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

[AnOminous]

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.

Is he actually the worst writer that Star Wars has ever seen? He's certainly worse than even the better fanfic writers. He's the worst I've ever seen between covers, although I never really got into the absolutely terrible ones and mostly read things like a few of Zahn's and Alan Dean Foster's, although their own original works are better.

It's hard to imagine much could actually be worse than the atrociously shitty prose I've read from Wendig. Just a two page sample of anything randomly taken from his writings is enough to convince you never to buy anything from him. That may be the source of his cuck rage. Even he knows that if you had a sample of his writing you'd never buy his actual books.

The fact wendig is such a grotesquely unpleasant and arrogant douchebag on top of being an absolutely talentless hack who only got where he is by being an early web 1.0 "geek blogger" and asspatting and brownnosing the right people in the publishing world is what makes him so goddamn detestable, moreso even than his LOLSOKOOKY creeper facade.

He even still does the gape mouth cuck face thing. Does he even realize his whole social media schtick is social death after Dr. Pizza? Because he comes across as being exactly like that guy, a gross, creepy beardo weirdo covering something up.

He was already on the way out after even Disney distanced themselves from him over his Twitter antics, and those haven't stopped. I haven't checked his recent career prospects but I imagine this decade's gonna be a lot leaner than the 2010s.

Nobody remembers every time Soyny, Disney, and these other fuckstains take a giant shit all over the Internet because they do it every month or two. This cuckstain will be remembered, though. It's ironic that he'll mainly be remembered from now on from desperately dangling from the nutsack of the vile corporation that fired him for being, well, what he is.

At least Metallica was actually defending millions in actual profits from shit they personally created, to pick the most famous of the anti-Napster warriors.

 

[Weed_Prostitute]

I'm following Wendig on my sooper secret SJW twitter account. Shocker, he's being a passive aggressive faggot in protected mode. As an aside, weird how it doesn't show the padlock thingie if you're a follower. Pretty sure it used to. And his account is definitely protected as I type this.

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The blog entry he's directing his following to is this one (archive), from March 2020. Pretty sure Completely confident Alexandra Erin is a tranny and Margaret Owen having XY wouldn't surprise me much. Wendig links to THEIR twitter as somehow evidence of something in his blog post. Because of course he did.

he doesn't even have the ability to lurk for one day! THIS MAN HAS PROBLEMS!

 

[AnOminous]

he doesn't even have the ability to lurk for one day! THIS MAN HAS PROBLEMS!

Why does every one of these weak soyboy pussies protect their tweets like it does anything? Do you ever see shitlords like James Woods do this? When he says something that pisses everyone off and gets ratio'ed he revels in it. Do you see Shatner go protected when hordes of soyboys swarm him? In fact, I've repeatedly seen Shatner openly mock people for protecting their Tweets.

 

[Army Burger]

Is he actually the worst writer that Star Wars has ever seen? He's certainly worse than even the better fanfic writers. He's the worst I've ever seen between covers, although I never really got into the absolutely terrible ones and mostly read things like a few of Zahn's and Alan Dean Foster's, although their own original works are better.

It's hard to imagine much could actually be worse than the atrociously shitty prose I've read from Wendig. Just a two page sample of anything randomly taken from his writings is enough to convince you never to buy anything from him. That may be the source of his cuck rage. Even he knows that if you had a sample of his writing you'd never buy his actual books.



He even still does the gape mouth cuck face thing. Does he even realize his whole social media schtick is social death after Dr. Pizza? Because he comes across as being exactly like that guy, a gross, creepy beardo weirdo covering something up.



Nobody remembers every time Soyny, Disney, and these other fuckstains take a giant shit all over the Internet because they do it every month or two. This cuckstain will be remembered, though. It's ironic that he'll mainly be remembered from now on from desperately dangling from the nutsack of the vile corporation that fired him for being, well, what he is.

At least Metallica was actually defending millions in actual profits from shit they personally created, to pick the most famous of the anti-Napster warriors.

TFW Lars Ulrich behaved way more maturely about the Napster situation than Cuck Wendigo is about the Internet Archive.

 

[Ponchik]

im pretty damn certain ive clicked on this thread before at some vague undetermined point of my life and im confident i would have never clicked on it again if this petty creepy ass pennsylvanian sex pest hadnt bitched and moaned about information being freely shared on the world wide web because he didnt want it to affect his fucking bottom line, like the upper middle class harpy cuck that he is. i cant even begin to fathom just how insufferable this corporate cocksucker really is but id be happy to use his half assed Disney(tm) approved Star Wars(tm) branded books as discount toilet paper

i like the internet archive, its a ridiculously invaluable resource and its one of the few remaining institutions from the early days of the net/web 1.0 that hasnt completely gone to shit, but if them succumbing to pressure over this shit wasnt enough, theyve always complied with dmca takedown requests, so if a corp or literally any individual wants to take down a specific site, they have the power to do so. cuck wingdings wasnt the only one invested in biting back at these people, the fucking publishing mafia (harpercollins, penguin, etc) sued them over this shit. if you see something you want on the internet archive, save it and fucking back that shit up. theres a python tool that was specifically created for the sole purpose of archiving shit from there. i dont have enough storage space yet (stuck with 2 terabytes atm... and no backup solution) to turn into a hardcore autistic datahoarder and i hope brewster kahle and his site arent fucking executed before i have the means to do so.

and dont bother going through the fucking new york publishing elite either, shitposting online seems to be a lot more fruitful

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[A Big Bumbling Black Man]

At least Metallica was actually defending millions in actual profits from shit they personally created, to pick the most famous of the anti-Napster warriors.

Lars's crusade wasn't even so much against Napster as he was against the record company that took a cut of the album sales based off a promise of preventing piracy; a promise they could no longer keep.
Since then, Metallica made their own record label so they don't have to worry about it, and it's not like you see them going after piracy since then.
Maybe I'm just sympathetic because I'm a fan, but I think the whole situation was blown out of proportion to take down the biggest metal band in history, but they're still making albums and they're still headliners, never the opening act.

 

[Immortal Technique]

Remember how one of his tweets once was about how we're all just "skeletons powered by electricity"?

Judging from that and the title, it sounds like some kind of motivational/educational kids book would be my bet.

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

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that shit reads like a hentai anime that was made while all the developers and animators were high as fuck. I'll wait until the book comes out to skim it from some bookstore and see what needs to be laughed it if I'm bored at a bookstore/library or something

 

[kcbbq]

Lars's crusade wasn't even so much against Napster as he was against the record company that took a cut of the album sales based off a promise of preventing piracy; a promise they could no longer keep.
Since then, Metallica made their own record label so they don't have to worry about it, and it's not like you see them going after piracy since then.
Maybe I'm just sympathetic because I'm a fan, but I think the whole situation was blown out of proportion to take down the biggest metal band in history, but they're still making albums and they're still headliners, never the opening act.

Lars also sent Metallica's lawyers to the aid of Beatallica when Sony went apeshit on them. But nuance goes out the window when you want to attack someone. Not many bands can stand up to media giants like that. It was kind like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers standing up to the record companies in miniature.

Sony tried to bully a parody band with no money and Lars made it so it would have been very expensive for Sony when Sony knew they'd lose if the peons could fight back.

 

[JohnMc]

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He's either special or doing some serious drugs.

 

[DavidFerrie]

A book with the stupidest title of all time is scheduled for 2021.

I still maintain that the stupidest book title of all time appeared in 1990, and has never been equaled.

As for Chuck the Cuck? Never, never, never trust or respect a fat White guy with a beard, glasses, and ironic/edgy t-shirt, unless he's riding a Harley.

Nigs cant read so none

Books -- even "urban romance" or black-power titles -- are worthless on the ghetto-sidewalk black market. Looters go for either big-ticket consumer electronics, or things like name-brand detergent or "ethnic hair products" that can be resold quickly and easily in the 'hood.

And as for genuinely valuable titles -- in the case of this store, say the 1936 Visionary edition of Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth -- they're almost impossible to fence. When a theft happens, news goes all over the rare-book dealer/collector grapevine, and everyone goes on the alert for strangers looking to sell collectible titles at cut-rate prices.

Here's a good book about thievery in that commercial space, and how one guy got away with it for many years.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

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Stay away from the brown estradiol, man.

 

[Dick Justice]

At least Metallica was actually defending millions in actual profits from shit they personally created, to pick the most famous of the anti-Napster warriors.

Friendly reminder that there is no strong evidence to indicate any kind of causative relationship between lower copyright infringement and higher purchasing. In fact, there is evidence of a correlative relationship between higher "piracy" and higher sales, indicating a symbiotic relationship. I was originally going to post a link to the study but I found so many different ones on the first page of the search alone that if you care enough to check sources you'd probably find it more edifying to go exploring yourself.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

How long until he troons out? Nothing quite like the trans shield to rehabilitate assholes and make them immune to all criticism. See also: some bullshit like "leading trans scifi writer". It's an avenue to m.ilk that he hasn't taken yet.

Yet.

If Kevin Gibes is anything to go by, bearded cucks who live and die by twitter can go troon no problem at all. I await the inevitable "stunning and brave" posts in clown makeup and teenage gothslut clothing.

 

[Fictional Character]

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.

Book preservation was and still is hugely complicated and costly. Most national libraries are also accredited research institutions, since they're still trying to better understand how temperature and moisture affects paper degradation, fungi spread, etc. It's even more of an issue for preserving things like popular literature that are part of cultural memory, since those were often printed on even worse paper than the cheap type you're mentioning. Varney the Vampire is one of the most famous penny dreadfuls and it was almost inaccessible until the second half of the 20th century, since the only surviving copy was held in the British Library for preservation purposes and libraries aren't supposed to lend out those copies. All the other copies were literally read so much they turned into dust. I think there was an uproar about the British Library throwing away their copies of 19th century newspapers after scanning them to microfilm in the late 1980s, but again, the original were so brittle they would fall apart when touched and the scanning process damaged them further. Now, thanks to advances in technology, those microfilms are obsolete technology and they have to be digitized with expensive specialized equipment. Even Wendig's garbage licensed Star Wars fanfiction deserves to be preserved, if only as a lesson in how the power of a well-known brand can make complete shit successful.

Digital could be a solution to this, but Wendig and the large publishers and copyright holders he sucks up to so much are the largest obstacle to that. Not only do they want to control the platforms for distribution, so that they can delete your ebooks without notice and turn any ebook purchase into a rental, but they actively push and market woke trends in fiction to actively dissuade readers from seeking other reading material in "problematic" classics. Of course, publishers of other forms of media probably do that too, but with things like video games and movies, there's enough technical advances in the field that newer media can distinguish itself on its own merit and the barrier to entry is much higher. There is no material difference between Wendig's work and Dickens, Stendhal, Dostoevsky or pulp writers from the 1930s. Letters are letters whether they're on paper or on the screen. The only difference is in the quality of the writing and if works of classical writers can still resonate with people who are removed from them by at least decades of time, hacks like Wendig simply can't compete. They can't bully and backstab dead writers like they can living competition. The only thing they can do is ideological smearing and attempting to make those works harder to obtain by readers. The publishers will happily help with that, since it would channel readers into fiction that does not even try to have lasting value, because it's designed to be replaced by the next thing in the line as soon as possible to keep profits high.

tl;dr Wendig is a hack who can't succeed without preventing any competition from existing and this made him into a useful idiot for publishers who don't like that books don't come with planned obsolence.

 

[Aqua Panda]

Book preservation was and still is hugely complicated and costly. Most national libraries are also accredited research institutions, since they're still trying to better understand how temperature and moisture affects paper degradation, fungi spread, etc. It's even more of an issue for preserving things like popular literature that are part of cultural memory, since those were often printed on even worse paper than the cheap type you're mentioning. Varney the Vampire is one of the most famous penny dreadfuls and it was almost inaccessible until the second half of the 20th century, since the only surviving copy was held in the British Library for preservation purposes and libraries aren't supposed to lend out those copies. All the other copies were literally read so much they turned into dust. I think there was an uproar about the British Library throwing away their copies of 19th century newspapers after scanning them to microfilm in the late 1980s, but again, the original were so brittle they would fall apart when touched and the scanning process damaged them further. Now, thanks to advances in technology, those microfilms are obsolete technology and they have to be digitized with expensive specialized equipment.

I've seen this firsthand over the decades. Paperback books have always been printed on shit paper, but hardcovers used to be done on nice acid free archival stock paper. The last decade or so the quality has noticeably dropped. I've seen new hardcovers begin yellowing and foxing after only a few months in ideal storage conditions.

A lot of good quality stuff could end up being lost in the next few decades.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Chuck's become the Metallica of the book world. Unlike Metallica, he doesn't have any talent.

 

[AnOminous]

Friendly reminder that there is no strong evidence to indicate any kind of causative relationship between lower copyright infringement and higher purchasing. In fact, there is evidence of a correlative relationship between higher "piracy" and higher sales, indicating a symbiotic relationship. I was originally going to post a link to the study but I found so many different ones on the first page of the search alone that if you care enough to check sources you'd probably find it more edifying to go exploring yourself.

I'm well aware of that. The recording industry and scum like Chuck Wendig have been saying things like "home taping is killing music" for the last 50 years or so.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Isn't there a time reading limit of a few days on some of these sites?
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Last I checked, that also applied to the Open Library.

Still, fuck this shit. If they can take down the library, what's stopping them from removing all the videos? Or even the webpage archiving function itself?

 

[The Cum Consumer]

I'm well aware of that. The recording industry and scum like Chuck Wendig have been saying things like "home taping is killing music" for the last 50 years or so.

I feel like musicians have accepted that nobody buys albums anymore and just upload their videos to Youtube so they can get ad revenue. Kindle actually has a similar thing where you can borrow somebody's book and they get paid per page read.