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skasion posted:Does anyone remember a GBS thread a couple of years ago where people found a really bad artist's New Yorker cartoons and were posting edits of them? The twist is that the artist found out and threatened to sue Lowtax or whatever. I'm sure I could find the thread if I remembered her name but I can't. And an article about it somewhere talked about the wisdom of getting into a poo poo throwing contest with a bunch of flying monkeys.
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Was she the one with "men back then" and "men today" and no one could figure out what the cartoon was saying? Like. Drinking a beer vs drinking out of a bottle or something stupid like that.
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Trevor Hale posted:Was she the one with "men back then" and "men today" and no one could figure out what the cartoon was saying? Like. Drinking a beer vs drinking out of a bottle or something stupid like that. This is the thread, but most of the images are lost to the Great Waffleimages Disaster of whenever that happened (probably a saga in its own right).
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Apr 23, 2017 07:05
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Didn't the goon that was maintaining waffle images get banned or something?
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Apr 23, 2017 07:21
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Solice Kirsk posted:Didn't the goon that was maintaining waffle images get banned or something? No, that was Imageshack. The full crazy story is in SAclopedia. Waffle was created to take over from that mess, and ended because it was impossible to maintain.
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Scudworth posted:No, that was Imageshack. The full crazy story is in SAclopedia. why? just lack of money to maintain it?
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Scudworth posted:The full crazy story is in SAclopedia. Mam I wish the Awful app had SAclopedia support. Can you Copy-Paste the best stuff?
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Aesop Poprock posted:why? just lack of money to maintain it? I think it was supposed to meet the enormous bandwidth and storage needs of an image host by making a distributed network supported by many volunteer goons mirroring images on their own webspace. This went about as well as you would expect a massive goon volunteer project to go. SAclopedia: kalleboo posted:Waffle images is a goon project buy the kindly folks of SH/SC. It was started after the imageshack fiasco, when we realized that relying on a single external point of failure was a Bad Idea. AlienBanshee posted:As of late June 2009, WaffleImages has stopped accepting images for upload. Apparently, the majority of its mirrors are down and the rest are over capacity as it is. These facts coupled with the loss of their largest mirror (Kalleboo), means that WaffleImages can barely continue to support the images it already has, much less add new ones. Hopefully this will be resolved soon. Dirk Muscleton posted:What separates WaffleImages from inferior single external points of failures such as kth.cx and imageshack is that it is a single Goon Run point of failure. EasyEW posted:The long(er) version: it was announced on March 4, 2011 that WaffleImages would no longer be accepting further uploads. The final shutdown was mainly due to a lack of reliable mirrors, since out of the 60 or so which were available at one time or another, only 4 were reliably reachable by the time the decision was made. In addition, many pics simply vanished due to mirrors permanently disappearing from the system without warning, thus not allowing for image migration to another host system. iirc the sa support forum was always filled with complaints about waffleimages, and mods trying to explain how waffleimages was not actually part of sa Syd Midnight has a new favorite as of 11:05 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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In the Waffleimages thread you can read it all going downhill in real time, it's very sad. It ends with attempts to seed a 157gb torrent to save the files. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2692674&userid=27743 Rupert Buttermilk posted:Mam I wish the Awful app had SAclopedia support. Can you Copy-Paste the best stuff? Nope! Use your comp 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:This is the thread, but most of the images are lost to the Great Waffleimages Disaster of whenever that happened (probably a saga in its own right). First post on the next page... 
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I believe Donna Barstow's claims have led to at least one thread where her pictures would be shared under her own interpretation of fair use - accompanied by at least five sentences of original critique, i.e. people throwing paragraphs of profanity at D. B.
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Apr 23, 2017 15:48
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lol i thought that you were talking about donna barr
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Hogge Wild posted:lol i thought that you were talking about donna barr same omg
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sweeperbravo posted:same omg tbh why werent we talking about her in the first place
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:tbh why werent we talking about her in the first place i don't think that she has goon history except that some goons like her gay nazi centaurs
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quote:What separates WaffleImages from inferior single external points of failures such as kth.cx and imageshack is that it is a single Goon Run point of failure. lmao
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Apr 24, 2017 14:14
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So, beef jerky guy may or may not have been selling store products (most likely not), but personal budget guy embezzled and resume guy was using a pirated copy of Word (I used resume guy). Any other major SA-Mart failures? Don't tell me the nootropics guy is a phony because I've got a -tam bottle on my shelf right now. Been awhile since I've taken any though.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Don't tell me the nootropics guy is a phony because I've got a -tam bottle on my shelf right now. Been awhile since I've taken any though. I assume he just bulk ordered poo poo from China like every other Internet drug dealer, but if you've already taken some and didn't die you're probably good.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:So, beef jerky guy may or may not have been selling store products (most likely not), but personal budget guy embezzled and resume guy was using a pirated copy of Word (I used resume guy). Any other major SA-Mart failures? The swole-goon guy iirc was basically running a personal trainer equivalent of a Ponzi Scheme, where the longer he stayed in business, the higher his prices got, and the less service he would actually provide, regardless of what any contracts signed said. I don't remember which but one of those three at least weren't the original guys and just bought the brand name from the previous seller and banked on that person's success to sell their crappier service to goons, including using testimonials from the original service's customers.
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At work right now, but there have been plenty of goons falling for those "weekly gift box" things. Those are typically pretty funny reads.
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Solice Kirsk posted:At work right now, but there have been plenty of goons falling for those "weekly gift box" things. Those are typically pretty funny reads. I remember one where goons went from poo poo-talking those kinds of things, to excitedly signing up for one, to rage at getting poo poo in their mystery boxes, within like ten pages.
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Choco1980 posted:The swole-goon guy iirc was basically running a personal trainer equivalent of a Ponzi Scheme, where the longer he stayed in business, the higher his prices got, and the less service he would actually provide, regardless of what any contracts signed said. The resume guy was the one who sold the name IIRC
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VanSandman posted:I remember one where goons went from poo poo-talking those kinds of things, to excitedly signing up for one, to rage at getting poo poo in their mystery boxes, within like ten pages. The best part is how they always justified their lovely choices by saying, "I'm sorry I'm not a poorgoon and I have plenty of money to spend on my hobbies."
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Bobcat in a box's first testimonial was somebody receiving a printed version of the first GIS result for "steam locomotive schematics" and defending it because he thought trains were cool
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What beef jerky goon? Big John's is legit and delicious.
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thecluckmeme posted:Bobcat in a box's first testimonial was somebody receiving a printed version of the first GIS result for "steam locomotive schematics" and defending it because he thought trains were cool Also the box image was black and white while the GIS result was colored.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3686051&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=199 bobcat in a box thing starts here with a benign Lootcrate discussion
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:So, beef jerky guy may or may not have been selling store products (most likely not), but personal budget guy embezzled and resume guy was using a pirated copy of Word (I used resume guy). Any other major SA-Mart failures? It might have predated SA-Mart, but the Fiesta Cat saga led to dozens of goons paying money for a plush version of an forums-only meme and then getting promptly ripped off.
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MD2020 posted:It might have predated SA-Mart, but the Fiesta Cat saga led to dozens of goons paying money for a plush version of an forums-only meme and then getting promptly ripped off.
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FilthyImp posted:Weren't the things eventually produced? I remember a photo of some shelves full of FiestaPlushies that the guy couldn't sell anymore because he had been permabanned. This thread. Page 5.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:So, beef jerky guy may or may not have been selling store products (most likely not), but personal budget guy embezzled and resume guy was using a pirated copy of Word (I used resume guy). Any other major SA-Mart failures? I have bad news, Limitless was fictional and nootropics are bullshit
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isn't nootropics what alex jones shills or am I getting poo poo mixed up
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Improbable Lobster posted:I have bad news, Limitless was fictional and nootropics are bullshit Well, there are a few of debatable usage but the ones that work aren't what people generally think of as nootropics. A lot of those blends contain 5-HTP and Adrafinil, the first of which is a debatable light mood altering and focus producing drug the second of which is a pretty powerful amphetamine alternative. Piracetam doesn't actually have any verified nootropic effects outside of being a minor stimulant, and so yes, in people with no stimulant resistance or people who's only stimulant exposure is years of caffeine, taking a piracetam will have some "productivity" increasing effects, but not because it's a magic thinking drug, but more because it's a stimulant that's been repacked to be marketed to nerds. There's a grip of others that are interesting but have little research behind them. 7,8-Dihydroxyflavone is the big one but you should always be skeptical of a thing that's being pushed as a miracle drug based on fairly small evidence pools. Either way most of these smarty pants drugs are basically stimulants or antidepressants being sold to nerdy shut ins who probably suffer from ADHD or Depression which these supplements are poorly treating or at least removing some symptoms of. And it's much easier to think to yourself "I'm a smart rear end smart dude hacker who takes secret smart pills to get the edge I need" than to say "Oh poo poo I actually have depression or a major attention disorder that's greatly effecting my ability to be a functioning human and I should get help".
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I buy 5-HTP on Amazon for like $10 for a month's supply, I dunno about hacking my brain or whatever but it definitely makes me slightly less sadbrains depressed so  But yeah Modafinil and the like are essentially what the dude above me described AKA baby Adderall for hipster nerds
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A part of me wants to get into the herbal supplement market. I think selling tablets filled with saw dust as a "stool hardener" would be a good way to make some money. gently caress, maybe I'll put "can reduce chances of getting bowel cancer up to 60%" on the label.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:isn't nootropics what alex jones shills or am I getting poo poo mixed up Alex Jones will sell literally anything
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There definitely are certain things you can take that have a large amount of research supporting them - a great example is Theanine, which synergizes really well with caffeine. I absolutely feel less jittery and more focused when I take one of those in the morning before I get to work and start chugging coffee. Herbal supplements are the real goof. Doesn't Kava Kava destroy your liver?
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Solice Kirsk posted:A part of me wants to get into the herbal supplement market. I think selling tablets filled with saw dust as a "stool hardener" would be a good way to make some money. gently caress, maybe I'll put "can reduce chances of getting bowel cancer up to 60%" on the label. Someone should step up to compete against Soylent. Same product only with less rat poo and more delicious MSG for flavor
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Kelp Me! posted:I buy 5-HTP on Amazon for like $10 for a month's supply, I dunno about hacking my brain or whatever but it definitely makes me slightly less sadbrains depressed so Modafinil sounds really cool, like, a drug that keeps you awake without raising your heart rate, but I think I have the gene that makes it not work at all(this exists) because it doesn't do poo poo for me.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Modafinil sounds really cool, like, a drug that keeps you awake without raising your heart rate, but I think I have the gene that makes it not work at all(this exists) because it doesn't do poo poo for me. Seriously give theanine a shot if that's the case. It's not one of those "you have to take this for 5 weeks before you start noticing an effect," you can take it on-demand and it makes caffeine a wonderdrug. e: it's also like $.07/pill https://www.amazon.com/L-Theanine-200mg-Natures-Trove-Vegetarian/dp/B01D1YQBOK/ plus if you hate coffee you can just get theanine/caffeine capsules instead Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 15:35 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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