Chicken with the Dark Lord
Brad Torgersen, the leader of Sad Puppies 3, observes the obvious:
We don't whine. We don't cry. We don't complain. We howl.
And the rabbits tremble.
Facebook is lighting up with outrage over the fact that the notorious Vox Day is threatening to go all NO AWARD on the Hugo ballot in 2016, if NO AWARD takes the Hugo ballot in 2015. Amidst the wailing and gnashing of teeth and blaming the family dog (me) for the fact a wild wolf (Vox) is growling at the door, I have to ask everybody: what did you freaking expect when you made it plain as day the whole reason for going NO AWARD in 2015 is to keep Vox’s imprint Castalia House (and Vox himself) off the trophy table? That’s like putting a bloody leg of beef into the water while a great white shark circles nearby. You are daring The Kurgan to play chicken with you. That is The Kurgan’s most favorite game. The wild wolf lives for danger. The wild wolf wants you to nuke it all from orbit. This is Mutually Assured Destruction....That pretty much sums it up nicely. What do you say, Dread Ilk? What do you say, Rabid Puppies? Are we dogs or are we wolves?
I know Vox sure as hell doesn’t give a fuck what I think. When did he ever? He didn’t give a fuck when SFWA sent him packing. He doesn’t give a fuck who hates him. If Sad Puppies evaporates tomorrow and ceases to exist, Vox won’t give a shit at all. Because Vox doesn’t give a shit what any of us think, and doesn’t care.
We don't whine. We don't cry. We don't complain. We howl.
And the rabbits tremble.
Labels: Hugo Award, rabbitology
14 Comments:
Well duh.
Nuke and Pave.
'Never interrupt your enemy while he is busy making a mistake" - Napoleon
Going NO AWARD will be proof to the masses that the Hugo is nothing but political. I hope it goes that way.
It's rather amusing that the instance they are even remotely challenged, the SJW/rabbit front simply collapses and the collectively pile mistake on mistake for everyone to enjoy. They were completetly right: they really played on the lowest difficulty level until now.
Is Brad getting cold feet? Does he fear the DreadIlk? Or has he been hit so hard by the SJW crowd that he just lost his nerve? Sad Puppies, Rabid Puppies and Dread Ilk must see the effort through. Victory is within reach.
I don't think Brad has cold feet, I think he understands the truth, NO AWARD is not just a weapon open to the SJW crowd.
It's something that's crossed my mind a few times recently as it reinforces their inability to think in terms of anything beyond the immediate. If they think we are here to destroy the Hugos, why would WE balk at NO AWARDing everything in sight
@ Bruce Lewis
"Never interrupt your opponent while he is stabbing himself over and over in his pimply face with a barbecue fork" is more like it.
@ Rantor
Is Brad getting cold feet?
Or maybe we all just read the motherloving stories and books and act like fucking grownups for a fucking change.
No. Torgersen has gone over to the dark side. He has offered a reasonable challenge, all the while knowing the rabbits can't meet it. His micro-aggression has created an unsafe space, there will be much nose twitching and hopping about.
Nope we are Honey Badgers because .... Honey Badger don't care
Torgersen is trying to be reasonable and accomodating. Haven't we seen how well that works out a sufficient number of times yet? Crush them.
Life stuff getting in the way of a post I wanted to do on this precise point, but will get it done this weekend.
One thing that has become crystal clear though is that part of the reason Vox is seen as the EEEEVILLL Beast that he is, is due, partially at least, simply to the fact that most people have no intrinsic understanding of war.
There is a type of psychology that to some extent can be taught, but that really on some fundamental levels is innate, that instinctively understands budo and these people, be it in an actual trench, a streetfight or an internet flame war, naturally position themselves so as to destroy the enemy. Not inconvenience, not hurt. Destroy. Decisively and comprehensively win. That, ultimately is the brutally simple aim of war.
Such people generally recognise each other instantly, but for some reason (a subset of MPAI and the ease of modern living having killed off a healthy part of darwinian self-preservation mechanisms in most humans) they are not recognised for the poisonous, radioactive, rabid wolves they are. Calm ones mind you. The really dangerous ones are always calm. Rabidly poisonous and radioactive they may be, but it's by design, not unhappy accident.
So they go and poke this nightmare creature and then get oh so shocked when they are dismembered limb from limb.
And they blame the wolf.
I am always reminded of the classic response to this of a philosophical giant in this field:
"Puny humans! Hulk Smash! "
That's right. Keep thinking Hulk is stupid. Puny humans indeed.
They understand nothing. Nor do they understand war at all. I will be posting how I will vote in July and why in a way that will hopefully explain this a lot better, but why anyone is surprissed by Vox's actions is beyond me.
If they think we are here to destroy the Hugos, why would WE balk at NO AWARDing everything in sight.
Come on, that would be logical. Can't expect that.
No one with any shred of integrity blindly believes mass media anymore and has likely developed acute perception to discern progressive messaging.
Because progressives abuse their power, use intimidation and slander to shout down opposition, they are the ones who have grown smug with confidence over the decades. And with smugness comes a laziness.
Which is why this stage of the 'culture war' is long overdue and we should not take it for granted.
Let's learn lessons for future application, don't get too cocky and press forward.
Wait, did you actually threaten to NO AWARD next year if the SJWs do it this year, Vox?
I recall you talking in theoretical terms about NO AWARD as a strategy, but I dont recall a specific and direct threat.
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