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My best friend in high school told me about this funny forums he posted on and berated me until I bought an account. 11 years later... 
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Mar 19, 2014 00:31
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My best friend got an account while we were in college so he pretty much forced me to get one as well. By forced I mean he would read the forums, laugh hysterically, and not let me see what was so funny until I got my own account.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:21
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A friend registered and kept linking me cool stuff. I rather enjoyed how topics tended to stay on topic, probably  making account bans actually hurt the banished a little.
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Apr 4, 2014 00:07
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Humanist posted:I'm an on-again, off-again EVE Online player with probably less than a year of active in-game time on my 6 year old character. I've read plenty of posts over the years about Goons and Goonswarm, and they always seemed to be pretty negative. To read YCS. Goodbye.
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Apr 4, 2014 00:28
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Peer pressure. A few friends I hang out in IRC with told me about SA and to pay tenbux. I visited SA and didn't pay. I lurked for 2 or 3 years because I'm poor and cheap and poor. Finely I got so sick of seeing ads and "gently caress" and those bastards telling me to pay up that I folded and paid up.
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Apr 4, 2014 15:41
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I had several goon friends who kept linking me to 'hilarious threads' that were behind the paywall, so eventually I just paid the and that was that.
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Apr 6, 2014 20:45
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A friend and coworker of mine showed me his thread on Ask/Tell about working on a cruise ship when I first got a job with Royal Caribbean Cruises. It was a good read but it was the video gaming forums that made me buy a account and now I am writing this on my phone on the...well just guess, 3ish years later.
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Apr 8, 2014 06:01
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I wanted to lurk where experts knew more than me, and I plan to weasel my way into your hearts so you can help rejuvenate my mythos project.
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Apr 9, 2014 08:58
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My friend applied peer pressure
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Apr 23, 2014 06:07
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Lurked, read, and enjoyed as much as the site as I could for years until I finally got off my fat duff and plunked the cash down to become a forum member. I like the broad range of people/topics/ideas/arguments that I can find here; the humor hereabouts just seals the deal.
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Apr 23, 2014 16:51
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Back when I was literally a teenager (jesus christ I've been a Goon for almost 13 years) I thought the Straight Dope forums were the most hilarious thing. Then a thread to the SA forums got linked, I checked it out, and my life was effectively over. The forums today are a very, very different place than they were back then. Good in some ways, bad in others. I've seen so much content here, a lot of it truly incredible, and I've forgotten most of it.
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Apr 23, 2014 18:44
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Can't quite remember how I initially found SA, but I lurked for ages and read and loved a lot of the awesome megathreads in GBS - particularly the ghost story threads, and the unexplained mysteries ones, and strange things that have happened to you, and all of that ilk. Also started reading Debate and discussion, and eventually wanted to start contributing to the discussions. With the destruction of GBS and what seems to be the loss of all those great megathreads my appreciation of SA has dipped a bit...
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Apr 25, 2014 17:52
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I can't remember if someone sent me the Cliff Yablonski articles or I found the link on XE but I've been reading front page article since like '01 and didn't even know there were forums for like six years. I would just sit over in my college computer lab reading the "Guides." I think I got banned from the counterstrike gamespy forums for posting the guide to counterstrike. I do remember trying to read the forums for awhile without paying but it was miserable so I kicked in my probably so I could read ycs or something dumb.
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Apr 25, 2014 20:00
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In the immortal words of Cyndi Lauper - cos GOONS they want to have fuh un! 
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Jun 10, 2014 11:42
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I must have been aware of the front page bullshit in the early 2000s. I used to play a lot of quake and read quakeworld but never made that connection until years later. I lurked for the longest time as I felt I had nothing to add and had no credit card. I still have nothing to add but I'm just so drat good at it that I've never received a prob or ban in 5 years. I want to say that owl megathread in the old gbs really made me pay ten bux because gently caress you lowtax for making the forums not viewable for half the year. I honestly thought for the longest time that people really said gently caress.
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Jun 11, 2014 01:19
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I used to visit the site because of the JeffK content, and I registered and stayed for the epic photoshops. I mostly lurk and read news now, being old and infirm.
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Jun 11, 2014 02:24
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I thought I was gonna play EVE. Then I got distracted because goonswarm takes a long-rear end time to join. Never did play EVE.
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Jun 11, 2014 06:15
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coyo7e posted:I thought I was gonna play EVE. Then I got distracted because goonswarm takes a long-rear end time to join. Came for Eve; stayed for who knows why. My first post in this thread is mostly bollocks.
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Jun 11, 2014 08:41
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I joined as I was reading one of the epic threads like Tales of a Streetsweeper or the P-p-p-p-Powerbook, the next day went to carry on reading from where I left off and got the message that the boards were shut at the time to guests so I couldn't read any more unless I registered Best $10 I've ever spent. Which reminds me, is there some kind of list/archive somewhere with of all the of the amazing story threads that came out of this place like the stories of a shitsucker, the forgotten employee, and the weird haunted military outpost thing? I've got archives but can't find them 
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Jun 18, 2014 10:32
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Clamps McGraw posted:A loving Let's Play about submarines, I'm so intensely ashamed of myself You're not the only one, although I guess mine was a different one.
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Jun 18, 2014 12:54
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I was a lurker for a long time. I was following a great ARG in GBS (The Save Sara one) and figured out a puzzle. No one else had solved it so I registered and posted it. This turned out to be a bad idea because my recent reg date caused people to think I was in on it, which I wasn't. Oops!
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Jun 18, 2014 19:43
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Longtime lurker and I found the photoshop phridays to be some of the most funny and clever content I'd seen online.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:56
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2004 ghost thread
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Jun 18, 2014 19:58
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Don't know how many signed up around when I did and said this, but my reason was most definitely 2 things: 1) DPPH - Don't Post Porn Here (lots of porn was posted there) 2) nmp3 - no mp3's (tons of mp3's) For you youngin's who weren't around then, DPPH was possibly the best porn resource I have *ever* come across. nmp3 and the old FTP servers packed with full albums of perfect ripping quality were abundant. EDIT: And wow...can't believe it's been 13-14 years I've been here now. MarksMan fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jun 19, 2014 |
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Jun 19, 2014 05:41
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A few months ago visiting a friend he logged on something awful, which of course I'd heard about. I loved some of the gaming threads so I decided to sign up (platinum member, yo, I'm cooler than you all). and I don't regret it at all. I love it here.
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Jun 19, 2014 07:45
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Just so I could also be included on the NSA's watch list...I didn't want to feel left out.
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Jun 30, 2014 02:56
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I joined so that I could finally consider myself a cool kid on the internet.
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Jun 30, 2014 03:22
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I found out about the site whenever this aired on TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUHDDj7fhk I read the front page on and off for years after that. Started lurking the forums in 2012. I was playing Xenoblade at the time and a google search brought me to the Xenoblade megathread. Finally decided to join in 2013. Not that interesting, but whatever.
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Jun 30, 2014 04:17
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Because I've been reading SA for longer than I've been a fully fledged adult and suddenly realized I have money sometimes. That, and the internet made me stupid.
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Jun 30, 2014 13:43
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Mercurochrome posted:I found out about the site whenever this aired on TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUHDDj7fhk That video was pretty funny at first but then it dragged on too long. Very appropriate.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:45
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I stumbled on this site almost a decade ago, I think it was because of those Horrors of Porn articles. Over the years I started to lurk the forums, eventually joining because constant paywalls were becoming increasingly obnoxious.
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Jul 1, 2014 10:18
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I wasn't cool enough to join the treehouse club.
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Jul 1, 2014 21:40
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I read bits and pieces through the paywall when I was a teen (and credit-card less), then I fell off the internet due to Problems. Recently a friend linked me a thread on dating and I bought an account because I'm a freakin' adult now. The astoundingly helpful and professional forums on bodybuilding/tech-stuff/guns were an unexpected bonus. A fitness thread got me so fired up I've started lifting again.
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Jul 2, 2014 21:27
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I've been lurking for years before joining - and then lurked for years after joining.
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Jul 3, 2014 09:39
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veilo posted:I've been lurking for years before joining - and then lurked for years after joining. Ah, the self-inflicted permaprobation.
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Jul 3, 2014 09:42
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I became a goon because the Jeff K articles were amazing in 2001. Also registering was free at the time.
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Jul 3, 2014 13:42
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I'm redacting my original answer to this question and replacing it with the following: I became a goon to get laid.
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Jul 3, 2014 14:47
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It was free, and they had a ton of links to porn and MP3s hosted on fast servers.
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Jul 3, 2014 15:48
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I found the forums through the Cliff Yablonski page. That was at least 8 or 10 years ago. I looked at all the funny stupid poo poo in GBS when I could (didn't have an account), and browsed the anime and games forums religiously. I'm barely here anymore but I stick around for PYF, A/T, YLLS, and the creative forums. I'd be interested in a psychology forum but there's not much of that here.
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Quickscope420dad posted:I'm redacting my original answer to this question and replacing it with the following: Goon love is the best love.
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