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Bonzo posted:Good to know. By Space Legs do you mean the planet missions? I don't like those anyway and there are tons of games that offer that type of play. I just love flying around in the ship doing stupid poo poo in space or having dog fights. Space legs is ability to get out of your ship/SRV and walk around. Thankfully it seems like the rest of the game is fine in VR. I can vouch that flying and even driving in SRV on planet surfaces is gorgeous if your PC can handle it. Protip - find a planet with large mountains or canyons and drive over the edge in SRV. The most immersive is of course VR with HOTAS, not sure how it works with KB+M or touch controllers.
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Zugzwang posted:I had an account during groverhaus but somehow missed it. That seems like a genuine loss IMO The wonders of load bearing drywall & pouring concrete directly onto swamp land in the middle of winter.
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wesleywillis posted:Speaking of famous internet poo poo. All Your Base comes to mind, pretty sure that poo poo was started here. The Let's Play subforum was the foundation of what's now a billion dollar industry and had who knows how much massive influence on internet culture. I remember when the danganronpa thread got paywalled, it was hilarious because a lot of other communities had glommed onto that thread specifically because it was really great - the subforum had a ton of really great threads in that era and word of mouth led to the hobby really taking off. It's hard to imagine now but Youtube was considered the video host of last resort because of the 10 minute limit and awful encoding quality. The Boatmurdered thread played a big role in exposing Dwarf Fortress to wider audience, you can probably draw a line between that thread and DF winding up in a museum. People with personalities started figuring out how to become internet celebrities by sticking their face onto the corner of let's play videos, and then twitch.tv came along and the rest is history. dril was a goon
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QuarkJets posted:The Let's Play subforum was the foundation of what's now a billion dollar industry and had who knows how much massive influence on internet culture. The "Let's Play" title came from a goon who was emulating a similar format but with a different title format on the games forum, who had come from another forum on a different website, who was mimicking a style originated by me. If I still had the links, I could prove it, A to B to C to D to Let's Play. Once I get my old account back I will prove this to you and by golly I will in the history books I missed out on loss. I never cared for the comic, and kind of ignored when people started hating on it because I didn't think it was worth the love it got nor the hate it got; it was just not a good comic, but like not an atrocious one, right? Well, I don't know. Somehow I managed to evade loss until way late, and by the time I started seeing it everywhere it had apparently come and gone and I was at the very tail end of it. Now whenever I see it I feel like it's a callback to something, everyone high fiving over a memory of something I completely avoided. I think it's the ultimate "you had to be there" joke.
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cad was especially crap because the fella got "successful" enough to buy a quasi expensive art tablet, but always just copy-pasted stuff, hence the popularity and injoke of the xmass card. on top of the "I self-identify as a gamer" being the entireity of the joke, as opposed to say, penny arcade which had decent enough writing to set it somewhat apart, thats the setting. For that to suddenly veeer off and start talking about a miscarriage, was as unexpected as shaggy and scooby pulling the mask off that weeks baddy to reveal that the "ghost" haunting the hotel was actually incest. yet somehow boring. people had already been mocking the laziness so, yeah, the rest is history. you missed absolutely nothing.
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QuarkJets posted:All Your Base comes to mind, pretty sure that poo poo was started here. It wasn't just that - the goon who was doing the DR LP was also translating it as he went along and if you didn't know how to read Japanese, that was the only way you could watch/read through the game. It also was anime as hell so it attracted that whole crowd during the peak Tumblr era. staberind posted:cad was especially crap because the fella got "successful" enough to buy a quasi expensive art tablet, but always just copy-pasted stuff, hence the popularity and injoke of the xmass card. Yeah the whole joke was basically the random as hell abrupt tone change, plus the author writing a seriously heinous post saying that the comic was inspired by a miscarriage he and his partner had for real, somehow even throwing out the line "sometimes the miscarriage is harder on the man".
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:Yup, and also got taken in as some kind of concubine by some college professors or something. I also recall her being really, really racist and Libertarian. wow she sounds great
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ishikabibble posted:It wasn't just that - the goon who was doing the DR LP was also translating it as he went along and if you didn't know how to read Japanese, that was the only way you could watch/read through the game. It also was anime as hell so it attracted that whole crowd during the peak Tumblr era. So wait, two things. 1.) That whole miscarriage strip was supposed to be a JOKE? and 2.) They had another strip where a ghost was haunting a hotel and the ghost was incest?
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As an aside I had actually confused that Penny Arcade miscarriage strip with the Piled High and Deeper web comic because they have such similar art styles. I don't think this comic classifies as famous as it's exclusively for dorks in graduate school. It was pretty obnoxious. The guy who wrote it is an engineer and he created a humanities character where the joke was that the funding was cut for humanities majors so the character had to justify why the comic should retain a humanities character. I think there was also only one social science grad student and she was an activist who always goes to rallies and she was wife of one of the main characters, and that was her character. The main theme of the comic is procrastination.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:So wait, two things. 1.) That whole miscarriage strip was supposed to be a JOKE? and 2.) They had another strip where a ghost was haunting a hotel and the ghost was incest? 1:From what I gathered, yes, but 2: "incest" No mate, it was an example of how crass the tonal change was. E: Bumstress. staberind fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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I didn't miss this but I just remembered my favorite thing ever from the SA forums that I think a lot of people probably missed out on or forgot about: the Geno Invasion in Coke Music follow the path of grey It was a perfect example of SA banding together to perform a hilarious and entirely harmless/inoffensive "invasion" of habbo hotel and Coke music where everyone was named Geno### with plain avatars dressed in gray hoodies and sweatpants with buzzcuts, and pretended to be part of a nihilistic cult that worshipped the color grey. We would take over the DJ stands in CokeMusic and just play single note songs full of silence while encouraging everyone to convert to the path of grey. And people got insanely mad about it deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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staberind posted:Kra! oh yeah what was this anyway? i see the gang tags sometimes with the book cart lady
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SirPhoebos posted:Never read Homestuck you weren't supposed to. don't do it
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Ok, so you don't get Loss, that's sad - but I think it's time to move on and heal
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deep dish peat moss posted:I didn't miss this but I just remembered my favorite thing ever from the SA forums that I think a lot of people probably missed out on or forgot about : the Geno Invasion in Coke Music This sounds amazing and I’m sad I missed it. Please tell me someone has video and it wasn’t lost to waffleimages (rip)
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databasic posted:Did anyone ever actually understand any part of TimeCube? yeah i mean its all logical when you think about it
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databasic posted:Did anyone ever actually understand any part of TimeCube? Sounds like you're educated stupid
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doctorfrog posted:Pretty obvious what "fingat" means on these here forums, but I don't know where it came from. I assume it started with a goon typo. dude claimed he blew his finger off and was posting through it
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I've never used instagram, snapchat or tiktok, and I never loving will. Vine was interesting, because some of them were really loving funny. It really encouraged people with a gag or a funny event just to show it without a chance to over-do it or reveal themselves to suck actually, and it was never as creepy and monetised and algorithmic as TikTok. I kind of miss Vine.
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My experience with Vine is like... Here is a guy making an original joke. Here are several hundred thousand people trying to capitalize on the success of the first guy's joke as quickly as possible. THERE IS A NEW JOKE OUT THERE WE MUST COPY IT IN A VIDEO BEFORE OTHERS GET THERE FIRST
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Vine was all about the cut. Time the buildup and cut the video well before preestablished rules of comedic timing. There were a lot of Viners who were  in a way I haven't even seen professional comedians.
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Vine had a lot of really great stuff, but also a lot of poo poo. Such is the internet.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I didn't miss this but I just remembered my favorite thing ever from the SA forums that I think a lot of people probably missed out on or forgot about : the Geno Invasion in Coke Music The path is the light brother. And that light? It's the path.
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Grey Cat posted:Vine had a lot of really great stuff, but also a lot of poo poo. Such is the internet. Oh yeah, the ratio was probably like 99:1 poo poo to gold (like the Will Sasso vids), but those who knew how to cut a joke were monarchs. Like, this is much funnier than the full 30 second clip: https://youtu.be/Zpr2BGoKLF0?si=w5pOhm7FfixohrR-
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:"Stanley cups". I don't know if this was A Thing or still is and don't particularly care, but the sudden hysteria over some sippy cup was....something. I don't get it at all. Stanley cup thread got gassed so I'm here to say I also don't get it. And as far as I'm aware was a recent phenomenon. Like what's so special about them that has people going nuts?
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Did they not catch heat from the actual Stanley Cup people (the NHL)?
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:"Stanley cups". I don't know if this was A Thing or still is and don't particularly care, but the sudden hysteria over some sippy cup was....something. I don't get it at all. It's actually very successful marketing, it's not a trend that grew organically out of nowhere
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