and so another year’s hugo awards are past
- August 24th, 2016
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I haven’t written much about the alt-right/”Rabid Puppy” Hugo Award slate gaming lately; as last year, their slate utterly collapsed, with the core of it finishing behind “No Award,” again, just like last year. Theodore (“Vox Day”) Beale did of course claim TOTAL VICTORY, as he will always do regardless, and I got a small bit of banhammered hate on Twitter (aw, they remembered me! I’m flattered) and blah de blah de blah. To be honest, Dave Truesdale’s expulsion from the con was far more interesting.
Really, I’m kind of surprised they still care, what with actual fascists being actual contenders in elections in the west this year. It makes their chosen pond look even smaller. Scalzi wrote a column calling them gum on the shoes of history, which is about right.
I imagine they might give it another run next year even with the new rules in place, mostly ’cause Dunning-Kruger is gonna Dunning-Kruger, and if you want poster children for that effect, I have some suggestions.
Why do white supremacists always look like counterexamples?
Jim Hines has a nice post up about the actual award winners, and it’s a good read.
Meanwhile, the Sad Puppies – as opposed to the Rabids – are concentrating their efforts on a new set of awards, the Dragon Awards, to be given at Dragoncon. Those are over here, and it’s an internet vote so have fun managing that because wow I can’t think of anything easier to hijack, but y’know what? Great. Go have fun, I hope it works out (no, really, I genuinely do) and good luck.
Meanwhile, I’m going to post this and hope the construction next door takes a break today. My studio is sound-conditioned, not sound-proofed, and I have to ask, WHO NEEDS FIVE KINDS OF POWER SAW FOR A CARPORT? I mean, I’m guessing at five, given the number of different sounds I was hearing, and unless they’re starting some sort of electric saw noisemusic band, I’m assuming this is all for the carport and not either music nor lulz.
Then again, the griefer count has been pretty fuckin’ high lately. Maybe it is lulz. These chorus vocals I was mixing are sounding pretty damn sweet despite the saw effects, I got to say, so you’re gonna have to do better than that to stop me.
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My favorite phrasing of the counterexample thing was from the Preacher arc where he took on a bunch of Klansmen. “Why is it, that the most ardent defenders of the white race are always the worst examples of it? You! Where the fuck is your chin?” 😀
Sharing an apartment with this guy’s neck?
Now I’m having fun imagining what sort of soundtrack you could create by deliberately mixing “electric saw noisemusic” into one of your songs. You really should!
Maybe like this?
Only, you know, electric.
Yes, it passed, along with “5 and 6” changing to 5 nominations and 6 items on the final ballot. (It was passed last year as “4 and 6” but changed before being ratified this year.) Both of those will be in effect for next year’s Hugos. Several new variations on the nominating/voting process were passed this year and will be up for ratification next year. All of the Hugo changes also had clauses added allowing the business meeting to suspend them for the following year by a simple majority vote, so they can be mix-and-matched over the next several years as we see how things work out.