What's up with the Zeb Cook hatred?

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:59 pm

Oh yea.. almost forgot..

IBL!!!!

heh heh .. couldn't resist.

Piper · Post by **Piper** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:01 pm

You forgot:

+1, cheese, pants ...

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:02 pm

Piper wrote:I don't want your attention and never asked for it. As far as earning it goes, it seems I "earned" it without even trying; giving some indication of what it is worth.

You are incapable of forming a cogent argument to back up all the hot air you're generating. Anyone can attack another person's integrity, you've proved that. What I've proved is that you were simply lashing out at another person who worked on a game ... a GAME ... you didn't like. This sin earned him the label of whore in your eyes.

That says far more about you than most persons would admit to in public.

Piper · Post by **Piper** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:04 pm

TheRedPriest wrote:He thinks Elmore sucks, he doesn't have to defend that anymore than you have to defend your position. How I read it, is that Elmore started off pretty good, but then declined into banality.

I'm calling him down on it anyway.

What do you intend to do about it? Or are you just a load of hot air, too?

Piper · Post by **Piper** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:05 pm

Semaj Khan wrote:(((a bunch of nothing)))

Just what I thought you're a coward who can talk big but can't back it up.

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:08 pm

Piper wrote:
TheRedPriest wrote:He thinks Elmore sucks, he doesn't have to defend that anymore than you have to defend your position. How I read it, is that Elmore started off pretty good, but then declined into banality.
I'm calling him down on it anyway.

What do you intend to do about it? Or are you just a load of hot air, too?

Dude.. are you posting drunk?

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:10 pm

Piper wrote:
Semaj Khan wrote:(((a bunch of nothing)))
Just what I thought you're a coward who can talk big but can't back it up.

Grognard · Post by **Grognard** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:43 pm

Semaj Khan wrote:
There once was a Corporate Whore
By the name of Larry Elmore.
At one time he could draw,
But now his best scrawl
Is behind the men's room door.

Meh. Needs work.

Har!

Now we need a haiku. Get to work!

/cracks whip

Grognard · Post by **Grognard** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:47 pm

Piper wrote:What I've proved is that you were simply lashing out at another person who worked on a game ... a GAME ... you didn't like.

And you are lashing out at another person who made a post on an internet forum... a POST... you didn't like.

Whoosh.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:48 pm

Grognard wrote:
Semaj Khan wrote:
There once was a Corporate Whore
By the name of Larry Elmore.
At one time he could draw,
But now his best scrawl
Is behind the men's room door.

Meh. Needs work.
Har!

Now we need a haiku. Get to work!

/cracks whip

Ouch! Okay, okay...

Elmore sold his soul
In the fall of TSR.
His art now is trash.

Sorta cheated with the TSR, but that's the best you're getting at this late hour.

Maybe tomorrow I'll do an Elizabethan sonnet in iambic pentameter.

Grognard · Post by **Grognard** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:06 pm

Semaj Khan wrote:Elmore sold his soul
In the fall of TSR.
His art now is trash.

Maybe tomorrow I'll do an Elizabethan sonnet in iambic pentameter.

Heh, I was going to ask for something Shakespearian next.

You realize you could make a killing, a KILLING, writing poems lampooning the RPG industry, right? I mean, there's gotta be money in that! Write a coffee table book. Do a book tour. You'd be famous.

The RPG Poet.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:09 pm

Grognard wrote:
Semaj Khan wrote:Elmore sold his soul
In the fall of TSR.
His art now is trash.

Maybe tomorrow I'll do an Elizabethan sonnet in iambic pentameter.
Heh, I was going to ask for something Shakespearian next.

You realize you could make a killing, a KILLING, writing poems lampooning the RPG industry, right? I mean, there's gotta be money in that! Write a coffee table book. Do a book tour. You'd be famous.

The RPG Poet.

No one would understand my message! It's the same ol' shit! For instance, you didn't catch the obligatory seasonal reference (almost always a part of a haiku) that doubled as reference to the decline of TSR. That takes talent, my friend!

No, I'll stick to prose, thank you.

Ermanaric · Post by **Ermanaric** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:15 pm

Heh, Elmore sucked, but so did most of the TSR artists, I mean who are we kidding here?

Stonegiant · Post by **Stonegiant** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:26 pm

The corprate whore comment? Who cares! Its his opinion on what happened, which like it or not he is allowed to have. As to the quality of Elmores art- I loved that first picture of his I ever saw on the cover of Dragon with the knight on the rearing horse. IMO however his artwork went quickly downhill into cheesecake pinup girl and boring formula based fantasy scenes. This and what Semaj said are just opinions about art and the artist, almost all (if not all) artist who have made it reasonably big have had to whether opinions this harsh or harsher, its the nature of the beast because there are no facts about art just opinions even when it comes down to technical execution.

quatzl · Post by **quatzl** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:28 pm

Man, a nursing home resident in a walker could have done laps around this board not too long ago. Now, the wheels are about to fly off. Well done, ex-TSR employee, well done.