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And just what the hell is the postercomment compression filter?

Way to go... rip off Cliff Yablonski without even crediting the cranky bastard..

yes they are.

"DON'T MAEK ME HAVE TO GET ALL JEFFK ON YOUR ASSES!"

Something Awful had a tidbit a couple of days ago about the crack baby scare for a new generation. One such example was the "Counter-Strike baby.":

"The restaurants of the future will be forced to feature illegible menus that cater to these Counter-Strike babies, adversely effecting the rest of us:

WTF!!! TEH CAMPIN LAMA RESTARANT/ MEUNU: DINNAR: WTF!!!

HAMBuRGR..... $5
COKA_COLA....2
FRENCH FIRES.... #1.50!!!!!!!!!!!

NO SHIT NO SHOES NO SERVAICE ! WTF!!! U FUKER/// IF U DONT LIKE OUR RULEZ U CAN GO SUK AN ASS U FAG
15 PRECENT GRADUTIAN INCLUDED!! WTF1111!!!!A"

In all seriousness, I don't think playing video games makes you stupid or anti-social. Playing video games excessively might do (probably does) these things. But doing most anything excessively often has such negative consequences. Studying physics 12 hours a day will make you stupid and anti-social. Sure, you'll know all about physics, but you're missing that key phrase "well-rounded."

anotherone

That's nothing; just wait for the reaming you get from various people after you follow this link: http://www.somethingawful.com. Just look at the blaming the user that's about to occur:

*ethereal ducks*

Something Awful

I think you meant: http://www.somethingawful.com/askjeffk/.

SA is the king of online sarcastic humor. Back when Lowtax was working on it 7/52 and it was able to financially support him (before GameFan went under), it was at a level of hilarity that has never been rivaled in this universe... Rich Kyanka is a funny guy, and his real personality seems to be down to earth and reasonable as well. And for those of you who've never visited SA before, be SURE to check out http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk.

http://www.somethingawful.com. 'Nuff said.

I would like to 1) say thanks to the fag from korea who owned my win2k box. Try it again, really! and 2) announce that JEFFK WAS RIGHT

Nice Something Awful allusion. I caught it!

http://www.somethingawful.com/spam/icq/spacerobot/ index.htm

- Adam

If this could be made to work reliably, consider what it would do for sites like Penny Arcade or Something Awful. Sites like these are expensive to run because of the cost of bandwidth. If you decentralize the distribution, you could spread the bandwidth cost between all the users. Since most users pay a flat rate for their internet connection, in most cases the distributed cost would be $0. And since he's no longer paying for hosting, Lowtax could afford a better haircut.

No I believe that the future of supporting web sites is Micropayments. It's clear that advertising makes for content that is worse, as evidenced by the enormous discrepancy between the quality of network tv, and premium channels such as HBO.

SomethingAwful.com went down because of reasons not related to the OSDN outage... Their host burnt out a hard disk because of power problems. SomethingAwful isn't connected to the OSDN network in any way. (It was actually part of eFront until that scam collapsed.) SA is back up now, as are several other sites affected by the same problem.

(This does not mean I represent OSDN or SA, because I don't - I just know what's up on the SA side of things.)

T'was horrible.
No slashdot...no SomethingAwful

I had to spend time OUTSIDE!!! and WITH MY FAMILY!!!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I had to go outside.

*WEEP*

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Lunix is truly the superior operating system.

once?

twice?

three times?

four times?

five times?

six times?

or do you want the palm pilot version?

I mean, yeah. You can make cases out of cool stuff. I guess the reason I'm pissed is cuz people are submitting real important items and they're getting rejected.

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Yeah, JeffK 0wns the www.

It's been done, and it's hilarious.

If you take the route of mod-maker to get your foot in the door, hire a lawyer if and when you're offered a job. I'm not 'in the biz', but I would imagine if you let yourself get all starry-eyed at the chance of working with the Disco Pirate himself, you'd be more prone to signing away the lives of your children and grandchildren.

If you haven't checked it out yet, make sure to spend some time in the Jeff K and Cliff Yablonski sections. :-)

Cliff Yablonski Hates You is one of the funniest things I have ever seen on the internet. Found it off of Cruel.com. Check this out. (http://www.somethingawful.com/cliff/ihateyou/ for the goatse.cs weary)

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How can you say there aren't any gaming sites left except for GameSpot? Jeff K. is the leading provider in game content and news. It isn't unusual for him to scoop bluesnews, and his comics are much better than Penny Arcade's. He interviews big gaming celebrities like Cliffy B and John Carmack.

He also reviews the PC games that matter, and wrote a brilliant editorial on the upcoming console wars.

FYI, Lowtax went off and created SomethingAwful, and while he's had horrendously bad luck with various hosting networks, the site is pretty cool. If you haven't checked it out yet, make sure to spend some time in the Jeff K and Cliff Yablonski sections. :-) Lowtax was also able to bring along one of my favorite parts of PQ, Cranky Steve's map reviews. The reviews aren't done by Lowtax anymore and are lacking in quality, but it's a nice blast from the past. (Even if this past is just two years ago.)

Coincidentally, Lowtax recentally brought the afore-mentioned Fragmaster on board as a guest editor. Now if only Frags would resurrect Walter. ;-)

GameSpy's only redeeming value is FilePlanet. I know a lot of people here hate it, and I agree that the format and bandwidth suck, but I usually have better luck downloading from FilePlanet than anywhere else.

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It seems that over the internet we either get to protect our 1st amendment rights with opt-out or our 4th amendment rights with opt-in. Is there a way to protect both?

How does opt-out protect First Amendment rights? I seem to recall that the First Amendment says that the government can't interfere with your right to say what you please. That does not mean that you're guaranteed a place to say it. Oh, sure, you have the right to free assembly. That doesn't mean you have to right to fill up a person's mailbox (electronic and snail) with crap until that person tells you not to do it.

You want free speech? Get a web page, and post all your blatherings there. Take a look at Something Awful's Awful Link of the Day archive to see what kind of spew is available on the web.

User Friendly, eh?

Usar Freindley, Lunix friend.

(Yuo are WORST comic evar.)

User Friendly, eh?

Usar Freindley, Lunix friend.

(Yuo are WORST comic evar.)

I'd be afraid if they ever hooked up maybe a worker ant's brain to one of these things...

- [grunby]

[ Space ] Posted by wh03v3r on Mon April 16, 12:26 AM
from the nice, but too bad it isn't mp3 dept.
pipeb0mb writes: "This article details how to build your own space shuttle from Radio Shack parts, obtain permission to fly it and get many lucrative endorsements, all for less than $200 USD! There is also an interview with the creator of this masterful plan (sorry, Windows Media). Already, dozens of universities and non-profit organizations have used this technology for fund raising, research and businesses that help further the space program, and thus humanity as a whole. Cool!" Too bad it's not MP3.

Why don't you look here or here or here? This isn't anything close to upping the ante... more like adding more people to the table. somethingawful and rotten both know that they generate traffic at the expense of someone else's misfortune. But so does cnn.com and abcnews.com. hotornot does not purposely try to humiliate people. when used legitmately, it provides a forum for people WHO WANT others to survey them. as for illigitmate posters, well, that will happen on any interactive system. hotornot at least takes some measure to prevent that. look at slashdot; there are plenty of bad trolls who post anti-semetic or racist jokes at the expense of those who have suffered tragedies involving antisemitism or racism. should slashdot be shut down because other people are assholes? probably not.



You finding Ling-Ling's head?
Someone come into yard, kill dog.

This is teh funney.

Sorry... link

While looking through the screen shots, I couldn't help but imagine someone like Jeff K. suggesting that the new Wolf3D game should have killer robots and zombies and flamethrowers and ninjas and tanks and mummies and...

Mainstream news companies don't need to try very hard, now do they?

Streamripper

After the Zero Wing animated gif bounced around the internet, a thread began in the Something Awful message boards where people added lines from the game to various images. This started the craze of putting "ALL YOUR BASE" etc. to every picture imaginable that spread across the net. The Laziest Men on Mars, also from Something Awful, even made it into a song, which was later attached to a Flash compendium of sorts.