HJB posted:

I used to lurk PYF a few years back but stopped when I realised every single thread followed the same pattern of one page of content followed by three pages of Weird Al derails.

Crowetron posted:

Does anyone remember the post where one poster told an insane story about another poster inviting him over to his apartment to show him the CD he made? I think it was from the feud between Heebie-GBS and another poster who's name I don't remember.

Antivehicular posted:

Infrateal

Krankenstyle posted:

i think he had a tiny cellphone with only one button

quote:

Yeah sorry im late i just got back from the hospital... no im fine, i had to take heebs-g. uh-huh. yeaaaaah. like this:

So im talkin to heebs about this and that and i mention ive been listenin to Cuban Linx 2 and he gets all excited and says "you know wha? I just finished an album myself!" and i was like, whoa, i didn't know you did... music? and he said "yeah bro yeah! i make raps!" and im thinking oh my god and he says "i was gonna wait till friday to let it drop but if you wanna come over i can give you a sneak peak" and im thinking oh my god i gotta hear this

so we drive over to his place and on the way im asking him about his raps and all and he starts doing these unbefuckinglievable freestyles, with like 5-second pauses between words and his eyebrows all knit together like he cracking codes, but they sounded like this:

"i got a grill so big if i were a dragon i could cook hot dogs on it/
i call my friends bro not dogg, dog gone it/
whenever anyone tries to rag me on it/
i tell them theyre dillwads and to stuff a wad of rags in it"

and im doing my best to look real serious while hes mean-muggin and FINALLY we get to his house and he goes in this back room and i hear all this thrashing around and im thinking, poo poo does he actually have boxes of cds back there, is he unpacking things, what's going on and finally i hear him yell "hey come give me a hand with this" so i go back there and he's got this... oh my god. this thing:

as far as i can tell its like a kiddy pool, but covered in aluminum foil. and like theres all these holes in it, with barcode stickers... from everything man. cut-out barcodes from frosted flakes taped in. in the holes. hundreds of them. and i realize he doesnt have boxes of cds, he MADE HIS OWN ALBUM, like, out of stuff. like he understands that cds are shiny and digital but beyond that... im not gonna try and figure this out man but just take my word for it, he was proud as poo poo of this thing

ok so it wasnt going to fit through the door, so he said he'd show it to me "in the studio," which was this lovely room covered in foil scraps and tapewads and like answering machines from 1994, and i said "but i can see it real good man" and he laughs and pulls out this laser pointer and says "bro. you need to HEAR it!" and then he gets this double-handed grip on the laser pointer right, juts out his tongue and aims and shoots the laser. and he starts moving the laser dot real slow and careful like in a circle, around the "cd". and im thinking oh my god he actually thinks this will make sound somehow. he thinks hes gonna make raps come out of that thing. and he starts moving the laser faster and faster and gets this look, man, like this horror shock, like wile e. coyote trying to run in midair.

and i tell him--im about to bust a gut trying not to laugh at his arts-and-crafts cargo cult poo poo--i tell him real gentle "hey man youre an innovator. you made the album, you can make a way to play it" and then i left and loving cracked up

but then that night like 12:30 am i get this call, from heebs number but hes not on the phone, i hear this wheezin, then finally i hear heebs real weak saying "bro... bro... the cd... can't breathe" so i rush over there and hes, ok, hes in his bedroom, theres a huge hole in the ceiling, the ceiling fan is on top of the cd, and the cds on top of heebs... he loving tried to duck tape his cd to a ceiling fan so it would spin. and it all fell on him and broke two ribs.

i couldnt keep myself from laughing... and hes laying there all covered in plaster wheezing at me all angry like "fuhhc hayooo bbro" and its makin me laugh even harder. i felt kinda bad for encouraging him but man... what was he thinking

Screaming Idiot posted:

JacquelineDempsey posted:

Nah, cell phone with one button is another story, not sure if it was Infrateal or not?

Here's the CD story, though:


That whole thread was amazing.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3212733

edit: also, for the poster wondering about forums cancer, there's a whole bunch of examples in there

Krankenstyle posted:

Ah well the cell phone is funny too

Re forums cancer, I think Jeff of yospos wanted some examples in the technical thread?

Solice Kirsk posted:

I don't know if any active poster still has it. Best bet for finding one would probably be rifling through old gassed threads.

HJB posted:

I used to lurk PYF a few years back but stopped when I realised every single thread followed the same pattern of one page of content followed by three pages of Weird Al derails.

purple death ray posted:

My favorite thing was the time mods changed the titles of most threads in pyf to be identical and nobody noticed for a little while, but then eventually the entire forum had a disassociative episode and couldn't tell any of them apart. I wish I could remember the exact phrasing of the common thread title, it combined a few of the megathreads into one sentence

UCS Hellmaker posted:

That fits with most people having favorite threads they bookmark and never leave. I'm guilty of just going through my book marks and hitting go to last read.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Here's one.

Solice Kirsk posted:

They bringing back forums cancer for FYAD and QCS regulars or something?

Pick posted:

It's going to be a walk away from Omelas situation and if you cure him the forums go down

HJB posted:

I used to lurk PYF a few years back but stopped when I realised every single thread followed the same pattern of one page of content followed by three pages of Weird Al derails.

Sleeveless posted:

Apropos of nothing I am recalling the posters in the Ouya mock thread spending months thinking that the height of comedy was referring to the console by random all-caps words like OLDSPICE and TONYYAYO and then a single poster goes "why are you doing that, it's not funny" and everyone just immediately stopped doing it forever after.

Spanish Manlove posted:

And that persons name, was albert q einstein

purple death ray posted:

My favorite thing was the time mods changed the titles of most threads in pyf to be identical and nobody noticed for a little while, but then eventually the entire forum had a disassociative episode and couldn't tell any of them apart. I wish I could remember the exact phrasing of the common thread title, it combined a few of the megathreads into one sentence

Glenn Quebec posted:

In terms of a modern saga nothing was as showstopping as moridin920 and/or Jastiger showing up in a thread. They were so awful I'll never forget them

Jerry Cotton posted:

Was Jastiger the one creeping on people and then PMing other people (such as me) all "I don't understand why they are probating me what am I doing wrong?" or was that someone else?

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

that was me, and it was "awkward ugly & gross idiots on social medias' anti-food porn that didn't happen schadenfreude megathread," I still have the word doc I'd made with all the original thread names in it for sorting them back out after lol.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I think that's a goon facebook group?

Coolness Averted posted:

Do people on the SA facebook group try and hide their forum name? If they're really so ashamed of their posts couldn't they just not join it?

Brute Squad posted:

she did, and in the very same thread!
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3555678&pagenumber=730&perpage=40#post468151742

Who What Now posted:

That always made me a little uneasy because he kept talking about the "one drop rule", the old belief that having any non-white ancestry meant you weren't white, and how it was bullshit and therefore bi-racial people couldn't identify as black.