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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White Devil said:
Wasn't there a couple SA Cons as well back in the day?
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They were kind enough to preserve the gayness in full color as a warning to future internet denizens. It was later recognized for its significant impact in the decline of the AIDS epidemic.
 
LOWERCASE LETTERS said:
Yep. At one of them there were a couple of guys that kept leaping over people's heads, high fiving each other, and yelling "HO CHECK!" at the top of their lungs. Lowtax was so incredibly annoyed by this that he banned them both when he got home.

Also, at some other incident, Lowtax got off a plane to meet some goons and one of them presented him with a boxed copy of Linux like he was offering up the holy grail.
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Did you have to display your username at all times? Imagine dunking on a bunch of goons and no-one knowing who you were so all the could do was whine.

I remember there was one GoonCon at some fucking horrible hotel in vegas where the toilets and baths spewed sewage and mould was all over the ceiling.
I read about it on SASS: https://web.archive.org/web/20080501112127/http://sass.buttes.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=18198

Which GoonCon was the one where some homo sat next to Lowtax and he could barely hide his utter disgust and rage?

Ps. Not just the holy grail. A "kinda like a hip-hop" holy grail presented in front of your current girlfriend.
 
Spunt said:
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This smiley brings back some hideous memories. It's based on an incident at the first ever gooncamp, which brought us images like the below:

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Some ur-goon brought his lumpy girlfriend along to lord it over the other goons (in the land of permavirgins, the man with the fat, ugly crazy gf is king), this couple may be the ones breaking the chair in the middle picture above but I'm not 100% sure. That night, they had sex in their tent. However, they left their camping lantern on, which projected their activity in shadow-puppet form on the wall of their tent. That and the excessive amount of noise they were making meant their little show attracted quite a crowd. It soon became apparent that they were engaged in ass-to-mouth and that she was *really* into sucking her own shit off his dick.

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Where are his arms?
 
lemmiwinks said:
They were kind enough to preserve the gayness in full color as a warning to future internet denizens. It was later recognized for its significant impact in the decline of the AIDS epidemic.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7finT5Xov04
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I am somewhere in this video for about .5 seconds. It was my 21st birthday and I had enough cash to drink a lot of margarita bongs, actually pretty good time.

I used to go to defcon in vegas back in those days too, which was more fun. Drinking with nerds is alright.
 
Huh as much as I want to shit on Jeff as a community manager.

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Fixing image links that were broken for more than a decade....

He s honestly putting in some work and effort.

I wonder why zdr couldn't do these things
 
northstar747 said:
Huh as much as I want to shit on Jeff as a community manager.

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Fixing image links that were broken for more than a decade....

He s honestly putting in some work and effort.

I wonder why zdr couldn't do these things
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Jeffery is directing the money SA makes into hiring people to do the technical aspects who know what they are doing. Contrast this with the previous owner who went with the lowest bidder who would suck his dick and spent the funds on ambien, GTR leases that not even an enlisted marine would sign, and month-long vacations to lick mormon cokewhore toes.

I don't really call this putting in work and effort, I call that doing the bare-ass minimum. He only seems to be doing great because the guy before him was such a grifting fuckup.
 
Ghostse said:
Jeffery is directing the money SA makes into hiring people to do the technical aspects who know what they are doing. Contrast this with the previous owner who went with the lowest bidder who would suck his dick and spent the funds on ambien, GTR leases that not even an enlisted marine would sign, and month-long vacations to lick mormon cokewhore toes.

I don't really call this putting in work and effort, I call that doing the bare-ass minimum. He only seems to be doing great because the guy before him was such a grifting fuckup.
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One of the key career tips they won't teach you in school is that you don't have to be *good* at your job, you just need to be slightly better than the last guy, and everyone will think you're a genius. I once got a job where the last guy only showed up to the office twice a week and ran at least one side business from home while supposedly on the clock. I accepted a salary that was barely half what he earned but I was still grossly overpaid for what the job entailed (the last guy had convinced his boss that this job was really difficult and required incredibly specialised knowledge, and I certainly wasn't going to dispel that idea). I did fuck all, wrote basic scripts to basically automate 80% of the job, and wrote two full-length books at my desk (and because I only asked to work from home twice a week instead of three times a week I seemed more committed). But because my scripts managed to improve my department's performance figures from terrible to slightly above average, I was hailed as a genius and survived wave after wave of firings despite doing almost no work at all.

Lowtax left Jeffrey such a low bar to clear that even the most mediocre level of performance from Jeff will make him look like a fucking superhero to the unwashed goon hordes.
 
Spunt said:
One of the key career tips they won't teach you in school is that you don't have to be *good* at your job, you just need to be slightly better than the last guy, and everyone will think you're a genius. I once got a job where the last guy only showed up to the office twice a week and ran at least one side business from home while supposedly on the clock. I accepted a salary that was barely half what he earned but I was still grossly overpaid for what the job entailed (the last guy had convinced his boss that this job was really difficult and required incredibly specialised knowledge, and I certainly wasn't going to dispel that idea). I did fuck all, wrote basic scripts to basically automate 80% of the job, and wrote two full-length books at my desk (and because I only asked to work from home twice a week instead of three times a week I seemed more committed). But because my scripts managed to improve my department's performance figures from terrible to slightly above average, I was hailed as a genius and survived wave after wave of firings despite doing almost no work at all.

Lowtax left Jeffrey such a low bar to clear that even the most mediocre level of performance from Jeff will make him look like a fucking superhero to the unwashed goon hordes.
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A few jobs ago my department was voluntold to take over a task from a department who restructured themselves such it was no longer their responsibility. This work amounted to showing up to at a place on time and pressing a button to start some equipment. Immediately after taking this responsibility, we were being sent donuts, cookies, had sandwiches show up for lunch, and glowing emails to C-level administration. Apparently the previous department was often late or wouldn't show up at all, and wouldn't respond to voicemail until the next day.
Because of the standard set by those fuckups, our team actually had someone show up on time to press the button, we were sent effusive praise and free lunches just for actually showing up.
 
Spunt said:
One of the key career tips they won't teach you in school is that you don't have to be *good* at your job, you just need to be slightly better than the last guy, and everyone will think you're a genius. I once got a job where the last guy only showed up to the office twice a week and ran at least one side business from home while supposedly on the clock. I accepted a salary that was barely half what he earned but I was still grossly overpaid for what the job entailed (the last guy had convinced his boss that this job was really difficult and required incredibly specialised knowledge, and I certainly wasn't going to dispel that idea). I did fuck all, wrote basic scripts to basically automate 80% of the job, and wrote two full-length books at my desk (and because I only asked to work from home twice a week instead of three times a week I seemed more committed). But because my scripts managed to improve my department's performance figures from terrible to slightly above average, I was hailed as a genius and survived wave after wave of firings despite doing almost no work at all.

Lowtax left Jeffrey such a low bar to clear that even the most mediocre level of performance from Jeff will make him look like a fucking superhero to the unwashed goon hordes.
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Ghostse said:
A few jobs ago my department was voluntold to take over a task from a department who restructured themselves such it was no longer their responsibility. This work amounted to showing up to at a place on time and pressing a button to start some equipment. Immediately after taking this responsibility, we were being sent donuts, cookies, had sandwiches show up for lunch, and glowing emails to C-level administration. Apparently the previous department was often late or wouldn't show up at all, and wouldn't respond to voicemail until the next day.
Because of the standard set by those fuckups, our team actually had someone show up on time to press the button, we were sent effusive praise and free lunches just for actually showing up.
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I haven't shot someone this year.
 
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