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I was the first coder and one of the admins for the Something Awful GTA San Andreas multiplayer server. We had been playing on some pubbie server and it sucked and I was like "where's the code for this mod I bet I can do better" despite not knowing anything about the code or really knowing much about programming at all. It turned out to be this giant lua script and I figured out enough stuff that our version was, in fact, better. I stopped when I made some change that people didn't like and other people who actually knew what they were doing started working on it too so I was intimidated and salty about it. We got enough donations that we had the server well funded and me and the server owner (I think it was Primaris?) split the excess, which was like 100 bucks each. So overall I've made a profit on my 
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Killed a Girl in 96 posted:Aren't you Adaptive Systems? You can use that as your claim to fame. Please use that as your claim to fame.
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I made a post about mad max style names that got on the fron page. I was so proud of myself at the time but i didnt have anybody else in my life i could brag about it to be cause all of my loved ones arent weird internet freaks so now im bragging about it here
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During project chanology I made a thread about seeing scientology ads on the forums, and got a reply from lowtax. I have a friend who is a filmmaker, so I pmd Darkpriest here on the forums and got my friend in touch with his favorite adult actress ever, Stephanie Swift, to offer her a role in one of his projects. The pure joy this man had when he called me after and told me about the phonecall he had with her should be bottled and sold as a medicine against depression.
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I'm the one that suggested  be given the name colbert but I didn't pay for it or make it.
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love that lil guy, but why colbert?
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:love that lil guy, but why colbert? The story goes that around the time The Colbert Report was super popular, the smiley intended to be "colbert" was made that looked like this:  , imitating Colbert's habit of taking off his glasses and raising an eyebrow skeptically. And simultaneously, unrelatedly, another group was designing a crossed arms smiley (). Someone decided (allegedly at neato burrito's suggestion, apparently) to troll both groups by buying both smileys with opposite names.I don't know if that story is 100% true but that's what I've heard.
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therapy posted:I stood up at Gooncon 2k4 and told everybody I loved cock I seem to remember this? But I'm not sure anyone even cared. There was so much weird happening constantly. Which you would never expect at gooncon, man I miss those days. Washout fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Mar 23, 2025 |
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My contributions are minor. I helped with a few Weekend Webs and a few crappy submissions to MSpaint/Photoshop threads that somehow ended up on a few front page articles. I've mostly been hanging out in the LP forum for the last 12 years or so.
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One of my Photoshop Threads got picked for Photoshop Phriday. It was even a 2-parter! https://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/wrong-role-actor/1/ https://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/actor-wrong-role/1/ I also once organized a Goon Meet at a Weed Bar in Toronto, then proceeded to green out within 20 minutes and left.
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A goon bumped his head and mentioned some weird symptoms incidentally in a post but was otherwise complaining about going to work. I said don't go to work, go to hospital. Later he came back to the thread and thanked me and said the doctors said it was a good thing he came to hospital as he might have died without treatment. If you bump your head and feel weird hours later, go to hospital.
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Wow I cant pick just one act lol I was nuts I do think I was the last major effort drawing poster though In gbs I used to do a ton of threads that took me hours upon hours of work. I had a lot of spare time and I was coming out of my reclusive shell
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I won Awful Survivor twice. I'm not sure how proud I am of that.
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There was an awful link of the day to Doogy Dawgs logoshack, a website for sprays for team fortress 2. Doogy Dawg was a guy in my TFC clan, who I introduced to moonfruit (the website builder he used) and I suggested him he make it. It honestly wasn't a bad site, and it was so weird that of all the spray sites, of all the lovely websites, it was THAT one that anyone came across, to do awful link... I dunno, just feels so unlikely.
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I made a few goons animated avatars for Christmas about 20 years back and haven't really posted here since.
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I took something like a 10 to 15 year near-hiatus from the forums and when I came back I was still in the top 20 most ignored posters.
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I'm probably high on the top 10 list of oldest goons, and maybe top 5 oldest active. Don't mean a thing, but there it is. Genesplicer is old enough to be my little brother.
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The Artificial Kid posted:I took something like a 10 to 15 year near-hiatus from the forums and when I came back I was still in the top 20 most ignored posters. I think they did away with it for obvious reasons but you were still in Top Ten Posters by count forever anyway I was like "dang Buddy Jesus avatar dude give it a rest"
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Killed a Girl in 96 posted:Aren't you Adaptive Systems? You can use that as your claim to fame. Please use that as your claim to fame. I dug Adaptive Systems as much as everybody else, though, and back in the 2000s somewhere I had an idea for what I still think could have been a solid gimmick account called "Pop Scholar." Pop Scholar would drop into random threads with a review of some semi-famous song that was laterally related to the thread topic in some abstract way, and deliver this esoteric, Pitchforky head-somewhat-up-rear end dissection of the lyrics and song meaning, and it would read as commentary on both the song and the thread/poster. I posted once with it, was promptly banned for being a lovely gimmick, and never attempted a resurrection, but I still think it was a good idea.
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I've been on the forums (including the "old" forums) since late 1999, probably putting me in the top 3 longest active goons.
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I was part of the thread that helped create slender man lol
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A post I made in I think the very first bachelor thread was tweeted by the goons.txt account. This was many years after and it was quite a surprise seeing it in my feed one day. It wasn’t even on the level of gross poo poo those threads had, just how my roommates and I never did the dishes so one morning while extremely hungover I made kool-aid in a flower vase (which was clean).
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I'm the girl who had Romeo Rose come to my birthday party.
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I won five games of Jeopardy in 2009. I didn't do any self-promotion here, though, so I'm not forums-famous. I did post about my Tournament of Champions appearance the following year but was oddly insistent on merely alluding to who I was. (Lest I do the same here, this is me.)
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I haven't had an avatar since I think 2010.
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I'm the one who was live streaming the police scanner feed during the manhunt for the tsarnaev brothers
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I made the front page a total of four times. Once for a pretty good NMD post, but the crowning glory was finding a site and getting it on ALOD: https://www.somethingawful.com/awful-links/muscle-women/
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Nothing as specific but I can be credited/ blame for starting a lot of the older articles on tvtropes. (The site went thru a creepy period after I left and bot brought up here a few times )Especially the ones that were bad puns. I named the section that eventually became WMG, until ‘amusing fan theories you’ve heard’ became ‘stupid meme humor central’ for a little bit. Also I still see fan spaces use ‘expy’ a lot when describing certain characters and I’m amazed my goofy invented jargon is still useful today keet fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Apr 5, 2025 |
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1) op of the Ctrl+alt+del mock 2 (and was getting really... Creepy? I was a teenager and very hyper) 2) kicked out of the lets play sub forum and was on retsupurae getting heckled by chip, ironicus and slow beef - it's the one with the bad Dr Phil impersonation and being really bad at gradius. 3) other than that, it's small things that aren't that well known, I think I discovered the genius game here before there was a thread, and was here for not one, but two G4TV failures! Oh, and being the resource for many a game content (Screwattack, Rooster Teeth, Giant Bomb, etc) I also have now become the unofficial game show expert on TVIV (somebody had to watch Beast Games)
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keet posted:Nothing as specific but I can be credited/ blame for starting a lot of the older articles on tvtropes. (The site went thru a creepy period after I left and bot brought up here a few times )Especially the ones that were bad puns. I named the section that eventually became WMG, until ‘amusing fan theories you’ve heard’ became ‘stupid meme humor central’ for a little bit. you can't just use these terms as if anyone outside of tvtropes is going to understand what the hell you're talking about. i googled them so for anyone else who gives a poo poo, "WMG" is "wild mass guessing" and i guess is tvtropes-ese for "fan theory that makes no sense", and "expy" isn't "experience points", it is short for "exported character", as in a character who is a ripoff of a character from some other story.
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Sockington posted:I ran AI: Secret Santa the first few years manually so I could make funny (to me) matches based on forum interactions. Also, those goddamn glorious jorts.
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Sockington posted:I ran AI: Secret Santa the first few years manually so I could make funny (to me) matches based on forum interactions.
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This implies means he also goatsed cops, and that's already cool.
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Lowtax once called me the "worst anything ever" - which coming from him must mean I'm pretty bad! Also I had perhaps the forum's shortest moderator term. Lowtax made me and (I think) 2 other people mods while I was asleep. One of the other new moderators banned a bunch of people or otherwise did something to piss Lowtax off and all of us were unmodded before I woke up. I never even saw the star lol
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Was volunteering at a holiday fair & a kid commented I was as tall as Slenderman.
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Sockington posted:I ran AI: Secret Santa the first few years manually so I could make funny (to me) matches based on forum interactions. you're also an official goon unit of measurement, I feel like that's worthy of mention I got the poker forum restored also I made 
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found out from an admin i knew IRL that lowtax disliked me on a personal level after meeting me in person. to be fair, 2004 me was pretty goddamn irritating in person
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Lowtax's whole thing was disliking people, to be fair
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platero posted:found out from an admin i knew IRL that lowtax disliked me on a personal level after meeting me in person. to be fair, 2004 me was pretty goddamn irritating in person were you the guy in the pink shirt?
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