Goddamn, that was hard to watch. They're still not as bad as the SFWA crowd, though. The GenCon crowd seems like the kids that got bullied all their life for their weird interests and general spergieness, the SFWA crowd are the nameless kids that never even got bullied in school because any interaction with them just felt too odd and off to bother with.
Fuck. Memorize the lyrics if you're getting up in front of people, Sloth from Goonies but without the charisma.
It's like filking, but done by completely humorless people terrified to say anything ribald or offensive that would upset their corporate sponsors.
The book actually sounds pretty good if it wasnt Fatrick writing it, i could see david drake writing it and doing a really good job.
Imagine being so irrelevant that when you’re the central part of the story being written about you still get ignored.
If I was a valet and was “child”ed by a very fat man, I’d purposefully leave his car exposed like that in the hopes it would be hit by another vehicle or broken into by future pepperoni.
Apparently Scalzi already did and Fatty just stole the idea.
As if Porque Squealer isn't shameless enough to steal from other writers, now he's stolen one of John Walker Flynt's gayest flexes, the "I can drive a manual transmission" you know like any fuckin' 80 year old, as if that makes him a badass, instead of just a boomer.
There might be some truth to this. I've read a couple of his Mission Earth books that i picked up in a thrift store, and I was surprised at how weird and funny they were. I expected (and maybe wanted) Hubbards writing to be complete shit.
No it doesn't. Sounds like some Tumblerette's gay DnD character.
It's a good thing that Pat's pointing at that robot balloon. I totally wouldn't have noticed it if he hadn't. It's not like he could have posed like a robot pilot with that in the background and people would have made the connection on their own.
I read the Mission Earth series as a child before I knew what scientology was, and it was a pretty great series. Chock full o' social commentary.
Oh, thank God! I thought I was the only one who considered that name a total misuse of the English language. I couldn't tell if he meant to write 'automaniac' but thought it was too obvious and he needed to try something else, or whether he was playing off the idea of being an auto-mechanic and figured it didn't really matter which letters he left out...
He deftly danced around like three different similar fake words that would have made more sense. I was just reading it as "Automaniac" this whole time as some kind of form of mental self-preservation. "Automechaniac" kind of works, that's a good call.
They're complete pulp garbage, lol. Pat could only pray to aspire to that level, but still - L Ron wrote utter trash.
