Nicky’s contest thread on the metal forum was deleted, so he tried again, tacking it onto the tail end of another thread he started. Compare the before and after.
Original:
Revised:
Originally, both winners would receive books signed by Nicky. In his revised contest, the winners will receive either $40 or three CDs of his choosing. Step right up, folks . . . get in line for your chance to win some used CDs. Does the second place winner receive the ones with the cracked jewelcases?
And now for the good stuff behind the cut:
(hopefully, this worked)
Courtesy of the author, I’m pleased to be able to redistribute copies of these documents from Ethereal Publishing.
You know if I was one of the writers Nicky had dicked around with regarding payment, or even one of his 4theluv buddies I wouldn’t take kindly to seeing him potentially offer $40 for one story.
I just had a disturbing thought regarding this contest that has already been considered by others and I’m probably late but…
…he wants a PHOTO of the entrant, gets to PICK “the best story”, then the winner gets to MEET him in person…
This is a scam to get women, isn’t it? This is some elaborate means to find his Morticia, right?
ETT already covered that angle.
Meet him?
Holy shit, that contest is right up there with “Win and we’ll come to your house and spray you with a skunk!”
Fuck that, it should be “Enter to NOT win!”
The beginning of the end…
http://www.heartofmetal.net/conversation-piece-f16/my-official-author-site-t12504.htm
(I think they’re tired of him already)
http://www.heartofmetal.net/hirax-f11/trying-to-find-your-stuff-t12537.htm
I mean… seriously….
“I am actually a Christian who never ran from their dark side, that was the reason I did the site Writings From The Grave and some Gothic websites called me Horror’s Master of Puppets because I share the same birthday as James Hetfield of Metallica (this is the Nickolaus Pacione connection to Metallica.)”
There’s not a LOL big enough for the above paragraph.
Reminds me of Spinetinglers all over again.
He’s trying way way too hard over there, embarrassingly so.
The question isn’t whether most of the board will eventually call him out on his poseur name dropping crap, it’s whether he’ll take their advice and calm down or go off when they do.
I wonder whether he’s started picking through the member profiles at Heart of Metal and sending toxic PMs to folks, the way he did at Spinetinglers. His demise at the latter was swift.
Susanna sends her greetings… and a screenshot of her inbox.
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6817/nickypms.jpg
(also, moderation queue, thanks)
I’m impressed; he waited almost half an hour between his first and second PMs. The two minute delay between the second and third ones is more the norm for Nickypoo.
WTF is a “horror target”?
Does that mean he’s going to call up the Wild Hunt or maybe Wicker Man her?
Or maybe just send her a picture of his flabby and broken cock?
Great. You just had to mention Wicker Man, didn’t you? I predict that Nicky will Google it, and decide that it’s a nifty new way to dispose of his perceived enemies. It’ll feature prominently in his next Gary Stu.
He’s created a fantasy world where he can have and do all that he can’t in the real world (like beat up or slaughter real people he hates, exactly like Chris Chan) and I don’t think it matters that he can’t name names for legal purposes as long as King Nicky The Wicked can rule his world.
“Pacione spoke in…claaaass todaaaaaaay”
@50footant: I ‘m pretty sure he means the person is going to be a victim in one of his upcoming garbled messes that calls stories.
@Alkilyu: I *heart* early Pearl Jam! (BTW, I met Jeff Ament once…but that’s another story.)
Its odd the kinds of people arguing with him on the board. He seems to piss even lurkers off. Thats an achievement.
It’s hilarious how proud he is of his ability to piss off people, yet so butthurt when he does.
How much you want to bet that if he DOES use the Wicker Man, he’ll try to copyright it and claim that anyone who writes about a Wicker Man will be committing plagarism, even if they wrote the book before he was born.
Because, didn’t you know, anything he writes now had copyright and trademark over everything, even if not legally trademarkable or copyrightable, in both the past and the future?
Why? Because he’s so fucking fat and stinky that he warps gravity and causes a stench singularity that allows him to manipulate time itself.
Or because he’s fucking stupid and doesn’t understand how those laws work.
Forget its grisly Druid origins. Nicky will think the 1973 film and its 2006 remake were stolen from an Iron Maiden song.
Other places Nicky has shown up recently:
http://www.rebelradio.com/Guestbook.html
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/witheringsoul
I’ve gotten a number of hits, both today and yesterday, directed here from a couple of threads in what seems to be a moderator-only section of the metal forum.
Has Captain Butthurt been whining to the mods about this blog? That sort of horseshit has gotten Nicky kicked off of more places than I can remember offhand.
The longer they talk to him and see him in action, the more they will understand that they’re dealing with a mentally unwell individual, who’s only a “publisher”, “author” or “promoter” in his own mind.
It’s the internet, people call each other “crazy” left and right. However, sometimes you are actually dealing with a de facto crazy person online. This is such an occasion. Nicky getting a disability check from social services for his mental condition might be a clue, eh?
Oh dear Lord, my only knowledge of the Nicholas Cage remake is the infamous bear suit scene and now I can’t get the image of Nicky in the same running up to people and then running away giggling. I may need to take a stiff drink.
And the “My Official Author Site” thread of his is now also locked and moved away to the RIP section of the forum. I think they’re probably beginning to understand what Nicky really is now – a mentally unwell and unstable man, living in a fantasy world where he’s an author, publisher and promoter.
I still can’t get over that they have permitted his batshittery this long. It even looks like the user base is getting pissed off at him for namedropping and pimping his junk in pretty much every post.
I mean if the guy was just talking about metal or on topic, I could see them putting up with him. But he rarely goes a post without talking about him being an author, holding a contest, or some other form of fake name dropping in an attempt to endear himself with the masses.
The people there seem to be really cool folks but don’t appreciate his bullshit.
Exactly my sentiments, Gewn.
I wouldn’t have a problem at all with Nicky if he would just stop the whole charade of being an author everywhere he goes. It’s easy to ignore someone that strikes you as odd or a bit off, but he goes everywhere with that same message and the same victims mentality trying to find new marks for his latest scam. It’s a pattern of behavior that just keeps cycling itself and getting worse each time.
Hell, he could solicit for his projects in a reasonable and rational manner and I wouldn’t pay any attention to it and move on. But he starts offering money, prizes, and other rewards that he will never deliver. He demonizes everyone that tries to give him good advice or to warn others to be wary of participating with him based on his past violent, hateful, and just plain crazy behavior.
*ahem*
It would appear that his account on the Heart of Metal board has now had with an unfortunate accident involving an admin and a delete button.
Most of us here, Gewn, initially got on Nicky’s bad side by making innocent suggestions for improvement.
My crime was to mistake him for an adolescent when I first encountered him in 03 on Gothic net and suggested Strunk and White to him.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7141/awwwnicky.jpg
That’s what all his posts look like now. I chose that one because… well… just look at his “promo” picture there. It’s like “awwww, I failed AGAIN?”
They’ve kicked Nicky. I joined the forum because it seems like a cool place to discuss music and there are times I feel like doing that, by coincidence my first post was in thread Nicky had posted in and when I finished tapping it up his post was now labelled guest.
I joined that forum as well and I wasn’t expecting much, but it’s a really cool site and it’s not all about metal. Admittedly, I’m not a big metal head, but when I see a forum that appreciates all types of musical interests and good, lively discussion, I’m all over it.
So thanks Nicky for bringing that site into my world!
THEY KICKED HIM?!?! NO WAI!!!!
“…ooh but we unleashed a Gerbil
Paced around and yelled at pyrotechnics
How could I forget
He eventually had no friends left
My sides left hurtin’
From all my lol’in
Just like the day
Like the day i heard
Nicky couldn’t get erections
And the boy, was someone, his mommy thought was queeeer
King Nickolaus The Wicked
Ruled his world
Nicky got handed
his assss todaaaaay….
I’ve been lurking around on their boards. I’m not much into metal anymore so I haven’t joined. 🙂 I’ve just been enjoying the posts and threads.
Some of us at the forum are very familiar with Nicky and his antics. We’re also fully aware that, as funny—or is it absurd?—as it is, he has his own group of blogging stalkers.
So while Nick signing up was surprising, what he did after was not. Nor were the fake accounts (i.e. “lurkers”) created by the same person (same IP) attempting to cause grief.
Good lot of people at that forum, though, so hopefully the Pacione drama ends. Definitely a great place to discuss music, so join in if you feel like it. =)
True, Mr. Nipples, but you guys also managed to throw up REAL metal fans, without warning or explanation, and that has given you a major THUMBS DOWN.
Hey, I just kick back and watch him sink himself without any help.
Which is funnier? Seeing someone in a rowboat and blowing the side of it open so they sink as they furiously try to row? Or watching the same guy in a rowboat dance around spasmodically, waving a shotgun around and ranting about “dem homoshexhuals” and then accidentally firing the shotgun and blowing a hole in his own boat and scream about the “conspiracy” that just sank his boat as the water and dead fish spout up?
I like watching people sink their own boats without any help from me.
Oh, and Adolph, be prepared to have him babble all kinds of incoherent shit about how the metal board is in league with all the communists and homosexuals out to destroy the last real straight conservative horror writer.
You can sit by me and watch the funny guy launch another rowboat if you want.
I’m glad to know that any of my readers who choose to join are welcome. The drama’s over, I daresay.
P.S. I’m with Ant. No need for me to do anything but watch the guy sink his own boat, then point and laugh.
CJB,
Huh?
I agree it’s more fun to just watch, but every now and again I feel the urge to tell him that his rowing boat was made by a gay carpenter just to see what he does.
“I’m glad to know that any of my readers who choose to join are welcome.”
Ah, but we’re not, Rusty. I can only assume certain people were deleted due to “guilt by association” via the sign up date. I say that I can only assume, because no one was told they were going to be deleted, or why, and no one has bothered to answer emails regarding the issue.
I guess it’s the old “since one of you can’t behave, everyone is punished!” Too bad… but I suppose there are many other metal appreciation sites to frequent! 🙂
If that’s the case, then someone there went a bit overboard.
Mr. Nipples made a claim about multiple accounts being created from the same IP addy. It’s likely, given the circumstances, but it seems they shot one of the good people, along with the rest. You joined with a handle you’ve used elsewhere for years; I recognized it immediately, when I saw it.
Is it not understandable, given the fact that people follow Nick around just to fuck with him? Maybe someone went overboard, ban happy, whatever, but it was clear where things were going.
And there’s about 27 mods there so communication gets a bit twisted at times.
I’m not a mod, just a forum member, but if you tell me your username I’ll pass it on.
“but it was clear where things were going.”
It was, but it had nothing to do with us.
He wasn’t just banned on a board that he didn’t break any rules on, his entire history there was erased which is rare on most forums.
Is it possible that he was removed completely because he was an embarrassment over there? Because he repeatedly trying to imply that he was in cahoots with certain people? In his name-dropping frenzy he was acting like he knew certain folks over there that understandably wouldn’t want to be associated with him, but it’s hard to believe WE are the reason.
Wherever Nicky goes, he’s a mess waiting to explode. At this point in time, we go after Nicky mostly because he’s fun to pick on.
However, there was a time when he created a lot of grief for people. There was a time when women were actually afraid of him.
I’ve been dealing with Nicky for going on 7 years. He located my daughter through comments on my LJ and stalked her in an exceedingly vicious manner.
But we are forgetting the times that he made people like Mary Sangiovanni cry. The times when he threatened the child of Angeline Hawkes.
Nicky earned the shit that is dumped on him.
It’s also worth pointing out that for the past year all we really did was keep an eye on him, something that he’s going to have to put up with for a long time thanks to his actions. Once he started throwing accusations around and harassing others, that was when people started mobilising.
The regular posters here are people who decided that they could not stand silent while Nicky was spreading threats and false allegations about innocent people.
Exactly Janrae, and he still tries by focusing mainly on women and going after them more than anyone. Take Karen for example: The worst she ever did was laugh at him or what others said/did to him, nothing more. But he continues to go after her constantly. She hasn’t done shit to him, but she’s a female.
“all we really did was keep an eye on him, something that he’s going to have to put up with for a long time thanks to his actions.”
Especially since he does the exact same thing. How many times does he bring up something that happened years ago? Or go back after people that haven’t spoken his name in years?
I still think that board deleted him because they didn’t want him (and the members were starting to complain) which is fine and understandable, I’m just ticked that the official reason given was us.
Gosh, it’s nice to know that I wasn’t banned, then DELETED, for anything I actually did, but for what the mods saw in their crystal balls of “where things were going.”
For the record, I was able to make TWO posts, neither which had anything to do with a certain someone.
As I said before, I’m glad there are other metal appreciation sites. As much as I think Shocklines needs to be a bit more strict, I think deletion-happy twits are just as bad.
I’ll shut up now.
There was an element of “we banninated a bunch of folks who joined around the same time as Pacione, regardless of whether they needled him, but y’all come on back” to it. Whatever. The trolls are gone, and the good folks probably won’t want to come back by now.
So what if some of them read my blog? I’m not responsible for inciting anyone to do anything, and I’m not responsible for whatever a reader takes the initiative to do.
It’s more fun to point and laugh from a distance, anyway, as far as I’m concerned. Pacione’s antics are entertaining to watch. If he’s going to act like a Texas-sized cretin all over the internet, and send people harassing email, damn right people will talk about it.
I had no issue with them until the “wow you folks stalk him around the net huh?” and “we had to eliminate all traces of him because of you guys” posts showed up.
It seems to me that they don’t want Nicky targeting them for erasing him off of there so they made a point to use us as an excuse.
I don’t blame them for what they did, it’s how they did it I take issue with. That’s how it all appears to me anyway.
That forum got a lot of coverage on ETT as well. No doubt there’s some overlap in our readership, although my impression is that ETT’s base is Chicagoland, where a lot of folks know Nicky IRL. I’m not sure the mass ban was directed at my readers, per se.
It doesn’t matter Rusty, because no one forced them to do what they did. Nicky has been on other forums that kept him around and just deleted a few trolls as they came (Shocklines is a perfect example) they chose not to, it’s their deal.
I signed up and made a couple posts, got into a little back & forth with Nicky for good reason – his name dropping, using the same false scenario for promoting himself, and twisting of the truth irks me to no end – then I left to other threads. Had a good conversation with a Mod who was cool and I told him that I was just going to steer clear of Nicky, as long as they knew what the deal was with him. Then I logged out and haven’t been back, since the account is gone.
It’s a shame too, because the board seemed to have some pretty chill people and interesting conversations going on. Yeah, maybe someone went over the line in registering sock-puppet accounts and I can understand deleting them. We went to that board for Nicky in the first place so I guess that’s guilt by association, but some of us liked what we saw once we branched out into other topics.
Oh well, it’s their board and they may do with it what they wish.
I have met a lot of cool people because of Nicky.
I did not go to that board, because my primary interest in music is not metal. I listen to soundtracks, new age, and classical primarily.
Well, I figure Nicky waited until he figured both autoaim.cfg and myself were gone. He sent me two nasty little emails, and I didn’t respond, just patiently sat and waited.
And look what we’re getting now.
He really screwed up by coming out of the gate threatening my kids again.
He has issued more threats about your kids? link?
From “kmorg” via email: “All the drama surrounding Nickolaus was totally unwanted on our board, and the decision was made to remove all the people who followed him to the Heart of Metal board. And seeing your’re[sic] practiacally[sic] threatening us with some blog action here, maybe we did the right thing?”
LOL. That was in response to me saying, “I look forward to reading your reasons why you delete someone without warning, who has not violated any TOS; as I am sure my blog readers will also be interested.”
Seems like Nick wasn’t the only Nitwit on that board! Ah well.. back to real life…
Oh, Moderation, how fickle you are!
Meh. I never bothered to join, and certainly wouldn’t now. Don’t have much metal in my collection, anyway. But, I can see why anyone who joined for legitimate reasons, and got booted because of when they joined, would be a bit ticked off about it.
No links, just a shitty little email when I emailed him “Watch your step, fat-boy, I’m still out there somewhere.”
I would have banned obvious trolls and ignored the rest and left Nicky alone until he did something.
Kitsune? Hmm… And let him keep soliciting people to send him their works to be PUBLISHED in his ANTHOLOGIES, because he’s a real publisher, you know…. yeah, he’s not at all a liability? Perhaps just wait until he actually grabs a hold of another girl… again… and then sharing the responsability for letting it happen, having been informed about what he really is before it happend to one of the members?
Naah… I dont think so. If I were in their shoes I’d have permabanned the entire town of Morris, IL just to make a plausabe case that I had taken steps to ensure the safety of my patrons, after learning what Nicky is. They did the right thing, for the wrong reason. At least, that’s how it appears in the public eye. Behind the scenes, I cannot imagine that they’re not exhaling right now, knowing that they’re not in for whatever mess that card-carrying loon was bound to drag them into down the line.
Shame they couldn’t man up and admit it though, but there you go… This is a concluded chapter now, hopefully.
Personally, I hold no ill will towards Heart of Metal for what they did. The sockpuppets who went there just to stir shit up had no business doing that, and in the process it gave this blog and the regulars here a bad reputation.
Nicky doesn’t need any help getting himself kicked around on the net.
(Rusty if this shows up twice, could you delete the first one? It’s typo-tastic.)
Peace in our time, Chamberlain said…
As I said over on ETT’s blog, I’m not comfortable with the following Nicky to the site and baiting him with Photo-shopped pictures, links to ED, etc. just to get him to blow his top. I do think people should be politely warned when he starts posting submission calls, but if he’s just trying to socialize — even in his own inept, ungrammatical, self-centered, self-aggrandizing way — that’s different. He doesn’t need any help to self-destruct. And the baiting gives credence to his whining about being stalked. Just my $0.02. YMMV.
As I said on my blog post, the way the I used to get Nicky off sites was by NEVER warning or being confrontational.
Just being there and making nice and ignoring NIcky was enough to set him off.
I did not have to do or say anything to him.
One of my most enjoyable threads over at spinetinglers got NIcky banned and I never said anything bad to him or about him.
That was his second banning there.
I ended up with several lasting friendships from Spinetinglers, including the best editor I have ever found: CritGit.
When I first saw the arguments on Spinetinglers I did feel for him, as he was clearly being ganged up on.
Then you looked closer and realised the reason he was on his own was because they talked sense and he ranted and picked fights.
I’d say the difference to there is that he started threads complaining, such as ‘to the assholes giving my story one star reviews’. (that was funny)
It was similar as most of the posters tried not to take sides and didn’t like the wars of words.
However, the moment he was kicked off (I believe for threatening someone, either Rusty or Jenny) then others came out saying they were glad to see him gone.
One person I knew well said he’d send her PMs promoting his work and she just tried ignoring him. Didn’t work.
He burns his own bridges, no question, but it helped to have some people on there hand him fuel and a light.
Mind you, if I remember right, the people he fought there were either writers or people capable of it.
The first time he was kicked off was for targeting Jenny. That is what led Jenny to find the rest of us.
I joined spinetinglers to give Jenny some help dealing with him.
I was angry because he had gone to a new board and immediately targeted a woman for abuse.
When I dealt with him there, I mostly ignored him and spoke to the issues he was blathering his hate on and we ended up with the Fix My Flaws thread that went on for 60 pages.
Yes, that was my first Pacione experience. I rated his story (Spectral Exile) a one-star, and he started sending me nasty PMs accusing me of being in cahoots with Peter Barnes, hating the small press, and other delusional crap. So I Googled and found Peter, and then found everyone else.
Funniest moment from those days on Spinetinglers was when one of his PM’s contained the line, “I’ve analized the genre long enough…”. I’m sure he meant analyzed, but… Heh.