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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Anime is Blood said:
Another one of those thousand cuts was EVE Online. The Goon group there made it a requirement to have a SA Forums account to be eligible for membership. This drew in thousands of people from 2006-2010.

Those people weren't always the type that could roll with the punches and make or even understand jokes so you just had countless people showing up to shit all over the forums because they didn't join for the content of the forums.

It would be like if Null came out with his own cryptocurrency and thousands of people registered specifically to get some of the coins. A lot of them might never leave and just sit around complaining about the actual content here. In Something Awful's case they had a sympathetic administrator to give them what they wanted.
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I never really interacted with any EVE goons; at least ones who were screeching (well, screeching about anything but Autism Space Bux). The marxists weren't interested in a free-market simulation game, and the snowflakes are too triggered by high-stakes Excel.

Goonfleet always sucked though - they were just the most organized & persistent, with enough dumb goon noobie slave labor and autistic spendpigs to make up for any deficiencies in skill or tactics. This is why their shit has gotten pushed all the way in once those resources started to dry up.

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Take, for example, that great moment in Eve lore when Goonfleet destroyed the first super-dreadnought, eliminating (at the time) $10,000 real-dollars worth of ship & causing the implosion of the alliance that built it.
What they don't tell you is that they didn't just lose a lot of GoonSwarm (noobie kamakaze ships), they lost about double that in capital ships from Goonfleet & allies taking it down.
They also leave off that the alliance that built it had been imploded before the ship was finished; the corporation that "owned" the dreadnought had backstabbed some other members by kicking them out.

About the only thing they did that wasn't PR propaganda covering for super gay shit was dissolving BoB. And even then, a lot of their tactics - like blowing up their own ships to profit from bounties - were tactics they stole from other corps.

in conclusion: @Lowtax is a faggot & pillhead.


FataBataRang said:
Guys, seriously, "nerd culture" is irrelevant. Nobody is giving Tumblrinas a significant voice in politics.
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Yes and no.
Yes, Tumblrinas aren't getting a voice in politics but they are influencing corporations and media - normie media and products.
They are also evidence of a trickle down effect; 10-20 years ago, any group as rabid and obviously insane as most of the woke tumblr crowd would have been as politically untouchable as the KKK.
 
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BALLZ-BROKEN said:
I always thought the pozzification of "nerd culture" happened was because nerd culture is full of shy, unassertive autists who are easily henpecked by obnoxious, ugly women.
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That, and also because nerds have traditionally been rejected by mainstream culture, there is a tendency in nerd circles to believe that rejecting others coming into their scene for any reason is wrong. So they end up with a bunch of toxic, self-appointed moral guardians who would be shut out of most other spaces they attempt to cause drama.
 
My last bit of Eve sperging:

My only real thought about goons and eve was the new forum member money from j4g dried up years ago, as there are now many equal if not better places to go to find an eve group. Plus, everyone who will ever play Eve is basically playing it already.
 
None of you goons were ever funny back in the day you just had a bigger hugbox telling you you were. Seriously look up some of the archives of the so called "golden age" humor of Something Awful, it's derivative unfunny garbage that you'd see nowadays on unfunny shitholes like 9gag or Funnyjunk.
 
Ruin said:
None of you goons were ever funny back in the day you just had a bigger hugbox telling you you were. Seriously look up some of the archives of the so called "golden age" humor of Something Awful, it's derivative unfunny garbage that you'd see nowadays on unfunny shitholes like 9gag or Funnyjunk.
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Where do you think they got it from?

You are parially right though. Some.of it was shit in retrospect.
 
repentance said:
Cat competition donations are currently sitting at just over $300 vs cancer goon donations sitting just under $2900.

Seems like Lowtax has drunk too often at the gimme money trough.
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Aren't there goons still waiting on Lowtax to give them a shitty drawing of a spaceship?
 
Ghostse said:
Aren't there goons still waiting on Lowtax to give them a shitty drawing of a spaceship?
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Yep.

Lowtax is gonna get less out of this than goons gave a hotdog man from Alabama and much less than they've paid for pretend spaceships.

It isn't that goons don't have money to squander on stupid shit. They're just sick of giving it to Lowtax.
 
nah i doubt it

a cat contest is just too subtle for lowtax.

I think he should shake down KM.
 
found an ice burn on FAU. In the GBS sex ed thread.

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repentance said:
Does anyone recall how much KM raised? It would be embarrassing if it's more than what can be raised for Lowtax.
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The donations weren't public but she did talk about buying a boom mic and some a/v equipment. There are more than a few overpaid computer janitors that hang out in her subforum apologizing for the dirty white race so they probably tossed a decent amount in.

And now she is begging for gas money because she doesn't have $5 to drive to job interviews.
 
Anime is Blood said:
The donations weren't public but she did talk about buying a boom mic and some a/v equipment. There are more than a few overpaid computer janitors that hang out in her subforum apologizing for the dirty white race so they probably tossed a decent amount in.

And now she is begging for gas money because she doesn't have $5 to drive to job interviews.
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Wasn't her justification for the boom mic and a/v equipment that she'd use it to make money? Why doesn't she hock it for gas money (who am I kidding, she probably already sold it).
 
two things,

Why did she even buy A/V gear? I tend to stay away from her and that forum, does she make videos or something? cause writing/shooting/editing all take time and skill. If she has no real experience or training in A/V shit. Then I am gonna assume she is one of those sad brain idots who spends all day consuming media and thinks she can turn that into a job.

Second thing isnt there a way lowtax could monitize the drug forum?
 
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