Joshex? Mostly just another conspiracy theory obsessive guy. Like all spoons are watching him through the cheese cameras kind of guy.
I don't think that really covers it. I always thought it was a little sad that Joshex seemed to believe that the more grandiose his expressions the more respect he would garner for them, when the exact opposite was true. He believed that you didn't need to understand an idea to contradict it or supplant it. He couldn't tell the difference between colloquial simplification and technical precision. He had no internal sense of the difference between guessing and knowing. And he acted as if everyone existed in the same deep fog he did: that to the extent he didn't know something no one else really did either so it made no difference.
Joshex believed you could become a respected expert in game design by just making one. That the parts of physics he didn't understand were obviously wrong. That it was okay to give out medical and legal advice without actually knowing anything about either and without disclaimers.
Joshex didn't even expend the effort most ignorant pretenders expend by doing quick google and wikipedia searches. Whereas most people are wrong when they overgeneralize or misunderstand internet information, Joshex would just plain make stuff up that no one else believed at all. And not understand why it was obvious.
I think Joshex lived in a world where everything took more hard work than he was willing to expend, and wanted to live in a world where intuition and casual brainstorming were all you needed to get ahead, and he just couldn't convince anyone to join him there.
There is a cautionary tale in there worth mentioning. Whenever you claim to know more than you actually do, you may sway those that don't know enough to realize that, but you will tend to incur the disrespect of those that do. No matter how good at it you think you are, that conduct will always be transparent to those knowledgeable enough to figure it out. And that threshold is always lower than you think it is. It is never really worth it, although sometimes it takes dramatic examples to demonstrate that.
