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They proved Larry right

Milo offers a much more realistic take on the Hugo Awards:

“I said the Hugos were dominated by
cliques that cared more about an author’s identity and politics than the
quality of their work,” Sad Puppies founder Larry Correia told
Breitbart. “Tonight they proved me right.”

Vox Day, an author and publisher who
assembled the Rabid Puppies slate, agreed. “The scorched earth strategy
being pursued by the SJWs in science fiction is evidence that we hold
the initiative and we are winning,” he said. “The fact that the SJWs would rather
give out no award rather than honor an influential editor like Toni
Weisskopf of Baen Books or science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright
demonstrates the extent to which science fiction has been politicized
and degraded by their far-left politics. The SJWs will try to portray this as
a victory – they would try to portray suicide by self-cannibalism as a
victory – but anyone who knows anything about history understands the
significance of one side resorting to burning down its own houses in
order to deny it to the enemy. That is a defensive tactic borne of
desperation.”

Like the empire at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, the
forces of social justice believe they have the rebel puppy alliance on
their knees. What they don’t realize is that the puppies are already
plotting their approach to 2016, which may not include a large army of
Ewoks, but certainly will include many more pissed off fans.

Science fiction fans of all types are left, like the punters in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land,
unable to grok how their supposed fellow fans could choose to harm not
only the awards themselves but the wider industry with vindictive,
nihilistic self-immolation.

It’s fascinating to see SJWs desperately trying to cling to their Narrative on Twitter and elsewhere. They’re insisting that we’re mad, that we’re crying, that we’re upset, when the fact is that I knew this would be the result this year prior to creating Rabid Puppies.

This is the difference between game designers and normal people. We think, we HAVE to think, in terms of consequences, both obvious and non-obvious. We started last year with 1,100 reliable anti-Puppy votes and 160 reliable pro-puppy votes. That meant we were 900 in the hole before we even got started.

That’s why I was urging everyone not to adopt the tactics of the other side and mass-mobilize. Last year wasn’t a good test because I wasn’t involved in the organizing and the Dread Ilk really didn’t get involved. There was no point in throwing the full weight of our effort into this year’s awards when we had the chance to see a) what our core forces looked like and b) what their maximal forces looked like. That’s why I told everyone that this year was about the nominations and the best we could reasonably hope for was to provoke them into voting No Award… which they dutifully did.

Our execution wasn’t flawless. I made two mistakes, one which was fortuitous as it permitted Three Body Problem to make the shortlist and win, and one which was stupid as it cost us a 6th category in novelette. Our discipline could also have been better, although I don’t see that it would have made any difference at all with regards to either the nominations or the awards. But I trust the moderate approach is now sufficiently discredited in everyone’s eyes.

As for what comes next, we’re going to be discussing RP plans for 2016 at a Closed Brainstorm session later this week; only Annual Members and Monthly Members who were registered before today will be permitted to attend. Suffice it to say that there will be plenty for everyone, VFM, Rabids, Dread Ilk, and new Rabid converts alike, to do in the coming year.

Meanwhile, the Beautiful but Evil Space Princess gradually begins to grok the Evil ways of the Supreme Dark Lord:

Until today I viewed him as a mirror of the SJW posturing.  I retract that and I give him full measure of applause.  Yes, his views are still repulsive and he still makes my skin crawl as often as the Marxists do, but you know what?  At least he has a brain and uses it.  Those of you celebrating might want to take a deep breath and wonder — for just a minute — if you did anything more than what Vox wanted.  Because from where I’m sitting, the man that set out to destroy the field and prove that everyone calling themselves its leadership were mannerless and brainless children not only won last night, he won walking away. He won without DOING anything.  He won by convincing yourselves to hit yourselves repeatedly with the obvious hammers of partisanship, lack of care for quality and INTEREST in the health of the field.  And before you died, you gloated you had won.  The mind boggles.

Well done, Vox Day.  My laughter is tinged with tears because I don’t know if the field I loved will ever recover from stupidity displayed in such an open manner. I think today I prove the Valentine Michael Smith adage that sometimes you laugh because it hurts too much to cry.

I suspect last night was a lot harder for writers like Sarah and Brad, who once considered the morons blithely running around with matches their colleagues, friends, and peers, to witness their antics last night than it was for me. After my one visit to MiniCon, I never considered them anything more than psychologically damaged human wreckage, so it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that they were dumb enough to play it that way. After all, SJWs always double down.

恭喜！別客氣。

I had an initial look at the Hugo statistics. I’ll have more on them later, but what leaped out immediately was the fact that the Puppy vote tipped the balance in Best Novel, giving it to Cixin Liu’s very good hard SF novel instead of Katherine Addison’s SJW fantasy angst-fest.

2649 The Three Body Problem
2449 The Goblin Emperor

Considering that the Rabid Puppy vote averaged 565 across the various categories, that demonstrates that we have the ability to play kingmaker even when we’re outnumbered approximately 4.5 to one by the SJWs combined with the traditional WorldCon community.

I’m going to guess that other than Chaos Horizon, who confirmed my Best Novel analysis, we’re not going to see a lot of SJW commentary on that, as they are too busy celebrating their successful self-immolations.

Goblin Emperor lost the Best Novel to Three-Body Problem
by 200 votes. Since there seem to have been at least 500 Rabid Puppy
voters who followed VD’s suggestion to vote Liu first, this means Liu
won because of the Rabid Puppies. Take that as you will.

Based on Chaos Horizon’s numbers, it appears there are 2500 SJWs, up from 1,100 last year, plus 2,400 WorldCon voters who are naturally biased against the Puppies, mostly on the basis of our slates, but are not intrinsically opposed to us on ideological grounds. That’s pretty close to their maximum mobilization, whereas 565 RP and 450 SP is only a fraction of our own.

I also appreciated this email from a RA, a non-Puppy who is one of the many former fans unhappy with what the SJW gatekeepers have decided is sufficiently non-problematic fiction worthy of publishing:

I wanted to write to you to say thank you for your work demonstrating the toxicity of the social justice warriors that have invested science fiction.

Science fiction was the first community I ran screaming from when the SJWs appeared – the amount of anti-white racism, the group-think, and the identity politics was shocking and horrifying to me. Segregated anthologies, editors that saw no harm in ranting about how they despised an entire race of people, and reviewers who made a point of counting how many “coloureds” and “women” there were in anthologies so they could decide how good they were.

Looking back I can’t believe how bad it was, and I’m glad I no longer write or am involved in science fiction groups.

I am absolutely indebted to you for your work on the Hugo Awards which show so clearly their approach to people who do not “rightthink”. In a way it shows me that I wasn’t crazy, that they were abhorrent, and that this is a community I should never have been involved in, given the horrible things it endorses.

RA is quite welcome, of course. The current SF community is a deeply sick and twisted one, and their ridiculous preferences in literature are merely a symptom of the real issues that plague them. The five categories burned last night are only the first sparks of the cleansing conflagration that is coming.

Hugo 2015 results

We had 315 people celebrating the Rabid Puppy demolition of the 2015 Hugo Awards at the Brainstorm online party, but I have to confess, I am just a little disappointed. With the unwitting assistance of the SJWs, we managed to burn five categories, but after Chu won the Campbell, I was confident that we were going to get a historic seven. Sadly, Novelette and Graphic Novel both eluded us. It’s disappointing, because apparently only five had been awarded in the entire history of the award, and I would have liked to have exceeded that this year.

I understand that Toni Weisskopf of Baen Books walked out of the ceremony after hearing all the jokes about this being the year of the asterisk. It is just as well, because the no-awarding of her, John C. Wright, and Jim Butcher is conclusive proof that the Hugo Awards are no longer fit for purpose and need to be burned down in their entirety. That was my original position, but this year we Rabids followed the Sad Puppies lead and pursued the “fair play” approach.

Now we know the result of that. This is a cultural war, not a literary sport. They are practicing a scorched earth strategy, and we can certainly assist them in that since we do not value their territory. I still think it was worth trying to take Berlin and end the war in one fell swoop, but even though our attempt break them once and for all failed, that only means that the victory was less than complete. What the Puppies accomplished was incredible when you look at the numbers involved and clearly indicates that the Rabid strategy, not the Sad one, is the only viable strategy. There will be no reconciliation.

Some SJWs are already trying to claim that they only rejected Toni Weisskopf because she was “part of a slate”, but the fact that they had no problem voting for Guardians of the Galaxy, which was on the same slate, demonstrates very clearly that they have no such principle, it’s all about the politics for them.

No doubt George Martin, John Scalzi, David Gerrold, The Guardian, and the rest of the SJWs will try to portray this as a resounding defeat for us, but keep this in mind: the side that resorts to a scorched earth strategy is the one that is losing and in retreat. All they have accomplished is to convert many Sad Puppies into Rabid Puppies.

They have talked about sending us a message, and we have heard it. I don’t know about you, but the message I heard was “bring more Puppies.”

UPDATE: This is amusing. The SJWs are so pleased with what they are claiming was a “victory” that they have vanished the categories that were No Awarded. “Those categories in which there were Awards presented are listed below.”

UPDATE 2: The vote totals are here. With 525 Rabid Puppies, we definitely face an uphill climb, but keep in mind that this represents their fully mobilized forces, up from their anti-Puppy vote of 1,100 last year. I’ll analyze this and share some of my thoughts in a future post.

Below are the results, along with my personal vote and how I voted the winner:

Best Novel

    The Three-Body Problem (1)

 Best Novella

    No Award
    “One Bright Star to Guide Them”

Best Novelette

    “The Day the World Turned Upside Down” (5)

Best Short Story

    No Award
    “Turncoat”, Steve Rzasa (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House)

Best Related Work

    No Award
    “The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF”

Best Graphic Story

    Ms Marvel
    No Award

 Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)

    Guardians of the Galaxy (1)

 Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)

    Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried” (4)

 Best Editor, Short Form

    No Award
    Vox Day

Best Editor, Long Form

    No Award
    Toni Weisskopf

Best Professional Artist

    Julie Dillon (3)

Best Semiprozine

    Lightspeed Magazine (4)

Best Fanzine

    Journey Planet (4)

Best Fancast

    Galactic Suburbia Podcast (3)

Best Fan Writer

    Laura J. Mixon (5)

Best Fan Artist

    Elizabeth Leggett (1)

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

    Wesley Chu (2)

Brainstorm Hugo Party

Whether it’s a Sad Puppy sweep or we burned down the house, you are invited to celebrate the 2015 Hugo Awards online
with the Rabid Puppies, the Dread Ilk, the Vile Faceless Minions, and
two-time 2015 Hugo nominee Vox Day on August 22nd at 11 PM EST.

The Ustream video doesn’t work all that well through the webinar, so you’ll probably want to run it on your own machine. But there are 243 folks registered already, so come by and bring your own prosecco. Or champagne, if you swing that way.

The Leader of SP3 speaks

Brad Torgersen shares his “reaction” statement to the Wall Street Journal:

Because people will be gloating and/or gnashing their teeth (alternately) I’ve not been much inclined to make any after-the-fact statements. My “job” with this thing, finished the minute the door shut on the voting.

But I want to re-emphasize something I told WIRED magazine’s Amy Wallace: it doesn’t necessarily matter who wins or loses a Hugo award this year, as much as it matters that participation keeps increasing.

This year there were a record number of memberships, and a record number of ballots cast. This is very, very good. A democracy (any democracy) is only as worthwhile as those who keep their end up by actively participating. Past Hugo voting has tended to be remarkably anemic. Sad Puppies has changed this significantly — for two years running. If the participation (beyond 2015) declines, the Hugos are diminished. If participation grows, the Hugos mean more. That’s the real bottom line (in my book) and it goes way beyond which “side” can construct victory narratives.

A fine and noble sentiment. I applaud him for it. And I don’t disagree; a larger electorate means 40 Tor-affiliated SJWs can’t continue to hand Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Charles Stross and John Scalzi more Hugos to go with the 39 they’ve already collected.

Meanwhile, Mark Judge of CNS sets the historical record straight:

There is controversy surrounding this year’s Hugo Awards, the prestigious science fiction prize which will be handed out this Saturday and whose previous winners have included Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Robert Heinlein. This year’s ballot has many names on it that liberals and the media have denounced as racist and reactionary white men.

The group in question counter that they are not reactionary, racist, or even white, and that the reporting on the entire episode has been atrocious.

The group of writers, calling themselves the “Sad Puppies” – a satire on liberalism’s penchant for appealing to emotion over logic – successfully got themselves on the Hugo ballot, and then nominated, by appealing to the fans who vote for the award. The Sad Puppies unofficial leader is Brad Torgerson, author of “The Chaplain’s War” and other works and a U.S. Army Reserve Warrant Officer. Torgerson, who has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula, another prestigious sci-fi prize, told one interviewer, “It became plainly obvious, especially after 2010, that a lot of the classic works of the old days – there’s no way they could possibly make it in the current climate because the current climate was all about affirmative action.”

In which tonight’s events are contemplated

Aaron sent over this cheerful meme of the Supreme Dark Lord at his ease. I just wish he’d sent it sooner, so I could have sent it in as my picture for the Awards ceremony. C’est la vie. I’m feeling more than a little optimistic today, although about what exactly I can’t say. Perhaps it is because I finished the final draft of SJWS ALWAYS LIE: Taking Down the Thought Police last night and will be able to deliver it on August 27th, the first anniversary of #GamerGate, as planned. Or perhaps because Art of Sword is coming along nicely, as we’ve finally got some of the powerups in and working. Or perhaps because we’ve got our gargantuan new project server coming on line this weekend.

I’m looking forward to tonight no matter what happens. Several media outlets have asked me for my take on the situation after the awards are announced, as there is considerably more interest in the outcome than usual, but the fact of the matter is that we achieved our objectives back in April. The Rabid Puppies outperformed my expectations, and if they do so again tonight, it won’t be for the first time. Regardless, we have broken the perceived power of the SJWs in science fiction once and for all; they are not frantically debating the best way to mitigate our growing influence in science fiction because they believe they are still in control of it.

I had to laugh when I read that some of the people at the business meeting wanted to postpone the vote on EPH until after the awards were announced because they wanted to see what the results were before taking a position on it. This indicates that they still have no idea what motivates us or what we expect to accomplish. They are too solipsistic to understand our goals even when we tell them straight out what they are. So to be clear, WorldCon, be informed that He Who Shall Only Be Named In Fearful Whispers supports E Pluribus Hugo 100 percent. As for the other anti-slate plan, X of Y, I am totally indifferent because it is structurally futile. Contra the purpose of its designers, it provides an even bigger advantage to disciplined slates than the current rules do. It’s irrelevant.

As the International Lord of Hate observed concerning EPH: “So it rewards coordination between a group that is willing to focus
votes for one item per category. Did Vox write that proposal for them?”

George Martin is already frantically pre-spinning the Narrative, declaring that no awards being given out means the truefen win and the Puppies lose, except of course when it doesn’t because he’s totally against slates except when a slate nominates something he likes. It’s the usual SJW incoherence. But we don’t care if I win Best Editor or No Award does, we don’t care if Tom Kratman wins best novella or No Award does, the objective was to ensure that none of the usual SJWs did. And in that, we have already succeeded brilliantly. Sure, it would be amusing to see Jim or John or Rolf or Eric win a plastic rocket, but only because that would, somewhat to my surprise, upset the SJWs even more than the demise of the awards.

John C. Wright is one of science fiction’s greatest authors, Jim Butcher is one of fantasy’s most popular, and I truly did not expect that the SJWs would rather burn the awards to the ground than permit one of them to be recognized for their contributions to the field. But that is certainly an acceptable outcome.

What Martin and the other SJWs are hoping is that by establishing false objectives for us (and then praying that we don’t achieve them), we will be demoralized and go away with our tails tucked between our legs, chastened by the disapproval of the empty-handed, but victorious truefen. This is amusing, because it is not us, but them, who are demoralized. Consider the despairing lament of one SJW at io9.

I’m so WEARY of these assholes. This is supposed to be FUN. It
isn’t supposed to be a long, bitter war. I hope the Puppies are
fucking trounced in disgrace at the Hugo’s. I hope “no award”
wins for most of the categories they flooded. As wonderful as that
will be it will just make them more bloodthirsty, bigoted and
pigheaded. This drama won’t end with the Hugo’s.

No, it won’t. They’re weary and in despair because they thought they’d already won the cultural war. They didn’t realize that we were still mobilizing, that we were gearing up to blow them off the battlefield with weapons and dark forces they didn’t know existed. What demoralized us was seeing SJW crap fill the bookstore shelves. What demoralized us was seeing utterly forgettable romance novels in space being declared the best that science fiction had to offer. If that mediocre SJW-infested nonsense was the best that could make it past the publishing gatekeepers, then what was the point of reading it or writing it?

Compared to nearly three decades of that, what is one more year of not winning awards? We never won any before, so what the hell do we care?

Tonight will tell us one very important thing. It will give us the opportunity to see what their true numbers are and reveal the true extent of their fully mobilized strength. Last year, the maximum No Award vote was 1,100. This year it will be more, somewhere between 1,100 and 4,000.

Being SJWs, they doubled-down as per the Second Law, giving us the chance to break them once and for all. But even if we don’t, even if we only burn Munich instead of taking Berlin, even if they are successful in “sending a message”, what we hear will not be what they wish for us to hear. Because what we will hear is this: Next year, bring more puppies.

Unfair and untrue

SJWs just can’t seem to fairly characterize my positions on anything:

Princess Content ‏@ContentPrincess
I just didn’t think any of them would really go.  I mean they aren’t fans.

John Scalzi ‏@scalzi
If they pay for a membership, then they can go. If they make trouble, they’ll get the boot. If they don’t, they can stay.

Princess Content ‏@ContentPrincess
I would not feel safe in a place where someone was openly admitting association with @voxday or his minions.

Vox Day ‏@voxday
Then you’d better flee. There are more than a few there.

Princess Content ‏@ContentPrincess
i didn’t go.  You ruined it.  and you don’t even care.  You don’t care at all that you have hurt people.

Vox Day ‏@voxday
That is totally unfair and untrue. I am rather pleased at hurting the people who claim to have been hurt.

Princess Content ‏@ContentPrincess
aren’t you supposed to be a cruelty artist? Doesn’t throwing around old memes make you a cruelty hack? #notcreative

Vox Day ‏@voxday
Quoting the classics doesn’t make one a hack. Ripping them off does. Of course, no @scalzi fan would grasp the difference.

A Latino, an Indian, and a White man

Walk into a room. How does NPR describe them? As three white men. Because badthink:

The prestigious Hugo Awards, which honor science fiction and fantasy writing, will be held Saturday. Lately, they have been given to more and more women and writers of color as the world of sci-fi opens up — and that’s prompted a backlash from a group of mostly white male writers who call themselves the “Sad Puppies.”

Listen to the rest of it here if you like, I’m not going to bother. The funny thing is that if you look at the original Evil Legion of Evil, it’s not accurate to say it is a group of mostly white male writers.

Supreme Dark Lord: not white male
International Lord of Hate: not white male
Grand Strategikon: white male
King in Yellow: white male
Beautiful but Evil Space Princess: not white male
Token Liberal: white male

Of course, if NPR reported it accurately as a group that was “half white males”, they couldn’t realistically portray it as a Bad and Terrible Thing that Must Be Stopped.

Negotiation

buwaya August 15, 2015 3:31 PM  

I apologize in advance for the interjection of a marginally related matter – I have been over at File 770 bringing up the matter of a negotiated peace. It does not seem to have gone over too well for the most part, but patience is of course the key. Under the circumstances it seems to be the case that the balance of power (or risk vs return) seems to favor the puppies, so I was asking about what sort of concessions they would be willing to offer. I apologize for neglecting to check with you about the sort of concessions, in a concrete sense, this faction would be willing to accept.

The Supreme Dark Lord, Evil Legion of Evil August 15, 2015 4:16 PM

There is no need to apologize. As it happens, there are a few things we would be willing to accept in order to bring about a rapprochement in science fiction.

John Scalzi’s skull
Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s skull
The Toad of Tor’s skull
Jim C. Hines’s skull
Irene Gallo’s skull
Charles Stross’s skull
Phil Sandifer’s skull
Mary Kowal’s skull

Silvered and made into goblets, please. We may need four more, but I think eight place settings will suffice.

UPDATE: I am reliably informed that we actually have twelve SJW-bone table settings. So we will also require:

Steven Gould’s skull
Matthew Johnson’s skull
James Enge’s skull
Lee Martindale’s skull

We would also like to request a half-stanza from Byron’s “Lines Inscribed Upon A Cup Formed From A Skull” to be engraved upon each skull. As there are six stanzas, this will nicely suit the set.

Start not—nor deem my spirit fled:
   In me behold the only skull
From which, unlike a living head,
    Whatever flows is never dull. 

I lived, I loved, I quaff’d, like thee:
   I died: let earth my bones resign;
Fill up—thou canst not injure me;
   The worm hath fouler lips than thine.

Better to hold the sparkling grape,
   Than nurse the earth-worm’s slimy brood;
And circle in the goblet’s shape
   The drink of Gods, than reptiles’ food.

Where once my wit, perchance, hath shone,
   In aid of others’ let me shine;
And when, alas! our brains are gone,
   What nobler substitute than wine?

Quaff while thou canst—another race,
   When thou and thine like me are sped,
May rescue thee from earth’s embrace,
   And rhyme and revel with the dead.

Why not? since through life’s little day
   Our heads such sad effects produce;
Redeem’d from worms and wasting clay,
   This chance is theirs, to be of use.

I believe it is a priori apparent that their skulls would be of far more utility to mankind if they were helping satiate the thirst of the Dark Lord and his guests than any other purpose for which they might be currently used.

Buwaya on August 15, 2015 at 1:33 pm said:

I have a response from [Day] requesting some people’s skulls, some of whom I don’t recognize. Seems unrealistic even for an opening offer, but its a start anyway

Camestros Felapton on August 16, 2015 at 1:02 am said:

New plan:
1. we get Mr Crocodile to bargain VD down to just one skull
2. we get a FAKE skull and turn it into a wine goblet & send it to VD
3. we persuade John Scalzi to run aound WorldCon with his T-shirt over his head and shouting ‘oh noes, where’s me head gone’ and wave his arms in the air like he has no head.
4. peace in our time

Felapton is the guy who did the Puppy Kerfluffle map, the latest version of which is below. I have to say, I rather like the cut of his jib.

The SJWs think they can outlast us

An SJW whose tagline is “exploiting extroverts for personal gain” is demoralized, wants to ban people obeying all the rules as “harassers”, but nevertheless insists that they’re going to outlast us:

Everyone says the Hugos will survive, and I tend to agree. I think the Puppy voters will get tired of throwing away their money in the name of making whatever statement they’re trying to make. They will also have a harder time maintaining the charade that their campaign is about anything other than self-promotion, because after this year there will be fewer neutral parties willing to appear on any slate. The nomination rules will probably be changed to make slates less effective, although I’m afraid that will make the whole process more confusing and could scare some potential nominators away. In the long run this will mostly be forgotten, but in the short term it probably means that at least two WorldCons are going to have their Hugos basically invalidated, and I don’t like that they have to make that sacrifice. In my opinion the harassment policy should be invoked against the Puppy organizers and they should be banned from the convention and disqualified from the awards on that basis. I get that the Hugo organizers won’t do this, they would argue that the integrity of the awards depends on strict adherence to the bylaws, not arbitrary decisions by administrators. I could make some counter arguments but I don’t want to go down that road right now. I will just say that when a group has a stated goal of disrupting the awards, it wouldn’t bother me at all if they were barred from participating.

I don’t think there’s any point in making predictions this year. With so many more voters than usual, anything is possible. The Puppies don’t seem to be expecting to win, but whether that means that non-Puppies win or it’s all no awards, who knows? Maybe there was a big influx of Chinese voters who wanted to support Cixin Liu and don’t know anything about Puppies. I’m not really invested in the results this year, I don’t have any favorites that I’m rooting for. I considered skipping this blog post too. But then I realized that’s what the Puppies would want. They want people, at least people who aren’t them, to lose interest. Well, voting this year was less fun and more of a chore, but I did it. Blogging about it wasn’t as much fun either, but blogging about the Hugos seems to be what I do, even if nobody ever sees it. If nothing else, it’s an affirmation that I’m still a part of the process. If I have to put up with a couple of down years before it becomes fun again, I can do that. So I’ll see you back here, same time next year.

Yeah, the game journos thought they could outgrind #GamerGate too. I always enjoy the SJW gift for self-contradiction. Even as they make fun of me for not letting go of 10 years of vicious and unprovoked personal attacks made on me by the Torlings beginning in 2005, and as they lament the terrible feelbads that TWO WHOLE YEARS of effective Puppy campaigns have dealt them, they insist that we’re going to lose interest and relax the pressure on them Real Soon Now. That’s why they want to ban us.

Are they mad, delusional, or is it just wishful thinking? Some combination of the three, I suppose. Meanwhile, Tom Knighton is beginning to sound like a Vile Faceless Minion. He just doesn’t care what the SJWs in science fiction do anymore.

 I’ve been one of those trying to argue that message fiction was a bad
idea.  I still think it is.  But now, I just don’t care what those
folks do. I believe in free markets, and I think the market will slap some of
these publishers hard.  They’ll either learn from it, or not.  Either
way, new publishers will rise.  Baen can’t publish everything, after
all.

 
So, I just don’t care.  They can write what they want to write, and
they can bitch about what they want to bitch about.  These days, most of
those who are so vocal aren’t much more to me than an ant crawling
across the ground.  A couple are significant enough writers that I’d
actually heard of them and read some of their stuff, but most of them? Nothings.  They’re the kind of thing I’d scape off of my shoe before stepping into my home, metaphorically speaking.

The Rabid Puppies are not going to stop because we’re just doing what we’ve always done. Grind until we level up, then grind some more. In the last six weeks I’ve edited two books, written a book, turned in four game designs, and none of those things were my top priority project. I don’t think I’ll have any trouble finding the time to put an annual list of Hugo recommendations together for the foreseeable future.

The SJWs don’t seem to be able to grasp that we can’t be intimidated or that every time they publish another stupid, slanderous, and inaccurate article, every time they libel us and call us names, they ensure that our morale and motivation stays at max. I don’t know about you, but at this point, I’m fired up and good for at least another decade.