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And thus the precedent to value ecred over opsecs was set, and goons were forevermore doxed and persecuted
Bigot Brigade 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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If scamming goons is wrong I don't want to be right.
Ineedahero
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look at this fucking bigot, not even the the movie discussion is free of nazis.
soy
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lol can't even use bit torrent what a retard
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For anyone who cares his avatar and the text under it are from the surrealist film The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky, which itself contains a bizarre jab against fascism featuring men in gas masks and SS uniforms dancing romantically together in a dance hall among other things. This nuance will of course be ignored by the troons, because quoting/referencing to a film that is critical of fascism is still fascism.
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I'm pretty sure that was a Barnacle Jim alt. Fitting that Jim killed FYAD in this most pathetic outcome.
Richard made the right choice. If it had gone the other way, he would have a gang of lunatics, completely convinced that he was a NAZI owner of a NAZI website and they would have done everything they could to destroy his life at a time when he can least afford it.
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there was no right choice, not any more, that sailed a long time ago.
His outcomes were what you said, a bunch of lunatics hounding for being a 'nazi'. or whats going to happen now, hounding him until he carves up his forum, and no doubt, probably because they think he's a nazi but know he's spineless enough to listen to em
Thumb Butler
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Koalas March is one of the few SA people I truly despise. She's a piece of shit racist and batshit insane.
"Tell clueless whites to get out of Negrotown".
Wake up goons. Run for the hills.
"Tell clueless whites to get out of Negrotown".
Wake up goons. Run for the hills.
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the right choice was to do nothing because forums drama, at the very least, attracts a lot of attention to the site. SA's Alexa rank is up bigly right now, and the moment things settle down it's gonna drop right back down. I mean, fuck, in-house forums drama used to be a common occurrence apparently??
if he'd just told his chat mods to tell people not to bring up forums drama on his streams or they get muted and act like he's in the dark, he wouldn't be down $1000 on his Patreon
re-opening their complaint board also would've helped a lot, just to keep all the vitriol contained to one area instead of all over the place
Ineedahero
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Shit, I was making a crack about liking Waititi playing hitler when just saying hitler gets an entire forum memory holed. Thanks for making me feel dumb, now I have to troon out and lobby null to ban you all until the shame fades.
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What really pains me is he could have hired a community manager or some one else to handle this stuff if he wanted to be hands off. He could have just told them he didn't want anybody stirring up drama and had a main guy hired (head mod) for... i dunno 14/hr plus a mod team on minimum wage take care of this shit while he did whatever irl. Then he could tell the head mod to shut down shitlords who do nothing but cause trouble for others and to be lax on other stuff like photoshop friday threads. It would have kept order and been very cheap and wouldn't require much attention from him
I think it's too late now. the forums are reaching their final stage.
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There was never any prospect of any of that. Lowtax is an addict, not just in the most literal sense of being hooked on various substances, but in a deeper sense of not being able to delay gratification, at all, ever. If you think of Lowtax as someone who lives 100% in the present moment and is not interested in pain now for gain later, you start to understand his patterns of behaviour. The refusal to lose now in order to gain later comes up in every aspect of his life - the forums, his substance problems, his love life, his business ventures and his own finances.
When Lowtax got money from SA he immediately spent it on a McMansion and a sports car. The idea of investing it never occurred to him, even though at the time (early 2000s) the first dotcom bubble had just burst and it was very clear that big internet money was a short-term phenomenon and you had to make hay while the sun shone. I actually do believe him when he says he's broke, because any notion of saving or investing his 6-figure overall income doesn't occur to him - he just sees what is in his checking account and spends it on whatever would immediately gratify him - expensive food, booze, pills, flights halfway across the country to chase poon.
All ideas to improve the forum that required him to do some work and not have fun RIGHT NOW were rejected or never went anywhere. He saw the money raised for Zenforo and just saw a figure, and spent it on whatever with no thought as to the consequences. Lowtax hates working with other people, because being considerate to other people doesn't involve doing whatever he feels like doing at this precise moment, so dozens of lucrative partnerships and business opportunities fell away from him.
Lowtax won't pay people to work for him, because he just can't comprehend the idea that paying money out will somehow result in more money in. To him, staff costs are sunk costs that could go to more videogames or Columbian marching powder. He may intellectually grasp the concept of investing money now to get more back later, but emotionally he can't overcome the feeling that he's wasting any money that isn't spent on his own immediate gratification.
Lowtax's attitude to any problem is to do whatever will make it go away right now so that he can go back to having fun. When people turned up in the chat of his NYE livestream and asked him to ban a bunch of commie troons, he did because it was fun in that exact moment and it made the atmosphere in the chat better. When he woke up, hungover, to an inbox full of tranny fury he caved into all their demands because that was the quickest way to make everything go away so that he could go back to attending to his own immediate pleasure, explaining an otherwise incomprehensible 180 on the FYAD question.
He is utterly incapable of planning ahead, only living in the immediate moment. He cheated on his wife with some nutcase because orgasms feel good and his wife wasn't giving him as many as he wanted. He paywalled the LP subforum because he knew Tumblrites would pay to see the Dangan Ronpa LP, and that meant more money for him right now. Any long-term consequences of that never occurred to him, and when they did become apparent he did whatever would make them go away rather than fixing them, which mostly meant giving in to whatever group was whining the loudest and annoying him the most in order to make them shut up and make his immediate environment more pleasant.
And, of course, like anyone with that kind of personality and outlook, he got hooked on booze and pills. Who cares about organ failure and the slow destruction of your life, none of those things are happening right now, and right now, getting high feels good. Plus detoxing would feel bad, and Lowtax doesn't do feeling bad, whatever the cost.
Lowtax is an idiot, but a very predictable one once you understand what a very simple psychology he actually has.
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Leonard Helplessness
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Another hit from the old days of Something Awful: Rape is funny!
It was archived years ago, and is still relevant. The site does fight mass archiving attempts, which is annoying. I've made PDFs of the entire Second Life Safari series, but I'm trying to figure out how to get wkhtmltopdf to stop inserting page breaks.
It was archived years ago, and is still relevant. The site does fight mass archiving attempts, which is annoying. I've made PDFs of the entire Second Life Safari series, but I'm trying to figure out how to get wkhtmltopdf to stop inserting page breaks.
Affluent Reptilian
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Was the Abe one the one where a bunch of Abe supporters found a picture of the kid looking a bit childish with his cat and started spamming it asking how he liked bullying and saying how stupid he looked and the kid calmly replied that it wasn't bullying, it was just posting an unremarkable picture of him with his cat? The kid owned them by being much more calm and mature than purported adults
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Humble Shitpost Merchant
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Abe was one of roughly a dozen of those adults, yes.
Then he whined when /b/ got pissed off at him and started calling up his business.
Trip Chesterton III
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As gay and lame as Abe was, every GBS mod that has come after him has been significantly worse
Humble Shitpost Merchant
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Up until that point, Abe was the worst mod GBS ever had.
The only place SA has left to go is further downhill.
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I don't know one peace of SA lore is that they had a torrent forum. A lot of people joined for that. The joke was people would join and post "where da movies at" which became wmda.biz
Low tax got nervous and sent the pirates on their way to his credit he gave them 30 to move out. Hence the creation of the goon file forums. Which to this day calls for fight club rules.
So there is a strong no filez rule on SA hell even the sc/sh thread on usenet is policed
Basically any goon that disavow s torrents its because of shit from
2005
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More like 2003, that’s when the file forums got shut down and moved off-site. Files talk was verboten, even acknowledging SA hosted file forums was a no no.
TheMonkeyMan
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