The Shortest Path posted:

Does anyone have a better account of the BobFromMarketing poo poo that exploded the Archeage goon guild? It got brought up in another thread and I posted what I could remember of it but my memory is crap and I know I'm missing loads of details. This is the best I was able to write up about it:

Lutha Mahtin posted:

Tokaii has an article in SAclopedia. His goldmined thread about being a cop is linked there. My guess is that the most likely explanation for his "hebephile" post is that he's an old man who learned the word decades ago and was out of date/clueless about the gross corners of the Internet that many goons consider common knowledge. It's also very likely that he didn't understand the entire situation, because I don't think someone who was a cop and schoolteacher would defend the person he did if he knew the whole story. And the fact is that Tokaii's "pedo-defender" post is only a minor footnote in a way grosser and awful story.

The story began for me around the time of the North American launch of a Korean MMO called ArcheAge. Goons were excited about this game and a :goonrush: was in full effect for launch, including yours truly. The game had some neat ideas, and one that goons were interested in was that it had the same social policy of Eve Online where players are allowed to scam and steal from each other. It also had a player-driven economy, like Eve. These things meant (of course) that the game brought in many goons who had played Eve in the past. Goon guilds were made, and people were having fun playing the game. Then someone pointed out that a leader of the goon guild, BobFromMarketing had the same username as a sexual predator. Information was shared that someone named BobFromMarketing had been banned from Goonfleet years earlier, because he had met an underage girl in Eve Online and proceeded to groom and abuse her over a period of several years. It's very gross and the now-woman who suffered this abuse eventually posted online about it: woman telling story about childhood sexual abuse

This set off a gigantic shitstorm for the goons playing that stupid game, because some of the other leaders in the goon guilds made very tone-deaf statements and didn't respond by immediately kicking the guy out. I don't remember exactly, but I think at one point there was a second scandal; after he'd been officially kicked out of goon guilds, I think it was revealed that some goons were still in contact with this guy in-game, because he was an uber-nerd who was really good at the game, or he owned in-game land that was valuable for producing certain crops, or some other really dumb thing that was no justification for keeping in contact with him. The gas chamber thread linked in my first paragraph here, the one that goes to Tokaii's cringe-post, was one of the main SA threads for that game at the time, so if for some reason you want to read more about this (eww, yuck), you can follow that down the rabbit hole.

This also resulted in BobFromMarketing eating a permaban. I think there might have even part of this story where some Eve goons had tried to raise a fuss about him on SA that didn't go anywhere. I'm not sure on that one, though.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Oh yeah I remember lord of booty coming in this thread to give an explanation of the anime that nobody asked for

Len posted:

Ya know I never wanted to know what reports I had against me but I can't stop wondering. Thanks for that

BrigadierSensible posted:

This is going to sound like a very stupid question, so I am sorry.

But I was thinking about the Koalas March thing, and how she had a sock puppet account where she would praise herself and say how awesome she was, so other people would notice/like her.

Has there ever been the case of the opposite? i.e. Where a poster has a sock puppet that follows them around saying how poo poo and bad they are? They would do this so they get noticed by other people, and also to get internet sympathy, because from the perspective of everybody else they would be being picked on by a stranger for no reason.

Yes, I know that is a stupid, pointless, and quite likely self-defeating thing to do. But this is the internet, and weirdos have done worse to become "forums famous".

System Metternich posted:

I was like 17 when I first started lurking here back in '05 and I totally believed everything he wrote back when he was claiming to be a White House intern and gave out juicy details about Rumsfeld downing loads of Viagra everyday or whatever

Hello Spaceman posted:

out of curiosity i googled it and found this lol

https://twitter.com/EARTH_400083/status/1319349042829250562

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

holy poo poo lol

yeah back when the Bit Torrent Barnyard was here on the forums that was a big one.

edit: old mod SpokkerJones got into a feud with the BTB users when he banned cams from being torrented because he thought they were stupid (which is true) and that people who downloaded them should be banned. This was part of his downward spiral into his inflated ego spiraling out of control and claiming that SA needed him. He was demodded and I think shadowbanned lol

barbecue at the folks posted:

I remember this joke but I can't recall the especially gnarly story behind it.

evacuate meatspace posted:

August 2000
"Cliff Yablonski Hates You" shows up on the Something Awful website. He is currently being modeled for a new video game by Lowtax.

Blueshirt posted:

Cliff Yablonski: Freedom Fighter. Was gonna be a side scrolling beat em up made entirely in Flash.

A working prototype was produced (goon meet attendees at Lowtax's house got to play it) but Lowtax gotta Lowtax and he eventually hit technical snags and gave up and it was, for a while, bannable to mention.

Captain Hygiene posted:

Technically incorrect, since there will presumably be future contests awarding signed posters

syscall girl posted:

Reading archived threads is interesting for the good jokes and seeing several banned/perma'd users per page.

Carthag Tuek posted:

lol

Solice Kirsk posted:

Not gonna lie, I forgot they were even a thing on here. I seem to remember turning them off in like 2003 when it become cool to jam like 500mb of animated banners into your sig and I never looked back.

bell jar posted:

The lengths goons will go to in order to see Lowtax eat poo poo

quote:

“I am God,” a longhaired 20-something repeats to the people babysitting him in a bathroom hallway. “I am a perfect logical machine.”

Two girls huffing nitrous oxide from a balloon and a guy holding a needle come by. The guy with the needle says he has a chemical mixture that if injected will lessen the effects of hallucinogens. “I have the solution right in my hands,” he says. Eyre decides it’s a bad idea to inject the longhaired guy with a mystery drug — even if it could work in theory — and says he won’t allow it to happen.

“Can anyone refute that it will work?” the guy with the needle asks.

It might as well have been the slogan for the whole glorious epic of the Porcupine Freedom Festival.

Spanish Manlove posted:

no lol, he reacted like the guy at the beginning of blade runner

Horizon Burning posted:

TELL ME ABOUT SERAPH

WHY DOES HE WEAR THE SOCKS

ExplodingSims posted:

Guess Lowtax needs to replenish the font from which he lives his extravagant life of gas station wine, prescription medication, and leather couches.

Some Goon posted:

Considering he couldn't figure out how to turn the ingredients for pasta sauce into a pasta sauce (combine, simmer until bored), I'm willing to guess that whatever he cauldroned up was terrible.

Solice Kirsk posted:

How many 100k hour probes have there been?

dee eight posted:

there was a stats thread in qcs a while back, maybe there's a way to check there?

Ugly In The Morning posted:

If there’s a giant text dump of the LC, wouldn’t it be pretty trivial to search for 100,000 and do a little sorting of the 100k probes and regular instances of 100,000?

The Kins posted:

A right-wing homophobe who graced D&D with his presence in 2011/2012, got perma'd to just get him to go away, and reacted by melting down with an avatar-buying spree attempting to bring light to this grave injustice.

Mycroft Holmes posted:

does anyone have a link to the bungmonkey fyad thread where they make fun of his basement troll cave? Oh, and the Glenn Beck fiction thread where we wrote more libertarian fanfic.

pentyne posted:

exquisite tea posted:

I once read that a certain subset of consumers will always buy the worst available product across any industry or area of life and I think the same can be said for judges of character.