"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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There is a bizarre moment of psychedelic whimsy in the latest stream, in which Null fantasises about Ralph being exiled to Brazil, and then emerging from the Amazon years later like a fat Tarzan, with his face daubed in red paint, having been absorbed into one of the rain forest tribes.

I know that it's a joke, but I genuinely feel Ralph would be happier if he were to be released back into the wild. Watching his current death plummet, I am reminded of the end of King Kong, when Kong is chained-up in a New York theatre, and all the people who couldn't get tickets to see Hamilton have come to jeer at him. It's cruel to expect him to be able to grasp the complex social norms that will allow him to hold onto his money and not start fights with everyone. I honestly feel that we are one bi-plane squadron attack away from losing Ralph for good.

In the Amazon, Ralph could live as King Christ intended, as some kind of wild pig man. He could dine on enormous Sloth steaks, which are a very well-rested meat. One of his adopted tribe, who has travelled to the west, mastered Far Cry 3's crafting system and returned to the jungle with this knowledge, could make him a small man-bag from leaves or tapir hide. There would be plentiful frogs to lick.

You can't get felted in the jungle. That material rots in a humid environment. Even the card tables in the logger camps are probably just bare wood. US Family Services wont pursue you for child support if you hide out in the Amazon, which makes me wonder whether they really give a damn about children.

Eventually, Ralph would fall prey to several large families of pumas, who would all just kind of pile on top of him until he suffocated, or he would be devoured by a shoal of those terrifyingly huge fish that nobody knew anything about before River Monsters. It would be a short but happy life.

Above all, it would be the life that Jesus intended Ralph to lead.
 
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Least Concern said:
"NFTs let people make money off of artwork they don't own!", Sterling complains over screenshots of various '80s and '90s cartoons used without permission.
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yeah and he definitely owns the gay flag and the font used to type "the gays can do whatever they want" on the tshirt he sells

sometimes I wonder why he even got popular in the first place. I used to watch him and totalbiscuit but I think at this point maybe it was just the editing that was decent. His actual takes seem braindead and halfassed. I still like totalbiscuit though as I got back into planetside 2 lately and his critiques for the time was well and has been mostly fixed.
 
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Weeb Slinger said:
In the Amazon, Ralph could live as King Christ intended, as some kind of wild pig man. He could dine on enormous Sloth steaks, which are a very well-rested meat. One of his adopted tribe, who has travelled to the west, mastered Far Cry 3's crafting system and returned to the jungle with this knowledge, could make him a small man-bag from leaves or tapir hide.
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In the Wild/Amazon/Tribal Life, Ralph would be expected to contribute back to the Tribe in some manner in exchange for long-term support/survival. No, angry, alcoholic rants over his every perceived slight would not cover this.
 
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Tetra said:
sometimes I wonder why he even got popular in the first place. I used to watch him and totalbiscuit but I think at this point maybe it was just the editing that was decent. His actual takes seem braindead and halfassed. I still like totalbiscuit though as I got back into planetside 2 lately and his critiques for the time was well and has been mostly fixed.
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He had reasonable, principled stances against the decline of commercial video games. As he started losing those fights he also lost his mind.
 
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Tetra said:
sometimes I wonder why he even got popular in the first place.
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He actually had a quite pro-consumer stance where he rallied against a lot of the money-raking bullshit in modern games; loot boxes, gambling mechanics, pre-order bonuses, different "editions," etc. He also was quite critical nepotistic games journalism, echoing the same things GamerGaters were saying at the time (while also decrying us as racist misogynistic manchildren and so on). It was very easy to watch one of his videos and agree with almost every word said.

That reminds me, did that video actually have anything to do with video games? Or did he just rant about NFTs the whole way through with no connection to games whatsoever?
 
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That reminds me, did that video actually have anything to do with video games? Or did he just rant about NFTs the whole way through with no connection to games whatsoever?
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His justification is the article that gaming companies are beginning to consider using NFTs to join the new market. It's just "new thing bad" and "ea bad"
https://news.yahoo.com/ea-nft-based-gaming-important-195921541.html

I think maybe Jim never really thought about why exactly lootboxes were bad but were just angry companies he didn't like did them, if his response to NFTs is any indication.
 
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Great stream. A person stream about Lowtax was mentioned, and some of the stuff talked about that went on with Lowtax during his final years was pretty good, but I figured I'd lay down a timeline of the Divorce Saga: the final, fatal saga in Richard's life.

  • November 25, 2019: Richard says on Facebook that his second wife, Ashli, abruptly took their daughter and her pets and some other shit and left while he was out of town. Within days, it's revealed that he had left on a "business trip" which involved staying in a Utah hotel for like a month with a crazy woman called Logan Day.
    • Ashli had gone to a domestic violence shelter, and it was Richard's first wife who picked her up from Richard's mansion and took her there.
  • November 30, 2019: Richard brags about how much of a slam dunk his divorce is going to be and how his wife is going to get deported back to Canada and never see her daughter again.
    • Richard, who at this point barely lifted a finger to run Something Awful day to day, banned anyone who criticized his actions taken in his marital life, which he was all too happy to talk about as long as the listeners applauded him unconditionally. Richard's forum admins faithfully banned anyone talking about the divorce or cheating behavior and other shit, too.
  • December 1, 2019: Phone screenshots drop of a conversation between Richard and his 14-year-old daughter, Lauren, in which Richard swears at his own daughter because she doesn't like what's going on with Logan Day. Richard's contact name is "birth Giver" on Lauren's phone.
  • December 13, 2019: Richard files for divorce.
  • December 20, 2019: Richard shills Goldbelly, a site that sells outrageously overpriced food shipped to your door from various snooty establishments around the United States. Bagged pies quickly become a meme. Like, these are fucking $50 pies.
    • At this time, Lowtax is bringing in $10,000 per month via Patreon. He also shills NordVPN, because of course he does.
  • December 20, 2019: Richard starts up his Gaming Garbage youtube channel again, wherein he livestreams terrible indie games made by inexperienced lone developers and makes fun of them. His streams are generally very boring and the audience is small.
  • December 29, 2019: Richard gets involved in a fight with his userbase over the existence of the subforum known as FYAD (Fuck You And Die), the last remaining place on the site where people are allowed to be edgy. FYAD had been mocking a troon who had sprung a boner in a women's restroom, so the other troons wanted FYAD destroyed. Richard gives into the troons' demands.
  • December 31, 2019: Liveban Night. During his New Year's Eve livestream, Richard discovers that troons on his website are calling him a nazi. He turns off whatever shitty video game he's playing and logs onto his site, where he bans a bunch of people in front of his livestream audience while giggling drunkenly. Years ago, goons -- even many of the ones getting banned in such an event -- would have found this hilarious. Richard, having been unaware of cultural shifts on his now entirely pozzed website, faces a user revolt and is forced to retract the bans. His Patreon income begins to erode.
  • January 3, 2020: Richard eats peanut butter off a battery during a stream after someone donates $25 to see him do it.
  • January 15, 2020: Over the course of the Gaming Garbage streams, Logan Day becomes increasingly involved with modding. She also talks about how much she loves Richard. BPD shit, basically.
  • January 17, 2020: Logan stumbles drunkenly by in the middle of one of Richard's streams.
  • January 17, 2020: Richard reports a parental kidnapping to the Lee's Summit Police Department.
  • January 21, 2020: Ashli posts a gofundme requesting money for legal assistance in her divorce. The Something Awful mods soon dutifully remove it from view, to protect Richard from the possibility of his wife having legal representation in the divorce.
  • January 21, 2020: The police get ahold of Ashli, who's still in the DV shelter. After talking to her, and to Richard's first wife, the police end their investigation without taking action.
    • ...except to help Ashli get in touch with a legal aid nonprofit, which soon sets her up with a lawyer who represents her against Richard in the divorce. Yes, the cops literally went to bat for Ashli against Richard.
  • January 25, 2020: Logan Day shows up on Something Awful and denies being in a relationship with Richard; she's just his business partner. Richard very angrily defends her from all detractors.
    • Richard and Logan also announce a bold new plan to rebrand the site by revitalizing the front page with new articles. These are to be written by independent contractors who will be paid $50 per article, after a 2-month grace period during which they are paid $0 per article. Richard defends this as a great deal for the contractors.
  • January 30, 2020: Richard brags about getting Ashli's "fraudulent" Gofundme taken down. Many SA goons applaud him.
  • February 11, 2020: Richard starts a new direction for his stream, wherein he just watches a shitty video or movie and mumbles commentary that he hopes is funny. He also attempts a hee-larious jumpscare. I made a gif of it.
  • March 25, 2020: Richard, who has been frequently posting that he will be "vindicated" in his divorce, posts a photo of his daughter in his home during a temporary visitation, and calls it "vindication." "Vindication" becomes a meme that follows him right to the grave.
  • (roughly) March 28, 2020: Richard starts uploading Shmorky's old videos to his Youtube channel to generate more click money.
  • May 4, 2020: Amid various posts by Logan making it very obvious that she's staying at Richard's house, she's made an admin on Something Awful.
    • It's later said that she was around to help him recover from complications arising from the surgeries on his decaying vertebrae.
  • May 14, 2020: The court appoints Dana Outlaw as a guardian ad litem for Richard's daughter. Dana Outlaw is an experienced and influential attorney whose responsibility as GAL in this case is to represent Richard's daughter's best interests. The fees for this job are fucking immense.
  • June 17, 2020: Logan Day is fucking disgusting.

June 2020 is when Richard sees his own userbase rise up against him and force him out of his community, taking away all his income. Notably, he had no savings nor any real assets; his mansion and sports car were both rented. He also had enormous debts for unpaid income taxes.

  • June 22, 2020: Logan Day posts on Facebook about a domestic violence incident that she just fled from. Her story is quickly corroborated by crime report info publicly available on LexisNexis. She deletes it within an hour.
  • June 23, 2020: Logan Day registers an account on this site, under username "Mormon BPD Cokewhore," with a rambling pretend-disinterested explanation about what happened and how it's actually all okay. The account is quickly verified as it was registered using an @somethingawful.com email address. "Sweaty toes" becomes a meme.
  • June 23, 2020: Four hours later, Logan Day posts on Facebook that she got domestically violenced yet again, and begins to publicly shit all over Richard. Users of Something Awful rise in open revolt against Richard. The mods join in, banning anybody who defends him.
  • June 24, 2020: One of Something Awful’s few remaining front page writers posts an article putting Richard on blast as a domestic abuser and telling everybody to stop giving him money immediately.
  • June 24, 2020: Jeffrey of YOSPOS, Something Awful's head admin and programmer and apparently a bitcoin millionaire or something, says he'll buy the site if it's for sale.
  • June 24, 2020: Logan posts another desperate, pleading apology.
  • June 24, 2020: Something Awful goons suddenly discover all the crazy shit that was coming up during Richard's divorce, which they had absolutely no idea about before despite being talked about over here for months.
  • June 25, 2020: Something Awful's admins put up notices to prepare to evacuate the site if they can't oust Richard somehow.
  • June 26, 2020: Logan returns to Utah and denounces Richard as an evil abuser.
  • June 27, 2020: Goons claim that they couldn't possibly know that Richard was an abusive piece of shit, because the information about it was posted here and nothing posted here is true.
  • June 27, 2020 (approx): Richard posts a lengthy video defense of his actions. He also continually defends himself on SA itself. He keeps defending his actions everywhere he still posts on the internet, for the rest of his life. He never admits any wrongdoing.
  • June 27, 2020: Logan Day posts a photo of Richard sniffing her foot. This is later removed and anyone posting it is banned from Something Awful, because it's revenge porn of Logan Day.
  • June 30, 2020: One of the Something Awful volunteer staff posts a front page article titled "Dear Furries: We Were Wrong." It's a sincere apology to furries for being so mean to them. Upon discovering it, Richard edits it out of existence and calls it an embarrassment.
  • Sometime during July 2020: Jeffrey of YOSPOS closes Something Awful's store, cutting off Richard's remaining revenue stream. As the site's programmer, he has more control over Something Awful than its owner. Particularly because Richard is so spineless, figuratively as well as literally.

After this, Richard begins to rapidly fade into obscurity. He continues to do the Gaming Garbage streams, but he's lucky to bring in 50 viewers.
  • July 2, 2020: Logan Day tells us about Richard’s dick and balls.
  • July 17, 2020: Null has a conversation with Logan Day.
  • (roughly) August 20, 2020: Richard leaves his daughter with his mom, so he can stream and get wasted. Dana Outlaw finds out and files a restraining order against him on behalf of his daughter; the order is swiftly granted. Richard cries about it on Facebook.
    • As the case goes on, Dana Outlaw continues to ream Richard's ass in various filings and also has the court order him to pay her a shitload of money for the billable hours spent reaming his ass. Do not fuck with Dana Outlaw.
  • September 18, 2020: It's revealed that since Ashli left Richard's home, Richard has managed to spend $15,000 on mobile gacha games.
  • October 9, 2020: It is announced that Richard has officially sold Something Awful to his head admin. Later it's discovered that the sale price was $450,000. At one point Richard claimed to have been offered $13 million for the site back in 2006, but he refused.
  • October 10, 2020: Lowtax's first and second wife take a photo together, holding up a "CONGRATS JEFFREY" sign while sipping Richard's favorite brand of wine. They're also barefoot, because Richard is a foot fetishist. When Richard sees their photo, he whines about it on Facebook.
  • March 18, 2021: The first day of the divorce trial occurs. Yes, it took this fucking long to get to the first day of trial.
  • March 23, 2021: Richard is ceremonially permabanned from Something Awful. Skyl3lazer, some goon who donated the most to Jeffrey of YOSPOS's new vision for Something Awful, is given the privilege of dropping the banhammer.
  • April 20, 2021: On Hitler's birthday, a motion is filed to get hold of some of the proceeds from the sale of SA and hold them in trust while the divorce is worked out. Richard complains in multiple places, including on stream, that Ashli is trying to get some of the money he received for selling SA, despite him claiming that she never participated in the business.
  • April 21, 2021: Dana Outlaw garnishes Richard's bank account because he forgot to pay the fees he owed her.
  • May 2, 2021: Richard does (and then deletes) a stream where he rants about all kinds of shit regarding his divorce, and goons, and Kiwi Farms, and how he's starting a new website called Internet Dropouts. internetdropouts.com is discovered to exist and to be an empty, shitty wordpress blog, and he hides it after people start making fun of it.
  • August 24, 2021: Second day of the divorce trial.
  • November 9, 2021: A judgment is filed in Richard's divorce.
    • The court found that Richard's treatment of Ashli was domestic violence.
    • The court found that Richard squandered the marital estate.
    • The court ordered Richard to pay the remaining $92,000 of what was received in the sale of SA, which the lawyers had been holding onto. Richard had squandered the rest, managing to spend $400,000 over the course of a year.
    • The court ordered Richard to pay $6500 per month in spousal support for 2.5 years, plus $350 per month in child support.
    • The court ordered Richard to pay $25,000 in attorney's fees plus GAL fees.
    • There was a shared custody arrangement, according to Ashli, in which Richard would get at least some of the time with his daughter.
    • Not long after the judgment is filed, Richard commits suicide.

Left out is the tranny hooker scandal from a few months ago and his gradually worsening physical appearance on his streams and idfk what else.
 
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