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iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

Apprentice Dick posted:

Original Cabelas stores that were like 100,000+ sqft and had unique bronze statues out in front ruled as a kid. Bass Pro Shops buying them out ruined a cool company.

Cables catalog was my favorite loving thing as a kid. I tried to convince my mom so many times that what I really needed in life were kits to build 1800s black powder revolvers.


...drat I should do that now

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The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
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All around me are familiar Knuckles
Worn-out chuckles
Worn-out muscles

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

Paladinus posted:

My favourite dumb conspiracy theory is that there's under a billion people on the planet. Like governments pretend to spend money on 8 billion people but actually pocket most of it. Evidence? Go outside, there aren't that many people out there.

that's right

Dongicus
Jun 12, 2015

Paladinus posted:

My favourite dumb conspiracy theory is that there's under a billion people on the planet. Like governments pretend to spend money on 8 billion people but actually pocket most of it. Evidence? Go outside, there aren't that many people out there.

makes sense to me.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
you never see more than a billion max so that's all you can really have proof for. logical theory

pog boyfriend
Jul 2, 2011

Paladinus posted:

My favourite dumb conspiracy theory is that there's under a billion people on the planet. Like governments pretend to spend money on 8 billion people but actually pocket most of it. Evidence? Go outside, there aren't that many people out there.

you never counted all the people you muffin.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

there was a video of a guy erecting a stonehenge monument by himself using only pullies, fulcrums, ropes, and other tools available far before stonehenge's construction. on one of the uploads people were arguing that these technologies were obviously given to early man by aliens, because no one could think of a see-saw themselves lmao

I saw something similar on like NatGeo or something about the Moai on Easter Island. There's a myth about how the carved them out of the quarries and then the Moai walked themselves to their pedestals, making it sound like magic or aliens were involved instead of the usual assumed log rollers.

Some team figured out of you stand a Moai up and have ropes on either side alternating when each side is pulling you can Weeble Wobble 'em all over the place and it looks like they're walking.

Half of Dracula
Oct 24, 2008

Perhaps the same could be
i love conspiracies that don't have any crazy fake evidence, it's just "well i dont see that many people out there"

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Cuttlefush posted:

you never see more than a billion max so that's all you can really have proof for. logical theory

Go to a tommy tallatico concert and you’ll be able to see more than a billion

Half of Dracula
Oct 24, 2008

Perhaps the same could be
There's no such thing as a "southern" "hemisphere". It doesn't exist. Source: I haven't been there

TheMightyBoops
Nov 1, 2016

Grassy Knowles posted:

Go to a tommy tallatico concert and you’ll be able to see more than a billion

I actually owned Video Games: Live and listened to it on the bus to work all the time. In my defense I didn’t know Tommy Talirico was involved and the Castlevania medley was pretty good.

Edit: nm there’s apparently multiple video game orchestras.

TheMightyBoops fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jul 28, 2023

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
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Half of Dracula posted:

There's no such thing as a "southern" "hemisphere". It doesn't exist. Source: I haven't been there

I have it's pretty cool. You should check it out

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
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Gotta be one of my favourite hemispheres

Barry White
Jun 28, 2008

Luke Skywalker kills Han Solo's son at the climax of Episode VII

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

Gotta be one of my favourite hemispheres

a close second place

Douche Wolf 89
Dec 9, 2010

🍉🐺8️⃣9️⃣

Cthulu Carl posted:

I saw something similar on like NatGeo or something about the Moai on Easter Island. There's a myth about how the carved them out of the quarries and then the Moai walked themselves to their pedestals, making it sound like magic or aliens were involved instead of the usual assumed log rollers.

Some team figured out of you stand a Moai up and have ropes on either side alternating when each side is pulling you can Weeble Wobble 'em all over the place and it looks like they're walking.

ya there's a lot of dumb cases where a western explorer will write in a journal "the boy i sent to be raised by and taught the language of our native allies told us that they saw one of our lost ships frozen in nearby a river" and it is ignored, cited as an example of aliens/collective consciousness, then maybe tested centuries later

Plant MONSTER.
Mar 16, 2018



I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop

NoiseAnnoys posted:

what dicks, they could have given us genetic engineering and the cure to cancer and they taught us how to use a lever.

Look closely and you will see cancer is nothing but a lie invented by a separate rear end in a top hat alien. The answer is even in the name. It was crab aliens.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

vyelkin posted:

I might be misremembering the details but I thought it was something along the lines of some goon was facebook friends and when they noticed Randaconda hadn't posted in a while they googled his real name and found news articles about his arrest and imprisonment.

randaconda was found out because someone who personally knew him wanted to see if anything happened and asked another goon to look into it. Randaconda was apparently enough of a prolific poster that to just go dark randomly one day people started getting curious a few months in.

Mr. Nice! posted:

People asked a few pages ago about Randaconda. I was the one that looked up his stuff after another FL goon gave me his name. He hadn’t posted for a couple months at that point, so we wondered what had happened. I used to be a lawyer, so it was trivial for me to dig up his case documents.

He uploaded a CSAM picture to imgur who flagged it and reported his IP to the authorities. It made it to his local police station or sheriff’s office (I can’t recall which) who knocked on his door one evening and asked to come in. He let them in and had more CSAM open on his computer. He pleaded guilty to a number of charges for possession of CSAM and was sentenced to 10 years.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

Cthulu Carl posted:

I saw something similar on like NatGeo or something about the Moai on Easter Island. There's a myth about how the carved them out of the quarries and then the Moai walked themselves to their pedestals, making it sound like magic or aliens were involved instead of the usual assumed log rollers.

Some team figured out of you stand a Moai up and have ropes on either side alternating when each side is pulling you can Weeble Wobble 'em all over the place and it looks like they're walking.

it rules so hard

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yvvES47OdmY

Dr. Fishopolis
Aug 31, 2004

ROBOT

Half of Dracula posted:

There's no such thing as a "southern" "hemisphere". It doesn't exist. Source: I haven't been there

as if australia exists lmao. kangaroos? bin chickens??? that completely made up accent???? we've been played for fools.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

there are 8 billion people but 7 billion of them are hiding from me

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

i don't think i've seen a billion people in one place. i don't think i've seen more than like tens of thousands at sports games at a time

where are all the others

B33rChiller
Aug 18, 2011




iwentdoodie posted:

Cables catalog was my favorite loving thing as a kid. I tried to convince my mom so many times that what I really needed in life were kits to build 1800s black powder revolvers.


...drat I should do that now

This is how you end up a TFR poster. Be careful, or else you might end up being one of those perverts, rolling your own black powder paper cartridges

ImplicitAssembler posted:



~Snipped effortpost~
:getin:

Judgy Fucker
Mar 24, 2006

pentyne posted:

randaconda was found out because someone who personally knew him wanted to see if anything happened and asked another goon to look into it. Randaconda was apparently enough of a prolific poster that to just go dark randomly one day people started getting curious a few months in.

Thanks for the answers, and lol and :whitewater:

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
I can't find it now, but there was a video on youtube where a dude randomly goes through google street view photos for half an hour and comments how few people are in them.

TheSwizzler
May 13, 2005

LETTIN THE CAT OUTTA THE BAG
random legends poo poo but was there some kinda horrifying postscript to the old "why is this flyer pink?" poster?

The Maroon Hawk
May 10, 2008

Paladinus posted:

I can't find it now, but there was a video on youtube where a dude randomly goes through google street view photos for half an hour and comments how few people are in them.

lmao

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

Paladinus posted:

I can't find it now, but there was a video on youtube where a dude randomly goes through google street view photos for half an hour and comments how few people are in them.

Americans don't leave their houses

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Paladinus posted:

I can't find it now, but there was a video on youtube where a dude randomly goes through google street view photos for half an hour and comments how few people are in them.

Lol but I’m imagining the guy who does insane geoguessr speedruns doing this

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Lol but I’m imagining the guy who does insane geoguessr speedruns doing this

I remember being really good at Geoguessr years back and gave it another shot...



:stare:

I guess my brain is good at distilling the vibe of a scene because that's all I did.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012
I'm assuming that the goon was abbreviating the context of the case but it reads like randaconda opened his door, saw some cops, said "hello please come inside" followed by them stepping in and looking to the left to see csam blatantly displayed on a computer monitor and the camera pans back up to randaconda as the Curb Your Enthusiasm music starts playing

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Spanish Manlove posted:

Americans don't leave their houses

See, at first I also misremembered that the video was in English, and that's why I couldn't find it. But it's actually an extremely Russian conspiracy theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Y2nTXkUmQ

I'm sad to report, however, that there is some weird underlying racism there, and it focuses on how China lies about its huge population to scare everyone into submission.

Marcade
Jun 11, 2006


Who are you to glizzy gobble El Vago's marshmussy?

pentyne posted:

I'm assuming that the goon was abbreviating the context of the case but it reads like randaconda opened his door, saw some cops, said "hello please come inside" followed by them stepping in and looking to the left to see csam blatantly displayed on a computer monitor and the camera pans back up to randaconda as the Curb Your Enthusiasm music starts playing

You would (probably not) be surprised at how stupid some people can be wrt incriminating poo poo. I know of one case where a guy was looking at child porn at a Starbucks. Incidentally, the PW to unlock his computer was NCC1701D. A decade later I still remember that poo poo.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Marcade posted:

You would (probably not) be surprised at how stupid some people can be wrt incriminating poo poo. I know of one case where a guy was looking at child porn at a Starbucks. Incidentally, the PW to unlock his computer was NCC1701D. A decade later I still remember that poo poo.

Was he a mod of this website

Yaoi Gagarin
Feb 20, 2014

Marcade posted:

You would (probably not) be surprised at how stupid some people can be wrt incriminating poo poo. I know of one case where a guy was looking at child porn at a Starbucks. Incidentally, the PW to unlock his computer was NCC1701D. A decade later I still remember that poo poo.

if he'd only included the hyphen he'd have numbers letters and symbols and it would have been unhackable

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Marcade posted:

You would (probably not) be surprised at how stupid some people can be wrt incriminating poo poo. I know of one case where a guy was looking at child porn at a Starbucks. Incidentally, the PW to unlock his computer was NCC1701D. A decade later I still remember that poo poo.

not all star trek fans are pedophiles, but almost all pedophiles are star trek fans

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Paladinus posted:

See, at first I also misremembered that the video was in English, and that's why I couldn't find it. But it's actually an extremely Russian conspiracy theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Y2nTXkUmQ

I'm sad to report, however, that there is some weird underlying racism there, and it focuses on how China lies about its huge population to scare everyone into submission.

what's your favorite extremely russian conspiracy theory, mine is that the anglo-saksi are lying about cigarettes being bad for you

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

pentyne posted:

not all star trek fans are pedophiles, but almost all pedophiles are star trek fans

To be fair, it's a very popular show.

NoiseAnnoys
May 17, 2010

Paladinus posted:

To be fair, it's a very popular show.

among pedophiles

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009

Alaois posted:

what's your favorite extremely russian conspiracy theory, mine is that the anglo-saksi are lying about cigarettes being bad for you

They're right

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NoiseAnnoys
May 17, 2010

Alaois posted:

what's your favorite extremely russian conspiracy theory, mine is that the anglo-saksi are lying about cigarettes being bad for you

sitting on a cold stone renders women infertile.

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