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

[Krokodil Overdose]

So Whendons equal a Sorking and how many Wendids equal a Whedon? I'm trying to figure how much Windbaf is a hack

Think of it more in terms of energy: if Sorkin is the visible light spectrum, then he decays into Whedon, represented here by infrared. Counterintuitively, though, this doesn't make Wendig into radio: it makes him into a black hole, from which no light (read: quality) can escape.

What I'm saying is that there's no upper bound on how much of a hack he is. There are no non-hack elements from which to draw a comparison.

 

[damian]

I doubt Windbag has ever visited a gun show:
https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1058016510164262912 https://archive.fo/Dxx8g

This one is stupid on multiple levels. Anyone that has visited a gun show knows there's going to be military surplus and guess which war was massive enough that stuff from that era is still being circulated through second hand markets. Also its not just Nazi stuff, you got Russian, Japanese, American and so on. And that's just WWII, pretty much every war has some surplus still available for collectors or people that want cool looking shit. I myself have a WWI-styled gas mask that I got for cheap:

 

[AnOminous]

How do these morons think Americans got authentic Nazi memorabilia in the first place?

Don't they realize a lot of this shit came directly off the dead bodies of Nazis killed by the grandparents and great-grandparents of Americans currently alive?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

It's simply amazing how simple the minds of these people is.
"Someone buys Nazi memorabilia" = "Someone is a Nazi"

Guess every history museum about WW2 is a secret hive of villainous Nazis, huh?
And besides, who wouldn't love to own a Luger?

 

[Puddleduck]

Any "Nazi memorabilia" at such a convention would be a trophy that a vet had collected to commemorating killing a Nazi; such things would probably only be of interest to people such as collectors, historians, museum curators, or teachers who want to show them to their class. No-one who attends a gunshow would be looking for "Nazi memorabilia" to proudly display and to reflect their own views.

 

[Mola Ram]

Any "Nazi memorabilia" at such a convention would be a trophy that a vet had collected to commemorating killing a Nazi; such things would probably only be of interest to people such as collectors, historians, museum curators, or teachers who want to show them to their class. No-one who attends a gunshow would be looking for "Nazi memorabilia" to proudly display and to reflect their own views.

I have a sneaking suspicion that by "Klan memorabilia" what he really means is "Confederate flags," and while the symbolism of the Confederate flag is a can of worms I don't want to get into, to interpret them as "Klan" is insanity.

 

[AprilRains]

Here's a concept: He fucking lied.

 

[LordofCringe7206]

How do these morons think Americans got authentic Nazi memorabilia in the first place?

Don't they realize a lot of this shit came directly off the dead bodies of Nazis killed by the grandparents and great-grandparents of Americans currently alive?

They probably have never even thought about it. That or they just don't want to consider it.

WWII is very engrained in American culture. It's a heavily glorified time period, and it's gotten only worse with just how much the left wants to bitch about Nazi's. People don't want to acknowledge that relatives of their's might have done something a little unethical during the war, or that all the myths and bravado that surround it might not be true. Not that taking a war trophy off of an enemies body is the worst thing imaginable.

To give you a more serious example, when I was in High School I remember a day in history class during the time when we were studying WWII. A girl in my class spoke up about a photo she found of a family member during the war. He was apparently somewhere in the Pacific theater, as him and other men he was serving with were holding up decapitated Japanese heads as a showing of how they conquered whatever island they were on. Our teacher wasn't surprised by what the girl said, but she didn't also want to admit that this thing might of happened on a regular basis during that war.

 

[Kyria the Great]

They probably have never even thought about it. That or they just don't want to consider it.

WWII is very engrained in American culture. It's a heavily glorified time period, and it's gotten only worse with just how much the left wants to bitch about Nazi's. People don't want to acknowledge that relatives of their's might have done something a little unethical during the war, or that all the myths and bravado that surround it might not be true. Not that taking a war trophy off of an enemies body is the worst thing imaginable.

To give you a more serious example, when I was in High School I remember a day in history class during the time when we were studying WWII. A girl in my class spoke up about a photo she found of a family member during the war. He was apparently somewhere in the Pacific theater, as him and other men he was serving with were holding up decapitated Japanese heads as a showing of how they conquered whatever island they were on. Our teacher wasn't surprised by what the girl said, but she didn't also want to admit that this thing might of happened on a regular basis during that war.

People tend to forget that history is written by the victors and thus any brutality can be swept under the rug. I would imagine if we fought the Soviets before the Atomic Bomb and won, we could be equally appalled by the brutal and murderous gulag system. I really don't like these history-less faggots like Chuck Wendig. The reason being they haven't learned a single thing making the ground fertile for the next major mass murder or genocide.

 

[Benjamin Spooner Briggs]

So, this guy is Matthew Ward for Star Wars?

Nothing upsets me more than somebody ruining a story with their own personal bullshit. I don't really like Star Wars, but I can appreciate what it is, and seeing this guy deface a great legacy really does suck.

Any "Nazi memorabilia" at such a convention would be a trophy that a vet had collected to commemorating killing a Nazi; such things would probably only be of interest to people such as collectors, historians, museum curators, or teachers who want to show them to their class. No-one who attends a gunshow would be looking for "Nazi memorabilia" to proudly display and to reflect their own views.

What really gets me is the way these people thing that mere exposure to something is not only offensive, but harmful to the people they speak for.

 

[AnOminous]

Not that taking a war trophy off of an enemies body is the worst thing imaginable.

It's not even a bad thing at all. While it currently is not and was not legal at the time of World War II to seize private property indiscriminately (that is illegal pillage), it was not only allowed but encouraged to take any kind of movable government property like military equipment and paraphernalia specifically to deprive the enemy of having it.

Supposedly, much of this would be U.S. property, but in practice, a lot of people simply kept it.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

My sister's ex-boyfriend gave me a bored out Luger so I guess I'm a Nazi and so is he (even though he's Jewish)

 

[Big moth tiddies]

It's simply amazing how simple the minds of these people is.
"Someone buys Nazi memorabilia" = "Someone is a Nazi"

Guess every history museum about WW2 is a secret hive of villainous Nazis, huh?
And besides, who wouldn't love to own a Luger?

As someone who has been to multiple gun shows, I can tell you that some of the people buying this shit are literal nazis. And I'm not talking Lugers. (I'd love to own one) I'm talking straight up flags, stickers, wristbands, etc.

There's a big difference between a collector and a hobbyist, and the collector isn't the one buying poorly made repro-bullshit, or stickers saying "I've got a lawn ornament for you, darkie."

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

As someone who has been to multiple gun shows, I can tell you that some of the people buying this shit are literal nazis. And I'm not talking Lugers. (I'd love to own one) I'm talking straight up flags, stickers, wristbands, etc.

There's a big difference between a collector and a hobbyist, and the collector isn't the one buying poorly made repro-bullshit, or stickers saying "I've got a lawn ornament for you, darkie."

Note the difference: "some of the people buying this shit" vs: "Everyone that buys this stuff"

The very nature of the comment Cuck Windbag retweeted insinuated that there is no legitimate reason to be interested in Wehrmacht stuff unless you are a Nazi yourself. It entirely precludes the very possibility of anything else.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

Edit:First impressions of the guy... Does he have a thing for Joss Whedon? He comes off as a Whedon wannabe to me, and writes like people on Buffy/Angel forums back in the early 2000`s

It seems like most nerd-focused media has undergone extensive whedonization within the last five to ten years. You can't get away from all of the "snappy", "witty" dialogue because for some reason people think it's the gold standard.

 

[8777BB5]

It seems like most nerd-focused media has undergone extensive whedonization within the last five to ten years. You can't get away from all of the "snappy", "witty" dialogue because for some reason people think it's the gold standard.

The thing about "snappy" "witty" dialogue is that if you overdo it or not do it properly (a.k.a Wendingo) you run the risk of alienating your audience and making them not care about your characters because if they're not going to take a deadly situation seriously why should you?

 

[AprilRains]

As someone who has been to multiple gun shows, I can tell you that some of the people buying this shit are literal nazis. And I'm not talking Lugers. (I'd love to own one) I'm talking straight up flags, stickers, wristbands, etc.

There's a big difference between a collector and a hobbyist, and the collector isn't the one buying poorly made repro-bullshit, or stickers saying "I've got a lawn ornament for you, darkie."

I've been to gun shows for decades, and not once have I seen someone I was so sure was a Nazi.

I've seen Luger nerds looking for some obscure variant of that people, regalia nerds, and the like.

And I've never seen a sticker anything at all like you describe. "There Is Nothing In Here Worth Your Life", "This Property Protected By Smith & Wesson", sure. Never a racist sign or sticker.

How did you identify the actual Nazis?

 

[Puddleduck]

The thing about "snappy" "witty" dialogue is that if you overdo it or not do it properly (a.k.a Wendingo) you run the risk of alienating your audience and making them not care about your characters because if they're not going to take a deadly situation seriously why should you?

"Whedon dialogue" is pretty hard to get right.

The thing about it is, it's not even that brilliant - it's surface level funny, but not repeatably hilarious; the characters have personality, but little actual depth. For those reasons I can see why it's widely copied - it signposts jokes and character beats, but it's not truly brilliant writing. Someone who considers themselves a serious writer wouldn't bother.

 

[AnOminous]

How did you identify the actual Nazis?

Are they at a gun show at all? They're Nazis.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

It seems like most nerd-focused media has undergone extensive whedonization within the last five to ten years. You can't get away from all of the "snappy", "witty" dialogue because for some reason people think it's the gold standard.

It's because of the Avengers, which was madly popular and had lots of quippy dialogue (because Whedon). Of course in that it was clever because Jossboi does know what he's doing. Nerds on Twitter don't