The Goonies should own that word
It’s a psy-op to protect the goons that are detaining innocents on American streets.
I used to be with it. Then they changed what it was.
Now what I’m with isn’t it
Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me.
It’ll happen to YOU!
Stop it! You’re scaring me from 20 years ago!
Ive got 4 definitions… Making it extra confusing.
- The one from the post.
- The new zoomer definition.
- A member of the EvE Online alliance “Goonswarm Federation” (an army of 10k angry nerds).
- A member of the security team at DefCon.
Both 3 and 4 predate 2 by well more than 15 years, this is one of those zoomer additions to the common lexicon I would prefer reverted to the old definitions.
the goonswarm is just the something awful faction of eve. they’ve been called goons since forever. they had one in wow as well, “ye olde goon squad”, or yogs. some of those members started a podcast and that just snowballed.
Aren’t 3 and 4 just derivatives of 1?
Eh… No
One is a notorious guild in an online video game that has been around in some form or another since the early 2ks. The latter is a security conference thats been held since the early 90s. (Although it used to be a lot rougher than it currently is, its a lot more corporate and safer now)
Both are obviously named after the crinimal goons.
Was it not just an collaboration of SomethingAwful forumites that founded Goonswarm?
Where do you think the something awful form got the name?
As a Gen-Xer I can attest that up until two weeks ago I was very much so misunderstanding “gooning”. Once again, porn saves the day.
The Goonies would never work in these times. Kinda glad I grew up when I did.
It could work as an adult film
I’ll bet a dollar it already is.
Down here, it’s our time. It’s our time down here. That’s all over the second we ride up Troy’s bucket.
That’s my mom’s favorite part!
And grok used to mean “understand”, not “nazi shithead propaganda machine”.
TIL grok is an actual word.
It’s from Stranger In A Strange Land. Overly Sarcastic Productions has a great summary of that book on their channel
I recommend Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. It’s a pretty influential work of early science fiction.
Mind you, it’s been like 30 years since I read any Heinlein. Not sure I’d feel the same way about his stuff now as late teen me did, but the many books of his I read definitely shaped a lot of my philosophy.
LOL. That’s great. Yeah, it really doesn’t hold up. I think a lot of my enjoyment of Heinlein came from being a horny teen with a Christian upbringing seeing a different take on sexuality. Stranger in a Strange Land was one of the last of his I read and not my favourite. The Number of The Beast was the first one of his I read.
Edit: Apparently I watched that video 6 years ago and left a comment. I’ve been a subscriber to that channel for a while.
And meme used to refer to a unit of cultural information that spreads by imitation, not a funny picture on social media.
In fairness to memes, that definition is still largely true, its just that the common usage tends to refer to this specific form of meme. Like with squares and rectangles, not all anthropological memes are image macros, but all image macro memes are a subset of anthropological memes
This feels like your boss saying you get a company car and then giving you a scale model of a car with the company logo on it.
Memes are absolutely fascinating
Grok was also a support character in the game Paladins.
I’m going to keep using it as a verb. If people are dumb enough to assume I’m dumb enough to use xai, that’s not my problem.
It was one of my favorite words.
Such is life
From Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. I wonder if the estate could sue for damages.
We still have extortion
The X makes it cool 😎
It’s only because someone else took the letter X and made it objectively uncool. What a shithead.
True. I forgot about that. Mostly because fuck Twitter and that guy anyway.
Yeah no sorry the origin was always gross. Stranger in a strange land is just heinlein’s weird fetish porn where he justifies old men sleeping with young girls (sound familiar?)
And grok was always a term used by weirdos who thought the book was deep for some crazy reason and wanted to sound like they were part of this insider intellectuals club
What? He gets freaky in some other books, but Stranger is pretty clean for a free love manifesto. Every character I can think of was a full grown adult, I don’t think there’s a single scene even euphemistically depicting an old man sleeping with a young girl. All the sex even referred to was between people of relatively close age.
Grok just means to understand/drink fully. You drink water, and it becomes a part of your body. You understand an idea, and it becomes part of your mind. It’s an efficient word to communicate “understanding something fully enough to functionally incorporate it into your worldview”. It’s not that intellectual.
Please don’t interpret this as a defense of Robert Heinlein’s books as it has been decades since I read them and it sounds like you might be more familiar with them. But weren’t all the women in Stranger in a Strange Land older than Michael Valentine Smith?
Are you getting confusing the character with Lazarus Long from Time Enough for Love, et al? I think he was thousands of years older than some of his (adult) love interests…
That’s a rather puritan and skewed perspective. Afaik Stranger in a Strange Land is a very weird book but very tame and not pornographic at all. And it was an important artwork that explored the themes of the 60s sexual revolution. A time where people knew very little about sex and gender and questioned everything.
I dunno. I only ever used it as shorthand for being able to understand the basics of something. Also, words can change for the better. So in this case it went
gross -> fine -> gross.
Gooning gooner gooning goons
hello I do data entry in the mafia
I actually lol’d
Spike Milligan used it as meaning idiots/simpletons but says he first new the word from Alice the Goon
‘Goon’ still means Henchman.
Don’t let the vapid famewhore influencerati dictate language changes. Laugh at their obvious inability and keep being you.
Vapid famewhore influencerati
Are you trying to dictate language changes? I laugh at your obvious inability
Wtf are you talking about? Also, language is a social construct and words change meaning all the time. They can also mean more than one thing…
Hogwash! (I meant that as in I agree)
I guess we can still use ‘mooks’ for that.
You think you’re annoyed?
The Goon by Eric Powell.
In a town full of zombies, degenerates, mad scientists, and assorted weirdos a two fisted thug runs things his way.
“They’re never bringing me back. I’m not sure I’d like it either, they’re going to make me… you know… not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just not me”
The Gay GhostThe Goon
sigh this movie’s never getting made, is it?
Are they still making feature length porn parodies?
To be honest, I don’t think every comic needs to be a movie.
And ‘goon’ was used for decades before it got it’s latest meaning.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad-jennifer-egan/fcd66a7ef19631b1
There was a proof of concept trailer (which looked great - with Clancy brown and Paul giamati doing voices) and a kickstarter to make a storyboard back in 2012. Then in 2022 supposedly Netflix picked it up, but it haven’t heard anything since.
“a two fisted thug”
Ah yes, Johnny two fists.
it’s a pulp fiction kinda thing.
no, not the film
Forget you ignorant bottle babies!
I’m reclaiming goon, two fisted and ‘a dame with hair on her chest!’*
[* a compliment to Mrs. Nick Charles in ‘The Thin Man.’]
Go on
What does it mean now?
From what I gather, it seems to mean something similar to what we civilized folk once called edging
Like landscaping?
That’s part of it for some people.
Hmmm. Sure.
Thats what edging is for me. Still not sure what this new definition is.
I’m pretty sure that gooning doesn’t refer to edging but simply to masturbaiting to completion, often multiple times a day
Oh. Well then I stand corrected. Shows you how much I know about it…
Actually that guy is more wrong than you were. “Gooning” is the act of edging multiple times in a single long session such that your body is pumped so full of sexual endorphins that you essentially become an accessory to your groin. No longer a person with a penis, but simply a rock hard cock with a human attached to it who’s sole purpose is providing sexual gratification. This is the “goon state”. The term “gooning” does derive from its previous usage as the gooner becomes a simpleton, brainless idiot, etc.
Gooners typically also use multiple screens in a dark room with their porn of choice on each screen to maximize sexual stimulation, essentially entering into their own pocket dimension where there exists only porn and their throbbing shaft.
Source: Me. I once hit the ceiling with my load after a 5 hour goon session.
You heard it here, folks, straight from the horse’s mouth
So… Normal behaviour?
It means all the above shit in this thread including the one that started it. Words can have more than one meaning. I think the argument is what the connotation has become.
Cool any way u seem hot , imma goon
