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WatermelonGun posted:dickeye’s off-site is bad?!? it’s worse than that, it’s v bad
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Jun 24, 2020 16:45
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What a shame, I hope the place survives as I think SA has some of the best forums I've ever known, dead gay forum etc aside.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:46
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MotU posted:its not good, fam Well, I dunno what else to do then. Maybe my posting will make it good. That will be difficult since my posting is bad, but I'll do what I can.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:49
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make a forum for me to post on. i want at least 100 people there who all post and keep up with it. no compromises
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Jun 24, 2020 16:49
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It wouldn't be proper without Cavauro.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:51
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This poo poo sucks. gently caress Lowtax.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:54
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CrcleSqreSanchz posted:I have been here since 2002. Dear lord. Since 2004 here  I agree 100% with what you said above. I remember back around 2008 to 2010, I was doing a lot of painting of WH40K stuff, and I eagerly signed up on a bunch of mini painting-related forums, thinking I'd have a ton of resources at my fingertips. And a decade later, I think at least half of them, if not more, no longer exist (including a goon-run one, IIRC, that was created by some people who posted regularly in the painting threads in Trad Games). And the rest of them I check very infrequently (and am usually reminded very quickly just why I don't look at those forums, because they're usually packed with grognards complaining about how a particular color isn't the correct shade for the armpit of a fictional sci-fi army trooper or something. And that's if you're lucky and don't get the "hurr hurr" heavy breathing ones that love to post pics of stuff that goes beyond the definition of NSFW, or the wehraboos who like to slap Nazi iconography on their future space tanks). We can substitute "miniature painting" for "wrestling" or whatever other topic you choose, and I'd guess that a lot of people would have a similar story about trying to find something that did whatever it is that the SA forums do for them, and with similar results. I suspect a lot of it is just inertia and/or unwillingness to change on my part, but the SA forums seem to have a lot more going for them than most others, and like a lot of you I can't really picture myself wanting to post most anywhere else, and it'd be a real loss for a lot of us whenever they do shut down. In summary, Little Mac posted:This poo poo sucks. gently caress Lowtax.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:59
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where's the new site I gotta figure out whose posting identity to steal before they can sign up
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Jun 24, 2020 17:05
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Wasn’t there an episode of Aeon Flux like that? No, you're thinking of Repo! The Genetic Opera. I hope beyond hope that we manage to stay here one way or another. Like a lot of other folks, this is really the only place on the Internet I feel at home - a discord room just wouldn't be the same.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:08
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Offsite plan: Step 1) Charge $10 to join Step 2) We'll figure the rest out later.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:16
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Cavauro posted:make a forum for me to post on. i want at least 100 people there who all post and keep up with it. no compromises I bought a domain called thenewangelfire.com a while back as kind of a joke with the intent of using it to make lovely Angelfire-style sites. If someone wants to use the domain/a subdomain to make a dumb little spot for us to talk about grappling, maybe we can use that. But we need those cool line breaks that were like barbed wire and animated saw blades and dripping blood and stuff. Also no compromises.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:17
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Been a long time lurker who really only posts for Rumble Roulette and very rarely in PPV GDTs. I can/have adapted to Discord but I prefer the forums for being able to leisurely catch up on discussions I missed. Plus Discord isn’t nearly as good for games as forums are—being able to read along with the various TEW threads over the years here has been a delight.
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Realistically, your choices are either a Discord that might be hard to follow at times and doesn't have the same kind of discussion, or a forum that dies within a month as they all do.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:19
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Man, I picked a weird 24 hours to come back
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Jun 24, 2020 17:23
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If I started dating Lowtax, I would change my name to Uwe Boll. Problem solved.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:24
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This is definitely the best community I’ve ever joined, and you folks have really helped me appreciate other people’s sensitivities online. Absolutely shell shocked about Lowtax, mainly because I never venture off the Island and didn’t know what all that mod fuss was about — just assumed it was typical forum drama. Really hope someone can buy this place and keep it going. If not, see ya’ll in some other futuristic medium of communication like checks notes a chat room? That can’t be right. Anyway, seriously thanks for helping me grow and making me laugh over the few years I’ve been here. Ya’ll deserve better.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:25
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:Man, I picked a weird 24 hours to come back Honestly "a weird 24 hours" would similarly describe any day this year, any of the last 8 days especially
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Jun 24, 2020 17:27
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Honestly, I likely wouldn't be into wrestling if it wasn't for this forum. This forum helped me transfer over from WWE when I came back to LU, which took me to the indies, and then NJPW and AEW. I don't really venture out beyond this forum, for the most part. There are a couple of threads that I read regularly, and I maintain the Drag Race thread over in TVIV, but if I'm going to miss one thing it will be FIGHT ISLAND. Hopefully there will be a transfer of ownership and that will be that.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:44
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bradzilla posted:If this is what kills SA, I'm out. Fragmented offsites are so loving sad. I have no idea what I'd even do on the internet without SA. I'll have to find something...productive to do. Or just avoid Twitter less. Either is an unpleasant prospect. This is the only place I talk about wrestling and comics, and none of the other options I've come across seem like adequate replacements. Thanks to the forums for introducing me to NJPW and LU! And, uh, Chikara while it lasted.
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Chris James 2 posted:Honestly "a weird 24 hours" would similarly describe any day this year, any of the last 8 days especially Right? This week feels like a year and this year feels like a decade
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I am going to choose to believe that the modmin team will pull something off. I know I'm mostly just the guy that's an rear end in a top hat about LIJ, but I love all of you and this place and I don't want to consider the idea of losing it.
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Jun 24, 2020 17:58
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don't forget about me after the site closes
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Jun 24, 2020 17:59
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MJeff posted:I am going to choose to believe that the modmin team will pull something off. I know I'm mostly just the guy that's an rear end in a top hat about LIJ, but I love all of you and this place and I don't want to consider the idea of losing it. I will miss popping for the order to pop for the Bushiroonie. I will also miss the forums community in general, but que sera sera.
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MJeff posted:I am going to choose to believe that the modmin team will pull something off. I know I'm mostly just the guy that's an rear end in a top hat about LIJ, but I love all of you and this place and I don't want to consider the idea of losing it. I honestly feel the same. Outside of a name on paper lowtax has been the least important part of SA for years. If it's building something new so be it but it's not an off-site if the original exploded and most of the community moves to the new one.
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MJeff posted:I am going to choose to believe that the modmin team will pull something off. I know I'm mostly just the guy that's an rear end in a top hat about LIJ, but I love all of you and this place and I don't want to consider the idea of losing it. If the site dies and none of us ever see each other I want you to spend the rest of your life knowing that I will never pop for the Bushiroonie
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Jun 24, 2020 18:04
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The year is 2031. Rarity is the Scoopsgirl in Chief of the top Scoopshouse in the UK. While writing an article about how Sanada vs. Taichi IV sold out the Tokyo Dome, the Osaka Dome, Wembley Stadium and three different NFL stadiums in the US simultaneously and managed to outdo their previous 8-star trilogy in terms of workrate and storytelling, she hears a knock at her door. She goes to answer it and there's only a package. She opens the package and finds a balloon, a needle and a picture...of a man....spinning...... She opens the window and screams out into the dark, "NEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEEER!"
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MJeff posted:Sanada vs. Taichi IV I read that as "Sasha vs Taichi IV" and thought "wow, the 20s WERE really weird..."
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MJeff posted:The year is 2031. Rarity is the Scoopsgirl in Chief of the top Scoopshouse in the UK. While writing an article about how Sanada vs. Taichi IV sold out the Tokyo Dome, the Osaka Dome, Wembley Stadium and three different NFL stadiums in the US simultaneously and managed to outdo their previous 8-star trilogy in terms of workrate and storytelling, she hears a knock at her door. She goes to answer it and there's only a package. She opens the package and finds a balloon, a needle and a picture...of a man....spinning...... Please don't make me excited for things that will never happen 
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Jun 24, 2020 18:16
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The last time I was on a forum that imploded, it happened immediately after Kane returned at the end of a Raw This time I'm on a forum that implodes, it happens immediately after Taichi is on the cover of Weekly Pro I regret nothing
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Long time lurker, very infrequent poster. In fact the only time I post anywhere is to melt down about my sports teams in real time. I really enjoyed the discussions here. Checking this forum on a whim a few years ago ended up with me discovering Omega/Okada I and getting a NJPW World subscription. Just so you now, all of you have been Great, and the G in Great stands for Goto.
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Jun 24, 2020 18:35
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MotU posted:it’s worse than that, it’s v bad why?
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Just saw this thread, so I'll ultimately echo what I said in the AEW thread: While I'm mostly a lurker on here, and have been since 2003, the Fight Island community has been one which I've loved posting with. My A-1 hope is that enough of what "Something Awful" is can be transmitted to someone else for better ownership and upkeep. Failing that, I look to the transition from NeoGAF to ResetEra. I'm not sure how many people post both here and there, but as someone who lurk(s/ed) on both, how the heck did they keep that community engaged and together? Is there an opportunity to do similar here / with SA as a whole?
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marioinblack posted:the G in Great stands for Goto. 
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This place was great while it lasted. Love you all.
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I’m going to be really sad if SA dies. The fact that this is a site with pretty non-toxic communities for Wresting, comics and comedy is the main reason I stay here , because almost everywhere else on the internet sucks for discussing those sanely.
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I doubt anything will happen. Lowtax will say it’s all false and that he can’t talk about it because lawyers, a bunch of goons who are posting in a frenzy right now will get themselves banned, and the forum will keep ticking along like it’s done for the last 20 years. Maybe I’m just cynical or have been here for too long to think anything is really going to change, I dunno
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Hellblazer187 posted:Over in CSpam they're talking about a forum that was started after Lowtax's last accusation (which I somehow heard nothing about). I've registered there pretty much sight unseen. No idea if it's actually any good. I'm only mentioning it here because if people migrate I think it would be cool for migration to occur to a single place rather than a fight island replacement and a cspam replacement and a batmans secret replacement, etc. Anyways that's breadnroses.net. This post should not be taken as a recommendation for that particular site since I don't even know if it is good. I'm just posting so the various different subgroups I look at have at least a chance of landing in the same place. I have joined to also give it a shot. Thank you.
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:Right? This week feels like a year and this year feels like a decade The PPJ drama happened SIX MONTHS AGO which seems impossible as I have aged 150 years since then and am now a skeleton at a computer
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I barely post and mostly lurk but I'd be sad to see this place gone. This might be a good alternative? From the list of Good discords and off-sites in GBS: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3929174#post505964811 Queen Combat posted:http://breadnroses.net
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