Not sure where to post this but the American prison system is pretty fucked so this comm will do. Cool/weird thread to read. Highlights:
youtube does look cool. i have used it a little but i get a lot of suggestions that i don't like, like right wing stuff and i dont know why.
my cousin told me to check out the reddit site but i didn't like it. he said this place might be better and i've been readind a little here and i like the conversation form here more than the reddit thing.
honestly though and many of you might not believe it but i am a happy person now. and after many years of not seeing a single tree i can enjoy sitting on my mom's porch and watching the birds. i like that a lot and it brings me peace.
It's SA so like a 70% chance this guy is a bit, but if not it's a fascinating and surreal experience seeing him interact with goons of all people.
Could be a bit yeah, pretty long/elaborate one if so but it wouldn't be the first. I'll let life be a little more interesting and figure it's true
Something Awful - the forum the OP linked.
It's just an old internet forum that used to be a big deal. It's quiet now but it originated a lot of what you'd call "internet "culture"". 4chan was started by SA users, dril (the candle budget guy) was an SA poster, the "this is fine" dog was from a webcomic by an SA poster, Yahtzee (Zero Punctuation) was a SA poster. The old owner, Lowtax, had a boxing match with German schlock film producer Uwe Boll. They were the first site to host Let's Plays of games. They invented putting impact text captions on silly photographs.
It's all very silly stuff, but you can't go anywhere online without seeing their influence.
ShitRedditSays, the first subreddit to get treated like the boogey man, was SA posters. We imported a bunch of emotes from SRS :freeze-peach: :cissues: :darwin: :keytar: and that includes some they got from SA :negative: :get-in: :get-out:.
I am glad we got the get out frog. I often wonder how many (ex-)goons are on hexbear - I have a feeling there are more than average.
Found the site in 2005-2006 and mostly read the Let's Play Forum(while i was supposed to be working :get-in: ). Made an account at one point but never actually posted anything. Motherfuckers just shut the forum down periodically to get people to pay up. :negative:
Yeah, the paywall. I remember when a goon was LPing Danganronpa and basically translating the game into English at the same time which got a stack of traffic so Lowtax put the paywall up and people got so mad someone went to comicon dressed as the paywall.
Wow. I don't normally feel that young but learning about all this makes me feel like I'm a baby :blob-no-thoughts:
Thanks for the info comrade! :meow-hug:
:what-the-hell: If only we could go back in time to stop the SA admins banning them to prevent the creation of the chans
Probably right, although I think it couldn't have been worse so I still say we would still try lol
:stalin-approval: No worries, I was a pretty late comer to SA myself and I found it in 2010! It's interesting to see how the internet evolves into what it is now.
Oh and :mcmansion: is from an SA thread too, an absurdly incompetent DIYer posting his home renovation project.
Only thing I did online in 2010 was use like google and wikipedia, and play MMOs, I think :meow-melt: . I just constantly read books instead (honestly I should go back to that, my mental health would probably be better :sadness: )
The truest thing ever posted on SA is the site tagline:
The internet makes you stupid
Because they're power posters who never moved on from a 25 year old internet forum started by an edgelord I suppose.
i think the idea is just that you had to pay like 5 or 10 dollars to make an account at all, but they were very liberal with bans because they essentially saw it as like a small fine.
that might have been it. either way it was too rich for my blood at the time.
One time 10$ fee. It kept the worst of the worst internet people out. Most of the time anyway.
I always forget the front page, I found it funny at the time but I have a feeling if I looked at it now I'd cringe till my face split in half.
it wasnt the fine layer cake of nihilistic meta irony that we have today, that’s for sure.
I mean it was a lot of slurs and other edgelord shit - it was the 2000's. I'll take the post-ironic nihilism over that at least.
Seriously, this thread whips violently back and forth between funny and depressing. He got 27 years for killing his abusive stepdad and didn't see a tree the entire time. He said Cumtown sounds like a prison shower. I dunno man.
as a kid i didn't read much at all and our poor town didnt have a good school system or public library
but once inside i realized i needed something to pass the time so i started reading ursula k. leguin
i didn't start reading on a regular basis until 2 or 3 years in but the first thing of hers i read was the lathe of heaven and it blew my mind and that's not even one of her best in my opinion.
to a kid who was facing a long time in that environment the idea of a man who could shape reality with his dreams was freaking wild. i must have read it 6 times. at the time it was one of the only books in that genre available to us. i begged and pleaded with the guy in charge of the library and he eventually got a couple more of her books in. friends and family sent me more of her stuff.
If this person has an appetite for reading perhaps some agitation material on the prison systems might actually get read by them. I don't know what to suggest for the US context though.
:rat-salute-2: to the comrade doing a bit to advertise for LeGuin.
They used to be one of the more chill ones of that era. What did I miss?
Yeah, there were some bad times there, that is true. That was everyplace on the internet at that time though. The entire culture was pretty toxic. It was alot better than the pvp forums, or gamrfaqs, or like... Gaia. Remember digg? That place was a shithole.
I mean, 4chan got kicked off SA for being terrible. It was still better than like most of reddit is today. At least on the boards I went on we didn't like lowtax and he didn't like us. Well, it turns out he hated himself more than we did but you know. Given how moot got started on adtrw you are right that there terrible forces there.
Imagine if the internet could put their collective MKULTRA abilities towards something useful and not badgering some sap from virginia for like twenty years. Operation Clambake was a glimpse at what what we could have had
That star rating shit at the bottom of the page is fucking horrible design I clicked it TWICE rating the page as 2 stars trying to get to page 2 of the thread.
Can everyone stop fucking around and referencing shit that happened 10 years ago and just make some actual recommendations to him???
I know right, everything that isn't asking him about prison is just in-jokes.
Help the man.
I am kinda wondering how this guy found something awful and didn't just get swallowed up by Facebook or something
i live with my 80 year old nearly blind mother and she doesnt know anything about the internet but my cousin told me to check out the reddit site but i didn't like it. he said this place might be better and i've been readind a little here and i like the conversation form here more than the reddit thing.
But the reddit thing sounds a little fake IMO, like someone pretending to be out-of-touch
Math checks out, it is a website your weird cousin would tell you to visit. I haven't been there in years but it was still going okay last I checked in.
One of the users in that thread made their account in 2000. Who stays on a forum for 23 years?
damn i kinda just want to be this guy's friend
thanks for the share, interesting read
how come this thread is being posted around everywhere and everyone just immediately assumes it's real? idk how people are reading the first 2 quotes in the OP and not immediately thinking it's fake.
