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

Oh I'm sure we are all aware of that, I'm speaking about if anyone can confirm the $32,000 was actually received at this time. A true wire-transfer is instantaneous I believe. The moment it is sent it would should show up in Quasi's attorneys account, right? and I would hope he would screenshot a bank statement with a surplus of 32K, or just put fatty on blast the 32K was actually delivered.
It will be reflected on the case details page here:

 
"I was never given the chance to defend myself in court! I know things now that might have helped me then!" ...said the plaintiff, the man who chose when and where to file the frivolous lawsuit.
"Muh plights, child" - legal genius Fat Rick Thomas 2023
 
I find it hard to imagine he'd get a loan from anyone other than family at this point. Pretty sure "Cash now" type companies wouldn't even help him out.
This is pure stalker child theory-crafting on my part, but I want to live in the timeline where Pat takes out a bunch of payday loans to pay Quasi, foolishly thinking that by giving the money to Quasi it then puts him on the hook for paying them back.

It'd be a perfect Pat plan because it's both passive-aggressive and retarded and could only work in his own head.
 
That alone would be horribly embarrassing, emasculating. But, to find out your mother in law conspired behind your back to undermine your attempts to continue to wage online Jihad, that would be far worse. That is what I believe took place, otherwise Pat wouldn't have showed up with 27 pages of tard-rage. I think Niki's mom paid the attorney, it explains why last minute his tactics changed, the attorney is following her plan, not his.

Niki doesn't strike me as FAS, she just seems horribly boring and painfully unremarkable, she's married to a metaphorical boat anchor, she's just along for the ride while pat drives off a fucking cliff.

Does anyone have the info on the payment yet? It sounded like they were planning on paying immediately but, we would have heard about this already, right?
It will be by Thursday yeah, if I recall during the hearing too it will be a direct transfer from Pat's lawyers to Quasi's lawyers so I don't think there's any way for pat to get out of paying quasi. This is why I suspect a third party is involved and it isn't just Fatty trying to avoid jail.

I also suspect this will be fat's cope when he gets made fun of for paying up. He will say NOOOOO stalker child I did NOT pay quasi wrong again in EVERY detail (because my wife's mother and/or SFWA paid it).
 
32K can take a few days to go through if its not between accounts that regularly transact large amounts.
Anything over 17K can get flagged for review.
Yeah I'd imagine it'd take some time just given the amount of cash. This isn't pulling out roughly 2k for a toy gun P90, it's well over 30 thousand dollars. The bank is required to check it
 
My God, I just love this:
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"Actually I don't have to pay cos I know John Doe's identity now."

This is Cyraxx-level delusions.
But do please go on defaming a federal judge, Pat! Can't wait to see what happens nexxt.
 
But do please go on defaming a federal judge, Pat! Can't wait to see what happens nexxt.
With the judge? Probably nothing. In general? I'd love to see another construction project or something gardening related. Will he use Kerosene as a weed killer? Will he build more furniture that's unusable? Burn some treated wood and get cancer? The possibilities are endless(ly stupid)!
 
I can't believe we're finally seeing shit progress in this case that's actually relevant. Though this does make it clear how fucking pointless and unrelated the whole heist subplot is, the only relevance being that it brings Benson into contact with the knowledgeable Sal and tells us Feng probably has some illegal dealings.
Why are these two police officers so fucking obsessed with having sex in the victim's home/crime scene? Is this a new fetish? Are you two really fucking risking this when you know you're being monitored by your plant and that this would be yet another unlawful act on the pile that a government conspiracy could use to get you in trouble and out of their way?
which is convenient as ever because we have no other prominent leads in the murder itself.
They have no leads in the murder. At best they have a vague direction.
More for the self-insert fantasy: The bombshell love interest patting the self-insert on the head for having the basic decency to not cheat on his girlfriend while basically implying he might have wiggle room to cheat on her.

And why is the apartment now suspicious? Before, it wasn't treated as really out of his paygrade, his boss supported that he was one of many vital workers who probably got paid a lot (it's the whole reason why his disappearance was notable and got priority in the first place), as well as being a neat freak who is exactly the type to keep his apartment spotless; the only thing Bensen saw as too expensive or suspicious was the painting.

Also, you gotta love how Bensen has accused Feng of thievery, murder and conspiracy against the government; but argues that marriage would stop the guy from having mistresses. Hell, I'm not going back to check, but I swear Benson in one of the last two chapters made a jab about Feng cheating on his wife already.

Am I just misremembering the opening chapters? Benson made it a point that going off the grid, blocking your plant and otherwise being able to basically tun off the plant was a thing; if not a common thing since people are gonna notice your plant suddenly being blocked. That people usually did so to cover up a suicide attempt. And again, this is supposedly apart of a government conspiracy. Why is his attacker being able to go off the grid such a deciding factor that it can lead us down this rabbit hole?

Also, tip to writers who really want to make their self-insert as giga chad whose pulling all the ladies; having it so basically all the notable female characters can't go one conversation without making a pass at the main character just comes off as insecure as all hell. I've written about a guy who's entire deal is that he's enchanted everyone around him to be obsessively attracted to him and the story still didn't need to bring it up as much as Patrick does.
Benson asks Sal to set up a meeting but that's not gonna happen, so we get a little background to the Ark's Sublevels and the infrastructure contained therein. Long story short: it's a vast network of plumbing, electrical conduits, atmospherics, insulation and radiation shielding; nobody goes down there, and it's all running on duct tape and wishes after 200 years of interstellar transit. The cherry on top is that if anything down there fails, there's no fixing it.
So, there's an entire sublevel that no one ever goes down, is attached to major systems and blocks plant signals; and this never came up as a potential hiding spot for a missing person? Hell, this sounds like a much better place to hide a body than chucking it out into space where the ships' sensors would easily detect it and tell everyone that a body was discovered.
I say he handled this badly, but not in the absolute worst possible way.
I dunno, I'd say literally telling the audience that your character is legitimately tempted to get a blowjob from a child and only seems to reject said act in a 'Damn, if it were legal...' way is pretty up there in terrible ways to handle it.
Anyone ever play Mass Effect? Remember Noveria and the faux-Japanese shit the head of Security and her guards were doing, adding -sama and -san to people's names?
Liar. No one remembers anything that happens on Noveria prior to the mako segment.
Jeanine then raises her death flag. That is to say, she tells us she ran a DNA match and knows who Laraby nicked in his final moments, but Benson urges her not to say it over open, monitored *Plant* comms. So, I'm guessing she's going to fucking die or something insanely contrived will happen to keep Laraby's attacker concealed. Benson orders her to go through a number of steps and that he'll meet her in person to get that name for himself.
What's the point of not saying who the suspect is over the comms when you've already explained all the important information that's led you to the suspect? What, do you think the conspirators listening in will just assume she didn't get the right person and leave her alone? Or does Benson think they wouldn't know which one of them was in charge of killing the victim?
Dude, you're in unknown territory, surrounded by people who hate you, being led by a child prostitute you're still sporting an erection over; the last thing you should want to eb doing is touching their stuff or putting random shit in your mouth.
"Don't worry, Mr. Kimura; I won't tell anyone about your child prostitution ring."
"Child prost- Mai is 27, I assure you."
"But-"
"She's just short. And has those asian youth genes."
"Oh."
"...Were you really just going to tolerate what you thought was me pimping out a little girl?"
"Well, if she's old enough to bleed."
"Oh my god."
Benson tries to bring up Laraby's profile from the ship records, but it doesn't work. Wireless doesn't work in the sublevels as *the Geisha* have constructed themselves what amounts to a Faraday cage, preventing signals from getting in or out of their home. This incldues the signals sent by the *Plants*, and that also explains how Kimura's fake death became the defining story about him.
Uh, didn't Benson JUST have a plant conversation with the good Doctor?

Also, Kimura faked his death? We were told that he worked hard to champion the rights of the people and get elected, only to 'die' very shortly after getting elected. Seems like a lot of work and effort for him to decide to fake his death in so little time.
Just ask if he's ever seen any of these people, why do you feel the need to frame it as a question of if the dudes came down to fuck the children? Do they offer no other services? Information? Actual organic food? Secret pathways? A place to hide shit?
The detective's implication is obvious: whoever murdered Laraby and tried for his own life must be one of *the Unbound*
Except that Benson has already seen that all the unbound are malnourished and aren't exactly built for some real brawls, details I'm pretty sure Benson would have seen as distinguishing and something to mention when describing his attacker.
 
I think I'm mostly surprised that he isn't a NEET living off welfare.
He’s a NEET who’s LARPing as someone with a career. He’s living off his wife.

The reality of Pat being employed and not getting fired for being an insufferable cunt is stranger than any shitty fiction he could write.
When did that happen?
 
When did that happen?
He still gets money from his insurance license, how much nobody knows since he did skip the debtor's exam but when someone pretended to be him and cancelled it he did scramble to get it renewed so there's some juice left in there.
 
He still gets money from his insurance license, how much nobody knows since he did skip the debtor's exam but when someone pretended to be him and cancelled it he did scramble to get it renewed so there's some juice left in there.
He gets trails from policies he sold years ago, supposedly. The only semblance of work he does now is writing link farm content for his wife’s blogging/SEO business.
 
Generally in a way nobody anticipated, because his mind is to a normal person's mind on the level of a planarian.

That's an insult to planarians, which, unlike Patty, have been shown to learn positive behavors. In a laboratory they were trained to forgo the natural instinct of avoiding bright light when advantageous for getting food. More impressive is that they can transfer this learned trait to subsequent generations.

Fatrick has shown time and time again that he is unable to learn from any situation, much less beneficial ones. And thank God he will never inflict another generation with his fat and gay behavior.

Yes a flatworm has better desision making skills than Patrick.

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Yes a flatworm has better desision making skills than Patrick.
Talk about a low bar to clear. He gets up every morning, for certain definitions of morning and getting up, and decides to actively be Patrick S Tomlinson and to tomlinson on as a Tomlinson would. Nothing else in the known universe does that, it's only him. Even the worms in his garden enjoying some perfectly seasoned dirt don't do that.
 
That description of the Geisha combined with the Engrish is shockingly racist/orientalist, even by 2013 standards. I don't think Patty's lefty Twitter pals would approve.
Luckily for Rick, nobody reads his books.
More impressive is that they can transfer this learned trait to subsequent generations.
I've also read if you cut a planarian in half, when they regenerate into two planarians, both of them have the same memories.
 
Imagine. You are a Wisconsinite looking for insurance. You call around to different agencies.

Patrick S. Tomlinson answers the phone.
Hi, I’d like to get some car insurance.

Yes, I can help you with that. What kind of car do you have?

I have a Mustang.

Oh? It’s so nice to talk to a fellow sports car enthusiast.

Well I wouldn’t exactly call it a sports car…

Sweet innocent baby child, you’re wrong.
 
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