is it so hard to write different?
Yes and no. He's got about 30,000+ posts here under his 4 handles and his writing style never changed, so I don't see what he's got to gain by trying to adopt a new one and being consistent with it. Plus, the main thing is he gets off on flaming and getting people pissed off, which none of the notable new comers have been doing.
Does you still hear from him via PM?
Nah, he just turned on all of his SQUAD broskies like Groink and Chaos and Mars and me towards the end for some reason. A couple of gimmicks were giving him a lot of shit and he thought guys like Danny and Nordic were behind them, which is far from true. So no, I don't really PM him much. He's pals with Team Nasser though.