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SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Lone Goat posted:

A poorly drawn head lying on its back, with poop sluicing into its open month like soft serve ice cream.

Don't forget the poo poo-smeared chest, referring of course to the time when Metis posted a picture of his own chest covered in poo poo and the word "COMEDY GOLD" written in it with a finger. And people cried about keyboard goop. Psh.

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Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
I have 2000 unread posts in the GK thread and I feel really bad about not keeping up. I think the series works better when you read whole chapters in one go.

Ovo
Dec 20, 2008

Life Rules

Adrastus posted:

Anyone remembers what :metis: looked like?

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!
From a number of pages ago: What the hell was the smiley in this post:

SplitSoul posted:


I also made a few of varying quality that never caught on:

supposed to be?

cock hero flux
Apr 17, 2011



Electric Bugaloo posted:

From a number of pages ago: What the hell was the smiley in this post:


supposed to be?

Looks like someone shooting a furry.

Spooky Bear Ghost
Sep 17, 2010

lets get spooky

Dauntasa posted:

Looks like someone shooting a furry.

naturally the goon is wearing a fedora.

Grim Up North
Dec 12, 2011

Itchy Bear Dong posted:

naturally the goon is wearing a fedora.

Fur fedora and and whip, isn't that Indiana Jones?

Adrastus
Apr 1, 2012

by toby
I've been meaning to ask this a long time: what's with all the ad pictures of scanty clad ladies on the bottom of the page that lead to Amazon?

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

Adrastus posted:

I've been meaning to ask this a long time: what's with all the ad pictures of scanty clad ladies on the bottom of the page that lead to Amazon?

A very clever ploy by somebody using Amazon's referral link program (where you get like 1% of the cost of whatever people buy from following your link to Amazon) to make some money. I would not be a bit surprised to find out they pay for themselves quickly.

Comic
Feb 24, 2008

Mad Comic Stylings

VanSandman posted:

A very clever ploy by somebody using Amazon's referral link program (where you get like 1% of the cost of whatever people buy from following your link to Amazon) to make some money. I would not be a bit surprised to find out they pay for themselves quickly.

Especially since, iirc, that it doesn't have to be a purchase of the item they link, any purchase on amazon within a period of time gets credited to them. The magic of cookies, or something.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

Comic posted:

Especially since, iirc, that it doesn't have to be a purchase of the item they link, any purchase on amazon within a period of time gets credited to them. The magic of cookies, or something.

Yep, that's precisely it, and apparently the guy turns a decent amount on it. A couple hundred a month anyway basically for free.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist


Why do so many people have this avatar?

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!

Met posted:



Why do so many people have this avatar?

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

Gloryhold It!
Sep 22, 2008

Fucking
Adorable
I think he knows now.

Urdnot Fire
Feb 13, 2012

And the curse claims another victim :ohdear:

Tamayachi
Sep 25, 2007

Did you think about it?


Yes. Yes you did.

Met posted:



Why do so many people have this avatar?

Its kind of like a curse, if you talk about it, you suddenly have it. (Don't think about it either)

edit: beaten with the curse, by the curse.

Tamayachi has a new favorite as of 02:17 on Dec 1, 2012

pageerror404
Feb 14, 2012

I finally killed them.
Not a smiley, but can someone explain this image?



I have seen several people use it (and variations of it) as avatars.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
It's from Gunnerkrig Court, a webcomic a lot of goons like. Don't know the context.

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!

pageerror404 posted:

Not a smiley, but can someone explain this image?



I have seen several people use it (and variations of it) as avatars.

I can see your ruse.

Babysitter Super Sleuth
Apr 26, 2012

my posts are as bad the Current Releases review of Gone Girl

Apparently some GKC fan with too much money rolled through the thread on BSS and bought a bunch of goons variations on the tea avatar. Don't know the exact context, I don't read gunnerkrigg because reasons.

toanoradian
May 31, 2011


The happiest waffligator
Of the dog smileys (e.g. :chord:, :regd09:), which one appears first? Also is it a reference to a specific dog or just a random dog?

What is :punto:? I know 'bunt' is a technique in baseball where you hold your bat horizontally in front of the mitt so that the ball will almost always bounce off weakly off the bat, but what is this emoticon referring to?

Lastly, what is :smugndar:? What's N, D, A and R?

trapped mouse
May 25, 2008

by Azathoth

toanoradian posted:

Of the dog smileys (e.g. :chord:, :regd09:), which one appears first? Also is it a reference to a specific dog or just a random dog?

What is :punto:? I know 'bunt' is a technique in baseball where you hold your bat horizontally in front of the mitt so that the ball will almost always bounce off weakly off the bat, but what is this emoticon referring to?

Lastly, what is :smugndar:? What's N, D, A and R?

:regd09: was the first one, created because someone was absolutely ticked that "reg date 2009" looked like "regdog" when shortened. And it is pretty funny.

I think it was just a dog modeled after the :frogout: frog.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Sagebrush posted:

Yep, that's precisely it, and apparently the guy turns a decent amount on it. A couple hundred a month anyway basically for free.

Yeah this, I personally clear my cache before I buy stuff 'cause gently caress that guy.

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

Moist von Lipwig posted:

Yeah this, I personally clear my cache before I buy stuff 'cause gently caress that guy.

I'm not that guy, but you're an rear end. So the gently caress what if he gets money off something you buy - the product would cost the same to you anyway.

het
Nov 14, 2002

A dark black past
is my most valued
possession

VanSandman posted:

I'm not that guy, but you're an rear end. So the gently caress what if he gets money off something you buy - the product would cost the same to you anyway.
Because it's lovely for the forums to have them littered with pseudo-porn ads. He pays money to make the site worse, so users go out of their way to make sure it doesn't pay off for him. You're right, the product costs the same anyway, so why not take an extra step to thwart shitheads who make SA a worse site?

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

het posted:

Because it's lovely for the forums to have them littered with pseudo-porn ads. He pays money to make the site worse, so users go out of their way to make sure it doesn't pay off for him. You're right, the product costs the same anyway, so why not take an extra step to thwart shitheads who make SA a worse site?

drat, took the words out of my mouth :golfclap:

Fraction
Mar 27, 2010

CATS RULE DOGS DROOL

FERRETS ARE ALSO PRETTY MEH, HONESTLY


Maybe just... don't click the ads? v:shobon:v

het
Nov 14, 2002

A dark black past
is my most valued
possession

Fraction posted:

Maybe just... don't click the ads? v:shobon:v
Sure, but the general concept is the same, it's not just because they're pseudo-porn. If my Amazon purchases are going to indirectly fill someone's coffers, I want it to be deliberate. Deceptive ads don't ultimately benefit anyone but the ad owner.

Farbtoner
May 17, 2011

by Y Kant Ozma Post

Fraction posted:

Maybe just... don't click the ads? v:shobon:v

The person who buys them actively obscures the fact that they're Amazon referral links, right down to using TinyURL to hide the url. Aside from the totally obvious "click here for NAKED LADIES :q:" banners you have no way of knowing if an ad is a legit Goon business or the Amazon parasite until after you click it.

het posted:

Sure, but the general concept is the same, it's not just because they're pseudo-porn. If my Amazon purchases are going to indirectly fill someone's coffers, I want it to be deliberate. Deceptive ads don't ultimately benefit anyone but the ad owner.

Not only that but they're an active detriment to the site, since going off of the QCS drama a lot of Goons that had banner ads whitelisted have started blocking them again to avoid seeing the borderline-NSFW Amazon ads. gently caress rewarding this guy for actively hurting My Posting Experience.

Monicro
Oct 21, 2010

And you could feel his features in the air
A wide smile and perfect hair
He had complete control of the rising tides
And a medicine bag hanging at his side

In the flowing blue world of the death-dealing physician
Look at all you scrubs not using SALR :smug:

e: VVV afaik there's no way to choose which ads you want to block, I just have them all turned off.

Monicro has a new favorite as of 12:02 on Dec 1, 2012

Comic
Feb 24, 2008

Mad Comic Stylings

Monicro posted:

Look at all you scrubs not using SALR :smug:

Is there an option for SALR to remove those banner ads only or something? I can't find it if so.

d3c0y2
Sep 29, 2009

Tamayachi posted:

Its kind of like a curse, if you talk about it, you suddenly have it. (Don't think about it either)

edit: beaten with the curse, by the curse.

You make getting a frogtar look so easy, what the hell?

Mr. Tibbs
Aug 4, 2012

They call me Mister Tibbs!
When you are bestowed a frogatar, does someone pay for it or can mods give it out for free?

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

Mr. Tibbs posted:

When you are bestowed a frogatar, does someone pay for it or can mods give it out for free?

Yes.


Ok not to be a smug logician, both answers are correct.

Assoonasitits
Dec 11, 2007

I guess frogout is too polite to simply say "begone".

Met posted:



Why do so many people have this avatar?

I like that it's a polite yet insistent banishment. I guess frogout is to polite to simply say "begone".

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




Contagious frogtars are way better than forums cancer was.

DONT TOUCH THE PC
Jul 15, 2001

You should try it, it's a real buzz.
well at least the hardhat spider-man contagion is over, that got really silly after a while.

Peanut and the Gang
Aug 24, 2009

by exmarx

DreamingApe posted:

well at least the hardhat spider-man contagion is over, that got really silly after a while.

At the end they were perhaps too silly, so they had to go. Those spidey avatars tickled me pink upon every view.

Mr. Tibbs
Aug 4, 2012

They call me Mister Tibbs!
Is frogtar or frogatar the preferred nomenclature?

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Alternative pants
Nov 2, 2009

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.


Who cares what it's called, it's better than the hardhat Spider-Men.

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