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fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Think it's from Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.

I would love for there to be an older reference though.

Well that plus separate Egypt-focused conspiracy theories.

Also remember, the key to that whole game? It's a Q.

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WrenP-Complete
Jul 27, 2012

I have to say I'm disappointed that QAnon doesn't seem to follow the twelfth tradition, or really any of the traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, AlAnon, NarcAnon, etc. How much more amazing would it be if none of them would talk to the press, insisting that they have no right to speak on anyone's behalf/represent the organization?

WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Aug 9, 2018

Moose-Alini
Sep 11, 2001

Not always so
Narcanon is actually a front of the Church of Scientology, hoping to ensnare people in crises at a weak point in their life. The one affiliated with the 12 step program is shortened as NA, only. The more you know!

Need QAnon-anon

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

WrenP-Complete posted:

I have to say I'm disappointed that QAnon doesn't seem to follow the twelfth tradition, or really any of the traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, AlAnon, NarcAnon, etc. How much more amazing would it be if none of them would talk to the press, insisting that they have no right to speak on anyone's behalf/represent the organization?

That is the 11th Tradition, not sharing that you are a member.

The 12th Tradition is sharing what you have learned with others.

WrenP-Complete
Jul 27, 2012

Thanks for both corrections. :)

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord
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Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747

fishmech posted:

Well that plus separate Egypt-focused conspiracy theories.

Also remember, the key to that whole game? It's a Q.

Man, Uchikoshi games are way more fun and ultimately upbeat conspiracy and pseudoscience experiences than this white trash Christian flavored snuff film/red room bullcrap.

Gen. Ripper
Jan 12, 2013


Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:

When you really get deep into it with a believer about how none of this poo poo makes any sense the final excuse is always "it's all part of a ritual." Same reason why the Illuminati keep dropping clues to future terrorist attacks into Simpsons episodes and YA fiction and everything has secret pentagrams on it and every false flag mass shooting has a secret second shooter. There's no logical reason why anyone would do that so instead of revisiting the idea that it's happening at all, they assume it's part of some bizarre satanic ceremony that mere mortals can't hope to understand.

Personally I blame lazy genre fiction writing that uses "ritual" as a catchall bad guy motivation / plot device. "Why did the bad guy kidnap the princess and steal the five ancient crystals? Uh ... he needed them for a ritual I guess."

I'm reminded of Twilight Princess where the big reveal is "you thought it was Zant but PSYCH Ganondorf did it and he's...been waiting for you this entire time in Hyrule Castle for you to...kill him or something...yeah..."

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Ambitious Spider posted:

It's definitely older.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/everything-but-the-egyptian-sinks/


I had read about it in one of those books of spooky "true" facts as a kid in the 90s.
Yeah 9,9,9 (and all the other Zero games) basically recycle tons of second rate conspiracy theories and weird factoids to create the game narrative (including the twin ship of the titanic's theories, because don't you know you sheeple, it never sinked! :tinfoil: Must have been made of unmeltable steel too). The creative process is exactly what Q and his Qult are using , except in their case it's not to create an entertaining game narrative, even if i am sure some of them think of life and politics as games.

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!
https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1027609390810112000

The site is literally hosted on github pages.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




Step aside Anonymous; internet detective Bumble Jack is on the case!

I think you should leave the sleuthing to the actual internet "experts" there sport! :thumbsup:

Mr.Unique-Name
Jul 5, 2002

Toplowtech posted:

Yeah 9,9,9 (and all the other Zero games) basically recycle tons of second rate conspiracy theories and weird factoids to create the game narrative (including the twin ship of the titanic's theories, because don't you know you sheeple, it never sinked! :tinfoil: Must have been made of unmeltable steel too). The creative process is exactly what Q and his Qult are using , except in their case it's not to create an entertaining game narrative, even if i am sure some of them think of life and politics as games.

Deus Ex games and that one MMO (The Secret World) also are in worlds where every conspiracy is actually real and interconnected in some way. Conspiracy theory poo poo is actually really interesting and makes for super fun settings in games and books and such. The problem comes from people thinking the world isn't actually as mundane as it actually is, and reaching for the conspiracies.

I honestly think that at least a subset of conspiracy nuts could actually be really good writers if they could distinguish reality from the insane poo poo, although if they were capable of that they probably wouldn't come up with these intriguing fictions in the first place.

Mr.Unique-Name fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Aug 9, 2018

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

Mr.Unique-Name posted:

I honestly think that at least a subset of conspiracy nuts could actually be really good writers if they could distinguish reality from the insane poo poo, although if they were capable of that they probably wouldn't come up with these intriguing fictions in the first place.

Isn't that basically hideo kojima?

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin
Jul 19, 2000


Oven Wrangler

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Isn't that basically hideo kojima?

Also Dan Aykroyd.

Mr.Unique-Name
Jul 5, 2002

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Isn't that basically hideo kojima?

Him and Warren Spector, yeah.

Corsair Pool Boy
Dec 17, 2004
College Slice

Mr.Unique-Name posted:

Deus Ex games and that one MMO (The Secret World) also are in worlds where every conspiracy is actually real and interconnected in some way. Conspiracy theory poo poo is actually really interesting and makes for super fun settings in games and books and such. The problem comes from people thinking the world isn't actually as mundane as it actually is, and reaching for the conspiracies.

I honestly think that at least a subset of conspiracy nuts could actually be really good writers if they could distinguish reality from the insane poo poo, although if they were capable of that they probably wouldn't come up with these intriguing fictions in the first place.

The Illuminatus Trilogy.

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:

Corsair Pool Boy posted:

The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Corsair Pool Boy posted:

The Illuminatus Trilogy.

Or how a 15 year old me discovered buttsex was a thing

Aramis
Sep 22, 2009



It's absolutely amazing to me how close this nonsense is tracking Foucault's Pendulum. The only real sticking point being that Trump is the complete antithesis of Aglič in every single way.

RoboChrist 9000
Dec 14, 2006

Mater Dolorosa

Corsair Pool Boy posted:

The Illuminatus Trilogy.

One of my favorite books of all time.

Hobnob
Feb 23, 2006

Ursa Adorandum

Trazz posted:

Ah yes, Herman Cain's favorite video game

Smeep
Jan 20, 2004

Evidently Q has them flooding the Human Trafficking Hotline now, well done patriots

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Smeep posted:

Evidently Q has them flooding the Human Trafficking Hotline now, well done patriots

loving up law enforcement to own the libs

Smeep
Jan 20, 2004

Imagine the people working those lines having to take time to listen to some idiot rant about the Clinton Foundation

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Heh I never saw that one, I only remember the Conan ones where he parodied the smoking one with people hitting bongs and this one woman huffing paint.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Mr.Unique-Name posted:

Deus Ex games and that one MMO (The Secret World) also are in worlds where every conspiracy is actually real and interconnected in some way. Conspiracy theory poo poo is actually really interesting and makes for super fun settings in games and books and such. The problem comes from people thinking the world isn't actually as mundane as it actually is, and reaching for the conspiracies.

I honestly think that at least a subset of conspiracy nuts could actually be really good writers if they could distinguish reality from the insane poo poo, although if they were capable of that they probably wouldn't come up with these intriguing fictions in the first place.
the more time has gone on, the more accurate Burn After Reading has become at describing the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FHpOLiobmA

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

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It's very wrong to touch the poop. But I kinda want to see if I can make a random series Q post on whatever Chan board they're using and see if that gets absorbed into the brain-dead group think

Smeep
Jan 20, 2004

Where’s the challenge, I mean you definitely could do it and they would 100% buy it

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

This poop is going to kill some people some day, most likely. So just think about how you’re going to reflect back on that if something really ugly happens.

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

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AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
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Smeep posted:

Where’s the challenge, I mean you definitely could do it and they would 100% buy it

It's not a challenge it's like giving the ants in the ant farm bright purple food pellets the. Watching to see what they do with it and where it spreads to.

business hammocks posted:

This poop is going to kill some people some day, most likely. So just think about how you’re going to reflect back on that if something really ugly happens.

What you mean: I make a random gobbledygook post on 4chan and some nutter interprets that as an order to all true believers to begin the hostile take over of the government and they walk out into the street and shoot a postman?

Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Aug 10, 2018

upgunned shitpost
Jan 21, 2015

the poop is already out there, shooting up schools and mosques or running over people in their cars.

death cult already here, ain't in need of a particular reason.

Post poste
Mar 29, 2010

Gridlocked posted:

It's not a challenge it's like giving the ants in the ant farm bright purple food pellets the. Watching to see what they do with it and where it spreads to.


What you mean: I make a random gobbledygook post on 4chan and some nutter interprets that as an order to all true believers to begin the hostile take over of the government and they walk out into the street and shoot a postman?

The best outcome is that the info makes them go full on People's Front of Judea and have a splitter focused internal war.

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

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AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
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Godspeed

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit

business hammocks posted:

This poop is going to kill some people some day, most likely. So just think about how you’re going to reflect back on that if something really ugly happens.

The suspected arsonist in the California fires had Q-related videos on his facebook page

quote:

His Facebook page contains a variety of posts, ranging from sharing conspiracy theory videos to talking about a cancer he was fighting on his face. He shared some graphic photos of the cancer on his face, but later shared that the cancer had healed.

Some of the videos he shared had titles like “George Soros Tried to Ban This Video,” “Pope Arrested! Worldwide Media Blackout,” “Over 50,000 Sealed Indictments Joe Biden & Other High Level VIPs Set for Gitmo,” and “Trump Prophecy: Third Temple Is Now Real.”

There have been at least eight fatalities as a result of this fire, so I think it's safe to say that the Qult has killed people already.

ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008

Gridlocked posted:

It's very wrong to touch the poop. But I kinda want to see if I can make a random series Q post on whatever Chan board they're using and see if that gets absorbed into the brain-dead group think

Do you think that you're the first person to think of this?

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Aramis posted:

It's absolutely amazing to me how close this nonsense is tracking Foucault's Pendulum. The only real sticking point being that Trump is the complete antithesis of Aglič in every single way.
No Q is Aglič, Trump is Garamond.

Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Aug 10, 2018

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

MR. STUPID MORON
WITH AN UGLY FACE
AND A BIG BUTT
AND HIS BUTT SMELLS
AND HE LIKES TO KISS
HIS OWN BUTT
by Roger Hargreaves

ponzicar posted:

Do you think that you're the first person to think of this?

The first person or the first goon? I don't think I'm either. I'm just saying I'd love to see what crazyness they pull of out a randomly injected joke.

Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

ponzicar posted:

Do you think that you're the first person to think of this?

i think technically q is the first one

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Mr.Unique-Name posted:

Deus Ex games and that one MMO (The Secret World) also are in worlds where every conspiracy is actually real and interconnected in some way. Conspiracy theory poo poo is actually really interesting and makes for super fun settings in games and books and such. The problem comes from people thinking the world isn't actually as mundane as it actually is, and reaching for the conspiracies.

I honestly think that at least a subset of conspiracy nuts could actually be really good writers if they could distinguish reality from the insane poo poo, although if they were capable of that they probably wouldn't come up with these intriguing fictions in the first place.

The best part about Deus Ex is that you find Grays in Area 51, but if you hack the right computer, you find out they aren't actually Grays, they're bio-engineered chimpanzees, created to look like Grays and have psionic abilities to convince people Grays are real to distract from the REAL conspiracy.

I love it.

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hitchensgoespop
Oct 22, 2008
One of the twitter anonymous groups picking a fight with the q idiots have doxxed some guy who they reckon is one of the main reddit posters.

I wont post here because it could be bullshit but he just seems like a nutter.

hitchensgoespop fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Aug 10, 2018

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