Careercow Chuck Wendig / Charles Wendig / TerribleMinds - Terrible author, terrible person, ruined Internet Archive's online library

Pissing off Star Wars fans doesn't amuse me because that fandom is filled with hypersensitive manbabies who throw fits whenever the movies contradict their favorite EU book or Prequel nostalgia. It's not hard to do.

Woke Wars shit doesn't amuse because I've been dealing with whiny protectionism/backlash about that for four years now and it's stale.

Trump Derangement gets kinda funny, mostly because he lost is fucking job.

The most entertaining thing about this though is his atrocious writing style and the people who are smart enough to make fun of him for it. We need more authorcows.
 
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AnOminous said:
"Did I mention how many gay characters I put in my stuff? I did because they're gay! I bet you're really totally mad about how gay they are! Because I'm just so fucking woke!" Then everyone yawns.
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These asshats keep acting like the characters they write that are gay, female, or/and non-white will instantly be hated by most fans. Yet because they focus on antagonizing the vocal minority, they further alienate readers who could be interested and invested in those characters. It's no longer about the character, and is instead about their surface-level identity.

Also, fuck you Wending for bringing up Nyan Cat. It's [the current year]!

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BOLDYSPICY! said:
Wendig makes a few good points, but I can't bring myself to agree because he's such a terrible fucking writer it makes me mad.
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What points would those be? Penis names? Fart jokes? Violent fantasies about Republicans?

Seriously, I have no idea of anything he has said or written that has any merit; I'd like to know of something he did that wasn't totally stupid.
 
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Crippled_Retard said:
It's like reading Ulysses.
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This is an insult to Joyce, you can at least make an effort to unpack that stream-of-consciousness and have some literary sparring with other readers with Ulysses; Wendig books are just fanfiction as loosely assembled tweets.

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That's an average of 75.2 tweets per day for 9 years 7 months straight.
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Jake Alley outpaces him, but Chuck has definitely been doing it for longer; it probably helps when your writing career and twitter posting overlap a ton. The more I see these calculations though, the more I recognize that anyone tweeting consistently over 50+ times a day has serious problems.
 
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Getting fired from Marvel was a great career move. Now he can work his way up to managing an IHOP and be earning more money than he did at Marvel. Of course, the pay is really only secondary at Marvel Comics. The real reward is that you get a platform to publicly work through your childhood issues, like therapy on a grand stage.

But yeah, Wendig gives Wheaton a run for his money on being an unironic minstrel show SJW. Wheaton outdoes him in terms of hypocrisy (which is a vital component), but when it comes to being the embodiment of politics-over-talent and social media dependency, he might have him beat. And this is Wil Wheaton we're talking about, the Chicken Little of Twitter divorce.
 
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AprilRains said:
What points would those be? Penis names? Fart jokes? Violent fantasies about Republicans?

Seriously, I have no idea of anything he has said or written that has any merit; I'd like to know of something he did that wasn't totally stupid.
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Really minor stuff like "stop sperging about TFA & TLJ, nobody cares" & "propositioning a blind woman at a grocery store with a shitty pick-up line is indeed very scummy" & "I think there may be a problem with how men are generally socialized," but I'm being very generous.

The guy is super-gross, though. Just looking at him makes my skin crawl.
 
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This is a repost I originally wrote on the #Comicsgate thread
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Just outta dumb curiosity I downloaded the sample to Chuck Wendig's Miriam Black series. Unlike "Aftermath" this isn't just some quick Sci-Fi pulp fiction to pay the bills, this is Chuck's baby that he almost got developed into a series. Well thankfully it lacks the em dashes of "Aftermath" but it still has tiny sentences that remind me of the children's books I read in elementary school but now with edgy characters. Plot is Chick has ESP and knows how people will die, so she goes around killing and fucking people I guess. Opening was boring and here's a couple lines that made me groan.

Any poetic last words? You know, Either the wallpaper goes, or I do?" She waves him off. "I know, an Oscar Wilde refererence. I reached too far for that one. My bad."
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Miriam turns her hitchhiker's thumb into a middle finger, and she yells out, "Eat a dick and die, fuckpie!"
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I mean, this is going to be the most :autism: criticism of this guy in the thread, especially when there's a lot on display to criticize Wendig of, but like,

I do a lot of driving, and do a lot of audiobook listening while going from job to job, location to location, and one of my favorite audiobook subjects are the Star Wars ones. I'm a super Star Wars nerdboy, so experiencing a good sci-fi fantasy adventure with spaceships, laser swords, and diabolical evil space sorcerers during my daily commutes is one of the highlights of my day. The producers responsible for making the audiobook versions always add in a lot of musical stings, lightsaber swinging noises, blaster fire, wookie growls, space ship engine noises, and robot beeps and twitters that really help immerse you in the experience. Writing from book to book may vary, some provide excellent stories, such as the Thrawn Trilogy, and some are just good, but not exemplar, but with all the extra audio cues, you always get your money's worth.

Aftermath was the only Star Wars audiobook I ever shut off. I got 15 minutes in before I was done with it. My reason is where my personal :autism: kicks into overdrive, but what that reason is?

He wrote the entire thing in present tense rather than past tense.

Star Wars is always stories of "A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away..." And while that single little detail isn't necessarily a cardinal rule to never be broken when writing these stories, every other audiobook series of Star Wars I got was written in past tense, so all the other writers seem to have gotten the memo. Maybe its not an issue on paper, but when tens upon tens upon tens of hours these stories are narrated to you audibly in the same tense format, and suddenly this one is way different for no apparent reason, its really jarring. It bugged the shit out of me, and I stopped listening and put on some Sherlock Holmes stories instead. Sadly I was outside the return policy of Audible so I'm not getting my money back, but unless I'm really hard up for a Star Wars story or I have a specific purpose to listen to it for something, I don't really ever plan on revisiting and listening to Aftermath.
 
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