Man had I known this I probably wouldnt have hated the guy sooner. He really did embrace cancel culture back then. Getting cancelled couldnt have happened to a nicer guy.
Yeah, about that.
I will always give due time to making fun of someone like Ralph because the dude
perpetually asks for it. Even when he does something good or interesting, his own massive ego and incapacity to accept when he's wrong endlessly leads him down the path of lolcowdom, and he fucks up everything he comes into contact with. He's got the usual unholy combination of cow traits, where he's easy to offend, impossible to appease, and unable to read people in any capacity. By far the most lolcow-worthy thing he does is that he'll talk a good game about shit-talking someone who screwed him openly, then jump right back into bed with them with absolutely no self-awareness to help with whatever insane scheme jumps into his head, and that will never
not be entertaining to break down.
However, I can't help but notice that our boy Dunn in this thread doing a bit of a victory lap, and while I won't deny him that opportunity, it does offer us an interesting chance to compare and contrast, because in a few ways, they're quite similar, albeit with fundamental differences, so let's discuss that, because I personally find it very interesting.
Dunn got exiled from GG for many of the same reasons Ralph found himself unwelcome. He made excessive personal army requests, constantly went on the offensive when it was clear that the likes of KIA were
never going to go along with it, and kept dragging people around him into the shitstorm while constantly making god-awful, mockery-worthy takes like the one he made on Jim's show that now lives in infamy.
You can, at face value, argue that they're cut from the same cloth - but they're not, and the proof, as we say, is in the pudding, or in this case, in the response to their fuck-ups.
Ralph, when he fucked things up, escalated, conducting the most lolcow-worthy of all lolcow behaviors and triggering an
Autism C
ascade - an incident in which a cow fucks up, tries to bury or mitigate the fuck-up, and in the process, fucks up again, becoming effectively a self-sustaining nuclear reaction of failure and hilarity as they then try to bury or mitigate
that fuck-up. Usually a cow realizes that shit's not working around the second or third rotation, but Ralph didn't, and that's part of what makes him so entertaining.
Dunn, when he fucked up on Jim's show, did mostly the opposite. He took some time and reflected. Still did some lolcow behavior along the way (because of course he did), but he didn't double down on it like Ralph did. In so doing, he took that brave first step towards becoming less of or even not a Lolcow, and while he's still been lolcowing it up, indicating he's probably not going to master it the way a rare few have, the fact that he was able to do it at all means he may not be destined for the same fate as the Mighty Gunt.
Will it stick? Probably not, you're on the Farms. You've seen how this goes. But it's interesting to think about.