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But Video Game Article was usually pretty good, and I miss them. One sentence reviews was a good gimmick, and since the articles were dealing with recent popular culture, they tended to be pretty accessible.
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1redflag posted:Front page? It was a kind of busybox for the unfunniest people on the forum to keep them from posting.
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Nov 4, 2020 20:43
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dear furries: we are sorry
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Nov 4, 2020 20:49
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at the very least they should bump the lowtax article off
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Nov 4, 2020 21:01
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There were a few good articles in like 2004 or so
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Nov 4, 2020 21:03
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Khanstant posted:at the very least they should bump the lowtax article off
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Nov 4, 2020 21:07
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can't believe they're gonna change SA's slogan to "the poison womb of the Internet"
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Nov 4, 2020 21:11
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I remember Frontpage had good content on a regular basis when I first started hanging out on these forums. Then it didn't; for so long that I stopped even bothering to check.
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Nov 4, 2020 21:50
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Nov 4, 2020 21:56
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Those Shmorky videos were pretty funny. I laughed at the Team Rocket one.
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Nov 4, 2020 22:21
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I haven't actively read the front page in probably 12 years or so. I think Pizza Matrix was one of the last big times? Maybe a couple of the early blue stripe stories.
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Nov 4, 2020 22:29
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Front page brings in new users and is a way to showcase some of the great content from the forums.
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Nov 4, 2020 23:01
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DynaMars was very good. The curated collections of images from photoshop threads was often good. Better when the writer made a witty comment about each one than when it was just an image dump. Fashion SWAT was funny. ikanreed posted:But Video Game Article was usually pretty good, and I miss them. Yeah, these were good too.
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Nov 4, 2020 23:13
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The movie reviews were pretty funny, even the ones written by Lowtax. They're about the only funny thing he's ever done. Most of the other front page articles I remember were all stuff that originated on the forums and were given front page space. edit: is DynaMars the ones that are basically a work log written by a low-level worker in a frighteningly reckless space station? Those were pretty good.
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Nov 4, 2020 23:18
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There was that article where Cormac McCarthy wrote about the Fleshlight that I thought was pretty funny a few years back.
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Nov 4, 2020 23:24
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This is it. This is the time you can say, "There's a front page?" and not get probed or banned!
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Nov 4, 2020 23:25
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Your Band Sucks was the thing that got me coming back here over and over again the early 2000s. I got disciplined at work twice for spending too much time on the internet because of that. And Fashion SWAT. And WTF D&D.
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Nov 4, 2020 23:33
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Nov 4, 2020 23:34
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A few years back I went to re-read the Cranky Steve's Haunted Whorehouse Quake 2 map reviews but all the images were gone. I think that's the last time I ever went tot he front page.
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Nov 4, 2020 23:36
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The front page has always been trash and all of the articles were terrible.
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:The movie reviews were pretty funny, even the ones written by Lowtax. They're about the only funny thing he's ever done. Most of the other front page articles I remember were all stuff that originated on the forums and were given front page space. No, you are thinking of Blue Stripe, which are also excellent. Dynamars is the automated logs of a mars colony where all the things that go wrong in a videogame go wrong and capitalism is very bad. Dynamars: https://www.somethingawful.com/series/dynamars-corporation-information-kiosk/ Blue Stripe: https://www.somethingawful.com/series/the-blue-stripe-logs/
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ikanreed posted:It was a kind of busybox for the unfunniest people on the forum to keep them from posting. 
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I miss the creepy-rear end horror stories years ago. Weren't they from Zach Parsons?
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Hey guys heres a novel idea the front page sucked because lowtax was never interested in curating anything good or doing any work or paying anyone or even updating, also his sense of humor was totally poisoned and bizzare so when he did like something it was usually bad and weird. I guess my point is, as it is in the dozen or so of these threads that have popped up: Front page doesn't have to suck. It could actually be really good and wouldn't take an incredible amount of effort.
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I was going to convert an old flashtub file to a video and embed it here but apparently that's a whole pain in the rear end thing when it's vector graphics. RIP flashtub
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The_Continental posted:Hey guys heres a novel idea the front page sucked because lowtax was never interested in curating anything good or doing any work or paying anyone or even updating, also his sense of humor was totally poisoned and bizzare so when he did like something it was usually bad and weird. I guess my point is, as it is in the dozen or so of these threads that have popped up: Front page doesn't have to suck. It could actually be really good and wouldn't take an incredible amount of effort. I think everyone knows that, but no one wants to actually do curation.
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I would happily edit comedy submissions for the front page if somewhat compensated. I'd even be happy to contribute. I've tried to contribute before but sat around for months waiting for lowtax to give a poo poo. This was when whats her name was actively soliciting forums members for submissions, and how we ended up with the furries thing.
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Front page had some funny poo poo. Horrors of porn, reviews, fashion swat whatever.
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What article had them reviewing cartoon porn
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The Mexican plane, who we will refer to only as the Mexican plane for he has no identity beyond that, falls in love with a French Canadian ladyplane. Why do planes have gender? I have no idea, they presumably do not reproduce sexually. In fact, they don't seem to reproduce at all, they could well be the last and only of their kind, with no knowledge of how to make more planes. Dusty's dream of freedom is not just that of the average middle-class, stuck-in-a-rut Joe Everybody, but the death cry of an entire planet. Are you having fun yet, kids? The female planes are apparently designed by someone who has no idea what a female plane would look like. The idea of introducing gendered identities to normally non-gendered objects so often treats the familiar as inherently masculine. Female planes are painted hot pink and granted the enlarged, fluttery eyelashes so often used to distinguish women from men in lazily drawn cartoons. "Look at that propellor," declares Dusty and he gets a look at one of the ladyplanes' rear end. In one scene, the film even eroticises the tilting of wingflaps for a disturbingly long time. You could argue that it is a joke. I would argue that it enforces the idea of objectifying women to all the five-year-old boys in the audience by applying it to literal objects who have gender but no sex. Gotta start them off early, after all. In a film so concerned with class division, racial stereotypes and gender-inequality,
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That strange guy posted:Front page brings in new users and is a way to showcase some of the great content from the forums. It is a great way to engage the public and bring in site hit count.
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Scathach posted:I miss the creepy-rear end horror stories years ago. Weren't they from Zach Parsons? Yep. The big running series were: CONEX Convict Connections and the other stories from North American Panopticon, North American Panopticon Wishes You a Merry Christmas 2007, The Clavo Times Christmas Pageant 2007 Review, A Special Gift from Chairman Petteridge and the Board of Directors, and The Best Quotes From Beyond Scared Straight at Lambspoke Penitentiary That Insidious Beast Instruction for a Help
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There's some good stuff still around on the front page.Someone With No Issues At All posted:3) I simply have lousy taste in women. Out of all theories, I'd say this contains the most truth. For example, I dated some girl for a few months in college. After I broke up with her, she promptly became a lesbian. I decided to become romantically involved with a woman a couple years ago, and now she sells beads and string online. Perhaps I need to embrace Raymond Watts' theory of "find it, gently caress it, forget it" which makes sassy women relationship movies such a Lifetime Network blast these days. If I were to conceivably embark on a strict loving and forgetting policy, then I wouldn't have to deal with the aspect of becoming engaged to somebody whose mind is composed of an equal mixture of "cryin' and lyin'" neurons.
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Loden Taylor posted:Yep. The big running series were: This clavo poo poo was the best poo poo to ever be on the front page. Nthing Please take that final Lowtax article down, it is weird and kind of sad. Even if all the front page turned into was a linkdump of "here's cool poo poo from the subforums you don't look at" that the mods could edit as they pleased, that'd be a good start.
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District Bulletin, bitches.
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phasmid posted:District Bulletin, bitches. Sounds like something Dorroile would say......
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I think we should do listicles like "Top 10 things 90's kids won't understand about meat!" and then post links to youtube meat commercials from the 80's It's totally unique and nobody is doing it. Surefire hit!
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