There’s an entire category of person that starts panicking when you mention Something Awful as though its main movers aren’t mainly just in their 30s or 40s and have back problems now.
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Its just sort of what people are gesturing towards when they say "we need get back to forums" and its there and you can read it but its mostly sort of boring if you don't have a specific interest
yeah it's a cool place these days (mostly), but will never be a cultural touchstone again just because it's made up of tired 40 year olds instead of edgy teens and 20-somethings
i just turned 30 i feel like maybe i should channel some zoomer energy and be more annoying just to piss off all the 40 somethings who constantly scold me here
they did turn the debate forum into a sadistic experiment of "what if we gave the most decorum-obsessed liberals exactly what they asked for" though so that was mildly entertaining
The bizarre freudian psychological torture experiment that Koos Group developed for the debate club posters is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen Online
A guy on there who blew a prominent Proud Boy's toes off with a gun got caught gassing himself up over how cool he was and pretending it wasn't him who did it.
a poster taught himself how to be a battlefield medic and flew to Syria to participate in the Civil War there, was captured and tortured as of he were Cia and he recently won a multi million dollar claim after he was released after years in a Syrian prison
When Lowtax died, his funeral thread became a mockery thread and a crowdfunding thread for his children’s college funds. Anyone who complained about the tone was banned.
Wasn’t on the SA forums, but I’m the kind of person who would have lots of friends who were on there, and indeed I do, and sounds like it got pretty bad at times but not out of proportion to what was typical of the zeitgeist for 00s forums frequented most by young men into vidyas
I never paid ten bucks, so my knowledge is more indirect. I did at least look at the free stuff on the homepage like comedy goldmine fairly regularly in the 00s.
The only reason it clicked with me that it was out here was because I had a guy in an SA polo come into the Independence Express store when I was managing it back in 2012.
My gf in high school helped out at her aunt and uncle’s insurance office next door to the SA office, I couldn’t believe a real website had an office in the shitty little town next to my shitty one. This was like 2000-2001 I think
thats just robert evans, who has no domain expertise whatsoever and has to lean on the only thing he has any expertise in -- web forums he lived on during formative moments
It's just a weird forum full of middle-aged shitposters and nerds. People acting like it caused the apocalypse because it banned some creepy pedophiles one time two and a half decades ago and then pooped on them in a video game are really weird.
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It's the way the internet ought to be, we never should have moved past forums.
1. The “office” was just his shitty house
2. He was MUCH worse than when I was in high school and college
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