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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The Taco Santo! said:
The joose. Research chemicals are wild, yo. Their trip reports after 'eyeballing' a dose, then taking more because they didn't feel anything, then having a lost week as a result were really funny.
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I remember a story about a dude who blew his whole life savings buying a bunch of grand pianos and didn't even remember it. Imagine taking a drug where you don't even have fun memories of the fucked-up dumb shit you did while on it. Very SA goon behavior.
northstar747 said:
LOL are they really fighting the narative that after 8 years of screaming trump is hitler some 20 year old would try to kill him...and here is why thats a good thing
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Muh "stochastic terrorism."
 
AnOminous said:
I remember a story about a dude who blew his whole life savings buying a bunch of grand pianos and didn't even remember it. Imagine taking a drug where you don't even have fun memories of the fucked-up dumb shit you did while on it. Very SA goon behavior.
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I thought someone uploaded some archives of the best Joose stories out there. I know there was the slav paramedic sagas that was like if Bringing Out the Dead was an eastern european exploitation film but I might be mistaking it for those.
 
They might be over on the Something Sensitive thread, I half remember seeing it there the last time we were laughing about drug goons.
 
I still do not undertake the appeal in "joosing". Played with my share of drugs before but the classics that are fun like coke, and molly. But joose just sounds terrible. It's for people who don't want to live but are afraid to die (similar to spice) so instead you go into a blackout to pass time.

But yet somehow it was the best thing ever according to goons. What a bunch of retards.
 
WTF is bigot brigade? Sounds like my kinda peeps... >> Proud bigot.

Fuck jews
Fuck niggers
Fuck jews
Fuck homos
Fuck jews
Fuck trannies
Fuck jews
Fuck muslims
Fuck jews

Did I mention fuck jews?

Sieg to the Heil.
 
1488110 said:
WTF is bigot brigade? Sounds like my kinda peeps... >> Proud bigot.

Fuck jews
Fuck niggers
Fuck jews
Fuck homos
Fuck jews
Fuck trannies
Fuck jews
Fuck muslims
Fuck jews

Did I mention fuck jews?

Sieg to the Heil.
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On New Year's Eve 2019, Lowtax got drunk and started live-banning troons, declaring himself the leader of the Bigot Brigade. To commemorate this, Null gave the thread a special tag.

Not sure if you know who Lowtax is or if you just saw the tag and decided to check in with your fellow Nazis. But you can look up that one yourself.
 
Something Awful said:
On New Year's Eve 2019, Lowtax got drunk and started live-banning troons, declaring himself the leader of the Bigot Brigade. To commemorate this, Null gave the thread a special tag.

Not sure if you know who Lowtax is or if you just saw the tag and decided to check in with your fellow Nazis. But you can look up that one yourself.
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Ok man, nah never heard of him. I'm pretty new on here, only registered a couple of months ago.
 
1488110 said:
Ok man, nah never heard of him. I'm pretty new on here, only registered a couple of months ago.
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aww man, this thread is about a dead gay comedy forum called somethingawful.com

To make a long story short dude gets lucky with his website, charges a 10 dollar fee to join this kept out spam bots and annoying people, community goes on to become a bunch of brain sick trannies.
 
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Troons getting worried that the media is being a bit less relentlessly pro-trans. Fucking love the little bit of insanity couched in the post from Cephas here about reclaiming Joan of Arc as Trans or Non-Binary, and apparently its a sign of how irretrievably anti-trans the Atlantic is that they might publish a writer calling that obviously fucking retarded?

I assume the wretched transphobic article from 2018 mentioned is Jesse Singal's famous and very reasonable (and quite pro-trans frankly) article When Children Say They're Trans.
 
Extremely obvious troll registers on Something Awful and posts a picture of a child in the selfies thread.

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Gets banned quickly...

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...but not before a troon senses a grooming opportunity.

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Caption for the vision-impaired: a troon posts a picture of a t-shirt with the text "I posted on the Something Awful dot com forums and all I got was being transgender" and says "you'll fit right in" in response to a child's selfie.

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Fatty crabcakes is gross and probably a pedophile.

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Gonna repost this here from A&H:

In what may be a unique event in world history, a Something Awful forums user has posted so hard that it's become news—returning from the void after a decade-long ban purely in order to pick up the exact same tabletop game nerd debate that got him banned in the first place.

Let's begin at the beginning. The Something Awful forums are (in)famous and, god help us, genuinely culturally important. Despite—or maybe because of—a $10 registration fee, all sorts of memes, turns of phrase, and general ephemera of internet culture have sprung from them over the course of their 24-year existence. It also bears the burden of being at least partially responsible for the creation of 4chan, which was originally created by disgruntled members of SA's anime subforum.


The SA forums are also famous for giving moderators free reign when it comes to laying down the law. It's not uncommon for users to end up eating bans (which you have to pay $10 to get out of) or lengthy probations ("probes," or time-limited bans) because they're being annoying, or have neglected some bit of posting etiquette, or just because it'd be funny. The forums keep a dedicated list of all recent bans and probes alongside the reasons they were handed out, like a wall of heads on spikes.

One such head on one such spike was a poster in SA's tabletop game subforum. Etherwind, the hero of our tale, was disciplined all the way back in 2013 for, ah, jokingly wishing death upon an author on the World of Darkness TTRPGs in an argument over the political direction of the series. Etherwind's punishment was swift and lengthy: A probation period 100,000 hours long that began on the 14th of February, 2013, at 10:24 pm BST.


It's far from the only time a 100,000 hour probe has been handed down by SA's mods but, where most users simply take it as the de facto permaban it is, our Etherwind set an internal timer. 100,000 hours equals about 1.1 decades, 11.4 years, or 4167 days. He would be free to post again in July 2024.

Eleven years passed. And then…

Etherwind returned precisely 100,018 hours after his probation began and swiftly resumed the argument, posting at 9:04 BST on July 14, 2024, and quoting a post from the thread in which he was originally banned within SA's latest and greatest WoD discussion thread, ready to resume his war like some kind of net-bound Hiroo Onoda.


The thread's inhabitants, some of whom had only registered on SA long-after Etherwind had eaten his probation, were suitably awed by his tenacity and dedication. "I'm so curious," said poster Attorney at Funk, "does someone on an 11 year probation set a calendar reminder or does their poster's soul simply vibrate with newfound freedom[?]"

"Must feel amazing to let that out," said Relevant Tangent. "I don't think we're going to top that," said Rand Brittain, "so why don't we just go ahead and ban him for another eleven years?" Some compared it to events in the World of Darkness itself, like when an all-powerful Antediluvian vampire awakens from centuries of torpor to mete out godlike destruction. "Imagine having a Something Awful thread as your Fetter," said a user named Dawgstar.

But as frankly astounding as Etherwind's commitment to his bit was, his resurrection wasn't just a result of an untold dedication to posting. In a Google Doc shared with the thread via social media, our hero explained how posting in SA's community had been an important part of his life, how he had done a lot of growing up and a lot of mental healing in the intervening 100,000 hours, and how he now regretted his life as an infamously abrasive poster.

But still, even with his new outlook, he recognised the end of his ban could be an incredible opportunity for comedy. His decision? To set a calendar reminder and resume his argument like no time had passed at all, picking on a poster from back in the day that he had no beef with whatsoever, committing to the bit before dropping the account entirely.

Which is, frankly, quite heartwarming on top of being the greatest feat of posting I've ever witnessed. As strange as it might sound to say it, online communities like SA are an important aspect of a lot of people's lives. Lord knows I've gone through several over the course of my life that have actually shaped me as a person. Coming back 1.1 decades after a minor forum spat has ended to pick up the gauntlet again seems like a perfect way to reflect just how serious and ridiculous that is all at once.

Finally, Etherwind was right. Wraith's 20th Anniversary Edition didn't come out in 2016.
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A&H article
 
Etherwind returned precisely 100,018 hours after his probation began
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I was impressed up until the point I read that part. A true weapons-grade autist would've been sitting by his computer with a timer set up to tell him the second his ban expired. An 18 hour gap tells me he's not as dedicated to tabletop discussions as he'd like to believe.
 
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