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19 o'clock posted:Had he been? What's the story there? I guess I saw one of his posts in the thread speaking to his renewed sense of purpose and joy, however if there is more backstory I'd be curious... It definitely helped with his medicinal-purposes methamphetamine psychosis e: beaten, and on the previous page. 14" is a good dude and has a place reserved in valhalla, godspeed to him and his truck. What happened to that dude who made an increasingly potent series of flamethrowers? Mousepractice has a new favorite as of 14:36 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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Scudworth posted:edit- this is far more crass sounding than it should be, watching AI scramble to get their boy the help he needed when he was in such a dark place was beautiful. That makes me wonder, most sagas are horrible or cringey poo poo but what's some of the good things goons have pooled together to do? I recall a story about "Donate to a tsunami relief fund to ban this poster" which just flew right off the chain and met its goal super fast. Dunno what the guy did to draw in the charity drive to ban him though. There was also the paypal debacle when Hurricane Katrina hit, did that ever get resolved and the funds went through properly?
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I think at one point goons pitched in to buy body armor from ARE TROOPS.
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Rough Lobster posted:I think at one point goons pitched in to buy body armor from ARE TROOPS. It was for, not from. http://www.somethingawful.com/news/some-soldiers-saved/
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I Said No posted:That makes me wonder, most sagas are horrible or cringey poo poo but what's some of the good things goons have pooled together to do? He posted in GBS to ask for help with some homework or something similarly innocuous and got mod challenged. It just snowballed a little once someone offered to donate. Pretty sure he even donated himself at one point in the thread, but can't remember that much detail any more.
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Scudworth posted:He was supplementing his Adderall Rx with street meth because it was cheaper, started posting manic poo poo about how the emergency room doctors didn't believe there were bugs under his skin + posted a bunch of photo/video "evidence", and was eventually 5150'd by AI goons. That was entertaining as hell, in a horror movie way. He kept posting photos of scabs and snot and pointing out the fractal patterns, but no matter how many times people reassured him "you don't have writhing fungus crawling out of your skin, that's a hallucination", he thought he was far too experienced to fall for such tricks. Finally AI convinced him to go back to the ER again and be honest w them, and he got better after a few days sleep but was pretty embarrassed. It was a good look into how the "but I'm experienced enough to handle the drugs" mindset can get people killed/jailed, because if someone thinks they'd know if they're hallucinating, you'll never be able to convince them that they are. Also watching goons struggle against their innate belief that doctors are stupid and don't know poo poo about medicine/disease/drugs. It wasn't the worst case of that, he just happened to have a very illustrative experience and I'm glad it had a happy ending. --- Re: goons & drugs, I once started to collate and put the best parts of the phenazepam thread in chronological order to try and make an "In Golden Waters"-style e-book but  . It's something that needs to be done though, since the joose thread gets requested every 3 or 4 pages.BigSuave posted:Oh man well I" in the missle of my fam renion. I think thry'tre on to me. 200 mgs was definitelyenough, aloung with all the weed and itrous chargers my buddy gave me for no reasdon (I don't like nitrous) but holdy god. good times
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Syd Midnight posted:That was entertaining as hell, in a horror movie way. He kept posting photos of scabs and snot and pointing out the fractal patterns, but no matter how many times people reassured him "you don't have writhing fungus crawling out of your skin, that's a hallucination", he thought he was far too experienced to fall for such tricks. Finally AI convinced him to go back to the ER again and be honest w them, and he got better after a few days sleep but was pretty embarrassed. Do you have the story's conclusion as well?
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Say Nothing posted:I keep hearing about how bad ADTRW is, but I don't see it. Either I'm looking at the wrong threads there or it's been cleaned up a lot. People in the chat thread keep constantly getting probated for posting NWS young girl anime pics
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Ibogaine posted:Do you have the story's conclusion as well? The phenazepam one where a guy "eyeballed" a dose 
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Dec 9, 2016 21:53
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I'm not sure anyone ever did that, but there was definitely confusion from some people that eyeballing meant ingesting through your eye socket rather than the actual meaning of 'estimating the right dose without a scale'. Both equally dumb when it comes to that stuff, mind.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I'm not sure anyone ever did that, but there was definitely confusion from some people that eyeballing meant ingesting through your eye socket rather than the actual meaning of 'estimating the right dose without a scale'. Yeah I'm pretty sure nobody put it into or on their actual eyeballs. There was confusion of that sort though, and it sounds funny and futuristic, like a lovely cyberpunk movie from the 90s where the only way to take a drug is to inject it into your tearducts, so the story sticks. But mostly it was just goons looking at a tiny mound of powder and eyeballing it: "that's probably 1-2 milligrams" and then realizing 10 days later that a milligram isn't visible to the naked eye.
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This seems like something you guys might be interested in. Found this while helping a friend archive a bunch of backups from old LAN party PC's and game servers and stuff: Poor Lowtax's Almanac A sort of lifehack/survival guide goon project from, I want to say, 10+ years ago. It's very "of it's time" in a mid 00s internet culture kind of way. https://file.io/l7lyCe Contains lots of terrible spelling and even worse advice.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:This seems like something you guys might be interested in. Found this while helping a friend archive a bunch of backups from old LAN party PC's and game servers and stuff: Link is broken?  code:
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Powaqoatse posted:..like a lovely cyberpunk movie from the 90s where the only way to take a drug is to inject it into your tearducts, so the story sticks. The closest thing I can think to, is the 'probably only seen it if you were a teen in Britain in the late 90s' where Rhys Ifans' character in Kevin and Perry Go Large would shoot vodka through his eye. During the end credit sequence you can see it eventually ends up falling out.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The closest thing I can think to, is the 'probably only seen it if you were a teen in Britain in the late 90s' where Rhys Ifans' character in Kevin and Perry Go Large would shoot vodka through his eye. During the end credit sequence you can see it eventually ends up falling out. The first episode of Cowboy Bebop involves a drug that you spray into your eye
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Powaqoatse posted:Link is broken? Ugh. Try this one I guess? http://www.megafileupload.com/cgcG/PoorLowtaxesAlmanac.doc
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The "eyeballing" confusion comes from the GBS thread that collected the more ridiculous TCC stories before actual TCC posters arrived to defend their honor. Basically a lot of people in GBS took the term literally as among other insane stories it didn't sound impossible.
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The joose thread was great. People hosed up on benzos have an incredibly distinctive typing style and will just throw strings of commas in the middle of wor,,,,,ds]]`
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Ugh. Try this one I guess? http://www.megafileupload.com/cgcG/PoorLowtaxesAlmanac.doc idk if my adblock is killing it, but it's a no go  e: its not, i turned it off & it still just loops when i click slow download Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 00:24 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:The closest thing I can think to, is the 'probably only seen it if you were a teen in Britain in the late 90s' where Rhys Ifans' character in Kevin and Perry Go Large would shoot vodka through his eye. During the end credit sequence you can see it eventually ends up falling out. welp you should watch more lovely scifi from the 90s my boy
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I dunno, I think TGD serves the same purpose as any other online non-doctor health forum, it's a place to talk about what the gently caress is wrong with you and possibly why the doctors can't figure out what it is, and commiserate with others on things to try etc. I used my thread in there to chronicle a year-long bout with mysterious chronic illness and it was nice to at least get sympathy from there  Nobody in there really pretends to be a doctor and the first advice is always "oh my god see a real doctor."TCC is likely doing more harm than reduction at this point though.
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Though if TCC wasn't around people would probably just go somewhere more questionable like bluelight.org or r/nootropics or something.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Though if TCC wasn't around people would probably just go somewhere more questionable like bluelight.org or r/nootropics or something. but how are they more questionable though?
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You just made the "people are gonna do drugs anyway" argument but with drug forums, I'm impressed IMO the only thing having TCC around is doing is legitimizing super dangerous drugs by placing them on the same level as low-risk stuff like weed and LSD and giving them threads where seemingly lucid and reasonable people post about how much fun they are.
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Who me? I just wanna know what the differences between drug forums are.
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Not you, the other guy.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Though if TCC wasn't around people would probably just go somewhere more questionable like bluelight.org or r/nootropics or something. right. because tcc is run by professional social scientists as a structured harm-reduction program
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Not you, the other guy. man you totally ruined my thing i was like: "whats the difference between forums blah blah" and then the other guy would be like "the moderation" and i could be like "lsd my nigga" and then we would all be like gently caress that guy
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Ibogaine posted:Do you have the story's conclusion as well? Unfortunately no, but it might be found in the infamous thread itself, which holy poo poo absolutely lives up to its legend. Be sure to check the rap sheets of permabanned posters... in the 10 pages I just read I counted 4 confirmed kills. Jedit posted:When I was just a little goon I asked the mod team, "What should I try? Should I rent hookers? Should I do blow?" This was their wise reply: Que sera sera, whatever will be will be. Just don't post in TCC. Que sera sera.
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Lol at people complaining about TGD and TCC. It's as if these people have assumed their magnanimity genuine. Lol at them.
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:You just made the "people are gonna do drugs anyway" argument but with drug forums, I'm impressed What I've seen of other drug forums in mock threads etc is way more horrific than anything I've seen quoted here but I'm definitely willing to admit I could be wrong since I really don't feel particularly strongly about this.
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TCC concentrates all the idiots in one place. Metaphorically without TCC it would be like every time you tried to have a conversation about something some idiot showed up and screamed "My niggah have you tried LSD!?". The people like that are still around, just concentrated in one place. If you want to laugh at them you can always go take a look. Note: I was quoting HondaRider there before anyone goes and gets indignant.
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counterpoint: goons in one place
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Powaqoatse posted:welp you should watch more lovely scifi from the 90s my boy I spent 20 years avoiding it, how dare you trick me into giving it a shot!
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EL BROMANCE posted:I spent 20 years avoiding it, how dare you trick me into giving it a shot! Just sayin theres at least 2 sci fi movies where they put drugs in their tearducts.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:What I've seen of other drug forums in mock threads etc is way more horrific than anything I've seen quoted here but I'm definitely willing to admit I could be wrong since I really don't feel particularly strongly about this. This may speak more of my naivete but the worst drug related posts I have seen are the ones by the guy with the yellow wario avatar. Just well written posts, obviously by an educated person with a good command of English, telling us about living in the streets and blowing up veins and muscles with tar and having a hot shower maybe once in a year and then "I love getting high."
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The Saddest Rhino posted:This may speak more of my naivete but the worst drug related posts I have seen are the ones by the guy with the yellow wario avatar. Just well written posts, obviously by an educated person with a good command of English, telling us about living in the streets and blowing up veins and muscles with tar and having a hot shower maybe once in a year and then "I love getting high." I was more speaking to the prevalence of drugs that probably shouldn't be handled without a hazmat suit (like Carfentanil) or drugs that cause you to permanently lose your sense of touch after a few months of usage (like U-47700) on other corners of the internet but yes, the opiate and benzo threads here are unquestionably depressing.
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Powaqoatse posted:Just sayin theres at least 2 sci fi movies where they put drugs in their tearducts. Looper
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I Said No posted:That makes me wonder, most sagas are horrible or cringey poo poo but what's some of the good things goons have pooled together to do? tbh i hope we're getting close to the point where enough time has passed that doobie stops being a stupid meme and becomes just another hilarious episode of sa history, which it really was
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