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Satire/Humors Sites With Massive Communities Reviewed!
The internet provides a human being with everything he could ever want. Free porn, free music, free movies. Requiring something tangible? There is an unfathomable number of sites out there where you can order absolutely anything your heart desires and have it delivered strait to your doorstep. Probably the trickiest desire to quench though is the undeniable urge to pick some kind of satire/humor site containing a huge community and visit it hourly. I am here to make your decision easier and review some of the largest such sites.
Drew Curtis' FARK.com 
Fark is unique in that it's community and content are intricately connected. The way the site works is so-called "Farkers" wander the internet and whenever they find an entertaining or newsworthy link they send it to Drew Curtis. Drew Curtis then randomly selects a few of these links and posts them on his site throughout the day. Other "Farkers" are then able to discuss the link. The people of Fark do a lot of Photoshopping, a lot of bad Photoshopping. Bad as in "I will copy and paste this picture of Admiral Ackbar onto a picture of a trap door. I will then add a speech balloon and have Ackbar saying "It's a trap!"" Holy shit, I bet you didn't see that one coming! From what I can tell Drew Curtis thinks "Duke sucks" whoever the fuck Duke is, and is convinced that France surrenders approximately ninety-thousand times a day.
Fark is at least useful at times, despite its community of agonizing mind blowing death. I give it a two.
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Something Awful 
The main page of Something Awful is dull as hell. Occasionally a single article will rise up and pass into legend though. If a man can bare to wade through the years of reviews of movies he's never heard of, games he's never heard of and music he's never heard of he will find wonderful bright-spots of pure comedy. Or as they say at Something Awful, "comedy gold." The Something Awful forums are the last bastion of sanity on earth. They protect within their hallowed halls every human being with internet access capable of human interaction. These days these forums cost ten dollars to join. No matter what your friends tell you it's not worth the cost. I don't care what they say, I don't care what I say. Unless you were right there on the ground floor and got in for free like all us cool kids, then you're not allowed in the fort!
What others are saying: Anyone belonging to Fark's community will instantly remark "Something Awful sure is something awful" the instant SA is brought up.
I give Something Awful a three.
retroCRUSH/X-Entertainment
I have no idea if these sites are popular, or even if they have communities of any sort. They seemed to be linked to by quite a few sites so I can only assume that they're at least somewhat liked. I looked at each long enough to realize that they are the same site and then left. They both appear to be dedicated to mocking that wacky decade the 80's. "Guaranteed funny stuff 100% LOL factor approved" I am sure.
There's two of them, so combined they earn a two.
Newgrounds.com 
Since my introduction to the internet I have occasionally been duped into visiting Newgrounds. Every time this happens I end up spending my entire day watching shitty flash toons there. This is why I refuse to link to the site for you now. Newgrounds is like television, there's a fuck load of ads, there's no decent content and it's just so easy to waste away in front of it. I dared look at this site today long enough to find a link to some kind of forum. The list of topics frightened me so greatly that I left without checking any of them. There appeared to be a hell of a lot of them though.
Newgrounds irritates me beyond all compare, I give it a one.
Stile Project 
I refuse to link to Stile Project. This is because every site on the whole of the internet that has ever linked to this site has been sucked in by Stile's swirling vortex of money. Before you know it I'd have a link to Stile in between every goddamn word just so he'd link back here. Then I'd rip off my clothes hoping desperately he'd pay me to start posing for his cam portal. Then I'd implement pop-up ads for Stile all over this site all for cold hard cash. Eventually I might become worthy of climbing under Stile's infinitely huge desk with all the other webmasters where I could eternally suck his massive cock. I have no idea what Stile's community is like. I guarantee you it's huge though, and probably involves a lot of scat porn and anal stretching.
I hate Stile, I hate his project. I give Stile Project a zero.
There is one thing to watch out for while joining one of these sites. No matter how much their owners pretend that they're just running little sites and are barely getting by, they are fucking loaded. Don't fall for any of the "well I might as well give these guys money as I am using their bandwidth" insanity that seems to consume so many of the denizens of these places. In any case, I wish you all the best in allowing your soul to be consumed by the internet.
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