D&D Media Spotting and Mild Rant

[Vraille Darkfang]

Here is a sample of his "style." This is from what I believe is his website, a link to which I found on the Fortworth Star-Telegram website:

Ahhhh.

That explains it. He's an opinionist writing in the form or a tech advice column. Almost every paper has a tech advice columnist, one that usually you'd read if you wanted tech advice, but would otherwise skip.

Dr. Bombay is writing an advice column is response to reader's questions (I assume, he might be making the questions up, I know I'd never send something in, just to be be-littled and insulted), where he writes an opionion piece & also answers the readers question. The tech questions are mainly of the so simple a trained monkey can do it type. But, as I've found out, there are still people out there who lack the amount of training the monkey would have.

Dr, Bombay is just like every other insult columnist out there. He just has an IT shtick. So my above responses should refer more to the journalism world at large than Dr. Bombay. He's just another pessismistic, negative, insult opionionist trying to get his column in as many papers as he can. He uses his IT route to set him apart from the thousands of columnists he's competeing with.

So, writing in condascending mail is what the paper is looking for. Saying you hate his column & want to see it yanked (or here is why he's completly wrong) is his marketing angle. You maybe should still send in a letter to the editor showing how wrong Dr. Bombay is, but that's about as far as it goes.

Unless he writes something aobut Hitler being right or Let's bring back slavery, he'll probablly have no worries about getting pulled. He's just one more columnist trying to get paid. His style seems to have enough admirerers he gets in more than one paper. He's semi-popular, almost popular enough (but not quite) to get his own reality show on expanded cable.

I'd still try to send in a rebuttal to his 'scientific observations' but don't let him get your blood pressure up. He's doing what he's getting paid to do. You don't get ticked off if an insult comic calls you a bleeping bleep bleep who would bleep his own bleeping bleep of a bleeping mother. He's just doing his job. Now, if the 1st level halfling rogue says that, it's time to flip open the Epic Level Handbook for a random encounter.

 

[reveal]

Ahhhh.

That explains it. He's an opinionist writing in the form or a tech advice column. Almost every paper has a tech advice columnist, one that usually you'd read if you wanted tech advice, but would otherwise skip.

Dr. Bombay is writing an advice column is response to reader's questions (I assume, he might be making the questions up, I know I'd never send something in, just to be be-littled and insulted), where he writes an opionion piece & also answers the readers question. The tech questions are mainly of the so simple a trained monkey can do it type. But, as I've found out, there are still people out there who lack the amount of training the monkey would have.

Dr, Bombay is just like every other insult columnist out there. He just has an IT shtick. So my above responses should refer more to the journalism world at large than Dr. Bombay. He's just another pessismistic, negative, insult opionionist trying to get his column in as many papers as he can. He uses his IT route to set him apart from the thousands of columnists he's competeing with.

So, writing in condascending mail is what the paper is looking for. Saying you hate his column & want to see it yanked (or here is why he's completly wrong) is his marketing angle. You maybe should still send in a letter to the editor showing how wrong Dr. Bombay is, but that's about as far as it goes.

Unless he writes something aobut Hitler being right or Let's bring back slavery, he'll probablly have no worries about getting pulled. He's just one more columnist trying to get paid. His style seems to have enough admirerers he gets in more than one paper. He's semi-popular, almost popular enough (but not quite) to get his own reality show on expanded cable.

I'd still try to send in a rebuttal to his 'scientific observations' but don't let him get your blood pressure up. He's doing what he's getting paid to do. You don't get ticked off if an insult comic calls you a bleeping bleep bleep who would bleep his own bleeping bleep of a bleeping mother. He's just doing his job. Now, if the 1st level halfling rogue says that, it's time to flip open the Epic Level Handbook for a random encounter.

That sounds like something Hitler would say.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I wouldn't get worked up about it. He's a twit, so there's no point in getting riled up about it. Just go back to playing your little card game from a few years back!

Kane

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

That sounds like something Hitler would say.

No.

First, it's not in German

I'm just tired of all these insult columnists who condem everything and everybody left and right. And the more they seem to tick people off the more popular they seem to get. They go further & further & suddenly they cross some sort of invisible line where they generate too much hate mail & the editor's try to shift blame around. (I remeber both when a local columnist said 'What Hitler did right' & another who mentioned the 'benefits of slavery' & the paper had them pulled, despite the fact they were often meaner in previous columns). Or, ask Howard Stern about the FCC.

I don't even get a newspaper any more (in part due to columns like his). I prefer Dave Barry's gentle humor to Dr. Bombay's nastiness.

Maybe I've finally gotten so apathetic towards pieces like this, I just don't care about them anymore.

I've stopped listening to most Talk Radio & all those talking heads on the News channels for similar reasons.

Just miss the days where being nice, creative, orginal, and factual were the way things were done. (Did those days ever really exist?)

 

[reveal]

No.

First, it's not in German

I'm just tired of all these insult columnists who condem everything and everybody left and right. And the more they seem to tick people off the more popular they seem to get. They go further & further & suddenly they cross some sort of invisible line where they generate too much hate mail & the editor's try to shift blame around. (I remeber both when a local columnist said 'What Hitler did right' & another who mentioned the 'benefits of slavery' & the paper had them pulled, despite the fact they were often meaner in previous columns). Or, ask Howard Stern about the FCC.

I don't even get a newspaper any more (in part due to columns like his). I prefer Dave Barry's gentle humor to Dr. Bombay's nastiness.

Maybe I've finally gotten so apathetic towards pieces like this, I just don't care about them anymore.

I've stopped listening to most Talk Radio & all those talking heads on the News channels for similar reasons.

Just miss the days where being nice, creative, orginal, and factual were the way things were done. (Did those days ever really exist?)

It was a joke.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

It was a joke.

Sorry.

There was no smiley.

Irony often falls flat over messageboards and e-mails. But, the smiley can show us the way.

At least until Wal-mart's through with it & the only thing the smiley is allowed to say is: "Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart (I mean Wal-Mart)".

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Little yellow faces, is there nothing they can't do?

 

[I'm A Banana]

For me, I'm not nessecarily angry at the insult...I'm angry at the fact that he thinks this is funny. Because it's not. And bad humor makes the lone Indian cry much more than insulting a bunch of nerds.

Humor requires a subtle hand. It's an art form. Even insult humor is to be lovingly crafted out of absurdity and evidence (cf. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog...I don't think anyone here cared when he ripped into that line of Star Wars geeks, right?).

My problem isn't the insult per se. It's that he acts like this is supposed to be funny and humorous. It's doesn't lack humor because it's insulting, it just uses mean jabs as a replacement for true hilarity instead of as an aid to them. It's bad humor. It's "I just flew in and boy are my arms tired!", except it's more "I just flew in and nerds sure are funny, how about those pocket protectors, am I right, folks?"

It's not funny. And for that, he should be clubbed like a baby seal.

 

[reveal]

For me, I'm not nessecarily angry at the insult...I'm angry at the fact that he thinks this is funny. Because it's not. And bad humor makes the lone Indian cry much more than insulting a bunch of nerds.

Humor requires a subtle hand. It's an art form. Even insult humor is to be lovingly crafted out of absurdity and evidence (cf. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog...I don't think anyone here cared when he ripped into that line of Star Wars geeks, right?).

My problem isn't the insult per se. It's that he acts like this is supposed to be funny and humorous. It's doesn't lack humor because it's insulting, it just uses mean jabs as a replacement for true hilarity instead of as an aid to them. It's bad humor. It's "I just flew in and boy are my arms tired!", except it's more "I just flew in and nerds sure are funny, how about those pocket protectors, am I right, folks?"

It's not funny. And for that, he should be clubbed like a baby seal.

What bothers me most is that people, Kelleris for example, enjoy this type of humor, which is fine if you like stuff like that, but then have the gall to rant when the insults hit too close to home. That's just idiotic. If you laugh at others pain and suffering you had better damn well be willing to laugh at yourself, otherwise you're a major hypocrit and deserve no sympathy.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Insult comedy is only insulting when it's not comedy.

 

[Joshua Randall]

I would not send an e-mail.

I would send a written letter to the editor of the paper. With luck, it'll get published, forcing the columnist to either print a retraction or at least shut the f--- up about stuff he doesn't know about.