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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:38 pm

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Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:51 pm

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Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:25 pm

oh yeah and just in case somehow somebody decides to read whatever I've said in the most uncharitable way and because I forgot to mention it: KM said she was getting harassed over her involvement and put the blame on Jeffrey and Bird, totally unjustly and unfairly imo and her followers have stuck to that claim that it's somehow their fault

let it be very clear: harassing people over internet forums shit is heinously fail level stuff. jesus christ. unjustifiable in any scenario, but alas the internet is full of psychos who probably jumped at the chance to be the worst human refuse they could be. not even remotely fair to pin it on the people she verifiably hurled abuse at herself, but do not somehow misconstrue any of my posts as some type of tacit endorsement of this type of heinous, awful activity done solely by internet failures lacking in normal human decency.
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Re: Lowtax has been ousted from Something Awful, is melting down

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:13 pm

:psyduck: welp I was certainly played, also what the everloving fuck

what did she think was going to happ—no actually I don’t want to know the answer to that question

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Re: Lowtax has been ousted from Something Awful, is melting down

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:32 pm

ffs it was always a bad idea to sock puppet yourself anywhere online because you always, always, always get caught

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Re: Lowtax has been ousted from Something Awful, is melting down

Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:53 pm

x-tremely glad I've been playing shin megami tensei digital devil saga instead of paying rapt attention to something awful forums

it's a game about cannibal hinduism
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Re: Lowtax has been ousted from Something Awful, is melting down

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:59 pm

I’ve been playing picross.

It’s a game where you make pictures with blocks and sometimes they actually resemble what the captions say they are :-I

(i put 80 hours into it within a week :nngh: )

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Re: Lowtax has been ousted from Something Awful, is melting down

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:02 pm

also I’m glad I left SA still

in retrospect, I kind of regret being curious and clicking on this thread

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:58 pm

Uh wow

That's a direction I didn't expect :-I

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Re: Lowtax has been ousted from Something Awful, is melting down

Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:38 pm

Definitely not regretting my decision to leave and yank my Patreon support
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Re: Lowtax has been ousted from Something Awful, is melting down

Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Aug 27, 2020 1:18 am

actually I’m just gonna come right out and say what I should have had the courage to say last night.

I don’t understand why this is the “height” of comedy when it all looks like some sad, convoluted mess of events from the outside. My initial responses were cowardly. I compared SA to the Centralia Mine Fire to somebody, but if the fire hadn’t destroyed the town, Centralia would be the more wholesome place. It might still be the more wholesome place, because at least people have accepted it as a tragedy.

Even if you hate all of the alternatives people have posted in this thread, there are still a million places you could go online and a million more constructive things to do than watch the decline of an internet forum. Getting drunk would be more constructive. Wiki link diving is more constructive. You have access to almost every musical piece ever written and recorded in every single genre known to us, from some old opera to a piece of synthwave someone just finished mixing and uploading to soundcloud 5 minutes ago. You can watch movies, shows, download books. If you’re a nerd like me there’s speedruns and LPs and streamers.

There is no limit to the number of actually good things to do with your time than summarize this stuff.

Go ahead and put me on ignore or wrote me off as a “bad faith” poster or whatever it is you do, Ruflux. You’re just a boring dick.

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Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Aug 27, 2020 1:18 am

totally worth a probe

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Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:38 am

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RIP Syndrome wrote:
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Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Thu Aug 27, 2020 9:05 am

it's both funny that people take a dead gay comedy forum this seriously and sometimes you can only deal with the almighty grief of people taking a dead gay comedy forum so seriously they stage coups and power plays by explaining literally the events that have happened like they're a short story by a dumpass
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Re: Lowtax has been ousted from Something Awful, is melting down

Post by diribigal (?) » Thu Aug 27, 2020 9:24 am

Madeline wrote:
Thu Aug 27, 2020 1:18 am
There is no limit to the number of actually good things to do with your time than summarize this stuff.

You’re just [boring].
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Post by Jill (?) » Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:25 am

Madeline wrote:
Thu Aug 27, 2020 1:18 am
actually I’m just gonna come right out and say what I should have had the courage to say last night.

I don’t understand why this is the “height” of comedy when it all looks like some sad, convoluted mess of events from the outside. My initial responses were cowardly. I compared SA to the Centralia Mine Fire to somebody, but if the fire hadn’t destroyed the town, Centralia would be the more wholesome place. It might still be the more wholesome place, because at least people have accepted it as a tragedy.

Even if you hate all of the alternatives people have posted in this thread, there are still a million places you could go online and a million more constructive things to do than watch the decline of an internet forum. Getting drunk would be more constructive. Wiki link diving is more constructive. You have access to almost every musical piece ever written and recorded in every single genre known to us, from some old opera to a piece of synthwave someone just finished mixing and uploading to soundcloud 5 minutes ago. You can watch movies, shows, download books. If you’re a nerd like me there’s speedruns and LPs and streamers.

There is no limit to the number of actually good things to do with your time than summarize this stuff.

Go ahead and put me on ignore or wrote me off as a “bad faith” poster or whatever it is you do, Ruflux. You’re just a boring dick.
i didn't think it was very funny either, but to each their own :fluttershrug:

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Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:31 pm

I don't personally give a shit either way but as I always say, live and let post (I have literally never said that). I'm sorry you feel that way. I thought it was hilarious but probably not the way I wrote it. the idea of a sockpuppet that always just goes "WOW GREAT POST" at everything u post tickles me greatly, and that is exactly what this sockpuppet was and why it produced a twenty million funny photoshops etc that left me cackling like a maniac in my bed trying to sleep.


also you gotta try harder than that to get a probe on TRS. I told OFS to go fuck himself or similar once and all I got was a warning
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Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:34 pm

oh yeh either way I wanted to make that effortpost since I felt that even if I'm not the biggest FYAD fan, there was a certain energy that was going on that whatever SA's admins said, FYAD was still wrong and should be deleted. idk, if you feel that way, alright, and I sure as hell ain't into defending their honor, but I felt like the whole Nazi thing was a bridge too far and Jeffrey agreed
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:56 pm

there's just a certain kind of absurdity to someone being so, i dunno, egotistical that they have a sockpuppet dedicated to constantly praising them
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:56 pm

doubly so that it went on for so long
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Yes, I agree, DaikatunaRevengeance. Your posts are consistently funny and on-point. People, read these posts. They are good.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:18 pm

yes they are, i'm glad you agree
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your posts are also good and worth reading
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Writing the ruflux dictionary entry that casts all your haters as racists rn
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Orange Fluffy Sheep wrote:
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Writing the ruflux dictionary entry that casts all your haters as racists rn
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Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Sat Aug 29, 2020 10:53 am

while it is not his job to prove how funny all this is, u should sub to RIP Syndrome's youtube where he discusses forums culture and humor (he's an expert) or join his Patreon
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shit wrong account how do i delete posts on teh TRS
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Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:59 am

I never posted in FYAD, so all I know about it is that before probations existed, goons with negative post counts used to get a wild hair up their asses at least once a month and run amok in every other forum because they were so convinced that they were 2 cool 4 rules, and as soon as they got banned to get them to stop, their admin buddies who also thought their antics were hilarious would unban them.

So I can't really bring myself to care about what happens to the shitting-on-everyone-else forum.

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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:05 pm

This looks like it's close to resolution. Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted this announcement yesterday:
The contract is written and Lowtax and I have agreed on terms. We are awaiting Lowtax's signature on the written contract, but the sale is proceeding. I have the credentials for Cloudflare, Steadfast (the hosting provider), and other associated services and am prepared to put them in my name. I will let everyone know as soon as we move forward.
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:34 am

Personally I have no real faith that much will change with the sale but who knows, maybe Jeffrey will take shit seriously. Bringing FYAD back is just ... kind of a bad omen, y'all.

Meanwhile I will mock Lowtax plenty for being a piece of shit while feeling genuinely sorry for the people who had to suffer under his garbage.
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Perrydotto wrote:
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Bringing FYAD back is just ... kind of a bad omen, y'all.
There's a part of me that thinks it could maybe work. Shifting FYAD back to where it was over a decade ago, before its sense of humor started getting genuinely harmful, would take a massive change, but maybe kicking Lowtax out is that massive change it needs. If you like the sense of humor wielded by dril and the rest of Weird Twitter, that's what FYAD was way back in the day, and maybe it really can come back again.
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Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:39 am

A lot of that reputation has been overblown as part of koalas march's power plays
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:02 am

Orange Fluffy Sheep wrote:
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A lot of that reputation has been overblown as part of koalas march's power plays
Not sure if you are being ironic, but just to be clear, FYAD was full of transphobic and hateful garbage humor for years, not like made up shit but stuff that was actually there and readable for all (EDIT: I posted here before that I don't buy Koala March being a 4D chess master but apparently that is what she attempted to be? That sounds weird as hell but I really don't understand anything about SA anymore, what a fucking garbage fire). It doesn't take some bullshit 4D chess about KiwiFarms or whatever to be still a sucky place. And yeah, even at its best, FYAD was heavily impenetrable and offputting, and the few genuinely funny people there made the right decision by moving their comedy elsewhere.
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:04 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:
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I never posted in FYAD, so all I know about it is that before probations existed, goons with negative post counts used to get a wild hair up their asses at least once a month and run amok in every other forum because they were so convinced that they were 2 cool 4 rules, and as soon as they got banned to get them to stop, their admin buddies who also thought their antics were hilarious would unban them.
Yeah, FYAD brigading other subforums in increasingly garbage ways was kind of a thing and it's one of the reasons I don't need the place to come back. A lot of bad faith trolling especially in the feedback subforum and the minorities subforum came from FYAD folks. It's ... kind of hella exhausting and pointless when you enable people like that, turns out.
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:23 am

Basically, the point I'm trying to make is that I hope things will be good and better and cool, I genuinely do. But SA is fucking ancient and a lot of the stuff people fondly remember hasn't aged well at all, and the shit that has aged well doesn't require SA to stick around with all of its baggage and bullshit. SA mods and admins constantly either quit or turn out to be awful people in some way and I think it's really reductive to put that down to just Lowtax as the sole reason. The site has some really awesome nooks and crannies to this day but is overall built on an abundance of cynicism and that is not the sorta thing that makes for a healthy community, especially in the long-term. Time and time again, SA has been a toxic as hell place and I just cannot bring myself to excuse that anymore. The fond memories don't require a toxic community to keep shambling on.

Hopefully I am wrong and everything will be fantastic but I would still recommend that people think a bit more about their attachment to a place built on hyper-irony and standoffish shit and what that can do to one's mindset.
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