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There, I posted a cartoon villain. Am I cool now?

Steve, I’m pretty sure that every person who has written for somebody else has had their favorite, pet part of their “masterpiece” edited in a way they didn’t like. All you’re doing by acting like a princess about it is showing everybody how difficult you are to work with.

Celerysteve Posted:

Actually I could care less at this point. I’m responding to JB and you’re cluttering up our ensuing repartee with your bland observations. Go sit in the corner.

So sorry. You were acting like you’d never written in anything other than your own diary and I was trying to fill you in.

Celerysteve Posted:

I hope you like my new edit. I think it sounds much better.

I’m just glad I could give you something to work with.

Bashy Posted:

I think Steve’s “eloquent psychopath” take, as well as the Frost quote, could have been done. The Frost quote could still go in somewhere, technically.

Steve, I just thought your draft was too rough, short and a bit choppy. Your theme didn’t come off in a smooth enough way to be engaging, and it didn’t really have the sort of short-attention-span humor the game needed.

I did try to preserve many of your good ideas and references while fleshing out the rest and, yes, making it more low-brow. Because of how abrupt and unrefined the original mission was, it was bound to end up feeling different than how you left it.

I’m not going to sit here and take jabs at you, and imply that you didn’t have any good ideas. You did. I hope enough were left in that you’re at least a tiny fraction of satisfied. In the end, I had to make decisions to play to the audience and bloat the character into the fat pants of FWZ.

You were a douchebag in general during the project, but I give credit where it is due. You had some good themes and ideas, and they were plenty welcome to work with.

—Bashy

I don’t know, Bashy. How does a guy retort to that? I mean, basically you knowing male reproductive organ-all is essentially what it comes down to. Not to be critical, but that’s really about the sum of it.

Bashy Posted:

OOOH! Now post that Willy Wonka “Good day, Sir” .gif that he’s always posting!

Bashy Posted:

I was being nice to you, Steve, though I had no reason to be.

You’re entitled to your opinion.

Unfortunately for you, your opinion that your efforts and personality were God’s Awesome was dwarfed during this project by those whose opinion was that you could go **** yourself.

As a result, **** happened, man. You’re not in a position to start calling people idiots. You’re just not. I don’t know what else to tell you. Since you wasted the olive branch I kindly laid out for you, I have nothing more to say.

That’s right. I didn’t play along on the apprentice. You did. I’m very happy for you. Of course, that has zero to do with the fact you edited a veritable modern clbumic with all the competence of a three-year-old with a box of crayons. You know this, and that’s why you chose to side step the unflattering and indisputable truth — that essentially you complimented my work like a mustache on the Mona Lisa — instead you have spent all your effort attacking this straw man about me generally not taking the apprentice seriously enough and proven absolutely nothing, except maybe how bitter you are that I called you on it.

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Johnny Mac Posted:

I think you both lose since you’re arguing over the merit of four small, forgettable lines in a small, forgettable game. Log in to see images!

That was one example. And it’s not so much what he took away, but what he put in.

Johnny Mac Posted:

Sorry here you go.

Yeah, I suppose we should make better use of our time posting pictures of cheese or something.

IDK man, like, wasn’t writing for the apprentice, like a job? Meaning that you provide the material that the client requests regardless of what your own ‘artistic merits’ are?

So what if Bashy edited it in way you didn’t like? He obviously did so in a way that was approved by JB and CZ meaning that he provided the material that the client wanted regardless of whether or not it was **** in the end. If the client wants ****, you give them ****. That’s business and that’s professional writing (as crappy as it is).

Stop being a whiny **** about it dude. The forum can only take so much of your ****ing ego in one day.