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Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I kind of like that... Finding a weird, non-private corner of the internet and just hanging out.

Reminds me of the internet circa '95-'96.

seriously. Back when I was an awful teenager gross dude, I spent my wild west 90s internet days on a newsgroup devoted to final fantasy and animu, and like, 75% of the discussion there was like, 30 or so of us regulars just chilling out and talking amongst ourselves.

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Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
I hung out in an obscure gamefaqs spinoff and it's somehow still hosted and sometimes people from there post here!!! "I'm leaving for SA" was something people would say as they left in a huff.

not the gamefaqs spinoff luelinks "eti"

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
I liked to hangout in lesbian IRC channels

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
Just a bunch of guys chatting about stuff

Tweak
Jul 28, 2003

or dont whatever









I have so many questions about this insane person but their post history just raises even more

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

Tweak posted:

I have so many questions about this insane person but their post history just raises even more
Dungeon crawl stone soup is a wonderful game, one of my all time favorites!

The guy didn't have that name back then, he was just "frykte", very nondescript untill...well yeah.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

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

Choco1980 posted:

seriously. Back when I was an awful teenager gross dude, I spent my wild west 90s internet days on a newsgroup devoted to final fantasy and animu, and like, 75% of the discussion there was like, 30 or so of us regulars just chilling out and talking amongst ourselves.

Wait a sec... What was the name of the site? Was it something like ff legends or something? I remember that place if it's the same one. My then gf was all over it, went and actually met one of dudes who ran it, too.

Scudworth
Jan 1, 2005

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

Dinosaur Gum
May 2016- a guy joined the forums to see about Goonswarm and EVE. He came from Reddit.
He was unprepared for our old-timey ideas like "rules", or "lurking", or "not going on insane angry misogynistic rants".

He made a total of 21 posts, his downfall presented in order here:

HAY WHERES THE EVE SECRETS AT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773671&pagenumber=32&perpage=40#post459402048

Literally his 4th post ever, he decides to check out ask/tell
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774358

PLEASE DELETE MY ACCOUNT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774410

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I kind of like that... Finding a weird, non-private corner of the internet and just hanging out.

Reminds me of the internet circa '95-'96.

You could probably post in FYAD's subforum right now and get away with it cause there's like 5 people viewing it at any given time

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Scudworth posted:

May 2016- a guy joined the forums to see about Goonswarm and EVE. He came from Reddit.
He was unprepared for our old-timey ideas like "rules", or "lurking", or "not going on insane angry misogynistic rants".

He made a total of 21 posts, his downfall presented in order here:

HAY WHERES THE EVE SECRETS AT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773671&pagenumber=32&perpage=40#post459402048

Literally his 4th post ever, he decides to check out ask/tell
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774358

PLEASE DELETE MY ACCOUNT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774410

I didn't read of all that, but what I did read was gold. Getting owned spectacularly in the account deletion thread was a thing of beauty, especially by Franco, of all people.

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

Scudworth posted:

May 2016- a guy joined the forums to see about Goonswarm and EVE. He came from Reddit.
He was unprepared for our old-timey ideas like "rules", or "lurking", or "not going on insane angry misogynistic rants".

He made a total of 21 posts, his downfall presented in order here:

HAY WHERES THE EVE SECRETS AT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773671&pagenumber=32&perpage=40#post459402048

Literally his 4th post ever, he decides to check out ask/tell
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774358

PLEASE DELETE MY ACCOUNT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774410

Readers, please don't miss the angry post Lottery of Babylon produced from this gent's blog. Featuring way, way too many words.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774358&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post459422829

LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 02:38 on Mar 30, 2017

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010
Ultra Carp

Scudworth posted:

May 2016- a guy joined the forums to see about Goonswarm and EVE. He came from Reddit.
He was unprepared for our old-timey ideas like "rules", or "lurking", or "not going on insane angry misogynistic rants".

He made a total of 21 posts, his downfall presented in order here:

HAY WHERES THE EVE SECRETS AT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773671&pagenumber=32&perpage=40#post459402048

Literally his 4th post ever, he decides to check out ask/tell
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774358

PLEASE DELETE MY ACCOUNT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774410

Absolutely wonderful

j4gs are a treasure

Scudworth
Jan 1, 2005

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

Dinosaur Gum

zen death robot posted:

I wish I could goldmine a specific post

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Readers, please don't miss the angry post Lottery of Babylon produced from this gent's blog. Featuring way, way too many words.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774358&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post459422829

OH MY GOD HE HAS A GRAPH :eng101:

Jesus Christ how does EVE break people like that???

Scudworth
Jan 1, 2005

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

Dinosaur Gum



edit: VVVV what in the hell VVVV

Scudworth has a new favorite as of 06:13 on Mar 30, 2017

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3815109&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

At least he put them in spoiler tags.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

Scout Finch Bitch
Does anyone have links to that terrible WoW webseries that some teenager was trying to do many years back? All I remember was he would post in the MMO forum and sign all of his posts and for a while people in the MMO forum would sign their posts with his characters name/class/level tag as a joke.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

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


Oh my god, this is something special.

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Scudworth posted:

May 2016- a guy joined the forums to see about Goonswarm and EVE. He came from Reddit.
He was unprepared for our old-timey ideas like "rules", or "lurking", or "not going on insane angry misogynistic rants".

He made a total of 21 posts, his downfall presented in order here:

HAY WHERES THE EVE SECRETS AT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773671&pagenumber=32&perpage=40#post459402048

Literally his 4th post ever, he decides to check out ask/tell
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774358

PLEASE DELETE MY ACCOUNT
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3774410

Holy poo poo how did I miss this :popeye:

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli
Wasn't there a kid with some pretentious sounding name like Grothmoore who had some bizzare attempt to join Goonswarm and had a meltdown when he figured out he'd been had?

And that DnD addict I think was in a grognards thread. Might have been a repost off another forum.

The gist was the guy was addicted to constantly rolling stats for characters till his long suffering girlfriend broke up as it was clear that it was impossible to support him.

Creed Reunion Tour
Jul 3, 2007

by Cyrano4747
Grimey Drawer

WebDog posted:

Wasn't there a kid with some pretentious sounding name like Grothmoore who had some bizzare attempt to join Goonswarm and had a meltdown when he figured out he'd been had?


Prencleeve Grothsmore. He was obsessed with getting into Goonswarm, and he had a thread in E/N about how he was so much smarter than the other kids in Elementary and they didn't even read Marx' Das Kapital.

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in


Aesop Poprock posted:

If it's not this then it's the dumbest worst man alive and possibly the second dumbest man alive doing business with no idea as to how human transactions work in any direction

In other words, it's great

lmbo

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Wait a sec... What was the name of the site? Was it something like ff legends or something? I remember that place if it's the same one. My then gf was all over it, went and actually met one of dudes who ran it, too.

Nah definitely not. This was a newsgroup with a binary name. and specifically about hentai because I was a terrible person as a teen

mojo1701a
Oct 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth


Has buying or exchanging gift cards online ever not involved some really sketchy or stupid poo poo?

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

White Genocide posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3594991

how were these lovebirds "hiding out" before the thread got moved. who found it? could that still happen :stare:

holy gently caress what

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?

This has got to be some elaborate performance art, right? The OP has an SA account so they know about payment on the internet, they can't possibly be this stupid.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

funmanguy posted:

This has got to be some elaborate performance art, right? The OP has an SA account so they know about payment on the internet, they can't possibly be this stupid.

He's an IT guy. :downs:

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches

RFC2324 posted:

He's an IT guy. :downs:

so an alcoholic?

Theotus
Nov 8, 2014

sneakyfrog posted:

so an alcoholic?

Cool, I can blame the job?

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches

Meridian posted:

Cool, I can blame the job?

what else would you do.... take personal responsibility?

no way friend.

Theotus
Nov 8, 2014

sneakyfrog posted:

what else would you do.... take personal responsibility?

no way friend.

What's that?

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches

Meridian posted:

What's that?

:hfive:

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?

RFC2324 posted:

He's an IT guy. :downs:

I can't find an emote to properly express how absurd this is.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

sneakyfrog posted:

so an alcoholic?

Yes.

funmanguy posted:

I can't find an emote to properly express how absurd this is.

The downs emote was the best i could come up with.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

funmanguy posted:

I can't find an emote to properly express how absurd this is.

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches

RFC2324 posted:

Yes.


The downs emote was the best i could come up with.

:beerpal:

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Choco1980 posted:

I'm reminded of at least some time back (not sure if it's still done) where people would find pages on Gamefaqs for obscure games and just use that game's specific message board to socialize with each other, and nobody would notice because who besides like, say a weirdo like me, would go to gamefaqs looking up something like the Amiga Nightbreed games?
Back in 2001 SA's DPPH was looking for ways to host porn. One method was Usenet which was already a source for porn. However, DPPH wanted to find a quiet board to post .rar dumps, and decided on alt.binary.heretic
Or binaries. Whatever.

There was also a takeover of NBC Interactive's Sharehouse

CannonFodder has a new favorite as of 00:46 on Mar 31, 2017

Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.

WebDog posted:

And that DnD addict I think was in a grognards thread. Might have been a repost off another forum.

The gist was the guy was addicted to constantly rolling stats for characters till his long suffering girlfriend broke up as it was clear that it was impossible to support him.

That was an offsite thing but a :staredog: saga that'd fit well in e/n

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?369229-Necro-Creepiest-Person-You-ve-Ever-Gamed-With-Part-Deux

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Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010


That's setting off a number of STDH meters

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