Anyone get a copy of File770's Hugo analysis before they got hit with what looks like a DDOS attack?

We don’t flame, but there are often robust differences of opinion. It’s not always the place for people whose emotional delicacy or fragility has them preemptively talking about needing “flame shields” to protect them from a mythic party line.

Chuck Tingle is a treasure, and deserves better than to be used by vile people. And if they had to, at the very least they could have nominated ‘Pounded In The Butt By My Book ‘Pounded In The Butt By My Book ‘Pounded In The Butt By My Book’’’.

I honestly feel bad for the Hugo Awards. I imagine none of them wanted to put out these results (Chuck Tingle?!). I feel worse for all the amazing and talented diverse new voices that aren’t getting recognized because of this obstinate bullshit.

John Scalzi wrote a good article in the LA Times about the Puppies trying to take credit for some of the obvious noms.

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File 770 had put something up indicating that most of the short fiction were puppy picks, either of their own putrid manufacture, or picking better works as human shields.

Maybe I’m biased but I’m going to assume that these two aren’t especially respectable.

I recently finished Uprooted. Can’t recommend it enough.

I’ll just come out and say it, Vox Day is a garbage person. I hope he lives a very long life so he can see the culture change and leave him and his ilk behind. I hope he one day sees how little he and his “SJW are ruining my space ships and ray guns!” temper tantrums matter. I have never before seen a person consumed…

Look at the short fiction, related works, and fan-writers. Below the big categories, there is a lot of puppy-chow.

I’m pretty sure I’ve heard friends make that joke since 1994, it’s not particularly funny or original from either of them. Amy and Wendy have the same cadence and the same punchline-swallow style. Maybe Amy bit that from Wendy but this is hardly a joke steal.

Yeah. Part of the reason some think she stole it from him though is because they were apparently friends before he died, so she might have been aware that he used this material in his stand up. The other examples that I saw were a little more convincing.

They’re basically just repeating things that were already posted on Urban Dictionary and passed along by teens for years before that.

Well, the whole time he was talking about the poltergeist, I was thinking about 10th grade English and how we called that the Houdini. I probably said almost exactly the same words Amy did and I’m pretty sure she didn’t plagiarize me...

“I made a joke about dating, and then AMY made a joke about dating!! THEN I made a joke about boobs, and of course Amy went and made a boob-joke too! Then I did this whole bit where it would be surprising that I was being crass because I am a girl, you know? Guess what! AMY went and did that too! And Amy NEVER steals…

“at least Cosby knocked his victims out b4 he raped them.”

“Look, I don’t want to complain...” The droll Englishman always sounded like he was complaining, or at least annoyed, “but you don’t think you’ve gotten rather enough of us. It’s getting a but crowded in here!”

Not content to simply pass on and be overshadowed by younger siblings and predecessors alike, January Twenty-Sixteen of the Twenty-Sixteens stormed into the world room, marking out and then extinguishing every notable person within reach, so that all would know and remember its name too. It would be an ignominious end…

Um, the author has a pretty valid point, if this is any indication.