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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:I actually posted on General Mayhem through my high school years and lurked here when I could. Shortly after I started college and was paying attention to the Battlefield 3 thread the paywall went up and I figured I should finally get an account to post about it once it launched. Glad I did, I've had nothing but good come from here A lot of us moved from GenMay to SA. I think there was a big migration shortly after they found out one of the tough talking mods was a 'pizza faced loser'. If I recall correctly, the mod never came back after their picture surfaced.
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Oct 25, 2021 00:01
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Valiantman posted:I found out about Dwarf Fortress somewhere and then of course found Boatmurdered and LP Archive. Then I figured out where those hilarious LPs were coming from. I had to subscribe when I wanted to follow Grey Hunter's Let's Plays. This is literally my exact path here. A friend suggested I check out Boatmurdered. I stumbled on to the first Grey Hunter War in the Pacific LP and soon bought an account to post in it. pthighs fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Oct 30, 2021 |
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Oct 30, 2021 02:59
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I was on a forum for a cartoon back in 2005 and made a friend named Hazo here. He got me involved in a game called AstroEmpires with a ton of Goons, so I then joined the forums.
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Dec 2, 2021 14:50
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One day I was so indescribably bored I started browsing the forum on the xkcd site; there was a thread there complaining about the xkcd parodies made by some mean-spirited oafs at a place called The Something Awful Forums. They had foolishly provided a link, which I clicked; and years later I still haven't left.
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Dec 7, 2021 03:37
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I was reading the book Empires of EVE and I got to the chapter where the author first starts talking in depth about Goons and it sounded like SA was a fun place to be.
Et Earello Endorenna utulie'n. Sinome maruvan ar-Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!
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Dec 8, 2021 06:30
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imperiusdamian posted:I was reading the book Empires of EVE and I got to the chapter where the author first starts talking in depth about Goons and it sounded like SA was a fun place to be. oof
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Dec 12, 2021 16:31
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imperiusdamian posted:I was reading the book Empires of EVE and I got to the chapter where the author first starts talking in depth about Goons and it sounded like SA was a fun place to be. Look up “JFG” in the index
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Dec 12, 2021 17:12
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Wake_N_Bake posted:Look up “JFG” in the index J4G, said 'jag'. https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2408
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Dec 12, 2021 17:14
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Do I count if I had accounts before 2010? I think I first registered in 2000 or 2001 or thereabouts, on the recommendation of some weirdo in high school. This account came after several years of absence and had no particular purpose.
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Dec 14, 2021 06:09
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internet friends from an IRC channel i was on in the early 2010s really liked SA and we all joined
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Dec 15, 2021 19:42
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I'd been following goon LPs since like 2009 or so, but it wasn't until I ran out of stuff on the LP archive that I decided to actually make an account, specifically just to follow threads in LP. Now I moderate it so it's a success story hard question mark
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Dec 15, 2021 21:27
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I got the sudden urge to make a Let's Play of SHENZHEN I/O. A friend of mine, who was a goon, said, "I know a place where you can post it..." The rest is history.
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Dec 16, 2021 03:29
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Wake_N_Bake posted:Look up “JFG” in the index Nah. Didn't J4G. Moe like joined from book.
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Dec 19, 2021 16:33
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I had heard it mentioned around a few places. Including the YouTube channel Wang! and the podcasts the f plus and extra credit. I lurked around a while then eventually was like gently caress it. Made an account.
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Mar 6, 2022 18:05
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Someone told me in 2008 or earlier that one of the founders was from Fresno so I checked it out, then I spent a long time lurking and reading PTN's Lets Play Battletech. Then I got trapped on an island and was going crazy so I finally caved and registered at some point when the paywall up.
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Mar 25, 2022 08:09
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I love learning about weird/lovely movies, music, video games, toys & candies (even though I never really had a sweet tooth or collection of the latter two), especially the stuff that was/isn't really known/available in Germany, and I found I-mockery through either googling Splatterhouse or Riki-Oh in the early 2000s & was instantly a fan (TW if you want to look it up: suicide). I craved more of that sort so eventually I found the SA front page which looked more like a laundry list of links to articles back then. Either one of those was the first: the energy bars, energy drinks or game demo reviews that lowtax did. Pretty sure that was in 2003 or so, also Doom House came out around that time which naturally, being teens, me & my friends liked & shared a whole lot. Most of that old front page material I read/watched kind of blends together in my mind and a lot of it probably doesn't hold up well today, like swap.avi was shocking and hilarious to me back then, now I feel bad for the poor women that were obviously abused & exploited for some goon's terrible kink and a couple bucks, I still find myself thinking about some dumb stuff like Time Wizards and I revisit some of the articles like WTF D&D occasionally though. I guess it's the same for the forums, it's good that Helldump isn't a thing anymore (well, at least not on SA) but I fondly remember watching some of the legendary goony tales unfold when the paywall wasn't up. Kind of ironic that I bought an account with all the bells and whistles (archives lol) now that the paywall seems to be gone for the forums in general, but I'm making decent money for some time now & felt like I wanted to give something back for the thousands of hours of entertainment I had for almost 20 years.
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Apr 4, 2022 13:17
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Knew about the forums as early as the mid-00s from still-active goon Ice Phisherman, who was on another message board with me and told me it was worth the tenbux. Was still too scared to join right away because I thought I'd be banned immediately for some hair-splitting reason. Lurked for a few years and was a senior in college when I joined. E: mis-read the thread title, thought this was asking for goons 2010 and later 
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Apr 4, 2022 18:33
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I first heard of SA when Lowtax was on a TechTV show in the early/mid 2000s and he said the forums cost $100/month to use. I didn't realize he was joking (I was ~13 years old) and thought it was a forum for rich people, then never heard about it again for a long time E: hi emptyrave fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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May 19, 2022 18:29
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I played a lot of browser games in the late 2000s like Astro Empires, CyberNations, and UrbanDead. Goon alliances were always there and always among the biggest movers and shakers and always seemed to be the only ones having fun instead of humorlessly tryharding. I think I joined the forums after signing up with the second GOONS alliance in CyberNations? I'm honestly not really sure. I do know GOONS also had the best tags in peace and war: 
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May 20, 2022 14:27
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I got into Marble Hornets and found out all 3 of the main actors had profiles on SA which lead me to checking this place out.
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