January Chat Thread: The year is dead, long live the year

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meatpimp: May 15, 2004; Psst -- Wanna buy

EVERYWHERE
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

Image leaching ain't a problem no more :siren:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3806295&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=13#post468527125

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:27

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# ? May 23, 2024 22:28

Adiabatic: Nov 18, 2007; What have you assholes done now?

meatpimp for mod

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:30

CAT INTERCEPTOR: Nov 9, 2004; Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

funny Star Wars parody posted:

not right now anyways

there is a lot of offsite drama going on

10 years ago you would have any number of posters clamoring to be a mod. These days? Even if you are the most boring and unassuming person in real life and do a great job, you have a target painted on you by offsite pants shitters. Being personally doxxed is one thing but those fuckwits are doxxing family as well. gently caress. That.

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:31

CAT INTERCEPTOR: Nov 9, 2004; Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

freelop posted:

I volunteer with a new strategy.
Only posters can break the rules
Therefore being a poster is a crime
Punishment is death

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:33

cursedshitbox: May 20, 2012; Your rear-end wont survive my hammering.; Fun Shoe

Adiabatic posted:

seriously it needs to be kastein or cursedshitbox or meatpimp or Motronic

comedy option randomly switch between 14" and TT

Yo I thought we were friends?

I don't particularly mind...but I wouldnt want old porn to be on the frontpage. so ehhhhh.

otherwise, Come and find me bigboy. theres a stocked brokebackbangbus hot and ready.

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:33

OBAMNA PHONE: Aug 7, 2002

Has ioc even had to moderate anything in here for years? I feel like we run a pretty tight ship.

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:37

Magnus Praeda: Jul 18, 2003; The largess in the land.

So for the numbskulls at the back of the class (me), can someone tl;dr on what the hell is going on? That QCS thread just got me more confused since I never really leave AI or DIY these days.

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:40

Hypnolobster: Apr 12, 2007; What this sausage party needs is a big dollop of ketchup! Too bad I didn't make any.

BraveUlysses posted:

Has ioc even had to moderate anything in here for years? I feel like we run a pretty tight ship.

Well, there's always meatpimp

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:40

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Magnus Praeda posted:

So for the numbskulls at the back of the class (me), can someone tl;dr on what the hell is going on? That QCS thread just got me more confused since I never really leave AI or DIY these days.

I think we're supposed to make racist jokes now. It's hard to tell.

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:41

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Magnus Praeda posted:

So for the numbskulls at the back of the class (me), can someone tl;dr on what the hell is going on? That QCS thread just got me more confused since I never really leave AI or DIY these days.

I'm in the same boat. Apparently there is a poo poo ton more drama going on with SA and SA-related bullshit than I had any idea of. Not that I really care, but holy poo poo.

# ? Jan 19, 2017 23:53

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Sockington for mod.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 00:00

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

BraveUlysses posted:

Has ioc even had to moderate anything in here for years? I feel like we run a pretty tight ship.

Mostly thread name changes and reports about fridge corn, a surprisingly large percentage of which I misc'ed.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 00:02

Beverly Cleavage: Jun 22, 2004; I am a pretty pretty princess, watch me do my pretty princess dance....

IOwnCalculus posted:

I wouldn't wish that poo poo on anyone right now.

Speaking for kastein: "challenge accepted."

:v:

# ? Jan 20, 2017 00:30

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

Seat Safety Switch posted:

You probably missed the excellent Trans Mountain to Tide Water trip log.

Ouch! That's not where that goes.
Did it live, after? I think I need to know more about SweetChiliHeat.

Also, you really like the word "uckfay", don't you?

fridge corn posted:

What is the percentage of Americans that actually have passports?

Not many. We don't have to go into another country to go down the block.

Liquid Communism posted:

Glancing at the linked thread? Yeah, no question. That looks like a woodchipper the likes of which 14" might hesitate to stick his dick in.

WTF is going on? Political crapola elsewhere?

Seminal Flu posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3806295

Ah. Forum drama leading to mod drama. I'm not interested in the exact nature. I'm going to stay in here where it's nice and sane(ish). <close tab>

# ? Jan 20, 2017 00:46

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

spog posted:

I think we're supposed to make racist jokes now. It's hard to tell.

Right you are, Ted.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 00:47

Goober Peas: Jun 30, 2007; Check out my 'Vette, bro

# ? Jan 20, 2017 00:51

Seat Safety Switch: May 27, 2008; MY RELIGION IS THE SMALL BLOCK V8 AND COMMANDMENTS ONE THROUGH TEN ARE NEVER LIFT.; Pillbug

Darchangel posted:

Ouch! That's not where that goes.
Did it live, after? I think I need to know more about SweetChiliHeat.

It is still brapping around somewhere.

Darchangel posted:

Also, you really like the word "uckfay", don't you?

It was copied & pasted off another forum which has a weird word censor. I keep meaning to edit it.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 00:51

Liquid Communism: Mar 9, 2004; коммунизм хранится в яичках

Darchangel posted:

WTF is going on? Political crapola elsewhere?

So far as I can tell, bunch of offsite poo poo over Lowtax having once employed Shmorky, who has turned out to be a terrible crazy person in his private life apparently. Offsite people assdamaged because SA's not really cool with hating on trans people and openly trying to troll them off the site. They started doxxing mods and trans thread posters in the lamest, least actually effective 'doxxing' possible, and the screamy bits since have caused some drama among the staff that I don't know poo poo about and don't want to.

Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jan 20, 2017

# ? Jan 20, 2017 01:11

Sinestro: Oct 31, 2010; The perfect day needs the perfect set of wheels.

The trans thread is one of the worst threads on the entire forum, it scares the poo poo out of me and I will never post in it. They still don't deserve to be doxxed, of course, but JESUS.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 01:19

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

i guess this is it?

DoctorStrangelove posted:

Deer lord.

So a while ago a bunch of posters in DnD was mad about none of the DnD mods having sufficiently high melanin levels. So they complained about it on QCS, saying that the mods was racist for only ever probating black posters. FAU and ZDR say that they have no clue who the gently caress is what skin color. One of the mad people is a dude named negromancer. He opens up a thread in DnD following these events called negrotown. This thread is basically a self-imposed ghetto for the DnD posters who claim to be black, of course most of them are probably honky-rear end honkies pretending. Negromancer, in his infinite wisdom, does some sort of fuckery with the Somethingawful website or some poo poo, a guy with IT knowledge would know better, but basically he's talking like he could have stolen peoples' credit cards if he wanted to (edit: ZDR claimed that he was full of poo poo about the credit card part but did launch some sort of attack on the SA servers or some poo poo). This gets him banned. So people in negrotown say that he was banned for being a darkie. Which he wasn't. This attracts Lowtax, who at the time was in the crosshairs of the PC Police for "misgendering" shmorky. Lowtax has no time for this nonsense and tells them to gently caress off. They call him racist. Lady Ambien makes a post about how DnD is way too far to the left and anyone even vaguely right of center gets dog-piled and that's not good for the health of the forums. She gets called a racist. Taxman appoints Koala's March, who claims to be a black wymyn of colour to be DnD mod so that he doesn't have to deal with this bullshit.

I stopped following this drama at this point but my guess is that KM didn't quite work out as a DnD mod and that's why she's got her own containment subforum.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 01:32

F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

There's nothing more exciting than forums drama :rolleyes:

# ? Jan 20, 2017 01:41

Kia Soul Enthusias: May 9, 2004; zoom-zoom; Toilet Rascal

What does this have to do with AI and IOC?

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:05

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

CharlesM posted:

What does this have to do with AI and IOC?

IOC was clearly one of the first against the wall when the revolution came, on account of reasonable and sensible.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:06

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

funny Star Wars parody posted:

not right now anyways

there is a lot of offsite drama going on

there was plenty of off site and IRC drama back when I was a mod

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:21

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

CharlesM posted:

What does this have to do with AI and IOC?

Absolutely nothing. Lowtax got deeply offended at an image Koalas March posted, spent two days asking to have a discussion about it while largely ignoring people providing responses, and then suddenly demodded three people who he felt were too flippant to him in said responses.

Right about there is where slap me silly and I asked to be demodded and it's been a chain reaction since.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:34

Fender Anarchist: May 20, 2009; Fender Anarchist

Ironic that Lowtax of all people is taking the tack of "I don't find this funny therefore no one else may either" considering some of the poo poo in this website's history

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:44

Previa_fun: Nov 10, 2004

How unfulfilling does your life have to be to allow yourself to get so wrapped up in an internet forum.

I mean I get on here after work to look at people's cars and talk about cars and how Macs suck while I drink beer.

Then I go do other stuff and forget about the forums. It's worked out well for me so far.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:45

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

Previa_fun posted:

How unfulfilling does your life have to be to allow yourself to get so wrapped up in an internet forum.

I mean I get on here after work to look at people's cars and talk about cars and how Macs suck while I drink beer.

Then I go do other stuff and forget about the forums. It's worked out well for me so far.

There are people who spend money to put funny pictures besides people's posts on this internet forum.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:48

briefcasefullof: Sep 25, 2004; [This Space for Rent]

Powershift posted:

There are people who spend money to put funny pictures besides people's posts on this internet forum.

Some of them do it for large groups.
<---Case in point.

Also, holy poo poo do they take forums too seriously.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:50

F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

Previa_fun posted:

How unfulfilling does your life have to be to allow yourself to get so wrapped up in an internet forum.

I mean I get on here after work to look at people's cars and talk about cars and how Macs suck while I drink beer.

Then I go do other stuff and forget about the forums. It's worked out well for me so far.

This is pretty much my view, this place is a time sink for when I have nothing to do at work or right now when I'm making dinner/waiting for the mattress to dry since doggo puked on it twice today. I actually stuck with this forum because its the only internet forum left with an F1 thread that isn't taking way too seriously.

Powershift posted:

There are people who spend money to put funny pictures besides people's posts on this internet forum.

Now you see the light.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:50

keykey: Mar 28, 2003; Â Â Â Â Â

IOwnCalculus posted:

Right about there is where slap me silly and I asked to be demodded and it's been a chain reaction since.

With reactions like that, I don't blame you. For what it's worth, you've been the best AI mod thus far.

edit: During limbo, I would like to throw 13"~~under the bus~~'s hat into the thunderdome arena.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:52

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

I'm glad we have the FB group to fall back on in case they decide to just delete this sub forum.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:55

ExplodingSims: Aug 17, 2010; RAGDOLL
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HOT DAMN
THINK I MADE A POOPIE

This is why AI is the best subforum. No drama, no crazies, just awesome cars and projects.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:58

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

ExplodingSims posted:

This is why AI is the best subforum. No drama, no crazies, just awesome cars and projects.

psssst. look up.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 03:01

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Rhyno posted:

I'm glad we have the FB group to fall back on in case they decide to just delete this sub forum.

I should probably join that.

# ? Jan 20, 2017 03:01

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