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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:When the MeToo stuff first broke and during the parade of celebrities getting outted as sex creeps and rapists one dude kept predicting John Hodgman would be the next one every single page and that he would be one of the worst one by far. There weren't any evidence or even rumors. It was just based on his vibe. I asked him about it once and he acted like I was a lunatic and accused me of secretly being john hodgman, and then went into an unrelated thread to complain about people being "weirdly obsessed" with him for his totally innocent jokes about john hodgman (a name I only even recognize because this guy kept bringing him up) goons are constantly getting huffy about dumb poo poo but that might have been the weirdest tiff I've ever been involved in because I literally could not figure out what I did to upset him
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There's also a dude who materializes any time anything involving Jared Leto is even mentioned in passing swearing that any day now he's going to get #MeToo'd because in highschool a friend of a friend told him that she had slept with him after a show once. People using #MeToo to try and legitimize their pathogical hatred of celebrities after the fact is one of the weirdest phenomenons to come out of the whole thing and, much like Benghazi, it ain't going away anytime soon.
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2421278
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Sep 12, 2020 23:01
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the zipline thread the hershberger sword thread
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Sep 13, 2020 01:37
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I can't believe I forgot about Tony loving Tango. Any time some dipshit brings their garbage creative project to the forums is amazing.
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Sep 13, 2020 04:33
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That makes me think of our little war with Romeo Rose, an incredibly pathetic man.
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Sep 13, 2020 05:56
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big dyke energy posted:I can't believe I forgot about Tony loving Tango. The Ben Biddick thread was great because the dude showed up, was like “I absolutely wrote some terrible poo poo as a kid” and made fun of it in a way that wasn’t just a lame attempt at rolling with the punches. It helps that he was a decade+ out from it so he had some perspective and wasn’t just trying to market it.
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Sep 13, 2020 06:01
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If we are talking about non-specific-to-a-thread related nostalgia then the Dropsy guy word-searching his own game then parachuting into any thread mentioning it was memorable. Just when you would forget about him someone would criticize the game in a random dark subforum and boom, he would magically appear to um actually everyone.
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Sep 13, 2020 06:05
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also the guy that was really defensive about his revolutionary idea to explain those mysterious roman dodecahedrons. He had convinced people he knew to give him thousands of dollars to invent a water tank that 3d modeled objects. There were many threads over the years. He melted down in a few of them trying to explain the brilliance of roman timecubes or whatever.
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Sep 13, 2020 06:08
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Rectal Death Adept posted:also the guy that was really defensive about his revolutionary idea to explain those mysterious roman dodecahedrons. Oh god, there would be actual historians specializing in Rome who would show up to tell him how/why he was wrong and he’d insist he knew better than them.
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Sep 13, 2020 06:10
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Well that's disappointing, I thought his Dropsy CYOA's were super cute.
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Sep 13, 2020 06:12
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 "The dodecahedrons were obviously for filling with water to do complicated 10 point mathematics to make sure their sling projectiles were the optimal shape" "What? They fired millions of those things. All you need is a weighty round rock. You don't need elaborate scientific measurements for each loving projectile.""So you are saying my elaborate roman timecube science device that 3d models objects submerged in water is based on a lie? Hmm?""Here are ten historical reasons why you are wrong/dumb and are just assuming things." "You can buy a prototype for $3,000. Oh and it doesn't work yet."
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Sep 13, 2020 06:17
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Charles Bukowski posted:Assboat
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Sep 13, 2020 06:32
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the only thing I remember about roman timecube guy was for some reason part of his plan was to hire scantily clad models to help sell it so you hear somebody is claiming to have finally figured out what these weird little things were and you go to the website and instead of anything like an explanation or summary or even hint it looks like a Troma movie without the violence "  ooooh baby, a genius found out what roman dodecahedrons are for hehe  "
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Sep 13, 2020 06:41
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Has anyone mentioned goonfarm? Id love a link to that thread.
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Star Me Kitten posted:goonfarm? just sounds nasty goonfarm pretty much is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=89VR_lZehw4
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Cubone posted:the only thing I remember about roman timecube guy was for some reason part of his plan was to hire scantily clad models to help sell it His YouTube videos and his website had all these word-saladesque descriptions of the mysterious Roman Dodecahedron around pictures of his company's head scientist holding one in her outstretched hand while wearing a bikini and lab coat. This was because "sex sells", you see. The head scientist was like a physics grad student and not at all hot enough to be the face of a "sex sells" campaign.
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china bot posted:also, in case it wasn't posted already, Kirk's Razer meltdown: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3459842 The Razer meltdown is so much better now since the concept art he was losing his poo poo over was basically a Nintendo Switch.
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rodbeard posted:The Razer meltdown is so much better now since the concept art he was losing his poo poo over was basically a Nintendo Switch. holy poo poo
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I think about a lot of threads I read as a lurker that I got shut out of before finishing. poo poo Lasagna (read it eventually). The thread about the girl with the emotionally abusive best friend. At one point the best friend 'casts spell' by drawing dicks in the air with sparklers. Part of this thread made it onto the front page at one point. The thread about the guy who found a girl's journal in a desk he bought. The thread about Final Fantasy 7 House, and then later Suikoden House (which abruptly ends in all the versions I found online later). The Let's Play of the Trillby games where suddenly Yahtzee shows up and (mostly) good sports his way though the thread.
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Sep 16, 2020 02:14
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Obsidianheart posted:I think about a lot of threads I read as a lurker that I got shut out of before finishing. I want to read both of these.
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Sep 16, 2020 04:25
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"I dare you to find a company more evil than De Beers" https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2882549&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 There was a Comedy Goldmine front page article about it too https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/most-evil-companies/1/
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Sep 16, 2020 04:59
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The thread where goons tried to collaborate and create a 2D fighting game with famous E/N posters.
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there was a pornographic x-men names thread that disappeared out of existence because apparently thread archiving wasnt working for a minute and some threads ceased to be
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Charles Bukowski posted:Assboat
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Sep 16, 2020 06:55
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Hyperdevbox and their refusal to let gamers romance a guillotine.
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Sep 16, 2020 07:54
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Every now and then I fleetingly think of the thread that gave us Brian-san
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The Scientist posted:"I dare you to find a company more evil than De Beers" this thread made me feel physically ill when it was going, and 12 years of distance has done nothing to temper it
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rodbeard posted:The Razer meltdown is so much better now since the concept art he was losing his poo poo over was basically a Nintendo Switch. I like to think Nintendo found this pic one day and were like, "That's it! BRILLIANT!" 
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Captain Jesus posted:There was once a short lived and very fast moving thread about some goony guy who posted an ad off-site offering to do all kinds of simple manual labor (like moving stuff). Goons somehow thought it would be a good idea to troll him and pretended to be 1) single lady in her twenties or thirties (that the guy immediately started to hit on), 2) priest wanting help with moving some religious objects, 3) man wanting help to set up some fetish party.
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That one poster who had a super cool rug. It had like wizards and dragons or space ships or some poo poo. It was like a whole fantasy or scifi scene. The thread title was something like "just look at my cool rear end rug". Many years later I wish I had such a cool rug.
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Zoesdare posted:I want to read both of these. "spellcasting magic dicks with sparklers" sounds a lot like a scene from the Ask me about growing up with a girl who thinks she's married to anime guys thread. And I'm fairly sure that's because someone- either uglynoodles or some other goon- went and illustrated said scene. Could be wrong, it's been several years since I sat down and went through that thread, even though it was one of the first threads I read on SA and played a major part in getting me to register. That thread is also where The Saddest Rhino told everybody the story of their university classmate who thought she was astrally married to some guru who she had never actually met in person.
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I've tried off and on for awhile to find an old TCC thread from around 2009-2011 that was full of goons sharing anecdotes of times they had found abandoned drugs out in the world. I have such a strong sense memory of sitting at my desk one night in college reading through it on the tiny screen of my asus eee laptop. They all sounded so wild and worldly to the naive nerd I was then, pre-drugs/booze. I would be very curious to read through it again now with adult eyes. Also have a fond memory of a thread from the tail end of the era of gbs superstars posting. It was a spooky story by a goon who claimed to be an army veteran who had been posted to a remote West German base in the 80s. Lots of mysterious happenings, possible nazi ghosts, with the underlying dread and futility of being a grunt during the Cold War in a position that would have been one of the first to be nuked. An obviously false tall tale, but I remember reading it at 2am alone was pretty spooky.
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Zohn posted:
That was 50 Foot Ant, I think he purged a lot of his posts on this site because he wanted to turn them into a novel.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That was 50 Foot Ant, I think he purged a lot of his posts on this site because he wanted to turn them into a novel. They are all posted on a website, but for the life of me, I can' Moo the cow fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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Since I ask in every thread about reminiscing, does anyone have the songs from the contest to write a song about Robocop meeting Anderson Cooper? They've disappeared from the front page article and I've been dying to hear "live from the lab" again for years.
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Zohn posted:Also have a fond memory of a thread from the tail end of the era of gbs superstars posting. The month after GBS 2.0 started when the guy who would periodically do in-character roleplaying threads about being an epic badass paranormal investigator rolled up with a new thread and was immediately shut down by everyone going "what the gently caress are you doing, this is cringe" was like the ending of Chinatown in terms of seeing someone just wholly and utterly have their soul destroyed right in front of you in the span of moments.
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There was a thread a million years ago where some goon found a sac of black widow eggs that he took and started raising the young spiders that came out of it and the very first reply was " What the gently caress is wrong with you".
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Sleeveless posted:The month after GBS 2.0 started when the guy who would periodically do in-character roleplaying threads about being an epic badass paranormal investigator rolled up with a new thread and was immediately shut down by everyone going "what the gently caress are you doing, this is cringe" was like the ending of Chinatown in terms of seeing someone just wholly and utterly have their soul destroyed right in front of you in the span of moments. Jaded Mensa Op, maybe? E:Nope, looks like their last post was in 2011.
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