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HatfulOfHollow posted:You wouldn't even be the first person to get a visit from the secret service for saying dumb criminal poo poo on SA.
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Tell us about that.
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Motherfucker posted:Tell us about that. A dude in LF posted a very long and elaborate plan on how to murder then President George W Bush. Lowtax got a visit from the Secret Service asking if he was aware of the post and for access to the SA servers. I don't believe any arrests were made, but the "don't talk about killing politicians" rule went up immediately after. And yeah, it's true that the SS probably doesn't care about threats of unbirthing Trump or whatever you ended up saying, but it's one of the few rules that has no wiggle room.
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FactsAreUseless posted:It's because this website kicks rear end. this is true the more poo poo I see come out of the internet, the more I appreciate these simple, crappy forums
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Who What Now posted:A dude in LF posted a very long and elaborate plan on how to murder then President George W Bush. Lowtax got a visit from the Secret Service asking if he was aware of the post and for access to the SA servers. I don't believe any arrests were made, but the "don't talk about killing politicians" rule went up immediately after.
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Who What Now posted:A dude in LF posted a very long and elaborate plan on how to murder then President George W Bush. Lowtax got a visit from the Secret Service asking if he was aware of the post and for access to the SA servers. I don't believe any arrests were made, but the "don't talk about killing politicians" rule went up immediately after. it wasn't elaborate, it was "assassinate the president of the united states" except I think he spelled it worse
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hackbunny posted:oh boy finally a chance to post these: This is awesome hackbunny posted:I'll add a recent, minor and obscure bit of SA forums history This is not, in fact it sucks poo poo
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wit posted:I absolutely adored the terra malatora saga. It had everything. Poop was touched, poop touched back, dramatic readings of dragon dong erotica were given, goons started white knighting a girl then backed off when it turned out to be a trans* person, and there was a meticulous coup plot to take over a small african island by otherkin wanting to make it into a world of cyborg dick dragons. Which would work because their dear leader was really good at reading wikipedia articles and could totally make it happen. Someone made an entire videogame to mock them That was a hell of a ride
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FactsAreUseless posted:It also contributing to LF dying, along with the fact that LF had gradually gone completely loving insane. YES finally, I have friend who swears LF was the best thing ever, but I agree with you
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gnarlyhotep posted:YES finally, I have friend who swears LF was the best thing ever, but I agree with you
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 04:46 |
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People can accuse mods of being the politics police or complain that CSPAM are a bunch of lefty nuts or whatever, but it isn't even a little comparable. Especially with LF at the same time as YCS and Helldump. I didn't register until the tail end of all that but it strikes me now as a really weird time for the forums.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 04:49 |
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I miss YCS.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 04:50 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:When it was funny it was really loving funny. I remember loving some of the threads in the LF goldmine, like the Gor thread or the Thomas Friedman one. The problem is that it eventually just ate itself. At some point it turned super Helldumpy. Maybe it always was, and I just didn't notice when I was 16 and lurking. Oh for God's sake there's a Gor thread? I MUST read it. Where is it?
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Spinster posted:Oh for God's sake there's a Gor thread? I MUST read it. Yeah man don't bring poo poo up like that if you're not gonna share
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Spinster posted:Oh for God's sake there's a Gor thread? I MUST read it.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 04:52 |
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Welcome to a thread called GOR! *whipcrack*
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Spinster posted:Oh for God's sake there's a Gor thread? I MUST read it. I don't have the link but that thread is literally the reason exists.
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Who What Now posted:Welcome to a thread called GOR! Link it for me and I'll love you forever
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 05:09 |
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Might as well say it: I was the dumbass who made the time map for Zybourne Clock.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 05:10 |
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Who remembers that cat that wrecked his neighbor's television with a Sega coax rig? Then the neighbor's house burned down. Or the guy that interviewed with the FBI? Two of the earliest forum detective stories I recall
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Spinster posted:Link it for me and I'll love you forever It's lost forever, just like a woman's freedom on Gor. You could always make a new one.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 05:19 |
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One thing that should probably be mentioned in this thread is the D&D mod who died in the Benghazi attacks (Vilerat). Vilerat is the only known deceased Goon whom has not had his account banned. You can read a pretty good account of his interactions with our community here.Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons posted:Sean went by the nickname "Vilerat" on our forums when he registered in 2002. When he became a mod of SA's political forum in 2009 he stuck with Vilerat. He used the same name on EVE Online, where he was a hugely influential diplomat for the Goonswarm guild, and he used Vilerat for his email address. He was so fond of the nickname he never bothered to register a more professional email, even after ten years at the US State Department.
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Who What Now posted:It's lost forever, just like a woman's freedom on Gor. I just choked on my Cheerios. Dammit. No, I'll pass.
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Spinster posted:Oh for God's sake there's a Gor thread? I MUST read it. You may want to block the style sheet.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 05:29 |
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My favorite thing about SA is the threads for sourcing advice or existing purely to give advice about very specific situations. Reddit emulates those but the ease at which reddit can be trolled and the less involved nature of posters drag it down compared to the surprisingly caring SA community. Of course this also results in seeing people crash and burn because of theor own stupidity. BlueStory and her husbands advebtures in finances or the dogfood goon are personal favorited.
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END CHEMTRAILS NOW posted:You may want to block the style sheet. absolutely not
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END CHEMTRAILS NOW posted:The World of Gor Megathread thank you kind stranger These turned me on a bit in my early twenties ( to my everlasting shame.) This should be good.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 05:39 |
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I started reading SA when I found the site through Fark back in 2001, but didn't find the forums until 2003/2004. Didn't register until 2007 because I, like half of SA, had gone Obama crazy and I wanted to post post post. Then I followed LF and enjoyed the highs and the lows, along with the bizarre attempts to get people to stop going there(Forums Cancer, the LF stylesheet), which only served to make LF even crazier. And I still visit this place because social media is poo poo and the Internet now is boring stale garbage. SA might be bad in some ways, but it is goddamned terrible everywhere else.
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Im dying already
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 05:42 |
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Gor is hilariously awesome because it looked at the sword and sorcery genre that Robert E. Howard kicked off and said, "Hmm, not alpha male/sexist enough." It gets funnier when you find out that there are communities where people act out Gor as their fetish. Also, there's a pretty good MST3K episode that makes fun of a Gor movie that managed to snag Jack Palance into it.
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END CHEMTRAILS NOW posted:The World of Gor Megathread That was really freakin funny. My favorite part was the goon that posted, "Uh, my dad has like all of these books," Dad of Gor Thanks again.
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Zas posted:thanks, I never read or looked at YCS even though I was around back then and I always wondered what the deal was. people don't talk about it the same way they do helldump or LF I avidly read YCS at the time. By that I mean the best thread the forums has ever had The "Post the YCSest Images you got" thread. Prester Jane posted:One thing that should probably be mentioned in this thread is the D&D mod who died in the Benghazi attacks (Vilerat). Vilerat is the only known deceased Goon whom has not had his account banned. You can read a pretty good account of his interactions with our community here. dabigredboat should have died. That or bobfrommarketing. Whichever one was the pedo.
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YCS was a goddamn ride and my one regret about not really posting is that I didn't do it in there when it was hot But damned if I didn't have enough sense to tell it was TOO hot to dive in
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LF was, for a while, full of 25% informative great threads and 75% insane stupid threads about maoist third worldism and/or ron paul then that ratio shifted dramatically in a bad direction then the regular posters started buying jeans for a fake transgender muslim cripple or something, brother aziz it was like the forums first taste of doobie's doghouse edit: ycs was great for a while too, i got my first couple of name changes in there. Dr Videogames 95 and Firstpersonshitter. I got my avatar from there too and I've kept it ever since. I kind of got out of there once all the anime poo poo started happening. juggalo baby coffin fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Nov 30, 2017 |
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That's another one of the small things I remember about the forums, mostly because it made me laugh especially hard for no reason, was suddenly noticing all the Dr. Videogames names popping up. That got me as time went on. Noticing mass changes of names and avatars relating to this or that. Sometimes seeing avatars over and over and more pop up got me to check out what was going on. In one case, that led me into getting into Homestuck right as it got really good and right before it got really bad (sometime in like what, hell, 2010? 2011?). I can credit SA for saving me in the same breath though, as I dove into that mess of a community, I could have gotten big in it from stuff I wrote, but knew from dogged experience here to just walk right the gently caress away and then whole thing burned up around 2013. SA is pretty good for litmus testing entertainment well, once you're experienced enough to read a thread for a clear idea.
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warez posted:I made this account with my dad’s debit card (and permission) when I was 12 and have lurked off and on through the years (I’m 26 now). This forum just seemed really insular and unforgiving, which scared me away from ever engaging with it (maybe a good thing because at that age I would have been even more clueless/annoying than I am now). I'm also 26 and while I didn't register an account until I was 19, I had lurked the forums since 2004 and read the front page since 2003. It's probably just as well I didn't buy an account when I was a teenager as I'm sure I'd have been banned. The posts I made on other forums at the time makes me cringe. I've asked a few nerd friends about SA but none of them have heard of the place. I don't think any of them were or are really into forums which is a shame, but forums are so different now than they were 10-15 years ago. As much as people like to talk about decline, this is the only forum I know of that is still going strong.
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Video Nasty posted:Oh yeah, and everyone hated Geckolio after a goon meet. I think the redhead was Rabid Hamster and Geckholio was the one flipping her off There were other pictures where Rabid Hamster was on a bed topless and a bunch of creeps are creeping around her.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 09:59 |
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Post the one of Lowtax looking at shmorky in a hateful manner.
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# ? Nov 30, 2017 10:34 |
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saclopedia dosn't have an LF entry so I dunno what the gently caress that even stands for / was. Forums baby up in this bitch
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Ludicrous Finances
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