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Notes From WorldCon: How Zoë Quinn Healed My Soul

Often when I say critical things about Gamergate—or more particularly, about Gamergate’s roots and the conduct of the man who whipped up the initial harassment squad that became Gamergate’s core—I will get a gator in my mentions sidling up to say something like, “Oh, and of course you think that Zoë Quinn is a perfect darling little angel who could do no wrong.” I don’t know what Zoë Quinn’s…

Sad Puppies Review Books: Yertle the Turtle

YERTLE THE TURTLE Reviewed by John Z. Upjohn, USMC (Aspired) This book is the all-too-plausible story of one evil turtle and his tyrannical desire to enslave all other turtles to his bidding. If when you read this book it seems to echo eerily close to something you have heard before, that is probably not a coincidence. This is no mere children’s story like the ones you’d find in Aesop’s fables.…

Well, so much for the notion that this year’s litter of Sad Puppies were kinder, gentler, or even more moderate than last year’s. Over the past weekend, when the initial reactions to their new list were still more initial, Sarah Hoyt posted a response that was… well, we’ll say “typically hyperbolic”, but also quite telling. A lot of it follows the “BUT MOM, I’m NOT Touching Him!” school of…

Learn why SJWs always lie…

…and who benefits when they do, is this groundbreaking new book from Hymenaeus House by Theophilus Pratt: John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular: How SJWs Always Lie About Our Comparative Popularity Levels. Boasting an impressive 50% more chapter fives than the next leading competitor, this is the only book about the lies of SJW you need to buy this year. Get it…

I don’t know how I’m going to keep satirizing the Sad Puppies at this rate…

Okay. This is not going to be my usual well-constructed Reasoned Discourse thing, only because I am laughing too hard, and I think that we could all share in the laugh. So, a thing did happen at the traditional Loser Party after the Hugo Awards. That thing was George R.R. Martin, the man who sits upon the Iron Throne of the whole tongue-in-cheek affair that is the Hugo Awards Loser Party, showed…

Thieves, Liars, and Why We Care

So, one of the Sad Puppy Hugo picks—and thus one of the people shut out of the awards this year—is Toni Weisskopf, an editor at Baen Books. The Sad Puppies, in their post-mortem attempts to twist the rebuke fandom gave them into “Evil SJWs Doing Evil Things”, have turned this woman into a political soccer ball, kicking her down the field and then demanding we either kick her back or let them…

Hugo Awards Upset: Fans Say No To Sad Puppies

Two years ago, Larry Correia started the Sad Puppies campaign with one goal and one goal only: to get himself the award he thought he deserved. He hadn’t exactly been snubbed by the science fiction community, but he never quite got that “it’s an honor just to be nominated” is more than just a platitude. Last year, Larry, having realized that not only wasn’t going to work but didn’t play very well…

I Can Fix The Crimson

So, the retro-wonderland video game Terraria received a massive content update at the end of June. I didn’t get around to checking it out until like last week, but I spent enough time playing it over the weekend to get full-blown Tetris Syndrome over it, with neat rows of terrain blocks artfully arranging themselves behind my eyes. Sometimes described as being a side-scrolling Minecraft clone,…