Postby SandRider » 13 Jan 2011 22:57
I was thinking more in terms of Merritt losing interest in what Keith is actually doing in the McDune sandbox, plotlines, rewriting Dune history, &etc.
[tl;dr SIDEBAR begins here] (he quit caring about the Official Corporate Dune Forum along time ago;
I think he realized somewhere along the way that the critics were right; McDune sucks, McDune fans suck, he
can't legally say anything on the Corporate Forum that could be interpreted as a negative opinion of Keith - I
think he got personally bitchy with the OH calling him all the names and intentionally trying to poison the Corporate
Board against McDune ... he got the adminFever, took it personally that the OH was not going to play by his rules,
then some of us did make it personal ..... for some reason, I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a prison
guard - he said that most of the time, it's not whatever it is that the convict is doing wrong, it's how the convict
responds ... in the big buildings of the general population, there are yellow lines on either side of the hallways ...
convicts are supposed to walk on the right side off the hall, "behind the yellow line" ... this keeps the center of
the hallway clear for the turn-key officers assigned to each barracks, and keeps a line of sight open all the way
down the hall ... if two guys start to fighting at one end of the hallway, the guards at the central desk can see
all the way down there, instead of their LOS being blocked by a crowd ... so, as an example, if a group of 100 or
so convicts are coming down the hallway heading to the mess hall, and two guys are walking side-by-side having
a conversation, and the one on the outside isn't paying attention and is walking on the other side of the line a bit,
the guard will holler "Get behind the yellow line" ... and the convict who is trying to get along in the system will
acknowledge the order and get behind his buddy and keep on talking ... if the guy is just too fucking cool to be
bothered with walking where he's supposed to walk and way too cool to obey a first order, he'll get yelled at again,
maybe with some verbal abuse designed to embarrass him in front of his peers ... if he says something like "yeah,
yeah, motherfucker, I hear you" and gets behind the line and mumbles to his friends about the fucking po-lice, most
of the guards will let that go ... he got behind the line, and his attitude problem is between him and the parole board ...
but if a convict steps on out into the middle of the hallway, says something like "Fuck you, bitch-ass punk, I'm tired of
all y'alls bullshit" ... that is a different story ... now, it is not the yellow line, it is the disobedience of a direct order
and the threatening behavior ... that is now the issue, and several other guards will have seen and heard this, and
will be in the middle of the hallway in seconds ... the convict is now certainly going to receive a disciplinary action
report, but whatever else happens is now up to him ... he'll be told to get on down the hallway, and if he does, one
of the guards will follow alongside him ... depending on the convict and the guard, and their relationship, the conversation
may be confrontational or rehabilitative ... the guard may threaten the convict, "You know I wish you would come on
over that line at me, I'll gas your ass so fast" &etc or it could be "Goddamn, Junior, what the fuck with you today? You
know better than that." .... maybe the guy let some news from his family get to him, maybe he is having trouble with
other convicts ... if he demonstrates a willingness to talk to the guard and acknowledges his behavior, it might be that
the guard goes back the others and they do not file a disciplinary action ... it could be that the presence of all the
other guards appearing on the scene could set the convict off, and he just starts whipping ass ... which won't last
long, can't last long, as he'll be overpowered and gassed and beat with clubs ... so the hallway yellow lines are used
as a barometer of a convict's mentality and temperament .... and all that leads back to Merritt only in that it could
have been that when he said "Don't talk bad about Keith", and the sockpuppet posted "Keith is a doofus and he smells
like pee." that the resultant banning MAY HAVE BEEN Merritt's response to a what he saw as a personal affront to
his "position" as Almighty Freakin Meow, and not a defense of Keith, per se ... who is a doofus, and does in
fact smell like pee, but that is not the issue now .... the issue now is a power-struggle and who is the AFM and who is
just a poster .... the fact that he's allowed Freakzilla to post under a new username, and I wouldn't call it a sockpuppet,
as Merritt knows who it is, tells me that he's either let up on his OH hate, which may or may not have been caused by the
attacks on McDune and may or may not have caused by his personal inferiority complex(es), or he's just stupid and lazy ....)
[/tl;dr SIDEBAR]
I was thinking maybe he's not concerned about being "out of the McDune" loop, because he's just biding his time,
waiting for Brian to Die; I do not for a moment believe that Keith will still be in the boat after the funeral ... Merritt
may or may not realize just how bad the McDune is, objectively; either way, it doesn't matter - he surely knows it
has NOT been a commercial or critical success, and he surely knows how Frank's fans feel about it, so in the long run,
to Byron Merritt, if he is in fact concerned with the Dune future, McDune is fucking irrelevant ... everything that Keith
wrote will be disregarded and ignored in a set of "new" Dune books, by Merritt or someone else, and they may be as
bad or worse than McDune (if Merritt writes them, I'd bet on needing a new thread to redefine "suckularity") but the
point is, they will not rest on any foundations from the McDune ...
and if the McDune fans are McIdiots and the Official Corporate Dune Forum is on life-support,
why should Merritt care what the latest McDune is about ? ... maybe that's why he's so bad
at defending them - maybe he's never actually read them, just the synopses and Keith's blahg,
and he just sorta parrots whatever Arnoldo says ....(or copypastas "That is an interesting point.")
................ I exist only to amuse myself ................
I personally feel that this message board, Jacurutu, is full of hateful folks who don't know
how to fully interact with people. ~ "Spice Grandson" (Bryon Merrit) 08 June 2008
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