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Wizard Master
Mar 25, 2008

pwner of a lonely @fart

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Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
Ah, dead gay memories!

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


Scut posted:

DocEvil brought the word " burgin' " into my vocabulary. I'm thankful for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf48aKwxDwI

HORNEY VAPE BRO
Jun 14, 2009

Wizard Master posted:

pwner of a lonely @fart


A CRAB IRL
May 6, 2009

If you're looking for me, you better check under the sea

Wizard Master posted:

pwner of a lonely @fart


Mr. Merdle
Oct 17, 2007

THE GREAT MANBABY SUCCESSOR

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

It rules when a media personality or popular writer is like "oh yeah I loving loved the SA forums in college. I spent so much time on there, and cut my teeth in comedy making all my friends laugh and I learned how to write essays well too. Oh my account name? Actually, I mostly just lurked. Yeah I didn't really post that much. I don't remember what my username actually was, now that I think about it."

Honestly I think that the Dr. Thorpe interview, while incredibly funny, helped set the tone that "first rule of SA is no body talks about SA" and it's hampered the community ever since. It's one thing to not brag about where you got an idea, but it's another to literally poo poo on where it came from and make sure nobody goes there.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Lil Peeler posted:

Honestly I think that the Dr. Thorpe interview, while incredibly funny, helped set the tone that "first rule of SA is no body talks about SA" and it's hampered the community ever since. It's one thing to not brag about where you got an idea, but it's another to literally poo poo on where it came from and make sure nobody goes there.
I would argue that it was smart branding, given SA's lack of mainstream appeal.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Lil Peeler posted:

Honestly I think that the Dr. Thorpe interview, while incredibly funny, helped set the tone that "first rule of SA is no body talks about SA" and it's hampered the community ever since. It's one thing to not brag about where you got an idea, but it's another to literally poo poo on where it came from and make sure nobody goes there.

Was there ever actually a point where making fun of embarassing awkward goony goony goon goons wasn't a staple of SA? The conceit that everyone who posts here is a terrible shutin neckbeard is one of the most defining traits of whatever SA comedy house style we're theorizing about here

I guess there must have been a brief window at one point where asking people IRL if they had stairs in their house was deemed acceptable but who actually remembers it

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Mar 14, 2019

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000


Ultra Carp
Hendren came up with the egg challenge.

dk2m
May 6, 2009
yall motherfuckers are all 30+ and the kids these days go to the various shitpost subreddits or 4/8chan if they want to emulate fyad

theres just no replacement base and everyone here is slowly drinking themselves to death so rip

big trivia FAIL
May 9, 2003

"Jorge wants to be hardcore,
but his mom won't let him"

a goony engineer at work who was only here for like 6 months saw a forums tab open on my laptop and asked me if i had stairs in my house and i made it really awkward for him by going into a long fake story about how my wife didnt have legs and couldnt use stairs so no, we specifically told the realtor not to show us houses with any stairs. he was really confused and was like but you post on SA right? and i said yeah and he said cool.

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Wizard Master posted:

Name one "Super Leftist FYAD Dude" on Twitter. I'll wait.

me

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

big trivia FAIL posted:

a goony engineer at work who was only here for like 6 months saw a forums tab open on my laptop and asked me if i had stairs in my house and i made it really awkward for him by going into a long fake story about how my wife didnt have legs and couldnt use stairs so no, we specifically told the realtor not to show us houses with any stairs. he was really confused and was like but you post on SA right? and i said yeah and he said cool.

lol

hevnz 2 murgatroyd
Apr 13, 2018

by Smythe

big trivia FAIL posted:

a goony engineer at work who was only here for like 6 months saw a forums tab open on my laptop and asked me if i had stairs in my house and i made it really awkward for him by going into a long fake story about how my wife didnt have legs and couldnt use stairs so no, we specifically told the realtor not to show us houses with any stairs. he was really confused and was like but you post on SA right? and i said yeah and he said cool.

coworker eat the legs

My Linux Rig
Mar 27, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 6 years!

Lil Peeler posted:

Honestly I think that the Dr. Thorpe interview, while incredibly funny, helped set the tone that "first rule of SA is no body talks about SA" and it's hampered the community ever since. It's one thing to not brag about where you got an idea, but it's another to literally poo poo on where it came from and make sure nobody goes there.

judging from what happened to Facebook and Twitter, I would say that not talking about sa kept it from becoming poo poo

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug

big trivia FAIL posted:

a goony engineer at work who was only here for like 6 months saw a forums tab open on my laptop and asked me if i had stairs in my house and i made it really awkward for him by going into a long fake story about how my wife didnt have legs and couldnt use stairs so no, we specifically told the realtor not to show us houses with any stairs. he was really confused and was like but you post on SA right? and i said yeah and he said cool.

Pretty weak that he didn't ask for the name of your wife, who is a man.

b-minus1
Jul 24, 2008

She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
imagine getting brutally owned by guy fieri and the smash mouth dude. there is no coming back from that

unpleasantly turgid
Jul 6, 2016

u lightweights couldn't even feed my shadow ;*

dk2m posted:

yall motherfuckers are all 30+ and the kids these days go to the various shitpost subreddits or 4/8chan if they want to emulate fyad

theres just no replacement base and everyone here is slowly drinking themselves to death so rip

hey i'm young and hip

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
Goon children will soon start posting once their parents give them their :10bux: ensuring this place will last for generations to come.

Mr. Merdle
Oct 17, 2007

THE GREAT MANBABY SUCCESSOR

My Linux Rig posted:

judging from what happened to Facebook and Twitter, I would say that not talking about sa kept it from becoming poo poo

but neither of those places charged 10bux and had "don't gently caress up" in their TOS

Bacontotem
May 27, 2010



lol if your twitter isnt just porn posts.

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Lil Peeler posted:

Honestly I think that the Dr. Thorpe interview, while incredibly funny, helped set the tone that "first rule of SA is no body talks about SA" and it's hampered the community ever since. It's one thing to not brag about where you got an idea, but it's another to literally poo poo on where it came from and make sure nobody goes there.

Most of the people on SA were on other, much shittier, forums or usenets before we found out about it and ponied up the :10bux:

We didn't want the rest of the world to follow us here and poo poo up the place.

Mr. Merdle
Oct 17, 2007

THE GREAT MANBABY SUCCESSOR

Klyith posted:

Most of the people on SA were on other, much shittier, forums or usenets before we found out about it and ponied up the :10bux:

We didn't want the rest of the world to follow us here and poo poo up the place.

As someone who used to post on GameFAQs I can appreciate this position

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal
Let's be honest though, most goons would be super awkward in front of a crowd like that.

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

I wouldn't leave Guy Fieri alone he's my Lord and Savory.

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Charles posted:

Let's be honest though, most goons would be super awkward in front of a crowd like that.

Super awkward would have been fine. Just have the wit to realize that Smashmouth has pulled a reversal of fortune on you. If he'd been yucking it up with Guy Fieri and the shark mascot people would have said, he looks like a schlub but at least he's a good sport. This has become a clownshow and your only options are to be a clown yourself or be clowned upon.

Acting like you're still the cool dude who is puppetmastering these c-list celebs when you're actually a schlub with a twitter account doesn't work. Even a c-list celeb has charisma, fart does not.

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
David Thorpe getting Pitpull to play a concert in a remote Alaskan village was the superior endeavor - https://www.somethingawful.com/twitter-tuesday/thorpe-meets-pitbull/1/

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal

Klyith posted:

Super awkward would have been fine. Just have the wit to realize that Smashmouth has pulled a reversal of fortune on you. If he'd been yucking it up with Guy Fieri and the shark mascot people would have said, he looks like a schlub but at least he's a good sport. This has become a clownshow and your only options are to be a clown yourself or be clowned upon.

Acting like you're still the cool dude who is puppetmastering these c-list celebs when you're actually a schlub with a twitter account doesn't work. Even a c-list celeb has charisma, fart does not.

Yeah, you're probably right. I haven't watched the video since whenever it was, I think 8 years ago?


Extra Large Marge posted:

David Thorpe getting Pitpull to play a concert in a remote Alaskan village was the superior endeavor - https://www.somethingawful.com/twitter-tuesday/thorpe-meets-pitbull/1/

That's awesome, I barely remember that.

hevnz 2 murgatroyd
Apr 13, 2018

by Smythe

b-minus1 posted:

imagine getting brutally owned by guy fieri and the smash mouth dude. there is no coming back from that

He should have just spiked his hair and said he was Guy Fieri's son. Who would've questioned it?

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

Was there ever actually a point where making fun of embarassing awkward goony goony goon goons wasn't a staple of SA? The conceit that everyone who posts here is a terrible shutin neckbeard is one of the most defining traits of whatever SA comedy house style we're theorizing about here

I guess there must have been a brief window at one point where asking people IRL if they had stairs in their house was deemed acceptable but who actually remembers it
I forget what I was going to say in response to this because in the process of typing it I remembered a thread from around 2004 where a goon was having recurring nightmares about a ghost telling her to cut open her wall, take the rock that was behind it, put the rock in a box, and go and bury the box in the woods

there was a goonmeet at her house and they helped her cut the wall open. they didn't find a rock but they found a dead mouse or something and they put whatever they found in a box and buried it in the woods
I remember somebody saying they got looks from neighbors and somebody shouting "don't worry, we're from the internet!"

this story sounds insane
does anybody else remember this
did this happen

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Cubone posted:

I forget what I was going to say in response to this because in the process of typing it I remembered a thread from around 2004 where a goon was having recurring nightmares about a ghost telling her to cut open her wall, take the rock that was behind it, put the rock in a box, and go and bury the box in the woods

there was a goonmeet at her house and they helped her cut the wall open. they didn't find a rock but they found a dead mouse or something and they put whatever they found in a box and buried it in the woods
I remember somebody saying they got looks from neighbors and somebody shouting "don't worry, we're from the internet!"

this story sounds insane
does anybody else remember this
did this happen

Pretty spooked out reading this

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe

Extra Large Marge posted:

David Thorpe getting Pitpull to play a concert in a remote Alaskan village was the superior endeavor - https://www.somethingawful.com/twitter-tuesday/thorpe-meets-pitbull/1/

thats a cool thing that happened, but I think another cool thing that happened was the naming of a trash and recycling center, sadly, I have forgotten it, and google is not helping.

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

staberind posted:

thats a cool thing that happened, but I think another cool thing that happened was the naming of a trash and recycling center, sadly, I have forgotten it, and google is not helping.

The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts?

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

dk2m posted:

yall motherfuckers are all 30+ and the kids these days go to the various shitpost subreddits or 4/8chan if they want to emulate fyad

theres just no replacement base and everyone here is slowly drinking themselves to death so rip

Good

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe

Cubone posted:

The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts?

gently caress *Yes!*
Also, I followed @fart on my old twitter, I should try to get it unhelled.

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames
reminiscing about the good old days of goon meetups like :gooncamp: and that one where all the mutants tried to have sex with rabid hamster

e: i wonder what "hip hop operating system" guy is up to these days

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

He's grown up and currently develops Musique Concréte APIs for VR software devs

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Klyith posted:

Most of the people on SA were on other, much shittier, forums or usenets before we found out about it and ponied up the :10bux:

We didn't want the rest of the world to follow us here and poo poo up the place.
I was a poster on the Sluggy Freelance fan forums when I found SA.

They were alright people.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Wizard Master posted:

Name one "Super Leftist FYAD Dude" on Twitter. I'll wait.

Bro Pair

Cubone posted:

The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts?

I still call trash cans Durstbins.

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Moon Atari
Dec 26, 2010


The funny thing about guys like that is that they eventually have a teary public reckoning with their earlier hater ways, pinning it all on their SA era formative years, where they posted nothing but immature poo poo like calling people fags to an audience of a hundred or so nerds. Meanwhile they spent the early 2010s spending all day everyday finding zero follower conservative tweeters to absolutely savage, to an eager audience of hundreds of thousands of less funny even more bloody-thirsty followers. The problem was neither the internet venue or the political sentiment and acceptable hate targets, it was the fact that their skill at roasting people and the attention it earned them conditioned their brain to associate vitriolic hate with reward.

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