Oh god, I caved. )=

edited August 2008 in General
I just dropped ten dollars so I can read SA forum threads without getting blocked out during periods of high activity.

I'm a goon. D=
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  • edited October 2007
    SA?
  • edited October 2007
    Something Awful.

    I've been a member for a while myself.
  • edited October 2007
    I thought this thread was going to be a confession of horrible secrets and inability to cope with life. I thought I was going to be able to feel better than somebody else appeared. You're an asshole. I hate you.
  • edited October 2007
    )=
  • edited October 2007
    I can't stay mad at you.
  • edited October 2007
    =)
  • edited October 2007
    I can!

    >[

    Actually, that looks more constipated than angry. Emoticons have failed me once again!
  • edited October 2007
    SA? Complete waste of money. B3ta is free and has pretty much the same stuff. Plus it's English.
  • edited October 2007
    What do you mean by "the same stuff"? Is B3ta stealing SA's writers, articles and Flash cartoons? Because if they aren't, they don't have the same stuff. Those SA goons are masters of Photoshopping, and I'll bet no one at B3ta ever made anything as funny as Doomhouse. ^_^
  • edited October 2007
    I just dropped ten dollars so I can read SA forum threads without getting blocked out during periods of high activity.

    I'm a goon. D=

    You could have bought a small box of gourmet chocolates.

    See what you're missing?! :D
  • edited October 2007
    mario wrote: »
    What do you mean by "the same stuff"? Is B3ta stealing SA's writers, articles and Flash cartoons? Because if they aren't, they don't have the same stuff. Those SA goons are masters of Photoshopping, and I'll bet no one at B3ta ever made anything as funny as Doomhouse. ^_^

    Same stuff as in talented and witty photoshoppers and flash makers.
  • edited October 2007
    All of Something Awful's main website stuff is completely free, I'm referring to all the stuff on the forums, which are closed to the public during periods of high activity.
  • edited October 2007
    *grins and cuddles his ten dollar bill*

    Ah, I love having ten dollars. So much better than not having ten dollars.
  • edited October 2007
    They've got a pretty good business model going. The membership fee helps pay for their no-doubt exorbitant bandwidth costs. If I were a regular there, I'd probably pay it. As is, I generally stick to Photoshop Phridays.
  • edited October 2007
    It's not just the membership fee, actually.

    Lemme see here...
    9.95 to enable private messages, forum search, and image upload
    9.95 to get access to the forum archives
    5.00 to add an avatar and a new custom title
    9.95 to change someone else's avatar and custom title
    4.95 to make the forums ad-free (from the ads other people can buy for the forums)
    7.95 to change your forum username
    29.95 (!!!) to purchace a custom smiley for everyone to use on the forums
    9.11 to change your registration date to 9/11 (???)

    Nonprofit ads are 7.95 and commercial ads are 29.95

    If you get banned you lose any account enhancements you have, but can just pay ten bucks and reactivate your account in its basic form.

    Quite a racket.
  • edited October 2007
    Coming soon, new functions of the Orange Belt, for a nominal cost!

    $10.00 for an ELITE membership, granting access to old versions of the Orange Belt (Mario really has them saved)
    $15.00 for a MAX ELITE membership, letting you ban people with fewer posts than you
    $5.00 to add a strikethrough to your name
    $29.99 for a "Professor" prefix
    $20.00 to block the Justin images on the forums (why would you want to???)
    $99.99 for access to Mario's super secret porno Zelda comic.
  • edited October 2007
    Sign me up!
  • edited October 2007
    Time to shell out 15 bucks and go on a posting spree.
  • edited October 2007
    Where am i supposed to get $99.99?
  • edited October 2007
    Oh crap, I hope I get grandfathered in, I don't have 30 bucks!
  • edited October 2007
    Behemoth wrote: »
    Where am i supposed to get $99.99?
    The easiest way would be to embark on a life of crime.
  • edited October 2007
    We could do a heist!
  • edited October 2007
    This'll be the best 99 bucks I ever spent!
    Serephel wrote: »
    $10.00 for an ELITE membership, granting access to old versions of the Orange Belt (Mario really has them saved)

    Aww, you made me a little sad there.
  • edited October 2007
    Do you really have them all backed up? That would be neat to see.
  • edited October 2007
    I don't. Which is why that made me so saddened. Because I wish I did.
  • edited October 2007
    I would like to see that thread about mario's parade of hats. That was a great loss during the Orange Apocalypse.
  • edited October 2007
    Maybe Q still has some of those pictures?
  • edited October 2007
    First, I agree with Geoff. Rare for me because of what he posted earlier tonight #*#*(&^$%&^*#
    I like 10 dollars. That gets me closer to getting a PS3 (a.k.a. 1/50th of the way).
  • edited August 2008
    Oh God, I just did too, despite my determination not to :(

    I'm also a goon ;_;
  • edited August 2008
    Goon goon goon goon goon goon.