This warms the cockles of my shriveled, black, evil heart. Autoaim is expanding his forum coverage of the Legion of Nitwits to include Dagstine and Philbin.
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- Aug 06, 2005
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Grand Hammer of the Exquisition
ZombieWriter posted:
Autoaim, I think you need to open a reviews forum, so we can all review Nicky’s work. Or we can just do it in this thread. I know I have some ideas for a few reviews…and I really don’t want to waste time trying to make a story out of his ideas. It might give me brain cancer or something.
As Jesus said on the cross – “It is accomplished…”
http://www.autoaim.org/forums/
Review your nuts off. First come first served. I fully support the idea and hey, we can even do Philbin and Dagstine in there too, if people like them. And in a longer perspective, who says its just for books. I have a special love/hate relationship for a couple of movies which I just might do a very big doo-doo on some time in the future. But lets get back on track, who has more vintage Nicky? I’m jonesing for my injection, man…
Heee! I’m enjoying watching this.
Speaking of movie reviews, some of ya’ll might find this amusing.
http://beingavampiremyself.blogspot.com/
does this mean tomo has competition?
Maybe. I guess it depends upon how much overlap there is between the memberships of SA and Odark.
I think Tomo is unique
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/6184?page=3
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/6233?page=3
Dagstine is getting very ugly with Kody.
He needs to follow his own advice.
I guess I’ll have to go over and see. However, tomoviews are indeed hard to match….
I imagine he’s run the gamut with the illness of the week, and now must turn to attempts at bullying someone half his age.
Gee… sounds familiar.
whoever Slapford Styles is, I like his style.
And in both threads, Daggy is dealt a thunderous smackdown by the Mysterious Mr. Styles. Bravo, Mr. S.!
Great minds thinking alike, nicht wahr?
FUCKING MOUSE. (the computer mouse’s scroller and right-click button stopped working, dammit.)
Anyway, I had posted a comment before, I’ll repost it.
I wasn’t rude, was I? With my review? I don’t think I was; I was only harsh the one time, when I said that people wouldn’t buy this because it’s basically unreadable. I offered a constructive critique without attacking the writer in any way.
For one, I DID NOT, EVER write a suicide note, NOR did or would I post it on the internet if I did. This is obviously a very bad (and might I put, sour) attempt at trying to pass me off as a depressed teenager who wants to destroy everyone who has ‘success.’
Two, I DO NOT write GAY EROTICA or PORN. Anyone who reads my stuff KNOWS that my writing isn’t either of that. Erotica is PURELY SEXUAL. How could I write horror if the characters were screwing every other scene? And this accusation is coming from someone who probably hasn’t even read ANY of my writing?
Three, I DO NOT DESIRE to be of ‘Philbin’s caliber.’ I specifically said that I will not reduce the quality of my writing to meet ‘Philbin’s caliber.’ I think anyone in their right mind can read something from me, something from Philbin, then decide who can actually tell a story that makes sense (and doesn’t include omniscient, neverending-orgasming penises.)
His attempts at trying to get people to think lesser than me obviously isn’t working. These people need to get the point that just because they say something bad about me doesn’t mean everyone’s going to go OMG OMG OMG BURN TEH BOY WHO WAS CAUGHT BEHIND KFC ON TUESDAY NIGHT AT EXACTLY TWELVE O’CLOCK AM! I’ve got… Hmmm… Two/three-hundred people who can back me up should I need it (between Graveside and Permuted alone?)
Ya done good, Kody.
I always done good, Mr. Otter. : ) ALAYS done good, because if I done bad, that would be… Well, bad. lol.
You did fine, Kody. And now PHilbin has posted the cover of Lolita by Nabakov.
PHilbin seems to think that he’s the heir of Nabakov. He fails to grasp that he does not have the talent.
When a word like ‘cum’ is used to excess, it loses its power. It becomes empty. The reader tunes it out. And at that point, with the value of the word lost, they reject the book because the only thing holding the book together is a pattern of endless repetitions of the word cum.
One of the problems with books today is that the reader has become weary of certain patterns. The reader is jaded.
Shock value alone no longer satisfied the larger reading population (although it does have attraction to a small hardcore group of devotees). To reconnect with the reader requires stepping away from cheap shite semantic stunts.
Technically, Dagstine posted the cover of Lilita, but it’s the same diff. Now me and Styles are your ‘cronies,’ lol. XD
I thought about stepping the topic up one and asking if Philbin/Dagstine would like to have people compare my writing to theirs, but I thought, ‘Why bother?’ People aren’t stupid.
Very true, Kody.
the old saying has always held true:
You can fool all of the people some of the time,
Some of the people all of the time,
but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
All comparisons are subjective. In the end, it is a matter of publishing well, Kody.
Then when you pass Dagstine on the street, and his homeless and begging for coins to buy beer and dumpster diving for cans to support his habit, you can toss him a few pennies.
It seems Slapford had pointed this out:
Furthermore, Mr. Dagstine, I would like to refer you to Mr. Biledragon’s comment earlier in this thread:
The character is underage? Where are you getting that from? Even if you’ve read nothing more than the first ten pages, you already know that the protag works for a corporation. Do most underage people go to work, or do they go to school?
So, if the book we are discussing has nothing to do with underage girls, why are you bringing that subject up, presently?
if you notice above LD’s Lolita cover, it says
Other famous literature featuring underage girls:
Thats disgusting.
Lolita is about an aberrant behavior. It was never supposed to be taken as the norm. Clearly Philbin and Dagstine would love for it to be the norm. they are constantly coming back to the subject in various ways with the predictability of an obsession.
I would not want my daughter anywhere near them.
Janrae, your point is well taken. I was just lulzing at the fact that LD got called out on not even reading the book he was trying to compare Nabokov with.
And now, he’s trying to stir up the Bad Moon Books issue with a homophobia thread.
The guy has no class.
Yes, that’s was a fine bit of LULZ. It has been all that I could do not to respond.
It needs point out that:
A. Lolita is full of intentionally despicable characters (even Delores herself) and B. it’s an amazingly readable book. That’s some talent to bring those two elements together.
And the Jeremy Irons movie is fantastic. I just have to add that. Not the sexual element in it—I loved the twisted Americana feel of the movie.
Dagstine is on a roll, getting as ugly as he can.
Dagstine interprets negative reviews as a personal attack. It’s just how his mind malfunctions. He’s a vile waste of a — well I was going to say human being, but he doesn’t even deserve that designation.
You know that shit monster in Dogma? More like that, I’d say. Not to be confused with pecan rolls or Babe Ruth.
I thought Kody’s review was brilliant. Addressing lines and explaining the issues. Not saying all were wrong, but examining closely – hence why Biledragon was able to respond.
Best bit, though, was pointing out the ‘shaved jaw line’
So the character is the reader? In that case this is a man’s only book. (Also, noticed how that wasn’t addressed by the sycophant BD.)
Funny thing is, BD, when addressing the line about the self-abusing radio (yes, we know what was meant, but the cold truth is that line is flawed) he refers to the character as she.
Verrrryyyy innteressttting *speaks with relish*
Oh, and noticed the 5 typos on SQ came to nothing. BD did find an imperfect line, but nothing to lose sleep over, and Janrae responded how you should.
So if that’s as bad as it was, and sure BD had a good scour, then great. I’ve read published books with typos in, even Pratchett!
As usual, the cry baby antics and vile attacks brings out the best in sensible people. Kudos all round! 😀
Methinks, Rusty, that it’s time to update the linkage sidebar! Like the AM/PM ads, too much good stuff!
Hot bells of damnation! I spend a good part of my day out and the Nitwits go on a rampage.
That will teach me to leave my house.
well johaha, it’s the same old stuff, just wash, rinse, and repeat. Looks like Matt deleted both threads anyway. Hopefully someone has screen captures of them.
It’s completely useless to link to the Shocklines forums. The threads are either deleted or castrated of lulz by the time I get around to them. Dammit.
Most of it went down while I was line editing a manuscript. I never got page captures, although Cuss has a couple of screenshots on her WordPress.
So, for Skeevy, who asked elsewhere, why Shocklines has gone downhill lately, this sort of shenanigans on Matt’s part is a huge part of the reason. The forum lost a lot of regulars when ol’ Matty banned Brian Keene. Others stuck around, but have gotten incredibly disgusted that the Legion of Nitwits pretty much has free rein to attack others. Drive away the thoughtful, intelligent members, most of the decent authors, and this is what you’re left with: Schmucklines.
I got them.
Oh Matt. Must be hard realizing that you, the creator of Shocklines, is the reason it has gone down the shitter.
The opposite of the Midas touch, heh?
I just sent you a bunch of them Rusty. I was tired last night and did not put them all in the right folder so I’m poking around for them.
So this all went down last night? Holy Hannah! Kody just let me know over at My Space. More hugs to you, sweetie, for being such a class act. 🙂 With your kind of attitude, you can only grow & improve as a writer. Good on you!
I’ll surf over to you WP, Janrae, and see what was said.
I just don’t get whiny asshats. I really don’t.
Louise ~
Matt banned Brian? Why?
And lol Louise, I’m a class 0 act (meaning higher than A, lol.)
XD
And . . . we have another domain potentially devoted to Nicky.
Matt banned Brian after someone started a thread at Shocklines to ask who Nicky was and why he was posting the kind of comments that he was. Brian replied and Matt banned him. Apparently it is a banning offense to say anything negative, even if true, about the Nitwit Kings of Shocklines.
Yeah, Matt threatened to ban people if they continued. Brian asked for clarification and the ban hammer was brought down upon him. Apparently, Brian is allowed to come back if he says he’s sorry, but that isn’t going to happy because he did nothing wrong.
At that time, Nappy was banned, as well. When the board went to Yuku, however, all the bans were lifted. Someone started a thread on Brian and he was able to respond nicely. Then BAM! The hammer came down again but somehow, despite all the shit Nappy has vomited since then, he remains active.
Someone correct me if I’m remembering wrong.
Here’s a funny story. Back in the ezboard days, I had an account for a completely different, and long-defunct forum. There was some thread (I forget how long ago), at SL, after it had moved to Yuku. I discovered that my old ezboard user name was valid on SL, even though I’d never joined.
I made one perfectly valid, polite comment, on some thread that had nothing to do with the nitwits, and BOOM, Matty banned my user name because he thought “it was disrespectful to another forum member.” Say what? I didn’t bother contesting it. It wasn’t worth the effort.
Who in the hell is insane enough to ban someone after one comment because he doesn’t like the person’s user name?
Rhetorical question.