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Well he helped killed the Internet Archives https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1271170158896254981 quote:Internet Archive is ending its program of offering free, unrestricted copies of e-books because of a lawsuit from publishers, which said lending out books without compensation for authors or publishing houses was “willful mass copyright infringement.”    Jeffrey Dahmer fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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according to google, he writes star wars comic books
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Jun 12, 2020 18:43
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Much like his namesake the dreaded Wendigo, Chuck must consume human lives to extend his unnatural life. And his heart is a solid lump of ice.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:00
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he got paid to write the words: The TIE wibbles and wobbles through the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrrann rooftops - it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight
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Jun 12, 2020 19:08
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Bonaventure posted:he got paid to write the words: The TIE wibbles and wobbles through the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrrann rooftops - it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight      
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Jun 12, 2020 19:18
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Jesus wept
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Jun 12, 2020 19:21
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I hate both of these people. And probably whoever has those avatars along the bottom too, just to be safe
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Jun 12, 2020 19:21
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he seems like a really big rear end in a top hat
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Jun 12, 2020 19:24
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I don't know about Alexander Chee, and this Wendig sounds like a jerk, but Colson Whitehead is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the recipient of a MacArthur grant. For Wendig it's probably just the money and jerkery, but Whitehead surely doesn't need it. Maybe he's a jerk in his spare time.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:28
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This possibly tops that Kevin Smith "dick p0wn" tweet as being the worst of all time.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:29
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n...no. no.
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This man is, somehow, everything I dislike about Firefly
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Jun 12, 2020 19:51
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He created Wingdings
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Jun 12, 2020 19:56
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Makes sense I would assume most Americans believe that poor people shouldn’t be able to read, they should bootstrap themselves and write their on novels
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Do it ironically posted:Makes sense I would assume most Americans believe that poor people shouldn’t be able to read, they should bootstrap themselves and write their on novels Most Americans believe that the poor should be forced to suffer 24/7 until they magic themselves to not be poor. If they're just sitting around reading, how are they supposed to make money???? I don't pay my taxes just so some lazy slob can read a book all day long!!!!
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comics writers, just as a note, tend to be really insane about piracy compared to the general public for a few reasons. 1) the vast, vast majority of comics writers have at least one creator-owned indie book through Image or IDW or Boom Studios or *insert laundry list of indie publishers here*. while you're not taking food out of their mouths by pirating, say, New Avengers or Uncanny X-Men or Detective Comics, if you pirate something like Uber or The Wicked & The Divine or Saga, you actually are hurting the creative team because their payment depends 100% on how much the book sells (vs. being a flat page rate for work-for-hire). 2) comics are insanely commonly pirated. you can literally find anything i mentioned just now, along with basically any other comic in existence, on multiple online readers by googling them and adding "read free," and you can find them to download just as easily by adding "cbr cbz." comics fans haven't liked to pay for anything for basically as long as the internet has been a thing; before this, there was a whole-rear end livejournal group, scans_daily, where people would frequently post entire comics. basically, comics writers are maybe the one group of people on planet Earth, aside from possibly the most successful tiers of indie musicians and Kindle writers, who both have a bone to pick with piracy and a reasonable, sane basis for this bone to pick. not only does it frequently directly harm them, but it's also common enough that this harm is actually quantifiable and obvious. with that said, though, going after poo poo in other media that don't have these weird factors is brainwormy as gently caress. i'm... actually fairly sure archive.org didn't have any comics uploaded, or if they did, it was an absolute drop in the bucket compared to the numerous sites that exist solely for comic piracy. so, while I think Wendig's viewpoint is defensible, I don't think his actions in service of that viewpoint are at all.
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Jun 12, 2020 20:18
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Lowtax gets banned from Twitter yet Chuck Wendig still has an account.
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Mega64 posted:Lowtax gets banned from Twitter yet Chuck Wendig still has an account. He has the best breast milk.
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son of a bitch, the internet archive a great website for hosting old b movies that lowtax had, I'll kill him!!
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Jun 12, 2020 20:49
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It's cool that everyone was scared of faceless corporations ruining the Internet Archive when it's actually Chuck Wendig, some idiot dork who writes bad Star Wars comics.
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:It's cool that everyone was scared of faceless corporations ruining the Internet Archive when it's actually Chuck Wendig, some idiot dork who writes bad Star Wars comics. the other side of this is i'm pretty sure chuck wendig doesn't actually have the money to sue the fuckin' internet archive. as you mentioned, he's just some idiot dork who writes Star Wars comics (though, honestly, the ones he wrote are fine). if he's involved with the actual lawsuit at all, it's a Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker situation where he's getting bankrolled by, you guessed it, faceless corporations.
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:the other side of this is i'm pretty sure chuck wendig doesn't actually have the money to sue the fuckin' internet archive. as you mentioned, he's just some idiot dork who writes Star Wars comics (though, honestly, the ones he wrote are fine). Very true, but this would have never happened if it wasn't Wendig making GBS threads his pants all over Twitter.
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Jun 12, 2020 21:42
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Thank you for finding this insufferable rear end in a top hat
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:(though, honestly, the ones he wrote are fine). phyew
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This guy loving sucks and he should be tried at the Hague for his abominable Twitter posts which the infinite Mercy of God could not even forgive
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Jun 12, 2020 22:19
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I don't flumpty-like him.
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gleebster posted:
The website showed that his book had been downloaded twice. So probably just jerkery.
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:It's cool that everyone was scared of faceless corporations ruining the Internet Archive when it's actually Chuck Wendig, some idiot dork who writes bad Star Wars comics. That's actually who I was scared of. I always knew those idiot dorks who write bad Star Wars comics were gonna ruin the internet.
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Jun 12, 2020 22:33
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what a oval office (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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quote:Traditional libraries pay publishers licensing fees, and agree to terms that restrict how many times they can lend an e-book. jesus. how many people are even reading ebooks from libraries? maybe once everyone is using nothing but libraries and not buying books they should look at lovely measure like that, but this is stupid.
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Quotey posted:jesus. how many people are even reading ebooks from libraries? maybe once everyone is using nothing but libraries and not buying books they should look at lovely measure like that, but this is stupid. A lot of people borrow digital content from libraries. E-Audiobooks are definitely a thing and you can borrow those too. Buying a physical cd audiobook tends to be very pricey
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Quotey posted:jesus. how many people are even reading ebooks from libraries? maybe once everyone is using nothing but libraries and not buying books they should look at lovely measure like that, but this is stupid. Lots and lots of people, actually. My mom downloads e-books from her local library system and reads them on her Chromebook 2-in-1 thing all the time. I agree that killing the Internet Archive's e-books is loving dumb though!!
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Fartington Butts posted:I don't flumpty-like him. Flggggnnnnnmmmflorp!
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chuck wendig can suck the poo poo from my rear end in a top hat!!!
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Muscle Wizard posted:chuck wendig can suck the poo poo from my rear end in a top hat!!! 
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Muscle Wizard posted:chuck wendig can suck the poo poo from my rear end in a top hat!!! same but from my breasts I poo poo out of my breasts
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Chuck Wendig can climb into my rear end in a top hat and eat his way out. You suck, Chuck.
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If I ever needed a reason not to use Twitter I think this would be it.
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gently caress Chuck
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Cat Army