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Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
that's gacha society

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Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Boxturret posted:

that's gacha society

i know but i was hoping weatherman would be the one to correct me for being wrong about a Japanese Thing and then i could be like "haha guess I really................................................. gacha................................ that time!!!"

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Shame Boy posted:

i know but i was hoping weatherman would be the one to correct me for being wrong about a Japanese Thing and then i could be like "haha guess I really................................................. gacha................................ that time!!!"

*jimmy duranteishly* ga cha cha cha cha

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Shame Boy posted:

i know but i was hoping weatherman would be the one to correct me for being wrong about a Japanese Thing and then i could be like "haha guess I really................................................. gacha................................ that time!!!"

my apologies for ruining your machiavellian plot :tipshat:

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Boxturret posted:

my apologies for ruining your machiavellian plot :tipshat:

that’s gauche society.

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
Oh and... one more thing [Lights come down, Hoobastank - The Reason comes on over trailer for Sukeito Fō mobile gacha]

Zopotantor
Feb 24, 2013

...und ist er drin dann lassen wir ihn niemals wieder raus...

EorayMel posted:

The short lived TCC mod saying to do lsd instead of going to rehab to conquer a heroin addiction but instead of lsd it is bitcoins

is that the source of the "my xxxxxxxx have you tried LSD" joke?

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

Zopotantor posted:

is that the source of the "my xxxxxxxx have you tried LSD" joke?

its really amazing how the actions of goons and mods are so freaking far beyond the pale that its actually impossible for a bystander to believe.

proposal: i am going to make an environmentally sustainable yoga retreat in hawaii

reality: a y2k survivalist paid goons a "food stipend" to help me clearcut a rainforest, dig a road by hand, torture and mutilate animals to death on camera, and bathe in/drink from an improperly filtered kiddy pool that wild hogs poo poo and pissed in

proposal: i am going to make a fun zipline for kids at camp

reality: a goon spent tens of thousands of dollars constructing a machine that kills children, entirely by accident

proposal: a fad diet thread in the exercise forum

reality: a mentally ill man resembling a melted candle, the pied piper of ham joints, told people that eating nothing but eggs and bacon and lard in paint buckets (they were literally buying and eating buckets full of lard in the name of good health) would not only make them lose weight, but was so healthy it would cure heart disease and cancer. an enormous fat powerlifter who cant run for 20 seconds probated and banned anyone who challenged this wisdom until it lead to a man barely in his 20s being prescribed statins.

proposal: a thread about animal husbandry in the pet forum

reality: a moderator unrepentantly killed animals with ac/dc hadoukens and probated people who asked questions

proposal: a forum for "responsible drug users" and "harm reduction"

reality: a man falls through the earth and into parisian catacombs. taking a torch from the wall he spies row upon row of skeletons. grasping the nearest by the shoulders, he shakes it madly, yelling "my goons have u tried lsd"

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
what about the clown game?

Muscle Tracer
Feb 23, 2007

Medals only weigh one down.

Midjack posted:

i miss heresiarch too and i hope he’s well. :smith:

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
you forgot grover

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
proposal: create a comedy forum

reality: get kicked off your own site 20 years later and all you have to show for it is a 500 metre long robo spine

SIGSEGV
Nov 4, 2010


Suspicious posted:

you forgot grover

at the time that was written talking about grover or the grover house was an automatic ban, because mod sass is a good rule, don't you see?

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Boxturret posted:

proposal: create a comedy forum

reality: get kicked off your own site 20 years later and all you have to show for it is a 500 metre long robo spine

spines on the robochain :roboluv:

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
Making fun of a terrible house and the maker of it bootstrapping himself so he could legally inspect and pass it is a much worse offense than making death threats to people under secret service protection, including but not limited to getting entire subforums shut down permanently.

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.

SIGSEGV posted:

at the time that was written talking about grover or the grover house was an automatic ban, because mod sass is a good rule, don't you see?

no mod sass makes sense if the mod selecting process is good. but for a long time SA just modded randos who posted the most

SIGSEGV
Nov 4, 2010


Suspicious posted:

no mod sass makes sense if the mod selecting process is good. but for a long time SA just modded randos who posted the most

it only makes sense if there isn't a reason to poo poo talk the mods, which is only true if they aren't worth harassing constantly, and, well

it's a stupid rule and mods should just be protected by a rule also protecting everyone else such as "don't be a massive rear end in a top hat with no reason, and even with reason if you're a massive enough rear end in a top hat"

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
proposal: buy a dead gay comedy forum for several billion dollars from a weird cyborg snakeman

reality: ...?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Boxturret posted:

proposal: buy a dead gay comedy forum for several billion dollars from a weird cyborg snakeman

reality: ...?

reality: you own something awful dot com

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
proposal: making the currency of the future that will topple world governments and fundamentally change humanity as a self organizing collective intelligence

reality: how not to do finance and computers via a ponzi scheme of chuck e cheese tokens perpetually stolen by libertarians and/or exchanged for child pornography and mystery chemicals that liquefy your organs forever

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Boxturret posted:

what about the clown game?
was that Awful Fantasy 6 where the guy modding the ROM claimed the project somehow got him sent to prison

i didn't get out of the first act because who plays a JRPG twice

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Shumagorath posted:

was that Awful Fantasy 6 where the guy modding the ROM claimed the project somehow got him sent to prison

i didn't get out of the first act because who plays a JRPG twice



no that dropsy the hugging alien clown game, i think it started as a chose you own adventure thread here

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

SIGSEGV posted:

at the time that was written talking about grover or the grover house was an automatic ban, because mod sass is a good rule, don't you see?

don't forget that any mention of Groverhaus was bannable/probatable for years, literally years, after Grover stopped being a mod. it wasn't until gbs 2.0 that he finally stopped having someone on the admin team to tattle to when his abomination of a construction project got made fun of.

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
one of my first pms was to grover which was "your house sucks lol" and i haven't gotten a reply back for obvious reasons

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
it is a funny house

has it broken in half and sunk into the swamp yet?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Boxturret posted:

it is a funny house

has it broken in half and sunk into the swamp yet?

don't think so. someone found it in the new microsoft flight simulator

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

Azathoth posted:

don't think so. someone found it in the new microsoft flight simulator
https://twitter.com/Adequate_Scott/status/1295696740188917761

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

:eyepop:

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
'They will kill my wife if I will not return their money': When Bitcoin businesses go under

ABC News posted:

Alexander Vinnik is in a world of trouble.

The 40-year-old Russian is inside a jail cell in France, where prosecutors argue he is responsible for a vast criminal enterprise.

His problems do not end there: US prosecutors want to extradite him to face criminal charges, while New Zealand police have frozen $130 million of his assets.

The Australian Federal Police are on his tail too.

That is because Mr Vinnik allegedly transferred nearly $100 million through Australia with the help of the Commonwealth Bank, to potentially launder the proceeds of crime.

A 'breeding ground' for hackers, fraudsters and public corruption
Mr Vinnik allegedly operated one of the world's most popular digital currency exchange sites.

Known as BTC-e, the site allowed users to exchange real currency for Bitcoin.

And it offered members — who traded under pseudonyms like CocaineCowboys, ISIS and hacker4hire — near-total anonymity.

The company behind the website was registered in Seychelles — a known money-laundering haven — where people set up shell companies, and hide behind them to protect their identities.

American prosecutors argue BTC-e was a breeding ground for hackers, fraudsters, identity-theft scams, public corruption and drug trafficking.

But there's a further twist.

Remember how the Mueller investigation found Russian operatives were responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee, which led to internal Clinton campaign emails getting leaked two days before the 2016 election?

Later analysis showed those Russian hackers paid for their operations using BTC-e, the service American prosecutors claim Mr Vinnik controlled.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Boxturret posted:

no that dropsy the hugging alien clown game, i think it started as a chose you own adventure thread here

dropsy the clown? didn't know it started as an sa thread, that's neat

the people who made that later went on to make hypnospace outlaw which is excellent. i have a physical copy of it cuz our roommate is friends with one of em' and they met up at GDC, it's designed to look like an AOL CD from 1999 and it's a goddamn treasure

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Shame Boy posted:

dropsy the clown? didn't know it started as an sa thread, that's neat

the people who made that later went on to make hypnospace outlaw which is excellent. i have a physical copy of it cuz our roommate is friends with one of em' and they met up at GDC, it's designed to look like an AOL CD from 1999 and it's a goddamn treasure

Whoa, that's the same guys? I like Dropsy and Hypnospace Outlaw, so there's two successful projects right there. Then there's Hot Tin Roof and a mech game whose name I forget.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2279

i was right

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

kw0134 posted:

to be fair, the book doesn't take off until that point because you have to spend a whole bunch of pages explaining concepts like "blockchain" and "bitcoin" and "the internet", as well as a bunch of fairly narrative-stopping biographical sketches. like you can definitely strengthen the book by examining the whole project through the lens of libertarian tech bros doing libertarian tech bro things and given the current climate the idea that these people should not be allowed to operate without supervision will resonate. but the book itself doesn't really have a narrative until you make that point.

thank you, this is absolutely the way it needs to be done

i thought this was a book about bitcoin bros, but it's really a book about dumbass silicon valley disruptors, and I'm now going through the first few chapters hammering that home

(nice to have worked that out before actual publication, if only after writing it)

and writing tweetable quotes like "But it’s normal in Silicon Valley to propose an all-encompassing international system, and base it entirely on how things work in Palo Alto." it's 2020 if every sentence isn't a meme then what are you even doing

and reading the text out loud and hoping my voice, trashed by the steroids i huff to breathe, doesn't give out

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
text to speech?

HelleSpud
Apr 1, 2010

Azathoth posted:

don't think so. someone found it in the new microsoft flight simulator

https://twitter.com/KyleErf/status/1296116225018343426

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!
when did goatse become some blockchain bullshit?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001


been that way for years

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




that was their pivot after email forwarding.

Clockwerk
Apr 6, 2005


monetizing what should be a public service, absolutely disgusting

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Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Clockwerk posted:

monetizing what should be a public service, absolutely disgusting

but enough about urmom

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