Lotta reasons and responses here i plan on using for when i finally make my "fuck you all i quit" post this weekend.
Throskie
joined 2 years ago
I remember him from his days writing for PlanetQuake. You could tell even then he was fenced in and trying to eat hay from the other side.
I never followed him to Something Awful, i grew up, i guess? But it irrevocably influenced the Internet as a whole.
Sucks that he turned out to be a shitbag
So... dumb terminal are back in?
Hot damn boys, I'll see ya on the RS-232 relays!
"Hello, hookworms. Get in my feet."
Right?
Even after reading Snow Crash, I wanted an RJ-45 port so I could get internet straight to my brain...right up till I had my first IV stuck in me. Realized I didn't like foreign objects in me at all lol
Every time I see the TYPE//: BADASS WITH FACIAL HAIR white guy clone, I always think of the Archer Episode Axis Power
"I'm gonna blip blorp, blobba-do dob onna beep borp, Check out mah beard!"
it's never not funny to me
thank you for setting this up. Also, first fediverse post!
Im gonna miss reddit, but i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days, and later, regional blog networks.
The internet feels less like a utility lately and i didnt realize how much i missed that
He was "penned in" on PQ and couldn't really let the creative juices flourish, but kept pushing the boundries regardless
Sorry this took so long to respond back!