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

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Speaking of, have many bookstores been looted? I'd like to see numbers on that.

Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis got torched. But that seems to have been nothing but watching the world burn. Apparently the windows were smashed and some sort of "accelerant" (gasoline or whatever) was spread on the floor.

My post on the Riot megathread.

His bookstores burned. Don Blyly wants to keep selling - The "after" picture looks to me like a bomb went off, not a fire. Not even a shell of the building left. Probably b/c the fire department didn't even begin to respond for hours.

 

[Misaki Nakahara]

It's not. For about 100 years now books have been printed on shit-quality paper, aside from a minimal number of presentation copies. A book that's read much degrades rapidly. The amount of effort and money it takes to stabilize an older book, printed any time after they stopped using rag paper, is insane. And then, if the book gets around one smoker or even just a bad day of air pollution, all that work can be negated in minutes.

I have irreplaceable books (not because of value, but because they aren't reprinted and most copies have fallen apart) that aren't even that old - 30 years - and the paper is just falling to pieces. Anything old enough to be out of copyright and one of the major public libraries will have scanned their copy. Some things are just decaying away. It's getting to be next to impossible to find a lot of short stories, the original magazines and any compilations are just rotting away.

Oh yeah, good point. The main thing that can be said in favour of digital is that it can be endlessly duplicated for free.

 

[AnOminous]

Oh yeah, good point. The main thing that can be said in favour of digital is that it can be endlessly duplicated for free.

And absolutely worthless scumbags like Chuck Wendig are completely fine with seeing it go, not even to make any additional money because he isn't anyway, but just for his ego and for his voracious insatiable desire for sucking Disney's vile rat cock.

 

[Red Hood]

Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis got torched. But that seems to have been nothing but watching the world burn. Apparently the windows were smashed and some sort of "accelerant" (gasoline or whatever) was spread on the floor.

My post on the Riot megathread.

His bookstores burned. Don Blyly wants to keep selling - The "after" picture looks to me like a bomb went off, not a fire. Not even a shell of the building left. Probably b/c the fire department didn't even begin to respond for hours.

That's tragic. As much as I despise looters, they at least have the potential to get some use out of their ill-gotten gains. Someone just burning a bookstore...just destroyed things. No use. Just torched shit to be a psychotic asshole.

 

[Misaki Nakahara]

And absolutely worthless scumbags like Chuck Wendig are completely fine with seeing it go, not even to make any additional money because he isn't anyway, but just for his ego and for his voracious insatiable desire for sucking Disney's vile rat cock.

It's a shame the entire library isn't downloadable, otherwise people who are supporters of it could have collectively mirrored the entire thing as a peer-to-peer thing, Soulseek or torrents or what-have-you. It's extremely difficult to actually stop files being passed around online, all it takes is one person to have a digital copy and they can pass that to a million others.

 

[AnOminous]

It's a shame the entire library isn't downloadable, otherwise people who are supporters of it could have collectively mirrored the entire thing as a peer-to-peer thing, Soulseek or torrents or what-have-you.

They were trying to act like an actual lending library to the extent it's possible to do so online in the hopes that § 108 exemptions would apply.

Oh well, fuck that I guess. Just wholesale pirate their shit from now on.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Well Chuck appears to have herkily jerkeled onto the internet shit list, it never ceases to amaze that it managed to get this far with his total lack of talent.

 

[Red Hood]

Well Chuck appears to have herkily jerkeled onto the internet shit list, it never ceases to amaze that it managed to get this far with his total lack of talent.

Oh, cruel hilarious fate!

 

[CheezzyMach]

Imagine being such a pathetic fucker that you not only shut down a free internet library which happened to host your barely publishable books but also start crying about it because no one likes you for it. Truly pathetic.

TBH I'd be far less pissed if these spoiled fucks didn't LARP as communists for virtue signaling/asshurt over who's in the White House and were avowed capitalists.

 

[bisterjeans]

All this talk about looting, but no one would loot a Wendig book unless they ran out of toilet paper.

Speaking of, have many bookstores been looted? I'd like to see numbers on that.

Nigs cant read so none

 

[GaryGrey]

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Internet Archive Will End Its Program for Free E-Books

The nonprofit has said its National Emergency Library was a public service to people unable to access libraries during the pandemic, but publishers and authors accused it of theft.

www.nytimes.com

Sure would be a shame if everyone just started posting links to free copies of Cuck's godawful books everywhere. Not so people could read them (because no one would ever want to) but just to make him shit himself in anger.

Props to Cuck for helping to make the internet a worse place though, many cows try but few actually succeed at it.

I wonder if chuck knows that every public library does this as well. Many have large repositories of videos available for free. Maybe he wants to try and fuck them over next?

 

[Heckler1]

This dood was so assmad people didn't like his soywars books that wants to destroy an entire library system (giving access to millions of boos to people who might not have access otherwise) just so that, in his mind, people will be FORCED to buy his book. You can't be a terrible writer in a series that also had someone like Timothy Zahn has left his mark, and expect people to tell you you're amazing.

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

The greatest irony here is the self-proclaimed leftists using copyright law to take down free information because they'd lose out on a few bucks.
Soycialists would be a lot less insufferable if they actually bothered to follow their own ideology.

Nothing says "socialism" like taking resources away from the general public and putting it behind a paywall.

people like this claiming to be socialists remind me of this old sketch:

 

[Puck]

I didnt realise that Chuck and Joss Whedon were different people until I started reading this thread.

 

[Rekkington]

I agree, but some authors are not awful, even if they are walking stereotypes like Randall Garrett. Try and find something with a readable copy of Frost and Thunder, which was published in '79, just before he got encephalitis and spent the last eight years of his life in a coma. There won't be any copies left in 2057 when his 70 years are up. Or 3057 when Disney collectively forgets to keep their copyright fuckery going.

I don't care if he groped all the women, had a douchey beard and mustache, and wore an ascot like the pretentious cunt he was, it was a good story and it's going to just be gone.

What if we started... like, printing books on dried skin?

 

[CatParty]

Lmao

 

[GethN7]

What if we started... like, printing books on dried skin?

We already have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment

 

[Secret Asshole]

When will this tard stop being a shitbag?

When he finally necks himself. Wendig is a fucking waste of a human being.

 

[Judge Holden]

Lmao
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- press F to spit on the flarpy-bloopy-doofy grave-er-oony -

 

[Army Burger]

Lmao
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Cucked by his own arrogance