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SA pulled me away from 4Chan when I was in a very vulnerable state mentally and it's honestly kind of scary to think about where I might be if I had stayed there a few years longer.
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It kept me from getting too interested in 4chan when I was in the main age group of their users and keeps me from having a more than tiny role on Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. All of those are good things in my mind.
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Oh, yeah, SA definitely kept me from getting into a lot of stupid poo poo for assholes way before normal people knew about it, like 4chan, cryptocurrency, pickup artistry, libertarianism
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I made some really good friends on here in some of the old chat threads, led to me doing cool stuff like flying out to a new country to visit. Fallen out of contact as much but got fond memories.
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PYF kept my poops interesting.
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TCC did that for me. I'd wake up in the afternoon and poo poo something I swear I had never eaten
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I paid my ten dollars for this site a long time ago when I was going through some intense trauma. Over the years I slowly got better, learned to like myself, built a life for myself, and now I feel comfortable enough to post. So posting here makes me reflect on how far I’ve come.
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I just realized I was basically raised feral by a group of warhammer goons so uh I might not have ever learned how to use a fork and knife properly but I do know I should buy the viperless milk and also deep knowledge of black crusade acquisition rules
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Plinkey's Goon Fund helped me out several times before it was killed. The new Goon Fund has helped too. I'm really pleased at how we help each other here on SA 😁
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I came to SA mostly because I was sick and tired and plain done with stupid drama and bullshit going on with other forums I was posting on. Coming here was like walking into Oz and seeing everything turn from black-and-white into color (credit to Chris Jericho for that analogy). There were admins that gave clear and consistant rules to everyone (before Lowtax became an insane and lazy rear end in a top hat he set this standard so credit where it's due...still rest in piss he had to go). Moderators that actually hung out with the community instead of hiding in the shadows and hanging out with their forum buddies off-site. But most importantly the community was just a vehement rejection of the Internet's bad tendencies that I loved. If you had an unpopular opinion you were heard as long as you weren't an rear end in a top hat about it. If a hivemind groupthink happened in a thread people were encouraged to loving shatter it. And most importantly the community kinda policed itself by mocking trolls and idiots before a mod came in and publicly banned them after lighting them up (instead of tolerating them because they liked them for weird reasons).
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I played a lot of videogames with goons during the years, and I got to meet some really funny and interesting individuals. It's crazy to think that I first started browsing on SA almost twenty years ago.
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Like half the furniture in my home is stuff I got from fellow goons when they moved or upgraded 
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I was a lurker for years before registering. Got punched hard by the baby rabies a decade ago after a lifetime of being one of them outspoken childfree warriors and had no idea how to deal... and Something Awful was the only place I knew that wasn't a total hugbox. So I registered and blurbled into an E/N thread about how I wanted babies and didn't want babies and shouldn't have babies but needed babies right now. People teased me, called me an idiot, changed the title of my thread a couple times, bought me this beautiful icon, and pointed out that some of my underlying health issues were probably contributing to my angst. I dread to think what the state of my life would be now if I'd decided to vent on Tumblr instead. I'm no longer 'childfree' - other people's kids are incredibly neat - but I love my lazy freedom. Every weekend that I wake up at 11 to texts from my friends who've been up since 5 with their toddlers I bless Goons for not thinking everyone's feelings are valid.
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The first time I had sex, my girlfriend was late on her period and we were both freaking out and we asked SA what we should do. Turned out nothing, nothing was wrong, but man those were some times. edit for fun anecdote: she was an Australian girl, 16, and I was an American guy, 15. We had met on the Internet two years prior, and my father bought me a plane ticket to Australia, where I stayed with her... like, sleeping in her bed, for three weeks, with her parents' blessing. How weird to think about it now, all these years later. edit 2: this was in 2001, but before 9/11. We're still friends all these years later. I saw her again not long ago. edit 3: but holy poo poo what were our parents thinking? We were "engaged" to one another. 15 and 16 year-olds are not mature enough to get married! credburn has a new favorite as of 07:18 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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codswallop posted:
The first part doesn't match up with the second. If you weren't child free, wouldn't that mean you had kids?
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"childfree" is a philosophical standpoint of "hah, kids are awful, i will never have them"
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It's the difference between "not religious" and "Atheist"
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Yep. “Childless” “Childfree” and “I don’t have kids” are three very different emotions about the same situation
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I thought I was the only one with an av like this 
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SgtScruffy posted:I thought I was the only one with an av like this 
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Feb 24, 2023 10:58
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Babies EVERYWHERE
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Grassy Knowles posted:Babies EVERYWHERE I feel great (Thank you for the av)
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Grassy Knowles posted:I feel great I jUsT ShAtTeRed mY HAND!! Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:"childfree" is a philosophical standpoint of "hah, kids are awful, i will never have them" codswallop posted:Yep. “Childless” “Childfree” and “I don’t have kids” are three very different emotions about the same situation Gotcha, I see what you meant.
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SgtScruffy posted:I thought I was the only one with an av like this So did I!
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I don’t actually know what this AV comes from…
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codswallop posted:I don’t actually know what this AV comes from… https://youtu.be/9h_nJE2nZWM
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More magnificent than I ever dreamed... And there's another way Something Awful has just made my life better!
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codswallop posted:More magnificent than I ever dreamed... And there's another way Something Awful has just made my life better! Sounds like someone feels great
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I would never have guessed that woman was in favour of babies everywhere.
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"What's up?" "Me!  "I would have bought every Nutrigrain bar in existence if I'd known this was a commercial. I thought it was from a B-movie or something.
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YeahTubaMike posted:"What's up?" It's not a real commercial, it's a student project. Kellogg's would never make something that good. Highest quality version that exists: https://www.justinreardon.com/nutrigrain-feel-great
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Plastik posted:It's not a real commercial, it's a student project. Kellogg's would never make something that good. Ok, this I didn't know. I mean, sure, it's out there, but I thought it was from the age of companies going "let's try this viral thing" and thought outside the box. That's disappointing. Also it always struck me as weird that ab-punching dude is walking with a sort of limp afterwards. Rupert Buttermilk has a new favorite as of 12:06 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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Hadn't seen this in years but still enjoy it, so I guess this is a time Something Awful spread a little extra joy in my life
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2 years ago, I participated in something awful survivor: the let's play edition. My father had recently been diagnosed with cancer, my relationship was on the rocks, I really needed something in my life that I could look forward to and would make me happy, and SAS kind of filled that for me. I am not the best at survivor type games, and I imagine there was a lot of salt whenever I survived round after round because I couldn't predict the future like the game veterans and got played like a fiddle basically. I didn't care, because I was there to have fun and be social and I guess everything worked out in the end. My relationship ended suddenly in May 2021. I had to start things over from scratch from being in an increasingly abusive relationship for a decade. The forum and its content creators and curators helped me get through some really difficult times. I'm mentally and emotionally stabler and happier then I've been in a long time, and it's due in part to you lot.
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I brought my Drake posted:2 years ago, I participated in something awful survivor: the let's play edition. My father had recently been diagnosed with cancer, my relationship was on the rocks, I really needed something in my life that I could look forward to and would make me happy, and SAS kind of filled that for me. I am not the best at survivor type games, and I imagine there was a lot of salt whenever I survived round after round because I couldn't predict the future like the game veterans and got played like a fiddle basically. I didn't care, because I was there to have fun and be social and I guess everything worked out in the end.
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What is Something Awful Survivor? Is it that thing where the OP enters a bunch of goons into a program, and it simulates days going by and randomly kills us off?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:What is Something Awful Survivor? it's the game Survivor but its on the forums. The most recent iteration is running right now.
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I brought my Drake posted:2 years ago, I participated in something awful survivor: the let's play edition. My father had recently been diagnosed with cancer, my relationship was on the rocks, I really needed something in my life that I could look forward to and would make me happy, and SAS kind of filled that for me. I am not the best at survivor type games, and I imagine there was a lot of salt whenever I survived round after round because I couldn't predict the future like the game veterans and got played like a fiddle basically. I didn't care, because I was there to have fun and be social and I guess everything worked out in the end.
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I'm going through a rough patch recently... Don't want to get into the deets because it'll make me mopey and weepy. Suffice to say that waking up and going to work has been a monumental effort lately. The #blessed pictures thread has been such a lifesaver. If, after a restless night of insomnia/nightmares, I wake up on "the wrong side of the bed", I go outside for my morning smoke and check that out before I even check the weather or email. Yes, I have a therapist, but it's amazing how some cute capybaras and cat videos can allow me to take a few deep breaths and get on with my day. I know you can find funny/cute animal pics anywhere, but that thread just has the bestest vibes.
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I won’t say it did it single-handedly but hard agree on that thread being very therapeutic. I’m turning the corner on a depressive episode that started with the pandemic, my darkest one since… 1997/‘98?, and replacing my doomscrolling with kittykats and wisdom hamsters does help with the whole “let’s not kill ourself just yet” goal. Big shoutout to ekuNNN and mobby_6kl for being thread MVPs.
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