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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Rutibex thought machine learning image generators have levels of sentience comparable to human toddlers and then used them to generate upskirt shots of Princess Peach so I guess what I'm saying is the cognitive dissonance of believing in both magic and AI is just the tip of the iceberg.

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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
An AI would never be able to comprehend the half A press.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Raere posted:

With today's smack, our friend "ErrorInvalidUser / the 1st amendment / Beyond ReTarTed. / j o y c e / living nightmare / SideEffectShit / RepeatOffender / etc." has spent $140 on re-regs in the last 30 days alone.

What's the genesis of this legend?

Unfortunately it's not a happy one, he's a mentally ill guy who was permabanned for suing and maybe also DDOSing the forums and just won't stop reregistering to post gibberish and racial slurs. The contents of the lawsuit were really funny but the origin of the whole situation is quite sad.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

Is that the "people dont like me or my posts" guy?

yeah

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Cuttlefush posted:

find and use a rutibex build

ask ChatGPT for a Path of Exile build

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
I tried Path of Exile once, got to level 2, opened that sphere grid, and then uninstalled the game.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
I tried the Last of Us recently because it was free on PS Plus and it just didn't click for me. it felt like a game that intentionally set out to punish me for the crime of wanting to have fun.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

oh my god lmao

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

EorayMel posted:

I guess it is appropriate one of the shittiest GBS threads ever brought down one the shittiest gimmicks ever but this also reminded me how one of seraph84's reregs (insane bitcoin-loving rereg goon who previously got banned for asking people to explain what minors are) got busted after flying under the radar for years in one of the shittiest QCS threads ever

what are you gonna do, alt check me?

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
I heard his house was on MTV Cribs

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
I hear he was the first American to work on Sonic the Hedgehog

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Leal posted:

So if they didn't bring up the poster's cat, would this wish of death on another poster gone unpunished?


Drinkslinger posted:

Same guy:

but it's ok, he got a whole 12 hours off for this

this isn't a legend from the past so it isn't really something I'd like the thread to dwell on, so in the interest of helping the thread move on I'll say that Fritz and I are looking into this and it's very unlikely that that IK's sixer will be the end of the story.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Ibblebibble posted:

He once thought that "Shinto" was synonymous with "Japanese culture as a whole" and had to be taught that it was an actual religion instead of, whatever he thought it actually was, I don't remember.

He also goofed up the meaning of "phrenology" once and people ragged on him about it for a bit, but I guess it stuck with him because I made 2 jokes involving the word "phrenology" across two different subforums, neither about him, and I got a DM from him about a day later asking if I was making fun of him.

Guy had issues, to put it lightly.

One of his posts in the E/N thread mentioned that a silver lining of getting banned was losing plat (and therefore search) and not being able to do "ego-surfing for what people are saying behind my back" which I would normally interpret as just namesearching but your post makes it sound like they were just compulsively searching for keywords from embarrassing memories and assuming all the subsequent conversations were about them, which is quite something.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Grassy Knowles posted:

Gotcha, after posting and seeing the response got that it was a bit over the line. Not sure how to remove since it’s uploaded.

I removed it for you

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Dongicus posted:

A flight of stairs... the obese brotherhoods one weakness.

lol

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
it's okay pentyne they admitted they made it all up

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

okay so who is shaq

the star of a series of commercials for icy-hot

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

really queer Christmas posted:

Here's a fun little brain teaser, the staff tried to make him an admin back in february:

This is from ages back since this thread moves so fast but I want to clear it up: this is not true. Leon was never asked to be an admin. He made that up to troll one of his posting rivals.


edit: this got quoted a bunch of times already but I realized I shouldn't speculate about the motives behind it. I know he made it up but I shouldn't have said it was to troll a posting rival because I don't know that for certain.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

B33rChiller posted:

Are you sure y'all didn't just forget? Have you checked the admin discord? Check for notes under Jeff's pillow?

I wasn't an admin yet when he claimed it happened but I could tell it was not true at the time. But just to be 100% sure, I checked with the senior admins before posting the truth in this thread because I recently got burned by Fritz's stealth edit and I wanted to be absolutely certain I wasn't going to accidentally mislead anybody again.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Willa's a boomer, she's allowed to be cringe

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

the sex ghost posted:

Any story of posters following anyone reminds me of TRP legend and all round maniac brapbrapbrap posting about following footballer Darren Bent in his car back to his house and then trying to get a look at him from the outside

That was really peak TRP

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
baking a one dollar bill into the lasagna like a money cake

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
today's IZWF was so good that I literally died

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

lobster shirt posted:

feels like i gotta play yakuza just to appreciate like half the jokes in this thread

you don't have to play every single one, even just playing enough to understand the tone of the games will make the jokes funnier

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
my Yakuza experience so far is limited to like the first quarter of Yak0 because as soon as I unlocked Kamurocho Real Estate Royale I stopped advancing the story at all, poor Kiryu has been wanting to go back to his apartment and get some sleep so he can continue searching for the Empty Lot's owner tomorrow morning for like 72 hours straight

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Tokyo Sexwale posted:

So you're waiting for a bus on a foggy morning and next thing you know two Rottweilers come up to you, start barking and jump up on you (but not, like, their full weight and force). Do you:

A) get out your sunglasses, announce "play time is over" and find the nearest brick
B) make no acknowledgement, ignore them and in a minute or two they will get bored, walk away, and you'll never see them again

C) throw the lasagna I was taking on the bus to the strip club in one direction and run away in the other direction

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Tokyo Sexwale posted:

the other funny bit about Taintrunner is how his fan club went from making QCS threads demanding he be made CSPAM mod to "gently caress that guy, I never liked him"

all-timer QCS thread was when mastershakeman made a "free taintrunner" thread without having any clue why he was banned: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3959450&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post512585094

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Danaru posted:

I bounced off GalCiv3 so many drat times, I swear it's impossible to get new colonies established and some prick is always rushing construction ships into the area around me before I can get anything running

I only played the Masters of Orion 2016 reboot and it was pretty fun. I completed a game and was like yeah that was about right.

Space Empires V will remain my ideal of a 4X, if only it were playable on modern systems/more playable in general :negative: Designing specialized stations for mining or surveillance, closing and opening new warp points, blowing up a barren planet so you could mine the asteroid field it created, it felt so free :negative:

I played so many hours of Space Empires IV, I would love a modernized game in the series

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

FirstnameLastname posted:

its pinkherturn now

lol

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Pablo Nergigante posted:

WERNER HERZOG: The Funko Pops have been decimated.

lol

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Kazinsal posted:

lol. wb radia

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

what the gently caress

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Patrick Bateman peeling off the face mask only it's him peeling off the plastic wrapping from a funko pop box

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Dr. Cool Aids posted:

GEORGE MICHAEL: I have Iron Man POP on the shelf.
MICHAEL: The mere fact that you call it that tells me you're not ready.

lol

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Psycho Landlord posted:

Personally in favor of ungoldmining the thread about the crystal-faced rear end-beasts rn

I gassed that thread. I guess maybe it fit the vibes of 2015 GBS but I took a look at it this morning and what I saw was objectification and fetish fuel.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Spanish Manlove posted:

Was gnarlyhotep and star war betamax the mods during the time that thread was around?

According to the log, gnarlyhotep and garbage day were the mods who stuck and goldmined that thread

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

the PYF comics thread is the only thread I've followed where the biggest issue is that people are posting too much quality content and readers have to skip comics to keep up

there's like three comics in there that people are always commenting on that I still haven't read because I want to go back and read them from the beginning when I have time

I was offline for like one weekend and I fell far enough behind that it's been almost a month and I still haven't caught up with that thread

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Runa posted:

Hmm, I don't know what else was going on with Applewhite so I'm not fully aware of their posting history, but their punishment being ramped to a ban+30 over transphobia feels, I dunno, wrong somehow? Ramp it up for being the dragon dicks poster or w/e, but I recall Space Tits and rear end ended with Space rear end getting over her transphobia and rekindling her relationship with Space Tits. Just taking one post out of context in order to villify an easy target.

It feels disingenuous to call them a transphobe when it seems to come from a place of ignorance rather than malice and when the posts being used to justify that label are part of a narrative about overcoming transphobia?

Keep the punishment as is for being the dragon dicks weirdo, I dunno.

I'm the admin who did that so I feel obliged to expand on my reasoning for it in the name of transparency.

I think that the parts of the old thread that I have read over the last day were transphobic regardless of whatever ending was arrived at later in the narrative. They revolved around objectifying and fetishizing trans people within the general trend of the entire thread being overt masturbation material, and the particular post linked was especially transphobic in the way it chose to frame the plot point of another character transitioning: describing transition as "unusual predilections" or a kink, describing it as "the man you love disappear[ing]", the entire thing revolving around sex and genitalia, the line "Your husband was more silicone now than man, some kind of cobbled together abomination you could no longer tolerate"... and so on. Coupled with the material of a character transitioning being used as joke fodder for the thread with followup posts such as:

Bacontotem posted:

Jerked it to Space Tits. Now regrets the plot twist.

RudeCat posted:

Same, but only because I regret not waiting until the plot twist.

Meme Poker Party posted:

She was drawn before the creator decided she was a man. You're in the clear buddy!

I did not do the ban+30 for an eight year old post, I did it for the dragon porn thread, but I did it because to me the eight year old thread shows that this is a recurring pattern of behaviour in which Applewhite fetishizes trans people in a way that I interpret as transphobic, in service of writing and drawing fetish porn stories to post on the forums. The combination of those things, to me, demanded the larger penalty.

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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

I read all of that as being narrated in the character's internal voice.

This should go without saying but something being fictional does not give anyone carte blanche to post gross poo poo on this website. The illustrated dissertation about dragon sex is fictional too, it still doesn't belong here.

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