get a new identity and flee(??), it was basically an anime plotline.

You sure it was e/n? I did something similar when I was 12, breathlessly reciting the stories I was told by middle schoolers. Would've been around 2011 or so. :v:

I'm very glad most of the dumb teenager stuff I posted was here and not facebook or something.

If it was me, humper monkey was definitely an inspiration.


It's been so long, was humper monkey/50 ft ant also the guy who talked about fostering or adopting a problem child that thought he was vegeta? It was also probably bullshit but it was very gripping at the time. :v:

Acerbatus has a new favorite as of 01:05 on Apr 14, 2021

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

some plague rats posted:

I would like to know more please

She was a fat goonette and then she became no longer fat.

~fin~

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Len posted:

Games still has people posting "you went to a store to buy things?! don't you know there's a plague?!" and like


Those are just hardcore pathologic fans.

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Heath posted:

That's fine to have done at the beginning, we didn't know then

Nowadays it's a little silly

My mother gets anxious about it so I just do it so she'll feel better, it's not a big hassle or anything usually

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Captain Hygiene posted:

Can we trade moms? I'd rather mine be a bit over-neurotic about it than "ah we're pretty healthy, we'll be fine without vaccines"

I'm sorry but she's fantastic so I'm not open to trades. :colbert:

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Elviscat posted:

Do not drink hand sanitizer.

Take that from me, someone who has drank hand sanitizer.

Does it taste like soap? Asking for a friend.

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Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Indeed. Several people had by that point advised me the thread's new trends were making them very uncomfortable. :(

Here's firefighter guy though :3:







God bless you, firefighter guy.

He needs to fight the guy that claims firefighters are tools of fascism or whatever

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