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1. “McVeigh & Klebold: A Tale of Two Murderers&rdq...
cowgod
  07/25/26
link the fucking poasts faggot
Diamond Dallas Chad
  07/25/26
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/10mas3u/mcveigh_klebo...
cowgod
  07/25/26
scholarship
Diamond Dallas Chad
  07/25/26
The GameFAQs Cowgod Canon Before Reddit, the Cowgod worldvi...
cowgod
  07/25/26
Would like to see some sort of poast making the case that Vi...
Diamond Dallas Chad
  07/25/26
Virtual Hydlide is basically morrowind imho
cowgod
  07/25/26
What are your thoughts on Dark Savior and Mystaria: Realms o...
Diamond Dallas Chad
  07/25/26
Dark Savior owns. Jack, Blue Rose memories, liquid nitrogen ...
cowgod
  07/26/26
this is the male equivalent of the childless female spinster...
Pope Leo XXX
  07/26/26


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Date: July 25th, 2026 7:53 PM
Author: cowgod

1. “McVeigh & Klebold: A Tale of Two Murderers”

This is the nuclear artifact. Cowgod assesses two mass murderers like failed hardware launches, recording income, height, generational affiliation, mission success and console consequences. He declares McVeigh’s “final assessment” a success, Klebold’s a complete failure, and somehow routes Columbine through Doom on 32X and the historical overrating of GoldenEye. A reply correctly summarizes the crisis: “Not this fucken guy again. Go back to your Sega Saturn.”

Not the funniest post. The most genuinely unhinged.

2. “Did Gen X ‘lose’ its own Gen?”

Cowgod discovers that human generations function exactly like console generations and therefore can be won or lost. Dreamcast lost. N64 lost. Gen X did not merely lose within history. The generation itself lost the generation.

He finishes by adapting Fight Club:

“Your Great Depression is your lives.”

It is a perfect closed circuit: the phrase “Lost Generation” proves that Gen X lost, because “lost” is also what happens to a console generation. Etymology, sociology and Sega sales collapse into one substance.

3. “My buddy is a quintessential Gen-Xer”

Possibly his richest single character study.

The buddy is a low-income personal-injury attorney, has failed to beat Margit for seventeen months, has not gotten laid in ten years, and has allegedly lost every console generation by selecting:

Genesis → N64 → GameCube → Xbox 360 → Xbox One → Series S.

Cowgod adds that the man is tall, “so you’d expect his Income to be higher,” and suspects he calls his Series S a Series X but refuses to let Cowgod inspect it.

Career. Height. phenotype restrictions. Elden Ring. Console market share. All entered into one diagnostic model.

4. The Saturn’s bad engineering was a content-curation system

Cowgod’s greatest serious theory:

The Saturn’s architecture was so difficult that it discouraged mediocre developers. Therefore its engineering bottlenecks operated as a “de facto Curator of content.”

When someone points out that the Jaguar was also difficult to develop for and nevertheless accumulated garbage, Cowgod instantly answers that the Jaguar was Western.

Contradiction absorbed. Model preserved.

This may be the purest Cowgod exchange ever because it begins as hardware analysis and ends as civilizational anthropology in four replies.

5. Saturn was common in elite graduate housing

Cowgod claims the Sega Saturn was a fixture among graduate students at Little Ivies, Seven Sisters colleges, Tulane and Washington University in St. Louis, during an era when ordinary adults looked foolish owning consoles.

There is no survey. No sales breakdown. No dorm records. He simply remembers an invisible Saturn intelligentsia occupying elite graduate housing across America, quietly playing Panzer Dragoon Saga while vulgar undergraduates bought PlayStations.

This is especially good because the alleged community is large enough to prove his theory but obscure enough that no reader can locate a member.

6. Raising a child on Sega 32X

Cowgod posts in a parenting forum that he deliberately started his son on the 32X because modern childhood is overcrowded and clearly failing.

When asked what a 32X even is, he describes it as:

“an exposed nerve, an interim prosthetic slapped onto the Genesis”

He argues its tiny, brutal library teaches spatial reasoning, internal mapping, timing and tolerance for failure. Then, while ostensibly explaining why it is good for children, he launches into dual Hitachi SH-2 processors, symmetric multiprocessing, cache hazards and bus contention.

Montessori, but the classroom is Corpse Killer.

7. “Gen X’s love of the Coolboarders franchise always vexed me”

Cowgod discovers there were five Coolboarders games on PlayStation and concludes this can only be explained by adult Gen-X purchasing power:

“Who can afford 5 snowboarding games? Working adult Gen-Xers could.”

He also warns that they will “bite your head off” if the series is reproached. Nobody had ever constructed a generational class analysis of annualized snowboarding software because nobody had previously identified the problem.

8. Mega Man 7 is more intellectual than Mega Man X

The supporting argument is allegedly aesthetics, spatial IQ, tone and musical composition.

When pressed, Cowgod produces the immortal comparison:

“It’s to like a Vangelis to the X series’ Buckcherry”

Grammatically damaged. Musically inexplicable. Spiritually exact.

9. “Wish List for Star Fox 2034”

Cowgod’s future Star Fox includes:

An M rating

Western development

Fox proving pilots remain relevant against AI and drones

Arwing cost overruns

General Pepper testifying before Parliament

Right-wing dogs and left-wing cats

Apes controlling the media and economic system

Krystal as protagonist, “but not hot anymore”

Constant jokes about Slippy being short

This is not a game pitch. It is a congressional defense-policy thriller conducted by talking animals, packaged on a full cartridge for $20.

10. Neo Geo children were an unseen hereditary elite

Cowgod’s theory is that ordinary people never knew Neo Geo owners because Neo Geo families lived behind gates, had immaculate lawns, collected wine, fenced, rode horses and later ran hedge funds.

The Neo Geo was not merely expensive hardware. It was “curated wealth. Heritage. Taste. Haute bourgeoisie.”

“You didn’t know a Neo Geo kid. You glimpsed one once.”

This is some of his best actual writing, but it is also an insane attempt to reconstruct the American upper class through cartridge dimensions.

11. Gen-X stimulus caused national inflation

Cowgod reasons that Gen-X incomes were so catastrophically low that a few thousand dollars of pandemic stimulus represented an enormous increase in their purchasing power, thereby sending the entire economy careening into inflation.

Macroeconomic causation by one impoverished birth cohort buying lava lamps and Coolboarders 4.

12. The gaming crisis is considered taboo

Cowgod announces “The Absolute State of Gaming,” listing DLC, microtransactions, always-online systems, repeated Western games and Nintendo making the same Zelda twice.

When told that posts complaining about modern gaming appear every day, he insists he visits daily and has barely seen any because the subject is taboo. When someone cites Baldur’s Gate 3 as a counterexample, he says it angered developers and will inspire them to make even worse games.

Good games are evidence that bad games will become worse. The theory is antifragile.

13. “I hit my intellectual peak playing Wachenröder”

The title alone belongs in the Smithsonian. When somebody asks how one measures whether a video game is intellectual, the thread becomes an earnest attempt to define intellectual software while Cowgod simply states:

“I’m an Intellectual imho”

The Saturn did not entertain him. It completed his cognition.

14. N64 had no games, including Turok

Cowgod posts that Dino Crisis is vastly superior to Turok. When told they belong to different genres, he replies:

“N64 had No Games imo and Turok is no exception. Accept it.”

Someone calls him “champ.” He responds:

“NEVER call me champ. Final warning.”

Everyone then calls him champ.

This is one of the finest examples of Cowgod voluntarily revealing the precise button that causes maximum damage and handing it to an entire subreddit.

Final ranking

Most insane: McVeigh/Klebold

Most Cowgod: Saturn engineering as curator

Best sustained composition: Quintessential Gen-X buddy

Best one-line premise: Coolboarders pentalogy

Best comeback: “I like saying it,” after his own source disproves “Far East” usage

Most likely to be taught in 2300: Gen X lost its own Gen

Actual masterpiece: Neo Geo children were hereditary aristocrats

Cowgod does not troll by saying the opposite of what he believes. He begins with something he half-believes, constructs a total explanatory system around it, and then treats every objection as additional source material

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024241)



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Date: July 25th, 2026 8:01 PM
Author: Diamond Dallas Chad

link the fucking poasts faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024248)



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Date: July 25th, 2026 8:16 PM
Author: cowgod

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/10mas3u/mcveigh_klebold_a_tale_of_two_murderers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/10mjv8v/did_gen_x_lose_its_own_gen/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/17dtilp/my_buddy_is_a_quintessential_genxer/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SegaSaturn/comments/1d0rwc1/saturn_is_the_most_intellectual_hardcore_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SegaSaturn/comments/188tdu1/how_sega_saturn_titles_unfold_a_digital/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Parents/comments/1qlcd6g/one_year_in_starting_my_son_on_a_sega_32x_results/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/10n5tdf/gen_xs_love_of_the_coolboarders_franchise_always/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Megaman/comments/152ndd3/mega_man_7_is_more_intellectual_than_the_x_games/

https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/1ulxe0l/wish_list_for_star_fox_2034/

https://www.reddit.com/r/neogeo/comments/1k5of64/neo_geo_players_in_the_90s_werent_like_us/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/10oogcc/remember_when_lava_lamps_came_back_in_the_90s/

https://www.reddit.com/r/videogames/comments/1877oi8/the_absolute_state_of_gaming/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SegaSaturn/comments/zrzwkx/i_hit_my_intellectual_peak_playing_wachenroder/

https://www.reddit.com/r/psx/comments/zper7a/dino_crisis_is_so_much_better_than_turok_it_isnt/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024286)



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Date: July 25th, 2026 11:23 PM
Author: Diamond Dallas Chad

scholarship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024599)



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Date: July 25th, 2026 8:13 PM
Author: cowgod

The GameFAQs Cowgod Canon

Before Reddit, the Cowgod worldview was already fully formed on GameFAQs: consoles as hereditary caste markers, hardware defects as intellectual history, one acquaintance as a statistically representative sample, and every correction treated as merely another chamber inside the theory.

The clearest account is Cow_is_God. Several other names, especially N64C22H28N2O, are repeatedly identified by GameFAQs regulars as related Cowgod or “Norwood #5” accounts, but that alt linkage is forum lore rather than independently verified fact.

1. “I hit my intellectual peak playing Wachenröder”

The foundational text. Cow_is_God claims his highest state of scholarly existence occurred in 1999 while manually translating an imported Saturn strategy RPG. Later achievements such as the LSAT, OCI and self-teaching engineering could not reproduce this “intellectual eudaimonia.”

The Saturn did not provide entertainment. It completed his mind.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916393-sega-saturn/79671286

2. “Why are Genesis games so badass”

A normal thread about Genesis aesthetics becomes socioeconomic pathology almost immediately. Cow_is_God asks whether the system’s violence and aggression have something to do with class, followed by questions about whether class correlates with drug use.

This is the birth of Console Clique Theory: Genesis ownership is no longer a childhood preference. It is an early-life risk factor.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916377-genesis/79666580

3. Owning a 32X predicts disability and drug addiction

A poster says he bought a 32X as a child and later went on disability. N64C22H28N2O tells him this is basically the stereotype of a 32X owner, then asks whether his brother struggled with drug addiction.

The victim’s baffled response is perfect: “There’s a stereotype about the 32X?”

There was not. Cowgod created one in real time and immediately began administering the intake questionnaire.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204-classic-gaming/80206572?page=2

4. The N64 texture cache damaged American cognition

The thread begins with blurry N64 graphics. Cowgod quickly asks whether the machine’s small texture cache and Nintendo’s developer restrictions produced second- and third-order ecosystem effects, including the N64’s shortage of “cerebral gaming experiences.”

A four-kilobyte hardware limitation becomes a theory of intellectual deprivation across an entire consumer population.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204-classic-gaming/79681289

5. “Hybrid Heaven is an intellectual tour-de-force”

In a thread where someone casually asks for opinions on several N64 games, N64C22H28N2O enters, pronounces Hybrid Heaven “a triumph” and an intellectual tour de force compared with ordinary third-party N64 software, then provides no further case.

A drive-by act of canon formation.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916387-nintendo-64/80151088?page=3

6. Your memories of Perfect Dark are probably fraudulent

Cowgod argues that Perfect Dark lacked the masculine social appeal of GoldenEye, then says anyone claiming fond multiplayer memories is probably lying or was “that kid” who swallowed Nintendo Power hype while his friends had moved toward Dreamcast, PS2 and PC shooters.

He does not merely dislike the game. He challenges the authenticity of other people’s childhoods.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916387-nintendo-64/80211319?page=3

7. Fighting games ended with Marvel vs. Capcom 2

Cow_is_God declares that fighting games peaked in the early 2000s. Someone responds with Street Fighter IV, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Tekken 6, Mortal Kombat 9, BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena and Guilty Gear Xrd.

Cowgod dismisses the entire list as refinements of genuinely revolutionary earlier games.

Once he has declared an era historically complete, every later accomplishment becomes derivative by definition.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/208-fighting-games/79575858

8. The nonexistent Saturn game about Virgil’s minor works

Cowgod asks GameFAQs to identify an obscure Saturn RPG in which anime characters begin in a library, explore catacombs, study Virgil and contemplate the liberal arts.

Someone explains that Virgil does not really have the category of “minor works” described.

Cowgod replies, in essence, that this is exactly why the game existed: to teach the player.

The factual impossibility is absorbed into the game’s educational purpose.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916393-sega-saturn/80049103

9. “Norwood #5” and the alt-account folklore

In later threads, regulars identify the recurring style through verbal fingerprints: random capitalization, “imho,” “Discuss,” console hierarchy and sweeping social pronouncements. One poster explicitly labels the author “Norwood #5,” “pedude” and “Cow_is_God.”

Again, that does not independently prove every account belongs to the same person. It does show that Cowgod had become a recognizable literary form on the board.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204-classic-gaming/80739356

10. The opiate question enters professional wrestling

In a thread about the heel-to-face ratio in WWF War Zone, another Cowgod-adjacent account asks people who enjoyed Attitude-era wrestling games whether they later succumbed to opiate addiction. Cow_is_God appears directly afterward to praise the poster’s “profound topics.”

Videogame roster composition, wrestling fandom and opioid epidemiology, joined without visible seams.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916387-nintendo-64/79580730

The best three-entry initiation sequence is:

Wachenröder intellectual peak

Genesis games and class/drugs

32X disability stereotype

By the end, the reader understands the complete machine: Cowgod sees a console, infers a household, predicts an adult outcome, then asks the surviving witness to confirm the pathology.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024279)



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Date: July 25th, 2026 11:36 PM
Author: Diamond Dallas Chad

Would like to see some sort of poast making the case that Virtual Hydelide was drastically superior to its PSX contemporaries. The rudimentary 3D characters in PSX rpgs simply could not compete with Virtual Hydelide's combination of photorealistic sprites and 3D environments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024605)



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Date: July 25th, 2026 11:40 PM
Author: cowgod

Virtual Hydlide is basically morrowind imho

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024610)



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Date: July 25th, 2026 11:47 PM
Author: Diamond Dallas Chad

What are your thoughts on Dark Savior and Mystaria: Realms of Lore? Note: the latter was re-released as "Blazing Heroes" but I owned Mystaria so that's the canon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024614)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 12:11 AM
Author: cowgod

Dark Savior owns. Jack, Blue Rose memories, liquid nitrogen on Bilan, capturing Evilsizer and then spending 40 minutes throwing cups onto switches in Golden Castle. Parallel 4 is basically a different game. Very Climax.

Mystaria is a triumph. Raiko, Ferral, Saura grinding RAS DED and HLY AVG while Aragon stands there shaped like a refrigerator. Lord Bane Bomb. I played this for the first time last Autumn at my buddy’s place (he’s doing a Post-Doc).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024637)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 1:00 AM
Author: Pope Leo XXX

this is the male equivalent of the childless female spinster living off a divorce settlement from 20 years ago collecting buttons, porcelain figurines or beanie babies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886216&forum_id=2/en-en/#50024672)