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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X Prime said:
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That red text is delightful. Works very well with the content of the post, as well.
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Also, winner of the delusional posting prize is this guy:

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That first paragraph is just a straight-up fucking lie from someone too attached to being persecuted. The second paragraph is literally a 'bigotry is OK when we do it'.

So little writing to cover some of the biggest troon basics of forum-posting - I'm surprised there's not been a movement to make him a jannie.
 
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Next Task said:
That first paragraph is just a straight-up fucking lie from someone too attached to being persecuted. The second paragraph is literally a 'bigotry is OK when we do it'.

So little writing to cover some of the biggest troon basics of forum-posting - I'm surprised there's not been a movement to make him a jannie.
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So the 'woke' people are massive hypocrites. No surprise here.
 
Leonard Helplessness said:
My understanding is that somebody played with the backend code so that banner ads linking to Kiwi Farms never appear in the rotation at all. The charge for purchasing the banner ad still goes through, but the ad gets deleted before it ever has a chance to show up, which is straight-up fraudulent. People have done shit like buy banner ads linking to independently hosted PDFs of Richard's police reports, which show up in the ad rotation until manually deleted by admins -- but if you post an ad with a Kiwi Farms URL, the site just eats your money and you're left with comprehensive documentation that you've been cheated.
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But if someone were to say, have an ad that linked to www.ladypenissupport.com, that would go through. And if the owner of ladypenissupport.com made their site redirect all traffic to the lowtax thread on KF, I'm not sure their code would detect that. (And if it did, chargeback)
 
Ghostse said:
But if someone were to say, have an ad that linked to www.ladypenissupport.com, that would go through. And if the owner of ladypenissupport.com made their site redirect all traffic to the lowtax thread on KF, I'm not sure their code would detect that. (And if it did, chargeback)
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Possibly. I have a suspicion that the backend code has been set up to drop ads for awhile now; there used to be a big problem with shitty Amazon affiliate banners getting posted and wars between people trying to make the most clickbaity banners possible and buying them in huge numbers. It’s possible that some code was put in place back then to kill those ads on sight regardless of how well they were disguised and that the code was recently modified to look for anything that eventually forwards to this site, too.
 
I am quite enjoying how, while every other goon is screeching in fear about THE DEADLY COOF blowing their lungs out, Koalas March is totally unconcerned and remains solely focused on gettin' dem gimmedats.

Also lol she's Jewish now? Guess being slightly-tanned wasn't getting her sufficient Oppression Points.

Also lol "'Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD." - Leviticus 19:28 can't even be a Fake Jew properly.
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Ghostse said:
The Avatar/Title is automated and automatically applied
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As I remember it, only text titles are automatically applied. I believe anything with an image goes into a queue to be approved by a mod or admin, can't remember which. It was years ago and may have since changed but I remember some mod or admin explicitly saying as such, and I think this explains why I never really saw any outrageously NSFW avatars, and why if posters got into avatar slap fights text titles without images were usually used, because they went up instantly without any overview.
 
It's not just C-SPAM getting hot under the collar. Check out this sixer in Goons in Platoons:

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But wait, there's more! The mod who did it is not-so-subtly bitching about it:

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And someone is already thinking about trying to manufacture propaganda against "fascists."

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Cryogonal said:
"Testing is garbage, just give people money" They did
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My understanding of the technical details behind the Economic Impact Payment is that it is, to a certain extent, means-tested. The feds look at your 2019 tax return and dump money into your lap via either check or whatever direct deposit method you listed on said tax return. If you haven't yet filed taxes for 2019 they look at your 2018 return; if you didn't file 2018 taxes either the IRS has set up a portal where you can enter your information and grab your money. The payment isn't subject to federal garnishment either, unlike what they do if you're behind on past taxes or student loans and they just seize your tax refund to cover the delinquent balance.

The amount you get as a single filer is $1,200, unless the adjusted gross income on the tax return that they pulled information from is above $75,000. Then the payment starts to go down little by little, hitting zero if your adjusted gross income is $99,000 or higher. This is called a phaseout and they're everywhere in federal tax, at varying AGI levels for different tax deductions and credits; the IRS does this to prevent situations where your total tax bill is $5,000 at $49,999 of income but your taxes jump to $10,000 if you get paid an extra dollar. That's gay and it only happens to particularly poorly-implemented shit like the income-based discounts (actually advance payments of a tax credit) on health insurance premiums paid through an Obamacare marketplace.

So if you check your bank statement and your Economic Impact Payment is only $600 or something, that's why. But there's another catch, too. The Economic Impact Payment isn't no-strings-attached free money; in technical terms it's "an advance payment of a new refundable tax credit that you're expected to qualify for on your 2020 return." If your total income for 2020 winds up being substantially higher than the amount that the cash airdrop was calculated based on, you might wind up owing back some or all of the dosh you've just received. If your total 2020 income is substantially lower -- such as if your ass got furloughed and your unemployment benefits suck -- then you might get the remaining portion of that free government money when you go to file your 2020 taxes in a year.

tl;dr it's loosely means-tested but it's still means-tested. There was a lot of debate over whether to only give the money to people earning less than a specific threshold vs. whether to give the money to everybody and claw it back later. The implementation of the payment appears to have been a compromise, as is absolutely fucking everything that the Fed does.
 
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Leonard Helplessness said:
My understanding of the technical details behind the Economic Impact Payment is that it is, to a certain extent, means-tested. The feds look at your 2019 tax return and dump money into your lap via either check or whatever direct deposit method you listed on said tax return. If you haven't yet filed taxes for 2019 they look at your 2018 return; if you didn't file 2018 taxes either the IRS has set up a portal where you can enter your information and grab your money. The payment isn't subject to federal garnishment either, unlike what they do if you're behind on past taxes or student loans and they just seize your tax refund to cover the delinquent balance.

The amount you get as a single filer is $1,200, unless the adjusted gross income on the tax return that they pulled information from is above $75,000. Then the payment starts to go down little by little, hitting zero if your adjusted gross income is $99,000 or higher. This is called a phaseout and they're everywhere in federal tax, at varying AGI levels for different tax deductions and credits; the IRS does this to prevent situations where your total tax bill is $5,000 at $49,999 of income but your taxes jump to $10,000 if you get paid an extra dollar. That's gay and it only happens to particularly poorly-implemented shit like the income-based discounts (actually advance payments of a tax credit) on health insurance premiums paid through an Obamacare marketplace.

So if you check your bank statement and your Economic Impact Payment is only $600 or something, that's why. But there's another catch, too. The Economic Impact Payment isn't no-strings-attached free money; in technical terms it's "an advance payment of a new refundable tax credit that you're expected to qualify for on your 2020 return." If your total income for 2020 winds up being substantially higher than the amount that the cash airdrop was calculated based on, you might wind up owing back some or all of the dosh you've just received. If your total 2020 income is substantially lower -- such as if your ass got furloughed and your unemployment benefits suck -- then you might get the remaining portion of that free government money when you go to file your 2020 taxes in a year.

tl;dr it's loosely means-tested but it's still means-tested. There was a lot of debate over whether to only give the money to people earning less than a specific threshold vs. whether to give the money to everybody and claw it back later. The implementation of the payment appears to have been a compromise, as is absolutely fucking everything that the Fed does.
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So, SA is bitching because the means testing disfavours people who are better off? Of course.
 
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