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I posted the number of unique visitors per month previously it was 243,000. Hard to say how many of those are regular users, probably less than 100,000.
SA web traffic tends to halve every year or two.
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I posted the number of unique visitors per month previously it was 243,000. Hard to say how many of those are regular users, probably less than 100,000.
SA web traffic tends to halve every year or two.
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That reminds me that I saw a post on Bluesky once of someone saying that "ban anyone for any reason" was a good decision that improved Something Awful. You stupid bitch, Something Awful is dead and it was things like that which scared everyone else off. There's no reason to be there anymore.
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This is literally their drumbeat propaganda and has been for years. That it made them 'adults' and this is how they are better than everywhere else on the Internet.
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If the site has actually competent moderation, it would be a benefit. SA hasn't had competent moderation for almost 20 years. Thus, now all it's good at is ensuring nobody disturbs the very angry group of communists who will do every bit of life ruination just to get their posting enemies taken down.
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User IDs are sequential, I'm almost positive. I bet one could build an interesting graph with just a handful of user id and registration date checks?
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they are. That's how one of the SoSe guys was tracking user decline.
the only thing they won't tell you is if the account is paid or a mod/admin giving a toadie a parachute.
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So I went to AI. The car forum.
It used to be a fun read....15 years ago. I remember some goon fixing a milk truck and shit.
The last post in his project thread was almost a decade ago.
It used to be a fun read....15 years ago. I remember some goon fixing a milk truck and shit.
The last post in his project thread was almost a decade ago.
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Banned for transphobia and slurs because he said he was having troubles with the tranny
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What is it all now? I'm expecting "What's wrong with my shitbox? I need to get to my job at the dispensary/dilator store." and "Fucking America is so carbrained, why if we just made electric railroads..."
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i checked out of there years ago but a goon/gear head/ meth head named david bloomquest made some good content but then got banned for being a rappist
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Dick Turbo. Wondered what happened. Last I remembered, he got a shitty 4.0 that he had to keep feeding lucas to keep it from seizing while driving wherever the hell he was going to go. Then I noped the hell out of the place. Another SomethingAwful success story!
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Every SA success story necessarily ends with leaving the site forever, voluntarily or otherwise. It's not a place that nurtures talent.
Unless that talent is finding a way to derail every single thread with multiple pages of posts about Yakuza/Like a Dragon, good lord goons are obsessed with that stupid game
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There was a guy in AI who owned a jeep that he had done up to make it look like the one from Jurassic Park (I think he also had an Ecto-1). He rented it out to a convention and it came back with scratches and dents. He blamed the con, and when the con wouldn't pay for the damage he doxed the organiser and various goons called her up and threatened to rape her.
It later turned out he hadn't secured the thing properly in the shipping crate and it rolled around in transit, the damage thus being entirely his own fault. Classic goon project!
Not AI, but I just remembered the guy who was trying to build a gigantic tasteless bathroom in a house he was trying to flip and sawed through the wooden I-beams so that he could sink the tub into the floor. He threw a gigantic tantrum when other posters pointed out what a retard he was and I think the mods eventually banned him so that he didn't embarrass himself further. Shame, it was on its way to becoming Neuer-Groverhaus.
It later turned out he hadn't secured the thing properly in the shipping crate and it rolled around in transit, the damage thus being entirely his own fault. Classic goon project!
Not AI, but I just remembered the guy who was trying to build a gigantic tasteless bathroom in a house he was trying to flip and sawed through the wooden I-beams so that he could sink the tub into the floor. He threw a gigantic tantrum when other posters pointed out what a retard he was and I think the mods eventually banned him so that he didn't embarrass himself further. Shame, it was on its way to becoming Neuer-Groverhaus.
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Was that the guy with the spike pit/mold farm surrounding the tub?
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Yup, he had the tub surrounded by a rock pit which would make it impossible to to clean.
Here's more pictures and info on some random website: https://cohost.org/Cariad/post/501198-doom-bathroom-part (A)
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I knew groverhaus but I've never seen this. Just why?
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I remember that. I remember someone posting the reveal showing that the fucked up paint was very clearly the result of an unsecured ratchet strap "hook".
Oh god that was the same guy? AHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAHHHAHAH
I will post a mild defense of the mold farm.
tl;dr in Groverhaus/goonproject form what he didn't wasn't by itself retarded but the way he did it IS.
So you can do what the goon did without it turning into a pure mold haven. Possibly.
So you need to leave in a low-humity area or otherwise ensure that your gravel bed completely dries out. Ideally your tub should be in its own nook, ideally its own room, and separate from the shower and daily bathroom activity because in summary you don't want shower humidity moistening the rocks and you want the minimum shed human skin and oils from getting on the stones.
You also need to use, basically, volcanic stone. Stuff that will absorb moisture into the structure of the stones, keeping the surface as dry as possible. You will need to clean the rocks monthly to wash off the human and soap scum, but with a special soultion to keep it from growing mold as it dries. I forget what the magic mix is.
You CAN use river rock/ceramic coated stone, but you need to clean pull and clean it more often because more moisture (and more soap scum) will make it down to the drip tray.
You also, and this is key, want to use the biggest chunks possible and ideally in a single layer. Because you will eventually need to clean them & the tray they sit in. If you want to make it look like its a deep tray, you layer in medium, like grout or concrete, put rock chunks with a smoothed side into that, and then seal those so they are easy to clean, then put your fist-ish sized rocks on top of those and no one will know its just a single layer of rocks.
anyway, at least yearly and I think they said twice a year, you need to pull the rocks and scrub the tray to keep mold out and inspect for damage/holes/leaks.
the other thing you can do, if you want smooth stones, is set river rock into concrete. Its doesn't look as "nice" and its still a bitch to clean, but much less than having to scoop out a few hundred pounds of hobbylobby decorative rocks adn pick up the stranglers, then clean them and the tray.
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Iirc he had the idea that he could attract women and/or sell his house for big bucks if he built a bathroom that women would looove.
This was a pretty good post from that link:
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I have vague memories of some homeless junkie Automotive Insanity guy that was offered to crash at another goons house and he ended up raping the guys wife. Was that Dick Turbo?
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