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MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

I'm sick of seeing animated weiners french kissing in every fucking GBS thread.
I read that PYF thread, ALL PRO SEXMAN, and the second that dude said he got hard over that story that dude posted about that Typhoon overflying an airshow, you guys went loving bloodthirsty insane over closing GBS, how the gently caress could nom epique have a thread, everyone in GBS is grey forums trash and everyone in the GBS Ukraine thread was straight jacking it 25/8 to war porn. And it never stopped. Ever.

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ArchRanger
Mar 19, 2007
I'm tired of following my dreams, I'm just gonna ask where they're goin' and meet up with 'em there.

Clearly we should be taking cues from the posters of the designated organized harassment thread that are all jumping to the defense of rape jokes.

Carlos Lantana
Oct 2, 2003

I'm really sorry, your avatar is giving me a boner and while that is perfectly OK and I don't want to kink shame anyone, its making me feel really weird getting a boner in a Trump thread.

Sincerely,

Jailbrekr
Larry needs to mow the lawn
- Larry's mum

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Carlos Lantana posted:

Larry needs to mow the lawn
- Larry's mum

He should have cared more about his backyard than he did about events going on half a world away from him, clearly. :rolleye:

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

I'm confused




But what's new

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Because the general-purpose pantshitting bullshit forum full of morons like nom epique is no place to discuss a loving war. The other threads have rules to keep weirdos from masturbating over weapons or gleefully hoping that Russian conscripts eat each other. If you can't process this very reasonable point of view there's no way I can explain it to you.

Dadaist dark humor is literally what the SA forums have been about from the beginning and the common denominator for 90% of the community. If your very elite and high brow tastes of humor have become too refined for a gigantic Hulk Hogan dancing on a collapsing WTC it's maybe time to move on

ishikabibble
Jan 21, 2012

KakerMix posted:

Man gently caress off with this, the GBS Ukraine thread ruled for keeping up to date allowing other posters to take the brunt from social media. This take, that you are doing? Is bullshit, completely false and not at all true from my point of view as a not-GBS superstar or whatever the hell else drama is going on.

"Go to CSPAM" lol yeah right, that's definitely the place to go and avoid psychic damage.

agree to this on all accounts tbqh

The GBS thread was nice specifically because of the pantshitting bullshit. it kept things from doom spiraling because it's miserable as poo poo there even has to be news about a literal war in the streets and civilian population centers being razed to the ground by artillery.
yet alone the statements from the absolute loving ghouls who are desperate to paint Russia as being justified in all this

zone
Dec 6, 2016

ishikabibble posted:

agree to this on all accounts tbqh

The GBS thread was nice specifically because of the pantshitting bullshit. it kept things from doom spiraling because it's miserable as poo poo there even has to be news about a literal war in the streets and civilian population centers being razed to the ground by artillery.
yet alone the statements from the absolute loving ghouls who are desperate to paint Russia as being justified in all this

I'm of the strong opinion that anyone at all that believes this war was justified for any reason is a loving head case, so I agree with you wholeheartedly on that point. And anyone going "WHAT ABOOT AMERIKKKA" to justify what's happening now, when most of the people following this war perfectly well despise America for what it did in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a number of other places across the world should be institutionalized.

E. Revenant
Aug 26, 2002

If the abyss gazes long into you then stare right back;
make it blink.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

The other threads have rules to keep weirdos from masturbating over weapons or gleefully hoping that Russian conscripts eat each other.

Here is the quotes you are referring to so the readers can determine the proper temperature of these takes.

Weapon masterbators

RGX posted:

To contribute to Typhoon chat from a few pages ago, I saw one of those once at Bournemouth airshow, which before new regulations allowed planes to buzz close to the crowd along the beach. As it flew towards us along the seafront, it was completely silent, so much so that the crowd went quiet in complete anticipation. Right at the last moment it turned, lit up its afterburners, and accelerated straight up into the clouds in such an unnatural way it looked like a videogame.

You could literally see the sand on the beach moving from the sound. You felt the heat on your face. Individual bones rattled in their sockets, fillings shaken loose. I remember thinking to myself, if you ever saw one of those as an enemy combatant, you wouldnt die from the bombs, or the missiles, or the cannons, you would die making GBS threads yourself from the anticipation. I've seen a few military jets at various shows, but that thing stood out. It was otherworldly, and super, super loving cool.

If the UK sends a few of those into the fray....I think we'll see a lot more desertion from Russian forces. A terrifying machine.


Gleefully cannibalism enjoyer

BoldFace posted:

I'm really curious whether there has been any cannibalism happening on the front lines this winter.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Gwaihir posted:

wtf, man

Cthulu Carl posted:

:chloe:

gently caress off

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Amazing that after a straight year of achieving absolutely nothing, Russia has finally scored a win via its useful idiot brigade and gotten the war discussion and also jokes thread closed.

Next stop - Kyiv!!! :blyat:

Jonny Nox
Apr 26, 2008




I frankly don’t want to have a conversation with anyone who isn’t excited by the thought of being shoved through the air faster than your screams. Or who doesn’t want to tell gravity “you have no power over me today!”

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Because the general-purpose pantshitting bullshit forum full of morons like nom epique is no place to discuss a loving war. The other threads have rules to keep weirdos from masturbating over weapons or gleefully hoping that Russian conscripts eat each other. If you can't process this very reasonable point of view there's no way I can explain it to you.

Ok here, why is an even more pantshitting bullshit forum full of morons like exmarx recommended as the alternative. Which is also the forum that
- posts about sending people to gulags
- has doxxed goons for being pro Ukraine
- has an open thread dedicated to mocking holodomor
- has a known history of endorsing political violence and making jokes about genocides, purges etc in general
- is in general bloodthirsty, blackpilled, conspirationalist, racist, home to the most toxic radicalised idiots on the whole of the internet

The idea that the GBS thread was uniquely bad and that CSPAM is a general purpose politics shitposting space are both obviously a lie

Additionally, and in abstract, just because some place is designated as the place to talk about politics, doesn't mean it's actually a better place to talk about politics.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Strategic Tea posted:

Amazing that after a straight year of achieving absolutely nothing, Russia has finally scored a win via its useful idiot brigade and gotten the war discussion and also jokes thread closed.

Next stop - Kyiv!!! :blyat:

I'd like to be a fly on the wall to hear what certain freaks with particular ideologies have to say in the event of Russia losing their unjust war and getting thrown out of Ukraine. Though it probably counts as Clancychat to some of them :rolleyes:

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Schweinhund posted:

what a dumb loving decision to close the ukraine thread. Stop listening to the drama whore idiots in the saga thread.

KnightRider
Jan 7, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
What happened to kit did she not gently caress enough kids to be considered truly mod worthy.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Carlos Lantana
Oct 2, 2003

I'm really sorry, your avatar is giving me a boner and while that is perfectly OK and I don't want to kink shame anyone, its making me feel really weird getting a boner in a Trump thread.

Sincerely,

Jailbrekr
I want to hear regarde a ducks take on this if he isnt too busy having his gyro pinched by the chav family down the hallway

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

KnightRider posted:

What happened to kit did she not gently caress enough kids to be considered truly mod worthy.

Odd username post combo

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010
It's weird that everyone seems to know each and like, stuff about each other. That's loving weird.

RunningOnEmpty
Nov 1, 2005
Because I work hard for the money...bitch.
the gbs thread was as vanilla as possible, easily the most mild on the whole internet. it was well moderated. it was full of good information. admins had one of the sports mods, i think, pull the trigger. pathetic.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Carlos Lantana posted:

I want to hear regarde a ducks take on this if he isnt too busy having his gyro pinched by the chav family down the hallway

Same guy who got threadbanned from D&D? If so I'd rather not hear anything out of them thanks

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

KakerMix posted:

Man gently caress off with this, the GBS Ukraine thread ruled for keeping up to date allowing other posters to take the brunt from social media. This take, that you are doing? Is bullshit, completely false and not at all true from my point of view as a not-GBS superstar or whatever the hell else drama is going on.

"Go to CSPAM" lol yeah right, that's definitely the place to go and avoid psychic damage.

Truth.

Set
Oct 30, 2005
Sad to see the OP felt they needed to self-ban, but considering the situation right now I can understand why they would feel fed up. I remember them as a decent poster. Hope things get better some day and you feel you can rejoin!

Also it seems we don't have anywhere else to discuss this so gently caress it: It appears the admins really did put on the biggest loving clown shoes they could find and start stomping around the china shop. Especially nice to kill the thread, that I feel was mainly Europeans discussing stuff happening literally next door, with a condescending post filled with bullshit discussed and explained again and again within said thread. Quote clearly we who live in the nordics or eastern Europe are mentally unwell because we discuss a literal land war happening closer to us than most US cities are to each other.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

You still can talk about the war you idiots, just post in the D&D or GIP threads. Hell the same daily digest stuff gets posted by the same people in those threads.

You know the styles are completely different. GIP is mainly war veterans, which most us Europeans luckily aren't, while D&D is so tightly moderated that basically none of the organic discussions about our fears and hopes are allowed.

Nelson Mandingo posted:

I'm glad we have a very strong common ground right now. But you see what I mean right? I have a genuinely hard time with the suggestion the GBS thread was somehow outrageous war porn voyurism (last year, sure) destroying the minds of your average SA poster when the CSPAM thread literally has genocide denialism or pro-colonialist rhetoric on the regular.

All of them are talking about a current event, and if it's legitimately harmful for whatever reason then they all need to be closed. Otherwise, through rational deduction, it's just ideologically driven moderation.

Using the logic of why GBS shouldn't talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we should also lock and ban the discussions of Covid-19, Trump-thread, Musk-thread and the crypto-thread.
It is completely out of whack with reality, and the reason it was closed was ideological.

Also I wish to remind people that the CSPAM thread has a severe tendency to veer towards straight up racism against eastern Europeans and basically anyone who does not want to be invaded by Russia, and holy poo poo they have internalized some really horrific views of Europeans there.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Because the general-purpose pantshitting bullshit forum full of morons like nom epique is no place to discuss a loving war. The other threads have rules to keep weirdos from masturbating over weapons or gleefully hoping that Russian conscripts eat each other. If you can't process this very reasonable point of view there's no way I can explain it to you.

Is it not human to want to discuss a thing that is affecting us all? For some of us just next door? The weirdos were in general quickly dealt with, and in no way worse than other threads (some of which are are about 95% weirdos).

Nelson Mandingo posted:

No it is a reasonable point of view.

Except I don't agree with the idea it was prevalent, extreme, or things like posting weapons or videos is an actual issue beyond inconsistent rules. After all this clearly shows up in the other threads and even more moderated than television.

Either it's all a problem or maybe people need to get a grip.

I agree with this. I was actually shocked to see footage on national TV, that I could just scroll past and ignore in the thread. Unlike the news, the thread actually warned of the content as well.

tiaz posted:

I and many others found real value in the cross-section of perspectives available in that thread. The criticisms of it were either valueless invented controversies, or valid criticisms which were onboarded and included in the moderation of the thread, and not a problem from that point on.

This is a good post in my view.

KakerMix posted:

Man gently caress off with this, the GBS Ukraine thread ruled for keeping up to date allowing other posters to take the brunt from social media. This take, that you are doing? Is bullshit, completely false and not at all true from my point of view as a not-GBS superstar or whatever the hell else drama is going on.

"Go to CSPAM" lol yeah right, that's definitely the place to go and avoid psychic damage.

I try to stay away from social media in general, so yes the thread was a good way to get a quick overview of the situation. The stuff discussed in the thread, would sometimes take several days to turn up in our national media, and was also a really good way to debunk a lot of the really crappy propaganda floating around online and in media in general. I used stuff I learned of in the thread to help dispel propaganda stuff that friends and acquaintances had heard from social media.

Set fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Feb 25, 2023

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Even a year and or two ago, PYF was visibly becoming a CSPAM spillover forum. Like you couldn't post about a bad company outside the bad companies thread without comrades erupting from the woodwork to scream no ethical consumption, you couldn't post about a country without qualifying Amerikkka was also bad...

If the whole of SA is going to be deemed the rightful sphere of influence of a bunch of radicalised red star fascists then why stick around?

bc the animorphs thread hasn't done the final book yet IMO

Carth Dookie
Jan 28, 2013

loving hell, animorphs is still going?

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

Chee frinatown

girl befriender
Sep 22, 2014

by vyelkin

RunningOnEmpty posted:

the gbs thread was as vanilla as possible, easily the most mild on the whole internet. it was well moderated. it was full of good information. admins had one of the sports mods, i think, pull the trigger. pathetic.

banning discussion of popular but somewhat contentious topics is something i've seen the moderation team do many times since I posted here.
considering it's usually different people making the same decision their must be something horrible about the ui of looking through lots of reports or something.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
The funny thing is that even though the mods did exactly what the drama queens with their fake grievances wanted (again) and closed the thread, the same posters didn't stop being hyper aggro and abusive about everything, and now a bunch of them are banned / permad again.

Who could have expected that always bending the knee to their demands would just embolden them to be more and more toxic.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Strategic Tea posted:

Even a year and or two ago, PYF was visibly becoming a CSPAM spillover forum. Like you couldn't post about a bad company outside the bad companies thread without comrades erupting from the woodwork to scream no ethical consumption, you couldn't post about a country without qualifying Amerikkka was also bad...

If the whole of SA is going to be deemed the rightful sphere of influence of a bunch of radicalised red star fascists then why stick around?

bc the animorphs thread hasn't done the final book yet IMO

The American MIC accidentally doing some actual good by helping Ukrainians to, you know, not get slaughtered by Wagner, Rusich, Patriot, and friends by sending military and non-military aid to help them is apparently an "escalation" to these freaks because god forbid people who were just minding their own business living their lives before this war kicked off shouldn't have their lives ruined or snuffed out, because some old delusional manlet wanted to "go down in history" as the greatest leader of Russia? Well he'll loving go down in history alright! *monkey's paw curls* as the man who ruined his country and turned it into North Korea levels in about a few years!

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

I'm sick of seeing animated weiners french kissing in every fucking GBS thread.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:

Chee frinatown

Chinatown didn't do poo poo, I'd trade Vincent Van Goatse's Alex Smith rear end in a second for Chinatown

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

MrQwerty posted:

Chinatown didn't do poo poo, I'd trade Vincent Van Goatse's Alex Smith rear end in a second for Chinatown

Set
Oct 30, 2005

steinrokkan posted:

The funny thing is that even though the mods did exactly what the drama queens with their fake grievances wanted (again) and closed the thread, the same posters didn't stop being hyper aggro and abusive about everything, and now a bunch of them are banned / permad again.

Who could have expected that always bending the knee to their demands would just embolden them to be more and more toxic.

It is like some people are addicted to the rush of angryposting or something. Huh, weird?

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

Set posted:

....

while D&D is so tightly moderated that basically none of the organic discussions about our fears and hopes are allowed.

....

Was hoping you would post your translations there as GBS has been assassinated, but that's up to you. :tipshat:

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Sorry I was playing RE4 for like 5 hours straight what this thread about

zone
Dec 6, 2016
There's recorded and captured evidence in the form of footage and documents as well that they were just planning genocide of whichever parts of Ukraine they were going to occupy, but apparently because the Holodomor is considered funny to these people and totally did not happen at all (because the peasants dared to resist people just wanting to steal their grain, because surprise, not all of them agreed with collectivization or what Stalin and friends had in mind), brought to you by the same guys who believe that "Ukraine was Lenin's mistake and should not exist" so sucks to be those poor fucks that ended up in mass graves, right?

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

girl befriender posted:

banning discussion of popular but somewhat contentious topics is something i've seen the moderation team do many times since I posted here.
considering it's usually different people making the same decision their must be something horrible about the ui of looking through lots of reports or something.

Yes, the big contentious issue of whether the attack, destruction and plundering of Ukraine is good or bad. Some people say it's bad and Russia need to gently caress off and some people say "No, ALL lives matter🤗🤗🤗". Who's to say who's right?

Set
Oct 30, 2005

Just Another Lurker posted:

Was hoping you would post your translations there as GBS has been assassinated, but that's up to you. :tipshat:

I'll check out the thread, but in general I have been a bit wary of D&D. We'll see, but if the stuff I have been translating would give a fresh or interesting perspective to the discussions there, I might very well do it!

zone
Dec 6, 2016

GABA ghoul posted:

Yes, the big contentious issue of whether the attack, destruction and plundering of Ukraine is good or bad. Some people say it's bad and Russia need to gently caress off and some people say "No, ALL lives matter🤗🤗🤗". Who's to say who's right?

Have you considered it should be a good thing that Russia needs to continue existing as a check and balance on the Great Satan Amerikkka? We are very smart. :histdowns:

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
D&D is absolutely fine for effort posting, nobody will hit you for that, the articles you were posting are actually exactly in their wheelhouse.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Set posted:

I'll check out the thread, but in general I have been a bit wary of D&D. We'll see, but if the stuff I have been translating would give a fresh or interesting perspective to the discussions there, I might very well do it!

For what it's worth, GIP is welcoming of the GBS posters as well so you can post your stuff there if you don't feel comfortable with posting in the D&D thread.

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Soggy Muffin
Jul 29, 2003
Did this guy ever really commit suicide over the closing of that thread? Bit extreme but I respect it nonetheless

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