tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post3497309202715050249..comments2024-03-29T18:17:34.956+11:00Comments on Thinking Out Aloud: Sad PuppiesLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-25826888970761250562015-04-15T05:18:05.060+10:002015-04-15T05:18:05.060+10:00Terry Pratchett did win and accept a Prometheus aw...Terry Pratchett did win and accept a Prometheus award in 2003 for Night Watch.Steve Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16256167637226194489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-17414634263547458422015-04-13T11:41:13.965+10:002015-04-13T11:41:13.965+10:00I've seen indications that there is a core of ...I've seen indications that there is a core of SJW inner circle and a certain editorial faction at a certain publisher have coordinated message ad pushed it. But no way to prove itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-10824919648499176242015-04-12T10:41:54.431+10:002015-04-12T10:41:54.431+10:00Thanks for the comments; good comments all :)Thanks for the comments; good comments all :)Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-17447252524644739262015-04-12T09:07:00.138+10:002015-04-12T09:07:00.138+10:00In a very long and fruitful writing career he was ...In a very long and fruitful writing career he was nominated... once... and declined. This man should have been a perennial nominee. So it goes.<br /><br />Bkc1066Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-56718523763943062962015-04-12T06:17:22.250+10:002015-04-12T06:17:22.250+10:00By 2005, he should have been nominated a dozen tim...By 2005, he should have been nominated a dozen times.<br /><br />Sarah A. HoytAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-59460892038753890622015-04-12T02:00:41.488+10:002015-04-12T02:00:41.488+10:00Yeah, Anonymous, Joe Sobran and Tom Bethell dubbed...Yeah, Anonymous, Joe Sobran and Tom Bethell dubbed it 'The Hive.' Bees and ants don't have a group mind directing them, but they react to their environment similarly, and they signal 'food' or 'enemy' with pheromones. The same happens with political partisans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-20437084668384086292015-04-11T21:25:27.807+10:002015-04-11T21:25:27.807+10:00That is entirely possible, true. I'm not wedde...That is entirely possible, true. I'm not wedded to the "conspiracy" angle, being familiar with Hanlon's Razor, but some times when a bunch of people are using the same attack on a target it may actually <i>be</i> a conspiracy.Nohbodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-60867088793962620162015-04-11T17:52:59.439+10:002015-04-11T17:52:59.439+10:00I wouldn't be surprised to find some links in ...I wouldn't be surprised to find some links in the SJW inner circles, but I think that it's less about direct correlation and conspiracy and more that they all work from the same assumptions and with the same goals of dominating and dictating culture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-4728650155130667532015-04-11T17:50:53.189+10:002015-04-11T17:50:53.189+10:00Pratchett was nominated in 2005 for the Discworld ...Pratchett was nominated in 2005 for the Discworld novel "Going Postal", but declined the nomination, feeling that it would interfere with his enjoyment of the WorldCon (LonCon, in London, being the host that year).Nohbodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-12997214826709471702015-04-11T17:45:51.216+10:002015-04-11T17:45:51.216+10:00I know you said you weren't going to touch on ...I know you said you weren't going to touch on GamerGate, but similar to the bunch of articles that came out slamming SP, there were a bunch that came out about "gamers are dead", and that developers didn't have to cater to "serious" gamers (which I'm not, for the record).<br /><br />Turns out, after some digging by some pro-GG people, that there was a whole incestuous mess of links between the online gaming magazines and article authors collaborating to present a common storyline, akin to "JournoList" (of which the same Jonathan Chait that you mention in your article was a defender) before it was exposed.<br /><br />To the best of my knowledge, a similar web of connections hasn't been found regarding the Sad Puppy campaign, but given most of the news websites that have touched on SP other than Breitbart have been pitching the same line about how SP is supposedly nothing more than a right-wing takeover by racist white males, one can't help but wonder if there's some "smoke-filled back room" coordination by those opposed to the SP campaign.Nohbodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-18824245003962007422015-04-11T14:14:28.605+10:002015-04-11T14:14:28.605+10:00Didn't know that.Didn't know that.Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-6922426821429636772015-04-11T12:55:02.286+10:002015-04-11T12:55:02.286+10:00I will observe, on the photo, that he once decline...I will observe, on the photo, that he once declined a nomination for the Hugos.Mary Catellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16769948263567169424noreply@blogger.com