Ugly In The Morning posted:

Lockpicks are actually handy though. People in offices lose keys all the time, or throw out the old ones when they change locks but oops, turns out the lock for this door wasn’t changed and we really need to get in there now. Or the old “where the hell is the tiny key for my desk” dillema.

Some Goon posted:

Fishmech should have been banned for being fishmech long before whatever happened happened, but 'indescribably tedious poster' ain't exactly a saga. Or, at least, not one worth reading.

Crime on a Dime posted:

to be clear. this guys job according to the photo he posted was IT support for residential students

Crime on a Dime posted:

to be clear. this guys job according to the photo he posted was IT support for residential students

Moo the cow posted:

So, in fact nothing he was carrying apart from his phone and nametag were of any use to his job?

Fluffdaddy posted:

So computer janitor instead

Crime on a Dime posted:

the knife is just a small box cutter. did his employer know he carried a gun around campus?

BiggerBoat posted:

When the hell did SA ever have a porn forum?

piratepilates posted:

Up until 2004 when lowtax realized what a liability having file forums was.

The Kins posted:

The bit where idiots were registering just for the filez probably didn't help much.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

that's what makes it less scarier than an actual boxcutter.

Crime on a Dime posted:

i guess my point is its almost all dodgy af for someone who works on a residential campus

Crane Fist posted:

That's it! This loving guy




Got to be prepared in case terrorists take my mop bucket hostage

Puppy Galaxy posted:

one of my favorite Kinds of Guys.

piratepilates posted:

Up until 2004 when lowtax realized what a liability having file forums was.

And it wasn't just porn, there was also a movie/general torrents forum, and a music sharing forum. They all spun off and some are still going strong, but yeah, at one point SA had its own pirate bay.

BiggerBoat posted:

Well, that would explain things since I registered in 2007 thanks to the Kuenbu thread, speaking of sagas.

What "saga" has had the most dedicated threads on a single subject I wonder? I think there were FOUR dollfucker threads.

I guess "Lowtax Beats Women" shattered that record but I don't recall too many multiple threads dealing with the same subject/person.

BiggerBoat posted:

Well, that would explain things since I registered in 2007 thanks to the Kuenbu thread, speaking of sagas.

What "saga" has had the most dedicated threads on a single subject I wonder? I think there were FOUR dollfucker threads.

I guess "Lowtax Beats Women" shattered that record but I don't recall too many multiple threads dealing with the same subject/person.

The Kins posted:

The bit where idiots were registering just for the filez probably didn't help much.

BurntCornMuffin posted:

As I recall:

• Built on a swamp
  
• Load-bearing drywall
  
• A window at the bottom of the stairs positioned to guarantee you fall out of the house if you should fall down.
  
• Contractors refused to certify the house as safe, so he became one to self-certify.
  
• Melted siding because the grill was too hot
  

tight aspirations posted:

There were quite a few CAD mock threads spread between GBS and BSS. Dunno quite how many, but probably 6+. I don't think it really died, just got sublimated into various webcomic mock threads after buckers got too boring to laugh at.

Nuns with Guns posted:

Hogge Wild tried to get it shut down for reposting copyrighted comics in some grudge match

piratepilates posted:

Spending 16 years on these cursed forums brings an odd perspective to seeing people who registered later. I really have no idea what the people who registered in the last few years think about this place, they've missed so much degeneracy on these forums. Entire bitter pissy drama conflicts that have been lost to time. The forums these days barely resemble what it was like several years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago when I was young, hell the site is 20 years old and precedes 9/11.

luxury handset posted:

once upon a time there were too many people registering for the forums and lowtax launched "operation: go away" to discourage new accounts

during the something awful hub of piracy era it was bannable to post in gbs asking where the file forums were (they were not at all hard to find) because it was a sign that someone had signed up just for the file forums. so regular posters would try to trick new people into posting introduction threads in gbs (a common courtesy on other forums) and the new person would be mocked and then banned

Nuns with Guns posted:

The CAD threads started in GBS when loss.jpg happened then moved into BSS eventually.

They were later banned from BSS after the comic itself slumped into mediocrity and the thread had to scrabble for anything to talk about. So they started getting mad at Buckley for his Yorkshire Terrier dying from a throat collapse because it had a small choke chain on and the breed is prone to the condition anyway, which isn't a good idea but it's really not healthy to get worked up at a bad-comic-maker over it.

GBS 2.0 started up not long after, so since it was no rulez a new CAD thread was opened there. It gradually shifted into a broader mock thread of any comics people felt like reposting, but was considered kind of dire and moved to the crew chat BYOB subforum to chill out, which it mostly did and now it's kind of a mock thread but more just posting any comics to discuss.

Hogge Wild tried to get it shut down for reposting copyrighted comics in some grudge match so they stick to webcomics and gray area comics that wouldn't get DCMA'd as aggesively now, as far as I know.

E- as far mock threads go, the newspaper comic threads are probably the most continuously-running? They're for sharing good and bad newspaper strips past and present, which might help them from devolving into hate ciriclejerks constantly.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

some iterations of it are still available aside from the one that got nuked when Hogge Wilde was carrying out their weird vendetta against it.

Sleeveless posted:

The CCCC bad webcomics thread was nuked and rebooted several years ago because it had basically become a glorified thread where people were posting published graphic novels in their entirety since even they needed something else to talk about after a decade of chortling at loss.jpeg.

Sleeveless posted:

The CCCC bad webcomics thread was nuked and rebooted several years ago because it had basically become a glorified thread where people were posting published graphic novels in their entirety since even they needed something else to talk about after a decade of chortling at loss.jpeg.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

The Terrible Webcomics thread saga was more involved than that. Off the top of my head I can't be sure about the exact order things happened in, but it got moved/closed/restarted several times before finally landing in CCCC. I think it spent some time in BYOB proper, was moved to BSS, and I think was back in GBS for a bit, too. It's been a general webcomics thread for several years now, and some iterations of it are still available aside from the one that got nuked when Hogge Wilde was carrying out their weird vendetta against it.

Miss posted:

There were two lineages of bad comic threads

There were the CAD threads in GBS and the more generic bad comic threads from PHIZ (that did eventually spend some time in GBS)

Captain Hygiene posted:

Nuns with Guns posted:

There was also a bad video game webcomics thread in YCS before that whole subforum was binned. I guess bad comics are a great unifier, in a way.