That's not against the grain. Everyone knows Spoony's better off being taken care of like an invalid sped by his family if he's not going to provide for himself.
Oh I agree, the main reason he got so slovenly and lost his audience is because he needs someone to boot him into getting back to work. Even though this won't lead to Spoony's comeback, he'll be better off in the long run.
Back in the day he was mostly known for videos, where his shitty character wasn't so evident and any drama of him banning people on his forum was limited to that forum. However, when he switched to streaming, he had no way of hiding it and it quickly became obvious what a giant douche he is.
The Forum banning was usually Scarlett's doing. He would hide behind her and other mods, usually justifying their doing in the process. Also his V-logs were made to show him as humble and flawed person, often with excuses why he isn't making videos at the moment. I remember that in one of his videos he said he was suffering writer's block, and he was making videos for few years at that point, less then 5 years.
No, his Patreon was doing well. It was just "here is some content before I make another video", so people wouldn't think that he is dead.
For the fuck of it, because you can't be bothered to take 5 minutes out of your day to verify shit.
He could have just used the internet to live out those fantasies anonymously. Instead he did it irl. A common theme among people spoonys age I've noticed is they always make their lives worse by not using the internet properly. On an everyday level I mean, not lolcow level.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while, though. I stand by those two examples that he was in the right in. I won't defend anything else.
Definitely. People not seeing the pattern in his videos, especially regarding counter monkey is pretty strange at this point. Almost every video that isn't just him flipping through a book he probably never used, is either a story about how correct he is and everyone else is just dumb, or it's some rant about the "proper" way to play according to spoony. Beforce virtual tabletops became so prominent(fantasy grounds, roll20, etc.) it would have been fairly simple to basically burn through all of his local groups in just a few years as people find out he's "that guy". And we know full well by the time he was in Illinois he was basically a shut-in.
For the most part, yeah. This actually reminds me of an interesting variant of "that guy" I've known for a while. Dude joins a new game, and it either falls apart after a few sessions(a lot of games do) or he drops out after a few sessions with some reason or excuse("I don't get the system", never bothered to read the rules, won't collaborate with other players, doesn't like when the DM deviates from whatever his expectation is, etc.) Outside of TTRPGs? Perfectly OK to hang around with. At the gaming table? It's basically a disaster waiting to happen, and when he moved out of state found a local game store and tried joining gaming groups there he's still bouncing after a handful of sessions, has the same complaints, etc. The reason I mention this individual, is that like spoony he doesn't seem to actually be self aware of what's going on. Somehow it's everyone else that is always the problem in a TTRPG.
Back to spoony and his stories, I have similar doubts but mine might be for a different reason. The DMSO squirtgun wars in Shadowrun and trying to bomb a vampire LARP over being mad/upset about factions, and the DM, etc? I'm 90% certain I heard stories incredibly similar to these before I ever heard about ol' spoony when he was popular. I wouldn't be surprised if he took some other people's stories from forums/newsgroups/etc. and poached interesting details to fill in his own bland experiences.
No, I agree with you. Every time he brings up a good point, he immediately turns around and shits all over anyone else who tries to go along with it. As I said, his playing a non-Jedi in an all Jedi game is a prime example. Spoony has always struck me as the "alpha nerd," the guy who was slightly better looking and cooler than the other people he hung out with, but it's a matter of degree, like being the smartest kid with Downs syndrome. As soon as he was exposed to the internet at large, he became a small fish in a big pond, and he couldn't handle that.
No, they had it coming. They didn't warn him about playing a Carthian, for starters, which is basic courtesy if you're going to be trucking with a chapter you're not familiar with. There's not sucking your cock and there's "Hey look, an outsider, let's strip his agency completely and make it nothing but a torture porn he can do nothing but suffer in."
They ruined the game for him, however. Again, assuming it went down as he said, he was giving them a taste of their own medicine.
It's the best option for Spoony, but dear lord his poor family. At least his parents might enforce some hygene.
Does anyone know how old his parents are? I know he has two siblings a decade older than him, so assuming they were in their 30s when they had him they'd be in their 70s by now.
That's a sad thought. Hopefully it's split evenly between his other siblings, so he can't just wallow in his parents' house and turn it into a hovel as well.
