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

Reminder that the site is terribly unoptimized so they could explain some of it. But lol if there is something else going on cause it's pretty easy to guess considering goon proclivities.

I do wonder why they dont just do the fucking xenforo shit. Rent some AWS create a test enviroment start porting over "features" and colour sheets. Then just port over the logins and the live threads you dont have to do it all at once and when you got something that works just shut down the fucking vb hacked together bullshit.

I dont want to start rumors but is jeff or one of the admins hosing something?

like linux iso or did they bring the BTBY back?

have of goon activity seems to be on discord anyways.
 
I do wonder why they dont just do the fucking xenforo shit. Rent some AWS create a test enviroment start porting over "features" and colour sheets. Then just port over the logins and the live threads you dont have to do it all at once and when you got something that works just shut down the fucking vb hacked together bullshit.

I dont want to start rumors but is jeff or one of the admins hosing something?

like linux iso or did they bring the BTBY back?

have of goon activity seems to be on discord anyways.
It should also be noted that most images/videos users post are hosted via imgur or another service. There is an attachment feature but it's rarely used and most likely doesn't work at all. Avatars are hosted but there's a limit on the file size, which is extremely small.
 
Reminder that the site is terribly unoptimized so they could explain some of it. But lol if there is something else going on cause it's pretty easy to guess considering goon proclivities.

The mods are using the bandwidth as part of their cheese pizza distribution activities.
 
Bunch of people grabbing backups before the impending deletion? I dunno, I'd buy just horribly unoptimized code + everyone logging in to see how the handover is going.
 
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Im not quite sure I believe that the forum has 14 TB of traffic a month. Its primarily text. There's basically little image and no video hosting. I'd imagine a typical page load is only a few megs.
 
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yeah no way is SA using 14TB/mo. It's a fairly active community but let's be honest there aren't that many users. If true though it does sound fishy, maybe there is something else going on?

counterpoint - the users that are there are basically online 24/7 F5ing the diy hormone thread so maybe it is true.
And the site's code fucking sucks so there's a non-zero likelihood each page of a text-only thread takes 2 MB to load.

I went and had a look at how goons feel about the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. My own opinion of her is colored in large part by watching an extremely well-credentialed, heavily libertarian Twitter lawyer lament that Barrett seemed like a batshit authoritarian, spend a day reading her opinions, and reconsider, eventually concluding that she's a pretty damn good pick and it's great to have a mom on SCOTUS because she'll actually seriously consider future generations.

The D&D goons are discussing Barrett as well, and they have some very fine criticisms of her.

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TheDeadlyShoe, for instance, employs the form of criticism known as "fanfiction."

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And FilthyImp has divined Barrett's true character via her eyes, as scrutinized in a photo tweeted by CNN.

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haveblue, too, has seen Barrett for what she is: Some crazy-ass cunt. I mean stinkyhole.

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Thom12255 has nothing to add, but that tweet embed denouncing Barrett as a monstrous extremist sure does.>

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vyelkin, in a quivering rage, fumbled around in the dark for anything he could swing at Barrett with. Finding his bludgeon, he went charging at her, howling his battlecry -- only to look down and realize that his weapon was a Haitian infant dangling by the ankle. vyelkin quickly stopped himself and retreated into the shadows, ashamed.

(someone in the C-SPAM thread probably picked up that baby and went to fucking town, but I haven't gone looking in there yet)
 
And the site's code fucking sucks so there's a non-zero likelihood each page of a text-only thread takes 2 MB to load.

I went and had a look at how goons feel about the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. My own opinion of her is colored in large part by watching an extremely well-credentialed, heavily libertarian Twitter lawyer lament that Barrett seemed like a batshit authoritarian, spend a day reading her opinions, and reconsider, eventually concluding that she's a pretty damn good pick and it's great to have a mom on SCOTUS because she'll actually seriously consider future generations.

The D&D goons are discussing Barrett as well, and they have some very fine criticisms of her.

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TheDeadlyShoe, for instance, employs the form of criticism known as "fanfiction."

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And FilthyImp has divined Barrett's true character via her eyes, as scrutinized in a photo tweeted by CNN.

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haveblue, too, has seen Barrett for what she is: Some crazy-ass cunt. I mean stinkyhole.

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Thom12255 has nothing to add, but that tweet embed denouncing Barrett as a monstrous extremist sure does.>

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vyelkin, in a quivering rage, fumbled around in the dark for anything he could swing at Barrett with. Finding his bludgeon, he went charging at her, howling his battlecry -- only to look down and realize that his weapon was a Haitian infant dangling by the ankle. vyelkin quickly stopped himself and retreated into the shadows, ashamed.

(someone in the C-SPAM thread probably picked up that baby and went to fucking town, but I haven't gone looking in there yet)
It's not surprising that troons hate a woman.
 
Life in C-SPAM, in the wake of Barrett's nomination:

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A livestream begins in which CharlieFoxtrot sits in front of a table in his basement. A pencil is jammed point-first into the table. He announces that he is going to make the pencil disappear. He leans his head way back and starts to hyperventilate, psyching himself up.

C-SPAM is packed to the brim with tweet embeds and quotes of tweet embeds, which makes the screenshots huge and annoying unless they are edited. Some of the following images have embeds doctored out using inspect element.

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cenotaph denounces Barrett for daring to be a working mother. The proper place of woman is in the home.

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Pryor on Fire sees the notice board and is petrified with fear. He looks up into the sky and sees the sun crack open and pour a deluge of blood upon the meadow.

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Antonymous and spacemang_spliff commiserate. The true enemy of the times is the liberal, not the CHUD.

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After all, liberals want diversity of demographic, not conformity of thought, and that's just unacceptable.

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And liberals don't take someone's religion into consideration when determining their ability to interpret the laws of the land, either.

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I mean, outlawing abortion is a great way to affirm that black lives matter. What's not to hate?

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Goddamn do they hate liberals in there.

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While Bootleg Trunks laments that the people in the government will not fuck wildly with the system in order to suit his politics, Rick Sanchez polls the thread with an important question. Though he might not succeed in turning himself into a pickle, he's definitely going to get pickled.

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Judakel swallows a mouthful of Spice and sees far into the future. He sees Amy Coney Barrett committing so many atrocities as a SCOTUS justice that she awakens the race consciousness.

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PsychedelicWarlord asks for a quick rundown on Barrett's politics, and mastershakeman obliges him: She's a Catholic milf scalia copycat. Case closed.

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She's also a slut.

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Grip it and rip it is behind the times. We already had that funeral. It was a crab rave.
 
Oh yeah thats another funny goon story. They actually do that. It was someone in the Crackhead forum, in one of the opiod threads or something, basically some goons husband or boyfriend got home and was fucked on pills, so he passed out in the car in the hot sun with the windows up. He ended up overheating and dying, and the goon girlfriend immediately went to his stash and took a bunch of his pills and came to SA to ask which of these pills she could take without ending up like him, but she was still gonna take them.

I generally dont mind forums like that, even for junkies. Theres a reddit forum for unapologetic alcoholics and they actually have some decent information there even if its mostly stories of fucking up their life. Those people are gonna do it anyway and its better for them to share knowledge about how not to end up wasting paramedic or hospital resources and time for something preventable like a withdrawal seizure or some shit, but its still always bizarre to see some of these stories.
Late reply but that TCC goon who cooked a cocaine research chemical analogue into Green Crack and smoked it killed himself because his girlfriend and his dad, who were also drug addicts, started fucking each other and plotted a plan to steal the safe which he kept all of his valuables and life's savings in, then run away together. It was actually kind of sad, the guy had been counting down the days until he got off probation and could leave NJ and get away from his junkie friends to get clean. I thought he was going to be one of the first goon junkies to clean up. Whacked himself very shortly before. Lol the list of goons I used to talk to on TCC is a fucking graveyard now.

Only one person I knew in years and years of posting on TCC ever actually improved their life. Guy lost over 200 pounds started a band and stopped using drugs. Shame he got the Trump Derangement Syndrome real bad, decent guy.
 
Goddamn do they hate liberals in there.

It's awesome. The hard left has done nothing but trip over its own dick any alienate everyone since, like, the Spanish Civil War.

In ~~other places~~ back in 2016 it was a sort of sport to go onto D&D/CSPAM and try to fill the Useless Communist --> MAGA voter pipeline. Judging by the stuff you've quoted it's still happening in 2020, and probably easier this time around.
 
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