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Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

TheLastRoboKy posted:

MoMA is like a scratch-ticket, except every time you remove the surface you just get "FUCKWIT" underneath and all that wins you is another ticket with exactly the same outcome when the surface gets scratched again.

In the end, it pays out 80% of every dollar.

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MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

starkebn posted:

the tane posts used to annoy me too, but the out of breath post during Deloriageddon showed me the brilliance of his long game

Yes, that was good.

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

lazorexplosion posted:

Also probate Marching Powder every time he whines about moderation

or don't

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003
Probate everyone except Marching Powder.

DogonCrook
Apr 24, 2016

I think my 20 years as hurricane chaser might be a little relevant ive been through more hurricanws than moat shiitty newscasters

orcinus posted:

or don't

Just downvote and move on

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

thatguy posted:

Probate everyone except Marching Powder.

That would be interesting. Would he turn on his own posting style and comment about it?

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

... also, lol @ a furry complaining something looks too uncanny from the head down.

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

Colostomy Bag posted:

That would be interesting. Would he turn on his own posting style and comment about it?
He'd endlessly trigger himself by being offtopic, eventually resulting in a stroke.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

AP posted:

Hey poo poo happens, I noticed a post from me earlier in 2015 asking Derek not to do what he does here, but on his own site instead. I understand why mods wouldn't like it here and that's all fine, I also suspect there's a lot of people on SA who don't like the regulars in the thread and even that's understandable. Derek is Derek, I think he's hilarious but then I laugh at myself too.
He should have posted it on his forum/blog and never mention it here. Someone else was bound to find it soon and after spreading a couple of hours on discord the effect would end up being the same. The scammer would be outed and that was the point.



quote:

I'll probably be posting less here until we see how the recent changes play out, I'll still be reading though. Derek's got his forums going and I like talking to Citizens as they make me laugh and I expect he'll attract a few, I hope this is the end of having to explain myself.
I like your posts and I hope you resume your normal posting soon.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Stop pushing your Goon solidarity agenda already!

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe
What if Beet is actually a Derek parachute?

Think about it.
Derek is in Florida. Beet is in Florida.
Derek has legal. Beet has Kayak.
Derek justifies his moves with legal. Beet justifies his probations with Kayak.

It all adds up.

Propagandist
Oct 23, 2007

orcinus posted:

What if Beet is actually a Derek parachute?

Think about it.
Derek is in Florida. Beet is in Florida.
Derek has legal. Beet has Kayak.
Derek justifies his moves with legal. Beet justifies his probations with Kayak.

It all adds up.

:eyepop:

Ash1138
Sep 29, 2001

Get up, chief. We're just gettin' started.

drat Dirty Ape posted:

Imagine having a giant meltdown post on reddit and then going back to edit in more snark.
imagine having a post on reddit

Goobs
Jan 30, 2016

Doxcat is watching you PU.
come back after a break and nothing in this thread makes any sense anymore also derek is banned.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Another day...another 600K.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Inkel posted:

Yes, but if I'm a pirate can I take his npc bikini guards captive and keep them in my rape dungeon?

Only if you keep them in crates.

Theotus
Nov 8, 2014

Goobs posted:

come back after a break and nothing in this thread makes any sense anymore also derek is banned.

I feel you buddy. The good news is my uncle works at CIG and he's saying everything's coming along, expect a big announcement in two weeks.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Ash1138 posted:

imagine having a post on reddit

I registered an account last year, when 2.0 came out. It's been quite an education. :reddit:

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

ArfJason posted:

I think its a bad idea to doxx people and send them death threats, write there names on walls, and throw objects at theire windows. You should stop doing that.

If I can't do anything like that, what about the fecal options? Like Fedexing them a sealed bag rigged to open when the box (allegedly of expensive beer) is opened? Or, barring that, outright crapping on their doorstep?

Almost forgot: SAMIZDATA FOR YOUR IDIOT KING!

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

MeLKoR posted:

I registered an account last year, when 2.0 came out. It's been quite an education. :reddit:

I tried posting in r/games, r/oculus and a few other high-profile tech-oriented subreddits way back.
It was poo poo. I've learned to stick to specialised / niche / geekyspergy subreddits since, and it's actually quite tolerable, until the number of members grows past some critical douchebaggery threshold.

I swear, it's like subreddits have some kind of a fixed schwarzschild radius, and if you pack a critical mass of douchebags within it, they just turn to poo poo.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
What is the tiny hosed up spaceman and death of a spaceman? I hope spaceman isn't being used unironically in any context because it's stupid as gently caress, on the other hand I do hope so thus allowing me to hate SC more

Samizdata posted:

Only if you keep them in crates.
Just make sure you open the spacelock and let all the air out before the space police come so you're only hauling corpses (totally legal) and not human trafficking.

LastCaress posted:

[quoth the agent]
this is what the thread needs, I don't even care whether it's real or not.
It's funny because the reality reflects comparable or worse.

Kakarot posted:

there was an E.L.E....but not where it was expected...
It's pretty much one of those "we were the aliens/real monsters all along" situations.

ahmini posted:

Make Marching Powder IK please
I dunno if this will do it but thread is funniest when it is about SC, not individuals- be it Derek Smart or any other single poster itt. That said I am unabashedly pro-DS because he is hilarious as an Internet Genghis Khan.

Fargin Icehole posted:

Why won't [Derek Smart] just come back? So what if he got banned and lost his modding powers because he broke the rules and outed a 35 year old guy pretending to be a 14 year old naive nympho.
Smart did nothing wrong. Although I'm actually not clear if he got banned for doxxing to expose the fake Norwegian (not justified- that was extremely creepy and goons were all too eager to suspend disbelief/actually fell for it which was also creepy in moments) or for doxxing someone itt (justified), which is it?

Ol Cactus Dick posted:

George BroussardChris Roberts or Ben Lesnick for mod :getin:

fake edit: THREAD TITLE! I'm honoured.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

AP posted:

Hey poo poo happens, I noticed a post from me earlier in 2015 asking Derek not to do what he does here, but on his own site instead. I understand why mods wouldn't like it here and that's all fine, I also suspect there's a lot of people on SA who don't like the regulars in the thread and even that's understandable. Derek is Derek, I think he's hilarious but then I laugh at myself too.

I'll probably be posting less here until we see how the recent changes play out, I'll still be reading though. Derek's got his forums going and I like talking to Citizens as they make me laugh and I expect he'll attract a few, I hope this is the end of having to explain myself.

I hope you'll find it suitable to your expectations, friend.

I've always enjoyed your posts and think you are another smart person in the thread. I hope we don't lose you but I understand how the chips need to fall.

We'll definitely be losing out on the people coming in to go toe to toe with Derek. SA will probably lose out financially as well. I'm not sure they had something so profitable in a long time, I'm sure for every crazy that showed up, probably 5-10 more registered just to lurk the thread.

From an administration standpoint, I can see what they did as mostly a good idea, and it's not a permanent ban. From a financial side, keeping Derek around was a smart decision to consider. Everybody knew Derek was more or less a fleeting bunny in the night. Any little thing could have set him off to never return again.

Maybe some day he'll return, but it probably won't come with an apology, so I hope the SA administration isn't expecting one. Derek is a cast iron bulldog to the core. It's what made him who he was, and what made him unlimitedly entertaining to have around.

He was a good asset for SA, and his presence will be missed. :911:

Danknificent
Nov 20, 2015

Jinkies! Looks like we've got a mystery on our hands.

Wrecked Angle posted:

God, I dread to think of how well this scam would go if it were being run by people who knew how to organise literally anything.

People have been baffled by this for ages, but what's more baffling still is all the unironically good advice for CIG that appears in this thread that we know they're reading, but not following.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Colostomy Bag posted:

Another day...another 600K.



I hope this ride never loving ends.

Fat Shat Sings
Jan 24, 2016

The Titanic posted:

He was a good asset for SA, and his presence will be missed. :911:

haha if you think he won't come back, he is fueled by being right

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

cool new Polack jokes posted:

What is the tiny hosed up spaceman and death of a spaceman? I hope spaceman isn't being used unironically in any context because it's stupid as gently caress, on the other hand I do hope so thus allowing me to hate SC more

The what now?

cool new Polack jokes posted:

I dunno if this will do it but thread is funniest when it is about SC, not individuals- be it Derek Smart or any other single poster itt. That said I am unabashedly pro-DS because he is hilarious as an Internet Genghis Khan.

Hey now. It had some really hilarious Derek flipping moments as well.
And Branson flipping moments. And Branson's wife flipping moments.

And Crobblers moments. And Ben moments. And Sandi moments.

... In fact, if you think about it, since there is no SC, it's ONLY ever been about the individuals.

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I hope this ride never loving ends.

It looks like that that would put them over for a while. But honestly they're probably gonna make 6-8 weeks worth of burn this month. Thats it.

The early days when they were small they got way more money than chris could waste so they've been riding a stockpile for years and using that to make up the deficit. From the cash only poo poo we see that the stockpile is almost gone.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.
Derek going and making his own forums was a silly idea.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

orcinus posted:

The what now?

... In fact, if you think about it, since there is no SC, it's ONLY ever been about the individuals.

Word

"I love my tiny hosed up spaceman", which is a riff on something I'm sure

"Death of a spaceman", like Death of a Salesman I guess

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

Sickening posted:

Derek going and making his own forums was a silly idea.

Technically, he had them before.
Since way back when he switched from comments under the articles to a forum.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

Sickening posted:

Derek going and making his own forums was a silly idea.

Something Smart

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

Beet Wagon posted:

Marching Powder doesn't need a 2 week ban. He just needs to remember to poo poo on me for being a bad poster and not for being 'too scared to probate' him or whatever the hell that was.

Hi Beet me again. I really encourage not reading this thread. I personally not read a lot of it. But honestly as a moderator I think you should be required to read and comprehend something before you start mashing your moderator buttons. So when you see my avatar in future, do the responsible thing and try and comprehend 'whatever the hell that was' or else you'll find yourself spazzing out and looking like a thin-skinned bitch having to make posts like the one I quoted defending your actions. Lol.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Fat Shat Sings posted:

haha if you think he won't come back, he is fueled by being right

At some point he may. :)

It may be because he wants to further fuel his cause with "my goons", etc. Even if we didn't have an opportunity to screen what he wrote and posted, in blogs and on Twitter, he used the goon arm a lot, and flexed that muscle even if nobody here had a clue or agreed with whatever it was.

I don't think anybody cared though, except a few wanting credit for their art or shops he pulled in. He might come back sooner rather than later, if for nothing else than to continue his association with goons. "My goons" sounds better than "my Derek forum members" after all. :)

Although he still has that Discord thing too, I'm pretty sure that's outside of the SA zone and likely has more excitement than here. One of these days I should figure out how to do it, but I don't know if I can from a phone or tablet. I'm rarely on an actual PC at all. :shrug:

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

make marching powder ik

BinaryDoubts
Jun 6, 2013

Looking at it now, it really is disgusting. The flesh is transparent. From the start, I had no idea if it would even make a clapping sound. So I diligently reproduced everything about human hands, the bones, joints, and muscles, and then made them slap each other pretty hard.

Marching Powder posted:

Hi Beet me again. I really encourage not reading this thread. I personally not read a lot of it. But honestly as a moderator I think you should be required to read and comprehend something before you start mashing your moderator buttons. So when you see my avatar in future, do the responsible thing and try and comprehend 'whatever the hell that was' or else you'll find yourself spazzing out and looking like a thin-skinned bitch having to make posts like the one I quoted defending your actions. Lol.

marching powder posts, a breakdown by me
90% - bitching about poo poo that doesn't matter
10% - also bitching about poo poo that doesn't matter

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aeRYrT8Zso

The lines are even worse in this one.

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

The Titanic posted:

One of these days I should figure out how to do it, but I don't know if I can from a phone or tablet.

You can.
App looks and behaves exactly the same on all platforms (including desktops).

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

I can't look at that poo poo anymore.
The horrible rubber Space Clarkson with warts gives me nightmares.

no_recall
Aug 17, 2015

Lipstick Apathy

The Titanic posted:

I hope you'll find it suitable to your expectations, friend.

I've always enjoyed your posts and think you are another smart person in the thread. I hope we don't lose you but I understand how the chips need to fall.

We'll definitely be losing out on the people coming in to go toe to toe with Derek. SA will probably lose out financially as well. I'm not sure they had something so profitable in a long time, I'm sure for every crazy that showed up, probably 5-10 more registered just to lurk the thread.

From an administration standpoint, I can see what they did as mostly a good idea, and it's not a permanent ban. From a financial side, keeping Derek around was a smart decision to consider. Everybody knew Derek was more or less a fleeting bunny in the night. Any little thing could have set him off to never return again.

Maybe some day he'll return, but it probably won't come with an apology, so I hope the SA administration isn't expecting one. Derek is a cast iron bulldog to the core. It's what made him who he was, and what made him unlimitedly entertaining to have around.

He was a good asset for SA, and his presence will be missed. :911:

I'm in the opinion the thread won't recover, but we'll always get to reminisce about the glory days of wageslave plebscrubs, solar plebian, cattes and the thread being a CIG executive action. Lol.

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no_recall
Aug 17, 2015

Lipstick Apathy

This is horrible. And I just watched the Grand Tour EP1, that poo poo was good.

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