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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

wasn't it a "joke option" on a mod challenge or something?

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Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

Vasudus posted:

I never had anything directly happen to me but enough was going on around me that I didn't want to be associated with it so I ditched the star. SS apparently liked me??? I don't know. Internet drama is the most hilarious and retarded poo poo.

i apparently blasphemed some alpha nerd on twitter recently and oh the ad hominems came up fast and stupid. it was a little funny to me because i had no clue about the apparent gravity of my words to his worshippers


but mostly it was just boring

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

prefect posted:

i've never watched tlo roll call

qf perma

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

hobbesmaster posted:

wasn't it a "joke option" on a mod challenge or something?

yes it was the comedy option and luigi knows it. its just that gamergate and his zeal for outing the cismale scum has ruined his mind and driven him, or shall i say, xem, to madness.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4
omg.. remember when smyth demaned YOSPOS goons Cum their white loads onto epicce randome pies or be banned?? :catstare:

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Panty Saluter posted:

i apparently blasphemed some alpha nerd on twitter recently and oh the ad hominems came up fast and stupid. it was a little funny to me because i had no clue about the apparent gravity of my words to his worshippers

yeah I made a joke about sxsw and caught a minor edge of the gamergoat weirdos, I was probably allowed to get away with it because I'm a dude

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

qirex posted:

yeah I made a joke about sxsw and caught a minor edge of the gamergoat weirdos, I was probably allowed to get away with it because I'm a dude

*inspects your package carefully* hmm.. I've got my eye on you

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

hobbesmaster posted:

wasn't it a "joke option" on a mod challenge or something?

it was louisgod, and it was supposed to be the joke option but it was the easiest option to do iirc

abe once mod challenged someone to gently caress a flask and if they did so he'd eat his hat

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

qirex posted:

yeah I made a joke about sxsw and caught a minor edge of the gamergoat weirdos, I was probably allowed to get away with it because I'm a dude

i'm sorry, but there are no jokes on the internet. everything that appears is unironic and deadly serious

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

ayn rand hand job posted:

it was louisgod, and it was supposed to be the joke option but it was the easiest option to do iirc

abe once mod challenged someone to gently caress a flask and if they did so he'd eat his hat

and then he posted himself loving a flask and Abe ate a fruit hat

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

Luigi Thirty posted:

and then he posted himself loving a flask and Abe ate a fruit hat

i remember, and it was epic

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

qirex posted:

yeah I made a joke about sxsw and caught a minor edge of the gamergoat weirdos, I was probably allowed to get away with it because I'm a dude

ya me too. also my complete non-reaction was not good for teh lulz, im sure


i cant imagine the vitriol were i a woman in the same situation

Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

prefect posted:

i'm sorry, but there are no jokes on the internet. everything that appears is unironic and deadly serious

it is hard to determine irony sometimes especially as people use it as a blanket to say the worst stuff which they mean unironically

irony levels etc

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Share Bear posted:

it is hard to determine irony sometimes especially as people use it as a blanket to say the worst stuff which they mean unironically

irony levels etc

i thought this was an interesting article that gave some names to things we see in the twitterverse: The Decay of Twitter

...
In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by people outside the conversation. Because there’s a kind of sensationalistic value in interpreting someone’s chattiness in partisan terms, tweets “are taken up as magnum opi to be leapt upon and eviscerated, not only by ideological opponents or threatened employers but by in-network peers.”

Anthropologists who study digital spaces have diagnosed that a common problem of online communication is “context collapse.” This plays with the oral-literate distinction: When you speak face-to-face, you’re always judging what you’re saying by the reaction of the person you’re speaking to. But when you write (or make a video or a podcast) online, what you’re saying can go anywhere, get read by anyone, and suddenly your words are finding audiences you never imagined you were speaking to.
...

(it's a longish article, but worth it if you're interested in academic viewpoints on communication)

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot

Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

prefect posted:

i thought this was an interesting article that gave some names to things we see in the twitterverse: The Decay of Twitter

...
In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by people outside the conversation. Because there’s a kind of sensationalistic value in interpreting someone’s chattiness in partisan terms, tweets “are taken up as magnum opi to be leapt upon and eviscerated, not only by ideological opponents or threatened employers but by in-network peers.”

Anthropologists who study digital spaces have diagnosed that a common problem of online communication is “context collapse.” This plays with the oral-literate distinction: When you speak face-to-face, you’re always judging what you’re saying by the reaction of the person you’re speaking to. But when you write (or make a video or a podcast) online, what you’re saying can go anywhere, get read by anyone, and suddenly your words are finding audiences you never imagined you were speaking to.
...

(it's a longish article, but worth it if you're interested in academic viewpoints on communication)

this is cool and relevant


the human mind filters a lot of garbage out already to perform basic tasks, like your post

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

ayn rand hand job posted:

it was louisgod, and it was supposed to be the joke option but it was the easiest option to do iirc


was louisgod the bookbarn mod who made all those creepy comments on awful yearbook or whatever that site was? (or was he "just" the "fatty fiery jerky" guy)

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

fritz posted:

was louisgod the bookbarn mod who made all those creepy comments on awful yearbook or whatever that site was? (or was he "just" the "fatty fiery jerky" guy)

awful yearbook really is a good reminder of how different the internet used to be

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Share Bear posted:

it is hard to determine irony sometimes especially as people use it as a blanket to say the worst stuff which they mean unironically

irony levels etc

there is no such thing as ironic racism

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

fritz posted:

was louisgod the bookbarn mod who made all those creepy comments on awful yearbook or whatever that site was? (or was he "just" the "fatty fiery jerky" guy)

no that was loosechanj

louisgod used to mod games and like beef jerky

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

fritz posted:

was louisgod the bookbarn mod who made all those creepy comments on awful yearbook or whatever that site was? (or was he "just" the "fatty fiery jerky" guy)

i may be a bad person for admitting it, but those comments make me laugh when i read them :blush:

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

ayn rand hand job posted:

no that was loosechanj

louisgod used to mod games and like beef jerky


oh right (and wasnt it also "legally not fit for human consumption jerky")

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

fatty jerky

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

what

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Luigi Thirty posted:

fyad disappeared into its own rear end like a singularity

Broken Machine
Oct 22, 2010


Big John is a goon who used to sell other goons (loosechanj included) special jerky on SA Mart that was extra fatty. Not sure if he still sells fatty jerky by request you should ask

Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

Luigi Thirty posted:

there is no such thing as ironic racism

also true

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake
easily the funniest one-word post on the forums imo

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake
it's even an fyad flag iirc

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
it was a week or two ago but someone posted something about the tech ceo that started paying everyone 70k a year. they do credit card processing. i reached out to see what they offered that could beat square, and they couldn't beat price or offer an ios app that is as feature rich.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Mr. Nice! posted:

it was a week or two ago but someone posted something about the tech ceo that started paying everyone 70k a year. they do credit card processing. i reached out to see what they offered that could beat square, and they couldn't beat price or offer an ios app that is as feature rich.

well that makes sense since square loses money on each transation and just makes it up in volume

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Mr. Nice! posted:

it was a week or two ago but someone posted something about the tech ceo that started paying everyone 70k a year. they do credit card processing. i reached out to see what they offered that could beat square, and they couldn't beat price or offer an ios app that is as feature rich.

square processes transactions at a loss because they need to build volume you see

Gynocentric Regime
Jun 9, 2010

by Cyrano4747

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

well that makes sense since square loses money on each transation and just makes it up in volume

Plus they are subsidized by one of the largest banks in the world.

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

fart simpson posted:

i always watch tlo roll call when its posted

like a super saiyan stuffed in a checkered shirt

sat high did a reading at the last f plus live show. he read a wu tang/ninja turtles crossover fic

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

Luigi Thirty posted:

square processes transactions at a loss because they need to build volume you see

from what i understood that was just starbucks.

also square isn't necessarily losing out with their 2.75% on everything. that's higher as a percentage than most other places, but other places use flat fees per swipe plus as well and cost more for my average transactions.

Eugene V. Dubstep
Oct 4, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

Literally The Worst posted:

lmao if u dont see a difference between clicking "post history" and maybe googlign someone's username to see if they also use it on Dave's House Of Weird Scat Porn dot forums dot com and finding someone's irl name and poo poo

He refuses to see the difference because it is convenient for him to conflate doxxing/stalking with "hey remember when you told people you were a furry?"

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

at the date posted:

He refuses to see the difference because it is convenient for him to conflate doxxing/stalking with "hey remember when you told people you were a furry?"

I'm a diaper klurf. I make big poopies into my klurfy nappy, and then cum into the poopy. Problem? Problem?

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
fun fact: i never rebought plat because i don't have any interest in constantly getting harrassing pms and i consistently avoid sharing personal details because i know i would get doxxed in a heartbeat

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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



my friend was in an uber the other day and the driver made an illegal turn that would have gotten them in an accident had other cars not stopped. he was immediately pulled over by a cop. she complained and tehy refunded her! ...$0.74.

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