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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Lou Wrong said:
He claims that he refuses to be part of a website that Shmorky's girlfriend is also able to have a presence on. Too bad, taxman, users here don't get to dictate who else can post. And thats something that you should have packed up and taken back to SA with you when you left this place, along with your balls.
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Shmorky's GF, who we expanded the Shmorky thread to cover? Who was here before he was and who was posting in the same thread he was? lol

He's full of shit. He just doesn't want to draw attention to a site biting at the chomps of all his old users.


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Alec Benson Leary said:
I don't want to judge without having looked at the events closer, but taken at face value that would imply some big insight into why SA evolved into what it did.
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Thing is, he posted in quite a few threads here, while she basically confined herself to the Shmorky thread. I'm not sure if she ever posted outside it.

I know he said that was a big part of him leaving, but it seemed more like his admins have him by the balls and maybe threatened him a bit. Especially after how they savaged his wife when she tried to put her foot down on them.
 
TheGreatCitracett said:
Thing is, he posted in quite a few threads here, while she basically confined herself to the Shmorky thread. I'm not sure if she ever posted outside it.

I know he said that was a big part of him leaving, but it seemed more like his admins have him by the balls and maybe threatened him a bit. Especially after how they savaged his wife when she tried to put her foot down on them.
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When you turn your ideology into a business, it ceases to be an ideology and becomes an industry. Even if that ideology is a comedy forum.
 
Lowtax is a coward. A sad, drunk, depressive coward
 
There's a thread on SA about how it's a dead gay forum and a lot of people unironically think it's because it was taken over by insensitive right wingers.
 
jace821 said:
There's a thread on SA about how it's a dead gay forum and a lot of people unironically think it's because it was taken over by insensitive right wingers.
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I thought they all toxxed for Romney back in 2012 and weren't enthused about paying another $10 just to get banned by vindictive D&D mods jerking off to another Obama term?
 
CharlesBarkley said:
You can take the writers out of SA, but you can't take the SA out of writers.

Normally funny, but this shit piece from Zack with all the SA pitfalls.

Includes all classic goon thoughts such as:

- REEEEEEEEEeeee sky wizard believers.
- Antifa is really cool and awesome.
- The right raped and murdered my baby in the gay concentration camps of the future.

The article is still worth reading and made me laugh a few times, but it's always aggravating to see that disconnect with people supporting antifa and being like "Well, their violence is justified because XYZ " and "The world is black/white and left is always correct" shit and every single god damn thing being politicized nonstop. I just want to read about dumb nerd D & D shit, not get lectured by privileged white exceptional dudes mouth breathing to me why communism is totes awesome/radical. Or how Catholicism is bad and should be mocked but Islam is really cool and should be respected.
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proteus4994 said:
Zack Parsons was the worst thing to ever happen to SA, he was a shit admin, he wasn't funny, and he would stick his nose into exceptional shit when he had no fucking clue. He was also one of the first people to agenda-ban on SA.
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WTF D&D was the only SA front page shit I regularly followed but I never knew much about Zack, so I ended up reading almost every article on this site and he sure as shit embodies nu-goons down to a pat: To wit:

- Zack accuses a character on the cover of a Shadowrun book published in 1989 of "cultural appropriation" because she's wearing Native American clothes. This is especially funny because Shadowrun 1st edition had a lot to do with Native American mythology; they rule most of the former United States in that version of the setting. They themselves point this out.
- Steve brings up Revenge of the Nerds and Zack gets legitimately angry because the movie celebrates rape or whatever.
- My personal favourite: Zack prohibits Steve, who is roleplaying as Eazy-E, from saying nigga because Zack is nervous about seeming racist.

I also couldn't help but notice that Zack is more bitchy and uptight in the articles published closer to the election. Steve always seemed like the funnier and less politically correct one.
 
jace821 said:
There's a thread on SA about how it's a dead gay forum and a lot of people unironically think it's because it was taken over by insensitive right wingers.
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Boy howdy, have they really hit the nail on the head with that one. Neogaf has banned everyone to the right of Lenin, and now everything is peaches and cream over there. Pageviews and ad revenue flow like wine. They've never been more relevant!
 
BlueSpark said:
Lowtax had to fire Shmorky and had to give up renting an office space because he couldn't afford them, so it's safe to say he couldn't afford to pay him.
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Who knows for sure? Lowtax is an idiot with money.
 
Lowtax finally got his amazon merch account set up(I think he was waiting ages on approval).

He may finally start making some money again after all.
 
I just made my first post in months. It was just me saying I did not agree about an opinion and the reason why.

I was immediately told that "you don't understand this thread at all".
 
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