Excellent fucking work, wow. This was like 2002-2003, around there, and so we're twp-plus decades back here. Keep doing whatever you're doing, it's working.

I'll edit too: I may have attributed some negativity to Maddox (although I think he was a self-proclaimed asshole), but Tucker Max is the one who for sure went a bit off the deep end, I recall he ended up writing a book. Pretty much just frat guy personified.

Was gonna say, dude has no hair; his body is just a rectangle. Headbanging, I'll give it a maybe.

My kids are young and so it's just a given they're going to smudge my shit. One day....

We have the freedom to pay more!

Your memory is certainly better than mine. I'm happy enough to have drawn a link between the two. My visits to Maddox's site coincided with the beginnings of my experimentation phase, so I appreciate anything that made it out the other side.

Despite how we might perceive Maddox in the modern day, the site was such a good representation of what the Internet looked like then. That was what content looked like.

I always end up feeling nostalgic when I talk about it.

I'll never forget the Astro Glide story.

Publicly shun people. You're a rule breaker? You've been shunned by society and people who associate with you will be known associates of the shunned.

I'm in Jersey (New), and while we attended Catholic services, we weren't exactly religious, and nor were my neighbors and the town in general. Perhaps it was regional. I have heard of this, just didn't experience it. My parents also let a little bit of Satan into their lives sometimes too, as anyone who was in their 20s in the '80s did.

That blows, because we're similar age, I'm born in '87, and I look back fondly at the freedom I had as a kid. It's a bit how I intend to model my parenting around, although it's hard to escape modern times in my mind sometimes. But my kids will wander around the neighborhood alone (in a couple of years, still too young), get dirty, stay out til the sun goes down, that kind of thing, with the caveat of not bothering people and their properties. Probably easier said than done on my part, we shall see.

Seems to be the business model that "applies" (is applied) everywhere. This desire to grow the product, despite the product being awesome already.

Way too close to Ligma, and I say that as an out-of-touch 37 year old.

Amen. If I cared more I'd it some requirement to at least have some kind of writeups when posting YTs.