Telling the story of SA: "It's bastards and morons all the way down."

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pablo gbscobar: Nov 24, 2007; oh shit i got the snype; Lipstick Apathy

ugh its Troika posted:

Really permabanning Two Worlds was probably the worst thing Abe ever did.

For some reason the phrase "Ari Gets Labe/Fives For Abe" popped into my head the other day and made me start laughing uncontrollably. What a saga that was

# ? Dec 3, 2017 15:12

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# ? May 7, 2024 08:38

ugh its Troika: May 2, 2009; by FactsAreUseless

Two Worlds also makes a great club to hit whiny incel virgins with because despite being the ur-goon even he can get laid without paying for it.

# ? Dec 3, 2017 16:29

IGgy IGsen: Apr 11, 2013; "If I lose I will set myself on fire."

Long before I got a forums account I stumbled across some goon being pushed into a weird elaborate LARP session.
Frankly it seems completely crazy and I have a hard time believing it's quite real. So I'd be really interested in hearing from people who were around back then (2003-2005-ish) or were possibly involved in planning the entire heist. It seems like it could be some more good natured and elaborate helldump poo poo or maybe something else entirely. I remember searching the forums for it but finding precisely nothing on it except the name Velocity Gnome being rated for SA Mart transactions.

# ? Dec 3, 2017 17:38

Kerbtree: Sep 8, 2008; BAD FALCON!
LAZY!

Milky Moor posted:

I'm pretty sure SA played some role in popularising aeromorphs or whatever they're called. Sexy plane porn.

Nah, that was a non goon weirdo called June aka Popcorn, whose brother(?) signed up to talk to goons.

Speaking of touching the poop, who remembers Kevin Havens, Dave Hockey and the other weirdos who came to light via the dollfucker threads?

# ? Dec 3, 2017 18:16

phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY

ugh its Troika posted:

Two Worlds...the ur-goon

True that.

# ? Dec 3, 2017 18:49

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

My recollection of the Goon Love thing was that Two Worlds was being set up on a date until someone dumped a 10,000 word post detailing exactly how creepy and weird he was, including stories of verbal sexual harassment, stalking, contacting someone's boss etc. This is the post I'm thinking of (requires archives):
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3188411&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=15#post364723021

Different topic - whatever happened to Ruddha?

# ? Dec 3, 2017 20:41

hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

webmeister posted:

My recollection of the Goon Love thing was that Two Worlds was being set up on a date until someone dumped a 10,000 word post detailing exactly how creepy and weird he was, including stories of verbal sexual harassment, stalking, contacting someone's boss etc. This is the post I'm thinking of (requires archives):
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3188411&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=15#post364723021

Different topic - whatever happened to Ruddha?

I found this post so far, I wonder if there's more:

Lenins Potato posted:

Ariel, I'm glad that you took this challenge. I have some advice that should help you.

First off, you're going to be going on at least one date. There will be one kiss involved, but you should be ready in case the date progresses further than you imagine. We all know that you slept with a woman, without condoms, that hosed 11 other guys before you, and you refuse to get tested for STDs, so please get condoms. You've had sex with those 11 guys too, just be aware of that fact. And yes, you can get STDs even if the girl is sterile, get that stupid idea out of your head.

Don't be afraid to discuss your sexual short comings with the girl once you get her in bed. Most girls, like your ex, are quite understanding with this stuff. You'll probably get lucky and her vagina won't smell pungent like "opening the tomb of the Egyptian pharaohs," as you said about your ex-girlfriend. Vaginal juices don't have numbing agents, so stop blaming that as the reason for your erectile dysfunction. Don't even be afraid to discuss your various deviant sexual fetishes. For all you know, the girl may geniuenly be interested in water sports. Like your ex, the goonette might be interested in stuffing random house hold objects into her oval office. If you're really lucky, she might even want to have a 3-way with a stunt cock and let you rub swords with a guy.

Also, when it comes to sex, I know your plan on your latest date was to let her experience the "magic fingers" then jerk yourself off. That isn't going to work. You're going to have to get over the fear you have of letting a girl see your 5-inch (or less) uncircumcised penis. By the way, your fingers probably aren't as long as your penis anyways.

The girl you go on a date with might not want to continue seeing you. More than likely you'll freak out and whine about how she rejected you, but you need to get over it. You don't want to repeat your last temper tantrum and call her boss to say that she is "trolling you." No one deserves to talk to their boss about Ariel Campos. A 25-year-old man should have enough sense not to do that, but it's obviously a problem with you.

Do not dwell on the self loathing. People can sniff that poo poo out, just like your students. That is one of the very reasons why you couldn't even command the respect of 13-year-old students. When you want to talk about yourself and your problems, or how you think you have Asperger's because a guy on the internet said so. Stop and ask her a question instead. Get to know her.

Talking about The Arielverse might not be a good idea. I'm not talking about your five plus one currently missing personas. I wouldn't tell the girl that you think your life is being written by Warren Ellis. Especially don't mention breaking the 4th wall and rambling about how you shouldn't even know that Warren Ellis is writing your life. You might not even wan't to let her see your LiveJournals. Not to mention your fear of mirrors, and that you might accidentally cross into another dimension. Don't talk about Homo Lumens and Homo Cthoni. No one believes that bullshit and no one wants to hear about how only you can be both Homo Lumen and Homo Cthoni.

Two more quick points that need to be addressed are using catch phrases and racism. Your use of IRL tl;dr , carefag, etc. in real life is by now well known. Please, don't do that. Even goonettes don't want to hear that poo poo in real life. Referring to black people as "those people" needs to end as well. You sound racist as gently caress when you say, "I know how to deal with those people, I have a lot of black people on my Facebook." Not to mention it sounds retarded as gently caress.

You say that your father is the only one who has said he was proud of you. Yet, everyone you speak to finds you unintentionally hilarious. They quote you, they celebrate you, they anticipate your arrival � why might that be? It is because you are something and you are someone. You matter and you are an engaging, earnest and intelligent man. So start acting like it � but in a positive way. Your father would be loving ashamed if he saw you as you act here. There's only one world: Earth. Deal with it.

# ? Dec 3, 2017 21:31

hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

nvm I found it:

TigerMoJo posted:

You really don't know him at all.

AYBraham posted:

Okay TigerMoJo, I'm tired of your passive aggressive bullshit. You now have 12 hours to post (in detail) exactly how you know Two Worlds, what Two Worlds has done to you personally, and why you are constantly posting about how awful and terrible he is.

If you fail to do so in a sufficient manner, you will be banned for trolling, and you (along with everyone Two Worlds mentioned) will be forbidden to even breathe a mention of anything related to The Arielverse across the entire forums.

TigerMoJo posted:

This is the longest thing I've ever posted on SA or anywhere online...

I don�t really remember when I started talking to Two Worlds but I believe he IMed me first and at the time I had no idea who he was. Some time later, he requested I make that avatar for him and I had to ask why he wanted all of those random characters in the first place. He proceeded to tell me in great detail about the Arielverse, how he has multiple �personas� and that each of those characters represents an individual persona in his mind: The Brute, The Tempest, Mr. C (now dead and with no current replacement), Partyman, The Saint and The Puppetmaster. He also talked about Helldump a lot and how he was the defender of SA (GBS in particular). He also told me about all these weird rules he has for his life like that he could not cuss or cry until he lost his virginity. The weird thing is though, he didn't actually consider that he lost his virginity until the third time that he had sex because he hadn't cummed inside her yet and they hadn't both cummed at the same time.

Anyway, myself and some of the other goons listed as well as others often chat on Skype in the evenings so I invited Two Worlds in and he more or less became part of the group. It didn�t take long to find out that Two Worlds has problems. Lots and lots of problems. You see, he constantly talks about his problems and himself and always wants goony goon advice although he never ever takes it.

He insists on adding people to his Facebook so after much prodding a few finally became Facebook friends. One thing to note about Two Worlds is that EVERYONE trolls him. Not just Helldumpers or goons but people he knows in real life as well. He just kind of drives people to the edge, he has so many insane theories and misguided beliefs that he refuses to change that people he knows just end up insulting him or baiting him to say more ridiculous poo poo. I used to feel bad for him about this but now I know why they do it.

For instance, he believes in the upper world and the under world (Homo Lumen and Homo Cthoni he says). The upper world is full of people who go to Walmart, have 2.5 kids, live in suburban homes, go to church and don't have any secrets at all, they don't have any kinky fetishes and they don't go on the Internet. Then there are the underworlders. This is essentially a laundry list that ranges from goons to channers to child rapists and goth kids. Ariel believes that he is the only person who is between these "two worlds" (yeah, that's where the name comes from) and that he constantly has to balance the forces in his life. If you try to tell him, as many have, that most people who seemingly live normal lives have skeletons in their closet or have some kind of kinky sexual fetish he refuses to believe you and spergs out about it. He also refuses to believe that people "from the Internet" have "real world" problems or lives. Except for him of course, he's a beautiful little unique snow flake.

At first, I took pity on him and I tried to help him. I spent a lot of drat time giving him good advice on things like women, making friends, sex and job searching. It's amazing how completely naiive he is about the most common sense things. After he broke up with his girlfriend, I got onto the subject of sex and he said he didn't use a condom with this lass. He then said "she only slept with 11 guys before me" and "she's infertile" because he thought that that means he also cannot get an STD. I told him he should probably get tested and even looked up directions to a local clinic. He freaked out because the nurses would see him and know what he was coming in for and no one can know that he's had sex. He asked me if he could just get tested for swine flu or something instead.

I told him how normal it is to get tested and told him that in the future he needs to wear condoms to which he had another freak out because the cashier will see him and maybe one of his former students may see him buying small penis condoms. Plus, they'll all know he's having premartial sex, which he believes Upper World people don't do. He, to this day, refuses to buy condoms even when I gave him a link to ones he can buy online. He also claimed that Lutheran women don't have premarital sex so he'll just have sex with Lutheran women from now on. He treats non-lutheran women like chattel, if a girl is non-lutheran he has no problem asking them to make homegrown for his own personal enjoyment. When he's mad at you and you're a female he will threaten to masturbate to your photos, which he saves from Facebook and AwfulYearBook. Yes, this happened to me. One time, a goonette talked dirty to him as a joke and he had to leave the call to go jerk off.

Two Worlds is incredibly socially awkward. He doesn't have any real friends to speak of in Decatur where he currently lives. He says that he has to have balance in his life so when he gets an opportunity to possibly hang out with someone he will often turn it down because they are too nerdy and he feels that he did one nerdy thing that day so now he needs to balance out his upper world and under world by hanging out with a broseph type at a bar. He doesn't really like bros but he wants to be like them so he figures if he hangs out with them he will be more like them.

One time, he was feeling particularly lonely. He wanted our advice on how to set up something at his apartment. He's never had anyone except for his ex-gf at his apartment before. So he turned on his webcam and walked us through his apartment so I could give him tips on what needed to be cleaned up/moved for guests. After this, he wrote up a message to send to some of his nerdy gamer friends on Facebook inviting them over for a party that weekend. I believe this was a Wednesday. In the past, when he tried to call people to hang out he would get very distressed if the call went to voice mail or they said that they were busy. We assured him that this wasn't a big deal. I and another goon looked over his note to his nerd friends and it looked pretty chill. Invited them over to play some games, wii and drink. He kept asking us over and over again if he sounded gay. He is very afraid of sounding gay.

He sent off the message and the response from one of them was that he was busy that weekend but he knew some other people who might want to hang out. To this, Ariel responded that it was "too late" and just killed it right there.

Another time, there was a celebration in his town and he was whining that he had no one to go with but this one girl did express interest. He refused to call her because she was "too goony" (even though I'm pretty sure she's not a goon), possibly watches anime and is the "bad kind of fat." She was less heavy than his last girlfriend and a lot cuter but whatever. Eventually, he invited her to come to his apartment to watch a movie and hang out. She agreed even though they barely know each other. So he tells us that she'll be coming over the next night around 8:30 PM to watch a movie. The goons he was talking to on Skype lightly joke with him that he's going to get some. He spergs out, as usual. He claims he doesn't want to get laid because getting laid turned out so badly last time. Eventually we convince him it might be a possibility. Then he says that he doesn't want to do anything with his penis involved, and that he can show her his magic fingers, claiming she won't be able to walk afterwards. Once he gets her off, he'll simply jerk himself off so she doesn't have to get him off.

Needless to say, it's frustrating when someone asks you for advice then constantly doesn't take it. Then when things don't go his way he calls up crying and sobbing. On top of the crying and sobbing, there is literally no way of making him feel better. He wallows in self-pity. It's like crack for him. I can give him compliments and he says, "I AM NOT A GOOD PERSON DON'T EVER SAY THAT." I can tell him good things about himself and he just turns it around. He goes to the bar and gets drunk by himself on three screwdrivers then comes back and cries some more about how he's going to kill himself via alcohol poisoning. It's probably my own fault but I wasted a lot of time worrying about the little guy and trying to talk him out of "doing something to put himself on the news."

The ultimate thing myself and all the goons who were talking to him tried to help Two Worlds with was getting him to go to a psychiatrist. He went to a therapist a few times (several times he skipped his appointments) and the therapist recommended that he go to a psychiatrist. All he had to do to get medication for his many issues was have a blood test done, so he said. Much like going to get tested for STDs, he flat out refused to do this. I never understood why but he simply would not go. Now, his insurance from his past job has run out and he has no hope of getting it done. Instead, he chooses to believe people who are trolling him's diagnosis of Asperger's, so he is now self-diagnosed aspie.

I guess I should address Two Worlds' past career. There's a lot of rumors on the forums about this I've noticed. He worked as a teacher for one year at a Lutheran high school. He had zero control over his classes and students walked all over him. He couldn't even control a class of two students. As a result, Ariel called Professor Xavier to get the Dream Helm to help with the dementor attacks in his class, but the X-Men were too busy to bring Ariel the Dream Helm because the S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier was hijacked by terrorists (from his Live Journal). Eventually, the students who actually wanted to learn complained to their parents that nothing was getting done in class and the school had to let him go. He has been unemployed up until this month when he got a job as a delivery boy with Papa John's.

Although he claims to be in between the two worlds of the Internet and the real world, I don't know anyone who has more cross over between lives. Most people probably keep their Something Awful postings and general Internet shenanigans out of conversation with real life friends. Ariel does not do this. He talks about Something Awful on his Twitter and Facebook. He uses Intener memes in real life (I know from talking to one of his real life friends.) He even goatsed everyone on his Facebook once. He talks publically on his Facebook about separating his Lutheran friends/Decatur people from the Internet people on his list like they can't see it. Telling him to remove Internet people from his friend's list is futile. So I told him he could make a separate fake Facebook just for Internet people so that he wouldn't make a gigantic rear end of himself in front of friends and family in real life. Another piece of advice he did not take.

If there's a term for Two Worlds, it would be "Too Much Information." Even when people ask him not to he shares intimate details about things like his girlfriend's vagina (horrid smell and the gaping size) and the kinky things he would do to her involving household objects such as his toothbrush, remote control and cellphone. He would also use the horrid smell of her vagina as the reason he couldn't stay hard, even though he would constantly ask her if he was still hard while he was inside her. He would say these things both during and after he was dating her.

He never ever talks about anyone but himself. If you try to have a conversation about something it somehow gets turned into a conversation either about the Arielverse or his problems. Even when I had conversations with him about things we both mutually liked like comic books it would get turned into something about him. He never asks how I am doing or what's going on in my life but I sure as hell knew every minute detail of his every day happenings whether I wanted to or not. He will blatantly interrupt you mid-sentence and ramble into one of his own problems totally unrelated to any conversation, and will ignore any attempts to move the conversation away from himself.

So after months of this bullshit, everyone just kind of got sick of it, so after he was invited in, we'd turn the conversation back to something that wasn't Two Worlds. One time we tried to turn the conversation to food and he freaked out and said, "IS THAT A MEME?!" He thought we were laughing at him when we weren't and would freak out over weird poo poo like one person in Skype saying, "WWCXD?" (What would Charles Xavier Do?) He yelled at us to shut the gently caress up.

He told one goon that he was being "out of character for this story arc" because he stopped giving him advice. When the goon implored what he meant, Ariel said that he was "breaking the 4th wall" and that Warren Ellis was writing a story about them.

This all came to a head one night when one person in Skype told him he was One World and that if anyone was Two Worlds it was not him. He got really depressed about this. The next day he started raging out on Facebook about us. I sent him a message asking him to just remove me from his friend's list and telling him that I hope he seeks psychological help and is happier some day. That afternoon, I find out he decided to start calling bosses to get back at us for whatever reason.

He called my friend's boss and said that she was harassing him from work, which was totally bogus. So she had to have a conversation with her employer about Ariel Campos. She is a single mom by the way and probably the one person out of the group who was the nicest to him out of everyone.

This all happened very recently and I feel that people need to know this poo poo, that Ariel isn't a poor soul who gets a bad rap on SA but actually a really big jerk who has mental problems but refuses to get help and revels in the attention that people give him; good or bad. I guess that's where the "passive aggressive posts" come from because I didn't want to troll the thread with the drama. I'm sorry to poo poo up your challenge, Ayb.

I think that's about everything. I really didn't want this to be tl;dr but it's kind of impossible with someone like Two Worlds who holds four-hour conversations with you entirely about himself.

Edit: Oh yeah, and his most recent Live Journal about him losing his virginity starts off narrated in the voice of one of his students.

# ? Dec 3, 2017 21:55

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

My Rhythmic Crotch posted:

what was the search feature that allowed digging up dirt on people?

a solid 50%+ of Helldump was just searching bad posters' usernames or personal details they repeated constantly and finding their big ol' anime child porn cache under the same name. a more innocent time

# ? Dec 3, 2017 22:18

Fat Twitter Man: Jan 24, 2007; by R. Guyovich

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

a solid 50%+ of Helldump was just searching bad posters' usernames or personal details they repeated constantly and finding their big ol' anime child porn cache under the same name. a more innocent time

In the internet of 10 years ago people just put their AIM handle in every single online profile they had and thought nothing of it, so you could look at a guy�s forum profile and find his livejournal with his real name, work, and school and also his anime porn account. Googling names was considered a black art.

# ? Dec 4, 2017 03:55

Black August: Sep 28, 2003

Fat Twitter Man posted:

In the internet of 10 years ago people just put their AIM handle in every single online profile they had and thought nothing of it, so you could look at a guy�s forum profile and find his livejournal with his real name, work, and school and also his anime porn account. Googling names was considered a black art.

I remember when people would use the term "Googlefu"

Christ

# ? Dec 4, 2017 03:57

spinderella: Jul 15, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

Black August posted:

I remember when people would use the term "Googlefu"

Christ

Uh-oh.

# ? Dec 4, 2017 04:03

Orkin Mang: Nov 1, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

in this age of trump i find myself using ask jeeves krav maga a fair bit

# ? Dec 4, 2017 04:05

Black August: Sep 28, 2003

Orkin Mang posted:

in this age of trump i find myself using ask jeeves krav maga a fair bit

Bing Crane Style ever strong

# ? Dec 4, 2017 04:08

Orkin Mang: Nov 1, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Black August posted:

Bing Crane Style ever strong

bing chun has the devastating 'chain punch'

# ? Dec 4, 2017 04:10

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

Who What Now posted:

I miss YCS.

gently caress off

# ? Dec 4, 2017 05:12

Who What Now: Sep 10, 2006; by Azathoth

hackbunny posted:

nvm I found it:

Aw yeah, that's the good poo poo

# ? Dec 4, 2017 05:13

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Anyone post about the goon who made a thread saying it was time to bring back the bull moose party? I wanna say this was like six years ago, hope and change were not panning out, a lot of people were getting displeased, but it wasn't insane mirror world yet, and some goon posted a thread in gbs.

The way I remember it, it went NUTS. tons of people posting, and it was all extremely "gently caress yeah let's do this thing" or extremely "this is dumb." The guy basically spelled out what would essentially be the Bernie platform, but it evaporated when the thread died(?). There was an irc and it was totally illegible because of how fast people were talking. I don't remember exactly how the thread died, maybe they got shouted down, maybe the whole thing was too "goon project" to live

I'm still catching up on this thread and it seems like this was passed over. The guy you're thinking about is Brian Boyko

I'd go into more detail but the goldmined thread is really everything you need.

# ? Dec 4, 2017 05:25

goethe.cx: Apr 23, 2014

hackbunny posted:

nvm I found it:

hahahahaha holy poo poo

# ? Dec 4, 2017 05:48

Grand Prize Winner: Feb 19, 2007

How many phases has GBS had? I can think of around 4, maybe 5 distinct ones.

Like, Old Old GBS was probably dying by the time I regged (this is my one and only account), but you could still kinda find traces of the crazy forum-invading game-griefing kinda poo poo pretty frequently.
Then it kinda morphed into Effort GBS under Fragmaster and Abe, then Ozma made every be nice for a while, then Halloween 2013 kicked in and poo poo went bonkers for a while until in late 2016 (2017?) Lowtax went and closed down Forumid=1 permanently and it was nigh on a month until the current iteration popped up.

Am I anywhere near accurate? I started drinking a lot in 2009 or so and have only just started to dry out.

Also I personally invented peanut butter jelly time and the mcdonalds downs-singer, so you're welcome.

# ? Dec 4, 2017 06:56

meme: Oct 7, 2009; But it's a pretty good way to get someone to spend money on buying you an av and sig. Maybe I should be really obnoxious and get an upgrade myself

Moral of the story: be careful what you wish for.

You are welcome.

I never really post, but this is pretty much the only site I visit to read stuff. Other forums are annoying for one reason or another, either the layout or the people.
I don't doubt we're a throwback and never gonna be as popular as we were- but I'm still being consistently entertained, and as long as theres interesting threads I've still not read, I'm not going anywhere else.

I never really came here for the photoshop phridays and stuff, I was here for stuff like the weekend web- and the scornful and mocking attitude we have towards idiots on the internet is still going stronger than ever. SA has given me a really effective early warning system for idiots and creeps, because I've seen so many threads about so many weirdoes.

I'm not a fuckin weirdo so I don't ask strangers if they have stairs in their house, but I've met some cool people and some weird people who turned out to be goons.

I like that the funniest people on twitter came from here too, they redeem that poo poo site.

I reckon a patreon or kickstarter for front page content or site upgrades would be a good idea. We're never gonna be huge again, but we could be more popular than we are now without sacrificing quality posters, and no one really wants the site to go away any time soon. I have no idea how lowtax has bothered for so long!

# ? Dec 5, 2017 15:49

limp_cheese: Sep 10, 2007; Nothing to see here. Move along.

Even though I've been around for a while I never figured out what the "Do you have stairs in your house" meme is. Since this is the history thread figured I would finally ask.

# ? Dec 6, 2017 05:50

mst4k: Apr 18, 2003; budlitemolaram

limp_cheese posted:

Even though I've been around for a while I never figured out what the "Do you have stairs in your house" meme is. Since this is the history thread figured I would finally ask.

Someone said it then like maximum three other people in the early 2000s thought it was funny and that is literally all there is to it.

E: Was when websites were really small and if you suspected someone else posted on sa you could be like yo you got stairs in your house? and i don't remember the answer but that exchange of conversation has hopefully never happened irl

mst4k fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Dec 6, 2017

# ? Dec 6, 2017 05:51

Who What Now: Sep 10, 2006; by Azathoth

The response is "No, I am protected." I'm pretty sure it's a reference to Pusher-Bot.

And it may be dumb, but it's a hell of a lot better than Reddit's "The narwhal bacons at midnight".

# ? Dec 6, 2017 06:02

Kirk Vikernes: Apr 26, 2004; Count Goatnackh

Yes, I am protected!

# ? Dec 6, 2017 06:03

Hemingway To Go!: Nov 10, 2008; im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway

limp_cheese posted:

Even though I've been around for a while I never figured out what the "Do you have stairs in your house" meme is. Since this is the history thread figured I would finally ask.

icq prank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0ot9iJm_k
we are the space robots

# ? Dec 6, 2017 06:07

Stexils: Jun 5, 2008

ive posted this before but probably my favorite post ever was someone who thought someone else irl was a goon so they asked real casual, "stairs?" and the other person nodded.

# ? Dec 6, 2017 06:10

SniperWoreConverse: Mar 20, 2010; Gun Saliva

Rex-Goliath posted:

I'm still catching up on this thread and it seems like this was passed over. The guy you're thinking about is Brian Boyko

I'd go into more detail but the goldmined thread is really everything you need.

Haha this guy. Why do people like him and zombo show up

i'm almost certain this is not the dude I was thinking of tho, I was almost certain it was an actual goon who came up with it, and it was in GBS

# ? Dec 6, 2017 07:33

Gone Fashing: Aug 4, 2004; KEEP POSTIN
I'M STILL LAFFIN

is awfulyearbook still around? that was a great idea, posting your real life picutre in connection with your forums account. i remember bhlaab told me i looked like an autistic racecar driver.

tcc used to be even more crazy, with the online pharmacy thread as a thinly veiled cover for discussing invite-only drug selling boards before the silk road existed. just use loisg as your referral.

# ? Dec 19, 2017 22:11

maskenfreiheit: Dec 30, 2004

I've thought a lot about my own journey to SA.

One thing I've noticed in our modern internet is everyone has their bubbles. Back in the day there weren't as many communities, and people seemed to follow a "path".

Mine was from Newgrounds to Gamefaqs to deeper into gamefaqs (LUE BABY) to gamefaqs offsites to here.

But some people didn't stop here. They were too hosed up for the anime subforum, so they created their own site - 4chan. And some of them were too hosed up for 4chan, and they split off to places like 8chan.

I look back, and I see branching paths there. I went off to college and got an actual social circle and started banging (very nice).

Other kids stayed antisocial and just got meaner and meaner.

Anyways, SA used to be super harsh - someone in the confessions thread mentioned being afraid to post, and I was the same way. Then I got busy with college. Then life.

And after the election I decided to come back, fearful - would edgy lolbertarian filled D&D have gone full Trump? Only to find out that apparently now we're all feeling the Bern and racism is a probatable offense. I was pleasantly suprised, and proceeded to rack up a slew of probations as I went through a compressed adolescence.

# ? Dec 19, 2017 22:20

Justin Godscock: Oct 12, 2004; Listen here, funnyman!

meme posted:

I never really came here for the photoshop phridays and stuff, I was here for stuff like the weekend web- and the scornful and mocking attitude we have towards idiots on the internet is still going stronger than ever. SA has given me a really effective early warning system for idiots and creeps, because I've seen so many threads about so many weirdoes.

That will probably be SA's lasting influence on me. I just plain hate "internet culture" sometimes and seeing weirdos enable each other by being around other weirdos kinda needs to be called out. I liked it here because there was zero-tolerance on meme bullshit, mods gave a drat and there were no cabals of users controlling discussion.

maskenfreiheit posted:

Mine was from Newgrounds to Gamefaqs to deeper into gamefaqs (LUE BABY) to gamefaqs offsites to here.

y halo thar

I'm sorry, but I was the same way where I started off in GameFAQs and eventually ended up here and honestly I never really went elsewhere and only dabbled in Reddit a few years ago because that was where all the discussion is nowadays. Though it can be pretty circle-jerky and I'll often post something and take the downvotes because it's true.

Justin Godscock fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Dec 19, 2017

# ? Dec 19, 2017 22:49

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

maskenfreiheit posted:

And after the election I decided to come back, fearful - would edgy lolbertarian filled D&D have gone full Trump? Only to find out that apparently now we're all feeling the Bern and racism is a probatable offense. I was pleasantly suprised, and proceeded to rack up a slew of probations as I went through a compressed adolescence.

LF and the McCain toxxes had a lot to do with it.

LF started as a place to dunk on libertarian wordvomit, but the effort threads in LF (which would eventually be crossposted to GBS) were really detailed overviews of major issues that were often really powerful to read, and in my case were one of the leading reasons I went from a libertarian to ＦＵＬＬＹＡＵＴＯＭＡＴＥＤＧＡＹＳＰＡＣＥＣＯＭＭＵＮＩＳＭ.

The McCain toxx thread was pretty much exactly what sounds like, all the conservative and libertarian posters in D&D who supported McCain toxxed themselves for it, and when Obama got elected, ate a permaban for it, which quickly shifted D&D towards having a liberal / leftist majority and changed the tone of the entire forum.

# ? Dec 19, 2017 23:03

Who What Now: Sep 10, 2006; by Azathoth

maskenfreiheit posted:

I've thought a lot about my own journey to SA.

One thing I've noticed in our modern internet is everyone has their bubbles. Back in the day there weren't as many communities, and people seemed to follow a "path".

Mine was from Newgrounds to Gamefaqs to deeper into gamefaqs (LUE BABY) to gamefaqs offsites to here.

Mine was similar, but swap out "Newgrounds" for "Wizards of the Coast forums".

# ? Dec 19, 2017 23:14

Grand Prize Winner: Feb 19, 2007

Instant Sunrise posted:

LF and the McCain toxxes had a lot to do with it.

LF started as a place to dunk on libertarian wordvomit, but the effort threads in LF (which would eventually be crossposted to GBS) were really detailed overviews of major issues that were often really powerful to read, and in my case were one of the leading reasons I went from a libertarian to ＦＵＬＬＹＡＵＴＯＭＡＴＥＤＧＡＹＳＰＡＣＥＣＯＭＭＵＮＩＳＭ.

The McCain toxx thread was pretty much exactly what sounds like, all the conservative and libertarian posters in D&D who supported McCain toxxed themselves for it, and when Obama got elected, ate a permaban for it, which quickly shifted D&D towards having a liberal / leftist majority and changed the tone of the entire forum.

I thought LF's story was a bunch of libertarians irony-poisoned themselves into Marxism.

# ? Dec 20, 2017 00:25

OXBALLS DOT COM: Sep 11, 2005; by FactsAreUseless; Young Orc

Justin Godscock posted:

That will probably be SA's lasting influence on me. I just plain hate "internet culture" sometimes and seeing weirdos enable each other by being around other weirdos kinda needs to be called out. I liked it here because there was zero-tolerance on meme bullshit, mods gave a drat and there were no cabals of users controlling discussion.

Sadly, there now are cabals of users controlling discussion

# ? Dec 20, 2017 00:30

theperminator: Sep 16, 2009; by Smythe; Fun Shoe

In some ways you could say the silent majority are like the rebels in Star Wars

# ? Dec 20, 2017 00:35

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

Grand Prize Winner posted:

I thought LF's story was a bunch of libertarians irony-poisoned themselves into Marxism.

Probably a combination of both factors tbqh.

# ? Dec 20, 2017 00:48

Who What Now: Sep 10, 2006; by Azathoth

theperminator posted:

In some ways you could say the silent majority are like the rebels in Star Wars

More like Jabba's lackeys

# ? Dec 20, 2017 00:58

Nude: Nov 16, 2014; I have no idea what I'm doing.

maskenfreiheit posted:

I've thought a lot about my own journey to SA.

One thing I've noticed in our modern internet is everyone has their bubbles. Back in the day there weren't as many communities, and people seemed to follow a "path".

Mine was from Newgrounds to Gamefaqs to deeper into gamefaqs (LUE BABY) to gamefaqs offsites to here.

But some people didn't stop here. They were too hosed up for the anime subforum, so they created their own site - 4chan. And some of them were too hosed up for 4chan, and they split off to places like 8chan.

I look back, and I see branching paths there. I went off to college and got an actual social circle and started banging (very nice).

Other kids stayed antisocial and just got meaner and meaner.

Anyways, SA used to be super harsh - someone in the confessions thread mentioned being afraid to post, and I was the same way. Then I got busy with college. Then life.

And after the election I decided to come back, fearful - would edgy lolbertarian filled D&D have gone full Trump? Only to find out that apparently now we're all feeling the Bern and racism is a probatable offense. I was pleasantly suprised, and proceeded to rack up a slew of probations as I went through a compressed adolescence.

Same except I didn't really go deep in gamefaqs. I also got here a lot later than you but it's kind of interesting we followed the same path.

# ? Dec 20, 2017 03:52

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# ? May 7, 2024 08:38

maskenfreiheit: Dec 30, 2004

Nude posted:

Same except I didn't really go deep in gamefaqs. I also got here a lot later than you but it's kind of interesting we followed the same path.

i wonder if cjayc is a goon

# ? Dec 20, 2017 03:58

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