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

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I always found a lot of the little references to be secondary to the books anyway, they were just fun little winks and nods to the reader. At the end of the day the books I read were about people and how they interacted with each other. Had a lot of neat ideas on how magic worked though, something I've always appreciated.
That's the main takeaway - Pratchett is people and most good novels really are. We even have terms for ones that don't, things like Mary Sue and what not. That Rei movie whatever it was called wasn't shit because of the special effects (well done) or the worldbuilding (decently well done), but because all the characters were one dimensional cut outs and boring as fuck.

The interesting thing about Pratchett is that his real villains are fucking horrifying at time (Carcer, Reacher Gilt) but his characters that he obviously "wrote to be disliked" like Corporal Visit eventually become lovable, because Pratchett writes them so well and multi-dimensional.

Fats literally has Firstname Lastname and Plonald Flump.
I always assumed it was for two reasons. The first to keep Fatrick from ever having contact with their family again, and the second being that with terminated parental rights PCJ could then step in to formally adopt the kid. I wouldn't blame them for wanting to stay far the fuck away from him after those threats.
Could be two things or more. One could be their lawyer recommended pushing for it because you start negotiating from a strong point, and then they actually got it because FFWBT. Or they pushed for it even avoiding child support (and alimony, was that ever determined?) because how much money would YOU pay to keep Fatrick out of your life forever?
 
  • Pat pays Quasi's attorney's fees for the CloudFlare subpoena (but only the ones for court filings and appearances, and not for out-of-court costs).
  • Quasi forfeits any right to collect attorney's fees for the Google subpoena.
  • Pat may not sue Quasi anymore.
  • Quasi may not sue Pat or Pat's lawyer.
  • A system is set up that basically allows Pat's lawyer to dox Quasi if Pat is ever sued by anyone.
This isn't an offer made by someone who's about to lose lol
 
Worldbuilding is basically just mental masturbation, which explains why Pat likes it. Real writers know plot and characters are all that truly matter, lore only exists to further enrich those two things and nothing more. If you focus your project on worldbuilding, you just dick around and don't get anything done as you move aimlessly from one idea to the next without writing anything of substance.
Lore only matters if you plan on making a game out of it, preferably a TTRPG since it will last longer.
 
Quasi is spilling the beans (a, a) about another detail of Patrick's 2020-2021 lolsuit against him and ~60 other John Does:
Don't forget his analysis of Patrick thinking process during the whole lawsuit and debt saga:

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You forget the transgender space crab. I admit the idea of a self snibbing tranny is still hilarious to me.
What's kind of embarrassing about fats is he's not a complete idiot; he sometimes has actual interesting ideas (or combinations of others' interesting ideas) - but he's completely incapable of writing it out in a fun and believable manner. Many humor/satirical writers have had characters that are very obviously a "Plonald Flump"-style take off on a real person (Mad Magazine, anyone?) or have had characters with weird names caused by circumstances.

He just can't do much with them, because he's just not that good of a writer.
Lore only matters if you plan on making a game out of it, preferably a TTRPG since it will last longer.
Lorewanking (at a tolkien level, say) is important for consistency (the hairy pooper lady fucked this up a number of noticeable times, tolkien had a heart attack about a moon phase not lining up and even wrote it into the story), but isn't terribly important to the story (after all, tons of people enjoy star wars or LoTR without being absolute nerds about it and knowing all the details).

Good worldbuilding gives you depth, which can be the difference for the readers if they want to go deeper - it's there. I've always thought that HP was kind of shallow in that it's fun, entertaining, but if you sit down with some other fans and delve into it, everything just starts falling apart. Kind of like how you can't really think too much about Hans from Frozen, just enjoy pop song and snowman.

Games need good worldbuilding because there's just so much everywhere that you will interact with. WoW has something like six million words in its quests and dialogue (12x the LoTR) source (a) and that was ten years ago. People loved the original because it had so much content (1.5m words, or 2x LoTR), and it was well world-built, and consistent, and fun. WoWorldbuilding has gone to shit and people don't care much about it anymore.
Don't forget his analysis of Patrick thinking process:
Quasi is a fucking tactical genius and people should recognize that.

Entirely makes sense with FFBWT saying he wouldn't ever have to pay, etc, etc. He likely thought even after everything was done that Quasi (poor, penniless woman) wouldn't be able to afford to domesticate the debt against him in wisconsin.

Honestly surprised the fat bitch didn't try to flee the state and force it to be redomesticated or some shit.

The most amazing thing about all this is fatfuck really believes that Quasi is a troll mastermind who knows the names and dox of every single person ever involved with this shit. He really believes he's important enough to have vast conspiracies against him; it's not a bit.
 
Good worldbuilding
Rick is a very good world builder as in he has eaten so much he has turned into a ham planet. If you remember that old thing about the nine planets it's now good again, only it's not Pluto anymore, it's now Patrick. My Very Eager Mother Served Us Nine Pepperoni.
 
Poor Biden only had six months to plan for the military to leave in an orderly fashion.
I loath to defend any President, but the Afghanistan pullout was always going to be a shitshow no matter what a president could try to do. Hence why no sitting president ever tried.

I honestly think if it wasn't for Trump setting the groundwork and then Biden winning, so they could both blame each other, it never would have happened. I imagine if Trump had won, he would have canceled the promised pullout.

Kabul pretty much fell in the expect time frame that the DoD had.
 
I loath to defend any President, but the Afghanistan pullout was always going to be a shitshow no matter what a president could try to do. Hence why no sitting president ever tried.
my counterpoint to that is that what really fucked it up was biden intentionally postponing the date of the pullout so he could get that headline on 9/11's anniversary. That pissed the taliban off which they then decided to go ape instead and humiliate the biden regime.
 
There's no such thing as too many onions. It has been theorized on these very forums by the final boss of transphobes Johms Potter that onion counteracts the effects of troon juice.
onions theory actually has a long and deep history.
back in ancient times on 4chan /fit/, when the soy boy meme first started gaining traction, there was the idea of onions being the antithesis of soy. where soy would lower your testosterone and make you a flabby weakling, onions were said to boost your testosterone and make you stronger. memes like this were posted in support of it:
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this was the reason why 4chan started wordfiltering "soy" to "onions" at some point
 
onions theory actually has a long and deep history.
back in ancient times on 4chan /fit/, when the soy boy meme first started gaining traction, there was the idea of onions being the antithesis of soy. where soy would lower your testosterone and make you a flabby weakling, onions were said to boost your testosterone and make you stronger. memes like this were posted in support of it:
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this was the reason why 4chan started wordfiltering "soy" to "onions" at some point
It's http://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion/ not .soy after all ...
 
I loath to defend any President, but the Afghanistan pullout was always going to be a shitshow no matter what a president could try to do. Hence why no sitting president ever tried.

I honestly think if it wasn't for Trump setting the groundwork and then Biden winning, so they could both blame each other, it never would have happened. I imagine if Trump had won, he would have canceled the promised pullout.

Kabul pretty much fell in the expect time frame that the DoD had.
I can't help but disagree. The Trump admin planned to have everyone out of Afghanistan by May, Biden delayed that and then got caught with his pants down when the Taliban made their move. And the DoD was proclaiming that Kabul could hold out for 3 months the week before the city fell.
 
I loath to defend any President, but the Afghanistan pullout was always going to be a shitshow no matter what a president could try to do. Hence why no sitting president ever tried.

I honestly think if it wasn't for Trump setting the groundwork and then Biden winning, so they could both blame each other, it never would have happened. I imagine if Trump had won, he would have canceled the promised pullout.

Kabul pretty much fell in the expect time frame that the DoD had.
We forgot 1989 when Kabul fell the first time. The Russians showed us that the Taliban waste no time having their victory revenge. It was always going to end badly. Hence the phrase "The Graveyard of Empires"
 
We forgot 1989 when Kabul fell the first time. The Russians showed us that the Taliban waste no time having their victory revenge. It was always going to end badly. Hence the phrase "The Graveyard of Empires"
A family friend of mine was in special forces and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was not surprised at all how quickly the Afghan government fell, but not because of anything Trump or Biden did really. Afghanistan is run by a myriad of warlords/tribal leaders and generally their culture is super fucked up. He gave an NFL example that was essentially imagine if the the Dallas Cowboys were playing the Eagles and they were down 0-28 at halftime. Now imagine that the coaches have a meeting, and the Dallas coach then orders his players to switch jerseys and play for the Eagles. That’s how little wars work between the tribes there and so when the Taliban came rolling in everyone switched teams immediately.

This political sperging has two points: First, Patrick is a fat idiot that doesn’t know the first thing about any conflict he has yet to pontificate on. Second, while Afghans warlords are known to rape little boys regularly, and we have no proof that Pat rapes them, we do know that he grinds them into pepperoni.
 
I read Discworld long before Harry Potter was first released (Reaper Man was my first book in the series and I absolutely love it, just like the rest of the Grim Reaper subseries).
So I don't know what's his point - they are entirely different beasts (DW - satire interlooped with philosophical musings, HP - modern fairy tale) and they both do their job exceptionally well.
It's probably from people who have only read excerpts from the later Discworld books (which got retardedly shitlibby at times, especially when the whole "openly female dwarves" thing started appearing in almost every book, and that one's even more retarded in retrospect because it started out as a metaphor for faggots decades before trannies were even a thing) and assumed the entire series was like that.
 
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