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Would you say it's better or worse now? What's changed and what's stayed the same?
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Mar 27, 2024 22:57
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When you look at the ratio of forums quality to overall internet quality, things have improved.
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Mar 27, 2024 23:00
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Was reading the frontpage around that time. Still some good works by Taylor 'Psychosis' Bell - if you know where to look. https://www.somethingawful.com/author/15/
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Mar 27, 2024 23:03
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back then most posters were in high school or college, now they are not
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Mar 27, 2024 23:08
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Flavahbeast posted:back then most posters were in high school or college, now they are not Man, college is a distant memory. I'm old....
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Mar 27, 2024 23:13
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I was all about the squaresoft fan headquarters back then
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Mar 27, 2024 23:58
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we have way fewer posts about rotten.com now
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Mar 28, 2024 00:02
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the internet has become, since that time, a regrettably and unironically serious business
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Mar 28, 2024 01:12
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A lot less slurs now. Positive change imo.
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Mar 28, 2024 01:25
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It's a very different place than it was back then
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Mar 28, 2024 01:46
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Back then I didn't have to do my best Tony Soprano impression every time I stood up.
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Mar 28, 2024 01:47
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No because the first accounts were early 2000s
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Mar 28, 2024 01:48
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Remember British Born and Bread? I wonder if they voted for brexit
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Mar 28, 2024 01:48
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Mar 28, 2024 01:53
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Remember British Born and Bread? I wonder if they voted for brexit He's still around Maybe he's lurking this very thread.... 
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Mar 28, 2024 01:58
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Probably 2000 Op
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Mar 28, 2024 01:59
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Planet Quake and Planet Half Life were funny
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Mar 28, 2024 02:00
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It's much better now Basically as soon as Seth took over the mod team, even
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Mar 28, 2024 03:00
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pencilhands posted:Would you say it's better or worse now? What's changed and what's stayed the same? Yes. Better? I don't know. It's more serious, less edgy. It's generally more mature which makes sense because everyone is 35-50 instead of 12-25 years old. The community standards for what's acceptable are a big change. Also the proliferation of megathreads is a big difference. Most of the legendary ancient threads were like 7-15 pages long.
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Mar 28, 2024 03:06
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Smugworth posted:It's much better now You think the turning point is Seth taking over? I think it's when Smugworth joined the forums. <3 Seriously though like someone said, the ratio of us to everything else has gotten significantly better.
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Mar 28, 2024 03:08
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Back then people were still posting. Now.... I'm not so sure anymore.
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Mar 28, 2024 03:09
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Also the ease of embedding content is a big change. Pulling in twitter posts and youtube videos is very different from the early days.
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Mar 28, 2024 03:10
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the kids are soft these days they see one gaping anus and go crying to mommy
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Mar 28, 2024 03:17
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i couldnt goatse anyone with a vision quest pro in the apple store btw cuz they make u sign a loving list and then a "genius" sits with you and probably touches u when u cant see nothing and tells u "2 relax"
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Mar 28, 2024 03:19
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you can still goatse them the old fashioned way, with your own two hands and a bit of elbow grease
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Mar 28, 2024 03:20
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nobody wants to gently caress a flask anymore
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Mar 28, 2024 03:24
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Mostly... they were posting using Safari
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Mar 28, 2024 03:26
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posting safari with meeeeeee
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Mar 28, 2024 03:26
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I read the forums on occasion starting in 2000 they were mostly incomprehensible and stupid to me. They just seemed like a bunch of high school kids with Tourette's jabbering about video games and anime. I posted a lot on E/N sites and the Portal of Evil and we really looked down on SA even though some of the younger, geekier ones were regulars here.
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Mar 28, 2024 03:26
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Yes, it has been hard. Need to have people caring for my every need while i refresh sub-forums and posting. Even had to have small surgery at home when trying to read another three olives post.
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Mar 28, 2024 04:02
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i hadnt even heard about these forums until like a year before i registered lol
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Mar 28, 2024 04:04
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BigHead posted:You think the turning point is Seth taking over? I think it's when Smugworth joined the forums. <3 Hm, great point
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Mar 28, 2024 05:00
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still of the opinion taht this sjw adjacent site is too woke now, op?
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Mar 28, 2024 16:24
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I was browsing accountless since 99, but then the paywall came up in 2001 so I had to pay $10 to keep browsing.
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Mar 28, 2024 17:01
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Ravendas posted:I was browsing accountless since 99, but then the paywall came up in 2001 so I had to pay $10 to keep browsing. Same. It's gone downhill ever since.
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Mar 28, 2024 17:19
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:I read the forums on occasion starting in 2000 they were mostly incomprehensible and stupid to me. They just seemed like a bunch of high school kids with Tourette's jabbering about video games and anime. The very early forums were actually like this because the userbase was originally teenage, but we quickly matured past a lot of the memes we ended up pioneering. Legends have it, Lowtax made the fist Impact-font stroke-outline "meme" as we know it, because he was tired of his teenaged users constantly beating jokes like dead horses (he was in his 20's). Things did change pretty fast though, and GBS had a few "versions" before arriving to this current one, which, yes, is actually GBS at its best.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:36
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the forums used to be embarrassing but now they’re merely shameful
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Mar 28, 2024 18:37
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TrashMammal posted:the forums used to be embarrassing but now they’re merely shameful You could say,
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Mar 28, 2024 18:38
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The SA forum was at it's worst in the mid aughts. Bunch of "internet males" ( the proto douchebag archetype from which "incels", "betas", "chads", etc would eventually arise from ) pretending they didn't just lookup some fact that they're bloviating on while trying to be edgy and funny. gently caress. It hasn't actually changed.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:44
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i know all my facts before i post them.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:45
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