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A conspiracy theory forum called above top secret. One of their biggest threads was about whether homosexuality was wrong. They thought me empathy for other human beings
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Sid Vicious posted:Cor blimey ye was just a wee bairn hurr durr blurr aium the bloke whut choose to roleplay the mole
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Jan 15, 2018 06:20
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I would do lovely photoshops and share them on ebaumsworld I actually came across an image I created around 2000-1 recently so that was cool
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Jan 15, 2018 06:21
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The Straight Dope, they had some funny threads in their archives and I kept reading references to SA so I checked it out and then lurked for years----- What I thought was lurking, but it actually wasn't really. I was reading the archives of PYF, the sagas mostly, all the links in there. I didn't know poo poo about posting on a forum until June of last year when I started posting in GBS.
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Jan 15, 2018 06:22
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The Duggler posted:I would do lovely photoshops and share them on ebaumsworld That IS cool, you should post it.
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Jan 15, 2018 06:23
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Aesop Poprock posted:hurr durr blurr aium the bloke whut choose to roleplay the mole Lol
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Jan 15, 2018 06:26
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Ricecop, it was a car forum dedicated to making fun of the fast and furious wanna be cars around the time that movie came out. That's how I found out about this forum and I see one or two people from back then posting here still.
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Jan 15, 2018 06:26
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Panadol posted:A conspiracy theory forum called above top secret. One of their biggest threads was about whether homosexuality was wrong. They thought me empathy for other human beings
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Jan 15, 2018 06:57
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sounds like a false flag imo
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Jan 15, 2018 07:02
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Gazpacho posted:sounds like a false flag imo
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Jan 15, 2018 07:16
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Jan 15, 2018 07:24
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I was a member of a few forums from 99-03. IGN with its original black background, Nintendorks, some other N64 fan site, a Perfect Dark fan site (perfectlydark.com? datadynehq.com?). Sometimes certain SA topics or posts were linked. I think one was "Take a picture of yourself jumping." There was another topic titled something like "What's the darkest, heaviest, sludgiest, doom-sounding black metal song you've ever heard?" I didn't care for the SA forums, but I looooved the front page. Eventually I decided to make an account and I went to the forums and IIRC it was the introduction of the 10 dollar account. My first thought was that it was outrageous to spend 10 dollars to post on a forum, I remember cursing myself for procrastinating. Eventually I bought an account. Can't remember if it was SA specifically, but I made a "HI, IM NEW" topic where I was belittled and warned, but was not reprimanded.
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Jan 15, 2018 07:44
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motherfucking Prodigy chatrooms bitch!!!!1 that or AOL i cant remember. all i know is i played that maze game on Prodigy way, way too much.
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Jan 15, 2018 07:46
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IGN My WUL count was never respectable
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Jan 15, 2018 08:08
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A board for my EverQuest server, Tallon Zek Times. We argued about which guilds totally sucked and also politics. At some point a guy on there changed his avatar to the SA grenade and wouldn't shut up about how great goons were.
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Jan 15, 2018 08:08
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Jose posted:the gamewinners.com forums me too. Mostly the super smash bros forum around 2003
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My first forum experience was gamefaqs. It was about 2000-2001. I mostly hung around the pro wrestling and fighting game threads. I was definitely there a lot during the buildup to Tekken 4. Somehow I came across this old fighting game comedy site called highervoltage.net. I recall them mostly being into Capcom and SNK fighting games but included every thing. I got sucked into their forum eventually. It was mostly garbage but had some good discussion on different fighting games. I wasn’t much of a poster but I did start a politics thread that went on for years after I quit posting. I would check on the forum when I was bored (the forum also way out lasted the site, which was itself always down for some reason. After that I briefly joined the Tourette’s guy forum for a bit in college, though I remember that forum not lasting long at all. That place was a loving zoo, and I didn’t really fit in and posted like for a month. I still find it hilarious that a. There was a forum for that guy and b. That I actually joined it. This would have been around 2006 I think. For SA, I was big into ebaums world in high school, but I eventually learned about how they stole content from a lot of places, including albinoblacksheep and SA. I visited ABS first but didn’t like it much. SA I didn’t really ‘get’ for a while but eventually I started enjoying the front page, then found the forum. I registered in 2007, but honestly outside of my time at Gamefaqs I never really understood what the big deal about posting was. I made accounts with the other two forums because there was something I wanted to say (and maybe you had to register to access the TG forum) but mostly just lurked. For my SA account I looked at threads and posted for my first month but quickly lost interest after a bit. It took a combination of—two years after registering—moving to another state for grad school and not knowing anyone along with a brief return to interest in pro wrestling to get me to start posting mostly in the pro wrestling forum before spreading out to other areas. facebook jihad fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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Jan 15, 2018 10:05
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I used to post/read cheat ccc a bunch and got linked here from a FF8 walk through or something for video games. I also contributed to Allakhazam and EQAtlas ALOT. Now I don't read games and only play COD and am mostly active in specific threads. My first account was an 02 I think and I got banned for letting my dad do an A/T about growing up in colombia during the political turmoil before pablo. Account sharing lmao. E: Forums weren't a big part of my life cause I played ever quest from like age six to 17 or 18. I had to stop to pursue sports. But the community in the game kind of filled that for me. Waroduce fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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Jan 15, 2018 19:19
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Sid Vicious posted:Forumopolis an offshoot of the PVP comics forums. PVP forums was my start, never moved to Forumopolis (Kurtz sure hated his community). The community had become way too clique-y and was basically a PG version of SA at the time.
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Jan 15, 2018 19:30
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I was 16 and had just read a "review" of Halo 2 I think it was, on the frontpage, that russled my jimmies so hard I immediately stole my moms Visa and bought an account.
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Jan 15, 2018 19:33
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Cal forums for my call of duty 2 clan
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Jan 15, 2018 19:37
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other than the usual aol chat rooms first forum I really got into was xentales.com bitch the unofficial forum for the epic indie morpg xenimus gently caress yes and then hell yea the pirates vikings and knights half life mod forums. Then the forums for 999 UO freeshards
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Jan 15, 2018 22:45
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Holy gently caress I love forums!!!!!
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Jan 15, 2018 22:49
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Either White Wolfs or Interplays forum.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:01
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my first exposure to SA was through the front page in 2006. a friend in high school kept talking about it. my favorite contributors at the time were Zach Parsons and bobservo, as well as the bad movie reviews. i knew the forums existed but i didn't know what went on in them. there was a poster on the MTGSalvation forums who was a goon, which got me interested in registering here. after my drunkposting ban i bit the bullet and paid my $10 my sister went to college with one of the guys who wrote the Awful Movie Reviews, Ben Platt (aka Greasnin)
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Jan 15, 2018 23:09
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I think it was the Gameshark forums, specifically the N64 subforum. I also remember spending a lot of time in late 1999 arguing about whether "Pokegods" existed and whether it was possible to get the triforce in Ocarina of Time. I can't remember what forum that was on, but it pre-dated my introduction to SA by a year or so.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:14
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Smythe posted:Holy gently caress I love forums!!!!! Hell same. If I Ever win poweball I’m gonna get a 10 story tall monitor and quit my job and look at Internet forums ALL DAy!!!!!
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Jan 15, 2018 23:28
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I used to post on local BBS until AOL happened and then it was a chat extravaganza. I only got back into internet posting after chat sites mostly died or were overrun by dudes showing their dicks.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:49
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greatestgamers.com which was soon absorbed into the notorious video gaming website conglomerate gamewinners.com, to talk about wrestling and banjo-kazooie and be... random!!!!11one  I had a free email with them which shut down, eventually locking me out of my neopets account, which had accumulated many millions of neopoints from helping release the neopet v2 hostages and exploiting the infamous "grundo's gym" loophole before it was closed I just checked and gamewinners shut down three months ago, which might be more baffling than if it still existed
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Jan 16, 2018 00:09
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I used to view the [myg0t] forums when I was like 11 because I thought they were soooo cool trolling people in video games. That somehow directed me to Gen[m]ay (Were brackets some sort of hip thing in the early 2000s?) which I guess is some sort of offshoot of SA or something. But back in the day SA really hated them, and so my sister bought me an SA account when I was like 15 and literally my first post here was me saying "Hey everyone! I'm from Genmay so I know what's up LOL", which went over well. I ate a probation like 2 weeks in for posting a picture of myself in a "Post a Picture of yourself" threat in A/T which was apparently a honeypot thread. Why the gently caress did SA use to have honeypot threads in A/T? I don't know. Then like two weeks after that I got banned for making a GBS photoshop thread, but my OP only contained three pictures which was apparently under the required limit so I ate a ban. I remember teenage me logging on using the family computer and there was a picture of a cum-drenched tarantula on a man's erect penis. Also my original avatar was the two kids from Full Metal Alchemist, despite having never watched that show.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:27
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something awful when i was 14, i made my parents donate to that flood africa with bees thing
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Jan 16, 2018 01:29
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I ran a BBS with two phone lines. Wow, that was a long time ago. I kinda miss fidonet. Some of the sysops were sociopaths, too.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:57
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IGN forums for Dark Ages of Camelot represent m*therf*ckers!!!! +1 ha ha ha ha!!!
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sugar free jazz posted:IGN forums for Dark Ages of Camelot represent m*therf*ckers!!!! +1 ha ha ha ha!!! I asked for that game for my birthday when it came out and our computer was so under-powered for it at the time that it ran at 1 fps at most and my character basically just stood in place and people would teleport around him and I gave up after like an hour of frustration cause I didn't know how computers played games
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Jan 16, 2018 04:09
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dads friend steve posted:Some forum about Ultima Online. This was it for me. The Vault Network or something was the one I started on. "Flame wars" That's a phrase that I haven't heard in a while. I feel old. Edit: As for the "experience" I chalk it up as good. Lessons learned early on, and all that. Being uber nerd, I hung out with the "Mage Tower" crowd in UO. Pacific represent. Atlantic had a cool crew too I remember. It was a really well done, decently modded forum for all things magical in the UO game. Lots of good social players hung out there, and I really enjoyed it. Nostalgia and what not aside, I can say it was a good time. Internetjack fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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Jan 16, 2018 04:31
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Late 1990's, the World-of-Nintendo forums ran by an absolute crazy person. Jesse Smith you are truly an inspiration Used the name Netman cause I was on the net and was a fuckin' man 
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Jan 16, 2018 04:45
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Aesop Poprock posted:I asked for that game for my birthday when it came out and our computer was so under-powered for it at the time that it ran at 1 fps at most and my character basically just stood in place and people would teleport around him and I gave up after like an hour of frustration cause I didn't know how computers played games My buddy had an absolute toaster of a computer for years, it was old as gently caress and had problems like you couldn't use the mouse and keyboard at the same time or the mouse would fly off into the corner of the screen and you'd have to restart the computer. Every once in a while he would buy a new game, it wouldn't even install because his computer didn't meet the minimum requirements, and then he'd just give it to me.
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Jan 16, 2018 04:48
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If you don't count BBSing, it was some forum on prodigy. I remember one guy going by the name of "The Dragon" and some other dude asking him to stop using it because he had been using "The Dragon" first.
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Jan 16, 2018 04:51
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21 Hoot Salute posted:Late 1990's, the World-of-Nintendo forums ran by an absolute crazy person. Jesse Smith you are truly an inspiration
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My first forum, I think, was a final fantasy oriented one named rpg-vortex.com back in the late 99's early 00's. It had a front page and everything regarding the latest FF rumours and all that sort of stuff. The only specifics I remember from it were the drama, the friends I made there, and the concept of flame wars. It went down in a ball of super drama when the second in command posted his junk on the front page. I've no idea why. After that I went with my internet friends to another, also rpg heavy, forum named kuffa.com which stayed in one piece more or less for 4-5ish years untill it closed down due to inactivity, and we went to yet another forum-ish thing. It was a forum but by now it was, like, 2005?, and forums just werent what they used to be. Man, I miss those guys now. We hung out for nearly a decade and now I don't even know how/what they're doing.
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