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- It's a First Year Convention being organized by relative newcomers. While there do seem to be some experienced business people on the ConCom, it's pretty clear the driving force behind this show is Becka Grapsy and Bailey Gauthier a pair of college age girls who are obviously trying to make themselves into BNFs in Twilight.
- It's being promoted as the biggest Twilight convention in the US Their publicist is definitely earning his paycheck with all of the buzz this show is getting inside and out of Twilight fandom.
- It's being held in Dallas, Texas and apparently, none of the ConCom lives anywhere nearby. FedconUSA and UncommonCon had similar ambitions when they started up here, and it didn't end well for either of them.
- Oh, did I mention the price? While the admission price is on par with Creation, it's their rates for dealers tables that are really cringe worthy. And the NO REFUNDS policy is just the icing on the cake.
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | |
| 6:49 pm [pointandlaugh] |
Stephen Fry Flounces From Twitter? From the Beeb: He sent a message - or tweet - to the user with whom he fell out, saying: "You've convinced me. I'm obviously not good enough. I retire from Twitter henceforward. Bye everyone." (I can only imagine that there is a row going on about this somewhere, but as I am not a Twitter user, someone else may have to provide). |
| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | |
| 1:16 pm [reeve] |
Little fundraising shitstorm a brewin' Game collector site GameSniped recently posted about a fundraiser which seems to be a little controversial. Said fundraiser is for a ROM dump of a prototype for the N64 game Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, which is owned by well-known proto collector DreamTR. Apparently, he'll dump the ROM and release it online for free... but only if he's paid $350 first. Wank has started in the comments about whether or not this is a good idea. Frankly, I'm just finding the whole concept of paying for proto dumps a bit baffling. |
| Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | |
| 11:37 am [quantumreality] |
Firefox Remote Add-On Disabling May Cause Wank History: Microsoft, eons ago was stealth installing an add-on which Firefox picked up. People were not pleased and there was kerfluffle, but you could just disable that stuff and keep on trucking. But what if you really did want to use it? Ok, leave it enabled. All was well (?) until Mozilla pushed out a universal disable on that add-on and you can't re-enable it without disabling the whole blocklist (which, from a security standpoint, is probably a bad idea). More tech related info for anyone who wants to wade through all that stuff. I predict a wanksplosion over this come Monday when the corporate IT admins find out they designed an intranet site using the WPF/.NET runtimes and start heaping buckets of crud all over Microsoft AND Mozilla because, according to the link on the site, they cooperated in getting this add-on disabled by remote control. Expect wank over the implications of having someone else besides you decide what functionality you want with your browser. |
| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | |
| 11:22 pm [platedlizard] |
This ought to be good. an open letter to the guy who put just a geek an audiobook on his website for people to steal (Note, that's Wil's headline, not mine) Hi there, guy-who-I-won't-link-to-for-obvious-reas I'm Wil Wheaton. I wrote Just A Geek, and I created the audiobook you're helping people steal. You may not know this, but I 'm just one guy, without a publisher, so when you help people steal this copy of Just A Geek by making it available for download, you're basically stealing directly from me. You're not stealing from some big publisher with deep pockets who is trying to rip you off with overpriced stuff; you are stealing directly from me, an indie artist and publisher who counts on every sale to make a living. I have to tell you, guy-who-I-won't-link-to-for-obvious-reas As you can imagine the comments to his blog are supportive to Will. I do have high hopes for the Fark thread. ETA: Right now (11:47pm my time) on Fark we've got the standard "downloading stuff illegally isn't stealing !11!!!" "ZOMG yes it is!11!!111" wank. Since this is par for Fark's course I don't feel it's ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank-ready yet. I'm waiting for someone to locate a link to the guy's site, and maybe a response from him.ETA2: The blog in question. It's basically one big dogpile, ETA3: I think I'm going to take this to Fandom_wank. Fortunately I still had the tab open when the site decided to start purging comments, I think I caught most of them. I just need to set up photobucket account. |
| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | |
| 11:30 pm [feenix] |
My wanking senses are tingling. Generally, Y!Gallery tends to make *ahem* something else tingle, but... ( Just in case you didn't know. ) So far, I'm reading through the 50-odd comments, and they mostly seem to be, "YAY SNOVER'S BACK SIANNE SUXED NEWAI." (The site went down due to hosting issues last month as well.) But if Sianne ever does come back... Current Mood: *thud* |
| Monday, August 24th, 2009 | |
| 6:18 am [galateus] |
Do my homework for me, and I'll stop being crazy A sequel to the Warhammer 40k conspiracy-theory, kerfuffle and flounce seems to be brewing. The page was finally updated on Friday, saying that the non-asshole half of the Internet is cordially invited for Seven Days to submit good, constructive criticism of her former page, which all those mean emails bullied her into taking down (except she really just moved it, it's even still linked on the front page, where irate "death gamers" will never notice it). But! If she gets "even ONE nasty email," the old page will Four days and counting! ETA: Been a month, no sign of a new update. Darn. |
| Saturday, July 18th, 2009 | |
| 6:13 pm [knightrider] |
baby NRL wank? Watch this space ;-P First things first - I'm not a football fan - I just happened to catch this incident as it was aired last night and thought it might be worth checking the forums. So if I'm being especially dumb about any of that manly football stuff...eh. So, someone copped an unfortunate, very nasty blow to the head during last night's Broncos-Souths match in Brisbane, Australia. He was all right, after being stretchered off and taken to hospital. Rough game, that rugby league. It was obviously a complete accident, as you can see here. Possible warning for the squeamish - there's no blood, but the guy gets a hell of a blow to the head and goes down like a ton of bricks. Also, I should warn for brainless commentators - you apparently aren't allowed to call a football game in this country if your parents weren't brother and sister. The wankiness? Well, the guy wasn't a player, was he? He was a referee! Nobody likes referees! But I guess whether or not the guy deserved to be KO'd because he may have made an unpopular decision once or twice depends on how big of a League fan you are. First of all - possible grudginess? Someone gets annoyed because the thread even started: Timmay says: Tony De Las Heras has been knocked out cold in the Broncos v Souths game. Doesn't look good for him, Jamie Simpson crashed over him then Tonie Carroll's knee collected him. Refs cop a lot of sh*t obviously but I hope he's ok. Innsaneink says: Yes, we all saw it thank you very much. Looks like you jumped on here instantly to alert us, good work Something tells me there's a bit of history there. johnsy says: Is it wrong for your first reaction to be that you to want to laugh when you hear that a ref has gone down ? Um, is there something wrong with me for thinking YES? Then apparently the Brisbane crowd are all douches because they cheered...or are they? Kiki says thought it was poor form from the crowd to stand up and cheer. coulda broken his neck, imagine that giant knee coming at u full force. hope hes okay Sass says: indeed. dog act, suncorp crowd! Miccle says: p*ss off. You clearly were not there. Most of the crowd, myself included, went up cheering when Simpson knocked him out of the way. Nothing in it, and because we were following the play, most didn't see what happened with TC. The cheering or laughing pretty much completely stopped when a replay was shown, and everyone was silent until we clapped the ref off. </i> And on it goes. It's small, and I suspect that if the judiciary does indeed rule it an accident and decides not to penalise the player who knocked him over in the first place it'll blow over. But if it doesn't...um. Could get big, might be worth watching this space. |
| Monday, June 15th, 2009 | |
| 2:47 pm [telesilla] |
Oh 'cos this won't be wanky Laura Hale has nominated herself for the LJ Advisory Board. |
| Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | |
| 11:45 am [cat_mcdougall] |
I'm not judging! Honest! Okay, so over on LJ there's a comm called ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} yankandbritlove. It's about people in long distance relationships, who are attempting to bridge the Atlantic, and learn about immigrating either way, and are in a relationship.Most of the posts are about surviving LDRs, or about where/when/with who to file certain papers, or "what should I expect" posts about travel. And today, *sniffles* It grew up. I'm not judging you BUT! makes it's appearance. tronochick seems to think that because she met her husband in Germany, then all is hunky dory and Why can't you losers do it?!Of course she doesn't outright say that, but it's ever so clear. I will be saving the html, because it might get bahleeted. And there's definite wank potential there. EDIT! I have the page saved (HTML) with unfolded comments, if anyone is willing to host it. Post here and I will share the goodness with you! Current Mood: *sporfle!* |
| Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | |
| 10:23 pm [thoms] |
This could get wankier the more Bret Michaels' rep keeps talking There were many WTF moments at the Tony Awards this past Sunday, but none more WTFworthy than the appearance of the band Poison during the Rock of Ages portion of the show's opening medley. At the end of the performance, lead singer Bret Michaels (who was lip-synching), rather than follow his stage directions to get off the stage, decided to stay out for a little bit longer than he should have and wave and grandstand, while the rest of his bandmates and the company of RoA scurried away so that the Pal Joey/Next to Normal segment could roll out. Bret realized too late it was time to go and began to run offstage. At the same moment, a half-ton piece of the set was coming down. For some unexplicable reason, Bret decided to give a little skippity-skip, got clotheslined by the set, and went down, apparently breaking his nose and busting his lip, requiring stitches. (video here, Rock of Ages is following the West Side Story/Guys and Dolls mashup. Watch for the tumbling cowboy hat.) He seemed fine, by all accounts. He was apparently joking backstage that Shrek and Donkey helped him up, and said he just wanted to get cleaned up so he could hit up the afterparties. I don't believe he appeared in the big finale (video here) of everyone joining the cast of Hair to sing "Let the Sunshine In," but honestly? That was such a clusterfuck of people and so many costumes that involved hats, that he well could have and I overlooked him. Reactions from seemed to be largely amused more than anything, and the official comment from the Tonys folks was "He missed his mark." Bret Michaels' rep seems to have had a bit of a come apart, saying: With all due respect to everyone working the Tony Awards, somewhere down the line there was a lack of communication and the prop should have been immediately halted until Michaels was clear. Sunday morning at rehearsals, Bret was never informed that the descending set piece existed, let alone would be moving into position as he was exiting the stage. And again, comments at ONTD, the VH1 blog, Entertainment Weekly and Perez Hilton seem to be largely of the "LOL Bret Michaels" variety, with a few smarter souls mentioning that it's pretty hard to stop a moving piece of set that's that heavy that quickly, and that if he would have just done as he was told, he would have been fine. And a lot of "Yes, they are more concerned about Liza, Dolly and Elton, that's a good way to point that out!" There's a few folks who have been chiming in with "YOU GUYS ARE SO MEAN!" If Bret's agent has anything more to say, this could get wankier, so I'll keep an eye on it. Edit of Love: Apparently Bret's solo shows are in jeopardy due to his injuries. Pictures of which are here (don't click if you're squeamish) and don't really look all that bad to me. Edit of Love 2: Though I can't find an actual source for this, rumor has it that Bret was actually not at the dress rehearsal for the number. There's a video up of the dress rehearsal on YouTube, but it's from far away enough that I can't tell if it's actually him or a stand in, and as said, he was lip-synching, so I really can't tell from listening. Edit of Love Bus: More of the agent's statement, via bretmichaels.com "To put this into perspective," Ms. Elias adds, "a garage door has a safety mechanism so that it doesn't come down if your child should accidentally walk under it while it is in motion. You mean to tell us that with all the technology, producers, directors, stage managers and crew that no one at the Tonys saw Mr. Michaels clearly backing up and turning to exit the stage or was capable of halting the prop or slowing it so it didn't strike Bret? There was no official mark, Bret did what he was instructed to do which was to finish the song and return to the retractable stage platform, which was exactly what he was doing when the prop struck his head." Bob Wallerstein, a representative for Michaels, said "we realize the show is live and must go on, however it is unfortunate that the show's host made light of the situation without having any knowledge of the severity of Bret's injuries. Comments that Mr. Harris was doing shots backstage with Mr. Michaels and that Bret was completely fine were untrue considering Bret never saw Mr. Harris prior to, during or after the Tonys but in fact was being attended to by medical personnel backstage. Michaels did not return to the stage, the seats nor attend any after parties." An official statement on this incident is expected by Michaels by the end of the week. LOL thinking flying set pieces are the same as a garage door. |
| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | |
| 8:48 am [darth_buttocks] |
Twilight Convention Wank on the Horizon? Hey everybody! Some of you might know me from Fandom_Wank, but this is my first time posting here. It looks like Twicon is going to be the next clusterfuck of a convention. Why, you ask? Well, lets go down the list... At this point, I'm expecting this to play out like Flanvention. They'll squeak by this year and next year it all goes to hell as they try to top themselves. Anyway it goes, it should be entertaining :) ETA: AND THE WANKING BEGINS!!! The ConCom just announced their autograph policy on the main page of the website, (apparently it's only just ONE FREE autograph per attendee) and nobody is happy with the restrictions. |
| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | |
| 5:10 pm [pinkranger] |
What, no mention of Terminator wank yet? Over on io9, a debate is being held over whether or not Terminator Salvation is better or worse than Terminator 3. The author of the post, Meredith, weighs the pros and cons of both films, and wisely leaves it up for the readers decide. After all, no one can tell you whether a film is good or not, all opinions are right? Wrong. sandmanfvrreturns: T3 was a very good film, not T1 or T2, but still very good. I thought T4 was great. All this whining really comes from spoiled fans that just want to blog, tweat etc and let others hear them whine. We have Marcus a rogue element never mentioned before and thus his death to save John Conner held up the timeline. We SEE the face of Skynet (every cool) and the birth of the T-800 and Arnold's line. The story was great and really, didn't we see this tieing into the first films? I mean it HAS to. So many whine about "we do we see reese and all this we have heard of before?" Well, when your whole canon is about time and time travel, you must overlap. We see alot of things happen in this movie and it was great. For future films, the introduction of the time travel devices will come and THEN, THEN after we fill in the gaps of T1, T2, and T3 "how did this all come about in the future",THEN we move forward into the future past all the other films. Maybe T6 or 7 will do that and everybody will be happy, but seriously they are completing the story and it was a great presentation to me. Not perfect, but it did it's job holding the timeline and not fucking up the time travel bit and was a great film. I really don't see the whining, but everybody has an opinion. The best way to call out fans for being whiny while they blog is to... do the same? More fun in the comments, especially with fans arguing over the timeline. io9 always brings out the wank (maybe it helps that they can be a little wanky sometimes when they don't like something). |
| Friday, June 5th, 2009 | |
| 7:26 pm [wallflower] |
This has actually already started to get wanky, but since today is only day 1 of a 3-day event, there's still a lot that can happen. TorchSong is a scifi convention built around John Barrowman with a website that looks like it was modeled after a Geocities page circa 1997 [the site has been crashing, so here's a google cache mirror if it's not working for you]. The original guests promised for this "Spend a weekend with John Barrowman and friends!" event were John, his sister Carole, and Mark Sheppard. Over time, more Torchwood actors were added, making it a more Torchwood-centric event: Kai Owen, Tom Price, and Gareth David-Lloyd. Tickets are pricey: general admission one-day tickets are $60, going up to an all-inclusive package featuring an autograph and picture with John Barrowman, better seats for panels, a cocktail reception with guests, and dinner and a John Barrowman cabaret for $500 (tickets for just the cabaret cost $150). The organizers even auctioned [google cache mirror] packages with all of the above, plus a photo and autograph with all the other major guests and a front-row seat for events, for which some fans were willing to pay as much as The con is supposed to be this weekend: June 5-7. Two days ago, Kai Owen was forced to withdraw for personal reasons. Yesterday, they announced that John Barrowman tore ligaments in his ankle and as a result he will not be able to attend. ( And then it starts to go downhill. ) ETA: Tom Price got hit by a car and broke his arm. My God, this is insane. (ETA2: He shares a picture on his Twitter. Poor guy.) (ETA3: Now people are saying it was a bike? Main point: BROKEN ETA4: A couple con reports: - Con-goer is upset and provides examples of fail (Two hours for registration, a "free drink" coupon for soda or wine only, with anything else available for purchase only, and so on.) S/he blames, among others, John's webmaster, and others disagree. This quote about the organizers' behavior, though, is boggle-worthy: "I overheard them telling one poor girl that if she didn't think that a video link was the same as a personal appearance, then there was something wrong with her." Whaaaaat. - Positive report, with some dissent in the comments. LAST ETA: I am working on updating this to f_w proper because of continued con organizer fail and Barrowman acting like a dumbass. Stay tuned! |
| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | |
| 5:07 pm [reeve] |
Once again, E3 brings the Final Fantasy wank... Final Fantasy XIV was shown for the first time ever today at Sony's E3 press conference. It's a PS3 exclusive! It's coming out next year! It's gorgeous! It's in the classic Final Fantasy style! It's got chocobos! It's... an MMO?! NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... Tiny right now, but this one will grow. Oh, will it grow. |
| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | |
| 1:01 pm [ardath_rekha] |
Just-hatching Buffy Wank The real fireworks haven't started yet, but this is probably one to watch... earlier today, Entertainment Weekly reported that there's going to be a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. The hitch? No Joss. None of the TV show cast. No references to the seven years of canon established by the TV show. Apparently, the Kuzuis, who had purchased the rights to the original movie script (which Joss later accused them of ruining on its way to the screen) and remained credited producers on the TV series, have decided to remake that, and, while they're not excluding Joss from the project per se, they haven't "reached out to him." So far we just have mounds of indignation... there's very little wanking as of yet because (a) hardly anybody's heard about this yet and (b) 98% of respondents to the article are in agreement that the idea sucks harder than a black hole. But it'll come and it'll be juicy. |
| Monday, May 18th, 2009 | |
| 9:49 am [reeve] |
Cheap Ass Gamer vs. Kotaku, Round Two Don't know how many of you remember this wank, where a fake rumor posted to Cheap Ass Gamer for a contest was picked up by the gaming media as real, and Kotaku's Brian Crecente in particular was especially butthurt at the trickery. Several months have passed since then, and CAGs are now accusing Kotaku of holding a grudge. It seems there's a competing game deals site called Cheap College Games that Kotaku has sourced for one of their stories (written by Crecente, no less). Some readers call shenanigans, and CAG members in particular are up in arms. CAG staffer Shipwreck points out (in that last link) that CCG submits their own tips to Kotaku, while the CAG crew prefers that their community gets first crack at posted deals, but this does little to staunch the flames. There's also this comment from Cheapy D: "The super bonus is that the CCG guy posted his affiliate link in his comment on Kotaku. Classy." Don't know if this one will grow; we'll see. |
| Sunday, May 17th, 2009 | |
| 8:58 pm [microclimate] |
What lies in the shadow of the statue? ~Lost season 5 spoilers in the links~ So over at Lostpedia, some guy takes it upon himself to rename the wiki's article on the infamous four toed statue to a very specific Egyptian goddess, evidently without a vote. People are not pleased. |
| Friday, May 15th, 2009 | |
| 6:36 pm [darksumomo] |
LJ Advisory Board Elections, Take Two! Crossposted to 6a_cornfield . Not content with the wankstorm that was last year's LJ Advisory Board election, the results of which were recapped in sisterelwood 's post on 6a_cornfield , LJ and SUP have decided to repeat the procedure this year. It took all of seven minutes before the mocking began. So, up for a month of LJ-related wank that will make 6a_cornfield worth reading? Current Mood: *sporfle!* |
| Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 | |
| 12:48 am [lidane] |
Oh, this should be fun.... Gee. I can't imagine WHY Square Enix would send a Cease & Desist over this: http://www.destructoid.com/square-e http://digg.com/nintendo/Chrono_Trigger Of course, that doesn't stop folks from getting pissy: ( Two strikes, SquareEnix. ) There might be some more wank out there as more people start to talk about it, but so far, it seems to be limited to Digg and Destructoid. ETA #1: Looks like folks at ChronoCompendium are not pleased. Thanks to dawnswalker for venturing in and finding the link. |
| Saturday, May 9th, 2009 | |
| 11:22 am [bananainpyjamas] |
Something's brewing in the PhD feed Today's Piled Higher and Deeper touches on the economic crisis and the effect on academic budgets, especially in the humanities. The comic ends with the token humanities character being told to study something "more useful." Unsurprisingly, other humanities students don't react well over in the comic's LJ feed. But this probably would have stayed in the realm of only mildly-wanky venting, had kaitzi not chimed in with his two cents.I had a conversation with a friend about this recently. I don't consider humanities very useful because useful implies we use them for something. I can see the practical applications of all science fields, but I really can't see it for the humanities. How do I use history, I asked, and my friend said, "well, you know washington was the first president!" but knowing that information and *using* that information are two different things. For example, I use math everyday, if I'm at the store and I need to figure out if I have enough money in my account to match what's in my basket, or if I'm driving and I want to figure out when I'll get someplace. Non-science majors are nice and fun but they really tend to lack practical application. ::shug:: I've always considered the smaller amount of respect people pay to h-degrees as the trade off for h-majors getting to do less work for their degrees, so it all works out. Oh shit. Not to be outdone, an art history student gets in a dig at life sciences. Still small, but growing relatively quickly by the standards of this feed. Has the potential to explode if kaitzi replies to the developing dogpile or if another similarly-minded science student joins the fray. |