Need a very vicious battle fighting for very low stakes for a change? There's this complete jerk in the Interactive Fiction world who's been on a years and years-long tear to debase and criticize a rotating set of targets who he puts forward as tyrants of adventure games.
Now, he's been at this for YEARS, well over half a decade, with the fervent energy of the truly misguided and the pettiness of someone who got splashed by a car driving past when he was 18. The seething closing-eye stare of walking to a store display as the last item is taken.
Anyway, he waited for the latest IF Competition to be underway, sent an essentially forged e-mail to all the competitors and others he can find, making all sorts of claims with the voice and heft of "V" from "V for Vendatta".
About text games.
Now. In 2020.
Just remember if you ever feel like you're being too petty, not letting something go, that you're not drawing a line in the sand on a beach nobody even recognizes as having sand in it anymore, and you feel bad about this....
..don't worry. Marshal Tenner Winter has you beat.
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