Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

UnregisteredHypercam2 said:
"While we did sell you the album, we haven't recorded it yet and actually need more money to deliver. Please buy another album so we can afford the instruments to record the album."

I'm pretty sure this is a crime in some parts of the world, at least allowing for a full refund for not delivering as advertised without an additional charge.
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this was what happened with Anarchy Online back in 1999
"while we did sell you this game, we knew full well it was unfinished and completely unplayable - the sales revenue will give us enough money to finish it"
 
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UnregisteredHypercam2 said:
Oh fuck you. You don't get to make the entire experience uncomfortable and inconvenient then be surprised when less than half your expected guests show up. There's no way the organizers looked up the risks and costs of putting these restrictions on, had legitimate (if unfounded) concerns, and made a decision that would hurt them financially but keep people safe. If that were the case, they probably would have planned a much smaller event.

No, they just thought "Well of course we want masks 100% of the time and documentation you are clean. Anyone who suggests otherwise is a fascist!". Not taking a moment to think about their paying customers or how to make their experience better, only focusing on random entities who are already banned.

The gall to shift your own shitty, fear-fueled, short-sighted, decision making onto your attendees is so far beyond arrogant I can't quite describe it. If I were at all interested, I would have pulled out immediately after reading that. Imagine for any other company:
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I do like that a retarded financially btfo convention is the backdrop for pat shit talking one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs in the united states.
 
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Oh, wow - I'd forgotten Anarchy Online. I had a flashback of that stupid burbling noise my robot made (I was an Engineer). I didn't realize it was marketed like that, though - I thought MMOs were inherently unfinished.
 
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UnregisteredHypercam2 said:
I'm pretty sure this is a crime in some parts of the world, at least allowing for a full refund for not delivering as advertised without an additional charge.
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I guess I gave them too much credit, because I didn’t think they were actually asking people to book and pay for rooms they didn’t need and wouldn’t use. How is this remotely okay and not some kind of shameful scandal?

Oh right, it’s the science fiction world — where pedophiles and thieves are welcomed with open arms.

But seriously, it’s only their complete irrelevance that stops this being a media story.
 
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An attempt at Hunter S. Tomlinson:
"My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left Hooligans Super Bar half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big Ford Mustang across East North Avenue at a forty miles an hour wearing Target-brand cargo shorts and an overlaundered Weyland-Yutani tee shirt . . . booming through the North Murray Avenue intersection at the lights of Milwaukee and other parts of Milwaukee, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the light, too twisted by trolls talking about farting in my wife's vagina while I fumbled through my Twitter feed) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as actually tough and not fat as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . ."
 
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MysteriousStranger said:
Oh, wow - I'd forgotten Anarchy Online. I had a flashback of that stupid burbling noise my robot made (I was an Engineer). I didn't realize it was marketed like that, though - I thought MMOs were inherently unfinished.
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Most MMOs do launch half-baked at best, yes. They're almost always unfinished, and the company always no matter what cheaps out and doesn't get enough servers to handle the launch traffic. The only one I can think of that wasn't launched in a bare-bones if not outright unfinished state was the relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. And the only reason for that was because their embarrassing catastrophe of a first launch was so notoriously unfinished and just so poorly-conceived that if they didn't have it polished for the relaunch it would literally sink the company.

Usually MMOs are half-baked at launch because the MMO is another "me-too" offering being pushed out because the executives saw how much a successful MMO can consistently make month after month after month and got dollar signs in their eyes like the mindlessly greedy cartoon characters they are. People like that only see the potential for profit and have no idea how much money and work it is to build a successful MMO, they budget their money and dev time unrealistically, and inevitably launch date sneaks up and they're out of money and time and have no choice but to release unfinished, spray a firehose of bullshit promises, and pray they can fool enough people into sticking around long enough to turn it around.

FFXIV was an unusual case in another way too, because it was initially overseen by the same guy who oversaw Square-Enix's previous, successful, MMO, Final Fantasy XI. The problem is that FFXI launched way back at the dawn of the MMO age, predating even World of Warcraft, when the only competition was Everquest (yes, the first one) and Ultima Online. Tanaka was literally told, "Make a Final Fantasy version of Everquest", and that's exactly what he did, complete with all its deficiencies. He then completely ignored WoW revolutionizing the genre (even though it took half his game's subscribers when it launched!) and took the exact same mentality that he had when FFXI launched and thought it would work for making another MMO a decade later in a mature market saturated with competition (including his own previous game) and somehow thought this would work. Also they had plans to launch in mainland China so in accordance with Chinese regulations they had to outsource part of the job to Chinese developers. They also had a shitty in-house engine called Crystal Tools, which is also why Final Fantasy XIII was notably substandard. But I am convinced that Tanaka's attitude was the largest factor in the disaster.

I can't remember ever seeing an MMO go so far as to urge people to basically buy multiple copies to keep them afloat, though. This shitty convention doesn't even manage to rise the pathetically low standards of competence and professionalism of an MMO launch.
 
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birdwater said:
"Status" in that context basically means value as a mate. Low status might be an expression of bad genes, low intelligence, poor health, a mental/emotional state incompatible being a good mate and these are conveyed using extremely complex systems of signals to other people in your social group. Low status individuals tend to congregate around power systems that compensate for their inability to signal status. Practically speaking this is why every avowed communist you have ever met likely inspired personal disgust and contempt.
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I didn't want to get into political sperging but yeah, and thus it appeals to Cluster B personality types (narcs and paranoids) a lot. So even traditionally non low-status types see an opportunity to virtue signal by supporting it, either out of naivety ("well of course I think black lives matter!") or cynicism (appealing to trannies will get gen Z to buy our product!). Also, many of these corporations have to abide by the ESG secret social credit score we have here in the West, despite literally nobody fucking voting for it. And of course some people are simply left leaning in disposition, that will always be the case.

There's also the theory that Toxoplasmosis has made half the population bat shit insane, too.
 
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I didn't want to get into political sperging but yeah, and thus it appeals to Cluster B personality types (narcs and paranoids) a lot. So even traditionally non low-status types see an opportunity to virtue signal by supporting it, either out of naivety ("well of course I think black lives matter!") or cynicism (appealing to trannies will get gen Z to buy our product!). Also, many of these corporations have to abide by the ESG secret social credit score we have here in the West, despite literally nobody fucking voting for it. And of course some people are simply left leaning in disposition, that will always be the case.

There's also the theory that Toxoplasmosis has made half the population bat shit insane, too.
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Bringing up the statuspill in the Patrick thread is interesting because Pat is probably the best example of a low status individual I could come up with, and most of his antics are the result of him trying to overcompensate for that. Him successfully breeding is truly a cosmic accident; he is additionally fat.
 
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Also thanks for reminding me how Fat shits his pants with nerves every time he tries (and fails) to be funny on stage: https://twitter.com/fatimus_rib/status/1517580814371938304?s=21
 
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Also thanks for reminding me how Fat shits his pants with nerves every time he tries (and fails) to be funny on stage: https://twitter.com/fatimus_rib/status/1517580814371938304?s=21
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“I’m better than kids/ kids fucking suck” was much funnier when done by Maddox 15+ years ago.

Also, did anyone else notice in the court recording that Fat Rick didn’t really bring up the fact that he was a writer until well into the proceedings? He could have made a much better case for himself if he opened with something like “I’m a well known Sci-fi writer and some people on the internet harass me for my political views and this guy is one of them.”

But he didn’t, because he is dumb.

And fat.
 
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birdwater said:
Bringing up the statuspill in the Patrick thread is interesting because Pat is probably the best example of a low status individual I could come up with, and most of his antics are the result of him trying to overcompensate for that. Him successfully breeding is truly a cosmic accident; he is additionally fat.
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Honestly I'll never forgive Adrienne for bearing this man a child
 
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birdwater said:
Bringing up the statuspill in the Patrick thread is interesting because Pat is probably the best example of a low status individual I could come up with, and most of his antics are the result of him trying to overcompensate for that. Him successfully breeding is truly a cosmic accident; he is additionally fat.
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At least he hasn't fucked over his daughter by being in her life, although she still has to have inherited many of his defective genes. If she's lucky, she didn't inherit his fat or his mental illness.
 
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