Originally posted at On The Nightstand.

Online bookseller Amazon.com is in deep doo-doo. You see, in a move tagged with #amazonfail on Twitter, the company has started deranking “adult” titles, which removes them from search queries.

Sounds okay, right? Wrong.

The problem lies in what they are classifying as “adult”: literature with GLBT content or ( Read more... )

What I am about to say may sound harsh - that’s because it is. It is not directed to all of you 1, but at least a good-sized chunk of the fanbase.

You are by far one of the worst fandoms I have ever had the misfortune to come across 2 The batshit crazy portion of you can be rude, obnoxious, horrifyingly stupid at times and, if reports are to be ( Read more... )

When you log onto the internet you can pretty much become whoever you want. You don’t have to post your real name or location, or give your age. Heck, you can grab a photo of someone else and pretend it’s you.

I’m sure we’ve all been warned about internet predators who use this anonymity to find their prey, those innocent young girls and boys, but ( Read more... )

Need a dictionary to go with your thesaurus, SMeyer?

sa·ga noun

1. a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
2. any narrative or legend of heroic exploits.
3. Also called saga novel. a form of the novel in which the members or generations of a family or social group are chronicled in ( Read more... )

Invisionfree’s main server just got hacked. Fuck.

Originally published at Disdainful-Soul.net. You can comment here or there.

I’m sure we’ve all come across it during our time on the Interbutts so I don’t think I need to give too many horrific examples of this menace. I am talking about… really really bad spelling and grammar.

On a forum I frequent I ranted about, well, a lot of stuff that really grinds my gears. Because of the nature of the forum, most of the rants were ( Read more... )

Here are some things that I have learnt over the last few days:

• Constantly refreshing the screen will not result in your Internet order suddenly being shipped. Dark Passion Play may be shipped within 48 hours… when it’s not a weekend. The rest are due in a few weeks.
• Do not try and reason with those who think that disagreeing with them means that ( Read more... )

Even though this happened nearly 24 hours ago, I am still so pissed off I am shaking.

My grandfather is a very sweet old man. He’s at the point in his life where he is very childlike in some ways (like zooming away with the shopping trolley, pretending to hit cars), and he doesn’t get to go out very often. His days are spent taking care of my ( Read more... )

Yet another tale from the HP Uni Game of Fail, concerning Princess MadeUpName. Previously posted at Bad RPers Suck.

This may be a novel concept, but my character? Is my character. Here, let me add a little bit more emphasis to that for you. My character? Is my character. That means I get to make choices about her. Like what her name is - isn’t ( Read more... )

This post has been a long time coming, but even as I write it I have this feeling that this is just the surface of the whole thing.

Back in October 2005 I joined a reasonably popular Harry Potter university roleplaying game. The game was/is Ardnieu University, and despite what is on the surface, the whole thing is a steaming pile of shit. It may ( Read more... )