Okay breaking kayfabe, you're good people, I was just talking shit about goon projects after someone linked me your post.

i preferred the first draft of this post wherein you said you weren't going to get into an argument with someone namesearching and told me to log back off. i respected that. it sucked, but it had a fearlessness and purity of commitment that i respected as a poster.

bsky.app/profile/ethe...

how did this person get the details wrong when

a) they're making a podcast specifically about Something Awful
b) the actual details are freely searchable on this very website

every single goon project fucking sucks

Thanks, but I'm kinda attached to having a soul.

Not enough people in life understand that sometimes you’re meant to miss an exit instead of making that everyone else’s problem

Depends on the point you're developing. If you're doing anything delicate or complicated you need word count, either in the scene, or in the scenes that support it.

Carve these words on my fucking crypt:

"If being right means being annoying, be annoying."

I regret much about being Etherwind, but I will never regret my painful sincerity.

"You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided."

Jon Stewart and Bluesky, wherein people are saying "I mean, fair, we are annoying," is fucking stupid. Zero media literacy.

Jon Stewart is admitting the left were correct about genocidal fascism, and excusing himself for not listening because they were 'shrill.'

Kill your ironic detachment. ...

There are Felix Biedermans everywhere for those with eyes to see.

I am tired. I would accept waking up tomorrow in 2012, even if it meant waking up as Etherwind again.

Problem is, then I'd be morally obliged to get noted super aggro forums poster Etherwind in the papers for [redacted] while there was still time.

Fuck.

A working knowledge of Something Awful and exactly how it shaped the world we know today is nothing but a curse, frankly.

Had a weird dream last night that someone was impersonating me on the Something Awful Forums to try to sell their shitty, pro-Nazi book, and even when I posted from here that it wasn't me, nobody would believe until I logged on, at which point I was jeered at for logging back on.

madworld.mov

A little less than 2 hours until the David Lynch Memorial Spirit Bomb

Fix your heart or die.

I don't think we get another Something Awful. The modern socialisation spaces online are all entirely corporate. The closest we'll get will be the six months to a year or so whenever a platform collapses and a new one wants to encourage influx... like on Bluesky, until recently.

Which lead to 4Chan going Nazi pretty quickly, because the so-called paradox of tolerance (which is really a social contract: so long as you harm no one, and are tolerant of others, I will tolerate you - but break the contract and lose my tolerance) is all that keeps them at bay. ...

4Chan got started because SA banned the paedophile anime posters, sure, but it also got started because moot said "What if we do something in the style of SA's open mic, but we pointedly don't do what Lowtax did, and we don't police political or cultural content at all?" ...

Lowtax's politics put a limit on what was allowed. He was "Libertarian" by association, reactionary by nature, so anything too politically left or culturally new was hounded while he took an active role. See the soft LGBT persecution, the hard furry persecution, the absolute shitshow over LF. ...

The observable fact that SA's influence has been both positive and negative flows from the fact that, imo, there wasn't really any deliberate effort to curate the ideas within the space. In fact, where there was curation, it was mostly reactionary, and hostile to radical progress. ...

In retrospect, Something Awful being so influential on modern society makes perfect sense, as the entire forums were one big space for sacred clowning - a place where the normal social rules are suspended and experimentation can occur. SA suspended them under the pretext of comedy. ...

YouTube thumbnail: "The Rise of the Right is the Left's Fault - Stephen Fry"

I shouldn't do this, but...

Years ago, on the forums, I said Stephen Fry was a prick, and that mental health issues don't excuse being awful.

I was laughed at. I was, of course, being disproportionately harsh. Someone sarcastically said "Stephen Fry, History's Greatest Monster."

My bad. I was wro

May your days be merry and bright.

I'm recovering now.

Not sure whether it's worth continuing with the book recommendations, being honest. There's very few people who read them. At some point we all have to ask "Is this worth the time it takes to do, or would my time be better spent elsewhere?"

See also: forums.

Still sick, will resume recommendations next week. Sorry to the, what, two people who read these?

I am sick this week, will post later.

Post-script: "The Wizard Knight," isn't a trilogy. I meant two series.

ok

To say more would be to spoil what is, honestly, a cracking good read. Genuinely superb. Wolfe really knew what he was doing with literary fiction, and here you can feel him let his hair down a little to have some fun, focusing things that concern us in our most childish selves. Hard recommend.