I don’t know if Jim went to jail, but I recall reading an article about him appearing before a judge for something like indecent exposure. SK can confirm. And yeah, the older crowd are all aware of his chat room antics.
I thought it had something to do with alcohol, like drunk driving. I know you posted a link to some news story about it, but Merlin deleted it.
James Shaheen simply stepping outside of the house is literally indecent exposure. His mongoloid face sending children playing in the yard screaming for mommy, cars crash into lightpoles as the drivers are stricken with sudden cardiac arrest at the mere sight of his grotesque appearance…even God literally condemning himself to Hell for all eternity for allowing that all he created could produce such an abomination upon humanity. James Shaheen.
dude don’t make fun of God
Ah, the old times, with all the flaming about religion.
tennis ball.
I think the implication was that James Shaheen’s very existence made fun of God. 
So aside from the stuff in the archive there, what sort of stuff did the guy do? I think he was quite a bit before my time, lol.
James Shaheen was brash and in-your-face, but usually rational. He argued everything to the death. He was full of strongly held opinions, and thought like a businessman–always talking in terms of value and efficiency, always trying to extract what worked here and apply it to everything else.
For example, he decided that people came to RPGC for information about video games, and that the rest was unimportant. In his opinion, the forum, mailbag, and RPGC comic communities, the homey aesthetic of the website, the idiosyncratic design touches and humorous commentary in each shrine, and the relationships between staff members, did not matter in the slightest. He was responsible for farming out vast numbers of shrines to random people with no past connections to RPGC, and posting those shrines as soon as they met certain informational quality standards–since that was the only criterion he cared about.
Obviously, this practice vastly expanded the site, but few of these farmed-out shrines had the same charm that had drawn together the community in the first place. There was less to distinguish them from cookie-cutter sites like IGN and Gamespot.
During this period, the RPGC site and the forums looked extremely bland–the forums were plain white with black text and dividers, for instance. The main page was barely more than a drop-down menu. This is because all that mattered, according to James Shaheen, was providing quick access to video game information.
James Shaheen had similarly narrow ideas about video games. He argued that RPGs were good only for their gameplay. “If I wanted a story, I would read a book,” he would say. He always turned off the music to play his own CDs. His favorite RPG was, unsurprisingly, FF5. I remember because I thought his views on RPGs were absurdly reductive and often argued with him.
He certainly had nerve. One time, a poster pissed off with James Shaheen (there were many) said Shaheen was hiding behind an internet handle, and that if he knew where Shaheen lived he would come “kick his ass.” James Shaheen responded with his full mailing address, adding, “Bring it on.”
He ended every post and chat with a weird combination of characters: “])}” or some such.
Overall, he was a unique and interesting person, but also exceedingly obnoxious, with dictatorial tendencies to top it off.
You know, after reading that, I’m starting to appreciate the comedic irony of the original post even more.
you godless mortals
edit: will never understand
edit2: the greatness that was Jeremy Shaheen
edit3: herp derp le derp.
What’s the deal with FFV that makes that unsurprising?
Thanks to its job system, FFV is known for having fantastic gameplay, which was all that James Shaheen cared about. That explains how he could possibly prefer it to FFVI-VII, which are easily superior in terms of story, music, artistic style, character development, and virtually anything else.
I actually played that big role in expanding and rebuilding RPGC after the great deletion. The only reason that things like the mailbad and the forums were taken down was to quell internal staff conflicts. He wanted to have an authoritarian hold on all aspects of the site and when it was denied to him, he shut them down. This gradually raised the ire of enough people to initiate the rebellion.
Jim’s logic was hardly rational as much of it was circular. SK will back me up on that one.
So why haven’t we used the *classics idea? Too expensive? :o
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Strictly speaking, it was both. He would announce some dubious premise, then logically reach absurd conclusions. “Only gameplay matters in RPGs, and FFV has the best gameplay, so FFV is the best RPG.” The logic is valid, but worthless since the first premise was wrong, and was merely selected to justify his narrow taste preferences. It’s circular in that sense.
I have to say, I’m impressed at the accuracy of your memory. Seriously.
Sinistral, you’re not like a primary care physician you’re like a research doctor right?
Actually I only wanted an excuse to post the gif of that guy killing himself. But cool stuff Xwing, I don’t remember any of that.
I do know that he offered to buy plane tickets to a number of the under-aged female members of the forum/chat to come visit him.
zep do you have sex with the underaged?