|
tucker max cinematic blogosphere
|
# ? Nov 6, 2020 23:33 |
|
|
# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:29 |
|
well there's a snype i will not sully with an edit
|
# ? Nov 6, 2020 23:33 |
|
I don't think Tucker Max and tardblog would be very well liked today. Maybe some sad keyboard warriors would defend those sites because THE PC POLICE IS BANNING ALL HUMOUR AND JOKES
|
# ? Nov 6, 2020 23:36 |
|
The fact that guys like Maddox and Tucker Max have virtually no cache today even though they had huge reader bases in their day speaks to their initial poor quality
|
# ? Nov 6, 2020 23:38 |
|
yeah even back when i read tucker when i was in high school and laughing at what a badass he was, i remember thinking "this guy cant write for poo poo", like in terms of show/tell etc it was just pure garbage writing and you were basically forced to recreate the story in your mind from the lovely prose iirc in one of them he switches first/third person narrator, there's mixups with names, its just all very babbys first creative writing class
|
# ? Nov 7, 2020 00:06 |
|
he ghostwrote tiffany haddish's memoir. for a while he didn't have a website but it's back now and I guess he's running a podcast? https://www.tuckermax.com/ the fucker never paid me for the editing i did for his lovely little blog ring. but there was at least one good writer, Gaijin Smash, about a big african-american dude's life in Japan. we setup a letter exchange between our schools, he was a really cool fellow. Wonder what he's been doing lately? https://gaijinsmashnet.wordpress.com/
|
# ? Nov 7, 2020 00:43 |
|
PHIZ KALIFA posted:he ghostwrote tiffany haddish's memoir. for a while he didn't have a website but it's back now and I guess he's running a podcast? https://www.tuckermax.com/ the fucker never paid me for the editing i did for his lovely little blog ring. but there was at least one good writer, Gaijin Smash, about a big african-american dude's life in Japan. we setup a letter exchange between our schools, he was a really cool fellow. Wonder what he's been doing lately? https://gaijinsmashnet.wordpress.com/ ahaha gently caress sorry man i didnt know you copy edited tucker max that wasnt a call out to you specificially. fwiw im referring to the quality of the writing around the year 2000, maybe up to '02 at the latest e: wait why does tucker max get hired to ghostwrite a story when none of his stuff actually sells? (oh nevermind) Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 02:11 on Nov 7, 2020 |
# ? Nov 7, 2020 01:45 |
|
I remember Gaijinsmash being pretty decent.
|
# ? Nov 7, 2020 02:09 |
|
DreadUnknown posted:I remember Gaijinsmash being pretty decent. This is exactly who I thought of, too. I wonder what that dude's up to now. I found a blog entry from 2016 that said he's still in Japan but not as a teacher.
|
# ? Nov 7, 2020 03:20 |
|
For some reason, this reminded me Blue Apron Blues.
|
# ? Nov 7, 2020 07:45 |
|
Does anyone else remember a site called whatever-dude.com or similar from around 2001-2003? I seem to remember having a few laughs there, and I think it was Maddoxish or goonish critique of pop culture and society.
|
# ? Nov 7, 2020 13:23 |
|
If you like early internet weirdos, you need to listen to the 100th episode of the F Plus. https://thefpl.us/episode/100a https://thefpl.us/episode/100b There’s even a read from an old SA-Mart thread at the end. The Uli section is the best. He’s my favorite internet weirdo, just a nice guy whose brain works in ways that I can’t comprehend.
|
# ? Nov 7, 2020 20:26 |
|
Ugly In The Morning posted:The Uli section is the best. He’s my favorite internet weirdo, just a nice guy whose brain works in ways that I can’t comprehend. He's always been my favorite. All the updates from him have been really positive too, everything from holding down a job to getting over his feat of "blue water" (and becoming an avid swimmer in the process).
|
# ? Nov 8, 2020 03:42 |
|
Riatsala posted:He's always been my favorite. All the updates from him have been really positive too, everything from holding down a job to getting over his feat of "blue water" (and becoming an avid swimmer in the process). And he’s actually done his projects instead of just talking about half-baked ideas like the Dozerfleet guy. Yeah, his novels are deeply... whatever is going on with his brain... but they’re finished and it’s really interesting seeing a perspective so different from nearly anyone else’s. He’s also better at verbalizing it than one of my other favorite internet weirdos, the hydrostatic weighing kid. You know the one. quote:
That one started in either the IGN message boards in 2007 or LUE on GameFAQS around 04 or so. I think the LUE origin is correct, since I remember reading it in high school so 07 would be too late, but memory is imperfect soooo
|
# ? Nov 8, 2020 04:10 |
|
Ahhh Dozerfleet is such a weird dude. Enjoy this weird rabbithole. So weird that FPlus did not one, but two separate episodes on him. Part 1 Part 2 Enjoy!
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 00:48 |
|
E:always double check your bookmarks didn’t refresh while you were clicking a thread before replying, kids!
Ugly In The Morning has a new favorite as of 16:40 on Nov 9, 2020 |
# ? Nov 9, 2020 01:20 |
|
Pastry of the Year posted:I kinda remember something from a very long time ago, but I don't know how to go about finding it again. It was a series of posts on, I think, blogger.com or one of those free, super-easy blog hosting sites, and it presented itself as (I think) some sort of series of rules expansions for the old TSR Marvel Super-Heroes RPG, but every post very quickly went off the rails and the author went from talking about Galactus to trying to apply MSH RPG rules to every aspect of what seemed to be a very strange and troubled life. This was HYBRID RPG https://web.archive.org/web/20030213163300/http://perso.wanadoo.fr/philippe.tromeur/hybrid.htm Unfortunately like a lot of early internet weirdness when you look back at it now it reads a lot more like untreated schizophrenia which is way less funny than it was at the time. Also: https://hybrid-rpg.blogspot.com/
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 02:22 |
|
DreadUnknown posted:Ahhh Dozerfleet is such a weird dude. The Dozerfleet stuff fascinates me. Every time I look at it I find new depths that are somehow simultaneously both weirder and more boring than the last. I think it's the fact that he writes millions of words and spends so much time cataloguing every inane thought, yet he clearly has absolutely zero imagination - which is why all his characters are the pens on his desk, stuffed toys he's seen, or triangles he drew once, and why every story is just a mouthpiece for his racism/misogyny/repressed religious beliefs - hence the "comic" about sentient bicycles that instantly turns into a rant about feminism, communism, and arabs. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 15:01 on Nov 9, 2020 |
# ? Nov 9, 2020 13:05 |
|
Ugly In The Morning posted:Today I finally got what I’ve been trying to do for the past seven years and I moved back to MA, but it has me intensely bummed because it involves leaving behind most of my friends for a while since visiting either way with the pandemic going on ain’t happening. I’m in an extended stay with poo poo internet until I can find an apartment, which is hard with people not wanting to show places with the pandemic. I’m starting a job tomorrow that I’m anxious about because even though it’s in a field where I’m pretty good at my job (safety), it’s a completely different setting (I did it at a power plant that was being built and spun up. This is a warehouse) so I feel like I’m going in not knowing what’s going on. I don't know what to say, so I'll just say this: I hear you.
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 14:12 |
|
In the early days of anonymous slashdot posting there was the “Natalie portman naked and petrified” meme that ran around. The dude that started that had a legit statue fetish, it was very weird.
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 14:59 |
|
xiw posted:This was HYBRID RPG Thanks for remembering / finding this. I never really thought it was funny (although certain chunks of it are, unintentionally, like a discussion of Xena and Hercules somehow digressing into a discussion of... Louisiana sodomy laws) as much as it was really interesting. Like, this fellow has consumed and committed to memory (with varying degrees of accuracy) just an astonishing amount of popular culture and RPG rulebooks and flows between dozens of examples that have no apparent relationship to each other in order to more fully explain a "rule" he introduced but did not completely clarify. And then there will be a brownie recipe. That's all re: the first link, which is what I remember reading. That second link, which is still being updated, doesn't feel at all like that, and were it not for the name and the fixed-width font, I wouldn't have any reason to believe it's the same person. Pastry of the Year has a new favorite as of 15:54 on Nov 9, 2020 |
# ? Nov 9, 2020 15:51 |
|
gleebster posted:I don't know what to say, so I'll just say this: I hear you. Wrong thread! I thought I had the reason your day sucked thread.
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 16:02 |
|
In the early 90s, when Doom wads were the biggest thing on the net, George J. Fiffy II, otherwise known as "King ReoL", was deeply embedded in the modding scene. He was best known for his REoL TOUGH series of maps, which were rudimentary at best. While he did turn out a handful of "good for the early 90s" maps, he never really figured out Anyway, just making bad Doom maps isn't that big a deal. Lots of people did that. What makes George notable was the way he presented those maps, with crazy person descriptions, and his website, which included such gems as this post from September 2nd, 2001. (lol old SA ruled) quote:What a terrible thing to happen, at a not so great time, not that any time is. The other thing that made George notable was that when he finally stopped making Doom wads he moved on to his second great interest - reviewing elevators and escalators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4uZ-VvfUUE There have been some posts about him on SA, as you might expect. This one is from 2016. I guess given his continued online presence this guy isn't just an early internet weirdo, he's an always internet weirdo.
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 16:03 |
|
Two that stick with me is the lady who allegedly lived in a tarp tent near some road, claimed to be a super genius and spent all day naked, masturbating and writing code. She posted fairly convincing photos of the situation but she was insufferable and clearly suffering from a potpourri of mental issues. The other is the woman who made daily vlogs about how she and her mom had their lives saved by Hugh Jackman. Every day was a new adventure!
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 19:49 |
|
Jennifer Diane Reitz. I’m mobile posting so I’m unable to post the comic that most folks probably know her by (“do you know what my kokoro wish is?”) but quite notably waaaaaaay back in the day owned the site that what was once THE resource for anime info in the late 90s/early 00s (I’m blanking on the name). She sold the site for a ridiculous amount for the time period, potentially a quarter-million, but turned around and spent it frivolously on anime merch, which back then had to be imported at high cost. Also notable for being at first an early resource, then one to avoid, for transwomen (because she was and probably still is a transmedicalist, meaning she believes you MUST have surgery and be on hormones to be trans - this is way outdated and gatekeepy).
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 20:19 |
|
SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Jennifer Diane Reitz. I’m mobile posting so I’m unable to post the comic that most folks probably know her by (“do you know what my kokoro wish is?”) but quite notably waaaaaaay back in the day owned the site that what was once THE resource for anime info in the late 90s/early 00s (I’m blanking on the name). She sold the site for a ridiculous amount for the time period, potentially a quarter-million, but turned around and spent it frivolously on anime merch, which back then had to be imported at high cost. It was HappyPuppy, a website I used to go to for demos and FAQs back when the web was new. I was pretty surprised to hear what had happened to it, to say the least.
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 20:34 |
|
Inzombiac posted:Two that stick with me is the lady who allegedly lived in a tarp tent near some road, claimed to be a super genius and spent all day naked, masturbating and writing code. Faye Kane was the name.
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 21:06 |
|
I wonder what happened to stileproject.
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 23:12 |
|
Sweevo posted:The Dozerfleet stuff fascinates me. Every time I look at it I find new depths that are somehow simultaneously both weirder and more boring than the last. Yeah it kind of boggles my mind how one person can poo poo out so many incredibly uninspired concepts, honestly I wish I had that level of creative output.
|
# ? Nov 9, 2020 23:41 |
|
Ugly In The Morning posted:Faye Kane was the name. Didn't she also get gang-banged on the reg by a weird group of people living in a nearby cabin?
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 00:12 |
|
Teenage nerd journal-writer and POE favorite Ben Schumin is now adult nerd journal-writer Ben Schumin. He’s still writing, and he’s still the world’s biggest fan of Today’s Special.
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 00:31 |
|
hanales posted:In the early days of anonymous slashdot posting there was the “Natalie portman naked and petrified” meme that ran around. The dude that started that had a legit statue fetish, it was very weird. that guy's in the OP, and remembering he existed is why i made this thread lmao
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 01:04 |
|
WeedlordGoku69 posted:that guy's in the OP, and remembering he existed is why i made this thread lmao Ha! I missed that. That dude was part of a slashdot troll club. I probably have a picture of him somewhere.
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 04:52 |
|
echopapa posted:Teenage nerd journal-writer and POE favorite Ben Schumin is now adult nerd journal-writer Ben Schumin. He’s still writing, and he’s still the world’s biggest fan of Today’s Special. I love that he is now a train driver and has a partner and hobbies and is getting his health together
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 07:27 |
|
Ugly In The Morning posted:Faye Kane was the name. I was coming here to post about this one. It was almost certainly wank fetish fiction, but the story was that she endured a lifetime of sexual abuse, leaving her with a constant urge to bate and with an all-encompassing rape fetish. It's been nearly twenty years since i read her blog so I'm doing some paraphrasing, but she felt as though being an "autistic gently caress pig" was her sole defining characteristic and eventually she became unable to function in her high- paying computer toucher job and in society as a whole. She dug herself a pit on a highway median strip somewhere in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia (iirc), lined it with tarps and blankets, and covered it over with additional tarps and brush. She siphoned electricity from a solar powered highway sign, enough to apparently run an air conditioner, a pc, and like a toaster oven. She built the ultimate loving goon lair and just chilled in it for free, constantly grinding her pud into a paste and being online. The story sticks with me because her existence, though fabricated, was idyllic and i still strive for some version of her lifestyle
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 08:23 |
|
The fact that she's named "Faye Kane" should be the giveaway that it's fictional
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 08:30 |
|
SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Jennifer Diane Reitz. I’m mobile posting so I’m unable to post the comic that most folks probably know her by (“do you know what my kokoro wish is?”) but quite notably waaaaaaay back in the day owned the site that what was once THE resource for anime info in the late 90s/early 00s (I’m blanking on the name). She sold the site for a ridiculous amount for the time period, potentially a quarter-million, but turned around and spent it frivolously on anime merch, which back then had to be imported at high cost. That's who I came here to post. I think happypuppy was, by some metric, the most visited site on the internet in the mid 90s. I thought it was pretty cool when I was 8. Kudos to her for living the dream and using her dotcom millionaire money to buy a mountain of imported anime swag instead of launching a lovely business empire.
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 13:02 |
|
SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Also notable for being at first an early resource, then one to avoid, for transwomen (because she was and probably still is a transmedicalist, meaning she believes you MUST have surgery and be on hormones to be trans - this is way outdated and gatekeepy).
|
# ? Nov 10, 2020 18:18 |
|
I've heard stories about that horrible test- rotating shapes in your head is a big determinant for if you're trans, apparently
|
# ? Nov 11, 2020 04:56 |
|
|
# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:29 |
|
SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Jennifer Diane Reitz. I’m mobile posting so I’m unable to post the comic that most folks probably know her by (“do you know what my kokoro wish is?”) but quite notably waaaaaaay back in the day owned the site that what was once THE resource for anime info in the late 90s/early 00s (I’m blanking on the name). She sold the site for a ridiculous amount for the time period, potentially a quarter-million, but turned around and spent it frivolously on anime merch, which back then had to be imported at high cost. This is who I thought of first and, "kokoro wish" is still in my personal lexicon as "undeserved narcissistic fantasy centered around another person's about-face for an (incorrectly) perceived wrong". I wish it were a mainstream colloquialism; it's an eminently useful term.
|
# ? Nov 11, 2020 08:00 |