Anyone Want a Good Laugh?

[Thanatos]

Oh dear lord, their pitch is so cliche fill its in danger of collapsing under its own weight. Like the O'Neill\Kirk pastiche they have for a captain, the fact that they look down on the Vulcan engineer for not being "imaginative", River Tam as the helmsman, and the girl who develops strange powers!

*vomits in his mouth a bit*

[skies]

I disagree, I think it'll get shot down because this guy is probably a nobody who thinks he's got the inside track, whereas Paramount won't give him the time of day in the real world.

That too. I think it would take an exceptional script and pitch to get this made. At least RDM had the benefit of time on Trek before he managed to get neo-BSG off the ground, note that Richard Hatch didn't seem to have much luck.

True. And unlike this guy, who seems to have delusions of grandeur, RDM actually had experience in the biz, and had an inside track at Sci-fi, and a solid script/concept, which is what got neo-BSG of the ground.

[Darth Servo]

- When faced with devastating facts from the EU regarding troop numbers far smaller than their pulled-from-the-air quadrillions, they attacked and made threats against the author, who now seems to rather enjoy slipping in additional jabs in her continuing EU writings. Nowadays, the author's numbers are ignored despite their repetition in the EU.

Uh... where exactly? What author? Which book? What page? Where's he pointing to? What repetition in the EU? Where's that? Anyone want to lend me a hand at this? What's he getting at? What's he talking about?

I'm naturally a little skeptical of everything I come across, even stuff I agree with or would like to imagine would be true, but not unreasonably so; I'll believe something if there's cold, hard, concrete evidence to support its cause and it seems logical. On the other hand none of his sources are cited, so I don't think I'm being unreasonable here.

Obviously he's talking about Karen Traviss' bullshit GAR troop numbers. Numbers so stupid they refute themselves.

[bilateralrope]

- When faced with devastating facts from the EU regarding troop numbers far smaller than their pulled-from-the-air quadrillions, they attacked and made threats against the author, who now seems to rather enjoy slipping in additional jabs in her continuing EU writings. Nowadays, the author's numbers are ignored despite their repetition in the EU.

Uh... where exactly? What author? Which book? What page? Where's he pointing to? What repetition in the EU? Where's that? Anyone want to lend me a hand at this? What's he getting at? What's he talking about?

Probably Traviss and her 3 million clones nonsense.

[skies]

Oh dear lord, their pitch is so cliche fill its in danger of collapsing under its own weight. Like the O'Neill\Kirk pastiche they have for a captain, the fact that they look down on the Vulcan engineer for not being "imaginative", River Tam as the helmsman, and the girl who develops strange powers!

*vomits in his mouth a bit*

Hmm...maybe Darth Wong should split off this discussion from this thread and move it to the trek forum.

But, yeah, like most of these wanna-be projects, they think they're going to save the franchise with their brilliant and original script, when in fact it's just a half baked mishmash of every cliche that ruined the franchise in the first place. I'm not surprised that it showed up as a reference in darkstar's blog. This is exactly the sort of crap the darkstar's disciples would go for. Not to mention that they bring it up just to make an unsupportable claim that the 25 year jump in the ST timeline will blow away any 'Warsie' claims at superior tech.

[Darth Wong]

- When faced with devastating facts from the EU regarding troop numbers far smaller than their pulled-from-the-air quadrillions, they attacked and made threats against the author, who now seems to rather enjoy slipping in additional jabs in her continuing EU writings. Nowadays, the author's numbers are ignored despite their repetition in the EU.

Uh... where exactly? What author? Which book? What page? Where's he pointing to? What repetition in the EU? Where's that? Anyone want to lend me a hand at this? What's he getting at? What's he talking about?

Probably Traviss and her 3 million clones nonsense.

Someone should debate him, accept the numbers, and then point out that clonetroopers are so awesome that one of them can kill a million battledroids according to this same source. So clearly, one clonetrooper could probably wipe out entire divisions of Jem'Hadar, Klingons, etc.

[Lord Poe]

- When faced with devastating facts from the EU regarding troop numbers far smaller than their pulled-from-the-air quadrillions, they attacked and made threats against the author, who now seems to rather enjoy slipping in additional jabs in her continuing EU writings. Nowadays, the author's numbers are ignored despite their repetition in the EU.

Uh... where exactly? What author? Which book? What page? Where's he pointing to? What repetition in the EU? Where's that? Anyone want to lend me a hand at this? What's he getting at? What's he talking about?

I'm naturally a little skeptical of everything I come across, even stuff I agree with or would like to imagine would be true, but not unreasonably so; I'll believe something if there's cold, hard, concrete evidence to support its cause and it seems logical. On the other hand none of his sources are cited, so I don't think I'm being unreasonable here.

He doesn't cite sources, because he's full of shit. He's the one pulling figures out of his ass not us. Want proof? Here ya go:

http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/64

People need to understand not to talk shit if they can't back it up with proof.

[Surlethe]

But in all seriousness, no I don't take it that seriously.

Hence my frequent comments on that point, such as the comment in the very post you're replying to in which I call this "the most unimportant of topics", and lament the 'lol internet war' mentality of the opposition.

This ought to be a fun discussion between reasonable people, which is why I've always found the opposition's refusal to listen to reason and their use of vitriol, flames, character attacks, and even personal threats to be clear evidence of deep psychological trouble.

And yes, there are the old adages about not arguing with crazy/stupid people ("those watching might not be able to tell the difference", or "they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience") . . . but before I knew they were crazy, all I knew was that they were assholes and they pissed me off. And I'm a far, far bigger asshole.

Besides which, if you really want to compare emotional investment and need to get laid, compare my $30/mo. for hosting and my limited time investment to their $2400/year (of perfectly good college money for their kids), their tales of writing notes for site updates while on dates, their tales of trying to get info on me from exes of mine, their calls to the homes of their opponents, their discussion of how to approach opponents' homes via Google Maps reviews, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam.

If you do that math, you ought to come to the correct conclusion that I'm doing just fine in the getting laid department, but I do thank you for your concern.

For me it's a hobby, based solely on when I have some idle time to release my inner geek to lay down the geek law.

For them, it is a deep emotional investment and their primary social interaction.

That's just how it is. Sorry if you missed it.

[Darth Wong]

Remember, you can't possibly be an obsessed loser if you tell people you aren't!

PS. Where did he get the idea that SDN costs me $2400/yr to maintain? Ever since I added the Google ads, this site pays for itself. With the occasional donation and the monthly expense surpluses, I can even save up enough to occasionally upgrade the server, with SDN money.

PPS. I love the part where he says that "if you do the math", you can see that he's doing fine with the ladies. Yeah, sure he is.

[Zablorg]

You know, Mike, you could just as easily edit your posts without adding capitalized letters everywhere.

What math, anyways? Is he expecting us to magically calculate the aproximate physical attractiveness, metal capability and social skills and average them out or something, over the internet? Wow. He never was one for giving hard sources, was he?

[Darth Servo]

And I'm a far, far bigger asshole.

Well, I'll be damned. What a surprising bit of honesty.

If you do that math, you ought to come to the correct conclusion that I'm doing just fine in the getting laid department, but I do thank you for your concern.

Who is married and who has to "neutralize" their competition in that department, Darkstar?

For me it's a hobby, based solely on when I have some idle time to release my inner geek to lay down the geek law.

And said idle time appears to be most of the day.

[Surlethe]

I'm surprised he didn't bring up his (what passes for an) annual income. Given his tactics, you'd think he'd point it out if he made more than $20,000 a year.

[Batman]

You know, Mike, you could just as easily edit your posts without adding capitalized letters everywhere.

I'm sorry, where is Mike adding capitalized letters everywhere?

[Lord Poe]

I'd hardly call kicking back with someone you've been with for (at that time 6 years) a "date"!

Besides which...look who's on a "date", and who isn't....

[Darth Servo]

I'm surprised he didn't bring up his (what passes for an) annual income. Given his tactics, you'd think he'd point it out if he made more than $20,000 a year.

Welll, now that you pointed it out, that will certainly be his NEXT blog entry. Darkstar's entire operating procedure is to simply copy what everyone else says. Textbook example right here in this thread. Darkstar's original deathstar theory mentioned NOTHING about the superlaser "shunting" the mass of Alderaan into hyperspace. And there is certainly nothing in the Death Star novel in question about any kind of mass energy conversion in the superlaser process. But Darkstar just sits there and acts like the Death Star novel was copied straight from his webpage (including the starfleetJedi's rewording of "boost into hyperspace" to "disappear into hyperspace"). Here he is insisting he has been saying hyperspace was a part of his "theory" since 2002. The man is a sick pathological liar. And he will just continue stealing everyone else's ideas to use as his own. He'll, he probably wouldn't be aware that women even exist if we didn't keep ragging him about the issue.

[Darth Servo]

Besides which...look who's on a "date", and who isn't....

Wayne, could you go get those quotes about Darkstar needing to "neutralize" his opposition concerning a girl he was stalking?

[Master of Ossus]

Remember, you can't possibly be an obsessed loser if you tell people you aren't!

PS. Where did he get the idea that SDN costs me $2400/yr to maintain? Ever since I added the Google ads, this site pays for itself. With the occasional donation and the monthly expense surpluses, I can even save up enough to occasionally upgrade the server, with SDN money.

PPS. I love the part where he says that "if you do the math", you can see that he's doing fine with the ladies. Yeah, sure he is.

All of this, of course, ignores the fact that Mike could probably afford to spend money on the site. DarkStar is a phone jockey for a crappy university. I'm willing to bet that an experienced, intelligent person with a professional degree has a bit more disposable income than someone who works in a university call center and asks for donations from alums.

As for our failure to destroy SFJ... every night I cry a little inside because that website is still up.

Oh, wait... no one gives a shit.

[Lord Poe]

Wayne, could you go get those quotes about Darkstar needing to "neutralize" his opposition concerning a girl he was stalking?

Here ya go:

From here: http://galactec.com/kynes/rsa-speaks-1.html is the "madman" who's been framing 00Darkstar for things!

From here: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.star ... ode=source

I see you didn't read that first StarDestroyer.Net post of mine in the thread I linked to. That threat has been neutralized.

And here: http://bbs.stardestroyer.net//viewtopic ... 9257#29257

However, with the threat eliminated...

My back and forth with him on SFJ: http://www.starfleetjedi.net/forum/view ... =2790#2790

But then, death threats and Bond-like conspiracies against your life are nothing new. You were knee-deep in those kind of adventures way before you even joined ASVS. Yes, you say that we at SD.net are delusional about fantasy "threats" not having repercussions in 'the real world', but at least I haven't made a public statement that my real life enemies have been "neutralized". Also, I don't seem to recall ever telling to anyone to remove a website or, "I will find you. This is not a threat."

Yes, let's see. I haven't had anyone mad enough at me that they'd come after me with automatc weapons, or frame me for felonies. I've never hinted at the elimination of anyone. How about you, Mike?

Yet Robert is the stable individual, right?

[Thanatos]

Why do I get this hilarious image of him randomly pestering people over the phone about SW vs ST?

[Darth Servo]

You forgot:

I know it must be sad for you guys, since now I cannot be threatened unless one of you wants to come die trying to do the dirty work himself.

[Darth Servo]

Why do I get this hilarious image of him randomly pestering people over the phone about SW vs ST?

You shouldn't. Darkstar will see that as 'stalking'

Just read this instead.

[Lord Poe]

You forgot:

I know it must be sad for you guys, since now I cannot be threatened unless one of you wants to come die trying to do the dirty work himself.

LOL!! I forgot this too:

Scared the shit out of you, didn't it? Such an ominous phrasing, saying that a threat had been neutralized. It leads you to wonder if the harassing, threatening psycho is dead or alive, and, if dead, how . . . and how slowly. . . and in how much pain when it happened.

I must say, I've always enjoyed the public reaction you've had to that. Even through your spin about it, there's always been that nervous air to your statements.

Of course, you've never asked what happened. But that's okay, because I've never offered an answer. I've never suggested that the person was dead. Nor do I suggest that they are currently alive.

I'm always trying to get you to think, Wayne. And if in that case I said something that made you think -- twice, no less -- about your bad behavior, so much the better.

Can't you just see him stroking a cat while putting his pinkie to his lips?

[Zablorg]

Can't you just see him stroking a cat while putting his pinkie to his lips?

....

Are you feeling up for a project, Wayne?

[Lord Poe]

Can't you just see him stroking a cat while putting his pinkie to his lips?

....

Are you feeling up for a project, Wayne?

I'm already roasting this fuckhead with the Sullust video, still in production!

[Darth Servo]

Can't you just see him stroking a cat while putting his pinkie to his lips?

....

Are you feeling up for a project, Wayne?

He's supposed to be finishing up Sullust to Endor. Don't make me get out the clubs again

<Darkstar>

Oh, oh, oh, Look at the warsie death threats!!! They're even threatening each other!!!

</Darkstar>