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Azath Vitr (D, on 20 January 2025 - 06:27 PM, said:

Yeah well that's from the horses mouth then. She believed she was plagiarized...which just proves my point about this even more. She didn't speak up because she was afraid to, either because she knew he had clout or for some other reason.


That just refutes Pat's comments even more then.

Cause, on 20 January 2025 - 06:22 PM, said:

Indeed. This is the Hawk Tuah Girls' bitcoin writ large...but instead of being angry like they were with her, they are cheering it on...BAFFLING.

Like he rug-pulled a slew of people to the tune of billions...

Macros, on 15 January 2025 - 09:04 PM, said:

UPDATE: I found the breaker the transformer was wired to. It was attached to the Kitchen Fridge plug (which I hadn't tried, even though I thought I had), so then it was just a matter of swapping out the old doorbell and the new one and the chime box re-wiring.

So all good. Thanks for the offer of support though. It was pretty easy once I started to do it.

Abyss, on 20 January 2025 - 02:58 PM, said:

There was a joke that is escaping me right now that I laughed at hard and no one else did becuase they were all younger than me and didn't get it...


Also, I was BEGGING for them to use "The à La Menthe" when it was clear they were going to be dancing though a laser grid...BEGGING...but in the end I supposed Galvanize worked okay....but the callback for Millennials to OCEANS 12 would have been so sweet. LOL

pat5150, on 18 January 2025 - 04:20 AM, said:

I'm amused that after a man is outed as being a terrible human and a story comes out of sketchy shit he may have done without crediting a woman in the authorial arena which looks drastically close to at least names if not motivations and actions of characters...some of the knee-jerk reaction is to sort of defend him because since it wasn't "common knowledge" or a Boomer Publisher didn't say anything...


And again NO one is talking that anything was needed here beyond acknowledging the homage...Lee likely had no interest in suing him and the original poster of the similarities was only saying that there was no credit, not that it was copied whole hog....but now it's a plagiarism discussion? and about the legalities? and about Betsy Wolheim? This is why women don't come forward even if it's just to say "Hey this looks a lot like my work"...


And he would not even be in bad company, Stephen King, Stephen Ambrose, ...FFS H.G. Wells...all credibly accused of non-credited homage at best and plagiarism at worst in their careers.


But for some reason we gotta put this under some type of microscope that Tanith Lee's work may have been cribbed in part to Sandman by Neil Gaiman just because he's Neil Gaiman or not enough people read Lee's work that has those similarities? Like Pat, you even said yourself that you hadn't read it...but you're whole swipe here lands you on defending Gaiman as default, while you lack the evidence for it or against it either way, because you can't believe the Publishing industry just let this fly, and/or it hadn't been brought up before.

Big industries ignore stuff like this ALL the time because it's publicly uncomfortable to confront it.

Look, the name, physical and world building similarities are enough for me to say it's uncredited homage at the very least, Your mileage may vary.