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FlyinPingu posted:ghostbusters hate thread OP on the prices of the new ghostbusters action figures How do you get angry about the prices of toys you don't want based on a film you don't like?
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Much like the sludge that collects at the bottom of sewers, GBS occasionally has bits of gold in it. I salute the brave souls who are willing to wade through the excrement, scum, and filth to collect those precious nuggets for us.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 12:27 |
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Tiggum posted:How do you get angry about the prices of toys you don't want based on a film you don't like? something something ethics something.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 12:27 |
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It's not just GBS that went downhill. You used to get banned/probated for spamming catch phrases or memes or stuff like "lol git gud." Now it's the pinnacle of forum comedy.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 12:33 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's not just GBS that went downhill. You used to get banned/probated for spamming catch phrases or memes or stuff like "lol git gud." Now it's the pinnacle of forum comedy.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 12:45 |
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There's only one solution....BRING BACK SADCHUB!
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 12:53 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:You could also get probated for not punctuating a sentence or forgetting to capitalize something. Let's not pretend all the rules were good. But that rule sounds good.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 13:14 |
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The Lone Badger posted:But that rule sounds good. what no that sounds terrible
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 13:22 |
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for years SA was so desperate to look 'better' than the rest of the internet by making sure its userbase had to conform to AP style guides when posting about making GBS threads their pants or whatever and now SA is on life support, left behind by the rest of the internet ironic no?
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 13:32 |
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The Lone Badger posted:But that rule sounds good. Certain posts require a proper tone through correct grammar, though sometimes a post just needs to let its hair down and party!! woo
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 13:33 |
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Trig Discipline posted:i hate it when my genderfluid leaks and dries out into that weird cis scum that's so hard to clean up
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 13:37 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:You could also get probated for not punctuating a sentence or forgetting to capitalize something. Let's not pretend all the rules were good. If we just use this page as a sample that's a great rule we should have back.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 14:28 |
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Aphrodite posted:If we just use this page as a sample that's a great rule we should have back. I don't like this post
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 15:10 |
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In old GBS, jokes were illegal. In new GBS, the jokes are bad. Such is samsara
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 15:31 |
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Travis343 posted:for years SA was so desperate to look 'better' than the rest of the internet by making sure its userbase had to conform to AP style guides when posting about making GBS threads their pants or whatever and now SA is on life support, left behind by the rest of the internet So far as I'm concerned SA is the Straight Dope Message Boards except you're allowed to call assholes assholes in the debate forum. This is a Good Thing and should be prized.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 15:33 |
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Travis343 posted:for years SA was so desperate to look 'better' than the rest of the internet by making sure its userbase had to conform to AP style guides when posting about making GBS threads their pants or whatever and now SA is on life support, left behind by the rest of the internet And now we got rid of all that nonsense and the site is more active and beloved than ever before! -a tumbleweed with "cuck" painted on the side rolls past in silence-
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 15:37 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:You could also get probated for not punctuating a sentence or forgetting to capitalize something. Let's not pretend all the rules were good. I have been around in some form since 2004 and I cannot recall a single time when those rules were stringently enforced as anything other than a means to get rid of shitposters and/or people the mods really didn't like. Bear in mind these rules were also around during a time when SA's population was much greater and GBS in particular was heavy on Newsfeed-style content as link aggregators were nascent at best (i.e: reddit, tumblr, Facebook weren't really things), so there was a fairly strong divide between "comedy" threads and threads about anything else. PBS Newshour posted:Certain posts require a proper tone through correct grammar, though sometimes a post just needs to let its hair down and party!! woo There's truth here. A lot of the funniest quotes I've seen from SA would not be the same without deliberately awful grammar. mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 16:20 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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mind the walrus posted:There's truth here. A lot of the funniest quotes I've seen from SA would not be the same without deliberately awful grammar. Something Awful is affecting our linguistic development please glass the planet tia
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 16:26 |
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old gbs sucked the current gbs is good e: and the main reason for that is because most of the bad posters left gbs and emigrated to dd and pyf Hogge Wild has a new favorite as of 18:14 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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mind the walrus posted:I have been around in some form since 2004 and I cannot recall a single time when those rules were stringently enforced as anything other than a means to get rid of shitposters and/or people the mods really didn't like. Accurate. Although I do miss hellbanning. That poo poo was hilarious. Nordick posted:Full disclosure; Due to the influence of these forums, nowadays I instinctively use less punctuation the less serious my message is. And I mean everywhere, not just on SA. samesies
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 18:23 |
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GBS was never great
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 20:59 |
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:Accurate. Although I do miss hellbanning. That poo poo was hilarious. Hellbanning the entire forum would be a fantastic April fools prank if lowtax did that sort of thing.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 21:15 |
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GBS answers the age old question of "what if FYAD was really bad and never funny?"
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 21:19 |
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Funny quote:blarzgh posted:My cousin dated a girl that would sleepwalk when she got super drunk, and one time she got up to get water, did the Ace Ventura
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 21:25 |
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Big Centipede posted:GBS was never great I thought GBS was great when I first joined and it was just 50 mspaint threads, and that "horrors" by Ben biddick thread. At some point it turned into ironic garbage threads and at this point might as well be quarantined off.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 21:37 |
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Wedemeyer posted:Funny quote: We call it "dropping an ace".
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 21:41 |
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FlyinPingu posted:GBS answers the age old question of "what if FYAD was really bad and never funny?" In a twist of irony, the question was already answered by FYAD.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 21:46 |
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*in extremely PYF voice* here's my tier list of unfunny subforums
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 21:51 |
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Trig Discipline posted:We call it "dropping an ace". Ace Ventura: Piss Detective
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 22:14 |
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At 5000 years old, D&D proud to be called old D&D and is older than old GBS!
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 22:22 |
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Nordick posted:Full disclosure; Due to the influence of these forums, nowadays I instinctively use less punctuation the less serious my message is. And I mean everywhere, not just on SA. same Primetime posted:I thought GBS was great when I first joined and it was just 50 mspaint threads, and that "horrors" by Ben biddick thread. china.jpg, sochi olympics et al were pretty deece, but that's perhaps the speaking
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 22:32 |
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Nordick posted:
Woah, let me take this thing you said and get real offended because you must be serious and nukes are bad and killing is bad and I hope you die.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 22:44 |
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I will not forget GBS 2.0 for all the great photoshop threads we did together: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3697271 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3678761 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3586028 *sheds tear*
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 22:44 |
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Coup underway in Turkey, Brown Moses happens to be on vacation thereBrown Moses posted:I'm literally in Turkey at the moment, this is a weird moment for me. Laphroaig posted:Get to an embassy immediately. Ilustforponydeath posted:This didn't work last time.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 23:25 |
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Primetime posted:I thought GBS was great when I first joined and it was just 50 mspaint threads, and that "horrors" by Ben biddick thread. I dug up the Biddick thread for a re-read a while back and it still rules. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3149605
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 23:35 |
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Palpek posted:I will not forget GBS 2.0 for all the great photoshop threads we did together: Thank you for your service.
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# ? Jul 15, 2016 23:45 |
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Spanish Manlove posted:Thank you for your service.
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# ? Jul 16, 2016 00:17 |
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Here's the thing about GBS, it doesn't wait for you to understand. It doesn't think you're special and it will wreck your poo poo if you come in thinking you are. GBS is where you go to kill your little case of Dunning-Kruger Chances are if you get run out, it's because you're either trying to show everyone how smart, funny and/or original you are when you just simply aren't any of the above. -sees that somebody else in another forum has said a mean thing about GBS- Oh what the gently caress
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# ? Jul 16, 2016 01:00 |
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StashAugustine posted:Coup underway in Turkey, Brown Moses happens to be on vacation there Can someone check if the Wikipedia page for those embassies have the right addresses? His life may depend on it
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Ace Ventura: Piss Detective Ace Venturine
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