So, where's Scott?

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« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2013, 12:47:13 am »
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It was a fairly dull post or two, with a moderate stance

Yeah, you know, I looked that up recently to see what it was about, and was surprised by how low-key the puppeted comments were.  Seems like the outrage was over the fact of the deceit rather than the message it was purposed to carry.

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« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2013, 12:47:18 am »
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I would take ramen money and shrunken fetishes :D!

Reactions to deception - Cnaiur, Achamian - are not surprisingly hostile. Kind of ironic, that.

I think I started the forum May 31st, Callan. Not sure. Its still very young - still waiting on the tipping point, I'd hazard.

EDIT: May 16/12

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« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2013, 12:47:23 am »
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Well, Westeros literature and general forums seem to have a permanent want for outrage over any number of topics.

You have to be willing to cop a fair amount of abuse if you want to engage any of the old names there.

The Goodkind threads seem a good example of flogging a dead horse for the sake of outrage.

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« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2013, 12:47:28 am »
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It's a shame with online, in that in real life you can share food or drink with someone and it shows you care to be with them, even if you disagree with them. But with online, the means to show such is through such 'agreement'.

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« Reply #19 on: April 25, 2014, 06:20:14 am »
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Yeah, you know, I looked that up recently to see what it was about, and was surprised by how low-key the puppeted comments were.  Seems like the outrage was over the fact of the deceit rather than the message it was purposed to carry.

Yeah, it's not so much what he said (although, some of the comments were a bit trollish/childish), but the fact that he simply used a sockpuppet to praise himself, instead of doing what every other respectable author (who chooses to engage fans) does. I mean, look at Mark Lawrence or Abercrombie or Daniel Abraham on Westeros... Can you imagine any of those, or say someone like GRRM or Robin Hobb, would do something similar?

At least if you're going to do it, don't expose yourself later and look like an idiot.

Of all the authors out there, it had to be Bakker...

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« Reply #20 on: May 05, 2014, 08:12:04 pm »
At least if you're going to do it, don't expose yourself later and look like an idiot.

Of all the authors out there, it had to be Bakker...

100% to the quoted. I wasn't around for that fiasco, but regardless, what you say seems reasonable.

I really like to think that our little site here will garner the attention of the man himself, but like I keep saying, we have ~10 posters and about 100 members, and that just isn't very many (side note, I've probably been quoting those numbers for a year or more and they haven't increased). There are probably larger congregates elsewhere, but to my knowledge this is the only website dedicated to the books/fans that allows real interaction. For that reason alone, I think if Bakker decides to do some kind of interaction it will be here (probably 95% of that feeling if personal bias *shrug*).
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« Reply #22 on: May 05, 2014, 10:47:56 pm »
I thought you summoned Beetlejuice by saying his name three times?
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« Reply #23 on: May 05, 2014, 11:49:55 pm »
Think it was at least three. He comes after 3 but saying it more certainly wouldn't stop him.
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« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2014, 05:27:53 pm »
I heard that if you say his name 144,000 times as fast as you can in front of a mirror you will pass out and dream of the First Apocalypse.

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« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2014, 05:33:04 pm »
lmao.

I think the mirror has to be in a dark room with candles as the only light source.
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