Well, after reading most of the pages here and not bothering with the site he created for obvious reasons, I'm kinda left a bit conflicted on Rich finally doing what I figured he would do far sooner. It doesn't take someone like
@Dyn to presage what anyone who has been on a SASS iteration over the years to know. It's been a pretty wild ride, if you want my opinion.
1000 dollar chairs, GTR's, McMansions. All paid for by simpering sycophants who are mostly gone, and the remainder or his forum gravedance resolutely for internet clout that was roundly mocked initially. But this is nothing new for goonery.
The dude set up a total gravy train of morons. He was completely Madison Avenue style. Someone upthread mentioned national lampoon. He captured that sense and packaged it in internet form at the time when print media began to show cracks, a time when you could really do something like that. The censors and govt watchers hadn't descended on the internet as much, because the price of admission was still pretty high back then. So PC (or mac if you were a fag with funds) plus the modem, plus the sub cost, then the 10 bux.
He could be funny. Recently he wasn't, but he tried. I met him a very long time ago, and he seemed weird, but not a bad guy, no overtones or undercurrents, just an offbeat guy.
After spending years on SASS and it's clones, we all knew this was how it would end. When you stopped caring, the forums ran down. We've had a fun time shitting on you, and the last few years, you've given all of us our own vindication, even if some of us never wanted it, and others wanted to burn your nuts off with acid jets and cave your head in with volcanic bombs.
Also, never stick your dick or enfold one in crazy kids. The world is becoming weirder.
A far as his kids go, I barely have anything to say other than best hopes for them. Bad way to grow up.
