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« Reply #4200 on: April 18, 2018, 07:20:34 PM »
Jesus fucking christ @ your avatar pic TVC. wtf.

She was kept alive for an unspecified period of time after being abducted. She’d probably been through many, many terrible things by the time that photo was taken.
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A month after Walsh's death, 14-year old Regina Kay Walters and her boyfriend, Ricky Lee Jones, both runaway teenagers from the Houston suburb of Pasadena, Texas,[6] disappeared. Like with Zyskowski, it is believed that after being picked up by Rhoades, Jones was killed and disposed of while Walters was kept. Photos seized during a search of Rhoades' home confirmed that he held Walters for a long time, based on the degree of hair growth and bruising. Jones' body was found on March 3, 1991, in Lamar County, Mississippi. He was not identified until July 2008. In Bond County, Illinois, Jones had been charged in absentia with Walters' murder.[7]

In the early morning of April 1, 1990, officer Mike Miller of the Arizona Highway Patrol found a truck at the side of I-10 with its hazard lights on. When he investigated inside the cab, he discovered a nude woman, handcuffed and screaming.[6] There was also a male present who identified himself as the driver of the truck. After failing to talk his way out of the situation, Rhoades was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, sexual assault, and unlawful imprisonment. After further investigation, the arresting detective, Rick Barnhart, was able to make a connection to the Houston case and noticed a pattern stretching over the course of at least five months.

In executing a search warrant for Rhoades' home, police found photos of a nude teenager who was later identified as Walters, whose body was found in September 1990. Also present were photos of Walsh, whose body was discovered that October.




Another one is Tara Calico


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Calico#Mysterious_photograph

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« Reply #4201 on: April 18, 2018, 07:33:45 PM »
I like to believe she was in the middle of doing the electric shuffle when the pic was taken. It makes it easier.
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« Reply #4202 on: April 18, 2018, 07:36:00 PM »
Hmm I was hoping that my post would low-key spur a ranking discussion of ero-guro manga  :(

Kago Shintaro>every other ero-guro artist.

There's your ranking.

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« Reply #4203 on: April 18, 2018, 07:43:10 PM »
I only appear masculine in comparison to the people on the bore. Everywhere else, I'm just the quiet nice boy.
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« Reply #4204 on: April 18, 2018, 07:48:18 PM »
Seriously, this Fly Girl shit is the greatest lie foisted upon the American public since the Warren Commission. They just picked these bitches up from a club parking lot or something. There’s not even a pretense of talent or looking good

It kickstarted J. Lo's career. :ufup

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« Reply #4205 on: April 18, 2018, 07:50:20 PM »
you still look like a lil fancy boy here lol
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« Reply #4206 on: April 18, 2018, 08:00:22 PM »
I'm so fucking triggered. Mods help. :(

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« Reply #4207 on: April 18, 2018, 08:17:39 PM »

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« Reply #4208 on: April 18, 2018, 08:18:33 PM »
 goggins without the crazy hair? :donot

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« Reply #4209 on: April 18, 2018, 08:18:53 PM »
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« Reply #4210 on: April 18, 2018, 08:22:46 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-it-still-acceptable-to-refer-to-woman-as-b-in-hip-hop-music.37131/

lol @ all the users twisting to try and make it seem like bitch isn't generally used as a gendered insult

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« Reply #4211 on: April 18, 2018, 08:28:37 PM »
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Mmhmm

Anyways, IDK man. I say bitch and ho a lot, outside of rap music, but idk

Love LionPride's indecisiveness on this.


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« Reply #4212 on: April 18, 2018, 08:32:17 PM »
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Mmhmm

Anyways, IDK man. I say bitch and ho a lot, outside of rap music, but idk

Love LionPride's indecisiveness on this.

If he's not a woman, he shouldn't be singing along to words like that.

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« Reply #4213 on: April 18, 2018, 08:36:19 PM »
LionPride is a bitch so he has every right to use the word.


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« Reply #4215 on: April 18, 2018, 08:47:36 PM »
Seriously, this Fly Girl shit is the greatest lie foisted upon the American public since the Warren Commission. They just picked these bitches up from a club parking lot or something. There’s not even a pretense of talent or looking good

It kickstarted J. Lo's career. :ufup

No shade on her. None of these episodes have featured her.
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« Reply #4216 on: April 18, 2018, 09:10:09 PM »
Do you think these people on My 600 Pound Life ever want to eat their pets and loved ones? This one chick is so fat she cna’t even hold her infant any more. Do you think she has weird dreams where she’s like eating her baby as a part of a sloppy meatball sandwich? It would be combing her motherly instincts, which she can no longer fulfill, with eating, which she is very very good at fulfilling.
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« Reply #4218 on: April 18, 2018, 09:38:46 PM »
“When you first walk in, she’s got a blanket covering her; there’s pillows all around her and so you don’t know whether it’s pillows or whether it’s her,” he said. “If you reach back in again, you think this is all pillows. You make a circle and [you realize] that it’s Mayra.”
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« Reply #4220 on: April 18, 2018, 11:03:00 PM »
I just had a dream that it was a Christmas family get together thing, but Stosta wouldn’t perform for his uncle Steve Harvey. I half popped out his eye with th stem of a glass pipe. Then I woke up and Family Feud was over.
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« Reply #4221 on: April 18, 2018, 11:09:07 PM »
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Mmhmm

Anyways, IDK man. I say bitch and ho a lot, outside of rap music, but idk

Love LionPride's indecisiveness on this.

If he's not a woman, he shouldn't be singing along to words like that.



Seriously, this Fly Girl shit is the greatest lie foisted upon the American public since the Warren Commission. They just picked these bitches up from a club parking lot or something. There’s not even a pretense of talent or looking good

It kickstarted J. Lo's career. :ufup

No shade on her. None of these episodes have featured her.

I'm just saying, she's one of the Fly Girls in a few of the episodes.

Also kick-started Jim Carrey's career, but you already mentioned that.

...And "Men on Film" was funny. :yeshrug

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« Reply #4222 on: April 18, 2018, 11:27:06 PM »
I just had a dream that it was a Christmas family get together thing, but Stosta wouldn’t perform for his unlike Steve Harvey. I half popped out his eye with th stem of a glass pipe. Then I woke up and Family Feud was over.

Here’s what you missed

Steve: “We surveyed 100 men and [incredibly suggestive question].

Aunt Jebidissa: *titters* “Well Steve, I’m gonna say the [body part].”

Steve: “OH LAWD! OH JAYSUS! HAVE MERCY ON THESE SINNERS!”  :exxy
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« Reply #4223 on: April 18, 2018, 11:41:40 PM »
Here’s what you missed

Steve: “We surveyed 100 men and [incredibly suggestive question].

Aunt Jebidissa: *titters* “Well Steve, I’m gonna say the [body part].”

Steve: “OH LAWD! OH JAYSUS! HAVE MERCY ON THESE SINNERS!”  :exxy
yeah that one is my favorite episode

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« Reply #4224 on: April 19, 2018, 12:11:55 AM »
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« Reply #4225 on: April 19, 2018, 12:29:16 AM »
‘Bitch’ seems to be causing a programming short over at reset.
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« Reply #4226 on: April 19, 2018, 12:30:27 AM »
^ the spergpost to end all spergposts

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« Reply #4227 on: April 19, 2018, 12:32:46 AM »

Given that the infamous prolific poster memoryman3 has come out with a statement today declaring that he intends to extricate himself from all avenues of online video game discussion to focus on his personal development, for which we're all proud of him on gaming side, I figured that the momentous occasion would be a fitting one to start a discussion I've been thinking about for a long time.

Forum culture is fascinating, and the intricacies of this community in particular are worth noting. But first, a brief profile on me. Like memoryman3, I in the past two months turned eighteen, becoming an adult. No longer was I marginalizing the sophisticated sanctity of ResetERA with my mere presence, much to my satisfaction. This comes after years as an adolescent lurker. For a few years beginning when I was nine or ten, I lurked on the premier forum for adult aficionados of LEGO bricks, Eurobricks. Leaked LEGO sets still occasionally draw my attention out of habit, to be honest.

From Eurobricks, I discovered NeoGAF. My earliest distinct memory of lurking on GAF was during Nintendo's E3 presentation of 2014, a phenomenal year. Living rurally, I did not have an adequate internet connection to watch the stream itself, so imagine my excitement trying to piece together Splatoon from such comments as "Bloopers?!" and learning via the forum that Captain Toad was getting a dedicated title. Prior to that, I remember purveying prerelease discussion of Mario Kart 8, which perhaps amusingly remains the only video game I've ever preordered.

Of course, games were only a piece of the puzzle. As I aged, I grew fascinated with the dynamic of the forum. It began with meager attempts to discern esoteric phrases and abbreviations like RTTP and OT (and OT meant and continues to mean, like, thirty different things, mind you). But as a traditional-style forum, the personalities began to compel me. Huge names like Fat4all (excuse me, big-boned names like Fat4All), blame space (whose sacred name I refuse to violate with capitalization), Neiteio (who I'm pretty sure was on GAF, but joined pretty late), and, of course, our departed memoryman3.

Memoryman3 is particular significance to me, as I will forever associate his alias with my early interest in participation in forums. As a pre-pubescent teen, I found a natural home at GameFAQs, where I was delighted to find no restrictions for making an account (to which we'll get later). Under a few names, the only one of which I remember being the innocent-meaning-but-ostensibly-perverse KingDoodleDong, I posted about Smash and Animal Crossing for Wii U, which is slated for release tomorrow, and, yes, butted heads with the young memoryman3.

Now, I don't know how many of you posted as teenagers, but if you have, you might've experienced this: young people on the internet always assume that everyone around them is a competent adult. Memoryman3 was an established member of the community, which I conflated with literal seniority. In fact, it would appear that memoryman3 was several weeks younger than me all along! As a staunch Animal Crossing puritan, I derided in 2014 a new spinoff character named Lottie, claiming that I didn't know who she was. To which, memoryman3, bless his soul, responded, questioning the validity of my enthusiasm for Animal Crossing. Ah, memoryman3.

On this platform I even tried my hand at long-form thread creation, once I had of course accrued enough of the so-called karma to do so. I remember distinctly pouring a great deal of time, or at least what felt like a great deal of time, into a satirical (a word I knowingly use loosely in this instance) script for a Nintendo E3. The original text has been lost to time and fun-killing moderation policies, but I will never forget the words of a single commentor: "this guy is actually pretty funny sometimes." It was then I knew I'd always be dependent on the approval of strangers on the internet.

And I was hooked! Or, I would be, if GameFAQs had even half the level of community and discourse of NeoGAF. A couple of other things about the forum drew me back to GAF as well. First, GameFAQs separates discussion by game, creating a dearth of quality content and a difficulty in finding genuine news and interesting discussion. Second, and much more critically to me as a burgeoning forum lover, was the lack of identity found on GameFAQs. Everyone had a screen name, but rather than having huge, colorful icons and space dedicated to profiles, like on GAF and Eurobricks, GameFAQs took a more Reddit-style approach (this is certainly anachronistic, but you know what I mean) to user identity, only specifying name and possibly rank, if I recall correctly.

So I was drawn back to lurking on GAF. As I grew older, I began to understand the community, the nuance to interaction, the types of arguments, which arguments were in earnest, which were in jest, and what made the forum so great. It was the interaction. People that were willing to talk to one another, to initiate conversations, to butt heads as often as they engaged as a community in solipsistic, self-laudatory shitposts. All of this, enabled by the shared interest in video gaming.

Enter EtcetERA.

Wait.

Enter Off-Topic.

Off-Topic Discussion was critical to me in my mid-teens. Already socially liberal by nature, the community on NeoGAF shaped my opinions on many issues, while also providing an outlet to witness debate and see critical logic in action. While often chided as an echo chamber, NeoGAF had perfect acoustics for any burgeoning critical thinker willing to question new ideas, while still being solidly liberal. Yeah, GAF didn't make me liberal, it merely made me informed.

By the time the NX rumor mill was at full capacity, the workers only leaving late into the night, that I began to really want in. Now, I'd always wanted to be a part of the community I'd examined for years, but the staunch limitations on membership stymied me. I needed an institutional or paid e-mail to prove my worth (and humanity), and wait times were notoriously long. However, this past October, I used a university e-mail I had gotten via attendance of physics seminars to apply for membership! Alas, I'd soon live my dream, earning the validation of complete strangers from all corners of the globe.

Weeks later, GAF disappeared.

I refreshed the forum one morning on my phone, as I was oft to do, the forum was missing. Super Mario Odyssey, a game that I had anticipated hotly, was launching in mere days, and I was unable to read the musings of strangers about aliasing and the like. Via other channels I pieced together what had happened, and was naturally crushed.

Then, like a dusty eighties film franchise, NeoGAF was rebooted. Rather than going with the natural choice, NeoNeoGAF, the new regime picked an only slightly inferior name, ResetERA, and had a site running just before Odyssey launched. Emily and Nibel saved Christmas, everyone!

That wasn't the only appeal, however. The unique circumstance of the move beget a miracle: easy applications for lurkers, effectively welcoming them into the community with open arms. Inevitably, I joined, and I am eternally grateful that I was able to do so. I already have a wealth of experience on ERA. Like when I talked about music with Fat4Al! Or when I pissed off the famed television panel connoisseur blamespace by disparaging Billy Joel, an infraction for which I will never be forgiven. I've also been trollen by a mod, a temporary propagator of Chibi-Robo facts, and even lost my beloved (if flagrantly derivative) avatar for a few weeks. And, I couldn't not mention the phenomenal support I received from members and staff alike during a period of poor mental health, with which I continue to fight, supported by the compassion of the community and others.

So, now that I've completed my brief introduction, it's time for the OP. Nah, I think I've made my point in the above twelve hundred words. So, instead, I turn to the community. Any other former lurkers? Any posters have thoughts on the nature of this long-standing community and its rich history? Also welcome, of course, are forum memories.

Also, hi lurkers! I know you're there. Don't feel too bad, for the most part you do the same routine as a member: scroll, refresh, scroll, refresh. Membership is overrated tbqh
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« Reply #4229 on: April 19, 2018, 12:50:34 AM »
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« Reply #4230 on: April 19, 2018, 12:55:53 AM »

Given that the infamous prolific poster memoryman3 has come out with a statement today declaring that he intends to extricate himself from all avenues of online video game discussion to focus on his personal development, for which we're all proud of him on gaming side, I figured that the momentous occasion would be a fitting one to start a discussion I've been thinking about for a long time.

Forum culture is fascinating, and the intricacies of this community in particular are worth noting. But first, a brief profile on me. Like memoryman3, I in the past two months turned eighteen, becoming an adult. No longer was I marginalizing the sophisticated sanctity of ResetERA with my mere presence, much to my satisfaction. This comes after years as an adolescent lurker. For a few years beginning when I was nine or ten, I lurked on the premier forum for adult aficionados of LEGO bricks, Eurobricks. Leaked LEGO sets still occasionally draw my attention out of habit, to be honest.

From Eurobricks, I discovered NeoGAF. My earliest distinct memory of lurking on GAF was during Nintendo's E3 presentation of 2014, a phenomenal year. Living rurally, I did not have an adequate internet connection to watch the stream itself, so imagine my excitement trying to piece together Splatoon from such comments as "Bloopers?!" and learning via the forum that Captain Toad was getting a dedicated title. Prior to that, I remember purveying prerelease discussion of Mario Kart 8, which perhaps amusingly remains the only video game I've ever preordered.

Of course, games were only a piece of the puzzle. As I aged, I grew fascinated with the dynamic of the forum. It began with meager attempts to discern esoteric phrases and abbreviations like RTTP and OT (and OT meant and continues to mean, like, thirty different things, mind you). But as a traditional-style forum, the personalities began to compel me. Huge names like Fat4all (excuse me, big-boned names like Fat4All), blame space (whose sacred name I refuse to violate with capitalization), Neiteio (who I'm pretty sure was on GAF, but joined pretty late), and, of course, our departed memoryman3.

Memoryman3 is particular significance to me, as I will forever associate his alias with my early interest in participation in forums. As a pre-pubescent teen, I found a natural home at GameFAQs, where I was delighted to find no restrictions for making an account (to which we'll get later). Under a few names, the only one of which I remember being the innocent-meaning-but-ostensibly-perverse KingDoodleDong, I posted about Smash and Animal Crossing for Wii U, which is slated for release tomorrow, and, yes, butted heads with the young memoryman3.

Now, I don't know how many of you posted as teenagers, but if you have, you might've experienced this: young people on the internet always assume that everyone around them is a competent adult. Memoryman3 was an established member of the community, which I conflated with literal seniority. In fact, it would appear that memoryman3 was several weeks younger than me all along! As a staunch Animal Crossing puritan, I derided in 2014 a new spinoff character named Lottie, claiming that I didn't know who she was. To which, memoryman3, bless his soul, responded, questioning the validity of my enthusiasm for Animal Crossing. Ah, memoryman3.

On this platform I even tried my hand at long-form thread creation, once I had of course accrued enough of the so-called karma to do so. I remember distinctly pouring a great deal of time, or at least what felt like a great deal of time, into a satirical (a word I knowingly use loosely in this instance) script for a Nintendo E3. The original text has been lost to time and fun-killing moderation policies, but I will never forget the words of a single commentor: "this guy is actually pretty funny sometimes." It was then I knew I'd always be dependent on the approval of strangers on the internet.

And I was hooked! Or, I would be, if GameFAQs had even half the level of community and discourse of NeoGAF. A couple of other things about the forum drew me back to GAF as well. First, GameFAQs separates discussion by game, creating a dearth of quality content and a difficulty in finding genuine news and interesting discussion. Second, and much more critically to me as a burgeoning forum lover, was the lack of identity found on GameFAQs. Everyone had a screen name, but rather than having huge, colorful icons and space dedicated to profiles, like on GAF and Eurobricks, GameFAQs took a more Reddit-style approach (this is certainly anachronistic, but you know what I mean) to user identity, only specifying name and possibly rank, if I recall correctly.

So I was drawn back to lurking on GAF. As I grew older, I began to understand the community, the nuance to interaction, the types of arguments, which arguments were in earnest, which were in jest, and what made the forum so great. It was the interaction. People that were willing to talk to one another, to initiate conversations, to butt heads as often as they engaged as a community in solipsistic, self-laudatory shitposts. All of this, enabled by the shared interest in video gaming.

Enter EtcetERA.

Wait.

Enter Off-Topic.

Off-Topic Discussion was critical to me in my mid-teens. Already socially liberal by nature, the community on NeoGAF shaped my opinions on many issues, while also providing an outlet to witness debate and see critical logic in action. While often chided as an echo chamber, NeoGAF had perfect acoustics for any burgeoning critical thinker willing to question new ideas, while still being solidly liberal. Yeah, GAF didn't make me liberal, it merely made me informed.

By the time the NX rumor mill was at full capacity, the workers only leaving late into the night, that I began to really want in. Now, I'd always wanted to be a part of the community I'd examined for years, but the staunch limitations on membership stymied me. I needed an institutional or paid e-mail to prove my worth (and humanity), and wait times were notoriously long. However, this past October, I used a university e-mail I had gotten via attendance of physics seminars to apply for membership! Alas, I'd soon live my dream, earning the validation of complete strangers from all corners of the globe.

Weeks later, GAF disappeared.

I refreshed the forum one morning on my phone, as I was oft to do, the forum was missing. Super Mario Odyssey, a game that I had anticipated hotly, was launching in mere days, and I was unable to read the musings of strangers about aliasing and the like. Via other channels I pieced together what had happened, and was naturally crushed.

Then, like a dusty eighties film franchise, NeoGAF was rebooted. Rather than going with the natural choice, NeoNeoGAF, the new regime picked an only slightly inferior name, ResetERA, and had a site running just before Odyssey launched. Emily and Nibel saved Christmas, everyone!

That wasn't the only appeal, however. The unique circumstance of the move beget a miracle: easy applications for lurkers, effectively welcoming them into the community with open arms. Inevitably, I joined, and I am eternally grateful that I was able to do so. I already have a wealth of experience on ERA. Like when I talked about music with Fat4Al! Or when I pissed off the famed television panel connoisseur blamespace by disparaging Billy Joel, an infraction for which I will never be forgiven. I've also been trollen by a mod, a temporary propagator of Chibi-Robo facts, and even lost my beloved (if flagrantly derivative) avatar for a few weeks. And, I couldn't not mention the phenomenal support I received from members and staff alike during a period of poor mental health, with which I continue to fight, supported by the compassion of the community and others.

So, now that I've completed my brief introduction, it's time for the OP. Nah, I think I've made my point in the above twelve hundred words. So, instead, I turn to the community. Any other former lurkers? Any posters have thoughts on the nature of this long-standing community and its rich history? Also welcome, of course, are forum memories.

Also, hi lurkers! I know you're there. Don't feel too bad, for the most part you do the same routine as a member: scroll, refresh, scroll, refresh. Membership is overrated tbqh
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« Reply #4231 on: April 19, 2018, 12:56:06 AM »

Given that the infamous prolific poster memoryman3 has come out with a statement today declaring that he intends to extricate himself from all avenues of online video game discussion to focus on his personal development, for which we're all proud of him on gaming side, I figured that the momentous occasion would be a fitting one to start a discussion I've been thinking about for a long time.

Forum culture is fascinating, and the intricacies of this community in particular are worth noting. But first, a brief profile on me. Like memoryman3, I in the past two months turned eighteen, becoming an adult. No longer was I marginalizing the sophisticated sanctity of ResetERA with my mere presence, much to my satisfaction. This comes after years as an adolescent lurker. For a few years beginning when I was nine or ten, I lurked on the premier forum for adult aficionados of LEGO bricks, Eurobricks. Leaked LEGO sets still occasionally draw my attention out of habit, to be honest.

From Eurobricks, I discovered NeoGAF. My earliest distinct memory of lurking on GAF was during Nintendo's E3 presentation of 2014, a phenomenal year. Living rurally, I did not have an adequate internet connection to watch the stream itself, so imagine my excitement trying to piece together Splatoon from such comments as "Bloopers?!" and learning via the forum that Captain Toad was getting a dedicated title. Prior to that, I remember purveying prerelease discussion of Mario Kart 8, which perhaps amusingly remains the only video game I've ever preordered.

Of course, games were only a piece of the puzzle. As I aged, I grew fascinated with the dynamic of the forum. It began with meager attempts to discern esoteric phrases and abbreviations like RTTP and OT (and OT meant and continues to mean, like, thirty different things, mind you). But as a traditional-style forum, the personalities began to compel me. Huge names like Fat4all (excuse me, big-boned names like Fat4All), blame space (whose sacred name I refuse to violate with capitalization), Neiteio (who I'm pretty sure was on GAF, but joined pretty late), and, of course, our departed memoryman3.

Memoryman3 is particular significance to me, as I will forever associate his alias with my early interest in participation in forums. As a pre-pubescent teen, I found a natural home at GameFAQs, where I was delighted to find no restrictions for making an account (to which we'll get later). Under a few names, the only one of which I remember being the innocent-meaning-but-ostensibly-perverse KingDoodleDong, I posted about Smash and Animal Crossing for Wii U, which is slated for release tomorrow, and, yes, butted heads with the young memoryman3.

Now, I don't know how many of you posted as teenagers, but if you have, you might've experienced this: young people on the internet always assume that everyone around them is a competent adult. Memoryman3 was an established member of the community, which I conflated with literal seniority. In fact, it would appear that memoryman3 was several weeks younger than me all along! As a staunch Animal Crossing puritan, I derided in 2014 a new spinoff character named Lottie, claiming that I didn't know who she was. To which, memoryman3, bless his soul, responded, questioning the validity of my enthusiasm for Animal Crossing. Ah, memoryman3.

On this platform I even tried my hand at long-form thread creation, once I had of course accrued enough of the so-called karma to do so. I remember distinctly pouring a great deal of time, or at least what felt like a great deal of time, into a satirical (a word I knowingly use loosely in this instance) script for a Nintendo E3. The original text has been lost to time and fun-killing moderation policies, but I will never forget the words of a single commentor: "this guy is actually pretty funny sometimes." It was then I knew I'd always be dependent on the approval of strangers on the internet.

And I was hooked! Or, I would be, if GameFAQs had even half the level of community and discourse of NeoGAF. A couple of other things about the forum drew me back to GAF as well. First, GameFAQs separates discussion by game, creating a dearth of quality content and a difficulty in finding genuine news and interesting discussion. Second, and much more critically to me as a burgeoning forum lover, was the lack of identity found on GameFAQs. Everyone had a screen name, but rather than having huge, colorful icons and space dedicated to profiles, like on GAF and Eurobricks, GameFAQs took a more Reddit-style approach (this is certainly anachronistic, but you know what I mean) to user identity, only specifying name and possibly rank, if I recall correctly.

So I was drawn back to lurking on GAF. As I grew older, I began to understand the community, the nuance to interaction, the types of arguments, which arguments were in earnest, which were in jest, and what made the forum so great. It was the interaction. People that were willing to talk to one another, to initiate conversations, to butt heads as often as they engaged as a community in solipsistic, self-laudatory shitposts. All of this, enabled by the shared interest in video gaming.

Enter EtcetERA.

Wait.

Enter Off-Topic.

Off-Topic Discussion was critical to me in my mid-teens. Already socially liberal by nature, the community on NeoGAF shaped my opinions on many issues, while also providing an outlet to witness debate and see critical logic in action. While often chided as an echo chamber, NeoGAF had perfect acoustics for any burgeoning critical thinker willing to question new ideas, while still being solidly liberal. Yeah, GAF didn't make me liberal, it merely made me informed.

By the time the NX rumor mill was at full capacity, the workers only leaving late into the night, that I began to really want in. Now, I'd always wanted to be a part of the community I'd examined for years, but the staunch limitations on membership stymied me. I needed an institutional or paid e-mail to prove my worth (and humanity), and wait times were notoriously long. However, this past October, I used a university e-mail I had gotten via attendance of physics seminars to apply for membership! Alas, I'd soon live my dream, earning the validation of complete strangers from all corners of the globe.

Weeks later, GAF disappeared.

I refreshed the forum one morning on my phone, as I was oft to do, the forum was missing. Super Mario Odyssey, a game that I had anticipated hotly, was launching in mere days, and I was unable to read the musings of strangers about aliasing and the like. Via other channels I pieced together what had happened, and was naturally crushed.

Then, like a dusty eighties film franchise, NeoGAF was rebooted. Rather than going with the natural choice, NeoNeoGAF, the new regime picked an only slightly inferior name, ResetERA, and had a site running just before Odyssey launched. Emily and Nibel saved Christmas, everyone!

That wasn't the only appeal, however. The unique circumstance of the move beget a miracle: easy applications for lurkers, effectively welcoming them into the community with open arms. Inevitably, I joined, and I am eternally grateful that I was able to do so. I already have a wealth of experience on ERA. Like when I talked about music with Fat4Al! Or when I pissed off the famed television panel connoisseur blamespace by disparaging Billy Joel, an infraction for which I will never be forgiven. I've also been trollen by a mod, a temporary propagator of Chibi-Robo facts, and even lost my beloved (if flagrantly derivative) avatar for a few weeks. And, I couldn't not mention the phenomenal support I received from members and staff alike during a period of poor mental health, with which I continue to fight, supported by the compassion of the community and others.

So, now that I've completed my brief introduction, it's time for the OP. Nah, I think I've made my point in the above twelve hundred words. So, instead, I turn to the community. Any other former lurkers? Any posters have thoughts on the nature of this long-standing community and its rich history? Also welcome, of course, are forum memories.

Also, hi lurkers! I know you're there. Don't feel too bad, for the most part you do the same routine as a member: scroll, refresh, scroll, refresh. Membership is overrated tbqh
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« Reply #4232 on: April 19, 2018, 12:57:59 AM »
the bore is a sony fansite

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« Reply #4233 on: April 19, 2018, 01:18:19 AM »
Guys I can't have a good laugh at labor trying to act as if other music genres rely on bitch as much as hip hop if you keep quoting the entire Bible
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-it-still-acceptable-to-refer-to-woman-as-b-in-hip-hop-music.37131/

lol @ all the users twisting to try and make it seem like bitch isn't generally used as a gendered insult

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« Reply #4234 on: April 19, 2018, 02:03:15 AM »

NO ONE HAS SAID IT IS NOT

SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS TOPIC, INCLUDING MYSELF, HAVE SAID IT MASSIVELY DEPENDS ON THE CONTEXT
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« Reply #4235 on: April 19, 2018, 02:04:37 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-study-needs-to-be-done-about-sony-fans-the-community-is-amazing.37186/

ITT: Sony ponies jerking each other off.
ITT Opie has the most hilarious allergic reaction to his own body salt, thread laughs at him

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« Reply #4236 on: April 19, 2018, 02:05:06 AM »
The voices arguing in bad faith dominate the debate in spaces like this. You have most if not all of the black posters being insulted or ignored as well.

It's expected though so it's whatever
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« Reply #4237 on: April 19, 2018, 02:06:13 AM »
your face is a bad faith :maf

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« Reply #4238 on: April 19, 2018, 02:07:03 AM »
That bitch thread is amazing.
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« Reply #4239 on: April 19, 2018, 02:12:43 AM »
skimmed a few posts and im surprised it's not closed for not being productive or whatever

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« Reply #4240 on: April 19, 2018, 02:22:37 AM »
It's ripe for a "Are we the baddies ?" meme too.
LionPride trying to argue that it's acceptable (IN CERTAIN CONTEXTS) because it's allowed on mainstream television.
:neogaf
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« Reply #4241 on: April 19, 2018, 02:25:00 AM »
Anyone bring up how us cricketing commonwealthers call each other cunts like 90% of the time yet?  :hitler

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« Reply #4242 on: April 19, 2018, 02:25:48 AM »
Anyone bring up how us cricketing commonwealthers call each other cunts like 90% of the time yet?  :hitler

Yes.
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« Reply #4243 on: April 19, 2018, 02:38:34 AM »

Given that the infamous prolific poster memoryman3 has come out with a statement today declaring that he intends to extricate himself from all avenues of online video game discussion to focus on his personal development, for which we're all proud of him on gaming side, I figured that the momentous occasion would be a fitting one to start a discussion I've been thinking about for a long time.

Forum culture is fascinating, and the intricacies of this community in particular are worth noting. But first, a brief profile on me. Like memoryman3, I in the past two months turned eighteen, becoming an adult. No longer was I marginalizing the sophisticated sanctity of ResetERA with my mere presence, much to my satisfaction. This comes after years as an adolescent lurker. For a few years beginning when I was nine or ten, I lurked on the premier forum for adult aficionados of LEGO bricks, Eurobricks. Leaked LEGO sets still occasionally draw my attention out of habit, to be honest.

From Eurobricks, I discovered NeoGAF. My earliest distinct memory of lurking on GAF was during Nintendo's E3 presentation of 2014, a phenomenal year. Living rurally, I did not have an adequate internet connection to watch the stream itself, so imagine my excitement trying to piece together Splatoon from such comments as "Bloopers?!" and learning via the forum that Captain Toad was getting a dedicated title. Prior to that, I remember purveying prerelease discussion of Mario Kart 8, which perhaps amusingly remains the only video game I've ever preordered.

Of course, games were only a piece of the puzzle. As I aged, I grew fascinated with the dynamic of the forum. It began with meager attempts to discern esoteric phrases and abbreviations like RTTP and OT (and OT meant and continues to mean, like, thirty different things, mind you). But as a traditional-style forum, the personalities began to compel me. Huge names like Fat4all (excuse me, big-boned names like Fat4All), blame space (whose sacred name I refuse to violate with capitalization), Neiteio (who I'm pretty sure was on GAF, but joined pretty late), and, of course, our departed memoryman3.

Memoryman3 is particular significance to me, as I will forever associate his alias with my early interest in participation in forums. As a pre-pubescent teen, I found a natural home at GameFAQs, where I was delighted to find no restrictions for making an account (to which we'll get later). Under a few names, the only one of which I remember being the innocent-meaning-but-ostensibly-perverse KingDoodleDong, I posted about Smash and Animal Crossing for Wii U, which is slated for release tomorrow, and, yes, butted heads with the young memoryman3.

Now, I don't know how many of you posted as teenagers, but if you have, you might've experienced this: young people on the internet always assume that everyone around them is a competent adult. Memoryman3 was an established member of the community, which I conflated with literal seniority. In fact, it would appear that memoryman3 was several weeks younger than me all along! As a staunch Animal Crossing puritan, I derided in 2014 a new spinoff character named Lottie, claiming that I didn't know who she was. To which, memoryman3, bless his soul, responded, questioning the validity of my enthusiasm for Animal Crossing. Ah, memoryman3.

On this platform I even tried my hand at long-form thread creation, once I had of course accrued enough of the so-called karma to do so. I remember distinctly pouring a great deal of time, or at least what felt like a great deal of time, into a satirical (a word I knowingly use loosely in this instance) script for a Nintendo E3. The original text has been lost to time and fun-killing moderation policies, but I will never forget the words of a single commentor: "this guy is actually pretty funny sometimes." It was then I knew I'd always be dependent on the approval of strangers on the internet.

And I was hooked! Or, I would be, if GameFAQs had even half the level of community and discourse of NeoGAF. A couple of other things about the forum drew me back to GAF as well. First, GameFAQs separates discussion by game, creating a dearth of quality content and a difficulty in finding genuine news and interesting discussion. Second, and much more critically to me as a burgeoning forum lover, was the lack of identity found on GameFAQs. Everyone had a screen name, but rather than having huge, colorful icons and space dedicated to profiles, like on GAF and Eurobricks, GameFAQs took a more Reddit-style approach (this is certainly anachronistic, but you know what I mean) to user identity, only specifying name and possibly rank, if I recall correctly.

So I was drawn back to lurking on GAF. As I grew older, I began to understand the community, the nuance to interaction, the types of arguments, which arguments were in earnest, which were in jest, and what made the forum so great. It was the interaction. People that were willing to talk to one another, to initiate conversations, to butt heads as often as they engaged as a community in solipsistic, self-laudatory shitposts. All of this, enabled by the shared interest in video gaming.

Enter EtcetERA.

Wait.

Enter Off-Topic.

Off-Topic Discussion was critical to me in my mid-teens. Already socially liberal by nature, the community on NeoGAF shaped my opinions on many issues, while also providing an outlet to witness debate and see critical logic in action. While often chided as an echo chamber, NeoGAF had perfect acoustics for any burgeoning critical thinker willing to question new ideas, while still being solidly liberal. Yeah, GAF didn't make me liberal, it merely made me informed.

By the time the NX rumor mill was at full capacity, the workers only leaving late into the night, that I began to really want in. Now, I'd always wanted to be a part of the community I'd examined for years, but the staunch limitations on membership stymied me. I needed an institutional or paid e-mail to prove my worth (and humanity), and wait times were notoriously long. However, this past October, I used a university e-mail I had gotten via attendance of physics seminars to apply for membership! Alas, I'd soon live my dream, earning the validation of complete strangers from all corners of the globe.

Weeks later, GAF disappeared.

I refreshed the forum one morning on my phone, as I was oft to do, the forum was missing. Super Mario Odyssey, a game that I had anticipated hotly, was launching in mere days, and I was unable to read the musings of strangers about aliasing and the like. Via other channels I pieced together what had happened, and was naturally crushed.

Then, like a dusty eighties film franchise, NeoGAF was rebooted. Rather than going with the natural choice, NeoNeoGAF, the new regime picked an only slightly inferior name, ResetERA, and had a site running just before Odyssey launched. Emily and Nibel saved Christmas, everyone!

That wasn't the only appeal, however. The unique circumstance of the move beget a miracle: easy applications for lurkers, effectively welcoming them into the community with open arms. Inevitably, I joined, and I am eternally grateful that I was able to do so. I already have a wealth of experience on ERA. Like when I talked about music with Fat4Al! Or when I pissed off the famed television panel connoisseur blamespace by disparaging Billy Joel, an infraction for which I will never be forgiven. I've also been trollen by a mod, a temporary propagator of Chibi-Robo facts, and even lost my beloved (if flagrantly derivative) avatar for a few weeks. And, I couldn't not mention the phenomenal support I received from members and staff alike during a period of poor mental health, with which I continue to fight, supported by the compassion of the community and others.

So, now that I've completed my brief introduction, it's time for the OP. Nah, I think I've made my point in the above twelve hundred words. So, instead, I turn to the community. Any other former lurkers? Any posters have thoughts on the nature of this long-standing community and its rich history? Also welcome, of course, are forum memories.

Also, hi lurkers! I know you're there. Don't feel too bad, for the most part you do the same routine as a member: scroll, refresh, scroll, refresh. Membership is overrated tbqh
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« Reply #4244 on: April 19, 2018, 02:38:56 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-study-needs-to-be-done-about-sony-fans-the-community-is-amazing.37186/

ITT: Sony ponies jerking each other off.

Due to the hype cycle for God of War, I thought it already came out and people beat it. People lost their shit more than a week before release.
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« Reply #4245 on: April 19, 2018, 03:52:27 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-it-still-acceptable-to-refer-to-woman-as-b-in-hip-hop-music.37131/

lol @ all the users twisting to try and make it seem like bitch isn't generally used as a gendered insult

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Context

Context

Context

I have said it, others have said it

I ain't sayin bitch if I'm with a damn coworker period the fuck


And plus, you can say bitch on TV and it's fine.  You can say fuck, nicca, and cigarillo on tv.    Fuck on Broken Bad, nicca on Carmichael Show, and cigarillo on South Park. 

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The premise of this thread and every version of it I've ever seen is that rap and by extension black men are inherently more misogynistic than non-black men.

Him and Deep Water have been running with the, It's ok to say bitch because you are all being racist against me.




It's the purest distillation of a race card since I argued my essay on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven should get an A instead of a B because the Prof didn't know the true Lakota experience like I do.

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« Reply #4246 on: April 19, 2018, 04:03:57 AM »
There is something funny about bitches and dog whistles though.

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« Reply #4247 on: April 19, 2018, 04:04:11 AM »
"I'm Rick James, bitch" - alt-right comedian Dave Chappelle sending a secret message to his Russian GamerGate supporters

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« Reply #4248 on: April 19, 2018, 04:16:55 AM »
Anyone see that discussion on forum culture from a former forum lurker?

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« Reply #4249 on: April 19, 2018, 04:18:33 AM »
"Bitch is a sexist dog whistle. " :lol


I don't think this dude knows what the term "dog whistle" actually means.

I think dog whistle has become a dog whistle

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« Reply #4250 on: April 19, 2018, 04:22:33 AM »
Gentlemen, we are witnessing "Black Fragility." 

I wish I had the balls to post that.
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« Reply #4251 on: April 19, 2018, 04:24:28 AM »
Anyone see that discussion on forum culture from a former forum lurker?
can you quote it here? i don't want to visit resetera.com

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« Reply #4252 on: April 19, 2018, 05:18:40 AM »
Gentlemen, we are witnessing "Black Fragility." 

I wish I had the balls to post that.

"How dare you make this about race"

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« Reply #4253 on: April 19, 2018, 06:08:46 AM »
In the thread about asian males outnumbering females:
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they patriarchied so hard they fucked themselves. Good, im glad their little eugenics experiments will eventually do massive harm to their countries

when you're a psychotic fucking Social Studies Warrior...
in one instance where the rabid restrictionists wings worries are not easily discounted by history or logic, this kind of population imbalances negative effects don't tend to stay within the nation's borders (or at least seem to draw our global society into them when they do)

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« Reply #4254 on: April 19, 2018, 06:12:15 AM »
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I heard some horrific stories about forced abortions due to the Chinese one child policy or parents being forced to abandon their children.

Part of me hopes maybe this serves as a lesson to the government to not try and limit peoples basic human rights. A government shouldn't have the authority to decide whether or not you can have children. It's abhorrent.
"Woah, I never thought of it that way." - Xi Jinping

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« Reply #4255 on: April 19, 2018, 06:20:42 AM »
this forum is great: https://www.resetera.com/threads/chinese-communist-party-is-setting-up-cells-at-universities-across-america.37041/
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Communism as an idea needs to die, just like slavery and feudalism have.
Slavery died?

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Communism as an idea needs to die, just like slavery and feudalism have.
>slavery
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have you seen the american prison system

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Funny thing is the modern Chinese communism party is basically a right wing nationalist party in some ways - with their heavy protectionism policies and constant xenophobic propaganda against countries like Japan and Korea.

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This is what gets non-westerners riled up... When they speak of Liberal democracies as being superior and better than the system they are quiet happily living under.
I know... its a really hard concept to grasp and accept... that For many people in the world, freedom of speech and political life isnt the be all and end all of human existence, and these ideas are viewed with suspicion due to their western centric nature.

Yes, i like democracy too because im from the west but its this bullshit of looking down on other forms of governments that gives people gripes because the end of history has shown that democracy isn't the be all and end all of human societal organisation and that people are perfectly happy with an autocratic government as long as they benefit economically. The myth that economic progress must equal social progress towards liberalism and democracy is dead.

Westerners ought to start respecting other people's cultural values and way of life and get rid of this paternalistic/civilising superiority complex out of their world view because this is exactly justifies so much western interventionism, and this whole attitude can be viewed as the organic and natural progression of colonialism or imperialism

but the main thing i wanted to :neogaf about is how this has been a thing for decades, Michigan State University responded to this by tearing down the foreign student dorm-apartments in the 1970s because the Communist Party was having like 20 people of all ages live in a one-room apartment and pay rent to the Party member who was setting them up and running each of the buildings :lol

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« Reply #4256 on: April 19, 2018, 06:26:53 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-dude-at-the-fast-food-drive-thru-addressed-me-by-my-first-name-today.37155/
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And he did in kind of a weird tone that I'm not sure of, with a hard emphasis on the first syllable. My name isn't Edward, but it's two syllables like that. It was like "Thanks, ED-ward... ;) have a nice day"

Obviously, I didn't tell him my name/formally introduce myself, so he had to take a good look at my card to know it. So I admit, I'm a regular at this Del Taco. Yes, I'm ready for you motherfucking fast food internet connoisseurs. Go away. I like their sauce, and it's so close to my place and so easy to get to on my way home from work, alright? I probably go there like weekly to bi-weekly, depending. I think I've seen this guy a few times before. This week I've been there twice, but this guy wasn't the server the first time.

I'm just a little teeny-tiny bit unnerved about it—unnerved enough to post about it on the internet. He was talking with a couple of his coworkers and they looked like they might've been joking around before they opened the window. Did I do something wrong? I don't really make small talk at the drive-through. And I don't think a lot of people do either? I admit, I get fast food fairly often. My job is kind of to serve sometimes too, and I fucking hate making small talk. I don't want to put other people through that shit. I kind of don't want to go there anymore, which I think is an overreaction, as all of this kind of is. Do I start ordering very different items? Do I disguise myself when I go with sunglasses and fake mustaches, maybe a wig? Is it actually normal for drive-thru servers to address you by name? No, it means I have a problem when they start to recognize me, right?
all the people making fun of the OP are going to have egg on their face when it turns out the SUSPECT DEL TACO EMPLOYEE was memorizing his card and security number so he could make a bunch of ILLEGAL online purchases and ruin his credit score

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« Reply #4257 on: April 19, 2018, 07:34:35 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-dude-at-the-fast-food-drive-thru-addressed-me-by-my-first-name-today.37155/
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And he did in kind of a weird tone that I'm not sure of, with a hard emphasis on the first syllable. My name isn't Edward, but it's two syllables like that. It was like "Thanks, ED-ward... ;) have a nice day"

Obviously, I didn't tell him my name/formally introduce myself, so he had to take a good look at my card to know it. So I admit, I'm a regular at this Del Taco. Yes, I'm ready for you motherfucking fast food internet connoisseurs. Go away. I like their sauce, and it's so close to my place and so easy to get to on my way home from work, alright? I probably go there like weekly to bi-weekly, depending. I think I've seen this guy a few times before. This week I've been there twice, but this guy wasn't the server the first time.

I'm just a little teeny-tiny bit unnerved about it—unnerved enough to post about it on the internet. He was talking with a couple of his coworkers and they looked like they might've been joking around before they opened the window. Did I do something wrong? I don't really make small talk at the drive-through. And I don't think a lot of people do either? I admit, I get fast food fairly often. My job is kind of to serve sometimes too, and I fucking hate making small talk. I don't want to put other people through that shit. I kind of don't want to go there anymore, which I think is an overreaction, as all of this kind of is. Do I start ordering very different items? Do I disguise myself when I go with sunglasses and fake mustaches, maybe a wig? Is it actually normal for drive-thru servers to address you by name? No, it means I have a problem when they start to recognize me, right?
all the people making fun of the OP are going to have egg on their face when it turns out the SUSPECT DEL TACO EMPLOYEE was memorizing his card and security number so he could make a bunch of ILLEGAL online purchases and ruin his credit score

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« Reply #4258 on: April 19, 2018, 08:38:38 AM »
these fucking bitches, the woman at the post office remembers me by name and asks about specific shit in my life and I see her once a year  :neogaf

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« Reply #4259 on: April 19, 2018, 09:22:36 AM »
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Because deep down, some women get off on being degraded

Well that’s not problematic
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