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Some guys don't need an accident to become a bigger rear end in a top hat.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:04
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Both viggen and that guy had personality changing accidents? Or is it the same guy?
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Mar 1, 2021 20:10
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Cool thanks!  Charles posted:Both viggen and that guy had personality changing accidents? Or is it the same guy? One of my friends had an accident and now gets blackout drunk really easily. Like, absolutely zero recollection of anything that happens. It's scary how fragile our brains can be.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:32
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poo poo, they were both weirdos that I had them misremembered as the same person. Viggen had the accident, rimzunk just hated people who called wheels "rims".
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Mar 1, 2021 20:35
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Charles posted:Both viggen and that guy had personality changing accidents? Or is it the same guy? Different people (?maybe?), but I can attest to Viggen changing substantially after his accident. We wound up FB friends for a good bit, we bought/sold some stuff among each other. There was a big difference after the accident. Enough that he sold his house and moved much closer to family, I think it broke him enough that he wasn't really able to hold down a job anymore. I know for awhile he was supporting himself by buying broken electronics (mostly Kindles and phones) on eBay and repairing them, but he was also at the point where he couldn't even afford to run his AC. In Nevada, where it gets pretty brutally hot. I mean, he was still a snarky rear end in a top hat before and after, though I could fire it back just as good when it was just us one on one (and one on one it was generally "good natured rear end in a top hat ribbing" instead of "being an rear end in a top hat for no reason"). But that ding on the noggin while doing an endo in a Saab down a mountain definitely changed the guy. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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Mar 1, 2021 20:42
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Rhyno posted:Some guys don't need an accident to become a bigger rear end in a top hat. Hi.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:49
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Krakkles posted:One of my friends had an accident and now gets blackout drunk really easily. Like, absolutely zero recollection of anything that happens. It's scary how fragile our brains can be. Yeah I found that out through my neurologist. Nothing is certain. Some people will get a bad concussion and fully recover within a few months, and some people like me have lingering issues. 3 months is the magic number, if you haven't improved back to normal by then the chances are less likely as time goes on. Everything is so uncertain, he could never give me a straight answer about anything really, just "likely" or "less likely". Weird poo poo can't be explained, the kind of stuff that happens to me now is hard to convey and can only be explained as over stimulation. Kind of frustrating when the specialist that's supposed to help you just shrugs his shoulders. I should have gotten a degree in neurology or meteorology, you only have to be right some of the time! 
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Mar 1, 2021 20:52
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I know it's not a concussion, but I'm still working though my vertigo and my dr has me referred to a Neurologist that specializes in it. I am still slowly improving, but the curve is definitely flattening which has me concerned. It'll be 2 months end of this week. I sometimes feel like as what others have described to me a concussion is like, just "foggy" at times, not feeling sharp. Still get a little dizzy/disoriented when I move my head, but I am hoping it will go away. Since my hobby of choice is martial arts, I have a nagging thing in the back of my head that if/when I start to spar again and take a good hit to the noggin, if it's going to gently caress me up. I guess the flip side, it's pretty impressive how a brain can "re-wire" itself to cope with the hosed up signals your ears are sending out for your balance. No, it's not perfect, but it's pretty amazing that I'm not constantly just laying down unable to move.
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Mar 1, 2021 21:00
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Yeah I found that out through my neurologist. Nothing is certain. Some people will get a bad concussion and fully recover within a few months, and some people like me have lingering issues. 3 months is the magic number, if you haven't improved back to normal by then the chances are less likely as time goes on. Everything is so uncertain, he could never give me a straight answer about anything really, just "likely" or "less likely". Weird poo poo can't be explained, the kind of stuff that happens to me now is hard to convey and can only be explained as over stimulation. Kind of frustrating when the specialist that's supposed to help you just shrugs his shoulders. I have had something similar since my concussion in 2014. The mood stuff was gone inside of six months, but the ability to hear / understand a single voice when there were other people talking or nearby noise never came back.
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Mar 1, 2021 21:10
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STR posted:Different people (?maybe?), but I can attest to Viggen changing substantially after his accident. We wound up FB friends for a good bit, we bought/sold some stuff among each other. There was a big difference after the accident. Enough that he sold his house and moved much closer to family, I think it broke him enough that he wasn't really able to hold down a job anymore. I know for awhile he was supporting himself by buying broken electronics (mostly Kindles and phones) on eBay and repairing them, but he was also at the point where he couldn't even afford to run his AC. In Nevada, where it gets pretty brutally hot. I feel bad for Viggen. That was hosed
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Mar 1, 2021 21:11
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BlackMK4 posted:I have had something similar since my concussion in 2014. The mood stuff was gone inside of six months, but the ability to hear / understand a single voice when there were other people talking or nearby noise never came back.
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Mar 1, 2021 21:21
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My issues are being able to focus on things, if there's too much going on especially (like in a grocery store) my brain just shuts down and goes blank if i try to focus on any one thing too much. Then my head starts to feel like it's in a vice and my eyes feel like they want to pop out. At that point I have to leave the situation for it to stop. And my information retention is horrible now, anything new is a struggle, however old stuff like getting around the city or changing the oil in my car is still there it's weird.
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Mar 1, 2021 21:46
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Everybody broken ITT
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Mar 1, 2021 23:07
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Hmmm, I always assumed my difficulty with focusing on tasks was adult ADD since a couple of my cousins have it but maybe it's due to concussions. I've had like 5 or 6 concussions from playing sports and one from falling off a 15 ft. ladder. A couple of them caused me to black out too. Like I can focus but I find I can only do it for short periods of time them I start to feel uncomfortable all over and I have to do something else.
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Mar 1, 2021 23:38
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It's similar to ADD I guess, my neurologist prescribed me Adderall to try to help with it, but it didn't really seem to help me enough to be taking it all the time. Maybe if I were working full time having to concentrate in a busy environment it might help more I suppose, but I'm on disability now so there's no point having to depend on any pills at the moment.
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Mar 2, 2021 00:14
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I feel for Viggen because after I had my wreck in 2019 (rear ended on the interstate) I was in a terrible mood for about three weeks. Little things would set me off and I'd feel incredibly angry to the point I'd have to go outside in my car to scream about poo poo. It was incredibly weird and out of character for me but started to go away about a month or so after the accident. The most bizarre part was it felt like being a passenger in my own head; I knew what was happening was not right but at the time those emotions were incredibly powerful and didn't listen to reason. I really can't imagine what it'd be like to have those effects stick around for years. Brains are weird. Hope all AI goons current and former stay safe and sane. What happened to Blowdog? From the UK I believe, had a custom license plate on his Porsche, and I think he had a few other fast/expensive fun cars. He was one of the people who got the rule about not asking "omg what do you do for a living?" enacted. Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 2, 2021 02:20
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Previa_fun posted:
From page 1: Anyone else remember blow dog, the guy in the UK with the supercars, and we collectively chased him off? (https://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=61225) I still follow him on Flickr, he's got a beautiful orange R8 now. Still rocking a BLOWDOG plate, of some variant.
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Mar 2, 2021 05:47
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Yeah he posts on other forums and has his own blog. What about DILLIGAF or Der Blitzkrieger and his Impala SS? I seem to recall DBK admitting to hitting a curb while drunk driving and messing up his car.
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Mar 2, 2021 07:27
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I opened the forums for the first time in 5 years to find an old video and see this thread. Man.. this stuff seems like several lifetimes ago. I remember the trips to SoCal and the Day of the Dead Motorcyclists on Angeles Crest. Barbecues and working on cars. Watching redscare get tanked and attempt to wrestle people, badly.The Linux Fairy posted:I'm not nostalgic for the bad old days -- the dasvolk era -- of IRC. I'm sad we -- and I -- didn't do more about it then; when we finally got rid of dasvolk for good, the quality of the IRC went way up, but it was ultimately too late, and the damage was done: the good posters were gone, and all that was left were folks who put up with him and his ilk for too long. Das Volk was an out-and-out nazi (it was years until I understood what his username '1v1r1f' meant), and we should have gotten rid of him long before. I have to apologize for my role in all of that. The nazi jokes were in terrible taste but were never meant to be taken seriously. Around that time I had just gotten divorced, and I was drinking a lot, which meant I was constantly venting my frustrations. IRC in general was a loving nightmare of drama, jokes that went too far, drug addictions and mental illness. We had one particular user who stalked people online as well as IRL, made fake chat logs, and generally stirred poo poo up for fun. I quit using IRC altogether and felt much better off for it. Rhyno posted:Yeah well because of AI enabling a terrible person Tremeks wife was assaulted in their home. He gets all the slack in the world after that. I'm sorry to hear that, I didn't like Tremek either, but I'm sadly not surprised given how batshit crazy some of the people in that group are. His wife is a good person and deserved none of that. Krakkles posted:He also heavily adopted a The Dark Knight era Joker "just want to watch the world burn" philosophy in, oh, what was it? 2016, perhaps? Sounds about right. I'm doing much better nowadays, still miss you guys sometimes. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 2, 2021 23:22
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Das Volk posted:I opened the forums for the first time in 5 years to find an old video and see this thread. Man.. this stuff seems like several lifetimes ago. I remember the trips to SoCal and the Day of the Dead Motorcyclists on Angeles Crest. Barbecues and working on cars. Watching redscare get tanked and attempt to wrestle people, badly. Glad to hear that you're doing better. People grow up, change, and that's cool.
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Mar 2, 2021 23:45
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Das Volk posted:Sounds about right. I'm doing much better nowadays, still miss you guys sometimes. sharkytm posted:Glad to hear that you're doing better. People grow up, change, and that's cool.
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Mar 2, 2021 23:49
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Let's check with what forums user Das Volk is thinking now that he's a changed man:          (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 2, 2021 23:52
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What's wrong with Calvin and hobbes?
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Mar 3, 2021 00:00
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StormDrain posted:What's wrong with Calvin and hobbes? Nothing... the rest of the quotes? Welp. Edit: And a solid shitpost and run.
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Mar 3, 2021 00:12
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StormDrain posted:What's wrong with Calvin and hobbes? Not enough Nazi imagery. dasvolk 3 points 95 days ago +3 / -0 It's really sad what happened to SA, it used to be a great place and turned into a huge hugbox for demented troons and leftards. I don't like offsite drama and it's amazing that poster had screenshots ready to go but let's ban the nazi instead.
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Mar 3, 2021 00:17
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Charles posted:I don't like offsite drama and it's amazing that poster had screenshots ready to go but let's ban the nazi instead. AI has a long history of banning lovely people, especially nazis.
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Mar 3, 2021 00:27
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I'll discuss this with Cat, Chips and the admins.
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Mar 3, 2021 00:31
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Lol Jesus Christ
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Mar 3, 2021 00:55
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To think I doubted severing ... oof.
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Mar 3, 2021 01:35
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 Changed, my rear end. As of last contact on Facebook dude was being a snowflake over Trump and blocked me even though his dude hadn't even lost yet.
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Mar 3, 2021 01:58
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Das Volk posted:I opened the forums for the first time in 5 years to find an old video and see this thread. Man.. this stuff seems like several lifetimes ago. I remember the trips to SoCal and the Day of the Dead Motorcyclists on Angeles Crest. Barbecues and working on cars. Watching redscare get tanked and attempt to wrestle people, badly. So I take it from the sourced quotes below your post, you've moved on from German cars to yellow Mustangs, right?
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Mar 3, 2021 02:12
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Ardemia posted:So I take it from the sourced quotes below your post, you've moved on from German cars to yellow Mustangs, right? 
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Mar 3, 2021 02:15
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meatpimp posted:Nothing... the rest of the quotes? Welp. The rest of the quotes are obviously terrible. That one was out of place that made me wonder if I missed something.
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Mar 3, 2021 02:25
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Ardemia posted:So I take it from the sourced quotes below your post, you've moved on from German cars to yellow Mustangs, right? OMG drat son
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Mar 3, 2021 02:27
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Ardemia posted:So I take it from the sourced quotes below your post, you've moved on from German cars to yellow Mustangs, right? He’s got a series of bad used e60 bmws now, probably the only thing that he fits in anymore.
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Mar 3, 2021 02:32
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D C posted:He’s got a series of bad used e60 bmws now, probably the only thing that he fits in anymore. That's worse than I imagined.
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Mar 3, 2021 02:37
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Seems like basic "muh rights!" poo poo to me which isn't my bag but eh...banning someone for posts on another forum seems weird. Also ilkhan still posts. (Does ilkhan still post?)
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Mar 3, 2021 02:48
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Previa_fun posted:Seems like basic "muh rights!" poo poo to me which isn't my bag but eh...banning someone for posts on another forum seems weird. Also ilkhan still posts. (Does ilkhan still post?)  He's racist. I'm sure there's more but that's probably enough
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Mar 3, 2021 02:56
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Charles posted:Not enough Nazi imagery. Added quote tags for clarity, I thought you were saying the quoted part at first because I don't know what that reddit points poo poo is. I'm too much of a leftard to post on reddit. Also I love the implication that this used to be a great place when we tolerated nazi bullshit. I said it on page 3 but seriously, I held off on joining SA for five years because of how much racism was tolerated. It was a slow process of finding out that ironic racism is just regular racism. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 03:45
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I think that the lesson that we have learned today is that Ken White's Rule of Goats is a generally applicable concept: https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473?lang=en dasvolk, one of my biggest regrets in all the communities that I'm a part of is that I didn't run you the gently caress out of IRC ten years ago before you destroyed a space that would have been worth saving. It is my greatest joy that you got to participate in The Year Of Finding Out, 2021. There are very few people in this world that I truly wish ill on: my greatest hope for you is that you will continue to Find Out, until some day you decide that being a pile of poo poo doesn't suit you. Good luck... and stay far the hell away from any space that I'm in. Now, let me turn my focus to good posters from the IRC era that I dearly miss. Muffinpox was an excellent poster, both on IRC and on the forums. A favorite thread series of his was reviewing cars he autocrossed: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3898265 I hope he's doing well these days... I wonder what he's up to.
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