Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

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Yeah, I post there. I'm the guy who constantly stans for the IWW, despite it being irrelevant for nearly a century.
 
Not a lot's going on ITT right now so here's a historic goon project which was actually a success: The Goonbase

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It's a creative thing GBS did at one point, where everyone was encouraged to draw a room and the OP would place it somewhere in there, updating the base as others submitted rooms. Of course, a lot of goons completely phoned it in and just submitted sprites, or even entire screenshots from video games, but for the most part, it all came together pretty well. There's one room in there that mentions it was created in 2005.

Of course, this kind of thing would never work on today's SA. Alongside all the video game stuff, there are lots of references to goon culture of the time, like Lardroom and All Girls Are Sluts. There's even a confederate flag in there! Ooh, too problematic for today's faggots.
 
Yeah, that was the kind of fun content I signed up for, and SA posters would produce it regularly in the mid-2000s. Most people bring up the Photoshops, but the best and most surreal art SA produced was in deliberately retardo MSPaint. Looking at that picture today, you can still feel some of the spirit even if the references have gone stale or are long forgotten - like enjoying an even earlier generation meme like Church of the Subgenius (whose fans were already old/middle-aged people in the 2000s). You don't understand it, but get the idea its makers were having tons of fun.

Modern SA is just a pool of misery. There is no playfulness to it, and it is only funny as a laughing stock.
 
Nephi said:
This is extremely interesting, are you saying that you thought your actions had no negative consequences and if people taken them as serious things it's their fault anyway?
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Yeah. Because at the time nearly everyone on the internet felt the same way. We all shat on each other because it was all meaningless fun and most of us were college or high school idiots. If you get upset because some rando you’ve never even met calls you a fat tard, then that’s on you.
But then real life social media happened, all the true weirdos found each other, and everything became serious.
 
The Grognard said:
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How in the hillbilly fuck, do you talk about shooting at your grandpa and then him shooting back at you so casually.

“Yeah, so during thanksgiving grandpa, ma, Uncle Bobba, and I got into a Mexican standoff over the last piece of pumpkin pie. Woah boy, I had to sleep with my shotgun and one eye open for a month.”
 
Oh I thought they were talking about something else, this isnt that new. Typical troons late to the party.
 
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