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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Goddamn hubris will get you every time. This photo belongs on a museum wall. Thank you. Just thank you.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Man, does anyone else remember Sir P Grothsmore, that kid who sued to get into Goonwaffe? He paid 3 months worth of subscriptions on my pair of accounts when I convinced him I could get him in.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Man, does anyone else remember Sir P Grothsmore, that kid who sued to get into Goonwaffe? Yep, he signed up under another name Margaret Thatcher, and was dumb enough to post this Margaret Thatcher posted:It's a naughty forum post, posted by a naughty forum user. Glad you liked it though Scooter. And then, just today, he posted again in the EVE thread. Poor dumb bastard.
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May 3, 2014 17:42
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Dusseldorf posted:You can find a surprising number of videos from Syria where people recreate that move using an RPG7. That reminds me of one of my favorite part so Zach Parsons' My Tank is Fight. He is describing an ill-conceived wire-guided anti-tank rocket, to paraphrase: "The first wire-guidance system was lauded in the Third Reich as a triumph of German engineering. Unfortunately, German engineering had yet to develop a human face that could withstand the rocket blast." It was used only a handful of times in the field, and apparently resulted in more German casualties than to anyone else. Come to think of it, that book is a rich vein of schadenfreude.
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May 3, 2014 18:01
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I've always wondered what getting hit by something like that would feel like. Maybe it's so big and quick that you can't quite process it until long after it's over, or if it's exactly as painful as it looks at the moment you feel it Fortunately for me, I've never been curious enough to find out An oldie but a goodie http://youtu.be/JhuccK8eCfo
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May 3, 2014 18:31
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KoRMaK posted:Yes but it would have prevented a segway from rolling aimlessly through the woods with a dad man leaning forward on it. Just like a dad to roll aimlessly through the woods refusing to stop and ask for directions.
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May 3, 2014 18:57
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Potato Alley posted:Just like a dad to roll aimlessly through the woods refusing to stop and ask for directions. That's one of Dad Man's many superpowers.
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May 3, 2014 19:04
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It took me 3 or 4 views to realize that the guy on the ladder (with NO safety belt, moron) isn't the only guy the tree is getting revenge on. There's that bald dude at the bottom who, at the very least, needs a new pair of underwear now.
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May 3, 2014 19:18
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Watching this really makes me appreciate the thought that licensed arborists put into doing this kind of work.
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May 3, 2014 19:34
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S-Alpha posted:Yep, he signed up under another name Margaret Thatcher, and was dumb enough to post this To be fair, it wasn't like his usual fare. It was even topical!
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May 3, 2014 20:03
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subhelios posted:To be fair, it wasn't like his usual fare. It was even topical! They grow up so fast! (No they don't, they just become older children)
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May 3, 2014 20:07
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His OP in E/N is some sort of tragicomedy:
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May 3, 2014 20:16
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Man, does anyone else remember Sir P Grothsmore, that kid who sued to get into Goonwaffe? Go on... 
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May 3, 2014 21:29
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This is why actual professional tree surgeons cut the trees into bits that won't do this.
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Three-Phase posted:Go on... It's a long, dumb story with poo poo that I don't think exists on the internet anymore aside from maybe some pastebin that has been lost to time. The short version is basically he's a dumb child who lives with his grandmother, stole her credit card to play EVE Online, heard about Goonwaffe and wanted to join so bad that he paid a 'recruiter' tens of billions in in-game money* for the privilege of joining. When he got denied and realized it was a scam, he joined SA with a bunch of accounts (using the stolen credit card again) and tried to join that way. When he was turned down for being awful, he said he was gonna get a lawyer and sue lowtax for being a con artist or something like that. And then he makes a bunch more accounts. Okay, so that wasn't very short at all, sorry. * You can buy something called Plex via the devs for twenty bux each, and you can sell those on the in-game market for in-game cash, with the exchange rate back then being one Plex for about 500 million. Just so you know how much money this idiot dumped.
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The Door Frame posted:I've always wondered what getting hit by something like that would feel like. Maybe it's so big and quick that you can't quite process it until long after it's over, or if it's exactly as painful as it looks at the moment you feel it You were hit by a car or two, its kinda like that. Suddenly you are flying through the air, then hit the ground and things start to hurt, and you wonder wtf is going on. subhelios posted:To be fair, it wasn't like his usual fare. It was even topical! His posting has been pretty topical and the smack down he delivered to cerebral wolf or whatever was pretty hilarious. I would honestly rather read a post from him than Noctis horrendae or whatever his name is. Three-Phase posted:Go on... Basically a kid who was like 13 or something wanted to join goonswarm in Eve. Like S-Alpha said he stole his grandmothers credit card to pay for Eve, the ingame money, and SA accounts. He gets scammed by us (which is ok according to the rules in Eve), tries to join via SA and gets caught, and then wants to sue Lowtax. But wait there is more! One of the goons is on an elected player council that helps the devs get player feedback that isn't as vitriolic and stupid as the official forums posting. In fact he is the "chairman" of this council, being on the council means your irl name is released. This kid is so mad about getting scammed that he tries to find this guys info, finds his parents info thinking its his, and releases it on the Eve forums. He is subsequently banned but the nut jobbery and harassment doesn't stop. It culminates in one of the GSF people calling him and threatening to tell his grandmother on him and making him apologize. AFAIK thats what happened but it has been like a year or more since that all happened so I may have forgotten something.
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May 3, 2014 23:09
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Is that where the "I'm, uh... I'm from the internet" recording comes from?
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May 3, 2014 23:11
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S-Alpha posted:It's a long, dumb story with poo poo that I don't think exists on the internet anymore aside from maybe some pastebin that has been lost to time. The short version is basically he's a dumb child who lives with his grandmother, stole her credit card to play EVE Online, heard about Goonwaffe and wanted to join so bad that he paid a 'recruiter' tens of billions in in-game money* for the privilege of joining. When he got denied and realized it was a scam, he joined SA with a bunch of accounts (using the stolen credit card again) and tried to join that way. When he was turned down for being awful, he said he was gonna get a lawyer and sue lowtax for being a con artist or something like that. And then he makes a bunch more accounts. The short story is basically any Goonwaffe scam ever, which are their own brand of schadenfreude, considering the mouth-foaming reactions you get from people in that game. This is only the tip of the iceberg. It's a very good tip, though.
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May 3, 2014 23:13
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Azurrat posted:Is that where the "I'm, uh... I'm from the internet" recording comes from? I really don't remember most of the soundcloud but maybe. If you have a link to it pm me I couldn't find it on the GSF forums.
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May 3, 2014 23:19
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Sometimes I think about getting back into EVE and reactivating my Goonwaffe account, just to spend my spare time scamming idiot publords. I'll never actually undock a ship or blow anything up, I just love to scam.
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May 3, 2014 23:26
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Richard Bong posted:You were hit by a car or two, its kinda like that. Suddenly you are flying through the air, then hit the ground and things start to hurt, and you wonder wtf is going on. I'm pretty sure I was concussed, because I have no memories about the car hits, except that they happened at some point......
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Richard Bong posted:I really don't remember most of the soundcloud but maybe. If you have a link to it pm me I couldn't find it on the GSF forums. No, that YTMND was made after the Alias777 saga. The audio was Rhyme's call to Greg's (Alias's) house to tell his mom what he'd done.
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Rack posted:Stole this one from the yospos picture thread. Is there video of this? Looks like that board is about to bean one of the bystanders in the last frames.
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May 3, 2014 23:55
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Mentos Dan posted:Is there video of this? Looks like that board is about to bean one of the bystanders in the last frames. Wouldn't there have to be video for there to be a gif of it?
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Mentos Dan posted:Is there video of this? Looks like that board is about to bean one of the bystanders in the last frames. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFLSldebudw&t=104s The bystanders escaped unscathed 
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May 4, 2014 00:14
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Is it schadenfruede to see 500 people lined up outside of a concert hall for a Mayday Parade show?
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subhelios posted:Wouldn't there have to be video for there to be a gif of it? Of course not, it probably comes from a person with a still camera and a really fast finger.
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I tracked down the original video to check out the aftermath but the camera operator runs to call 911 right after the gif ends instead of hanging around. Apparently he was okay.
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Captain Trips posted:Sometimes I think about getting back into EVE and reactivating my Goonwaffe account, just to spend my spare time scamming idiot publords. I'll never actually undock a ship or blow anything up, I just love to scam. I quit the game when I realized that with an equal amount of time spent doing industrial things on an individual scale and scamming the recruitment channel I was pissing my time away doing anything but scamming people. The game basically became Evil Customer Service Chat Center Simulator.
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Someone needs to edit the end of this to cut to the grande ballerina clutching her broken ankle.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:According to an article in Smithsonian a while back, Ben Franklin called the turkey a "Bird of Courage," and that's good enough for me. We still have wild turkeys running around here in DC -- they're enough of a part of the local fauna that there's a park/rec center in Northeast DC called Turkey Thicket. They mostly stick to the larger parks, but I think of that Ben Franklin quote and get a little patriotic every time somebody spots one of them wandering around a city street doing whatever it is wild turkeys do.
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I've watched this a dozen times, and I still don't know how he turned himself inside-out like that.
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Captain Trips posted:I've watched this a dozen times, and I still don't know how he turned himself inside-out like that. Bench gets wedged between the pedal and the rear peg. Forward momentum causes kid to flip over handlebars. Kid's short gets caught on handlebars causing kid to flip while flipping.
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One of my favorite things about these gifs is the people in the background who just keep walking. It really adds to the experience.
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Rack posted:Stole this one from the yospos picture thread. While this is still recent, what the hell is this? Dude's coming in hot as hell... uphill? From a flat run? 
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