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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If Lowtax had any balls he'd take all those pictures of the transfreaks and other faggots from his forums and make one big cliff yablonski update. Can you even imagine the REEEEing? It might even buy him a few minutes in the internet fame spotlight he so lusts after. Granted, mostly by the triggered Twitter tranny brigade who would declare Lowtax an unperson alt-right Nazi but you know what they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Of course this is purely academical because Lowtax doesn't have any balls, especially not in regards to upsetting the forums janitors who are commandeering his forums.
 
While it's nice to speculate about LowT snapping and making SA great again it's good to remember that he literally can't. Zen Death robot has apparently spent the last few years building kill switches into the forum in case Lowtax decides to uncuck it. The last time Lowtax pissed him off the forums went down for days until he apologized and made ZDR an admin again.
 
Ruin said:
While it's nice to speculate about LowT snapping and making SA great again it's good to remember that he literally can't. Zen Death robot has apparently spent the last few years building kill switches into the forum in case Lowtax decides to uncuck it. The last time Lowtax pissed him off the forums went down for days until he apologized and made ZDR an admin again.
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All the more reason to nuke that shit and start over. Let ZDR have his power. The good shit is mostly archived offsite and the only people upset about the rest are worthless
 
GBS: I think my 4 year old is a racist!

Tinfoil Papercut said:
My son (4) was watching TV with my wife when a black character appeared on the set. He stated that they "look weird" because they were "brown." He's made a few offhand comments to that effect before, mostly just pointing out that "that person is black" when he sees one. Being that we live in Maine - we don't encounter much ethnic diversity - but at the grocery store we have been nervous what he might say around someone non-white.

It's an innocent thing he's doing, he is just pointing out his observations and also claiming he "doesn't like" anything different than what he's use to. He has the same reaction if we change his goldfish from cheddar to plain.

We've tried explaining to him how it's not weird to have a different skin color, that it's no different than eye color or hair color - but much like anything we say he ignores it and carries on as before. I tried showing him pictures of attractive ethnic girls on the internet, we did a whole world tour but it only demonstrated his preference for Irish redhead freckled girls.

How do I stop my son from being racist?

What the hell do I say if he blurts something out in front of someone?
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Tinfoil Papercut said:
Just now

Me: "Hey buddy, what do you think about these girls?" (GIS for pretty black girls)
Him: "I think ALL of these girls look pretty!"

Fucking breakthrough everyone! The key to defeating latent racism is objectifying women.
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I found the next great mod
 
Ruin said:
. Zen Death robot has apparently spent the last few years building kill switches into the forum in case Lowtax decides to uncuck it.
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Now that is some dedicated :autism: right there.
I tried showing him pictures of attractive ethnic girls on the internet, we did a whole world tour but it only demonstrated his preference for Irish redhead freckled girls.
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Based 4-year old has good taste.
 
Ruin said:
While it's nice to speculate about LowT snapping and making SA great again it's good to remember that he literally can't. Zen Death robot has apparently spent the last few years building kill switches into the forum in case Lowtax decides to uncuck it. The last time Lowtax pissed him off the forums went down for days until he apologized and made ZDR an admin again.
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It also deleted most, if not all, of his post history. Any thread he posted in was fucked up for a long time afterwards. That's why a lot of the biggest threads on the forum got broken at the same time.
 
Lowtax let his wife be bullied off his own forums. If he doesn't demand any respect for her why would he demand any for himself?
 
I did a little bit of poking around on the front page of SA today because I was curious to know the current state of the website's content. In the spoiler tag below is a list of all of SA's columns and the years they were last updated:

*Photoshop Phriday - 2017
*Comedy Goldmine - 2017
*The Flash Tub - 2014
Awful Link of the Day - 2015
Fake Something Awfuls - N/A
The Barbarian’s Dojo - 2007
The Great Goon Database - 2007
Livejournal Theater - 2008
Joystick Token Healthpack - 2009
Webcam Ward - 2010
Murder the Internet - 2017
Features / Articles - 2017
Guides - 2014
Legal Threats - 2008
Pranks [ICQ] - 2010
State Og - 2005
Everquest - 2000
Pranks - 2016
The Weekend Web - 2016
Daily Dirt - 2014
The Art of Warcraft - 2006
*Video Game Article - 2018
The Awful Movie Database - 2012
Pregame Wrapup - 2007
Second Life Safari - 2007
The Hogosphere - 2008
*Front Page News - 2018
Forum Friday's Monday - 2011
Cliff Yablonski Hates You - 2007
Manifestos From the Internet - 2007
Johnston Checks In - 2013
Twitter Tuesday - 2014
Music Article - 2013
*The Everdraed Showcase - 2013
Reviews [Games] - 2010
Reviews [Movies] - 2018
Rom Pit - 2009
Truth Media [Reviews] - 2010
Truth Media [Flames] - 2010
Awful Anime - 2008
The Horrors of Pornography - 2010
Your Band Sucks - 2007
Fashion SWAT - 2014
AwfulVision - 2012
MMO Roulette - 2008
The Most Awful - 2013
Garbage Day - 2013
*WTF, D&D!? - 2014
*Current Releases - 2014
Awful Things for Sale - 2015

Awful lot of categories that haven't been touched in several years, many of them at least in half a decade and some of them even a decade or longer. 31 of the 50 columns listed here have not been touched in at least 5 years. 32 if you count the nebulous "Fake Something Awfuls" section. That's over 60%. The columns marked with an asterisk are the ones featured in the website's header under the SA logo, and most of those haven't been touched in years as well. Those are the ones that are being put front and center to visitors.

I get that some of those categories are dead because their subjects have become irrelevant in modern culture (ICQ Pranks, Everquest) or were columns that belonged to a single specific writer (Awful Things For Sale, Johnston Checks In). But that doesn't account for the staggering majority of sections that literally anyone could pick up and contribute to. SA has general categories for all sorts of dumb internet shit like anime, gaming (modern and classic), viral videos, porn, music, social media, forums, etc. Everything. And it's not like some of these columns are hard to do. Weekend Web and Awful Link of the Day were community efforts to laugh at dumb websites and neither of those have been touched in a long time. The Great Goon Database was all local content, they didn't even have to find a different site to prowl, and that one's languished for 11 years.

I don't know what point I was trying to make with this post. I wasn't intending this to come off as another "lol SA is dead" post, but it's pretty telling that the content that the website was initially built on has just been left to rot.
 
Photoshop Friday was one of the best things about that site. It's telling that it's been allowed to die.
 
This site (SA) is fucking ridiculous. I've registered there, because I wanted to follow a thread about a certain game. I don't know why I had the impression that it was politically incorrect forum where no theme is saved from mocking, so imagine my surprise as another member was banned for some days for saying that trannies does not deserve special treatment.

I don't post a lot and I'm checking only some game threads, where the situation is pretty tame, but after reading this thread - fuck this place. I could've flushed 10bux down the toilet with better satisfaction factor.
 
DeusVult said:
This site (SA) is fucking ridiculous. I've registered there, because I wanted to follow a thread about a certain game. I don't know why I had the impression that it was politically incorrect forum where no theme is saved from mocking, so imagine my surprise as another member was banned for some days for saying that trannies does not deserve special treatment.

I don't post a lot and I'm checking only some game threads, where the situation is pretty tame, but after reading this thread - fuck this place. I could've flushed 10bux down the toilet with better satisfaction factor.
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So wait even with SA's terrible reputation you willingly paid $10 to join just to talk about one game that you could talk about literally anywhere else on the internet for free?

I hate to be the one to break this to you because your parents or doctor are probably better qualified but you're dumb, really really dumb.
 
Ruin said:
So wait even with SA's terrible reputation you willingly paid $10 to join just to talk about one game that you could talk about literally anywhere else on the internet for free?

I hate to be the one to break this to you because your parents or doctor are probably better qualified but you're dumb, really really dumb.
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I bethink he was saying it was still to him as non PC comedy forum as it once was and then he found out what it actually was. I have a feeling or friends here isn't a native English speaker so my guess is outside of places like this and 4chan and evE online, most people have no idea what sa is like
 
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