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Scratch-O
Apr 27, 2009

My goodness!

Saxophone posted:

Oh poo poo! [BREAKING][CONSPIRACY]

http://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/2cgpi0/breaking_conspiracy_vg_discovers_starbound_forums/

We need to get our team of lawyers on this ASAP. Damage control is a bitch, but I'm sure we can pull enough strings with our puppet mods/devs to get everyone that even mentions goons banned. Make sure comments get filtered so that only goon posts can be seen on the official forums so that it looks like nothing is going on.

As the controller of goon sockpuppet and "community manager" mollygos, I assure you that all dissenters are being taken care of. Long live Goonsquad, the EVE Online empire that this forum was created for

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Jackard
Oct 28, 2007

We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Patware posted:

The best part is the set of imgur screenshots that are just the tamest possible bullshit.
Shoehead spazzing out and deleting all the threads certainly didnt help matters. GOT SOMETHIN TO HIDE DONT YA :allears:

The Iron Rose
May 12, 2012

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Did anyone ever use that forum anyway?

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
Why would they? I don't know if you noticed but Something Awful already has a place to talk about Starbound.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

Pet me.

CJacobs posted:

Why would they? I don't know if you noticed but Something Awful already has a place to talk about Starbound.

To cover up our tracks obviously. It's time to go dark. Maintain radio silence.

Xun
Apr 25, 2010

Is that forum gone now? I think I signed up for it but never posted and now I can't see it. Guess I'm not cool enough :(

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Saxophone posted:

Oh poo poo! [BREAKING][CONSPIRACY]

http://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/2cgpi0/breaking_conspiracy_vg_discovers_starbound_forums/

We need to get our team of lawyers on this ASAP. Damage control is a bitch, but I'm sure we can pull enough strings with our puppet mods/devs to get everyone that even mentions goons banned. Make sure comments get filtered so that only goon posts can be seen on the official forums so that it looks like nothing is going on.

quote:

Background: Starbound is a game that made big bucks off preorders by literally promising the stars. Delays, broken promises, humblebrags about earning six figures, and possible tax fraud followed.

Kernel Monsoon
Jul 18, 2006
goons got their own subforum where they could post goon garbage in what amounts to a vacuum. Please be mad.. Are you mad yet?

Kly
Aug 8, 2003

So did these guys never find out about the fact that goons were playing the game long before it came out as early access on steam, while they were all begging for Chucklefish to just release ANYTHING they could play?

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
I think OP should close this thread and force everyone to only post on the Starbound Forums, SA member subforum or not.

Turtlicious
Sep 17, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Ernie Muppari posted:

Well, I wasn't invited into the super cool secret Starbound forums, but at least I'm part of the secret cabal of SA members who don't have to pay :10bux: every month. :smuggo:

You motherfucker, tell me how to beat the Lowtax subscription fee, tell me drat you, TELL ME!

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

Turtlicious posted:

You motherfucker, tell me how to beat the Lowtax subscription fee, tell me drat you, TELL ME!

Shows what YOU know. I pay the secret $80 a month to be in Dr. David Thorpe's secret cult.

Johnny Joestar
Oct 21, 2010

Don't shoot him?

...
...



am i the only one who still gets the monster truck rally newsletter with my $10 a month fee which this site was founded on

Section Z
Oct 1, 2008

Wait, this is the Moon.
How did I even get here?

Pillbug
I used to get a brick through the window every month with a drawing of Dickbutt taped to it.

Now that I'm Platinum, I get a Dickbutt with a drawing of a brick taped to it every month.

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?

Jackard posted:

Shoehead spazzing out and deleting all the threads certainly didnt help matters. GOT SOMETHIN TO HIDE DONT YA :allears:

Let's just say everyone would have liked Braww a lot more and I couldn't ever let that happen

QuantaStarFire
May 18, 2006


Grimey Drawer
They raided our secret clubhouse? Oh no, what a horrible thing. :saddowns:

Did people even post there?

I AM BRAWW
Jul 18, 2014
I had a couple of secret posts that they could of used to overthrow Chucklefish. I'm glad they didn't screenshot those before they got wiped.

Tin Tim
Jun 4, 2012

Live by the pun - Die by the pun

So what you are saying is that there was a secret goon subforum so secret that even most goons didn't know about it? And that they made shitposts in there?



BUTTERWORBS posted:

thank god, wouldn't want to slow down this bullet train lmao
lmao

Literally Kermit
Mar 4, 2012
t
Some fun things:

1) That powmod poster who was really taking us to task for having a secret forum made a twitter account explicitly for tweeting mollygos twice, the second time to literally post "what's wrong? SOMETHING AWFUL happen?" :allears:

2) My rural region has a blanket ip ban on 4chan, and I never bothered or set up a proxy. They spent posts on /vg/ accusing other people of being me posting.

3) A guy who was actually posting stuff about gameplay on /vg/ was accused of being either Omni or Tiy

4) They manage to screencap my thread titled "Tiy's Grand Vision" and think it's some deep Masonic passcode bullshit conspiracy. It's just about stuff after the game finally goes gold ie. not priority right now.

5) Luckly, we deleted the real damaging thread on there with the pics of the massive orgy on top of thousands upon thousands of dollar bills individually wrapped into $15 bundles.

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

I knew that lovely subforum would be good for something.

Literally Kermit
Mar 4, 2012
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Chalks posted:

I knew that lovely subforum would be good for something.

OH, yeah, also:

6) The goonleak is also screencapping my posts in this thread so this will probably be screencapped, too.

Hi, /vg/! Lemon and Nutmeg! stop getting mad over video games.

Literally Kermit fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Aug 3, 2014

Cernunnos
Sep 2, 2011

ppbbbbttttthhhhh~

Chalks posted:

I knew that lovely subforum would be good for something.

I want to say i called this but I'm not sure if it was in this thread or the PGS one or actually on that subforums.

E: nope it was either on that subforum or something I said in IRC.

Cernunnos fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Aug 3, 2014

Kernel Monsoon
Jul 18, 2006
It's perfectly reasonable to harass people on the internet, do creepy internet detective poo poo and catalogue any contradictory statement a person has made in the last three years into a wikipedia page.

After all, I didn't get my $15 videogame fast enough. :qq:

4chan is literally hilarious.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008
[Breaking][Conspiracy] Reddit discovered to have multiple private access subforums for all kinds of special interest groups!

WHAT ARE YOU HIDING REDDIT?

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



I always find it vaguely amusing that people pay :10bux: to come to random threads and :airquote:expose:airquote: goons.

Cernunnos
Sep 2, 2011

ppbbbbttttthhhhh~

GreyPowerVan posted:

I always find it vaguely amusing that people pay :10bux: to come to random threads and :airquote:expose:airquote: goons.

Paying for Lowtax's 8th Yacht. Or however many he's up to now. :v:

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

[Breaking][Conspiracy] Reddit discovered to have multiple private access subforums for all kinds of special interest groups!

WHAT ARE YOU HIDING REDDIT?

Besides the paedophilia and revenge porn?

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

WarpedNaba posted:

Besides the paedophilia and revenge porn?

They weren't hiding those.

Admiral Joeslop
Jul 8, 2010




Are there any active goon servers left?

Ragequit
Jun 1, 2006


Lipstick Apathy

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Are there any active goon servers left?

Reddit brought them to light so sadly, no.

Saxophone
Sep 19, 2006


As hilarious as all this really dumb poo poo is, thank you, Chucklefish, for actually continuing on with this drat game. This is some weapons-grade stupidity going on here and I have nothing but respect for your patience and hard work.

That said, isn't this how quite a few indie games get an initial foothold? They start off as a project the dev shows a community (reddit, 4chan, SA, etc.) and then go from there? It honestly seems natural that a project would have some roots in one community or another.

Kernel Monsoon
Jul 18, 2006

Saxophone posted:

As hilarious as all this really dumb poo poo is, thank you, Chucklefish, for actually continuing on with this drat game. This is some weapons-grade stupidity going on here and I have nothing but respect for your patience and hard work.

That said, isn't this how quite a few indie games get an initial foothold? They start off as a project the dev shows a community (reddit, 4chan, SA, etc.) and then go from there? It honestly seems natural that a project would have some roots in one community or another.

Basically Tiy wanted a private place to discuss potential game ideas, way back in closed beta, and the SA community had been very supportive of the game. So he came up with an invite only forum so half baked ideas weren't taken as gospel by the general public. It never actually really got used for that, I think maybe one or two details were posted a few days before everyone else and then Tiy just started doing everything public.

The forum stayed there, and became essentially a goon chat thread but spread across a bunch of low content topics (i.e a bunch of shitposting in a vacuum). Less posts have been made in the goon subforum than in the collected Homestuck clan threads :lol:

Someone with access leaked it, like it was some huge deal or something. Nobody cares.

Literally Kermit
Mar 4, 2012
t

Supernorn posted:

Nobody cares.

:ssh: This was our most cherished, closely held goon-secret, you fool!

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

Pet me.

Literally Kermit posted:

:ssh: This was our most cherished, closely held goon-secret, you fool!

Agents Hitler and Dickbutt have been compromised.

Fargin Icehole fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Aug 3, 2014

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

BUTTERWORBS posted:

thank god, wouldn't want to slow down this bullet train lmao

This but unironically.

People getting mad because devs don't constantly give updates are better off ignored. Or to put it in indiegamers.txt form: Actual investors don't do this poo poo because they have the mental capacity to know that if they trust a company with their money, they also trust the competency of those running the place and don't loom over them as a giant loving distraction. If these people want to act like they're owed something, similar to the idiots to act like their kickstarter backing makes them an investor, then have some faith in the company. Tiy, Molly, and co have earned that much. It's not like you're still waiting on a working build nearly a year later after having given them money.

Scratch-O posted:

As the controller of goon sockpuppet and "community manager" mollygos, I assure you that all dissenters are being taken care of. Long live Goonsquad, the EVE Online empire that this forum was created for

I'm willing to allow Starbound forum dwellers to join us, but only after they make their introduction thread in FYAD.

WarpedNaba posted:

Besides the paedophilia and revenge porn?

There's a reason :pedophiles: :mrapig: :biotruths: and :reddit: exist. Probably others too.

Evil Fluffy fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Aug 3, 2014

Feenix
Mar 14, 2003
Sorry, guy.
This is important to the relevance of Starbound:

Is Aatrek really a confirmed kiddy diddler?

Literally Kermit
Mar 4, 2012
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Feenix posted:

This is important to the relevance of Starbound:

Is Aatrek really a confirmed kiddy diddler?

4chan is full of pedophiles, are they really going to go there? Are we going to have a pedo-off?

edit: Stop posting on 4chan, come in from the cold, son. We're happy to have you back. :)

Sledra
Jan 24, 2005

How Thortunate!

Supernorn posted:

Basically Tiy wanted a private place to discuss potential game ideas, way back in closed beta, and the SA community had been very supportive of the game. So he came up with an invite only forum so half baked ideas weren't taken as gospel by the general public. It never actually really got used for that, I think maybe one or two details were posted a few days before everyone else and then Tiy just started doing everything public.

The forum stayed there, and became essentially a goon chat thread but spread across a bunch of low content topics (i.e a bunch of shitposting in a vacuum). Less posts have been made in the goon subforum than in the collected Homestuck clan threads :lol:

Someone with access leaked it, like it was some huge deal or something. Nobody cares.

Did you really just steal my whole post and not even attribute me you whore.

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Mar 22, 2013

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Feenix posted:

This is important to the relevance of Starbound:

Is Aatrek really a confirmed kiddy diddler?

afaik, yes.

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Kernel Monsoon
Jul 18, 2006

Sledra posted:

Did you really just steal my whole post and not even attribute me you whore.

It was a good post and I felt it explained the situation nicely.

edit: lol LEAKED your post.

Kernel Monsoon fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Aug 3, 2014

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