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The PVC flamethrower thread got printed out and passed around my friend group in high school.
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A Bruiser thread But not the wonderful street sweeper stories, but rather it was the massive loving waterslide he carved in his backyard. Tons of construction photos and pictures of drunk folks sliding down this mega slip and slide. And I found it through Digg, so I'm probably the only goon who was converted via the loving Digg button
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I honestly don't remember any more. I think I stumbled on the front page and started reading those articles, and then gradually got into the forums. I didn't register until 2006 but I was reading the front page/forums long before that. I don't remember how I came across the front page in the first place though.
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Someone posted some random Lowtax articles on another forum I was on. I started reading the frontpage regularly after that because Lowtax's humor was like crack for an early-2000s teenage internet user. It was actually a long time until I decided to visit the forums, which were free back then. I was no stranger to forums, but the ones I posted in were full of people that were in my same age range (17-24), with the same hobbies, and some of whom I had met IRL. Many of us were friends on AIM and ICQ. The posters numbered in the low hundreds. Going from that positive environment to the SA forums was like being a cornfed farm boy visiting NYC for the first time and watching a homeless guy take a poo poo in the middle of a busy sidewalk while everyone ignored him, even when he started wiping with a stray pigeon. The forums at the time kinda felt like being back in high school but in all the worst ways, so I left after a very short period. I returned during the Ozma, etc., ban-happy days and it felt like high school if all the worst kids had tazers. I'm glad for the looseness the forums have now, but that's also probably partially due to the age of the posters compared to before.
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PITY BONER posted:I'm glad for the looseness the forums have now, LMAO
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I was a frequent front page visitor during high school 00-02, but never ventured into the forums until probably 04-05. Lurked on a friends account while I worked nights for two years and then finally bought my own.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Please give me some context I must know Every post i see is made by some rando I forget every time I close my phone. But he was British, he was trapped in police cordon. He made an order for food and had the delivery man try to penetrate the police cordon. I think he made a costume. I hit the paywall and paid my 
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Here's the goon behind the police cordon thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1621486
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Vim Fuego posted:Here's the goon behind the police cordon thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1621486 Ahh there we go! Thanks Vim Fuego!
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Dec 22, 2022 08:39
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some other forum i posted on died and gayed too close to the sun
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Dec 22, 2022 08:40
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Junk posted:LMAO
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I liked i-mockery and after googling for more of this kinda stuff I stumbled upon Lowtax's lovely game demo & energy drink reviews, that was in 2003 or so. Then I was guest lurking in the forums a lot. I just felt like buying an account, it was time  it's funny, now that the paywall doesn't seem to be a thing anymore anyway but there you go.
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I was sucking off a clown in the park, making hella eye contact and he got this bemused look on his face, pulled my head off his cock, pulled out his phone, and typed “FART!” into an SA thread. He said to me “sorry for interrupting, but I thought of something really epic and funny and had to post it”. Then he pulled the dildo I was sucking out of his pants and threw it in the trash and pulled out his real dick, but that dick was a dildo too. But then after that it was his real dick.
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Cliff Yablonski, back when it was still being updated. Although that was mostly the front page - I didn't really make it to the forums until like 2005-2006 or so.
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One of my first internet experiences was watching a friend go through the Hardy Boys photoshops. Then in College I came back and got into the forums proper because of the ghost story threads and gradually cottoned on to the Let's Play Oregon Trail thread. Once the first SA Christmas Music thread hit I knew I'd never leave.
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Photoshop Friday. There was one about snacks for goons, and the phrase "lightly roffled" on a packet of crisps still drops into my head every now & again. From there, it was just a short hop into the wonderland that is the Forums...
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J4G Eve online Goonswam. I did not get in but stayed anyway. Thank you for giving me a home.
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honestly I think it was because I saw that flash animation Neil Ciciregia did making fun of Eric Bauman when I was browsing AlbinoBlackSheep this is the one I'm talking about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKkz3KRKsOQ
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It was a Margarita thread about all the different margarita mixers goons used. It was the funniest loving thing I'd ever read. It just kept getting more and more absurd.
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someone on another forum sent me a link to cliff yablonski on aim
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Meme Emulator posted:
I dont remember the full story but Deceased Crab was a very high volume let's player and was an eccentric personality. Youtube was still in it's infancy stages and there did not exist higher definition videos. DC exclusively posted his videos to youtube and goons have given him more than enough feedback to mirror the videos to other websites for better quality; he always ignored them. Then one day he made a Tyrian 2000 thread and goons quickly hijacked his thread. Goons were posting videos in his thread with much better quality but the goons who made said videos would only barely talk about the game and instead would only highlight the lovely Ego DC had. DC closed the original thread and made a new one, and thus the LP mods at the time got pissed off and promoted Slowbeef. Goons then quickly gathered that DC was only in it to become internet famous and dogpiled him out of SA. He does post here from time to time from what I gathered years ago but not sure about now. He still posts LPs on his youtube.
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The tuggin thread. Just knew this was the right community for me
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Guy liveposting his STDH thread of keeping the servers running through Katrina Bruiser threads
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Some guy at work was howling laughing one day back in like '99 or whenever goons raided that Jeopardy game. A few years later another coworker pulled me in about Cliff Yablonski or the sidetalkin' thing I forget
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Dec 22, 2022 16:29
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And the Dating Game invasions, good lord
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Photoshop Fridays are largely what got me here.
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There was a ww1 half life mod called "The Trenches", the weapons modeler recommended SA and I was hooked being the impressionable youth I was.
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I took a look because I was interested in seeing what 4chan had spun off of just as I was leaving high school, where I was very much an internet addled neckbeard. I caught a sixer my first day and advised to lurk more, which was a nicer reception than I deserved at the time. I got to watch Slenderman take shape in real time, which locked me in.
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I was moving out of town and was worried that I wouldn't find a network of like minded regular pants-shitters where I was moving to, and my friends told me about the forums.
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Easily Zoofights. I really caught on around the season that introduced Croctopus and his first match was against a pride of arctic mega-lions dragging a train mounted railgun named Prejudice. I miss it but I'm pretty sure it drove Major Failure insane from the effort.
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Moments: A Game Of Consequence
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Hosted site Cliff Yablonski Hates You https://www.somethingawful.com/cliff-yablonski and after years of sporadic viewings of that, realising there was a Forum.
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Katamari Democracy posted:I dont remember the full story but Deceased Crab was a very high volume let's player and was an eccentric personality. Youtube was still in it's infancy stages and there did not exist higher definition videos. DC exclusively posted his videos to youtube and goons have given him more than enough feedback to mirror the videos to other websites for better quality; he always ignored them. Why did everyone care so bad where he hosted his videos? Jokes on them I guess, if DC put them on vimeo, theyd all be gone by now
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Meme Emulator posted:Why did everyone care so bad where he hosted his videos? Jokes on them I guess, if DC put them on vimeo, theyd all be gone by now Edit 2- Because the videos he posted to youtube the quality sucked. The videos blead and did some weird distortion stuff in high moving videos. I just discovered this video but it's better to view this video than hear my input on this. But this explains a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tThMGpbAfw Edit- I forgot DC got a lot of poo poo from his Parodius weird knock off Let's Play as it was deemed the 9/11 of Let's play even surpassing the Nostalgia Critic of his LP of the Simpsons. Katamari Democracy fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Dec 23, 2022 |
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Space Kablooey posted:Iirc it was one of the GBS cyoas that I was reading at the time while logged out (either the deathcopter one or red, yellow, blue), and when the paywall came up, I decided to get an account. I had to ask my dad for his credit card though. Came here to post Deathcopter too!
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the sad truth is that if jeff k were alive today he would be a q anon chud
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Brawnfire posted:And the Dating Game invasions, good lord I still miss that game. That and Habbo Hotel invasions were some of the most fun I had with goons.
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Tebulot posted:Came here to post Deathcopter too! The character hugging Deathcopter and getting injured by the propeller had me in stitches for the better part of a day
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