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OldTennisCourt posted:Humper Monkey was probably the highpoint of those threads because even though they were super obviously fake the stories never veered into the embarrassing self insert fanfiction those threads would devolve into. There's an offsite archive of stuff from the Ghost Stories threads here: http://nothotbutspicy.com/para/ Worth a read if you're in a spooky fiction mood. It's way easier than sifting through the actual threads for the posts you want to read.
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Like, the one thing of fiction I ever wrote was in one of those old scary story threads, but I lost the word document on one of my old computers. It was about me and my friends camping and a loud noise and lost time. I've never been able to find it again. And I wrote it when I was really drunk so can't put it back together as well as I did it that first time.
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Korgan posted:Drama free? Didn't AI just have a thing with 14 Inch turning out to be a reprehensible piece of poo poo? I mean, that was really the first high profile event I can recall that occurred since I started posting there, so I'd say 8 years or so is a pretty good run. Its been the Dave thing, and the racist mustang guy, and that's really all the drama I can think of stemming from there. Otherwise, it's a very accepting and caring forum. You can be LGBT, poly, a POC, and there's no judgment, no stereotyping. Even the most heated political discussions there tend to peter out pretty quickly. And the Dave thing really came out of the blue, by all accounts up until then he had be doing fine, was on the road to recovery and then he was perma'd. But even then AI still banded together, and turned that into a charity drive. And while this saga may have had a disappointing end, nobody really regrets anything they did. We helped out somebody in need, and we'd all do it again.
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Mar 26, 2019 04:42
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ExplodingSims posted:We helped out somebody in need, and we'd all do it again. 
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Mar 26, 2019 04:47
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Sometimes it's important to remember that the qualifications to post here are "have $10" and "don't be permabanned."
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Mar 26, 2019 04:48
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FactsAreUseless posted:Sometimes it's important to remember that the qualifications to post here are "have $10" and "don't be permabanned." And the second one is only a qualification for some people if they get caught.
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I was able to find at least part of one of the stories re: 50FA I was looking for before! Now I just need the 'got in a fight with a half-track' one.50 Foot Ant posted:I got caught break-dancing on top of stacks of MRLS rounds by a General (Still having my nervous break-down), who yelled at me to "GET THE gently caress DOWN, YOU MANIAC!" and challenged him to come up and make me. He took off his top, climbed up on the stack, and fought me in glorious hand to hand combat for the right to be "GOD-KING OF THE SITE!" while all of the privates I'd been given stared in shock and the long time members of the crew laughed and cheered. (He beat me and threw me bodily off the top of the 3-high stack and proclaimed himself the "Undisputed Overlord of All Officers Everywhere EVER" at the top of his lungs) I think he may have been crazy too.
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ExplodingSims posted:I mean, that was really the first high profile event I can recall that occurred since I started posting there, so I'd say 8 years or so is a pretty good run.
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Mar 26, 2019 05:46
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WITCHCRAFT posted:There's an offsite archive of stuff from the Ghost Stories threads here: I actually enjoyed his stories before they all went crazy over the top off the rails with nazi zombie ghosts and white walkers and poo poo Then I realized he was posting as at least 2 different people and totally invested in both persona's so deeply as to challenge anyone to their validity based on 'mah honor' Still killed a few hours reading all his stuff
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Anne Whateley posted:the motorcycle rapist That was the worst Goosebumps book ever
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Anne Whateley posted:Wasn't the motorcycle rapist also AI originally? CA, which is a subforum of AI. And yeah, that rear end in a top hat, racist mustang guy and 14 inch were all I meant by "occasional". Again, if I came across as overstating things because I don't post so good, I'm sorry.
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Blue On Blue posted:I actually enjoyed his stories before they all went crazy over the top off the rails with nazi zombie ghosts and white walkers and poo poo I never got into his stuff despite pages worth of posts in the ghost story threads being “ooooh how scary, there is an ice ghost!” because every time I tried to read his latest update, I never got to any parts with ghosts. It was just ten million words to restate “here I was, a buff, handsome army soldier. Germany is cold in winter. I am wacky. There was a really hot female soldier.” Presumably he got into actual ghost stories at some point but it was awful and I’m still baffled goons loved his poo poo. Like, enough to crowdfund physical copies of his one-handed wank fiction?
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OldTennisCourt posted:Humper Monkey was probably the highpoint of those threads because even though they were super obviously fake the stories never veered into the embarrassing self insert fanfiction those threads would devolve into. Lol his stories were the epitome of "embarrassing self insert fanfiction". TWISTED STEEL AND SEX APPEAL. Guy was supremely in love with himself to the point where he needed to be two people to contain it all. Now Hellbastard on the other hand was simply a chef's kiss of a poster.
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Mar 26, 2019 17:14
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The early Humper Monkey/50FA ghost stories were good because iirc the humper monkey ones ended with the hauntings just being the effects of wintering in an old-rear end building. The last 50FA ghost story was a clusterfuck of paranormal stuff including his surprise cousin who had supernatural powers and it tied back to some old family lore. It was really embarassing worldbuilding. I miss the ghost stories threads though.
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Mar 26, 2019 17:34
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I remember when 50 f a wrote that a fridge was left open overnight and a sheet of ice formed in front, like a spooky ghost
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Mar 26, 2019 17:35
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His contributions to the worst gaming stories were just awful masturbation fodder but i think they were done at like the end of his tenure so he had a lot of momentum.
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RagnarokAngel posted:His contributions to the worst gaming stories were just awful masturbation fodder but i think they were done at like the end of his tenure so he had a lot of momentum. Page upon page of dunking on Fatback the shopkeep
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Mar 26, 2019 18:06
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Mar 26, 2019 18:45
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The one that gets brought up less often is when he pretended to be a Hawaiian (or possibly Native American?) girl who worked at a gun store in TFR and told stories about a reoccurring customer that just so happened to be written exactly like his gaming store stories with the roles reversed
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Mar 26, 2019 20:38
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Alaois posted:The one that gets brought up less often is when he pretended to be a Hawaiian (or possibly Native American?) girl who worked at a gun store in TFR and told stories about a reoccurring customer that just so happened to be written exactly like his gaming store stories with the roles reversed Oh poo poo, I remember that one. Do you have a link to the thread? I think he got called out eventually but I don't remember how.
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It was in the midst of the "stupid overheard poo poo about guns" thread like 6 years ago so i dont I want to say the account he used was called PallasAthene or something similar
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Mar 26, 2019 21:31
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Len posted:Page upon page of dunking on Fatback the shopkeep
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R.L. Stine posted:Lol his stories were the epitome of "embarrassing self insert fanfiction". TWISTED STEEL AND SEX APPEAL. It's true , his self insert characters were always low or mid level enlisted men , career army types who can never gain rank becuase they're just TOO MUCH for the army to handle But they would also have the president calling them late at night asking for their help on a top secret mission that he was the only one qualified to accomplish
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Mar 26, 2019 22:03
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R.L. Stine posted:Now Hellbastard on the other hand was simply a chef's kiss of a poster.  although I'm thinking with that av you're probably his alt
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Mar 26, 2019 22:09
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50FA was better than Hellbastard because there was a charming, childlike sincerity to his insane fantasies. HB was boring and faux-edgy and couldn't draw.
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Mar 26, 2019 22:12
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The only thing I actually remember about Hellbastard was I think his dumb comic thread was still active when gbs turned into gbs 2.0 and everyone immediately began ruthlessly dunking on him
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Yeah, I wasn't around in GBS to understand the culture of the time, but I've never understood how Hellbastard got popular. The STDH guys make sense to me, because people love telling and listening to tall tales (see: every GBS fart thread, where I think every story posted requires that the fart make a dozen people vomit and a building collapse) as long as they're entertaining, and bizarre walled-garden threads like the Advent Calendar are fun for the participants, but nothing about HB's stuff ever looked remotely funny or interesting.
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Mar 26, 2019 22:57
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Hellbastard wasn't actually that popular, it was just illegal to troll his thread with things like honestly telling him to stop because he sucked.
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Mar 26, 2019 23:22
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Hellbastard wasn't actually that popular, it was just illegal to troll his thread with things like honestly telling him to stop because he sucked. Man oh man. This explains the amazing floodgates of scorn when GBS 2.0 kicked in.
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Antivehicular posted:Man oh man. This explains the amazing floodgates of scorn when GBS 2.0 kicked in.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Literally the only good part of GBS 2.0 was finally abandoning this idea that we have to protect "content creators" simply because they create content. Yes but this terribly backfired when people immediately began shredding literally every effort thread and content creator which lead to a bunch of cool threads being abandoned and interesting poster bailing, like colorfinger and that one guy whos username always escapes me but did cool gifs that doubled as sound files. There is a reasonswhy photoshop threads and the like died off and were rare until fairly recently.
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Mar 27, 2019 01:08
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Man I miss everdraed (gifs with sound guy).
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Telsa Cola posted:Yes but this terribly backfired when people immediately began shredding literally every effort thread and content creator which lead to a bunch of cool threads being abandoned and interesting poster bailing, like colorfinger and that one guy whos username always escapes me but did cool gifs that doubled as sound files. You mean Everdread? Think that was his name.
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Zil posted:You mean Everdread? Think that was his name. Yeah him. Lot of cool posters bailed.
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Telsa Cola posted:Yes but this terribly backfired when people immediately began shredding literally every effort thread and content creator which lead to a bunch of cool threads being abandoned and interesting poster bailing, like colorfinger and that one guy whos username always escapes me but did cool gifs that doubled as sound files. Don't forget the torrents of racism and conservative bullshit which are still subtly pervasive. GBS is pretty good now, but it's not as good as it used to be. GBS 2.0 effectively hailed the death of SA by becoming Boring 4chan.
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Telsa Cola posted:Yes but this terribly backfired when people immediately began shredding literally every effort thread and content creator which lead to a bunch of cool threads being abandoned and interesting poster bailing, like colorfinger and that one guy whos username always escapes me but did cool gifs that doubled as sound files.
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And then it swung around again and GBS started idolizing really awful "content creators" like Spinster and Applewhite
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Alaois, White Noise Given Flesh and Purpose posted:And then it swung around again and GBS started idolizing really awful "content creators" like Spinster and Applewhite
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Mostly what I remember about GBS 2.0 was the coordinated effort to flood the forum with trans hate within like an hour of the rules change.
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