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[pnjtony]

Emo: An abbreviation for loser. Emo is the new goth, except goths are still around, so it's becoming almost unbearable.

The best thing he's ever written!

I love Maddox. I hope his book kicks ass.

 

[shuri]

it's amazing how much hate there is for him, yet he gets hundreds of thousands of hits a day, and that's when he doesn't update. a bit of jealousy, perhaps.

We all remember his tv appereance, and how he got RAPED on the somethingawful forums

 

[miyuru]

yes, some of us do. But the people who don't are usually who I'm thinking about when reading a Maddox piece.

:lol so true. I agree with Maddox. And the term "podcasting" pisses me off too! It's just streaming audio. When you say 'podcasting' it sounds like you're beaming mp3s from your iPod or whatever to the net. Argh.

 

[pollo]

LOL, seems this one struck a nerve with some people here. :lol

yea lighten up guys its nothing :lol
if anything you guys can do two of the following

if livejournal slit your wrists
if xanga post pictures of the last asian party/friends/clique to quell any self-esteem loss.

 

[God's Hand]

That's not what Podcasting is. Podcasting involves RSS so you can subscribe to an audio feed. It's different from streaming.

 

[miyuru]

That's not what Podcasting is. Podcasting involves RSS so you can subscribe to an audio feed. It's different from streaming.

I see. I'll look it up, thanks.

 

[kablooey]

I haven't found Maddox funny for ages...I'm not really sure anymore whether he ever was funny at all, or that when I was 15 years old I thought any old immature shite was funny. Not like I waste my time reading his site anyway, but I'm starting to lean toward the latter. Maddox is far too obvious and just unfunny in his commentary.

So as for this article...meh. I guess it does strike a nerve with me because I do read and like a lot of blogs. There're good ones and bad ones, and yeah, the bad ones seem a lot like the ones he described. Guess you just have to know how to wade through the shit to find the gold.

 

[aoi tsuki]

i can generally care less what people put on their blogs in terms of content, but i completely agree (and have for some time) with Maddox on the comments that revolve around page design. Five column layouts need to die, especially when at least two of those colums are nothing but links, and the column that holds the text is 2000 lines long. Excessive linked text within sentences is annoying too.

 

[Mupepe]

Maddox hasn't been THAT funny for a while. He's humorous here and there, but not nearly to the extent that he used to be. He was so much funnier in 1997.

P.S. and for those people that say he's a blogger, he was around way before the blogging fad began and he was funny to boot. How many bloggers can you say the same for?

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

The Star Wars piece was pretty good, particularly the comic:

And this one never ceases to amuse me:

:lol

 

[kablooey]

The Star Wars piece was pretty good, particularly the comic:

And this one never ceases to amuse me:

:lol

Okay, I'll admit both of those comics were pretty funny. :lol

 

[Xenon]

Prob would have been more funny if I hadn't made an effort to avoid blogs.

 

[Space Age Playboy]

Prob would have been more funny if I hadn't made an effort to avoid blogs.

Same here, but I've avoided them because of a few of those reasons. I had no idea they were that badly designed though. :lol

 

[Yamauchi]

That was a great Maddox update. I knew bloggers on GA would be offended and point out how his site is "technically a blog." Good quote from the update:

Emo: An abbreviation for loser. Emo is the new goth, except goths are still around, so it's becoming almost unbearable.

 

[FortNinety]

LOL, seems this one struck a nerve with some people here. :lol

Seriously...

If you take Maddox too seriously, then you lose.

Excatly.

Jesus folks, everything Maddox said was spot on, and yes I have a blog too. I can't stand bloggers who take this shit so fucking seriously.

 

[human5892]

I think we need to differentiate between "spot on" and "funny" -- the criticism towards those who don't find it funny seems to be "You don't get it!" or "Guess he struck a nerve!" Just because someone posts something that happens to be accurate ("OMG HE'S SAYIN WHAT WE'RE ALL THINKIN!") doesn't necessarily mean it's funny.

As I said before, Maddox often isn't funny because he's so transparent. Here's a good article of his that's humorous because it's so absurd -- there is a point, but it doesn't preach and yell.

My neighbor's kids were pissing me off, so I ate them.

I was sitting home the other day, staring at the wall when I heard my neighbor's kids playing outside. I got pissed off and opened my window and found a group of kids playing grab ass. I started yelling at them and shaking my fists in the air. The kids started to laugh, so I went inside to get my shovel.

When I came outside they started to run off, so I chased after them with my shovel but I couldn't keep up and I almost had a heart attack (which would have pissed me off even more, but at least if I died, I'd have become an evil spirit that haunts children). The next day I bought a bear trap and set it outside my house. That evening when I was eating vegetarians, I heard the bear trap clamp one of the kids. I ran outside and found my neighbor's kid trapped in the clamp, so I took him inside and ate him.

This is also a good one.

 

[Ponn]

I liked them better when they were called Live Journal. I agree with his article on some stuff, but he really isn't as funny anymore. It's like a bad comedian that sticks with the same thing and it gets grating after awhile (Tom Green, Andy Dick, etc).

 

[Pellham]

I think all of maddox's stuff is funny. Some of you haters are just being offended by him, and thus trying to de-rationalize him.