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Should RolStoppable be the first member of the VGChartz Hall of Fame?

Yes 9 45.00%
 
HELL YES 5 25.00%
 
nah, firebush03 should be first instead 0 0%
 
firebush03 are you serious? 0 0%
 
well yeah he is basically the new rol 0 0%
 
-_- just no 6 30.00%
 
Total:20
KungKras 5 hours ago
HoloDust said:
Louie said:

I don't have that many cool stories to tell but I just realized the extent to which Rol influenced these forums. Back in 2007-2010, the glory days of the Wii and DS, Rol basically led the Nintendo community on this site.

So, to add my own story, I want to talk about Sean Malstrom and Rol's possible secret identity.

If you don't know, Sean Malstrom was a famous blogger (he still blogs, but is a lot less famous now). In fact, he was the blogger that spread the word about Nintendo's strategy: The Wii was a disruptive product and the DS a blue ocean product. If you hear these words today, it's because of Malstrom's blog posts from 2005-2007. He had one piece called "birdmen and the casual fallacy" in which he explained why the Wii was a success and why Sony and Microsoft struggled and couldn't just copy it. It was a magnificent piece. 

I'm pretty sure Rol read Sean Malstrom's blog. In fact, I wondered if Rol was Sean Malstrom.

Rol was basically the gospel of Malstrom on this website, even though he never directly admitted it. Rol had a deep understanding of the Wii's success and as I was fascinated by these business theories, I gobbled them up and so Rol and I often argued side-by-side. Rol so perfectly explained the things Malstrom explained (just in other words) that I often wondered if Rol had a secret identity. Was he actually Malstrom? I will never know, but I think it's a cool theory.

As someone who reads Malstrom's blog, I wondered that myself as well - though, IIRC, Rol did criticized Sean in some of his last forum posts before he disappeared.

The difference between Rol and Malstrom is that Malstrom went crazy, and Rol didn't. 

Rol always remained a fan of Nintendo while Malstrom just couldn't process Nintendo not doing things exactly how he wanted them to, and just begun disliking them on more and more irrational grounds. 

Also Malstrom went full facist republican when Trump became prominent. I think one of the last Malstrom posts I ever read was him arguing for rolling back women's rights, and countries restricting women with laws more because of the western population decline. And he phrased it like it was just a the natural solution to the problem, as if easier access to kindergarten and better economic conditions for people in family-starting age just didn't exist in his world.

That's what made me go "ok, why did I ever listen to this guy". His Nintendo predictions about the Wii were clearly a broken clock kind of thing. He could read population and sales data, grasp some basic business strategy, likely because of his previous profession as an analyst and lack of ties to big gaming industry companies who wanted Nintendo to fail, and draw the correct conclusions about the Wii, but aside from that brief clarity in 2007, the guy is crazy.

I don't think Rol quoted Malstrom that much either now these last years?



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HoloDust 14 minutes ago
KungKras said:
HoloDust said:

As someone who reads Malstrom's blog, I wondered that myself as well - though, IIRC, Rol did criticized Sean in some of his last forum posts before he disappeared.

The difference between Rol and Malstrom is that Malstrom went crazy, and Rol didn't. 

Rol always remained a fan of Nintendo while Malstrom just couldn't process Nintendo not doing things exactly how he wanted them to, and just begun disliking them on more and more irrational grounds. 

Also Malstrom went full facist republican when Trump became prominent. I think one of the last Malstrom posts I ever read was him arguing for rolling back women's rights, and countries restricting women with laws more because of the western population decline. And he phrased it like it was just a the natural solution to the problem, as if easier access to kindergarten and better economic conditions for people in family-starting age just didn't exist in his world.

That's what made me go "ok, why did I ever listen to this guy". His Nintendo predictions about the Wii were clearly a broken clock kind of thing. He could read population and sales data, grasp some basic business strategy, likely because of his previous profession as an analyst and lack of ties to big gaming industry companies who wanted Nintendo to fail, and draw the correct conclusions about the Wii, but aside from that brief clarity in 2007, the guy is crazy.

I don't think Rol quoted Malstrom that much either now these last years?

I still visit Maelstrom's site for interesting takes, whether I agree with them or not - same reason I read something like Angry GM's blog, or watch Threat Interactive. Personally, I don't care what Maelstrom thinks about politics (I don't care about US politics one iota).