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I hate that I'm familiar with the term intactivist.
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Ohtori Akio posted:I want to say that this specifically was a front of the circumcision wars for a bit. i dont know about wikipedia but the silent hill guy owned multiple gaming wikis and it was what you expected arguments about circumcision and bestiality on the xenosaga wiki
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Mar 2, 2023 06:00
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:The wikipedia page for Henoch Schonlein Purpura (an autoimmune condition which causes a really dramatic rash on the lower body and can cause kidney failure) has a picture of someone's butt in the main image and has for YEARS. There is no reason it HAS to have a picture of a butt. The rash is not butt specific. In fact, it's most dramatic and noticeable on the ankles. But nevertheless, there is a butt. This is actually one of the less bad examples of wikipedia exhibitionism because at least it illustrates the disease fairly well. Also the dude isn't dangling his junk out for the camera.
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Mar 2, 2023 09:34
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Paracaidas posted:I hate that I'm familiar with the term intactivist. Netiquette
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Mar 2, 2023 13:23
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:in 2007 the tetris long piece beat link and cloud in the best video game character ever poll causing a similar meltdown lol lmao I love the internet so much
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Mar 2, 2023 14:28
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I am so god damned offended long piece got that. You can’t t-spin a long piece.
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Mar 2, 2023 14:36
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Grassy Knowles posted:I am so god damned offended long piece got that. In fairness it was a poll of the people and the Grand Masters were underrepresented.
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Mar 2, 2023 15:10
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my mind has been broken ever since I heard about the bodybuilder forum that spent several pages arguing over how many days are in a week
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Mar 2, 2023 15:11
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I mean I knew steroids ruin people’s brain, but lol
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Mar 2, 2023 15:11
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TheMightyBoops posted:If anyone saw my post about the Sammy Hagar Forums, today I learned there is a David Lee Roth Forums: lmao
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Mar 2, 2023 16:24
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Grassy Knowles posted:I am so god damned offended long piece got that. It was definitely the L-block. That was basically the last time I was on gamefaqs regularly. The only secret board I remember was some random Atari game no one every played being used as a Homestar Runner fan forum.
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Mar 2, 2023 17:25
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rodbeard posted:It was definitely the L-block. I'll accept and endorse that
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Mar 2, 2023 17:27
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ulvir posted:my mind has been broken ever since I heard about the bodybuilder forum that spent several pages arguing over how many days are in a week It's the funniest thing I've seen in awhile and I can't believe I haven't seen it before. It's incredible.
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Mar 2, 2023 17:27
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Everyone on that bodybuilder forum has the heart of a poster.
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Mar 2, 2023 17:27
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The greatest saga in RPGNet history is the story of Darrick Dishaw and Empire of Satanis. Darrick, aka Venger Satanis, is an Anton LaVey wannabe and amateur game designer. In 2005 he publishes Empire of Satanis, a purple prose laden game of demons and demonfucking laid out in a Word document, then begins shopping it around to reviewers. RPGNet's Jaime Herbert publishes a review in October of that year: quote:The author describes the lay out of Empire of Satanis as “indy” or “garage Band” meaning that there is more substance than fluff. Well that is one way to put it. What I see is a drab 62-page document that looks more like a high school English report than an RPG. While it may seem like I am being harsh here, after all This isn’t White Wolf or WOTC who can afford the likes of a Tim Bradstreet or Larry Elmore, we live in an age where inserting art can be as simple as cut and paste. Hell even some of the most sophomoric attempts at RPG production use clip art or at least a modicum of formatting to make the game look a bit more inviting than everything in Times 12pt font, with the occasional line or bold text. This is especially bad when you are talking about an RPG where ambiance is half of the point. If this were a simple first attempt at an RPG engine, I wouldn’t feel so vehement about this. Then there is the writing, which is almost as dull as the art. Where things really get going is the comments section of the above review. After a few posts, Darrick shows up to defend his honor:  He then accuses the reviewer of attempting to infect his computer with viruses  Finally, after the commenters question the originality of his game's "Scene Alteration points" (Hero Points) and "voidsabers" (guess), Darrick snaps and CURSES THE FORUM.  The reaction to this is a bemused "what the gently caress?" from the comments. Darrick goes on to claim that he was kicked out of the Church of Satan for being too satanic before getting banned from RPGNet for good. He has subsequently reinvented himself as an alt-right OSR culture warrior, but I still can't imagine anyone taking him seriously after this.
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Mar 2, 2023 19:09
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I'm the antipope of the Real Church of Satan, not this false prophet who thinks we should only love Satan this much instead of THISSSSS MUCHHHH.
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Mar 2, 2023 20:03
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i dont know about wikipedia but the silent hill guy owned multiple gaming wikis and it was what you expected arguments about circumcision and bestiality on the xenosaga wiki i remember reading the haunting ground wiki and finding it really weird that it kept pushing the protagonist must have some heart problem because she kept falling down and gasping in fear, then i looked at who was doing the editing and it was the silent hills circumcision guy lol it looks like he's the reason why the wikis have a lot of screencaps/gifs/videos from the game though because he's the one uploading them
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Mar 3, 2023 19:41
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anyways this reminded me of how i discovered Roxanne through the Sandrah Saga LP, a modder for the Baldur's Gate games that was banned from both the official forums and pretty much all of the user-run modding forums for IE games when it came out she'd been using multiple alts pretending to be multiple people for years to praise her mods and argue with anyone that criticized it. Like how her character constantly managing to make every event in the game about her or the alterations to made to other mods without their author's permission - some of them even bundled into the megamod installer she made - or just how poorly written it was. After her bans she declared that she was going to open her own forum for her mods but then closed it last year due to Russia invading Ukraine or something. She's on page one here as PaulaMigrate at first but later on in the thread she starts appearing on her other alts and starts talking to herself. The mod itself is really notorious because of Roxanne hyping it as basically the one mod to end all mods for Baldur's Gate because of all the new content she added, so every few years someone will ask should I play the Sandrah Saga?
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Mar 3, 2023 20:19
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Splash Attack posted:i remember reading the haunting ground wiki and finding it really weird that it kept pushing the protagonist must have some heart problem because she kept falling down and gasping in fear, then i looked at who was doing the editing and it was the silent hills circumcision guy lol for some reason this reminds me when thedarkid was doing resident evil zero he would upload some clips to youtube and the ones of rebecca getting killed by monsters would get comments asking if he could upload videos of her getting eaten in different outfits lol
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Mar 3, 2023 21:46
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Back when I was on usenet (I was a bit of a latecomer, so say 1996 or so), I posted for a while on various nerd newsgroups but there was this guy. Any post at all on any topic in any group would set him off to post his weird screeds about Clinton and mohammedans (ie muslims) and vaguely scientific references, always super long posts in classic schizo format, weird racist esoterica. Very exhausting. So he was a known crank in the parlance of the times and basically any danish FAQ said you should set up your newsreader to killfile that dude cause he shits up every thread years later, i was walking through copenhagen and come across a house with a whole bunch of very random posters out front, very much like the insane bumperplate cars ive seen in america. turns out that was where the guy lived. I later heard he died, and I am fairly sure I read an obituary in a newspaper at some point, so maybe he was known elsewhere as well? it was a kind of lovely house on a decently expensive lot, i assume he must have inherited it and just shitposted every day anyway at that point in time it was probably less than 1000 people total in all the danish groups, 90% greybeards who killfiled him years ago, so he was just posting into the void except for randoms who showed up. he would have loved twitter lol Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 00:13 on Mar 4, 2023 |
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Mar 4, 2023 00:08
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I got the tude now posted:for some reason this reminds me when thedarkid was doing resident evil zero he would upload some clips to youtube and the ones of rebecca getting killed by monsters would get comments asking if he could upload videos of her getting eaten in different outfits lol lol
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Carthag Tuek posted:about Clinton and mohammedans (ie muslims) and vaguely scientific references, always super long posts in classic schizo format, weird racist esoterica. This broke open such a memory for me thank you, I wasn’t aware of ‘educated racism’ until I saw this guy’s posts
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I really enjoy watching people who are talking about very specialized things getting ultra heated. Especially when I don't have a clue what they're talking about. A wikipedia edit war On Usenet over the last 6 days https://sci.physics.relativity.narkive.com/6Z18f4YM/major-re-write-of-wikipedia-pound-rebka-experiment It all starts with quote:I have done a complete re-write of the Wikipedia article, which had a rather absurd number of inaccuracies. Here is a link to my revised version of the article: and very quickly escalates, like every total rewrite of a wikipedia article goes quote:Trying to convince you to improve your writeup is getting tiresome, especially given your stubbornness. As this point I will conclude with recommending you a very good treatment of the subject by a professional physicist, Ben Crowell, from his published book: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Relativity/General_Relativity_(Crowell)/01:_Geometric_Theory_of_Spacetime/1.06:_The_Equivalence_Principle_(Part_2) (so it is not what wiki calls personal research). Poster is far from concluding quote:Resonant absorption occurs in a wide range of frequencies, rear end in a top hat. quote:Not in the case of Mossbauer effect quote:loving SOB, you're an EE! quote:You are eating poo poo. Again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C quote:I REPEAT THIS WITH NUMBERS, SO IT MAY ENTER INTO YOUR THICK, STUPID SKULL. quote:...and the stupid lies. Good work, dumbestfuck!
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Lumbermouth posted:The greatest saga in RPGNet history is the story of Darrick Dishaw and Empire of Satanis. I've known of Darrick Dishaw since I was 16 years old. He's a laughingstock in online left-hand path religious communities and namesearches himself every ten seconds. He honest to God is probably gonna show up in this thread if we keep talking about him. Anyway he used to post those Satanic invocations on myspace constantly and was thrown out of the Church of Satan for trying to involve the actual literal devil and not just a contrarian metaphor. He also believes Cthulhu is Satan and Lovecraft was like an Edgar Cayce- style sleeping prophet. Even if you're into all that he still a nuisance who shows up to defend his idea of devil-worshipping cosmology anywhere you dare criticize his (horrendous) book, The Slimy Green Bible. There's a book about Cthulhu worship called When the Stars Are Right where the author (Cthulhusattva) refers to Darrick in a footnote as "an awful little man from Wisconsin." Also he shaves his head and his goatee specifically to look like Anton LaVey.
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Mar 4, 2023 05:38
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Grassy Knowles posted:I really enjoy watching people who are talking about very specialized things getting ultra heated. Especially when I don't have a clue what they're talking about. I still remember when they would tell you in school that you can't use .com or .org webpages as citations when turning in papers because the internet wasn't trustworthy.
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Mar 4, 2023 06:07
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pentyne posted:I still remember when they would tell you in school that you can't use .com or .org webpages as citations when turning in papers because the internet wasn't trustworthy. here's how to browse usenet AND LOOK OUT FOR LONG SIGS
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Mar 4, 2023 06:08
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"No, you can't use webrings as a source I don't care how many animated flame gifs their pages use"
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Mar 4, 2023 06:18
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pentyne posted:"No, you can't use webrings as a source I don't care how many animated flame gifs their pages use" But they took down their under construction sign
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Mar 4, 2023 06:23
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UwUnabomber posted:I've known of Darrick Dishaw since I was 16 years old. He's a laughingstock in online left-hand path religious communities and namesearches himself every ten seconds. He honest to God is probably gonna show up in this thread if we keep talking about him. I mean Anton Lavey also shaved his head to look like Anton Lavey and was a friend of Patton Oswalt's close personal friend A. Wyatt Mann.
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Mar 4, 2023 06:41
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Grassy Knowles posted:
That sure is a neat aggregator for peeking behind Usenet's mantle without actually having to sign up for the ancient service. But yeah that relativity article discussion just kept escalating daily to Hell's Kitchen levels of intrigue and got pretty enjoyable before calling it half-time with its latest entries 4 days ago. The ESL manner in which the two physics enthusiasts hotly demean on each other makes it infinitely funnier. Hoping the two will resume the task of disproving each other's bogus experiments with their own incomplete proofs all the while solving the real science of which one of them is the real dumbestfuck.
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EVERY TIME GOING posted:That sure is a neat aggregator for peeking behind Usenet's mantle without actually having to sign up for the ancient service. But yeah that relativity article discussion just kept escalating daily to Hell's Kitchen levels of intrigue and got pretty enjoyable before calling it half-time with its latest entries 4 days ago. The ESL manner in which the two physics enthusiasts hotly demean on each other makes it infinitely funnier. Hoping the two will resume the task of disproving each other's bogus experiments with their own incomplete proofs all the while solving the real science of which one of them is the real dumbestfuck. Check it on desktop and you can navigate the other branches on the thread tree, last update 15 hours ago
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Mar 4, 2023 07:23
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:in 2007 the tetris long piece beat link and cloud in the best video game character ever poll causing a similar meltdown lol iirc there were similar meltdowns when bub and bob won best videogame duo and when einstein from command and conquer won best videogame sidekick
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Mar 4, 2023 07:47
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Grassy Knowles posted:Check it on desktop and you can navigate the other branches on the thread tree, last update 15 hours ago Ah I see now that as recently as a few hours ago additional scientists have been called on to enter the thread in a half-hearted attempt to prevent Richard Hertz from doing time for assault of his colleague in the field.
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UwUnabomber posted:I've known of Darrick Dishaw since I was 16 years old. He's a laughingstock in online left-hand path religious communities and namesearches himself every ten seconds. He honest to God is probably gonna show up in this thread if we keep talking about him. i do not think you came close to crossing any lines here but id like to suggest for the thread's consideration that we only post about stuff that happened online and stay away from following personalities in favor of following stories. i want to have a big difference between this thread's mission and helldump/kiwifarms/etc, and seeing some guy's name here made me worried even if he posts it everywhere. what's a good line for us to draw on this, thread
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really dumb early-to-mid 2000s vaguely remembered yahoo group drama ahead: back when i was starting judo at university, i used to lurk at the yahoo martial arts group, which had the usual gaggle of "too deadly" traditional arts guys (including the heartbreakingly depressing stories of weird old dudes who trained in some bizarre made up traditional martial art and also were constantly falling for weird medical quackery), aggro roided up proto-mma guys, a few cops running boxing or judo clubs, and quite a few sad internet kids who wanted to learn ninjutsu so they could better cosplay as naruto. mixed up there was a poster who went by the name of "froggie" claiming to be a former competitive judoka and retired cop who was running a dojo and active in the american judo scene (being a referee at local tournaments, training camps, prepping kids for the olympic team). at first, he would just post these big peeler-esque stories about helping wayward kids straighten their lives out via judo and training at his club, then he branched into claiming to know some of the big names in the US and Japanese judo competition, and then finally people started clocking that what he was recommending for training tips or strategy just wasn't.... feasible? physically? so, a bunch of people posted that they were at a tournament that he was supposed to be at and nobody had seen or met or heard of this guy. So, what happens? froggie's supposed spouse gets on the board the very next day and says that he had passed away, heart attack, while driving to that very same tournament. people believed it, lots of heartfelt tributes, etc. people were even going to donate to help cover funeral costs or to keep the dojo running, could someone please let them know when the funeral was going to be, where was it going to be, etc? this goes on for about a week and then someone ELSE posts the expose that, of course, this was just all completely made up. people proceeded to lose their minds. it was wild. NoiseAnnoys has a new favorite as of 10:35 on Mar 4, 2023 |
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Grassy Knowles posted:A wikipedia edit war This is incredible lmfao
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where did Ulillillia come from?
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Mar 4, 2023 21:15
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pentyne posted:where did Ulillillia come from? Uli kept extensive journals on his dreams on a personal website that got big. He really enjoyed dreams where he was in mud and he was scared of all blue water because blue water in video games kills the player. He also did crazy pannenkoek2012 level things to bubsy 3d, wrote a book, and was working on a game with some killer looking pallax scrolling. He’s not scared of blue water anymore. https://youtu.be/-N_6NMFnfno
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Thank you for bringing uli up that man is a delight and I’m enjoying going through his stuff again especially knowing that with proper support he’s seemingly thriving. he apparently wrote a second book in 2015, there’s a 2011 doc about him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLJEIrfx9U
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seeing uli in dark water with a joyful smile is the ultimate morale booster. hope he's doing well still
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