A New Record!

[zer0]

Most users online ever: 138 today!

Wow; that's more than we've ever had before, even when I published that piece making fun of Maddox and (the) Gord! We've got to start poking fun at Republicans more often! It may just lead to people actually reading our site, even if it's just so they can prove their lack of intelligence on our forums! Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

[Brent]

Hey, do you want me to move this to the General NA!P thread or did you mean for it to be here?

[zer0]

Whoops! You go ahead and move it! Damn fancy forum with its plethora of fancy posting options! Arrrr!

[Barcode]

Most users online ever: 138 today!

Wow; that's more than we've ever had before, even when I published that piece making fun of Maddox and (the) Gord!
Maddox? Make fun of? Piece?
Hook me up with a link, yo!

[zer0]

Try this (http://www.noapologiespress.com/zer0comics/self1.htm) one on for size.

I'm particularly fond of how I, via the two gag-appendixes at the end, manage to demonstrate how Maddox' entire fanbase is made up mostly of hate-filled adolescents without any opinion of their own, who delight in attacking complete strangers just because they dare to think differently. Or because they dare to actually *think*.

I'm also pretty darn proud of (as the appendix revealing the gag says) finally having been able to demonstrate just how full of himself Maddox actually is and just how seriously both he and his fans tend to take his supposedly "fictional" opinions. Makes a man proud to be alive.

Also, whoa. Brent offered to move this thread ages ago and it hasn't been done yet. I actually posted it so long ago that I'd completely forgotten about it even existing in the first place.

Wow.

[Nikkoru]

Maddox's hatemail section and some of his articles are kind of funny - but his hatemail is no doubt selected from a large field of people - including people with actual legitment concerns and arguments that he completely ignores, and over time his articles all kind of blur together into a predictable almost mad-lib style of writing. I don't blame him for wanting himself to look good to complete strangers... but it does kind of show a bit of complex.

I visited Gord's website a few months ago - well, actually the person who was avoiding work next to me did and I just read along. Working for an actual video game store makes me not give a damn about his complaints, it's just products were supposed to sell, it's not a the quest for the holy grail nor a sacred right. He seems to get a enormous power trip from it, I haven't a clue as to why.

[Barcode]

I can understand some of Maddox's points, but the over-the-top self-aggrandizement doesn't appeal to me.
Although sometimes, just sometimes, I find that one Maddox article that really makes sense and despite its crude wording, gets a good point across.
Vegetarians and saving the animals (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=grill)

[Nikkoru]

He can be as egotistical as he likes - listening to people complain about things they don't like is in particulairly repetitive, especially considering EVERYONE DOES THAT - all the damn time. In real life and on the internet, It begins to lose it's cleverness.

[Barcode]

I can understand.
Reading some of the more serious articles (ones with sources and more fact than opinion, a real-life example would be hardware comparison), though, for some reason I feel I can connect with Maddox.
PS: What exactly ws the final result of the joke? It is revealed that Maddox doesn't take his site/opinions seriously, correct?

[Nikkoru]

I can understand.
Reading some of the more serious articles (ones with sources and more fact than opinion, a real-life example would be hardware comparison), though, for some reason I feel I can connect with Maddox.
PS: What exactly ws the final result of the joke? It is revealed that Maddox doesn't take his site/opinions seriously, correct?

He claims it is satire, however I doubt he truly believes that - it's a sheild from actual criticism.


I can understand some of Maddox's points, but the over-the-top self-aggrandizement doesn't appeal to me.
Although sometimes, just sometimes, I find that one Maddox article that really makes sense and despite its crude wording, gets a good point across.
Vegetarians and saving the animals (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=grill)


The problem with his anti-vegan argument can be found more or less entirally in his conclusion.

'Then some of you throw out claims that "we are trying to limit the suffering." How about you limit MY suffering and shut the hell up about your stupid diet for a change; nobody cares. Even if the number of animals that die in combine deaths every year isn't in the millions, even if it's just one, are you suggesting that the life of one baby rabbit isn't worth saving? Are you placing a value on life? Enjoy your tofu, murderers.'

This is really the basis of his opinion - he's tired of hearing what the viewpoint of those who think differently from him so he selectively chooses sources to try and argue against them - and in the end falls back on the "You're annoying and I'm right" side of things.

Of course farming is going to kill local animals - It always has - but so does killing animals outright, you just add one on top of the other, since it's not like only vegans eat vegitable and grain products, in this you find the fallacy of the argument. Basically his general thesis is they are wrong for caring - he doesn't care and is thus removed and above the argument it's self.

If he wants to argue that we shouldn't eat any of the products which come from those particular plants than he would be providing a constructive argument, however it would be unreasonable to do so considering that's where we get most of our energy from.

He then procedes the find the most radical view on the opposite side of the argument he established to make fun of them, thus making him look better and not really arguing the point besides the arguments he invented.

The most ideal solution would be to use simplistic practical methods to wards off such small animals and thus prevent them harm - something most farmers won't do because they don't care and it will cost them money, but that's just my view.

By the way, I don't eat much in the way of meat mostly because I can't digest it - but I'm not a vegitarian.

[zer0]

PS: What exactly ws the final result of the joke? It is revealed that Maddox doesn't take his site/opinions seriously, correct?

Nah, that he's full of himself and that he takes his own opinions too seriously. Also, that his fans do. To the point of pouring pure hatred over an individual they've never even met. Says a lot about what kinda fans would take his opinions seriously in the first place. Those who really like hating things, that is. And those who are, oh, about 14 years old or so.

I agree with most of the things written written above. Very well said. The problem is that one can only use the formula "X is shitty, therefore I point out that X is shitty and I am always right" a limited time before it gets old after a bit. Like it has now. If you read a lot of Maddox' stuff, it all starts to take on the same flavor after a while. Much like cereal gone bad. Writing a lot of shitty articles about modern pop culture didn't help his site either. What the hell do I care about MTV:s "Trippin'"? Just writing about it in the first place shows that he obviously likes it enough to sit through a whole episode, which makes him the opposite of "radical" and "counter-culture alternative". Bleh.

[Brent]

See, I moved the thread!

(Actually, thought I'd done so long ago. Guess it didn't take.)

Maddox makes me laugh, but I only read it once in a while.

Gord bores me. Absolutely and completely.

[zer0]

See, I moved the thread!

(Actually, thought I'd done so long ago. Guess it didn't take.)

Hey, relax, I was only kidding before! You could have left it where it was if you'd wanted to, seriously. No big deal! :)

Gord bores me too. I fail to see the humor in bragging about beating up small children and throwing them into brick walls and vans. Maybe I'm just different somehow.

Also, that video of those guys imitating BSB which you posted the other day was hilarious. I forgot to say so at the start of the thread, but I'm making up for that by saying it now instead! So, yeah, a funny find, sir!

[Nikkoru]

Writing a lot of shitty articles about modern pop culture didn't help his site either. What the hell do I care about MTV:s "Trippin'"? Just writing about it in the first place shows that he obviously likes it enough to sit through a whole episode, which makes him the opposite of "radical" and "counter-culture alternative". Bleh.

At some point in the near future, if not now - there is going to be so much supposed counter-culture that it'll be the new
culture - and embracing culture will become the new counter-culture.

Acting like everything "sucks" is easy, actually showing interests in things results in mocking from others.

[Barcode]

Understood.
On a semi-related note, I've made the first ever Ninja Burger forum comic. It's up at Pirate Pizza.
Please don't kill me.

[Nikkoru]

You do realize there are two comics already based on Ninja Burger don't you?

[zer0]

Stick figure comics, w00t!

[Barcode]

Fixed that, meant to say Ninja Burger forum comic....
Could I be directed to the other two (if one of them includes the Shinku San one, then just the other one)?

[Nikkoru]

I was referring to Recca and Rocco's comics - they're on the NB site.

[Barcode]

Oh.
I meant comics about the Ninja Burger forum.
Never mind, then-I edited my post after I read your first one after mine (I meant the forum).
So, uh...this discussion kind of petered out....

[zer0]

So, uh...this discussion kind of petered out....

Heh, don't worry about it. Happens all the time around here. :)

[furryjonny]

You ought to make a pirate pizza one with you and Pon, with PoN submitting his own phrases and you likewise, that might be quite funny on acount of the fact that you guys are so damn different.


I smell a sitcom!

[Barcode]

-Family Guy
It's an interesting prospect. I'll try it out sometime.