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I joined my first discussion forum by following a link from an ad in PC gamer, jumped to other communities as they were discussed / namedropped and eventually wound up on SA. It took me a long time to buy an account because where do you get a credit card to make random-rear end online purchases at 13? What I eventually did was convince my mom to let me borrow her credit card to buy a present for a school friend (which meant much less parental scrutiny than purchases for myself) then convinced my friend to do the same on my birthday.
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2009 era Cybernations
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Oct 9, 2021 17:57
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Katamari Democracy posted:DeceasedCrab Let's Plays I still love/hate La Mulana to this day thanks to him and own two copies of the 1&2 box set for two different systems.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:07
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Came here because of hatten, stayed for photoshops, lurked for a few years and then finally registered. Odd to think I was reading this place in high school and am still reading it. You drat goons.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:15
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Registered for the lp forum, though i'd seen other SA content before then
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Oct 9, 2021 18:17
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It used to be popular.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:22
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I joined when President Bush mentioned somethingawful.com in a speech and decided to look it up to see what all the fuss was about.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:23
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I would use my older sisters account at our family computer. She got sick of it so she bought me an account. I got banned a few weeks later for posting in a honeypot thread and logged in to see a photo of a man’s ejaculating penis with a tarantula on it.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:26
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A coworker of mine was here for the porn n torrents and told me that the regular forum was pretty funner. I lurked for awhile and finally joined to post in a Photoshop thread. Somewhere deep in the registry my friends account may still exist but he long ago forgot his login information.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:28
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I gradually transitioned from a Fark.com reader to a SA lurker in the early oughts.
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For a long time, from 1992 to 2010, IRC was the only real way I interacted with the the internet, whereas I would just passively lurk the forums and occasionally get sent .mht files via xdcc when something I was reading disappeared behind the paywall. Eventually I manned up enough to register, then lurked for a fair while before actually posting anything.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:36
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I had to learn English somehow and there were very few sites with regular articles related to subjects kid me knew about. I found the frontpage in 99 and it talked about games, it was in English, that was good enough for me to try to learn the language because Lord knows school was useless.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:39
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Probably P-P-P-Powerbook
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Oct 9, 2021 18:42
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I am not exactly sure. It's either after the CSI episode on furries, that i was searching for some 'haha furries are disgusting amirite' edgelord bullshit i thought was funny when i was 15. Definitely had a few laughs at the home page comedy stuff. I kinda wanna go back and read some of the furry forum stuff they dug up, but i also know for sure that it hasn't aged well at all. Joke's on me, almost 15 years later a considerable part of my friend group is a furry and i am amazed at the whole artsy subculture they built. Another possibility is looking for gay porn but not actually daring to go to real porn sites. I was always told that porn sites contain viruses and i didn't wanna gently caress over my computer. So instead i think i just got on google images, and then found the PYF dick thread that way. I didn't register until fairly recently, because in my country, credit cards are uncommon, and paying money to a internet forum with a credit card was totally unheard of. 2ish years ago i finally got a credit card because it didn't cost me much, so i took the plunge and weirded myself out with the fact that you can pay for stuff with just the numbers on the card - without any other factor of authentication, PIN code or whatever. LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Oct 9, 2021 |
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Oct 9, 2021 19:06
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I believe it was when I was on gaiaonline and some dude wouldn't shut up about how 4chan was cool and SA sucked and how any /b/astard could beat up any goon. He seemed lame so I looked up SA and thought it was pretty funny.
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Oct 9, 2021 19:46
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Life, the Universe, and Everything back when I was a kid. LUELinks was too pervy and racist-- more pervy and racist at that time at least
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Oct 9, 2021 19:51
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I think it was a Fark link. lol
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Oct 9, 2021 19:59
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I discovered LP in high school through another forum for an indie game dev. The Jumper games rules by the way.
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Oct 9, 2021 20:18
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The front page article about counterstrike: https://www.somethingawful.com/guides/guide-amazing-world/1/
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Oct 9, 2021 20:21
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YTMND > Facepunch > SA
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Oct 9, 2021 20:24
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It found me dude, and its just crashing on my couch and isnt paying rent and won't move out and my girlfriend is very upset about this
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Oct 9, 2021 20:25
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I only remember that it was through Cliff Yablonski, but I couldn't tell you how I found him. I was just a kid, man.
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Oct 9, 2021 21:45
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Pretty sure I wandered over here from the Interplay forums where talking about the NEW FALLOUT was being worked on, circa 2003~. In couldn't tell you what was linked or why, but I do remember Rope Kid telling me, nicely, that I was a dumbass for thinking Fallout:Tactics was cannon vs Fallout or Fallout 2. What made me register was the "those are my shoes you are a dog they don't even fit" Photoshop Phriday because goddamn that owned.
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Oct 9, 2021 22:09
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Lurking the TTLG forums (which were for discussing looking glass productions games like thief and system shock) someone posted a link to a Photoshop Friday front page article where people wrote alternate titles for choose your own adventure books. The article had a link to the forums and that was that.
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Oct 9, 2021 22:11
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A friend in high school had been a member of the site since the early 2000s and told me about it. I probably checked it out around 2004 then forgot about it since I had just graduated high school and I didn't have a computer or the internet when I moved out on my own. It wasn't until 2006 when I was wounded in Iraq and found myself with a lot of time on my hands that I finally checked put this place. The rest is history. Best  I ever spent. I think the best way I've seen the forums described was a post in the last year by someone that said "The Something Awful forums are one of the few places I feel a real sense of community and belonging but no one would know or care if I died."
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Oct 9, 2021 22:23
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It was this image that brought me to Something Awful.
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Oct 9, 2021 22:24
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Oct 9, 2021 23:48
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The Portal of Evil baby! Good old Fat Chicks in Party Hats and OldManMurray
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Oct 9, 2021 23:52
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I think it was a funny photoshop link but I honestly don't remember
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Oct 9, 2021 23:53
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this thread should be a honeypot for banning anyone that regd for the Dangan Ronpa LP
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Oct 9, 2021 23:55
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Reading about it from posters on Fark in 2009.
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Oct 10, 2021 03:28
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I was on an eq webcomic forum (hi Wiz, nem-x and others!) and like half the content was recycled from sa, started browsing years before I registered
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NLJP posted:I was on an eq webcomic forum (hi Wiz, nem-x and others!) and like half the content was recycled from sa, started browsing years before I registered GUcomics or WTFcomics?
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like everyone who joined in early 2004 I was in a mad rush to determine were da moviez were at before it was too late
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Oct 10, 2021 04:18
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I saw Marble Hornets and saw that the creators were goons. I joined out of curiosity.
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I sometimes wonder this, as two of my friends and I signed up within 24 hours of each other after months of frequent lurking and discussions with our one friend who already had an account, so something absolutely fantastic must have gone down in mid-April 2003 that we all knew we had to be part of forever I also wanted to be part of the Fark/Something Awful Photoshop war, but I do not remember if that was before or after. I do remember being like 90% sure I made an account to contribute to one of those early "everyone takes a Photoshopped image and adds one ZaNy ThInG" projects but my account was then deleted for inactivity after a year which I swear was a thing that used to happen. Hard to imagine the era I did not log in multiple times a day. What the hell else was I even doing in like 2002? My IRC days were already long over sweet thursday posted:Life, the Universe, and Everything back when I was a kid. LUELinks was too pervy and racist-- more pervy and racist at that time at least
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Oct 10, 2021 04:20
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I found somethingawful.com to be a great place to hang out. Everyone is really nice and there are a lot of great stories.
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Lord Decimus Barnacle posted:I found somethingawful.com to be a great place to hang out. Everyone is really nice and there are a lot of great stories. How much is Jeffrey paying you? Or is it a kidnapped family member situation?
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Lord Decimus Barnacle posted:I found somethingawful.com to be a great place to hang out. Everyone is really nice and there are a lot of great stories. I honestly feel the same
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