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I believe it was the games forum , there was a Let's Play I stumbled across and would read updates every few days / weeks whenever the pay wall went down At some point decided to pay my  so I didn't have to gently caress with the pay wall anymore SAMart had been a good place , I've sold a bunch of stuff and purchased as well , beats using eBay
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Friend linked me a let's play, a different friend bought me the account later when he bought one for himself. Now i lurk where ever i feel like it.
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Feb 17, 2017 09:20
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I was on another forum back in like 2005 that got made fun of by somethingawful and everyone was freaking out about it, I checked out the site and thought they had some fair points and comedy goldmine was hilarious. I got a huge kick out of the awkward sexual encounters series in particular. I was taking a gen ed Pop Culture course in college a few years ago and my professor threw a few images from photoshop friday up on the projector and opined that contemporary cutting edge political and ideological commentary can be found on the internet, which makes you stupid. I lurked for a few years. The photoshop friday images were making fun a hack painter who exclusively paints idealized depictions of an immaculate garden of eden, and the photoshops were goons' interpretations of the actual effort that would have had to go into maintaining these "untouched" scenes of beauty like little kids pushing a lawnmower through it and poo poo. They had the class in stitches
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Some kid built himself a flamethrower and posted photos of the entire process step by step. Ended with him testing it in the middle of his suburban cul de sac I lurked for a while, and finally joined because of games and LPs. I still play games and do a let's play, so I guess that panned out. Also, there's actually some cool goons out there, and goonmeets are a thing and have been going on long enough that the worst, grossest potential outcomes have all already happened, so I don't need to worry about that anymore.
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Ofaloaf posted:Oh poo poo, I remember that one! The instructions weren't totally complete; the step-by-step process was enough to make a high-pressure squirt gun, and then the goon said he figured actually giving directions for anything past that point was illegal. I know it's off topic, but I just wanted to inform people that flamethrowers are unregulated in the United States. 
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Skoll posted:I know it's off topic, but I just wanted to inform people that flamethrowers are unregulated in the United States. Subject to local law 
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Smiling Jack posted:Subject to local law Don't you work for the NYPD or something, man. Everything is illegal there.
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Skoll posted:Don't you work for the NYPD or something, man. Everything is illegal there. Ironically I'm not sure city law addresses flamethrowers
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Came for photoshop fridays; stayed for you guys.
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Came here frome EVE No matter who i talked to everyone said goonswarm is the worst and they only exist to ruin EVE for everyone else (was around the time when bob imploded ) and that you had to be a SA member to join them.... I did not join SA (joined red vs blue and my desire in a 0sec corp faded), stopped playing EVE at some point, but photoshop friday kept me coming back until i joined. I am a nerdy guy so i can relate to almost anything that comes up here when i browse around for random stuff.. games, bikes, history, diy stuff, reddit goldmines. Where else do you get a site where porn directors, russian seperatists and dildo manufacturers get together to share their pov? And since i am from "soso" Europe its always hilarious to read what people form other countries consider good food/cars/bikes/music etc....
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I joined for a WoW guild that's no longer goon-only, or active for that matter. Plus I left that server a few years later. Though I should mention I didn't join just for the guild, I read the front page and public areas of the forum for a little while before that but finally bit the bullet to join the guild. Now I mostly lurk certain PYF threads and some LPs. And read A/T on the shitter.
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Good thread OP. I enjoyed reading all of this. I joined the forums (in 2001) because the front page used to be funny as gently caress, at least for a 13 year old. Eventually I stumbled into clicking the forums button. I stayed for many years, mostly as a lurker, but left when I went to college and mostly forgot about this place. Several years into working a job I rejoined because I still believe in this format. The huge internet communities (inc social media) are essentially digital ghettos and the people running them are nearly unaccountable. At least here if I have a grievance with someone I can call them names and there is a reasonable chance they'll see it.
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Weight-loss, weirdly enough. Some dude was posting about the miracles of an ECA stack (ephedrine, caffeine, aspirin) and I wanted to ask him some questions about it. And I pretty much still use it for weight loss reasons. Been morbidly obese twice in the last 12 years, and levels inbetween.
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I hope you get to your target weight captain cancer. And I hope you're not part of the bacon grease drinkers crew that used to be around the forums.
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Feb 20, 2017 18:58
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Ofaloaf posted:Oh poo poo, I remember that one! The instructions weren't totally complete; the step-by-step process was enough to make a high-pressure squirt gun, and then the goon said he figured actually giving directions for anything past that point was illegal. He also didn't have a check valve (I think that's what it's called) on it initially, so theoretically the flame could have gone back into the tank and blown him up. I don't remember if it was goons that noticed that and told him he's an idiot and to fix it, or if he figured it out himself. That guy was an engineering student at penn state if I recall, my buddy went to school with him.
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Feb 20, 2017 20:59
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I came here because SA had really strictly enforced rules re: grammar and civility which made it a breath of fresh air compared to everything else on the internet, especially at the time. Ironically while I could go back to capitalizing properly in every post if I had to, I'd probably get chain-probated for being mean to people if I were sent back to the SA era when I first registered.
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Feb 20, 2017 23:56
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Pretty sure I joined because I wanted to post in hilariously bad E/N threads that I had been lurking in for years. But I was front page reader and didn't even visit the forums around 2001-2003ish in middle school. And here I am all those years later, still laughing at E/N threads whenever I'm bored.
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Feb 20, 2017 23:57
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I got in on the ground floor when the forums opened up. I really liked Jeff K, Photoshops and Awful Link of the Day. Now I just lurk funny threads while goldbricking at work.
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Feb 21, 2017 02:01
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I read somewhere that browsing forums and stuff at work is equivalent to taking a coffee break: it kind of resets you and you get to re-orient yourself to working. I remember when I had a more regular job, I would eventually stand up from my desk and check out the latest in the Pol Cartoons thread or Schadenfreude on my phone. It really did help me refocus. And then I would go get a cup of coffee.
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Feb 21, 2017 04:29
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I joined a long time ago because I thought GBS was funny and the forums went private in the middle of the purple dildo thing. Now I'm here for the sports and hobby boards. Of course between then and now about 10 years have passed so a lot has changed on both ends.
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Feb 21, 2017 08:35
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N. Senada posted:I hope you get to your target weight captain cancer. And I hope you're not part of the bacon grease drinkers crew that used to be around the forums. Hey thanks! Probably in the shape of my life at the moment, so it's all been worth it. I don't contribute much to the forums, but I visit every work day for a variety of entertainment.
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Feb 21, 2017 09:47
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:forums went private in the middle of the purple dildo thing. lol wat?
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My cousin told me about it when I was (19? 20?) and how great goons are. I was a reader of fark before that. I stayed because I like some of the in depth threads, and reading along with people when we're all watching the same TV shows. I stayed because it's a great research tool. I'm a writer by day, and if I want to know about something specific, there's usually a thread covering some aspect of it. Also, politics. Also, video game. Most importantly though, the self publishing thread in Creative got me to start self publishing 3 years ago? I now have a thriving business and work for myself entirely because of it. It's still a huge time suck, and as I move on to being a YouTuber at some point this year, I'll probably have to cut back to five or ten minutes a day at most.
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N. Senada posted:lol wat? Here's the first thread. Frankie the Dildo went on some adventures in other threads too I think. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1736969
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Joined for  , stuck around to lurk in TFA subforums and the sick pleasure I gained from reading the helldump threads. I miss the helldump threads.
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Stumbled across the forums around 2005 thanks to a thread mocking an attention whore who was threatening to commit suicide after 30 days (no idea if he carried through or not). I lurked for a few years because my bank didn't issue a Visa debit card as standard, Lowtax stopped accepting Paypal after Katrina, and I never got around to slipping a friend :tenbux: to buy an account. I found by accident that back then you could bypass the paywall by going in through the lepers colony, so it wasn't a big deal. Eventually my bank got its act together and dropped Maestro in favour of Visa, so I signed up. The younger internet communities such as Reddit irritate me, so I still stick around.
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Found SA from the "How to make a webcomic" guide back in...2000? Stayed because the conversations about....everything were better than the lame forums I frequented at the time (PvP? Long gone now, Kurtz hated his fanbase) lurked, when I got my first CC in 2004 I signed up. The were an unknown perk to me at the time.  Still coming back because the conversations here are more...grounded? Take "Games" for example, you still get the obsessed weirdoes and anger that you see in reddit but there's enough people that are just talking about the game and enjoying it to counter balance. There's an underlying cynicism to SA in general that I like. Also, I prefer the forum conversation format to the garbage "new" format of reddit upvote down votes.
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How did you find out about SA? For me, it was Bluesnews. Which, like SA, still enjoys a strange zombie state where it is neither dead nor alive while still being hella gay.
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Friend told me to get an account. Stayed because every other forum on the internet is a cesspit and this place still has a very unique feel and sense of humor.
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Hawke posted:Came for the games, stayed for the games. SA beats all the other forums I used to browse by far. This, pretty much. With the caveat that SA is probably one of the only tolerable forums out there on that front if you're actually looking to goof off and relax and not be obnoxiously obsessive towards others about optimizing your play. Originally though Penny Arcade played with Somethingawful on a few games way back in the days of my youth. It slowly became apparent that SA knew a hell of a lot more what they were doing when it came to having fun and not freaking out over min maxing numbers. Then the sperglords started to infiltrate many of the gaming goon groups here as well. Not that I mind, for all the bitching about it DnD is probably one of the better forums out there for talking about politics. Also the GBS photoshop threads back before it was converted into it's current lovely form were amazing and helped to seal the deal. I got like a year's worth of laughs out of lurking before I figured it was worth for that.
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I joined to play Mafia games on the forums. I don't play them any more. I initially stayed because I went to a small college in a remote part of the USA and the forums were a way to stay connected with the wider world. Now I keep coming back because the subforums have interesting discussion about things I'm interested in but don't have the churn of a more open site like Reddit.
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Friends in high school got me hooked on it, finally stopped lurking in college. Forgot about it for several years, then realized that there was an active A/T thread for my career. Met a ton of colleagues that way, including Vile Rat. Had hoped to drink scotch with him in Benghazi but, well...
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Came for the stayed for the jokes. Nowadays, I'm not really sure. Where else is there to talk about random poo poo? I preferred how SA was years ago but it's still miles better than reddit.
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Well, I was pretty young and the Something Awful vs. Sony's Dating Game thing was the loving pinnacle of hilarity back then. I didn't get the $10 together for another year, but then I pretty much hung out here almost exclusively until 2010 because gaming with goons was generally awesome. I played on some of the best multiplayer servers and with some of the best guilds of my life thanks to these forums. Nowadays, I dunno, goon gaming seems pretty dead, so I pretty much just check in once a week on some threads I'm following, and maybe post about my cat in PI. gently caress, I've been here for 14 years.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:CAD mock threads
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Came for the humor, stayed as a caremad dumb whitenoise poster.
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I started lurking back around 2006 and I would especially love the MS paint threads. There was one that was something like "ms paint weird things your SO does" that had me dying. My husband finally bought an account for me as an anniversary present. I stick to mostly PYF now.
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Mar 1, 2017 07:39
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I thought the swearword filter for non-regs was a permanent feature of the site. 
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