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

One of the partners at Scovil, Galen and Ghosh has left to form her own agency. Anna Ghosh is now at Ghosh Literary. She has a contact page. Do the Pest's know about this? I wonder if Patrick has contacted her about representation. Clearly, his current agent can't get Tiny Tim's Space 'Roid Rage published, so maybe he's thinking about a different agent. Jeeta here is probably quite skilled at the scam, "do not redeem, saar" and may be able to trick an elderly publisher into signing a contract with Pat. It's his best bet at ever being published again.
 
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The hideous Drilldo design aside, I am sure he got the concept of the habitats rotating to create artificial gravity from Babylon 5, he would have never come up with it on his own.
 
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Divine right to rule said:
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The hideous Drilldo design aside, I am sure he got the concept of the habitats rotating to create artificial gravity from Babylon 5, he would have never come up with it on his own.
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It has a Project Orion pusher plate as well. It's painfully obvious he 'designed' it by spending a night on wikipedia and tv tropes, reading autistic drivel on generic sci-fi writing and wiki pages on technology he barely understands. Absolute slop.

Edit: also notice, it has this gross mishmash of vaguely plausible sci-fi design features, but no fucking outboard heat sinks. This is why your life is already over, hack sci-fi protagonist, enjoy your pusher-plate fusion charges cooking you alive.

Edit 2: Apparently it does have them, I just couldn't read Pat's fat-fingered scribblings at that resolution to know that the one little finned section was supposed to be radiators for the entire ship.
 
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Edit: also notice, it has this gross mishmash of vaguely plausible sci-fi design features, but no fucking outboard heat sinks. This is why your life is already over, hack sci-fi protagonist, enjoy your pusher-plate fusion charges cooking you alive.
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He does have some radiators, but they're miniscule.
I also like that his 16km ship designed to save mankind has a kilometer sized 0g sportsball arena in the middle, because his protagonist is a famous sportsball star turned PI or something because of course he is.
Overall the design isn't the worst, just kinda generic. Got the typical things, counterrotating habitats of sufficient size, known realistic drive system, dust protection, all fine. It just lacks sufficient heatsinks for the reactor, and they're clearly not well designed since they radiate into each other.
 
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VF-1S Valkyrie said:
It has a Project Orion pusher plate as well. It's painfully obvious he 'designed' it by spending a night on wikipedia and tv tropes, reading autistic drivel on generic sci-fi writing and wiki pages on technology he barely understands. Absolute slop.

Edit: also notice, it has this gross mishmash of vaguely plausible sci-fi design features, but no fucking outboard heat sinks. This is why your life is already over, hack sci-fi protagonist, enjoy your pusher-plate fusion charges cooking you alive.
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Obviously Rick wasn't going to come up with something better than what actual physicists like Freeman Dyson and Ted Taylor did, so basing his dildo ship on an existing more or less viable design was the way to go. Like @Meriasek said, The Ark is a story about protagonist sportsball hero Brick Boblinson being a hard-boiled detective and having encounters with underage prostitutes, not exactly real hard sci-fi, so it's whatever.

What's more annoying is Rick pretending he IS an expert and not just someone who read some Wikipedia, as you say. He does his stupid "Gather round, kiddies, and let uncle Patrick educate you. 1/" schtick while regurgitating popular science shit that everyone who cares already knows. He has no capacity to offer any novel insights, yet wants to be seen as an authority.

Laughable how he recently implied to Adam he COULD write hard sci-fi if he wanted to. Not so. He has no scientific background or deep understanding of any subject except how to get trolled into obesity and career ruination.
 
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VF-1S Valkyrie said:
It has a Project Orion pusher plate as well. It's painfully obvious he 'designed' it by spending a night on wikipedia and tv tropes, reading autistic drivel on generic sci-fi writing and wiki pages on technology he barely understands. Absolute slop.

Edit: also notice, it has this gross mishmash of vaguely plausible sci-fi design features, but no fucking outboard heat sinks. This is why your life is already over, hack sci-fi protagonist, enjoy your pusher-plate fusion charges cooking you alive.
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The radiators are right here, stalker. Sure they're way too small and only for the reactor, meaning everyone in the habitats would be getting roasted, but they are there.
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Obviously Rick wasn't going to come up with something better than what actual physicists like Freeman Dyson and Ted Taylor did, so basing his dildo ship on an existing more or less viable design was the way to go. Like @Meriasek said, The Ark is a story about protagonist sportsball hero Brick Boblinson being a hard-boiled detective and having encounters with underage prostitutes, not exactly real hard sci-fi, so it's whatever.

What's more annoying is Rick pretending he IS an expert and not just someone who read some Wikipedia, as you say. He does his stupid "Gather round, kiddies, and let uncle Patrick educate you. 1/" schtick while regurgitating popular science shit that everyone who cares already knows. He has no capacity to offer any novel insights, yet wants to be seen as an authority.

Laughable how he recently implied to Adam he COULD write hard sci-fi if he wanted to. Not so. He has no scientific background or deep understanding of any subject except how to get trolled into obesity and career ruination.
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I'd love to see his scifi con talk about rocket design, though. Patty certainly fancies himself an allrounder when it comes to SciFi and believes he could easily write SciFi so hard he'd school Pellegrino and Anderson and Pournelle and Robinson all in one go.
The Ark was neither comedy nor "Mil Spec", so I don't know why Fattypats thought this was an excuse for why his ship design sucks. I mean, sure, it's not hard scifi by any means, but the setting is certainly supposed to be realistic, and also the distinguishing element that makes his otherwise generic hard boiled detective whodunnit story more interesting. So why didn't he put a little bit more thought into it? He'll say it's just not important, real answer is he's a dumb hack and just not a good author.

Btw., the book has been published in Germany as well and while not widely known, there are even a few German reviews around and they're decently positive, actually.
Biggest disappointment seems to be that the setting of a generation ship is almost pure windowdressing and has little effect on the story, but it was noted that Fattypat does have some good ideas for that background. Given that the background ideas are decent but don't have much impact on the story I'd wager that he got, uh, inspired by other, better works, and doesn't really have the brainpower to actually think of the consequences that setting would have on the story.
 
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Rick has been telling everyone they're dead on Bluesky for days now. Unfortunately there's no screenshots because, the funny thing about Bluesky is, a trolling account becomes instantly useless as soon as the target blocks it, forcing the troll to delete the account and thus erase all of Rick's replies to it.

If Rick weren't mentally ill, he'd realize he doesn't have to waste time replying to the troll account at all - he could just block it knowing the troll will have to delete it to start over again anyway. But, he is mentally ill. So he replies to the account 20 times before finally blocking it only for all his hard work to vanish as soon as the troll account goes away.

The irony, as always, is nobody would bother trying to troll him on Bluesky at this point if he stopped replying. Even if it doesn't provide many screenshot opportunities, the Pests know at the very least they can waste Rick's time and make him mad, and that's good enough for them.
 
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