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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Whenever I hear about Something Awful I think of it like I do Rhodesia - a lost land I don't know much about and before my time. It's people scattered and its memory fading. I couldn't give a shit about it though
 
They are both lost lands today, but the similarity ends here. Rhodesia went out on a high note, SA is still vegetating as an embarrassing footnote to early Internet history.
 
If you've played "The Roottrees are Dead" and thought, "Wow. This is fucking dreary and has no payoff." well boy do I have an explanation for you.

Roottrees.webp

GOON PROJECT STATUS:
$20 indie game

@wtfNeedSignUp
@Diesel Boogaloo
@BiggestKai
@Disc
 
State machines are as far as I know an extremely common thing in video games and I'd be surprised if a game didn't have any.
Roottrees could have been made in clickteam fusion for all I care it doesn't explain just how meh the puzzles are in that game.
 
I remember back in the glory days of Something Awful a then-web friend of mine, who was like an older brother to me for a while and was remarkably generous, gifted me an SA membership.

Said friend eventually stopped talking to me and apparently had blocked me through our usual channels, and later I stumbled upon his Twitter account and he was retweeting leftist screed Lowtax was posting.

I will never understand these people or why they act all nice one minute but are screaming angry rhetoric and itching for a fight like a bunch of thugs the next. I got some leftist family friends---boomer age---and they're always genuinely civil and hospitable to me. But most of the leftist friends my age? Turned out to be some of the most vicious, two-faced, passive-aggressive shitheads I've had the displeasure of meeting.
 
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This is a bit of a dumb question, but on KF, are "guests" just random people browsing without an account?

I'm just wondering how the activity compares between KF and SA in the year 2025, as of right now SA has 3347 users browsing.
 
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