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I just lurked and read the threads for years. One day there was some interesting D&D thread I had been following and I got locked out. So I registered to keep reading it. I never thought I'd post much because I was terrified of "goon culture" and all the rules. Now I'm a full grown and matured lovely/mediocre poster, even managed to get a couple probation under my belt fighting the patriarchy or what ever.
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My friend is a goon and i was a dude who just liked to read forums and post about it , he hooked me up with SA and some other terrible goon stuff which included eve online. gently caress you Totalizator  .
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Jun 30, 2012 01:42
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I just joined Goon today, though I have been a long time lurker. Honestly? MMO Roulette is the biggest reason I joined. It got me through many boring lectures in class during the Spring semester. A secondary reason would be the gibbed servers. I like to play Space Station 13, and while I've adminned a SS13 server, I prefer the chaotic fun that only the Goonstation offers, so I thought, why not join SA?
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Jun 30, 2012 02:19
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I joined to do a Let's Play, then read the Let's Play forum and realized that they had standards so I didn't. Later I became a respected member in the computer geeking field.
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Jun 30, 2012 02:29
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Goons are superior gamers.
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Jun 30, 2012 02:55
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I liked what I saw in the forums, and also liked that this forum was moderated properly (and the 10.00 price tag for joining the forums scared a lot of lovely posters away). Well worth the money I spent.
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Jun 30, 2012 03:04
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Back when I lurked and eventually joined, SA was the wild west of forums and comedy. There really wasn't anything like it. Back then GBS was absurd and awesome.
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Jun 30, 2012 03:24
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Read a front page article quite a while ago and then found my way to the forums. I Lurked for a long time all over the place and then thought, yep, this is worth it.
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Jun 30, 2012 03:25
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The bitches.
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Jun 30, 2012 03:31
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I've been a lurker for several years, but I always hated how around once a month the forums would shut down to the public. So a now-ex bought me an account so I would have full access to SA. I didn't officially become a goon and start posting until a little over a year ago when I had a few questions for Pet Island.
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Jun 30, 2012 03:31
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I joined for the huge discounts, and girls and information on neckbeards and poop socks. Actually my brother is a goon and at first I was  he kept bugging about all the cool threads here me so I paid my :tenbucks: and here I am god knows how many years later.
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Jun 30, 2012 03:34
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YCS got made and I could post like a chuckle gently caress in it and it was too new to have weird cliqueyness like fyad.
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Jun 30, 2012 03:57
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I wanted to see if everyone was the manchildren I thought they were, turns out that was the word filter.
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Jun 30, 2012 04:27
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I remember the before-times...before goons were 'Goons'. drat 2001's ruined it for everyone.
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Jun 30, 2012 04:33
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I needed a full version copy of Microsoft Frontpage really bad
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Jun 30, 2012 04:35
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Coupons
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Jun 30, 2012 05:04
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I lurked for years and loved it but it wasn't until I witnessed the allure of CapAm rapeface that I sprung for a membership. I think it wouldn't let me read past a certain point of the thread and I was going to have none of that so  gone and I could keep reading!
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Jun 30, 2012 05:34
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Three words: Dance Dance Karnov
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Jun 30, 2012 05:42
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After a few years of lurking on and off, I noticed how funny and...well...nice the post quality was. I think it was the 10$ paywall that did that. But given how much enjoyment I've gotten from the site it's well worth it. Games, as dramatic as I find it nowadays, tends to have really high quality OP's. You can generally get the gist and impression of any game by reading one. I also liked discussing games a lot, and there would always be discussions I wanted to chime into but obviously couldn't. I also joined because of Private Game Servers. Goons seem to have a decent present in most multiplayer games, and knowing you can play with people who are generally cool funny and like-minded is a large bonus. Makes playing MMOs/Multi's with vile communities tolerable. Ask/Tell was another big reason. I think that's hands down the most interesting sub-forum here. Nice to spend a lunch break or free time reading about anything and everything. You get some pretty awesome stories, and being able to post and ask related questions was a huge plus. An Ask/Tell thread about hometowns was ultimately what pushed me into registering one night. In the same vein, subforum variety is another. This is kinda the same reason for Ask/Tell, but I whenever i'm stepping into a new hobby or trying something different, there's usually an active, informative topic about it and what to expect about the related subject. And finally, comedy. It's kinda self explanatory, but I've learned that even the most mundane topic can be saved by a single funny post which snowballs into a goldmined thread.
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Jun 30, 2012 06:03
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My friend bought me an account so I could check out the private dating forum. It's easier to chat online before I meet people in real life because I'm a bit shy and I'm ugly as sin. I jumped right over to the gay thug dating thread, where I began to set up gay thug dates with other gay thugs. These people just plain clicked with me! We enjoyed the same things, and we all knew the best memes. Goons are great! 
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Jun 30, 2012 06:39
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I joined for the LPs. Then I discovered that goons who post in LP weren't the brightest of folks, and started spending less time in LP.
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Jun 30, 2012 07:01
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Because I am LLJK, duh.
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Jun 30, 2012 07:02
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Your mom.
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Jun 30, 2012 10:02
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I was 19, going to uni and then realized I had opinions of my own. Then I registered and got banned for my dumb opinions. Games forum is more fun than D&D anyway 
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Jun 30, 2012 13:14
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My brother couldn't afford to pay for his box of takeaway noodles so I said "buy an account for me".
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Jun 30, 2012 13:26
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I always read the front page and the company I worked for at the time had a lot of downtime, so I registered an account. I can't look at any other internet forum the same now, in fact this is the only forum I frequent. I'll probably go through withdrawal if this place ever goes away.
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Jun 30, 2012 14:29
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It was free.
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Jun 30, 2012 14:31
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When you got poo poo to post, you go where the shitposters hit >POST< the most, ya heard?
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Jun 30, 2012 16:22
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This dude found a camera in the woods and I wanted to see what happened.
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Jun 30, 2012 16:34
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I too joined the forums in order to join a clan group team thing in the space excel game.
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Jun 30, 2012 17:06
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I became a goon because people here would call out stupid poo poo when they saw it because it was stupid poo poo. None of this fake veneer of being civilized bullshit so many other forums had/still have. Also it was huge and there was just so much information about everything everywhere.
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Jun 30, 2012 17:11
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I was looking at the Photoshop Phridays a lot in High School thanks to a friend who's a goon and didn't realize there was an entire forums connected to the site until years later. In college I was like, well, let's drop on this, what the hell? Best ten dollars I've ever spent. I've never gotten so much use out of anything else that I've spent ten dollars on.
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Jun 30, 2012 18:22
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I joined because I used to love arguments where both sides interpret only the dumbest thing the other party could possibly mean, and argue with that, totally missing each other's actual points and being an absolute waste of time. I'm pretty tired of that now though.
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Jun 30, 2012 19:24
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roomforthetuna posted:I joined because I used to love arguments where both sides interpret only the dumbest thing the other party could possibly mean, and argue with that, totally missing each other's actual points and being an absolute waste of time. So you're basically saying that you can't handle nuanced discussion and would rather the entire forum read like the YouTube comments on a Call of Duty promotional video.
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Jun 30, 2012 19:48
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I originally joined ~2002 to do photoshops. Got banned less than three hours later without even having written or contributed a single thing. The reason was just some seemingly random string of characters. The forums seemed like a scam and I swore I'd never waste the money again - 99% of internet forums are free anyway. I still browsed SA and kept up with whatever was big but stuck to the front page for the most part. I joined again in ~2005 under a new name so I could read the forums without getting stupid filters and limitations thrown in my face. I figured that my previous experience may have just been a fluke and I had $10 to waste in any event. Eventually I got brave and posted my first thread. It was a disaster and I was thoroughly mocked, which resulted in me making another thread demanding people tell me how to join the internet elitist circlejerk that SA was. Banned again, of course. In 2009 I figured I'd give it one last shot under yet another new name because I wanted to read the forums uninhibited again. Lurking progressed to posting, and so far so good.
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Jun 30, 2012 20:04
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Four words: Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey. That thread was the best.
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Jun 30, 2012 20:38
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Donny posted:So you're basically saying that you can't handle nuanced discussion and would rather the entire forum read like the YouTube comments on a Call of Duty promotional video. Isn't this the reason we all joined? Oh ya, also so I could eat Cheetos and drink Mountain Dew all day with no regrets 
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Jun 30, 2012 21:03
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Because posting between the hours of 11pm to 7am on Australian forums is slow, if any activity at all.
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Jun 30, 2012 21:06
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I think we should talk more about how the forums has affected our gaming.
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I had been lurking SA for a few years and wanted an account, but didn't want to ask my parents to buy me one and reimburse them for it, since it seemed like a weird thing to do. Then, I was either 18 or 19, and I had a debit card, and my dog ate a grape. Everything I could find on Google suggested that grapes were very poisonous for dogs and I was kind of freaking out, but I wanted to make sure before deciding to call a vet, so I payed $10 to get an account here. My first post was a thread on Pet Island asking if dogs could survive eating one grape.
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