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Scudworth
Jan 1, 2005

When life gives you lemons, you clone those lemons, and make super lemons.

Dinosaur Gum

I Said No posted:

One thing with fishing - if you're up against one of the ones that like to jerk around really violently, when they're having a chill moment don't put the middle of the bar over them. If they're high, put them at the top of the catch zone and if they're low put them at the bottom of it. That way when they move again they have to move through the bar and it gives you a little more time to react.

Also Trap Bobber is the only tackle worth using imo.

So are you toxxing or what

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Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Lutha Mahtin posted:

paradol ex was such a weird poster, and it was always an amazing mental roller coaster when i would read his posts and try to follow his thought process. the first couple threads i came across where he was arguing with someone, it was crazy because he would sometimes go for many posts where it seemed like he was rhetorically building up to a very obvious conclusion, and then he would lurch in a completely different direction that he hadn't hinted at at all. like he'd go on and on about how obama was a terrible candidate who nobody should support, and would crash and burn to clinton/giuliani/mccain, because all of these reasons that sounded like a succession of typical right-wing talking points, and then the conclusion would be like AND IM A SOCIALIST AND IM NOT VOTING or some other off the wall thing that only had a tiny semblance of internally-consistent logic. then he got banned and bought a parachute account. iirc how it happened, he stopped posting his usual talking points, so it wasn't immediately obvious it was him, but he still had kind of the same writing style. so eventually some goon quoted him in a thread saying like "wow this could almost be a pex post lol" to which he angrily responded that it indeed was him and from then on went back to posting about his favorite topics from before. he also made this huge post about trying to come to grips with that one pro wrestler who did the murder-suicide to his family (the wrestler's).

probably my favorite thing of his was his pet insult name for barack obama, who he called "baquack obamailure". for a long time goons would use this "-ailure" construction to jokingly insult people, which i enjoyed. for example, to make fun of a long-suffering duke nukem fan, you might go "lol look at this dukeailure still waiting for their childrens toy". the dumber-sounding and less-pronounceable you could make the word by your placement of the -ailure, the better

"Parasol Ex"= posted:

I was trying to go to sleep a few minutes ago and for some reason the enormity of these events finally hit me and I couldn't stop crying. I have no real life friends who give a poo poo about professional wrestling, so this is basically the only place I have to express these feelings, but I really feel the need to express them.

I would like this thread to be about our personal feelings about the death of Chris Benoit, and how it has personally affected us. Just TV-IVing about the details as they come in, or wondering about the WWE's future, and all of that bullshit has no place here. I need to write about my feelings about Chris Benoit. Obviously these posts will be mocked elsewhere on the forums, but gently caress em. If you feel the need to say anything, say it.

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Chris Benoit is a murderer. He killed his wife and child. We will probably never know exactly what he was thinking. Obviously I did not know Chris Benoit. I never saw him in person and never spoke to him. But he represented something very special to me. In such a cut-throat, dirty, dark, often disgusting, business he was one of the good ones. When people talked poo poo about wrestling and the bastards involved in it, you could always muffin out Chris Benoit as the exception to the rule. He was the one you could muffin to as a true professional who honored the sport he loved, who was passionate about it, who proved that you could dedicate your life to professional wrestling without being insane or scum or a monster. He was the ace in the hole. He was the one who wasn't in it for the pussy or because he was a failed jock in another sport or because he wanted to get rich quick or because he wanted to be a movie star or because he saw wrestling as a means to an end. He was in it for professional wrestling. He was dedicated to being the best professional wrestler he could be, and it showed in the ring.

I wanted to be a professional wrestler since I was a little kid, and one of the very worst moments of my life was a cold night in San Antonio when I was on the phone to my girlfriend a thousand miles away and finally admitted to myself and to her that coming to Texas to be a wrestler had been a mistake. Coming to grips that I was simply not athletically or charismatically talented enough to be a professional wrestler was one of the worst moments of my life. The business glorifies the boyhood dreams that come true. My boyhood dream wasn't going to come true, and it was an upsetting, soul-crushing revelation that upsets and discourages me to this day.

Since then I lived vicariously through Chris Benoit in a lot of ways. He wasn't a man who was destined to be a WWE champion. He couldn't talk. He wasn't charismatic in the usual way. He was quiet. He was short. The only thing he had going for him was his work ethic. He wasn't a third generation wrestler. He wasn't physically gifted. He wasn't someone who had words come easy to him. But through sheer effort he was able to become one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history. By 40 years-old.

Chris Benoit was only forty, and he was already a legend on the verge of myth. That's how talented he was, and how respected.

I cannot reconcile in my mind that the man who unnecessarily gave back so much to the sport could end his life the way he did. I can't understand how a man could spend weeks and months trying to give back to younger guys like MVP, putting forth the care and effort to help them find their voice in the ring, and that that same man could strangle his wife and child only weeks later. It doesn't make sense. It shouldn't have happened this way. Not for him, not for Nancy, and not for their child.

Chris Benoit owed me nothing. But I still feel the loss. I selfishly lived through many of his accomplishments and now feel lost. I can only speak for myself, but I feel that for a lot of us Mondays and Fridays are rocks of stability in a storm of stress and uncertainty. Every week the show goes on. Every week the show is from somewhere new, somewhere in the world, but every week it comes into our homes.


And that will continue. But Chris Benoit is dead. And he died a murderer. And whether it be insanity, drugs, or just the actions of a clear-eyed monster, what is done is done. And one of the pillars for the guys backstage and one of the pillars for fans is gone. And everything that pillar held up is tainted and dripping with blood.

Chris Benoit was a murderer. And I don't know how to accept that.

Panic! at Nabisco
Jun 6, 2007

it seemed like a good idea at the time
To be fair, noted Trumpkin Boosted_C5 took every Trump toxxer's sins upon him and thus subsequently downgraded the rest of them back to a normal, non-perma ban toxx, with the offer to repudiate for a 30 day probe instead remaining.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Panic! at Nabisco posted:

To be fair, noted Trumpkin Boosted_C5 took every Trump toxxer's sins upon him and thus subsequently downgraded the rest of them back to a normal, non-perma ban toxx, with the offer to repudiate for a 30 day probe instead remaining.

So, wait... The dude Jesus'd away the other goons' permabans?

Arbite
Nov 4, 2009





And now the admin in question slapped the OP of the QCS Toxx thread with 30 days after warning them not to post in QCS again.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Arbite posted:

And now the admin in question slapped the OP of the QCS Toxx thread with 30 days after warning them not to post in QCS again.

to be fair, have you read any of his posts in any other QCS thread

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

all old memes are new posted:

I have made a terrible mistake :smith:

got drunk on goon, and went too hard with a sounding rod. now its all blood

:nws:http://i.imgur.com/tug6QzJ.jpg:nws:

Im washing it all off but it keeps bleeding from in deep

i don't even care if I die from this bullshit. i just wanted to feel nice and now this happened. gently caress this gay earth
just wanted to let you guys know.

Goon: SA Forums poster
Goon: Australian slang for a box of cheap wine
Sounding: Insertion of an object into the urethra for sexual gratification
Sounding rod: Long object used for the purposes of sounding
Urethral bleeding: Bleeding caused by perforating the lining of the urethra

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Synthbuttrange posted:

Goon: SA Forums poster
Goon: Australian slang for a box of cheap wine
Sounding: Insertion of an object into the urethra for sexual gratification
Sounding rod: Long object used for the purposes of sounding
Urethral bleeding: Bleeding caused by perforating the lining of the urethra
:barf: What's in the bucket?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

dont bucket-full-of-paper-urine-and-blood shame

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.
That's one sound decision he may regret.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Alaois posted:

to be fair, have you read any of his posts in any other QCS thread

the one he actually got probated for seemed pretty innocent though

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

corn in the bible posted:

the one he actually got probated for seemed pretty innocent though

that doesn't really matter when you post so bad in a forum previously you get told by an admin not to post in it anymore

Bunni-kat
May 25, 2010

Service Desk B-b-bunny...
How can-ca-caaaaan I
help-p-p-p you?

corn in the bible posted:

the one he actually got probated for seemed pretty innocent though

You don't get to post where you're told not to just because that post isn't poo poo. Just like you don't get to evade toxxes

kjetting
Jan 18, 2004

Hammer Time

Casimir Radon posted:

:barf: What's in the bucket?

That's one of those questions one alway regrets asking.

Krowley
Feb 15, 2008

I've never heard a sounding story that wasn't the worst thing I've ever heard

monkeytennis
Apr 26, 2007


Toilet Rascal
Even the word 'sounding' sets my teeth on edge since I started reading The Internet.

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

Man that's the worst sounding thing ever!
What is?
/points to steel rod poked up cock eye

JnnyThndrs
May 29, 2001

HERE ARE THE FUCKING TOWELS

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Man that's the worst sounding thing ever!
What is?
/points to steel rod poked up cock eye

And that's exactly why you'll always be the best mod we ever had here.

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

steely dilz

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



So the thread has brought up Spoonful of Bromide a few times - the teen obsessed with a trashy, largely forgotten about Penny Arcade wannabe comic who had a massive meltdown over an SA poster who decided to walk away from drawing his comic after realizing this kid had maaajor issues going on. If you're not familiar, it's linked in SAclopedia. It spawned two pretty entertaining threads.

So I remembered that he re-regged a bunch as he eventually found an artist to do some panels, but those posts were generally completely wiped out from the forums, so I did some googling to see if there was any more to the tale.

And that was the beginning of staring into the abyss of some absolute crazy that isn't really summed up in one place, but has bits and pieces everywhere and a lot of deleted dead ends.

So for anyone interested in this insanity, Spoonful of Bromide isn't one person: it's two. One younger guy called Andy, who I don't think has a huge internet presence by himself, and a guy called Robert Wayne Stiles who absolutely does.

The funny thing is someone early in the E/N thread alludes to the poster pretending to be Robert. So near but so far, but nobody really pays attention to the link to this guys ED page which is about as long as War and Peace.

So for anyone still interested, Bromide isn't in fact a teenage gender confused poster but in actually the spawn of a batshit insane, drug addicted, poo poo flinging, 30 year old male prostitute who gets trolled so hard, so regularly that he built this second alias of Trey Williams/Liz Davis with his boyfriend to somehow misdirect everyone from all the other nonsense going on in his life.

What was genuinely one of the 'greatest sagas of SA' doesn't even get a cursory 2 word mention in the history of this dude. I feel sorry for the lady on here who got caught up this web of loving awfulness.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

EL BROMANCE posted:

So the thread has brought up Spoonful of Bromide a few times - the teen obsessed with a trashy, largely forgotten about Penny Arcade wannabe comic who had a massive meltdown over an SA poster who decided to walk away from drawing his comic after realizing this kid had maaajor issues going on. If you're not familiar, it's linked in SAclopedia. It spawned two pretty entertaining threads.

So I remembered that he re-regged a bunch as he eventually found an artist to do some panels, but those posts were generally completely wiped out from the forums, so I did some googling to see if there was any more to the tale.

And that was the beginning of staring into the abyss of some absolute crazy that isn't really summed up in one place, but has bits and pieces everywhere and a lot of deleted dead ends.

So for anyone interested in this insanity, Spoonful of Bromide isn't one person: it's two. One younger guy called Andy, who I don't think has a huge internet presence by himself, and a guy called Robert Wayne Stiles who absolutely does.

The funny thing is someone early in the E/N thread alludes to the poster pretending to be Robert. So near but so far, but nobody really pays attention to the link to this guys ED page which is about as long as War and Peace.

So for anyone still interested, Bromide isn't in fact a teenage gender confused poster but in actually the spawn of a batshit insane, drug addicted, poo poo flinging, 30 year old male prostitute who gets trolled so hard, so regularly that he built this second alias of Trey Williams/Liz Davis with his boyfriend to somehow misdirect everyone from all the other nonsense going on in his life.

What was genuinely one of the 'greatest sagas of SA' doesn't even get a cursory 2 word mention in the history of this dude. I feel sorry for the lady on here who got caught up this web of loving awfulness.

Bromide's saga/meltdown is one of my favourites, so I find this all fascinating. Thanks very much for the info!

purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

What in the gently caress

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



I'm glad it's not just me who found it a fairly fascinating story. There's a good link here which nailed a lot of it after being emailed by Spoonful and did some digging of their own. They didn't pick up on the 'second poster' theory that came up later and fairly significant but the rest fits.

http://www.webcomicpolice.com/2014/12/shredded-moose.html?m=1

A Festivus Miracle
Dec 19, 2012

I have come to discourse on the profound inequities of the American political system.

So, whatever happened to Doobie's Dog house? When I stopped caring, it was like Groverhaus Business edition.

Also, speaking of long dead memes, what the gently caress ever happened to David Caro? I know he got released from Syrian torture prsion, but he hasn't posted here again. How's our probably still absolutely batshit insane war junkie doing?

JacquelineDempsey
Aug 6, 2008

Women's Circuit Bender Union Local 34



EL BROMANCE posted:

I'm glad it's not just me who found it a fairly fascinating story. There's a good link here which nailed a lot of it after being emailed by Spoonful and did some digging of their own. They didn't pick up on the 'second poster' theory that came up later and fairly significant but the rest fits.

http://www.webcomicpolice.com/2014/12/shredded-moose.html?m=1

Bromide also re-regged numerous times and had equally numerous meltdowns/bans in the trans megathread. I just went to try hunting for some choice stuff, and stumbled on this lovely bit of unrelated drama:

quote:

So just to sum up. Step Aside was a trans woman who detransitioned back to man (and is possibly a sissy fetishist). So by being the IK of the feminism thread, he's a man who has infiltrated a woman's space, which would make him a hypocrite. Is this about right?

I'd totally forgotten about that saga that spread across a few threads.

Edit: Holy cats, a year after the first meltdown, Bromide comes back to SA (as UniqueLikeMonique) and flips out in BYOB, of all places, about his stupid comic:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3689737&userid=210279

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Tardcore
Jan 24, 2011

Not cool enough for the Spider-man club.

A White Guy posted:

So, whatever happened to Doobie's Dog house? When I stopped caring, it was like Groverhaus Business edition.



It ended exactly how you would expect, Doobie wasn't making money and invented a wild excuse so he wouldn't have to say he failed. The reason given was that his evil landlord had conspired to sell the doghouse property to the town funereal home (which is several blocks away) to be used as a parking lot.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Bromide made frequent appearances in the Terrible Webcomics thread for a while there, and was actually semi-reasonable (whoever it was posting under that handle, I guess) toward the end, if memory serves.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

JacquelineDempsey posted:

Bromide also re-regged numerous times and had equally numerous meltdowns/bans in the trans megathread. I just went to try hunting for some choice stuff, and stumbled on this lovely bit of unrelated drama:


I'd totally forgotten about that saga that spread across a few threads.

Edit: Holy cats, a year after the first meltdown, Bromide comes back to SA (as UniqueLikeMonique) and flips out in BYOB, of all places, about his stupid comic:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3689737&userid=210279

Weird, that link just sends me when thread. Can you give me the specific page where it happens?

I see that it seems to be filtered by userID from your URL, but that's not happening, at least on mobile.

I Said No
May 21, 2007

jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av
I never got why the gently caress anyone would obsess over Shredded Moose of all loving things. It wasn't just a penny arcade wannabe, it was actively, aggressively edgy and awful. Like half of the jokes were "Ha ha, abortions!". Basically just imagine Oglaf except not funny in any way ever.

EDIT:
Speaking of awful poo poo has reminded me. Is the Anime That Shall Not Be Named clause still in effect in ADTRW? It always amused me a ton that there was an anime so utterly horrible in its subject matter that even saying its name is a bannable offense. Can't actually remember which anime it was though because there's quite a few that fit the bill.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



JacquelineDempsey posted:

Edit: Holy cats, a year after the first meltdown, Bromide comes back to SA (as UniqueLikeMonique) and flips out in BYOB, of all places, about his stupid comic:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3689737&userid=210279

I'm on awful.app most of the time so like the other poster above, I've not seen that much of Bromide's posting on SA as it's hard to get a working link, and they seem to be deleted off rather than just banned in quite a few places. Based on 2015 factor, I'd imagine that's pretty much just Andy posting as I think he's the one who actually somewhat 'legitimately' tried to put out "Watch Ur Mouth" and it was just Stiles influencing him. He also came back to Tumblr last year it seems, after pretending to be the person who made that Shredded Moose comic. They have so many names and post so much it's genuinely hard to work out who it is, and when.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Bromide made frequent appearances in the Terrible Webcomics thread for a while there, and was actually semi-reasonable (whoever it was posting under that handle, I guess) toward the end, if memory serves.

The very first post I saw where they talk about SM for the first time is surprisingly coherent and as close to normal as I've ever seen either of them write, too.

I Said No posted:

I never got why the gently caress anyone would obsess over Shredded Moose of all loving things. It wasn't just a penny arcade wannabe, it was actively, aggressively edgy and awful. Like half of the jokes were "Ha ha, abortions!". Basically just imagine Oglaf except not funny in any way ever.

Oh absolutely, it's utter garbage. Someone put together a 'guide' to it from the POV of someone who hates it, but in all fairness I'm pretty suss about the legitimacy of that and think it might just have been Andy/Robb under another guise. Certainly the majority of people emailing in are one of those two, and the whole thing seems to undergo a massive mental breakdown as it goes on too. http://shreddedmooseproject.blogspot.com

I won't paste chat log excerpts because, ugh, but this was posted elsewhere and has Rob talking about how this was all a distraction effort for him to hide his Facebook business (yeah, I have no idea how that makes sense either), and that SA is on the look out for him and that SM is just a decoy. As I said - wormhole of absolute craziness. http://pastebin.com/Pvvk32DF

JacquelineDempsey
Aug 6, 2008

Women's Circuit Bender Union Local 34



Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Weird, that link just sends me when thread. Can you give me the specific page where it happens?

I see that it seems to be filtered by userID from your URL, but that's not happening, at least on mobile.

He starts posting on page 30 (January 2015) and his first post is his own fanfic of, of course, Shredded Moose, so he's immediately outed as Bromide. It takes a while to build up steam --- March 9th is when Bromide finally starts posting his own garbage again --- and since it's such a fast-moving thread, that's page 181. He starts out relatively ok, but by March 11 he's onto "screw you all, I made 2 goldmined threads with my performance art, and am responsible for the wildly famous Goku's pants thing" (dance, puppets!) and the usual repeated "I'm done here" posts (only to post again 5 minutes later).

If you can do the "?" button thing on mobile, that's your best bet so you don't skip such highlights as:

--- his comic Rad Dudestein, hilarious "satire" on Jewish stereotypes
--- his comic wherein Superman appears (and is mentioned by name), and the following panel contains the phrases "tranny-ho" and "suck my cock" (I think DC might object to that, just a hunch)
--- the link to the most :effort: Patreon I've ever seen

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



I Said No posted:

I never got why the gently caress anyone would obsess over Shredded Moose of all loving things. It wasn't just a penny arcade wannabe, it was actively, aggressively edgy and awful. Like half of the jokes were "Ha ha, abortions!". Basically just imagine Oglaf except not funny in any way ever.

EDIT:
Speaking of awful poo poo has reminded me. Is the Anime That Shall Not Be Named clause still in effect in ADTRW? It always amused me a ton that there was an anime so utterly horrible in its subject matter that even saying its name is a bannable offense. Can't actually remember which anime it was though because there's quite a few that fit the bill.

Uh... Dare I even ask what that work was ABOUT if even mentioning the name got a ban?

Pretty good
Apr 16, 2007



Samovar posted:

Uh... Dare I even ask what that work was ABOUT if even mentioning the name got a ban?
Pedo poo poo

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

sinking belle posted:

Pedo poo poo
It's always pedo poo poo, what made this one especially bad is that it was Incestuous pedo poo poo, if I'm remembering what it is right.

A CRUNK BIRD
Sep 29, 2004

I Said No posted:

just imagine Oglaf except not funny in any way ever.
I don't even have to imagine this because it's just called Oglaf

I Said No
May 21, 2007

jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av

VanSandman posted:

It's always pedo poo poo, what made this one especially bad is that it was Incestuous pedo poo poo, if I'm remembering what it is right.

I don't think that was it, but it's beginning to occur to me that maybe the clause was put into place because after so long of not mentioning the name, no-one would remember exactly which one it is

Charles Bukowski
Aug 26, 2003

Taskmaster 2023 Second Place Winner

Grimey Drawer

A CRUNK BIRD posted:

I don't even have to imagine this because it's just called Oglaf

Oglaf is funny.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



VanSandman posted:

It's always pedo poo poo, what made this one especially bad is that it was Incestuous pedo poo poo, if I'm remembering what it is right.

Wait a second... Didn't that have a stupid, one-eyed sword that looked like a rip-off of that fighting game that was a Medieval Tekken?

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



EL BROMANCE posted:

I won't paste chat log excerpts because, ugh, but this was posted elsewhere and has Rob talking about how this was all a distraction effort for him to hide his Facebook business (yeah, I have no idea how that makes sense either), and that SA is on the look out for him and that SM is just a decoy. As I said - wormhole of absolute craziness. http://pastebin.com/Pvvk32DF

I started skimming that, and this one line jumped out at me:

code:
Jun 13 13:46:36 <CandyKongg> something awful, a major trolling location is on the lookout for me, 4chan hates me, cwcki hates me, n0chan hates me
Something awful, a major trolling location.

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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

SA is a CIA front, not a trolling location!

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