I haven't researched, but considering what's USUALLY on somethingawful.com I have to be inclined to believe it. He wouldn't destroy his whole site to put up a blog to scam. Pretty sure this is real. Even so, he says so himself (in the massive ramble) he's losing a lot doing this, and that doesn't even matter to him. All he cared about at the moment was the donations, and now that's gone. =/