Dear Lord of the Post: Fuck You (883 hits)
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Submitted by Razor (View user info) at 2004-03-03 14:16:37 EST
JMG114 offered me some advice... don't come off sounding bitter.
I'm not taking it.
I've been very angry, quietly, or actually quite vocally off of Ubersite to Uberusers that I know in person.
Loren, Nicole, SpikeGoddess, Jonukah, Judoka, Firefly, and bart have all told me that I'm wrong.
But I don't care. I feel really strongly about this, and I need to come out and say it. That's the kind of person I am. Unexpressed feelings bottle up and just get stronger.
And today the straw broke the camel's back.
Here's the straw:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/26846
This is the pile of bricks that were already on the camel's back:
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?user_id=5014
Uberia is a rip-off of UberPulp. There's no other way to say it.
SpikeGoddess told me that I can't expect to lay claim to an entire genre of writing.
I agree with her, but I don't think that I'm trying to lay claim to an entire genre.
For those of you who haven't read it, UberPulp is a story in which I take Ubersite users out of their normal everyday lives and make them characters in a detective story. It's delivered in serial format.
I spent a lot of time writing out the plot, figuring out how I would work people in, and doing my best to make fun of them and be as clever as possible.
Uberia is a story in which Lord of the Post has taken Ubersite users out of their normal everday lives and made them characters in a fantasy story. It's delivered in serial format.
I know, it's fantasy, not a detective story right? And he posts pictures of legos!
Well, Vanilla Ice didn't rip off "Under Pressure" either. See, only the first 11 beats of the riff are the same, the 12th is different!
This is why I haven't been writing UberPulp lately. I had to take a break from it as my wedding preparations ramped up, I got married, went on a honeymoon, moved from one side of Maryland to the other, got a promotion at work, and had my job duties change. While I was in the middle of being super-busy, Uberia showed up.
Since then I haven't had much of a motivation to continue UberPulp. I've been advised that competition should make you strive to greatness, but I don't see this as competition. I see it as intellectual property theft.
I was co-authoring a novel with a friend of many years. He betrayed me and ripped me off, so maybe I've grown rather sensitive to this kind of thing. We had a bitter, bitter fight over our intellectual property.
I have a number of things that I have written that I haven't posted on Uber... good material... I just don't want to see it copied, slightly altered, and then re-presented to Uber to a chorus of +2s.
You know that fake squattail, that's copying and pasting bart's posts and just reposting him? I think it's fucking funny, because he's getting -2ed to all hell, but what he's doing is not that much different from what I see people doing over Ubersite all the fucking time. He's just got the guts to be up front about it.
The other day I wrote a post called "Where's Saddam" or something like that, wondering why he wasn't in the news. I knew it wasn't very exciting so as an afterthought I posted a photoshopped picture of Saddam in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Sure enough, TWO POSTS AND A FEW MINUTES LATER, someone had posted a picture of Saddam on the cover of a book entitled "Hiding in Holes for Dummies."
Did I resent that? Not really... it was just an idle question about Saddam. I didn't invent the idea of posting photoshopped pictures of things, hell it's not even my picture. The point is that someone saw a picture of Saddam posted, so he rushed to post his own picture of Saddam. I didn't feel like I had an idea stolen, I was just astounded that people could be so blatant about things like that.
Come up with your own ideas, people. Really. It's not so fucking hard.
P.S. The first person who says that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery gets a swift kick in the nuts.
User Reviews
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2004-03-03 21:43:42 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
whatafag you are acting like a bigger baby then jeremy. you are jealous because you are a nobody on a website.
both of you need a time out.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:59:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Now that I know who this is, this is actually pretty funny.
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:24:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by whataefag (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:18:02 (#)
Ranking: -2
This guy sure has an ego.
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another +2 for that.
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:23:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
smoky, this is whataefag, not me that posted this.
He's mocking me. Very effectively.
Submitted by whataefag (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:18:02 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
This guy sure has an ego.
Submitted by smokymtcsw (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:18:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
what? I am confused. Why did Razor post this twice?
Submitted by IndianOcean (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:11:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
ummmmmm three letters come to mind.. w t f
Submitted by fingerbang (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:07:56 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
shut up you are a worse poster than me and i try to be bad
Submitted by Zod (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:07:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Haha
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-03-03 15:01:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Oh you're fighting for your copyrights. You poor thing.
Who gives a shit.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-03-03 14:59:13 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
get over yourself and eat a dick
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:59:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Oh come on. Get over it. It's two different stories. You are very talented. Why don't you spend some time writing something worthwhile instead of whining? I was glad to see that you had posted, because you don't post often. But this blows. Come on, man. And if Lord of the Post stops writing his story because the you are pissed, a lot of people will be very dissappointed.
You are not the first to come up with an idea like this. You are only the first to have done it on Ubersite.
There is absolutely nothing new under the sun.
Please finish UberPulp. It was what got me interested in this site to begin with.
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:41:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
hardee fucking har har.
Asshole.
OK fine, I laughed out loud.
Asshole.
Submitted by Heimdallsman (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:38:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Heh heh.
--HeimdallsMan
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:25:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
funny.
Submitted by WillZone (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:22:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
whataefag: now this is plagerized! and in the context of the post this was copied from...its funny as hell
Submitted by russizm (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:20:57 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
whataefag
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2004-03-03 14:19:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
shutup you whiny bitch