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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »

    I really think Undead Scottsman hit the nail on the head earlier. These guys are so far out of their wheelhouse on this topic and don’t know how to handle it. But that doesn’t mean they can’t do better. Definitely gettin vibes of the failure to respond on gg from the whole thing. Don’t blame y’all for cancelling in the least, though I’m willing to wait to hear what they say about Temkin specifically on the Beastcast.

    I imagine that the Beastcast might want to also bring up Jack Gallagher.

    Aw fuck, Jack Gallagher's a piece of shit too?

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »

    I really think Undead Scottsman hit the nail on the head earlier. These guys are so far out of their wheelhouse on this topic and don’t know how to handle it. But that doesn’t mean they can’t do better. Definitely gettin vibes of the failure to respond on gg from the whole thing. Don’t blame y’all for cancelling in the least, though I’m willing to wait to hear what they say about Temkin specifically on the Beastcast.

    I imagine that the Beastcast might want to also bring up Jack Gallagher.

    Aw fuck, Jack Gallagher's a piece of shit too?
    Extremely so

    So bad that WWE basically immediately fired him once the accusations came out and they are historically very happy to take hollow gestures and keep abusers on

    He was a bit of a sacrificial lamb for bigger name talent that was accused but still he is scum

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Jesus

    I really had a better feeling about him, that's fucked

    I mean it would be fucked either way, but yikes

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    you cannot tell who sucks, they do not always give out big red abuser vibes

    i also thought jack seemed really nice

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    They were JUST talking about how great he was like, two weeks ago too

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Yeah, I specifically remember Abby saying he was very nice and cool, which... fucking hell. What a dirtbag.

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    I think it’s because these people, predominantly men, are charming that they can get away with heinous shit. A contributing factor, but not the root cause

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  • Ms DapperMs Dapper Yuri Librarian Registered User regular
    Sometimes abusers are extreamly charming to people that aren't their targets and that's how they hide themselves, sometimes they're blatant about it, sometimes an abuser acts weak until they abuse.

    Abusers do a lot of things so that if they are ever revealed as abusers people will think the abused will have deserved it.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    My ex wife was abusive to me on several levels

    And was the most charismatic person around 90% of the time, especially if she had an audience

    Abusers are often extremely charismatic and manipulative

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    yeah the thing is no one thinks "i'm an abuser", they think they're wonderful people who get what they deserve. and the knock-on of that is that sometimes, they act like wonderful people

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    Gallagher's situation seems to be less manipulative and more of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation where he has these sick outbursts of violence or sexual aggression that he admitted to and tried to make amends for.

    I think he absolutely thinks "I'm an abuser" and he tried to apologize but the first woman told him not to message her so he just has to stew in it.

    ...which considering he could be stewing in prison he should probably feel pretty relieved that all of his suffering is mental.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    edited June 2020
    Oh, I know the person who wrote that front page article

    I guess it makes sense that they're working for SA these days

    Straightzi on
  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    basically I'm remembering that weird, awkward front-page breakup stuff that happened with hellchick(?) back in the early mid aughts and really looking at it through a new lens.

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    also FYI a former(?) forumer just had a twitter thread on how Myke Cole being a missing stair

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    also FYI a former(?) forumer just had a twitter thread on how Myke Cole being a missing stair

    I'm trying to figure out what this means.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    Reynolds wrote: »
    also FYI a former(?) forumer just had a twitter thread on how Myke Cole being a missing stair

    I'm trying to figure out what this means.

    Missing stair is a term generally used to denote someone that their friends recognize is a problem, but instead of choosing to openly deal with it they "manage" the person and warn people about it quietly.

    The idea being that if a staircase has a missing stair, that's a problem, but you can step around or over it, and kind of let people know it's there and they can avoid it, but it's not really fixing the problem

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    Vinny opening the preshow with a content warning is something.

    Going right into Jack Gallagher and Max Temkin.

    edit: and Matt Pascual

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    Beastcast talking about Temkin / Jack Gallagher now

  • NeveronNeveron HellValleySkyTree SwedenRegistered User regular
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    also FYI a former(?) forumer just had a twitter thread on how Myke Cole being a missing stair

    I'm trying to figure out what this means.

    Missing stair is a term generally used to denote someone that their friends recognize is a problem, but instead of choosing to openly deal with it they "manage" the person and warn people about it quietly.

    The idea being that if a staircase has a missing stair, that's a problem, but you can step around or over it, and kind of let people know it's there and they can avoid it, but it's not really fixing the problem

    The original blog post being about how there was a guy in the local BDSM scene who had "consent issues" and, while others in the scene warned people about it, was still very much a part of the scene.
    Until they decided to fix the metaphorical missing stair and kick out the rapist.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Critical Role is coming back off hiatus on July 2nd, looks like everyone is in the same studio at their own tables that are like ten feet apart and they're pre-taping everything instead of going live

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Wow, GB East absolutely named both Temkin (Vinny calling assocating with him after the allegations a fuckup) and Matt Pascaul (Abby saying they will not have a working relationship with him anymore and that, as a friend, she wants to hold him accountable)

    That's honestly more thanI expected. Which is probably more an indictment of the GB West response than praise for East doing the bare minimum.

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    also FYI a former(?) forumer just had a twitter thread on how Myke Cole being a missing stair

    I'm trying to figure out what this means.

    Missing stair is a term generally used to denote someone that their friends recognize is a problem, but instead of choosing to openly deal with it they "manage" the person and warn people about it quietly.

    The idea being that if a staircase has a missing stair, that's a problem, but you can step around or over it, and kind of let people know it's there and they can avoid it, but it's not really fixing the problem

    And that people who aren't aware of the missing stair are injured because of it.

  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Wow, GB East absolutely named both Temkin (Vinny calling assocating with him after the allegations a fuckup) and Matt Pascaul (Abby saying they will not have a working relationship with him anymore and that, as a friend, she wants to hold him accountable)

    That's honestly more thanI expected. Which is probably more an indictment of the GB West response than praise for East doing the bare minimum.
    I still fell like the pascal stuff was just them not having much time in a response.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Yeah, I was still giving them time on that one, I just didn't think they'd do it during the Beastcast. (I figured it'd be something more akin to Jeff's tweet)

  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    Oh my god in this flop mini, Stuart’s joke about having two Taylors dropped me on the floor

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  • McHogerMcHoger Registered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    Critical Role is coming back off hiatus on July 2nd, looks like everyone is in the same studio at their own tables that are like ten feet apart and they're pre-taping everything instead of going live

    The other day I realized I hadn't watch in months and decided to go check how many episodes I was behind. It turned out to be 5. I forgot about the plague there for a minute.

  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    It looks like Something Awful is going to continue without Lowtax. This announcement was posted on the SA forums:
    I, Jeffrey of YOSPOS, have reached an agreement with Lowtax to transfer all Something Awful LLC assets to me. No contract has been signed yet but these things take time and I want to make this announcement now. Obviously, if this falls through, you all will hear it straight from me.

    Lowtax asked me to make clear that this is not an admission of any guilt. He maintains his innocence. However, he recognizes that the site cannot continue with him in charge, and the community and site are more important than his name.

    This has been one of the most stressful and sad ~72 hours of my forums life and I'm sure everyone has a million questions and I'll plan on discussing this with the community tonight, after taking a few hours to catch my breath. Please don't burn down the whole site yet - we can get through this as a community.

    This site has been extremely important to me since I joined 15 years ago. I love this place more than anything and, and top of everything else, the idea of it just going away was heartbreaking to me. My promise to all of you is that I love something awful as something awful, and my intention is to preserve all of the things that make this site incredible. This will be something awful, at its best, not any sort of weird vision of what something awful should be.

    I'm not gonna link it because it also contains an image that would get me extremely banned if I posted it.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    My biggest memory of Something Awful was going there to find new videogame talk and seeing one of the users had bestiality as their user image.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    I still hang out there occasionally, the lets play sub forum has some really good posters. There's a dude who has been running a WWII pacific Theater strategy video game for YEARS now with forum participation.

    This is the forum that produced Boatmurdered. Maybe one of the greatest Dwarf Fortress LPs ever.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    I've read a ton of LPs from there, but seen almost nothing else.

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    That's cool and all, but how many "hilarious" goatse pictures do you have to scroll past to enjoy the LPs?

  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    godmode wrote: »
    That's cool and all, but how many "hilarious" goatse pictures do you have to scroll past to enjoy the LPs?

    https://lparchive.org/

    Most of the good ones get hosted here, all cleaned up, with all the pictures/videos preserved to avoid dead links and such.

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Peewi wrote: »
    It looks like Something Awful is going to continue without Lowtax. This announcement was posted on the SA forums:
    I, Jeffrey of YOSPOS, have reached an agreement with Lowtax to transfer all Something Awful LLC assets to me. No contract has been signed yet but these things take time and I want to make this announcement now. Obviously, if this falls through, you all will hear it straight from me.

    Lowtax asked me to make clear that this is not an admission of any guilt. He maintains his innocence. However, he recognizes that the site cannot continue with him in charge, and the community and site are more important than his name.

    This has been one of the most stressful and sad ~72 hours of my forums life and I'm sure everyone has a million questions and I'll plan on discussing this with the community tonight, after taking a few hours to catch my breath. Please don't burn down the whole site yet - we can get through this as a community.

    This site has been extremely important to me since I joined 15 years ago. I love this place more than anything and, and top of everything else, the idea of it just going away was heartbreaking to me. My promise to all of you is that I love something awful as something awful, and my intention is to preserve all of the things that make this site incredible. This will be something awful, at its best, not any sort of weird vision of what something awful should be.

    I'm not gonna link it because it also contains an image that would get me extremely banned if I posted it.

    I, of course, had to know what the image was

    welp, haven't seen that in a while

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Honestly I never encountered anything gross in the gold LP threads. It was probably one of the most positive places on the forums. I never ventured far though. I occasionally read the table top area but that can end up a cesspool.

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    el_vicio wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    It looks like Something Awful is going to continue without Lowtax. This announcement was posted on the SA forums:
    I, Jeffrey of YOSPOS, have reached an agreement with Lowtax to transfer all Something Awful LLC assets to me. No contract has been signed yet but these things take time and I want to make this announcement now. Obviously, if this falls through, you all will hear it straight from me.

    Lowtax asked me to make clear that this is not an admission of any guilt. He maintains his innocence. However, he recognizes that the site cannot continue with him in charge, and the community and site are more important than his name.

    This has been one of the most stressful and sad ~72 hours of my forums life and I'm sure everyone has a million questions and I'll plan on discussing this with the community tonight, after taking a few hours to catch my breath. Please don't burn down the whole site yet - we can get through this as a community.

    This site has been extremely important to me since I joined 15 years ago. I love this place more than anything and, and top of everything else, the idea of it just going away was heartbreaking to me. My promise to all of you is that I love something awful as something awful, and my intention is to preserve all of the things that make this site incredible. This will be something awful, at its best, not any sort of weird vision of what something awful should be.

    I'm not gonna link it because it also contains an image that would get me extremely banned if I posted it.

    I, of course, had to know what the image was

    welp, haven't seen that in a while

    its clickable, even.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I am so glad that online has largely moved on from shock images, it was sooo prevalent in the 00s and bad for my baby brain

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  • replacewythyreplacewythy Registered User regular
    I hate the concept of shock images, but I didn't actually see much of them, because I mostly spent that time period on gamefaqs, where there were no images of any kind.

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    I saw some really fucked up stuff on liveleak and it has stayed with me for at least a decade.

    I went through a really self destructive period and sought out the worst things I could find to like, feel something, I guess? It was bad

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    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

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