>>2286 Every writer has certain lines he regrets ever writing.
>>This is one of mine. It was meant as a mild barb at certain readers
>>who lamented the multi-part nature of Knights as a terrible
>>tease and gave the impression of wanting me to just tell them what was
>>going to happen instead of making a proper story out of it, and wound
>>up being the forum catchphrase that wouldn't die. Four years later
>>it's still in some users' sigblocks, to say nothing of the
>>T-shirts.

Hey, I still have (and wear!) one of the original-run CafePress EPU Rabid Crack Weasel caps - the gray one, if anyone recalls the design.

The looks I get are amusing -- as are the looks following my attempt to explain what my hat is referring to. I do hope I haven't scared too many people off...

>>2286: At least the weasel on the T-shirt's an
>>anime weasel. As I recall, the original one was a really badly done
>>photo of one. But yes, the patience level of the Forum around the time
>>this was released was awful. ALC
>
>Be honest: can you *blame* them?

Blame them for being impatient? Fuck no! I'm impatient; I'd be a hypocrite at best if I castigated someone else for being impatient about EPU works!

Blame them for whining, bitching, moaning, and pestering? Fuck yeah! Mebbe if they'd knock that crap off*, the authors would feel more like working on the stuff in the first place. I know that I, at work, tend to really really want to put the whiners at the bottom of my to-do pile... and I can only imagine how much easier that impulse would be to give in to if I wasn't being paid for the work.

(* to be fair, 'that crap' mostly appears to have been knocked off; I was referring to my viewpoint at the time, mostly)

--sofaspud
--