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Jul 31, 2016 07:50
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Solice Kirsk posted:Wasn't the kid shoving a pump needle into his dick and blasting air into it? How do you "safely" do that? It got really sad as it went on, as it dawned on the goon and the thread that her brother was into inflation fetish stuff, not sounding, and that's an unrealistic cartoon thing with no safe way to do it. At the end, they caught him yet again doing it, just hours after the second time he'd been released from the er because of complications from it. Also, there were dots to connect throughout the thread that the goon even mused on that she and her brother (and I want to say her mom too) had all been abused by extended family members, and the brother's obsession might have been a reaction to. 
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Sep 14, 2016 09:00
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Dillbag posted:the only good anime Haha holy poo poo! I was JUST thinking of this last night, and how it may be the very best thing to come out of SA.
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Nov 18, 2016 14:15
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I like WH if for no other reason, when I see her post in the handful of BSS threads I follow, I can be sure she'll miss the point of what she posts spectacularly 
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Nov 21, 2016 19:55
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Aside from the baby-fur stuff, I always liked Shmorky, and I'm glad to hear Lowtax was cool about the gender stuff. Mega Marnie is still like in the top 3 best things to come out of SA imho.
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Nov 21, 2016 22:36
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I clicked on some links, including her twitter. That sound file really makes me feel invasive towards them and uncomfortable. But on her twitter I can confirm she's still anti-zionist, and she had a weird period last spring where she wanted to move to cambodia and get political asylum. But the big striking mark against her sanity is the chat logs she posted with Mrs. Lowtax from around that time where somehow sees the turn of conversation as if SHE is the victimized one, not Ladytax, when all the Missus says is not to accuse them of child abuse again or she'll regret it, and the rest of the conversation is her basically being "what are you even talking about? You need to get help badly" and then crazy lady going on about how she's the victim and she called the feds on them for these conversations--that she started.
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Nov 26, 2016 04:00
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RFC2324 posted:Gunchicka. I dunno which part of that makes me more mad--posing as a handicapped person (I'm disabled myself) or that I fell for it. To be fair, it was for me much more "wow, those robot leg supports are rad!" than it was "hurr durr, girl pretty"in my case, but still.
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Nov 27, 2016 04:24
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Cumslut1895 posted:Just goes to show you should never show sympathy for the disabled <  >
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Nov 27, 2016 06:29
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:it works, because the word "sympathy" is used in both statements This reference is bad, and FactsAreUseless should feel bad.
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Nov 27, 2016 21:34
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One that was pretty small and innocuous was Al Borland was given some secret mod challenge where he had to go into 3 other subforums and bullshit on pre-assigned topics and try to make himself sound convincing. I want to say he had to talk in GWS and SAS, but the one that caught my eye was in A/T where he started a topic about owning his own laundromat. I had worked in one for 6 years pretty heavily, so it caught my eye and I started asking him questions and stuff, and he took it like a champ, bullshitting about front-loaders and perc and stuff for almost a week before he was allowed to confess in GBS. That was fun.
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Nov 29, 2016 12:56
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FactsAreUseless posted:Nope, this was in Games. Abe never had any challenges go massively wrong, but some people got mad about his fruit hat. Yeah, Abe had the best mod challenges really to my recollection. Too bad he had to have his own meltdown, I liked him as a mod. 
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Nov 30, 2016 02:01
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EL BROMANCE posted:Something along those lines was always my assumption, but it didn't really fall in line with what the thread was about. I don't recall there being any cross-goon dating happening, unless it was someone offsite whose profile had been posted or something. Yucky, regardless. Yeah, I always heard it was the Goon Love thread that ended in rape, not one of the online dating advice/chat threads. There's not enough great romance sagas in the forums. Remember that time when goons banded together to try to make the gooniest loser OKC profile in the world, and after it started getting a handful of real conversations, one guy volunteered to steer the vehicle right off the bridge and pose as the profile in the hopes of getting lucky after a woman agreed to meet for like, mcdonald's-a process that required a three hour train ride-and he was completely stood up?
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Dec 1, 2016 07:16
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the future is WOW posted:Oh man, I forgot about that whole mess; Boomerjinx is a huge piece of poo poo. He still posts his car cosplays regularly in the cosplay thread too. Unrelated: does the Online Dating Game count as a "Goon Invasion"? That was from back in my cheapskate lurking days, but is still like, top 5 funniest goon moments.
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Dec 3, 2016 16:46
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The porn threads pretty much stopped right before I finally caved and registered, but I kinda miss the crazy way they would go, where someone would request things with very vague descriptions like "I'm looking for some scene with a girl in a blue top with black hair taking it from behind" or something, and there would be people immediately jumping in with ideas, and like, 85% of the time they'd be DEAD RIGHT. Like SA became the land of the porn psychics.
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Dec 4, 2016 06:19
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Guy Mann posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdd74kLxgGo is...is that a gang rape beginning about halfway through the video?
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Dec 5, 2016 16:59
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Yeah, for a while I would hang out in the goon video chatroom (I don't even know where it's moved to now) and he would for a while too. Dude had issues. Like, every single thing you mentioned he'd have to be an expert at. Like he was this rare comic book collector, ex-pro skateboarder, ex-international DJ who banged all these hot chicks, but was under house arrest at his parents for the whole shovel thing.
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Dec 12, 2016 21:08
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RFC2324 posted:are you talking about goontube? Nah, there was also a TinyChat goonroom. But if I've heard right, some other place is where those goons congregate now. I'm still friends with a handful on fb.
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Dec 13, 2016 00:46
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And before that you can catch him in a break-dancing instructional video. Apparently he tries to get all of his co-stars to play D&D with him. Judi Dench is said to have really gotten into it and enjoyed it. In similar secret-nerd celebrity news, Jamie Lee Curtis is a big time gamer, playing WoW all the time, and her son is a big fighting game player, so she's gone to several conventions/tournaments in full cosplay, with masks to hide who she is.
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Dec 21, 2016 00:36
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Yeah, that was former front page Second Life Safari guy Petey. He tutored either the little boy or one of his siblings. I want to say that one of the cousins doing the 30 years of Super Mario LP for the past several years in LP knew the family too. Punkin Spunkin posted:It does sometimes feel like goons just claim anything tangentially related to a person who at one time spent Reminds me of my dorm-mate in college who was a big wrestling nerd and kinda dumb and sheltered, where he spent a lot of time on Wrestling forums and assumed any term someone used there was a wrestling-inclusive term, and anyone using the term must be referencing the wrestling fandom. He got laughed down pretty hard once for voicing this concept over the word "clusterfuck". To be fair, there ARE a lot of things that started on SA that kinda exploded outwards to the point where lots of people know it without knowing what SA even IS. Like, the "Deal With It" Sunglasses meme comes to mind.
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Dec 21, 2016 23:28
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as having "come from something awful"
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While we're outing Comic Book Goons on the list of "famous" goons, Ian Flynn, the guy who writes Sonic and Mega Man for Archie used to be a goon until recently. And Benito Cereno, who writes some indie titles (including The Tick) is as far as I know, still a goon, with his name as his username.
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Dec 25, 2016 06:53
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The way I understand it, it was a combination of factors that led to the pokeban in LP. Like yes, there was the weird and bad self insert fanfiction narratives (and writing Narrative Fiction for your LP can be fine. Look at the work of Chokes Mcgee in the archive for instance) but also because it became a de riguer  thing where you'd have people registering and then plopping down their gen 1 lp treating it like nobody had ever seen the game before, and it was starting to flood things.It's gotten a lot more relaxed again in the last few years, but for a while the contrast between SA quality and youtube dumps like PDP or whomever kinda went to our heads, and there was a lot of strict attitudes about how to do things and back seat modding and elitism going on.
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Dec 30, 2016 11:36
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:get to see games I'll never get around to playing Or endings to games I'll never be good enough to beat.
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Dec 30, 2016 21:46
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Mine is when a guy who made an infamously difficult mod of FFT came to SA to comment on an LP of it and then, apropos of nothing, admitted he masturbates to My Little Pony porn It was the guy who made the "Brave New World" mod of Final Fantasy 6, not FFT. And yeah, this was long after bronies were a much ridiculed thing on the forums. It was actually two people that made the mod together, it started being clear that most of the balance adjustments and difficulty tweaks were the other guy, while this guy made all the bad decisions and terrible retranslations, and all the un-funny jokes. (like making Kefka and Relm swear like, non stop)
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Dec 31, 2016 00:54
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Wasn't there a picture of that dude's apartment and it was like literally wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling pictures of the girl from the show?
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Dec 31, 2016 03:41
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Leavemywife posted:That was me. Plus, you announced things in advance in your LP at the time pretty plainly, you didn't just "disappear".
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Jan 3, 2017 03:06
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Kelp Me! posted:ikari and psychicattack were pretty great too. IIRC at one point there was a rule where if they ever posted in the same thread they'd both be permabanned. didn't they end up accidentally breaking that rule too?
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Jan 4, 2017 16:23
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Lime Tonics posted:New drama developing, Yeah, that's definitely drama rising up. TL;DR version for people not clicking, the power-crazed (and possibly other forms of crazed) mod of GRS posted a sticky list of all the people she felt personally slighted by as being banned in the subforum. Cue a GBS thread about it that's a combination of white tears, troll-baiting, and people smugly talking about how they never post or read there anyways.
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Mar 7, 2017 18:22
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mojo1701a posted:So they used a hidden forum to post this poo poo in? I'm a combination of I'm reminded of at least some time back (not sure if it's still done) where people would find pages on Gamefaqs for obscure games and just use that game's specific message board to socialize with each other, and nobody would notice because who besides like, say a weirdo like me, would go to gamefaqs looking up something like the Amiga Nightbreed games?
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Mar 29, 2017 00:03
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I kind of like that... Finding a weird, non-private corner of the internet and just hanging out. seriously. Back when I was an awful teenager gross dude, I spent my wild west 90s internet days on a newsgroup devoted to final fantasy and animu, and like, 75% of the discussion there was like, 30 or so of us regulars just chilling out and talking amongst ourselves.
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Mar 29, 2017 00:18
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Wait a sec... What was the name of the site? Was it something like ff legends or something? I remember that place if it's the same one. My then gf was all over it, went and actually met one of dudes who ran it, too. Nah definitely not. This was a newsgroup with a binary name. and specifically about hentai because I was a terrible person as a teen
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Mar 30, 2017 15:32
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steinrokkan posted:There was a time when GBS posters would start small, non-serious threads in LP about weird games, and Voidburger really lost her poo poo about it because those posters ruined the sanctity of LPs by not taking them seriously enough and encouraging "low effort posting" in their own threads. That was pretty fun. Sometime around I wanna say '14? Maybe as late as early into the next year, this set of attitudes came to a head where there was a serious hundreds of pages long sticky thread debating the state of the sub-forum, and how to deflate the problems. The fact that lp started on sa, and was now something with tens of thousands of offensively bad examples of elsewhere like youtube, led to a slow creep of higher standards, and more importantly elitism. When people would join and start with some rule breaking/low effort lp, people would just tell them to go back to the sandbox thread without any other comment, to the point where new posters started assuming it was a thread for posting permission, not constructive criticism. I was seeing people complain that a gba screenshot only looked about on par with hardware clarity, instead of like 1080p pixel perfect scrutiny. There was a brouhaha where some lpers decided to do the first Silent Hill game blind as a diversion from their normal major project, and a forums regular known for horror games threw a huge hissy fit that they were wandering blind and making jokes instead of it being some major informative, immersive experience. Eventually that thread did its job of being a collective "calm the gently caress down" message and things got better. For a while people were adding a "2007 Style" label when they wanted to do casual jokey (and likely drunk) lps, but that type of presenting has gotten common enough now that there's normally no need for the label. Basically if you're entertaining/interesting, you're free to do lp however you want. -- Regarding stream culture, it's absolutely filled with weird people desperate to connect with the people on camera, to the point where throwing money at them seems like a good idea. It's the same mentality you see with camgirls' regulars, only without the sexual charades. I watch a lot of streams because I like old games, and it's more entertaining than turning on some dumb sitcom for me. But I see a lot of streamers that start getting unhealthy with it too. Long term streamers you often see it turn into a job instead of a hobby, with all the emotional baggage the difference between the two carries. They start giving themselves rigid schedules, and you can see clearly they're playing for their audience, not because they enjoy gaming anymore. Some even get celebrity arrogance to them when it's like maaaan, you're just some dude on a couch whose good at Nintendos. I tend to be turned off by these job streamers and just stick with the folks who are there to have fun and socialize.
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Apr 4, 2017 12:03
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necroid posted:LPs with the LPer's face are a more recent thing I think, it started with youtube stuff like pewdiepie? Yeah, that's one of the few hard and fast things that will still get you chased out of the subforums because there's no point to it other than being an egotistical idiot. The other big thing is "youtube dumps" ie "hey, this thread is to tell you to go to youtube and look at all my videos I've already made! Don't forget to like, share and subscribe!!" There was one mildly entertaining saga related to those rules a while back. This one dude started an account and then seemed to break every rule of the subforum, posting dumb screamy unfunny videos of himself with a facecam in the corner showing off his douchey face and attitude, and people kept making fun of him for it, and he kept trying with different games, like three times, when finally one of the Mods laid down a challenge for him to make an informative LP of chess, with consequences being a ban or immunity depending. He went silent. Everyone thought he'd been chased off with his tail between his legs, as is often the case with wannabe youtube superstars like that that come in. Then, in the very last hour of the deadline, suddenly he uploads a half hour long video of himself playing a computer chess game, and it's actually informative and well-played. And then he tossed off into the nether.
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Apr 4, 2017 21:24
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:So, beef jerky guy may or may not have been selling store products (most likely not), but personal budget guy embezzled and resume guy was using a pirated copy of Word (I used resume guy). Any other major SA-Mart failures? The swole-goon guy iirc was basically running a personal trainer equivalent of a Ponzi Scheme, where the longer he stayed in business, the higher his prices got, and the less service he would actually provide, regardless of what any contracts signed said. I don't remember which but one of those three at least weren't the original guys and just bought the brand name from the previous seller and banked on that person's success to sell their crappier service to goons, including using testimonials from the original service's customers.
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Apr 24, 2017 23:55
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purple death ray posted:Come on it'd be like four, four and a half gables, tops The half gable is load bearing! 
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May 16, 2017 22:39
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Hogge Wild posted:
I have a friend in a similar position. She ends up making most of her food from scratch herself because of how prevalant palm oil is these days. Then again she's a hippy dippy type that enjoys the all natural type of life, even going as far as making homemade cheeses for "fun".
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May 21, 2017 19:47
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Hey, Bob's Game came out! I thought Bob's Game was supposed to be an in-depth jrpg style game that was shamelessly stealing its art style from Chrono Trigger, with the writing prowess of a low-tier RPGMaker game, not a wanna-be tetris...
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May 26, 2017 23:27
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Heath posted:Wasn't there one out in the mountains or something and just off to the side BAM nuts I didn't remeber that particular saga until this post.
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May 28, 2017 02:08
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I have a degree in film. I can pontificate out my rear end all artsy fartsy about film. I also realize that C/D is a shouting chamber and rarely have threads I want to read in it. However, because I'm not a layman on the subject, I can say with certainty that SMG is not a trollish contrarian fool at all, but rather he's the absolute worst kind of film student--one who also is a philosophy student and crosses the two wires to be as absolutely ridiculous and myopic as possible. His lens of choice is the ideas of Zizek, as is obvious, and if you don't see things through that lens, well then you're obviously wrong. That sounds like a troll move, but actually you don't have to work very hard delving into film theory to find other people with their heads at similar distances up their own asses. I have a book on my shelf right now that makes an awful long effort to claim, with authority, that every single horror movie ever made is either about castration anxiety or penis envy. Obviously the author is a classical Freud follower, but he's just as long winded and sure of himself as SMG, and just as bonkers most of the time.
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Jun 15, 2017 04:49
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This book came out like, a decade before all that happened. This is the book in question FYI
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Jun 15, 2017 06:04
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VanSandman posted:I remember one fella god FYAD so mad at him they prob'd the poor bastard for months, 6 hours at a time. He'd occasionally get a post in before they re-probed him. They also did this with Psyopmonkey, for the crimes of being a trans-woman and posting smug selfies all over the place.
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Jun 15, 2017 20:51
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