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16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
belligerent anti-atheism themed operating system

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Runa
Feb 13, 2011

not all sagas are funny

hot cocoa on the couch
Dec 8, 2009

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

wtf I've heard that story a million times and had no idea it was tied to SA at all

yeah same because i remember it from the SA spaceflight thread because this dude was also involved in a rocket building company (Copenhagen suborbitals). it was detailed there when it happened with shock and dismay and i dont think anyone mention the goon connection. crazy

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

fun hater posted:

great moments in american/goon gistory

whenever I get a chance to take the architecture river tour with out of towners I point at the Kinzie Bridge and reverently whisper "this is where it happened".

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Famethrowa posted:

whenever I get a chance to take the architecture river tour with out of towners I point at the Kinzie Bridge and reverently whisper "this is where it happened".

respectfully folding the American flag and putting it in the bag

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

he had schizophrenia which was why he was obsessed with religion the government spying on him and the n word

Yeah I don't really see the need for an hourlong video reading out long rants when saying "and then he developed the textbook symptoms of schizophrenia" would have been enough. Schiophrenic rants are more sad than funny.

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS
My favourite saga is RaptorFag, a goon who in years gone by would repeatedly spam various Australia threads with ponies, pony porn and/or pony prolapse porn.

Most of these incidents seem to have been lost but I dug up a couple. All the nws images have been removed by the mods.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3342316&pagenumber=304&perpage=40#post393778102
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3509461&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=26#post408357389

There was a post in one of the GBS Australia threads by what I'm fairly sure was a RaptorFag rereg some years back about how he was on his way to hospital after a sounding rod accident and I don't think he's been heard of since.

I don't know if old threads often don't turn up in search results or if I'm doing something wrong but it's really hard to find old posts.

Another Australian favourite was IronicWarCriminal who spent well over $1,000 on reregs over a number of years.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
ngl some weird porn spammer guy destroying his cock is the expected outcome

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

sounds painful

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005

Tunicate posted:

Yeah I don't really see the need for an hourlong video reading out long rants when saying "and then he developed the textbook symptoms of schizophrenia" would have been enough. Schiophrenic rants are more sad than funny.

I watched the whole thing and it was definitely difficult to get through, especially the parts about 4chan and kiwifarms people egging him on and pretending to be the woman he was obsessed with. Evil poo poo.

It made me so sad thinking about how this guy definitely had some true genius, and even near the end of the video when he’s homeless he seems totally lucid talking about how he focused on hardware-centric programming because other people were doing Internet stuff and it didn’t interest him. Then at the end, he’s slurring his words and is genuinely incomprehensible. It’s a reminder that the ~crazy guy~ you see laughing to themselves on the street has their own story of how they got there.

He just needed help. I’m sure his parents tried to help him their whole lives (there’s a clip of them being so saddened by how he’s saying racist stuff), but especially once he becomes physically violent toward one that becomes nearly impossible

Crime on a Dime
Nov 28, 2006

kingcobweb posted:

I watched the whole thing and it was definitely difficult to get through, especially the parts about 4chan and kiwifarms people egging him on and pretending to be the woman he was obsessed with. Evil poo poo.

It made me so sad thinking about how this guy definitely had some true genius, and even near the end of the video when he’s homeless he seems totally lucid talking about how he focused on hardware-centric programming because other people were doing Internet stuff and it didn’t interest him. Then at the end, he’s slurring his words and is genuinely incomprehensible. It’s a reminder that the ~crazy guy~ you see laughing to themselves on the street has their own story of how they got there.

He just needed help. I’m sure his parents tried to help him their whole lives (there’s a clip of them being so saddened by how he’s saying racist stuff), but especially once he becomes physically violent toward one that becomes nearly impossible

Nailed it, he needed help

Pigbuster
Sep 12, 2010

Fun Shoe

Famethrowa posted:

whenever I get a chance to take the architecture river tour with out of towners I point at the Kinzie Bridge and reverently whisper "this is where it happened".

starting a reenactment boat tour that recreates the piss drenching

B33rChiller
Aug 18, 2011




Pigbuster posted:

starting a reenactment boat tour that recreates the piss drenching
Does it have a well next to the ticket booth?

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs

Runa posted:

sounds painful

lol

Radia
Jul 14, 2021

And someday, together.. We'll shine.

kingcobweb posted:

I watched the whole thing and it was definitely difficult to get through, especially the parts about 4chan and kiwifarms people egging him on and pretending to be the woman he was obsessed with. Evil poo poo.

It made me so sad thinking about how this guy definitely had some true genius, and even near the end of the video when he’s homeless he seems totally lucid talking about how he focused on hardware-centric programming because other people were doing Internet stuff and it didn’t interest him. Then at the end, he’s slurring his words and is genuinely incomprehensible. It’s a reminder that the ~crazy guy~ you see laughing to themselves on the street has their own story of how they got there.

He just needed help. I’m sure his parents tried to help him their whole lives (there’s a clip of them being so saddened by how he’s saying racist stuff), but especially once he becomes physically violent toward one that becomes nearly impossible

yeah, and like, templeos is genuinely interesting as an OS done by someone who hasn't been "in" designing OSes, if that makes sense. it's a deeply tragic story about how much people with mental health issues need our support.

but instead folks laugh about how he thought god told him to make an OS (no one in this thread) and, man. :smith:

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

The templeOS vid is good but I always hated how the down the rabbithole guy loves to make real neutral/positive statements about kiwifarms since he trawls there for video ideas and info.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
kiwifarms posters were, bar none, the stupidest motherfuckers on the entire internet

shelley
Nov 8, 2010

Herstory Begins Now posted:

kiwifarms posters were, bar none, the stupidest motherfuckers on the entire internet

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

Herstory Begins Now posted:

kiwifarms posters were, bar none, the stupidest motherfuckers on the entire internet

Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.
The "Zen Death Robot is the Goatse Man" thing gets brought up a lot, but they also thought FAU was Canadian, and exmarx was a furry catboy because they were just googling usernames and looking for people who happened to make similar pun usernames online.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Herstory Begins Now posted:

kiwifarms posters were, bar none, the stupidest motherfuckers on the entire internet

I think it got posted during the keffals thing that tons of those KF threads were like "guys, seriously, just mock them don't doxx them" but lmao it kept happening and KF posters kept posting about the bad actors who kept abusing the point of the site

Ohtori Akio
Jul 15, 2022
It would seem that when you do not run bad actors out of your community, people will point to your community as the one for bad actors.

e: this post by me, while literally true, misses the point that KF was gangstalkers club from day 1

Ohtori Akio fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Oct 22, 2022

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
I couldn't get through the TempleOS video, it was pretty clear where it was going, and it's just insanely sad. The kiwifarms monsters getting involved made the whole thing worse. The whole situation is hosed, and people need help but there's no safety net in this country, so unless you're already rich and cared for if you catch a mental illness you're basically doomed to a slow and awful death as you tenuously lose grasp of reality and yourself. When you're more lucid you know something is wrong, and that you've lost something, but you can't articulate what it is, or what you're losing. Just that something's wrong, you need help, and no-ones helping and it's heart breaking to watch. I know that unless you make enough money to buy multiple cars every year that it'll be impossible to help that person, because people have decided that charging you for caring about them and wanting to help them is insanely profitable.

Runa posted:

not all sagas are funny

studio mujahideen
May 3, 2005

pentyne posted:

I think it got posted during the keffals thing that tons of those KF threads were like "guys, seriously, just mock them don't doxx them" but lmao it kept happening and KF posters kept posting about the bad actors who kept abusing the point of the site

yeah man the good honest masses of KF posters were brought down by 'bad actors abusing the point of the site'. thats definitely not a psychotic thing to think


the point of the site was to gang stalk people you loving weirdo

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

studio mujahideen posted:

yeah man the good honest masses of KF posters were brought down by 'bad actors abusing the point of the site'. thats definitely not a psychotic thing to think


the point of the site was to gang stalk people you loving weirdo

I don't think that says what you think it says

studio mujahideen
May 3, 2005

i guess i could read it that way. if so, fair, sorry to pentyne for calling him a "loving weirdo". hes a regular weirdo, which is fine.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Larry Parrish posted:

ngl some weird porn spammer guy destroying his cock is the expected outcome

Bob Ross Nuke Test
Jul 12, 2016

by Games Forum

Ohtori Akio posted:

It would seem that when you do not run bad actors out of your community, people will point to your community as the one for bad actors.

But enough about CSPAM.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
"kept abusing the point of the site" is the phrase that makes it not a defense, because it states outright that the point of the site was gangstalking.

studio mujahideen
May 3, 2005

Boba Pearl posted:

"kept abusing the point of the site" is the phrase that makes it not a defense, because it states outright that the point of the site was gangstalking.

well, the big psycho defense of KF was always "the point of the site is to just be a drama panopticon but never interact" but any place on the internet that has that mission statement is going to be, or end up, doing weird gross poo poo imo

its a hair trigger thing bc there were definitely people on SA who trotted that out after kf went down lol

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Boba Pearl posted:

I couldn't get through the TempleOS video, it was pretty clear where it was going, and it's just insanely sad. The kiwifarms monsters getting involved made the whole thing worse. The whole situation is hosed, and people need help but there's no safety net in this country, so unless you're already rich and cared for if you catch a mental illness you're basically doomed to a slow and awful death as you tenuously lose grasp of reality and yourself. When you're more lucid you know something is wrong, and that you've lost something, but you can't articulate what it is, or what you're losing. Just that something's wrong, you need help, and no-ones helping and it's heart breaking to watch. I know that unless you make enough money to buy multiple cars every year that it'll be impossible to help that person, because people have decided that charging you for caring about them and wanting to help them is insanely profitable.

we used to have a large public mental health hospital around here, which was operating well as part of the social safety net, and had been going for over 150 years.

Then, a few years back the corrupt-as-hell local party which had a government trifecta decided to close it down, convert it all to a park, and effectively evict its hundreds of patients (by transferring them to a facility that had no space for even the most severe cases)

you might ask "well why didn't people vote for the democrats instead"

Well, those were the democrats. And they lost both chambers in the next election.

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
Kiwifarms was literally founded to stalk and harass a mentally unwell person (Chrischan). There's absolutely no way around that and was the intended purpose of the site before they "branched out" so no, it was not about bad actors.

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

The thread about KF getting blown up was closed because of people posting that kinda poo poo too iirc

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

The thread about KF getting blown up was closed because of people posting that kinda poo poo too iirc

Frankly, I'm just glad it's dead.

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

Frank Frank posted:

Frankly, I'm just glad it's dead.

:same:

Ohtori Akio
Jul 15, 2022

Frank Frank posted:

Frankly, I'm just glad it's dead.

it came back up shortly after it went down

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Ohtori Akio posted:

it came back up shortly after it went down

I thought it died again after that

E: nm looks like it still exists

WarpDogs
May 1, 2009

I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

Frank Frank posted:

I thought it died again after that

E: nm looks like it still exists

oh wow, this post is how I learned that kiwifarms is literally back online like nothing ever happened? The cwcki, too

god, that's heartwrenching

Goon Boots
Feb 2, 2020


Frank Frank posted:

Frankly, I'm just glad it's dead.

in this case, dead is always better

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IGgy IGsen
Apr 11, 2013

"If I lose I will set myself on fire."
It just straight up still lives, like nothing ever happened.

I thought we were finally rid of it. But of course not. They have a forum about DSP, loving losers.

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