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ought ten posted:In Finland recently I saw an exhibit celebrating 100 years of Finnish innovation and they had all kinds of cool things like Nokia phones and some Alvar Aalto stuff and crazy woodcutting machines and then there was Habbo Hotel and it all came flooding back. Was the Molotov cocktail there?
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ought ten posted:In Finland recently I saw an exhibit celebrating 100 years of Finnish innovation and they had all kinds of cool things like Nokia phones and some Alvar Aalto stuff and crazy woodcutting machines and then there was Habbo Hotel and it all came flooding back. In the (or one of the) holocaust museum in Berlin they had a small display titled something like "American innovation and export to the world" and had some pictures and things in it. There was stuff like the iPhone and then there was a MAGA hat.
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Aug 2, 2017 07:39
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awesmoe posted:well, here's a history of SA that doesnt mention eve afaics This is pretty accurate as far as I can remember. I reg'd in May 2001 because of the Photoshop Garfield thread. I was on Anandtech, Ars & UGHH.com before that, but after finding SA I had no need for Anandtech or Ars.
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Aug 2, 2017 07:41
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Ofaloaf posted:Honestly tempted. Something Awful's history spans a good chunk of the internet's time as a publically available thing, and focusing on SA instead of some sort of "A History of Internet Culture" would give the work more definition and some opportunities for tangents. Plus, thanks to the archives both on-site and off-site, it's one of the better-preserved forums online. poo poo, SA is being archived by the Library of Congress http://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/06/getting-serious-about-collecting-and-preserving-digital-culture/?loclr=blogloc
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Aug 2, 2017 07:43
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Quabzor posted:
We harassed Second Life so much that it became a regular feature of the main SA website for a couple years. Here is a link to all 21 episodes of the madness.
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Aug 2, 2017 07:52
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Quabzor posted:What other online games have goons Habbo Hotel http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/278726-habbo-hotel http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/90077 http://www.oocities.org/genofacts/
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Aug 2, 2017 07:52
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Trying not to break our collective arms in this derail.
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Aug 2, 2017 07:53
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the next party plane jones post is gonna hit this thread like it's the twin towers
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Aug 2, 2017 07:54
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We've got several files in the FBI and SS. 
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Aug 2, 2017 07:55
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Magic Hate Ball posted:the next party plane jones post is gonna hit this thread like it's the twin towers Star Wars 9/11 thread.
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Aug 2, 2017 07:56
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Lightning Lord posted:Was the Molotov cocktail there? A serious oversight. Boris Galerkin posted:In the (or one of the) holocaust museum in Berlin they had a small display titled something like "American innovation and export to the world" and had some pictures and things in it. There was stuff like the iPhone and then there was a MAGA hat. loving kill me please
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Edit: In retrospect this is taking this derail one post too far.
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Aug 2, 2017 07:59
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Magic Hate Ball posted:the next party plane jones post is gonna hit this thread like it's the twin towers WATCH PPJ START A loving WAR
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Aug 2, 2017 08:00
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*sees 20 pages of new posts* Oh wow trump must be dead or something Habbo Hotel derail
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WeAreTheRomans posted:*sees 20 pages of new posts* You're just mad you weren't there
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Aug 2, 2017 08:05
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 when ur at a tiki party and someone drops the tiki head in the Molokai Mikes
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Aug 2, 2017 08:28
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karthun posted:poo poo, SA is being archived by the Library of Congress Speaking of government stuff. EVE goons were/are part of the conspiracy for Benghazi because of Vilerat. It's strange to think of goons actually holding positions of international importance.
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Aug 2, 2017 08:54
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Quabzor posted:Speaking of government stuff. EVE goons were/are part of the conspiracy for Benghazi because of Vilerat. It's strange to think of goons actually holding positions of international importance. EVE goonswarm was/is a CIA front according to Glenn Beck.
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Aug 2, 2017 08:55
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Mustached Demon posted:EVE goonswarm was/is a CIA front according to Glenn Beck. Part of the operation EV(e) Ultra if I remember.
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Mustached Demon posted:EVE goonswarm was/is a CIA front according to Glenn Beck. This was my favorite thing that SA ever caused to happen in the real world. gently caress Marble Hornets, gently caress image macros, it's making Glenn Beck think the Goon Eve corporation was a CIA front.
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Aug 2, 2017 09:20
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WampaLord posted:This was my favorite thing that SA ever caused to happen in the real world. gently caress Marble Hornets, gently caress image macros, it's making Glenn Beck think the Goon Eve corporation was a CIA front. "Seriously, look at their 'leader,' this...'Mittani,' named after people who once lived in the Middle East, and we all know that world is interconnected...WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS, PEOPLE...and how he lives in Washington DC and communicates with 'Vilerat' via a secret communications system known only as 'Mumble,' which is a synonym for 'whisper,' and what do you whisper? SECRETS! WE'RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS! And they all play a game called 'EVE,' and chat in a forum named 'Illuminati,' where the currency is called 'ISK.' What does ISK stand for? Islamic State KILLERS, maybe? I'm scared! You should be too. These people are *clearly* NOT ON OUR TEAM!"
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I have waited for years for an excuse to post this video and now have it. This video is both poignantly on-topic (for the parallels between Goonswarms defeat and Hillary's defeat) and so far up its own rear end with pseudo-intellectualism that it serves as the perfect avatar of everything the rest of the forum hates about D&D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVX6xaMr-YU Perhaps progressivism will rise in the wake of Trump as Goonswarm rose in the wake of its own humiliating defeat?
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Aug 2, 2017 09:26
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WampaLord posted:This was my favorite thing that SA ever caused to happen in the real world. gently caress Marble Hornets, gently caress image macros, it's making Glenn Beck think the Goon Eve corporation was a CIA front. Someone should have sent Beck a PDF copy of that amazing goonfic GBS thread from years prior to that after he unveiled his plan to build Rapture in the middle of a lake in Montana or whatever, and by that I mean just bilk a few more million dollars out of his dwindling audience. Some of the short stories to come out of that thread were fantastic.
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Aug 2, 2017 09:30
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the guy's right, though i doubt he has any idea what he's going on about. gravity is non-renormalizable.
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Aug 2, 2017 09:33
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Prester Jane posted:Perhaps progressivism will rise in the wake of Trump as Goonswarm rose in the wake of its own humiliating defeat? Given that the current model in Goonswarm is kind of a benevolent socialist oligarchical *dictatorship*-slash-junta, I don't think this is the comparison you'd like to make as 'how good things that can spring from bad.' It works in a big gay internet spaceship game because the bad thing about democracy in vidya gamez is that you're always going to have people who take it too seriously or not seriously enough, and that disconnect is always going to be lethal.
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Aug 2, 2017 09:34
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But no seriously, does anyone else remember that time when Glenn Beck announced to the world he wanted to raise $2 billion to build a libertarian Disneyland in the middle of a lake and then have people live in it? Is it just me? Did I imagine it? Was I just playing BioShock: Infinite and my mind started to wander (because the game wasn't that good)? what was that black goo?
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Aug 2, 2017 09:45
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guidoanselmi posted:the guy's right, though i doubt he has any idea what he's going on about. gravity is non-renormalizable. I would argue that just because the mechanisms through which gravity acts are not well understood, doesn't mean "the theory of gravity" is wrong; it's just incomplete.
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Not trying to turn this into Democrats are a waste thread, but as a commentary as someone who watched Libertarians get laughed out of the reality based community: liberals are next. The RNC is evaporating like the Whigs and will die with the boomers as they decrease in relevance to modern culture and economy, they're literally lurching from apocalyptic threat to apocalyptic threat against an economy that contradicts their senility. Every loving year is some new insane bullshit where 115 year olds threaten to burn down the country and kill everyone for tax cuts for a group of billionaires the size of a modest high-school graduating class while coming closer and closer to demographic collapse. These are the death rattles of a party thats final years are pretty much a death cult. Outside the insane white nationalist boomer death cult: liberals are the politically correct remnants of libertarians complete disconnect from policy and reality. The unbeatable juggernaut Hillary Clinton who managed to win an uncontested seat while married to a sitting president ~20 years ago is less popular than a cartoon nazi, and the DNC is waffling on token gestures of minimum wage, any support for single payer, and even abandoning the primacy of basic human rights of women's physical autonomy. At a certain point the centralized management of the DNC spending the last 30+ years dismantling safety nets and now opening up to social conservatism means it's just over. If you've only been watching the Trump fiasco and the videodrome-esque nightmare of this administration, you do not want to know how fast the democrats are regressing into primitive stew of invertebrate scum and filth. This isn't sour grapes over the primary, I'm actually shocked how fast leadership is tacking to the right on even social issues I never would have expected. That the internet provides a means of organizing beyond the traditional channels for upset candidates while the RNC stands in the corner like the end of the Blair Witch Project is going to lead to a purging of people who think anyone presented by the DNC is anything more than comically terrible, or that there's a functional reason to reject embracing socialism in a country where capitalism doesn't have majority support. Once again, not trying to derail, but in the view of someone who watched libertarians fall out of vogue back in the day, I think the writing is on the wall for liberals ignoring the blatant practical, moral, and intellectual contradictions of an ideology propped up by phrases of decreasing power to describe reality, and increasing levels of blatant duplicitous delusion. The Mooch is closer to the truth of the democratic party then you want to know and If all you've seen is rumblings about running lovely trash like Deval, Harris, and Booker: it's worse than you think. Fiscally conservative. SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE.
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Aug 2, 2017 10:10
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Sneakster posted:Fiscally conservative. SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE. Source your quotes.
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Aug 2, 2017 10:12
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Sneakster posted:Not trying to turn this into Democrats are a waste thread, but as a commentary as someone who watched Libertarians get laughed out of the reality based community: liberals are next. liberals being marginalized despite the obvious merit of their ideas by political forces which have been designed to do exactly that is not the same thing as libertarians getting laughed for how insanely loving moronic their ideas are.
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Aug 2, 2017 10:23
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nine-gear crow posted:But no seriously, does anyone else remember that time when Glenn Beck announced to the world he wanted to raise $2 billion to build a libertarian Disneyland in the middle of a lake and then have people live in it? Is it just me? Did I imagine it? Was I just playing BioShock: Infinite and my mind started to wander (because the game wasn't that good)? Lol at those ads. I want to see the full photoshoot he did in an afternoon to hand out to all his advertisers. "which Glenn smirk do you want, we got him from all angles!"  
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I know we're not talking about the Korean War anymore, but we lost the Korean war because we were 100% unprepared for it, didn't have enough gear to equip our troops, and had a general who went rogue trying to invade all of North Korea instead of pushing them out of South Korea like our initial mission objective was (which we succeeded.) I feel like things would be different this time.
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Also, which of the 54,930 'strains' of libertarian are you talking about? If anything, that's the only thing liberalism has in common with libertarianism - too many disparate groups unwilling to work together because of pet issues that breed irreconcilable differences. "I refuse to back YOUR thing until you give precedence to MY thing, and I will loving drive this bus off the loving cliff before I take a seat behind you because I'd rather we all die than MY issue go unrecognized and unprioritized!"
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Aug 2, 2017 10:34
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Ularg posted:Chapter 3: "How making fun of someone's dead family can start a multi-year war"
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Turtlicious posted:I know we're not talking about the Korean War anymore, but we lost the Korean war because we were 100% unprepared for it, didn't have enough gear to equip our troops, and had a general who went rogue trying to invade all of North Korea instead of pushing them out of South Korea like our initial mission objective was (which we succeeded.) Yeah man, after all you only lost every single invasion since WW2, I'm sure you got this! U.S.A.! 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Also, which of the 54,930 'strains' of libertarian are you talking about? If anything, that's the only thing liberalism has in common with libertarianism - too many disparate groups unwilling to work together because of pet issues that breed irreconcilable differences. And that issue is always something like "It's tyranny that you need an ID to buy vape gear!"
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Also, which of the 54,930 'strains' of libertarian are you talking about? If anything, that's the only thing liberalism has in common with libertarianism - too many disparate groups unwilling to work together because of pet issues that breed irreconcilable differences. empty whippet box posted:liberals being marginalized despite the obvious merit of their ideas by political forces which have been designed to do exactly that is not the same thing as libertarians getting laughed for how insanely loving moronic their ideas are. Fiscally conservative, SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE isn't going to cut it, because the Mooch is as liberal as anyone for all intents and purposes. Say it with me, socialism. Democratic Socialists. Social democrats. Socialist. Whatever . However, we need to actually say it. C L A S S W A R
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botany posted:Yeah man, after all you only lost every single invasion since WW2, I'm sure you got this! U.S.A.! Don't you disparage my country like that. We lost the occupation, we're pretty good at invading.
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