Try catching up on Maddox. Basically alienated all his friends and fans by being a spiteful and miserable asshole, and now spends his time throwing around frivolous lawsuits for hundreds of millions of dollars.
My edge-lord friend from high school gave me his book when it came out and said, “Best book in the world, bro.” It wasn’t really funny at all. It wasn’t much if anything at all. I read about 1/3 of it and completely forgot about it. It was about that time another edge-lord friend showed me the Tucker Max site.
Maddox basically was the first person for a long time who was doing that kind of humour. It’s certainly was the cadence set for the RMMB. At the right age, at the right time it’s funny. Then it’s gets imitated and duplicated and finally saturated. For instance: Tucker Max starts a message board that has 70,000 members. Then half that board decides that they are ALSO Tucker Max. And that’s when the eye-rolling begins.
Don’t forget making all his pseudo-intellectual college pals mods who then go on power-trips and straight-up bully board members with that power.
Maddox was the Usenet and IRC era of the internet distilled to its purest essence. Angry, aggressive, needlessly vulgar, occasionally very funny, knew a lot about some things, and pretended to know a lot about things he didn't know very much about. Remember that this was a period where the largest mainstream tech/science website was in a constant battle to keep its users from tricking other users into looking at a man's prolapsed anus or a woman shitting on her own face. The world had already moved on by the time his book came out, and the fact that he's still doing that schtick is just sad.
It just needs more conveyor. DUH. YOU FUCKING MORON. BANNED... for that, and not believing in crystals. (I miss Savage Henry... one of the few grounded members over there.)
Weirdly, one of my proudest moments on the TMMB was when I made some some comment about/against/contrary to that fucknob who rode that motorcycle and didn't understand physics... can't remember... but Savage Hentry repped me with the comment "steel on target". That rep was the world. And one of the funniest threads was the one where SH, a military medic/nurse going into pre-med, tried to have a discussion with Bunny around her belief in crystal healing.
That stupid argument was one of my favorite wingman strategies. The problem is that the description of the scenario is ambiguous and a decent argument could be made for both sides under those assumptions. You approach a group of ladies and ask them to settle an argument, then you lay out the question and find out which side the lady your buddy fancies falls on. He takes her side, whichever it is, and you take the other. Now they're allies against your stupid ass and her guard is much lower than if he'd just walked up and said "Hi." Bonus points if one of her friends takes the opposite side.
Savage Henry was probably the best board member, period. The patience he had not to destroy her in that conversation was commendable. What honestly was his downfall back then was simply letting people see what he looks like. Once they saw he was some shaking little bald nerd—basically the framework of the people he made fun of— it was over. Don’t meet your heroes.
No idea, I haven’t talked to him in well over a decade. Of all the guys to come out with a book, his I enjoyed the most (and still do). It was the most relatable, the funniest and felt like a real author wrote it. I wish he put out more.
The best thing about him was he was the funniest writer out of every blogger on RMMB. The worst thing about him is he was friends with Bl1y. I just assumed PL drank himself to death.
You could be there in a screaming-hell agony because you absorbed an awful chemical into your skin, where the slightest contact can feel like a hammer. That kind of thing often happens with people in put in backyard pools— they hire young summer workers who don’t protect themselves against the wretched stuff that goes into their adhesives and next thing you know they’re in horrible burning pain. For MONTHS on end.