Tim Buckley's Blog

I figured I'd start off with easy pickings. It's a bit of a time honored tradition amongst the angrier crowds of the internet: picking on Tim Buckley.
For some reason I feel entitled in picking on Fuckley because I share his name. He has a name with a long and honored history, and this is what he adds to it. I'm not saying he's making all Tims look bad, but he is. Really bad.
I could point out the, and I'm being polite, dubious quality of his webcomic, but others have done that and put way more thought into so doing than I ever could. What I will focus on, however, is his news archive.
First, "news" archive. It isn't news. Personal news, perhaps, but when one says something like "news archive" I immediately think of current events. There is a degree of INSANE FUCKING EGO that runs through the whole of CAD, but this is just the first subtle tick I've noticed.
Reviewing the entire blog from its inception in 2003 would be a mind bending task, so I'll just run through some random entries. Hopefully, this will be enough to get an idea of the broad picture.
Starting with the one from yesterday, November 9th, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Eight.

Bleh, construction next door. Jackhammers on concrete, what a wonderful way to start your morning.

So I'll be at ConnectiCon next month. I'll be scheduling some times when I'll be at my table, with books, and DVDs and etc etc, all that jazz. I also had another idea, though, that I wanted to run by you.

I was thinking of bringing my Warmachine stuff to try and get a game or two in over the course of the weekend. I was also thinking of maybe trying to get a few games in at my booth, if there were some fans that wanted to play.

My idea was to play a few 350 point games, and if you beat me, you get some free CAD merchandise. You'd have to bring your own 350 point force and materials, I won't be providing anything. So if you're a WM/HORDES player, and a CAD fan, and you'll be at ConnectiCon, send me an email if this is something you'd be interested in.

Is that a joke? Is he being sarcastic? Who the fuck knows or cares. So immediately we know there's construction going on-- HEY THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING. One sentence paragraph whose subject is immediately discarded for something called "ConnectiCon". One might wonder why that sentence is in there at all unless it IS supposed to be a joke, in which case he's already lost me as a reader. Every sentence has to exist for a reason. I didn't start this post with "SO THE GARBAGE MAN IS OUTSIDE" did I? No, I didn't. I jumped right into shit because my readers are (nonexistant) descriminating people who have busy lives and can't spend all day reading this bullshit.
Also I don't appreciate how he's addressing me personally. "I also had another idea, though, that I wanted to run by you." Let me write back saying "no, Tim, I think your idea is shit. Learn to play a man's game like Warhammer 40,000 instead of that bullshit like Skubmachine." But if I did that I'd look like a babbling psychopath because he isn't actually looking for input from me, personally, so it gives his entire entry a pretentous air that makes me want to smash his Warmachine figures.
I'm going to link the next one, as I'd rather not clutter my post with his bullshit.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/news.php?i=1636
There. TOO FUCKING LONG. WHO IS GOING TO READ THAT? Also I like how he says everyone has their idea of what it's supposed to be about but he's going to do what he wants anyway, but by his own admission in the first strip it's a comic about two guys playing video games.
At this point a reasoned and intelligent reader would just say "I think this is bullshit" and proceed to do something else, but I have nothing better to do so I'll keep going. ... To another entry, that is, because I find my eyes involuntarily crossing when I see paragraph after paragraph of poorly reasoned bullshit on why a gaming comic can be about raising a baby. Watch another Friends episode, already.
Actually... No, I'm done with this review. After reading through four posts almost identical in nature, down to their grammatical structure, I've decided that's all there is to see.
In conclusion, to not be like Fuckley make sure to not inadvertently talk down to the reader and keep posts under 150,000 words.