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

[Mr Moonface]

Kotaku published an article on Thursday about the GenCon shenanigans, Gamergate 2.0 finally dropping??? Not quite, they seem to have no idea it's about Patrick and instead make the narrative about some vague culture wars in the tabletop community.
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Only new info is that the con allocated extra security to some events, presumably Pat's panels because he's a sissy.

Credit to FranksWirecutters on the OnAForums who tipped Kotaku off about the happening:



Kotaku could give two shits about our prized piglet, despite Franks' best efforts to point them in the right direction.

 

[Ophelia]

They're complete pulp garbage, lol. Pat could only pray to aspire to that level, but still - L Ron wrote utter trash.

Sure, but not everything has to be high literature. “Buckskin Brigade” and “Johnny the Town Tamer” sound promising.

Can't wait for Patrick to child L. Ron Hubbard on Twitter.

Shhhhhhh, dead child.

 

[Piggy Higuera]

They're complete pulp garbage, lol. Pat could only pray to aspire to that level, but still - L Ron wrote utter trash.

Guys like LRH and Asimov wrote like a novel a week. Pigsley impotently flails around in circles trying to pat himself on the back when he hits 1000 drunken words a month.

Learning more about the shitty current book publishing industry by FatFollowing, it looks like the only way you can have it make any sense is with volume. If you could get 2-3 books out a year it might be an okay life.

 

[Crepuscular]

Now I’m reading Gene Wolfe, the new sun stuff. Haven’t read much but can tell it’s going to be great.

His Long Sun series is one of my favorites, very few books have stuck in my memory like that.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

If this is the caliber of performance on display at GenCon, then it is small wonder the organizers feel it sensible to have Pat talk about the proper use of social media (Credit to Antsucks over on the OnAForums for providing the timecode)
Warning: Heavy cringe, and I rarely use that term, but jesus christ.

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Just because you can't do it doesn't mean you should.

 

[AnOminous]

They're complete pulp garbage, lol. Pat could only pray to aspire to that level, but still - L Ron wrote utter trash.

Battlefield Earth was excessively long but passable pulp trash. Mission Earth was only remotely palatable because it was edited together and edited into shape by then-Scientologist Robert Vaughn Young. Some of his earlier stuff was again, at least palatable, like Typewriter in the Sky.

He was never by any stretch of the imagination one of the stars of the Golden Age, although he was certainly a mediocre, middle of the road member of that cadre. His name on the cover of one of the pulps would sell copies. That's enough to qualify him as vastly more of a success than Fatty.

 

[Piggy Higuera]

Battlefield Earth was excessively long but passable pulp trash. Mission Earth was only remotely palatable because it was edited together and edited into shape by then-Scientologist Robert Vaughn Young. Some of his earlier stuff was again, at least palatable, like Typewriter in the Sky.

He was never by any stretch of the imagination one of the stars of the Golden Age, although he was certainly a mediocre, middle of the road member of that cadre. His name on the cover of one of the pulps would sell copies. That's enough to qualify him as vastly more of a success than Fatty.

There was a pdf of the Scientology OT Level papers floating around, it's really incredible stuff. Take a guy who was all benzo-ed up and could not stop writing, put him on a ship full of people who take all of the speed- and booze-fueled nonsense as gospel, and it has a weird internal logic to it, like they were living out one of his novels as he was writing it. He created his own reality; stole the basis of Dianetics/Scientology from Crowley, then actually pulled off what Crowley tried to do but failed because his drug was heroin instead of speed.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

>Pat is supposedly a writer
>pulls the atheism card
>probably never read the Bible

I know he probably does the audio book bullshit where he doesn’t actually listen to books.

Edit: The Bible is important for writers because it’s the origin for a lot of things. “Head on a silver platter”, “The writing is on the wall”, “if you aren’t for me, you’re against me”, and a lot other things we take for granted.
Even if you have absolute shit reading comprehension and don’t want to try to make sense of some of it the overall stories and themes are important. The entire story of Paul is possibly the greatest redemption story in history, Moses being chosen by God is not a blessing, and Job are thousands of years old and remembered.

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

Battlefield Earth was excessively long but passable pulp trash

Did you ever see the movie? I still don't know how they got travolta to play in it but it was so bad it was almost good. Mostly because of his hammy acting.

 

[Throwing Romans]

Did you ever see the movie? I still don't know how they got travolta to play in it but it was so bad it was almost good. Mostly because of his hammy acting.

travolta was a Scientologist for a long while. IIRC he was the main reason the movie even happened.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

travolta was a Scientologist for a long while. IIRC he was the main reason the movie even happened.

plus it's not like travolta hasnt been in plenty of terrible movies already.

 

[TollBoothWilly]

travolta was a Scientologist for a long while. IIRC he was the main reason the movie even happened.

He spent millions of dollars of his own money to get it made.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

travolta was a Scientologist for a long while. IIRC he was the main reason the movie even happened.

He was. L. Ron personally anointed him as the man to bring Battlefield Earth to the big screen when the book was first published, and he spent the next two decades working on it. He pestered a bunch of the major studios until they told him to fuck off with his Scientology-adjacent bullshit. When he finally found a shady B-level studio to finance the project, he agreed to take a massive pay cut to help cut costs, did a bunch of the location scouting himself, and personally signed on most of the cast and crew. It was probably the biggest passion/vanity project Travolta's ever had, and from all that passion and effort came stuff like this:

And the funny thing is that this movie in all its stilted, campy, weirdly shot "glory" is still probably better than anything Patty-boy has or will ever shit out.

 

[Piggy Higuera]

There's a good Rifftrax version that makes it easier to get through:

https://www.rifftrax.com/battlefield-earth

I never read the book, but the movie seems so much like an adaptation by someone trying to stick close to the source. There must be more going on in the book that explains the background or motivations in exposition that wasn't in the dialogue of the scenes they used, and Look Who's Talking didn't want to change a word of scripture.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

There's a good Rifftrax version that makes it easier to get through:

https://www.rifftrax.com/battlefield-earth

I never read the book, but the movie seems so much like an adaptation by someone trying to stick close to the source. There must be more going on in the book that explains the background or motivations in exposition that wasn't in the dialogue of the scenes they used, and Look Who's Talking didn't want to change a word of scripture.

the rifftrax of it is great.
as for the movie itself, ive never read the book but i read comparisons by people who have, and yeah the book is very long and supposedly goes way more into detail on all that stuff. supposedly the guy who wrote the movie only took a tiny part of the book and turned that into the movie.

 

[Piggy Higuera]

the rifftrax of it is great.
as for the movie itself, ive never read the book but i read comparisons by people who have, and yeah the book is very long and supposedly goes way more into detail on all that stuff. supposedly the guy who wrote the movie only took a tiny part of the book and turned that into the movie.

It'd have to be, the movie makes no sense. They either had to cut it down from four hours, or they just never put those parts in to begin with.

Back on topic - Rick is a poor excuse for a Man-Animal, and even his Thetans are fat.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

He was. L. Ron personally anointed him as the man to bring Battlefield Earth to the big screen when the book was first published, and he spent the next two decades working on it. He pestered a bunch of the major studios until they told him to fuck off with his Scientology-adjacent bullshit. When he finally found a shady B-level studio to finance the project, he agreed to take a massive pay cut to help cut costs, did a bunch of the location scouting himself, and personally signed on most of the cast and crew. It was probably the biggest passion/vanity project Travolta's ever had, and from all that passion and effort came stuff like this:

And the funny thing is that this movie in all its stilted, campy, weirdly shot "glory" is still probably better than anything Patty-boy has or will ever shit out.

Battlefield Earth is better than 90% of sci-fi movies in the last decade and a half. It’s fucking bizarre and rips off a lot of better works, but it’s comfy to watch.

 

[ellroy]

He "childed" the valets, didn't he?

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Also, I didn't know Torque Wheeler went to GenCon too! Don't know why he didn't hashtag them in his tweet, he must be a fatstealthy geek!

>Valets probably in their 20s and learned to drive in the last six to eight years.
>piggy drives a car from the 90s
>”muh manual transmission!”
>car gets left out to the elements because valets never had an opportunity to learn.

Weird flex but ok.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

There's a good Rifftrax version that makes it easier to get through:

https://www.rifftrax.com/battlefield-earth

I never read the book, but the movie seems so much like an adaptation by someone trying to stick close to the source. There must be more going on in the book that explains the background or motivations in exposition that wasn't in the dialogue of the scenes they used, and Look Who's Talking didn't want to change a word of scripture.

The book's a fucking brick--393,000+ words, over 1000 pages in paperback--so Vincent Vega and co. only adapted the first half. There were plans to do a sequel covering the rest of the book until the movie went over like the Hindenburg. That's probably for the best, though, since the second half is just humanity trying to stop Earth from being repossessed by evil alien bankers via contractual shenanigans. Either way, no matter what you think of L. Ron and his drug-fueled nuttery, that's a level of productivity and success that Patrick here can't hope to match.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Kotaku published an article on Thursday about the GenCon shenanigans, Gamergate 2.0 finally dropping??? Not quite, they seem to have no idea it's about Patrick and instead make the narrative about some vague culture wars in the tabletop community.
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Only new info is that the con allocated extra security to some events, presumably Pat's panels because he's a sissy.

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A few more HERD IMMUNITY tweets in case Netflix execs are reading this thread
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"because fuck him"

Pat should head a seminar called, 'How Not to Write an Antagonist.'