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I joined because a buddy on another forum suggested I should. Around 2011 I was asked to mod YLLS (then called Watch & Weight). Then a bunch of admins left and I was asked to be an admin. Then I got sick of dealing with admin poo poo and went back to just modding YLLS. Then I left the mod team outright when I got fed up with behind-the-scenes nonsense. Now I mostly post about VR games, but I follow WWE threads because it's fun to see reactions to how bad the shows are.
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I think I’m the rare soul who actually discovered Something Awful through the front page; I discovered the site when I was 13, and followed the front page updates religiously for years. Ironically, I think I stopped following front page content once I finally ponied up the  for my account.  I think Let’s Play’s were the reason I finally wandered into the forum section of the website, since I was pretty big on following the content on the LP Archive in high school and wanted more. Somehow that ended up with me lurking on this sub forum more and more, and here I am.
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I'm pretty sure i joined because I was an evil teenage pirate and the files forum had really good comic book torrents.
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NuclearPotato posted:I think I’m the rare soul who actually discovered Something Awful through the front page; I discovered the site when I was 13, and followed the front page updates religiously for years. Ironically, I think I stopped following front page content once I finally ponied up the I also found the forums through the front page! I always loved the Photoshop Phridays and other forums articles which eventually led me to look at the forums. I lurked for a long while until I finally registered because I think I desperately wanted to read the SAclopedia to understand all the inside jokes. I have a tendency to concentrate on one thing on these forums. I posted badly on GBS, Games and PYF for a while, then almost exclusively in the bad webcomics threads on BSS, then I spent a few years pretty much only posting in Music (most of all the industrial/NIN threads) and the synthesizer thread in Musician's Lounge before I got back into the wrassles in 2015 after which I've more or less only been posting here. Honestly - in my experience this is the nicest & coolest subforum (although the industrial and synth goons were always fabulous people). Long live the Hut of the Professional Grapplings Twenty Hundred Edit: Oh no this is the social media thread!!! Here, have a somewhat recent Bread Club update https://twitter.com/cozy_lariat/status/1177343564272918528?s=20 Baby. a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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I discovered there was a place that had a material cost for being banned, which curbed the Internet's tendancy to CW: Hate speech NIGGERFAGGOTKIKEDYKECUNTFAGGOTFAGGOTFAGGOTNIGGER Like it tends to do. If you ask me, that poo poo should still cost you fifteen bucks if we adjust for inflation. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 8, 2019 07:48
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I think I got sucked in by the British guy posting as he was stuck inside a police cordon. It took me a while to find then the Wrestle Hut. I love PSP, it's either here or Raja for my hot scoops.
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Nov 8, 2019 07:54
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https://twitter.com/jrsbbq/status/1192644659656441856 Weekend at JR's.
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Nov 8, 2019 08:05
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I saw this specific image from a photoshop phriday reprinted in some terrible magazine I had no business reading at the age I was: And they said it was from here, then after 2-3 years of lurking I was old enough to have a job and my own bank account so I could buy an account. My parents didn't understand the internet so there was no online shopping allowed!
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Nov 8, 2019 08:09
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My friend convinced me to start an account in 2012 with the intent of joining the Goon Star Wars: The Old Republic server. That was fine...for a few months until dumbass MMO drama.
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Nov 8, 2019 08:36
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It’s really entertaining reading everyone’s reasons for joining a forum
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Bloodbath posted:It’s really entertaining reading everyone’s reasons for joining a forum You're right, it is
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NuclearPotato posted:I think I’m the rare soul who actually discovered Something Awful through the front page; I discovered the site when I was 13, and followed the front page updates religiously for years. Ironically, I think I stopped following front page content once I finally ponied up the I definitely was a front page reader for years before I ever had an account, I remember being in middle school reading Photoshop phridays and being astounded it wasn't banned on school internet yet.
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i thought the pay $10 to post thing was a gag, like the fake front page, and just lurked for most of 04-06. eventually one of my real life friends (the same one who introduced me to the main site) explained how it was an idiot filter so i ponied up, and within weeks was banned for of all things image leeching.
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joined after the p-p-p-powerbook thread which i saw from scotman's forum from way back in the edgy internet days. anyway actual content https://twitter.com/TheProductDS/status/1192483693681659907 David Starr isn't gonna stop
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The Croc posted:..which i saw from scotman's forum from way back in the edgy internet days. REVIEW WCW THUNDER
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Nov 8, 2019 12:39
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I joined originally in like 2000 because of photoshop stuff and the front page. Only made it like a year before I got banned, then by the time I got around to coming back there was a paywall and I said gently caress it and mostly forgot about it. Came back a couple years later and mostly stuck to the front page or lurking before my significant other bought me an account as a christmas present. Almost immediately after I reregged my account got hijacked along with my main email and banned and I had to email Finn to get it back lol
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Nov 8, 2019 12:55
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Remember how funny Fashion SWAT was (I haven’t reread them in years they might not hold up)? I read those ad naseum, then Photoshop Phridays, then Weekend Webs, then Flash Tubs (high school me probably would have listed Shmorky as one of my biggest artistic influences YIKE) then realized there was forums, then lurked for 5 years, then finally bought myself a forums account as a present to myself for graduating high school. And I’ve essentially been lurking ever since!
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Bloodbath posted:It’s really entertaining reading everyone’s reasons for joining a forum I disagree.
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tao of lmao posted:I disagree. A friend of mine asked me to join at the time. I had gotten sick of the site I was on (a1wrestling which was full of arseholes, and had Holzerman, and Dylan Waco among other moderately infamous wrestling twitter people. I think it was at the tail end of torrents being freely available, and I liked the tv and wrestling discussion.
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Bloodbath posted:It’s really entertaining reading everyone’s reasons for joining a forum then i quickly got into lurking bss and wh2k. now it's just here, because, idk, comics are very tiring at this point and i could only follow one art form where the biggest representative is giving me the finger on a regular basis. i was previously a front page reader, but i'd fallen off out it for years prior to regging.
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Nov 8, 2019 15:06
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I joined to read LPs, and then I saw that the author of my favorite one also posted in the wrestling forum so I decided to check it out and now here I am. (Thanks J-ru)
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Nov 8, 2019 15:31
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One of my closest friends like(d?) wrestling and whatever is good enough for her is good enough for me so I checked out AEW and 👍
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I joined cause of a thread where people shared their stories on why they joined the forums, thinking that could be me someday.
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Pollyanna posted:One of my closest friends like(d?) wrestling and whatever is good enough for her is good enough for me so I checked out AEW and 👍 A good friend. I’m glad AEW was just starting when I decided to check out wrestling. New Japan is cool too, but I’d never see the live shows or be able to get other people over to watch with me.
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Nov 8, 2019 15:55
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I liked Your Band Sucks, and a net friend of mine who posts on SA bought me an account as a birthday present
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Shine posted:I joined because a buddy on another forum suggested I should. Around 2011 I was asked to mod YLLS (then called Watch & Weight). Were you active on Fitocracy? I vaguely remember talking to many goons there and I believe you were one. Anyway, hi. On and off lurker since 2005 or 06, finally ponied up for an account awhile back.
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Nov 8, 2019 18:27
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I still like talking in the racing topics in SAS and lurking cycle asylum for when I hopefully get a motorcycle soon
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I registered a gimmick account to post about Sodas Ruling and then my original account got banned so I just kept using this one for the past eighteen years.
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I registered because the F1 thread wasn't gonna ruin itself.
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I lurked until someone posted a picture of people I knew in a White People Dancing thread in GBS, then I registered an account.
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i wanted free porn then stuck around
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I've wasted my life here.
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I was in college and had large gaps of time between classes and wanted a good distraction and I used to lurk GBS photoshop threads years before. I'm still sad that we don't do Goon Cons anymore.
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PunkBoy posted:I joined to read LPs, and then I saw that the author of my favorite one also posted in the wrestling forum so I decided to check it out and now here I am. (Thanks J-ru) Which LP was it? I was an early member of the Facepunch forums and when I learned it was an offshoot of this place I lurked and fell off and re-lurked after discovering retsupurae. From there I waited until I had enough money stashed to justify dropping ten bucks to join up. Then botchamania led me to chikara which led me to El Generico which led me to NXT which led me to become an active wrestling fan for the first time since Eddie passed, which led me to you fine folks.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:39
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NienNunb posted:I was in college and had large gaps of time between classes and wanted a good distraction and I used to lurk GBS photoshop threads years before. I'm a bit envious of the goons who do meets WM weekend
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Nov 8, 2019 19:45
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I joined because was an idiot. I remained here because I'm still an idiot. I did it to comment on and do my own LPs
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Nov 8, 2019 19:47
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the best part of gooncon was the orgy room. but that's the same for any convention, really.
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Nov 8, 2019 19:53
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Beer_Suitcase posted:I think I got sucked in by the British guy posting as he was stuck inside a police cordon. It took me a while to find then the Wrestle Hut. the police cordon guy is the same reason i joined! i don't post much except in the fabgoons thread, but i should post about wrestling more
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Nov 8, 2019 19:56
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'm a bit envious of the goons who do meets WM weekend I did that this year because I live close to New York and it was the most fun I've ever had in my life. Getting to see Oatgan tweet in person was a religious experience.
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Ibexaz posted:Which LP was it? A Scotsman in Egypt
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