Secret Gamer Girl / SecretGamerGrrl / Googleshng / "Violet Hargrave" / Jacob Lawrence (Jake) Alley / Violet Cassandra Ocean - Delusional Zoe Quinn Stalker, Libelous Tweeter, Thirsty Gnome, Faux-Tranny Neckbeard Incel, Micropenis, "Known Troubled Person", Creator of "Massive vs the Masses", Self-Described "Noise Making Thing"; Lives in Niantic, CT

Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Huh. I watched bits and pieces of it in the 90's because it was on at 6:30 while I was eating breakfast and it all seemed like... well, I didn't get the sense that there was a larger plot to it.
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Same timeframe for me(original Dragon Ball airing was surreal at the time), and the only overarching plot was that all the MCs were reincarnations and the overall struggle was "the evil alien queen disliked the moon kingdom, after ruining it once she tries to mess with the reincarnations." Anything apart from that premise was filler and below average. Sentai shows, whether they're for girls or boys, live or animated, get really bad the longer they go. Most really shouldn't be more that 18 eps.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
Remember this article about unions in Starfinder?
You can now see the entire thing here:
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Supposedly he only wrote that intro, but in the book he's credited with the whole section on unions. Whether it's his work or not, it's laughably bad :lol:

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Her shirt has computer circuits for some reason? And all of her clothes just have completely unnecessary bits that would just be a liability on a job site (and look terrible)... And picketers use fucking holograms instead of picket signs? I know it's supposed to be sci-fi, but this is like that "Call a Rabbit a Smeerp" trope
 
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Her shirt has computer circuits for some reason? And all of her clothes just have completely unnecessary bits that would just be a liability on a job site (and look terrible)... And picketers use fucking holograms instead of picket signs? I know it's supposed to be sci-fi, but this is like that "Call a Rabbit a Smeerp" trope
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Cyberpunk's depiction of a culture which values the empty aesthetic of futurism with no practical purpose, self expression over and at the expense of function and larps as oppressed using expensive technology can be read as a pretty decent autocriticism of the genre.
 
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Wouldn’t a holographic sign be rather useless as a weapon?
It’s holographic not hard light. And if the projector can be held in one hand, using it as a weapon should only require one. But in that kind of sci-fi scenario, where you have integrated electronics in clothes, wouldn’t make more sense to have the holographic sign project from the person rather than a held object?
 
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Konstantin Romanov said:
Cyberpunk's depiction of a culture which values the empty aesthetic of futurism with no practical purpose, self expression over and at the expense of function and larps as oppressed using expensive technology can be read as a pretty decent autocriticism of the genre.
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It should be noted that Gibson typed Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes manual typewriter. His contempt for modern technology is supreme. I doubt his view of postmodernism is any better than his view of modernity itself, which he seems to despise.
 
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AnOminous said:
It should be noted that Gibson typed Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes manual typewriter.
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Which makes a cameo in Julius Deane's office.

There were certainly futurists and technofetishists doing cyberpunk in the '80s, e.g. Bruce Sterling, but the key to figuring out Gibson is he's not really writing science fiction. He's writing '30s noir. He has more DNA from Dashiell Hammett than any sci-fi author.
 
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kaien said:
Which makes a cameo in Julius Deane's office.

There were certainly futurists and technofetishists doing cyberpunk in the '80s, e.g. Bruce Sterling, but the key to figuring out Gibson is he's not really writing science fiction. He's writing '30s noir. He has more DNA from Dashiell Hammett than any sci-fi author.
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I really miss the era of SF where you could write something like Involution Ocean, a novel that is nearly unknown today, despite being vastly better than the absolute shit that wins the fake Hugos and Nebulas nowadays.
 
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Jake fell under $1000 on Patreon:
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How will he ever pay his rent and electric bill now?!?
 
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Aegir said:
The fact that he's still making that much is depressing. Wtf are these people paying for? Certainly can't be his tweetstorms.
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They wither forgot or are paying it as a woke tithe. $5 dollars a month to some wokester is a small price to pay for the piece of mind that they are actively supporting the right side of history. It's appealing because it's the absolute bare minimum they can do. Setting up an automatic payment require no actual work or sacrifice on their end. The fact they're giving this money to a fat man who never leaves his house is lost on them. It's their good deed for the month.

A lot of farmers how much money cows pull in because they're generally slovenly grifters. Jake's patreon goes towards his tendies. Every dollar that goes to Jake is a dollar that isn't going to pay for some confused 20 something to cut his dick off. It's a dollar that isn't being funneled through muslim charities to jihadis. A troon's lawsuit to shutdown a domestic violence shelter isn't getting funded when Jake gets paid. There are a lot better things stupid people could be doing with their money. There are a lot worse things as well.
 
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Jake fell under $1000 on Patreon:
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Taking the advice of Mr. Bravo I looked into it. It looks like a patron lowered their pledge by $46 because he didn't lose any losers that send him money. I don't know how many no bread meatball grinders $46 can buy but they're literally taking food out of Violet's mouth.
 
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The patrons are really the biggest mystery in the gnome-o-verse. He has 93 of them, but by comparison only 86 people have replied to him on Twitter 10 times or more and at least once this year. And of course his "real friends" on Twitter surely number less than 20. Whoever's donating to Jake, a lot of them apparently don't interact with him at all, or barely.
I'm sure there's at least one family member on there, and maybe a Talking-Time weirdo or two, but Jake pretty much doesn't exist anywhere in the world, online or offline, except Twitter. He's necessarily being funded by people who don't want anything to do with him.
I don't think "abandoned Patreon accounts" is the answer either, because this has been going on for years and we don't see a steady dropoff as credit cards expire. I wonder if there's some subculture of people who have so many $1 subscriptions that they just don't even remember how many or to who.

Also, he had just about no patrons at the time of the October 2015 Patreon leaks, which wasn't long before his excommunication from CON. So I doubt this is all Gamergate leftovers.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
The patrons are really the biggest mystery in the gnome-o-verse. He has 93 of them, but by comparison only 86 people have replied to him on Twitter 10 times or more and at least once this year. And of course his "real friends" on Twitter surely number less than 20. Whoever's donating to Jake, a lot of them apparently don't interact with him at all, or barely.
I'm sure there's at least one family member on there, and maybe a Talking-Time weirdo or two, but Jake pretty much doesn't exist anywhere in the world, online or offline, except Twitter. He's necessarily being funded by people who don't want anything to do with him.
I don't think "abandoned Patreon accounts" is the answer either, because this has been going on for years and we don't see a steady dropoff as credit cards expire. I wonder if there's some subculture of people who have so many $1 subscriptions that they just don't even remember how many or to who.

Also, he had just about no patrons at the time of the October 2015 Patreon leaks, which wasn't long before his excommunication from CON. So I doubt this is all Gamergate leftovers.
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maybe he is doing a lot of "you patrean me, i patreon you back" circlejerking with other patreon creators in order to mutually boost each others numbers
 
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maybe he is doing a lot of "you patrean me, i patreon you back" circlejerking with other patreon creators in order to mutually boost each others numbers
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This is the biggest Patreon myth, but it's just not true for him or anyone else. I did a bit of a writeup on it here:

I had my guys check the entire leaked Patreon database (asof 2015) for "circles" of any length, and they pretty much don't exist. The few that do seem to be pure happenstance, people who consoom a lot of "nerd culture" stuff tend to patronize the same outlets and so a few cycles naturally form when the consoomers are also creators.
 
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