💪 Tough Guys Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

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Oliver Onions said:
I think the popular theory is that he poured all his """talent""" and effort into his first book and that got him a contract for the Ark trilogy. I remember someone posting reviews for Rick's books in the threads a long time ago and they said they are all bad but the first one is at least trying.

I'm guessing after the rest of the trilogy didn't do numbers and he turned into a total lunatic on Twitter (while also blowing all the SFWA's legal war chest on a lolsuit) he got blacklisted and that's why we still haven't seen Tiny Tim In Outer Space hit the digital shelves of Amazon.
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Wrong as always. Patrick's award-winning freshman effort has been followed only by volumes of greater and greater literary and commercial value. Enjoy prison.

NaggotFigger said:
Since it’s almost the end of Pigmas, we shouldn’t forget that it’s now 639 days since A Christmas Carnage was submitted,
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That's late. Swamp-ass late.
 
Oliver Onions said:
Pat writes like a very fat and very gay 50 year old screenwriter trying to sound like a teen girl.
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Did you mean this instead?
MilkThePig said:
All this to say he's fat.
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You know, not that you mention it, I'm seeing it too. It's hard not to notice it, to be honest.

A very strange British pensioner on this site described him as "erotically plump" but I feel that is not quite correct.
Anonymus Fluhre said:
His main issue is how he designed it. NASA has a lot of documents he could have checked out for this
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No, stalker. He couldn't. That would require reading, reading comprehension, and not being on social media to correct the record.

This is how you chose to be a Canadian cat, child.
 
I read the first chapter and a half. I am not aware of any work of fiction that has featured a worse two sentence opening.

However, honestly as someone who reads a lot of mediocre science fiction, I can say that way worse gets published. I think if you go into a used bookstore and make a point to buy books you've never heard of, from authors you've never heard of, this would not even be in the bottom 40%. If a publisher was willing to devote the time and effort for a few revisions and Pat would listen and be responsive, I could imagine spending a perfectly ok afternoon reading this in its final form.

He has some good idea and some terrible ideas. Lots of clunky prose and very little inspiring prose but that's just the mid-level market, I guess. I've taken a chance on self-published works a time or two and this is significantly better.

Knowing how Pat naturally carries himself and interacts online, I think his instinct that since the heroine is gruff, foulmouthed and quippy, the narration itself has to also be foulmouthed and quippy comes across as especially annoying. I think if the author was humble and likeable we'd be a lot more complementary of his work.

If you read five novels a year (which is me these days), obviously you could spend your time on much better material. But if you read like a hundred a year you'll end up reading stuff about this good whether you like it or not. It's just mediocre sci-fi and it exists for a reason.
 
Rat Runner said:
However, honestly as someone who reads a lot of mediocre science fiction, I can say that way worse gets published. I think if you go into a used bookstore and make a point to buy books you've never heard of, from authors you've never heard of, this would not even be in the bottom 40%. If a publisher was willing to devote the time and effort for a few revisions and Pat would listen and be responsive, I could imagine spending a perfectly ok afternoon reading this in its final form.
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It’s not just science fiction: The quality is this bad in other genres of fiction too. I am somewhat fascinated by shitty writing, so I have made a small informal study of this in recent years. It is yet another reason Pat is delusional to feel so smug and superior about (previously) having traditional publishers versus self-publishing. Some of my favorite books were self-published, as were many of the greatest works ever created. Meanwhile traditional publishing produces shit like Pat — and even worse.

The fact is that a lot of people love the idea of being authors but can’t meet a deadline or actually turn in a completed manuscript. When publishers find someone who can deliver for one book, it’s often an automatic lock that they’ll offer that writer more deals.

TL;DR All Pat had to do to keep getting published was keep giving them books and not be a gigantic attention-seeking belligerent thundercunt. This proved to be beyond him.
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
He's never been original.
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Damn if that's not true. Worse still, he doesn't read. The Mulefa (I finally looked it up) are only depicted as elephantine in the TV series based on Pullman's works. They are described in much weirder and more interesting terms in the books.
 
Ok I know I said I would be back in a couple weeks and all, and I have a solid two months plus of pigman lore to catch up when I do but after the traditional boxing day communal gluttony in the Holden compound I decided to check and see if porktits is still rage xeeting as he was on Christmas Day and well what a fucking shock he did exactly this a literal fucking minute ago
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I know I have said this a thousand fucking times already but the fact he chooses to live like this and inflict this perpetual seething misery upon himself for the sake of his own fattened ego is something that will always astound me.
 
Judge Holden said:
Ok I know I said I would be back in a couple weeks and all, and I have a solid two months plus of pigman lore to catch up when I do but after the traditional boxing day communal gluttony in the Holden compound I decided to check and see if porktits is still rage xeeting as he was on Christmas Day and well what a fucking shock he did exactly this a literal fucking minute ago
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I know I have said this a thousand fucking times already but the fact he chooses to live like this and inflict this perpetual seething misery upon himself for the sake of his own fattened ego is something that will always astound me.
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Him and Chance Wilkins deserve to be in an apartment together that is streamed 24/7.
 
There's three Garth Marenghi books that are intentionally bad horror stories and this might be funnier because it's not supposed to be. I think the social media behavior hurt but ultimately poor sales did him in (and these could be connected). Even people who buy every bad sci-fi book avoided these like the plague.

I'd also love to know how he acted behind the scenes. He's made it clear that he never finished writing the third book of the Breach trilogy, or the In the Black sequel, just that they're "half done". Was he demanding a new contract before he bothered spending more than two hours banging out a draft? Did he actually finish Tiny Tim, but didn't sell it because it's terrible? He mentioned not knowing the ending of that book until the instant he started writing it, why does he think "I have no idea what happens in the last 100 pages" is appropriate for a pitch?
 
AprilRains said:
and that Philip Pullman book with the elephant critters?
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I'm only familiar with Larry Niven's Footfall which has a bunch of elephantine herd based herbivores invade Earth. It's funny because the elephants don't understand why humanity refuses to surrender instead of simply accepting jail, stalker childs.

Also if you saw Patrick geared up like one of the first invading elephants paragliding along holding an SMG you'd think it was a hilarious sight until you realize "oh, he is actually serious"
 
AprilRains said:
Damn if that's not true. Worse still, he doesn't read. The Mulefa (I finally looked it up) are only depicted as elephantine in the TV series based on Pullman's works. They are described in much weirder and more interesting terms in the books.
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Sad thing is, if done well no one will care if you're no original. Look at D&D, do we care that the Balrog was in there or Halflings were Hobbits? Or how most original Adventures are just old novels? No, they had great spin on those things. Patrick just rips things wholesale and hopes no one notices. He's a white Indian.
S.C.U.D. said:
Pat is replying to a video tweet, let's take a look at the video:
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Six figure author, too poor to buy jeans that fit.
 
not william stenchever said:
I'm only familiar with Larry Niven's Footfall which has a bunch of elephantine herd based herbivores invade Earth.
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I know that one, but as far as I know it was never made into a movie or a TV show, so Patrick wouldn't have used it as source material.
 
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