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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Shaka Brah said:
He gave them a tenner.

Which inrange guy is this? Because I thought Ian had retarded leftoid views on guns and politics despite liking to shoot.
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Sinistral is the pretty fat, monotone-voiced guy who can shoot better than the others. Also the brains behind the monolithic poly lower that's the core of the WWSD builds, as well as a fair amount of other stuff at KE Arms. His Doom and 40k meme builds were also not bad, though he doesn't really have a youtube-friendly voice/look/etc.
 
His stance on the shooting seemed perfectly level-headed and reasonable, so I'm not surprised they permabanned him. SA is full of the most putrid people I've ever seen online.
 
Holocaust Mansplainer said:
His stance on the shooting seemed perfectly level-headed and reasonable, so I'm not surprised they permabanned him. SA is full of the most putrid people I've ever seen online.
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I always forget about SA when I don't long on to the Farms for a while. I usually think Twitter is the dumbest place on the internet until I log back in and remember Something Awful still exists. It's quite a feat to be as terrible as they are.
 
Goons will always be goons.

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DisobedientLupus said:
Uh oh, I don't think that's a Karl approved opinion! SinsitralRifleman made an IG post defending the shooter in Kenosha and George Zimmerman and got banned from SomethingAwful. And Cyrano wonders where all the good TFR posters went.
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I think Sinistral Rifleman was a bit naive about how the forum was going to deal with concepts and ideas they disagree with.
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For about 10 pages he was driving the conversation along, there were some decent responses, and some people seemed really keen to argue with him.

However there were other people that seemed to struggle.

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Then finally an ultimatum from this top tier member.

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Since he's been banned, activity in the thread has dropped off, there's nothing worth reading being posted. The thread is objectively more shit, and generating less engagement after the ban.
 
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Goons: I was misgenered. I demand blood. Death to all bigots who post mean words online. I demand justice. That one guy who called me gay is all of right wing America. I'm crying right now and feel traumatized.

Also Goons: Its just property damage and fires bro. It's not a big deal. If you get heated about this stuff you are a loser.

Goons: Capitalism? More like fascism. The government is so corrupt. Trump bad.

Also goons: I love Obama and his deportations, constant child drone kill count rule. I wish we had communism so the government had more power!
 
Trig.Point said:
I think Sinistral Rifleman was a bit naive about how the forum was going to deal with concepts they ideas they disagree with.
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For about 10 pages he was driving the conversation along, there were some decent responses, and some people seemed really keen to argue with him.

However there were other people that seemed to struggle.

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Then finally an ultimatum from this top tier member.

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Since he's been banned activity in the thread has dropped off, there's nothing worth reading being posted. The thread is objectively more shit, and generating less engagement after the ban.
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Thats how most threads go. You've got a dozen people jerking each other off over thinking the same thing and when someone shows up that doesn't tow the line they mash the REPORT button as fast as their cheetoh fingers can get. The best part is when the thread is being propelled by the so-called wrong-thinkers and then a couple of faggots show up who normally never contribute but are LITERALLY SHAKING so hard they immediately lapse into no punctuation irony-posting demanding mods, MODS!

The site deserves everything it gets for signing up the jannies that enabled the insanity.
 
If you aren't logged in, a word filter replaces "fuck" with "gently caress", "fucking" with "loving", "shit" with "poo poo", and "shitty" with "lovely." If I remember correctly, it was implemented to make the site less mature-rated for advertising purposes (and to be zany, of course).

That being said, a lot of goons nowadays do actually say infantile shit like "eat my whole butt you fuckman." That's the kind of lingo that develops when you outlaw all the actually offensive insults but still want to impotently rage out at people all the time.
 
Trig.Point said:
I think Sinistral Rifleman was a bit naive about how the forum was going to deal with concepts and ideas they disagree with.
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For about 10 pages he was driving the conversation along, there were some decent responses, and some people seemed really keen to argue with him.

However there were other people that seemed to struggle.

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Then finally an ultimatum from this top tier member.

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Since he's been banned, activity in the thread has dropped off, there's nothing worth reading being posted. The thread is objectively more shit, and generating less engagement after the ban.
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Typical SAism in action, and why they have had a mostly dead forum since 2010.
 
Trig.Point said:
I think Sinistral Rifleman was a bit naive about how the forum was going to deal with concepts and ideas they disagree with.
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TFR has been beyond worthless for years now, has been for well over a half decade. No one who isn't mentally ill actually uses or enjoys that place. Anyone sane and with a half decent sense of humor or political views past one micron to the right of Mao are long gone, banned or fucked off on their own accord. I can't imagine what Sinistral Rifleman was still doing there. He either took some kind of perverse pride in trying to argue civilly with those psychotic leftist cocksuckers or something is wrong with him like the rest of the freakshow there.

Not too long ago an admin renamed TFR to "Triggered Liberals" and of course some of the human detritus there complained to Cyrano and got it changed back. It was a fitting name and I'm surprised it even happened in the first place.
 
break these cuffs said:
I always forget about SA when I don't long on to the Farms for a while. I usually think Twitter is the dumbest place on the internet until I log back in and remember Something Awful still exists. It's quite a feat to be as terrible as they are.
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The Farms is literally the only place on the Internet that even pretends to care about SA.

Is that sad or funny? Or are those the same thing?
 
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