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Wednesday July 1 [ mood: *sporfle!* Just take me to the wank! ( Read my apparently not great commentary of the wank )
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Tuesday June 30 [ mood: Amazed It's amazing that Warhammer 40000 fandom hasn't wanked its way here before now. But here it is! It all started when someone on a bizarre conspiracy theory site makes a play to become the next BADD (see also: Dark Dungeons), by writing the article "Space Marines - Death Toys" about the super-soldiers from Warhammer 40k. It lays bare Games Workshop's nefarious plot to brainwash our children for the coming of the New World Order.
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Wednesday June 24 [ So, Russet Doom.
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[ Sockity_sock makes a horribly vague post to Bad RPers Suck about a sex-based game. From what I can gather, something happened and the players aren't too happy, so they're dropping. Fortunately, some players from that game come along to explain what this is all about, and they happen to disagree with what Sockity_sock has to say. First off, here's a handy summary of the events that happened. It also has an explanation of playercesting (basically playing two characters and roleplaying with yourself), which will be a word you will hear a lot in this post. The important point to get from here, though, is that a person was caught playercesting (presumably under two names, as people later mention the RPer in question using a fake name later on), which is against the rules, and was asked to drop one of the two characters. Said player then flounced, and was followed by several other people from her characers' canon. The first bits of disagreement come in this thread, though, as someone politely disagrees with how sockity_sock has worded the post. But that one isn't nearly as fun as this exchange here: crystaldawn: Oh GOD, some mods somewhere enforced a rule. HOW DARE THEY sockity_sock: Yeah, because it's TOTALLY fair to enforce a rule that's not actually in the RULES. FAIL. crystaldawn: If the person had nothing to hide and wasn't aware of the rule, she wouldn't have created a fake persona to app under. Also, this has been in place since forever. People routinely ask the mods about it when apping. And finally, being asked to drop one of the two characters (without any kind of strike, warning, or reprimand) is hardly unfair. No one else is allowed to play characters that close, the girl in question isn't a special snowflake. Oh, but wait! You can app under a sock account, so it's okay! But actually part of the app asks what characters you already play, so you can't app under multiple socks. But they mischaracterized the relationship between the two characters! Only not really. Also, here's more explanation of what's going on. And apparently there was massive flouncing to be had. Sadly I can't go and track that down, since the game is locked to players only. Sockity_sock also flounces from her own post, so the wank was cut short. Oh well, it was entertaining while it lasted. Also, I did respond in the post (I'm maplepancakes there), but I wasn't involved in the wank itself (talking about lulzy mod tags for the post doesn't count, right?), so it should be okay to post here. EDIT: My passive-aggressiveness, let me show it to you. EDIT #2: The player in question responds. EDIT #3: Friends show up to defend the subject of the wank.
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Monday June 22 [ music: Muse - "Stockholm Syndrome" Over in LJ-land, user post_tets posts in the Star Trek community about 'fangirl' icons. Cue petshopboy1983 getting his boxers in a wad, including pwning someone in an epic battle of "which episode?" as well as a claim that ALL old canon will be ignored. post_tets tries to regain some sense of logic (*snerk*) in the thread by reiterating his original points, getting into a pissing contest with sio. But really, what's the point of Star Trek anyway? EDIT: Okay, this post has almost as many comments as that one. ILU GUYS
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Wednesday June 17 [ Here's a fandom of mine that's absolutely huge but I've never seen on F_W: Magic, The Gathering. The CCG. That silly little card game that nerds from the ages of ten to ninety thrown their life savings at for no apparent reason. So why am I bringing this silly thing to F_W now? Well, for the first time in about eight years (I think), they're doing a major rules change. By "major rules change" I actually mean they're altering a few mechanics that most players don't even KNOW about, but are important to certain But a rules change is a rules change, and you can't change the rules on a bunch of pedantic self-important card game players without causing some wank, right? So I dug up a little fanboy rage for your amusement: Eighty-two pages worth to be precise. Then it started threatening their forum space limit, so they moved it to another thread which is currently pushing 40 pages. Common refrains include "I'll never play MTG again!" and "You're making the game better for those idiot beginners while alienating your real fans!" Enjoy y'all.
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Monday June 15 [ mood: Fantastico I do believe this is my fandom's first wank! I'm oddly excited. Hetalia: Axis Powers is a popular webcomic turned anime about personified nations of the world (yes, really). There has certainly been controversy over the series, but it's not too bad a fandom, considering the enormity of the fandom and its propensity for slash (Hetalia is full of canon slash after all). Not today though! The wank starts when When Flit over to the Hetalia anon-meme, where the anons are quite annoyed (there are loads of threads, starting on page twenty). They like Then Wank is possibly still growing. We'll see how it turns out! edit: Fixed the few errors in the post. Guh. That's what I get for writing this out at six in the morning.
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Wednesday June 10 [ mood: Feeling my Awsomeness This is an offshoot of a post I made on Twicon is being billed as the biggest and best Twilight convention in the country. Well, I had my doubts, and now it looks like some of the sparkle is rubbing off for the Twihards. You see, Yesterday the con finally announced it's autograph policy (it's on their main page): Autographs for each attending cast member will be available for reservation on Friday, June 19, at 11:59pm EST. Each attendee can sign up for one free autograph at that time. To reserve your free autograph, login to your registration account and go to the Agenda section. You will only be given the option of selecting one cast member. Don’t worry; once everyone has had time to select their free autograph, we’ll be offering autographs for sale for those cast members who have more time and autographs available. Okay, these people are paying $255 for this weekend (at least). Which is only $14 cheaper than Creation's Gold Package which includes free autographs from everybody. To say the least, the fans are not happy... This is going to be a fun con :) ETA: I was wrong about the podcast thing, so I removed it. ETA II: I also notice quite a few attempts at registration sell-offs have popped up in the last 24 hours... ETA III: On that registration sell off page I noticed one post seems to have gone missing. User lennire had flung her hands up in disgust and wanted to sell off her ticket. Now her posts are gone and her account non-existent, though some of the threads she has started still exist without her. Nobody else seems to have caught wind of this, but I bet the shit will hit the fan when everyone realizes this.
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Tuesday June 9 [ Friends, Romans, Wankas. The Republican (lol!) Twilight self-publishing wank has been deleted owing to the balance of evidence suggesting that the subject was almost certainly underage. So if you saw that video with the hickey on her breast, I hope you feel suitably dirty. In this case, her age was not exactly prominently displayed, but bear in mind that if you have any doubts about the age of the subject, don't post it. Or check with your loving mods. Also: if you want to bring something to our attention, send us an email (ideally with a link or links). Don't just comment that "mods should look at this," since we may miss something buried deep in a comment thread. We remain your humble servants, the modsquad
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Monday June 8 [ (Be warned: long wank report is LONG. Continuation of this This weekend, Torchwood fans flocked to Chicago for TorchSong, a John Barrowman-centric convention with a website that looks like it was modeled after a Geocities page circa 1997, a half-assed commercial that aired on BBC America, and some awfully expensive tickets. When the con was first announced, the only guests were John, his sister Carole, and Mark Sheppard. When people started emailing the organizers about possible other guests, they were emphatically told while more guests would be coming, there would be no other Torchwood guests because it was a John Barrowman event, not a Torchwood event. Ticket sales apparently convinced them this was not a good strategy, so over the following months they added Kai Owen, Tom Price, and Gareth David Lloyd. Fans squeed, and despite being not particularly impressed with the organizers' behavior, they willingly plonked down as much as $500 to see John and friends and to see John perform. (Later, 'special' auction packages went for up to $1,410.) Then things start to go wrong. On Wednesday, Kai Owen was forced to drop out due to a family emergency. Thursday, the day before the con began, they announced that John Barrowman had torn ligaments in his ankle and he would not be attending. Aaaaand we're off. ( Act I: Pre-Con ) ( Act II: The Convention ) ( Act III: The Ongoing Aftermath ) ETA4: "UR JUST JELUS!!" ETA5: Con-goers have now created their own special clubhouse:
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Friday June 5 [ For those of you who follow LJ RP, An Amat secret shows up on Roleplay!Secrets a few days ago (#8, in fact), bemoaning the fact that a certain Gale is ruining the Digital Devil Saga cast at Amat for the anon OP. Cue wank, stage right. See, Gale has made quite a few enemies during her time in Amat with her wanky behavior (as chronicled across RPS entries too numerous for me to track down). Ironically, this secret hit in the wake of her causing a scandal about outing her castmates' cannibalistic behaviors so the Metal Gear Solid cast couldn't beat her to it. When her castmates called her on it in the post in question, she told them to pretend the meeting she mentioned took place and to just go along with her. When they still told her to stuff it, she deleted the comments in her post (probably, no one seems to know for sure), then deleted the post itself. Since, as mentioned above, Gale's been known to be incredibly wanky and disrespectful of the mods, this was the final straw and she found herself on the wrong end of the banhammer at Amat. Here, have some more information from Anon about it! Feeling that she had been horribly misrepresented, Gale herself shows up to An outpouring of anonymous hatred does little to slow Gale's freight train of justification, as she soon makes a post of her own, telling her side of the story (and telling everyone Cielo-mun's IRL name, just in case you didn't see it before The latest chapter came just this morning when
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Tuesday June 2 [ Thanks, mousie from wank_report! So this E3, it was news that Tales of Monkey Island (trailer here) will be made for WiiWare and the PC. One bit of the article caught the fans' attentions. The colorful 3D world can be explored using the Nunchuk and pointer on the Wii or the keyboard and mouse if you're playing on the PC. Let's just say that the PC-users are not pleased with Telltale Games. RMJ1984: It really is a shame, when companies goes down this ignore path, because they are on the consoles, then we have to suffer with so bad controls, that it ruins the immersion and the game. I wont support games with inferior controls, we need the same or evolution or deevolution. Just a shame when a company with their big ego cant see when stuff doesnt work, so either stop making youre games to consoles, or implement both type of control schemes. Guess we can count in next Sam and Max being ruined as well, oh well thats 2 games i wont be getting. Its scary because no matter how good a game is, its absolutely worthless, when the controls sucks, and youre new ones does, im sorry, but i would have fired the person(s) who made them. what a shame, never thought Telltale would become like this, but thanks. And dont even start on the "Mouse only" doesnt work, because it does. Edit: and as people say go back to the drawing board, stop making console games or pc games, or implement both schemes, a use on this very forum has shown it works much better even with mouse only. So why are you lying? why are you so interessed in this inferior control system? the mind really does buggle, i mean yeah we users are demanding, stick to controls that actully work, and dont break the fun of the game immersion.
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[ Some point-and-LOL fun, instead of absolute bat shit craziness for a change today! First things first, not my find. Anyway, Darkqueenakasha makes a post in ontd_startrek, asking people to not post about ZQ [Zachary Quinto] being gay or not. Obviously, a very good idea. Not understanding the point of ONTD and ONTD related communities in general, she blames her noob-status on the misunderstanding of why people would post gossip about celebrities in a gossip community! Only, there's a bigger issue at hand! Darkqueenakasha? She's a moderator of salinto, a community dedicated to Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto RPF (real person fiction) and when called out on her hypocrisy and general stupidity she comments to her own post first but then edits her post to get the point across that she only created the RPF communities because people expressed interest in the subject of Salinto RPF and there were no communities set up yet for said pairing and was just helping and doing the fandom a favor even though she may or may not care for RPF and few begin to speculate if it's a coincidence or not that she asks for gay rumor postings to stop since she runs a het-RPF comm! *breathes*... Although she says something here, it's still a rather lulzy defense no matter what. She also edits this thread in her post, which caused me to go searching. There were more posts, but only one I didn't know that! comment, thanking darkqueenakasha for her mighty work in the Star Trek Fandom, and the Alabama Anime fans, and the VA WoW Players and AALT2: African Americans with Asian Interests because of course, she's just trying to help. Helpful? Perhaps, yes. Going about it the way she did? Good old fashioned LOLS. And if that doesn't make you laugh, there are 14 pages of GIFS, I'm sure you'll find something to amuse you (the Karl Urban ones on page two are pure win). Also, tell that to the J2 crazies.
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[ Lifted in part from the anonymice at wank_report, with some added batshittery gleaned from links around my flist: ( Have you missed the intense batshittery of the domlijah tinhats? SPN is stepping up to fill the void! )
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[ mood: Snoopy-Dancing Guess what today is, you guys! That's right! It's RUSSET DOOMSDAY! Except NOT! ( A quick review. ) And would you look at the calendar? It's... June 2nd. There have been no posts tagged "lady sybilla" or "russet noon" at Foforks since the interview came out April 5th... what happened to the exclusive Brazilian premeire of Russet Noon chapter one? Well, apparently June 1st didn't quite work out, for whatever reason. Naturally, it's time for a new press release (already Caito-cloned here): Russet Noon: Chapter 1 Will Be Released in English, Portuguese and SpanishMy personal favorite tidbits: AV Paranormal is seriously considering the possibility of delaying the publication of the book until November to coincide with the theater release of the movie sequel to Twilight, New Moon.and AV Paranormal is also planning a contest for readers to win free tickets to see the movie sequel to Twilight, New Moon.Because if there's anything this fanfic needs, it's more publicity stunts. More ETAs to come, I'm sure: the sharks, eager as ever to chomp, are just waiting for Sybsy to dip her toes in the pool fall into the deep end. ETA: Chapter 1 is out. I have no idea whether the prose is as bad as the formatting, but at the end of 21 pages (um, book pages, not web pages), there is this little note: Would you like to express your opinion about this chapter? AV Paranormal is very interested in receiving your feedback and suggestions. We welcome any type of criticism, either positive or negative. Email us your reactions and we will publish them here. Please be advised that hate emails with insults will not be published. There are diplomatic and polite ways to express your opinion, even if it's negative, so please keep your emails civilized.Well, if you don't have anything nice to say, come and sit by me. ETA: Sybsy supposedly has a PR guy now, whom she thanks by name on Twitter and is also listed as a contact at this version of the last press release. ETA: This is Lady Sybilla's new favorite thing. Basically some dude on the internet thinks copyright is bunk. Too bad exhorting others to relinquish copyright doesn't actually change copyright laws. She probably found it by googling herself, because someone named Sheila brings up Russet Noon in the comments. Oh, but if it means that she's relinquishing her own copyright, that means you can probably take Russet Noon and repost it anywhere, like your own journal or lol_meme or GAFF or wherever. You wouldn't even have to stick a spork in it. You could also probably save it all in one file and make it available for download. (I'm not saying you should, I'm just saying you could, and she couldn't make a copyright claim to anyone's host server.) Not that her copyright was ever really hers to begin with, but yeah. There is also a Russet Noon blog with a huge banner made from Stephanie Lostimolo's work. Theft begets theft! Meanwhile, Gilloughly at Absolute Write has a huge hate-on for Sybsy, to the point where I think he's showing up in my journal to tattletale. (If that's not Gilloughly, it's someone who seems to copy and paste off his forum posts, because it sounds just like him.) There is also now a Russet Noon MST on twitter. Speaking of Twitter, Sybsy's been pretty funny lately: #The sharks at absolutewrite are desperately trying to shut me down, but there's always fanfiction.net if they succeedBet Gilloughly would like to hit her with that pole, yo.
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Thursday May 28 [ music: Journey - "Send Her My Love" Information culled from an anonymouse source on Daddy's Little Cannibal was a Twilight fic writer, and apparently quasi-BNF enough to merit at least one interview, with 43 stories to her name that garnered multiple awards. Her most popular story was Cigarette Burns, which her twin sister is now posting for her posthumously. Oh yes, I forgot to mention. Daddy's Little Cannibal died on May 8, 2009, after being involved in an accident with a drunk driver. ( Tragery! Or something else? ) The end! ... or is it? Is it a social experiment? Attention seeking? Was she just tired of flitting from xanga to xanga and craved a more dramatic way to disassociate herself from her previous activities? And who is the anonymous source on wank_report - grudge? overzealous detective wanting to show off their leet snooping skills? or one of the wankers, trying to garner more attention? Only time - and possible ETAs - will tell! ETA: I found a single now-deleted flame c&p'ed by other authors on FF.net.
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[ So Gaia Online released a new set of items this week. These items became popular pretty much instantly, as a large majority of them were cosplay-related. However, Gaia released them as "RIGs", which means that you have to buy another item, use it, and then hope you get the item you want. That, or you have to shell out quite a bit of internet gold in the marketplace to get them, and since the market is basically run on supply and demand and the most popular items also have the lowest drop rates you can pretty much guess how much they cost. (Hint: there's seven digits) This goes over about as well as expected. Also, one of the developers speaks on the matter, and a moderator backs them up, but that does little to stop the massive amounts of wank. Also, I'd like to point out that a lot of users on Gaia are under 18, but I waded through all of this to find topics that have only 18+ members or members who did not put their birthdays in their profile doing all of the wanking. Fortunately there's hundreds of topics about all of this, so legal wank isn't impossible to find.
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Tuesday May 26 [ The Champions League Final is 24 hours away and the wank has already begun. Mild wank, but here we go anyway. It started when Scousey you are coming across as really pathetic trying to put Liverpool in anything to do with the CL. Get it into your head, they didn't make the final. I suppose Barcelona beating United would almost be like a trophy for you. *sighs* No doubt UNITED and BARCELONA are the two best teams in the world :D So, your team didn't make it. Watch as an interested netural, ignore it, whatever, just don't try and make it all about your team when they are not there. It is Manchester United and Barcelona's moment - not Liverpool's. However How sad, that's the highlight of your season. Too bad you don't have a trophy or something for it. (So clearly, it is ok for IDGAF who wins tomorrow.
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Thursday May 21 [ Just a little wank over how MEAN it is to give unsolicited (for, um, a certain definition of "unsolicited"), anonymous concrit. Welcome, friends, to THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME It's one of those memes where people post their names and other people comment anonymously, in this case, telling what they think of their writing. Let's look at the rules, shall we? 1. If you’re a writer, comment to this post with your username. 2. Commenters, no drama please. Play like adults. And writers, be prepared for any comment. 3. Pimp the meme out by posting the above code into your journal. 4. Be honest. (emphasis mine!) So, we're clear on how this works, right? Writers put their names in themselves, voluntarily. They should expect any kind of feedback, and it will be honest. And as long as there is no drama, any kind of comment is allowed. ( Unfortunately, not everyone is prepared for anonymous comments or honesty... )
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Sunday May 17 [ As those of you who haven't been living under a rock may know, a new Star Trek movie just came out. Over on She has some choice words to say about it. ( Wank long and prosper ) |
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Wankity wank wank wank. Fandom is fucking funny. Wear your tinfoil hat at all times. Squidwarts 4 evah. OMG WTF LOL!1!!! Gandshat is my fandom_wank OTP. Don't feed the wankers. Domlijah colors are orange + yellow. My fandom is wankier than yours. BNF = Backus Naur Form. We're not bad, we're just drawn that way. Equal opportunity mockers. Wank will eat itself, over and over and over and over. Stop reading this and find something funny. | |||||||||