Roth posted:

As much as I enjoy seeing Bust Rodd get clowned on, I think a dumb post and a melodramatic rebuttal is really stretching the definition of a saga

RFC2324 posted:

I followed a couple of those links and it looks like the target of all that mockery went on to discover they are trans

Captain Hygiene posted:

That's pretty funny. I'm curious how long some of the oldest threads have been going on that are still active. I was surprised to find out the other day that one of the games threads I post on has been going for a decade, and there've gotta be older ones still going strong.

Honky Dong Country posted:

I mean iunno about any of that scientology crap you're thinking of but some people definitely got mad about the neopets chat in one of the previous sagas thread because it was an fyad poster asking about it

Roth posted:

Isn't GIP mostly just dudes who retired from the military/trying to get out?

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

That stupid image is burned into my memory.

In fact I expect the last conscious flicker I experience when I die is going to be a memory of some dumb forums drama. I'll be rocking back and forth in an Alzheimer's care unit giggling about the baba booey mod as I die while the nurses shake their heads sadly because I'd long since forgotten my own name.

SirSamVimes posted:

I thought the image was of questionably aged characters in the vague anime way (but was still gross as hell) and the story got telephoned into it being literal loli porn

Antivehicular posted:

I believe the image in question was a scantily-clad, pantsless witch sitting on some guy's face and farting, where both the witch and the guy were in that standard anime "ambiguous teen-ish, definitely don't look like adults" age? No actual genitalia shown, but obvious spank material, and immensely weird to put in as someone's probation for a random shitpost in CineD.

DaysBefore posted:

Yeah sagas are great for finding secondary stories. It'll be a funny thread from five years ago and you'll see like five perma'd posters who got booted for racist rants, or posting death threats because they got owned in a politics slapfight, or an embarrassing ban me thread about how cool their new offsite is (offsite no longer available). Totally owns

ulvir posted:

that autobanning reminds me of the time right after “the troubles” when the eternal rage elementals looked at every minute thing to get very angry and pearl-clutchy about, like ADTRW’s name, emoticons etc, and threw a giant hissyfit in QCS over the “a whore of a thread!” line in autobans

UHD posted:

parasocial behavior isn’t a new phenomena, live streaming just makes it much easier to indulge (and exploit)

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Every version of the "weird fanart thread " on this site has been people just posting the fetish artwork they jack off to while going "whoa haha..isnt something like this crazy...? Who makes this stuff....??"

RFC2324 posted:

this is a separate incident for the 14 inch dude who was couch surfing with goons across the country til he hosed up, but at the request of the people involved we really don't talk about that story much

some plague rats posted:

Seriously why the gently caress has hedrigall not been banned yet. Who is reading his posts and going "yes I definitely want to hear more from this absolute freak"

Azathoth posted:

The idea of an ersatz hotdog is genuinely frightening, and I routinely eat gas station food.

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

every hot dog is the same, in that it will never be better than "okay" or "pretty good"

sweet geek swag posted:

I am an ex wow player who isn't particularly fond of Blizzard, and my opinion is that hating anything as much as some of the people in the Blizzwatch thread hate Blizzard is not healthy for you.

Literally A Person posted:

That's totally the one I was thinking of. I remember the only time I ever talked to the person they talked about guitars. Like a lot. Like, too much.

IGgy IGsen posted:

The mocking hsppened elsewhere, where grover had no power. I don't think anyone posted the thread(s) before. I sure wasn't around so I'm just going by what someone said when I asked that question a few Sagas threads ago.

Grover posted:

How long will it take to capture Baghdad? 2 days
Will Saddam be killed? Yes
Total Iraqi civillian casualties: 500 dead
Total military casualties Iraq: 3000 dead
Total military casualties U.S.: 15 dead
Will the Iraqi army regulars hold the lines? No
Will the Republican Guard fight to the end? No
Will chem/bio weapons be used on invading troops?: Yes
Will Saddam launch attacks on the Kurds? Yes
Will Saddam launch attacks on Israel? No
-If yes; will Isreal retaliate harshly? Yes
Will Saddam sacrifice Baghdad (gas/nuke it)? No
Will the Kurds make a grab for independence? Yes
Will Iran do anything silly like try for land? Yes
Will Saddam burn the oil fields? Yes
How long will the US be occupying Iraq? ~15 years
Will the Iraq war catalyze increased terrorism in America?No
In the long run, will this war be good or bad for the world? Good

We have to look at what those civilian casualties are- just because they're civilian doesn't make them innocent! Lets take a look at a few possibilities:

1) A civilian walking down the street to market gets killed by a cruise missile fired at the market.

2) A civilian asleep in their house is killed when their house is targetting by a smart bomb and blown up.

OK, these two are regrettable innocents being killed- but since the US doesn't make a habit of targetting markets or houses, they're very small in number!

3) A civilian working at a chemical weapon factory gets killed when the chemical weapon plant is bombed.

4) A civilian security guard at a weapons depot is killed when the weapons explode.

5) A civilian contractor repairing a tank is killed by a MOAB dropped on the unit.

6) A civilian engineer is killed when the military command center he works at is destroyed.

7) A civilian delivering snackiecakes to the baghdad bunker vending machines eats a 5,000lb bunker buster.

etc, etc. The list goes on. My point is that there are a lot of civilians directly supporting the military that aren't exactly "innocent" and would be mire rightly counted among the military casualties than civilian. I'm a civilian and work for the US military, but I acknowledge I'm also a valid military target because of what I do. And I think the vast majority of civilian casualties in this campaign will not be innocent.

Metis of the Hallway posted:

I was very confused about what the blizz thread was when it moved to games. I thought it was a discussion thread for the blizzard sexual harassment news but it wasn't, so I ended up not knowing how to help moderate it. But now it's somewhere else and I don't have to worry about it. But also, I don't get to probate stux as often anymore, so maybe that's my loss.

Anyway, that's my worthless recollection!

edit: I only have ONE probe on the first page of stux's rap sheet. this is a disgrace. I must correct it immediately-- ah, gently caress he's sixered again.

Lady Radia posted:

yea i really dont blame the folks who left for B&R when the lowtax stuff came out and all that. STAYING there though???

pentyne posted:

SR3 was a miracle it worked because it was basically GTA5-lite with what would now likely be referred to Rick&Morty-esque humor.

Hitlersaurus Christ posted:

Coincidentally, there is now a thread for Sakurai’s YouTube channel with the title “Masahiro Sakurai on Making Games |OT| Representation Matters” made by a user with the title “spotlighting black excellence” and the member role “diversity analyst”

Spanish Manlove posted:

I wish you guys could edit that entry and remove every other post on it because man there's some really dumb and bad poo poo there

Lady Radia posted:

we take no responsibility for this. donald pentium was hilarious

e: fwiw the skylark stuff i think was around when YOSPOS still did their gross rear end fuckin "poors out of yospos" bullshit. yospos really really sucked for a very long time

Nuns with Guns posted:

Was it MisterBibs who got called out in some Red Letter Media livestream as saying something remarkably dumb in the chat?

The Saddest Rhino posted:

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

Still not sure why LF and YCS got reincarnated, was it just 'let's be less poo poo this time' or what

mycophobia posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teC_uksSPBU

The Shortest Path posted:

I'll never not lol a bit whenever I remember that a goon put a bunch of stuff in that game.