Gen Con Dealer Attacks You Tube Personality
Just when you thought it was safe to be a nerd with an opinion Gen Con Dealer Attacks a Youtube Personality!
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Jeremy, The Quartering, from YouTube
For years, conventions and the towns they are hosted in have been havens for fans and creators alike when it rolls into town. Gen Con has been one of them since 1968 established by the late founding father and co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Gary Gygax. Since then Gen Con has transitioned into the hands of former Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering) CEO, Peter Adkison. Since then there have been some ups and downs but today as of today, August 2nd of 2018, the ride has come to somewhat of a stop. Game “Publisher” “Matt Loter” has been accused of Assaulting YouTube Personality “The Quartering’s” Jeremy at the Anita early in the morning. The attack was unprovoked and subsequently did NOT lead to “Mutual Combat”. Jeremy has stated that he never met this person and has never interacted with him before.
Matt Loter calls himself “Matt Fantastic” or “Prettiestmatt” on Twitter and has protected his tweets. Mr. Loter has been a Krav Maga Instructor in the past (which means he knows the fullest extent of physical harm he can do with his bare hands and hat intent possibly to inflict grievous bodily harm and potentially deliver fatal blows to Jeremy’s body if patrons at the establishment did not intervene), he owns Elm City Games and has been in the gaming industry for a few years. While we were able to see many of them before his self enacted twitter embargo, he, had a slew of anti-government posts and hostile rhetoric going down the length of his twitter page. Charges will be pressed today and we will keep you up to date on what’s been going on. In addition to this development Gen Con refuses to give a quote and has said on their Twitch account during a stream “This is not the place for that matter” and has been called out for not taking a public stance on the attack of a dealer wearing their 4 day badge off-site of an attendee. What will Gen Con do in this case? Will “Matt” be defended by this company or will they stand against bullying? Time will tell and we’ll keep you up to date.
-Update: 8/2/18 8:55 PM PST-
Jeremy has officially filed a Police Report and will be following through to prosecute and charge to the furthest extent of the law (when funds allow). Matt Loter has officially fled the scene and will NOT make a comment. We called the Gen Con convention Operations number and were given no comment, we called the Indianapolis Metro Police Department and they refused to comment, we even called Elm City Games (the comic book store Matt Loter owns) and they hung up. With physical evidence and 5 witnesses to the attack “Pritteset Matt” may not look so pretty anymore.
-R. Rankin
Star Wars The Clone Wars is back
Fan’s demands to bring back Star Wars: The Clone Wars were heard!
Ashoka addresses the Jedi on hologram
The Last Episode of Rebels left fans wondering “What about what happened between Yoda’s conversation with Ghost Qui Gon Jin and the fist scene of Episode 3?!” no longer has to be a concern. During the panel at Comic Con San Diego today, July 19th 2018, it was announced that “Star Wars The Clone Wars” was going to return. With it came a video clip (seen below) and a little information from creator and producer Dave Filoni who was accompanied by fellow producer Athena Portillo, Anakin Skywalker’s voice actor Matt Lanter, Ahsoka’s voice actress Ashley Eckstein, and the show’s music composer Kevin Keiner. #CloneWarsSaved was the final closing statement from Filoni which has draw quite the following on Twitter today.
From the official Star Wars website and by a disclosure from Disney the show will be on the new “Disney-Exclusive-Streaming-Subscription-Platform” sometime next year. While the scene demonstrated at the convention was an obvious display of a finished product we can only speculate that it is something of a second act of the first new episode or part of the first act of a second or third episode. All to be seen at the behest of Disney and their new platform. In addition to this there has been more disclosure on a Live Action Star Wars show but nothing beyond a few whispers.
Qui Gon Ghost
While I’m a fan of everything that happened before the all out deconstruction of the the extended universe I can only hope that they’ll be bringing more back into the fold. The reintegration of Thrawn worked pretty well in Rebels. The tiny bits of story alluded to in “Battlefront 2” was a sad distraction from the opportunity for world building. More information on these expanding projects will be revealed in the coming weeks but and we can only give a mirthful Yoda-Chuckle in anticipation. We’ve mentioned these in other articles like “New Star Wars Movies/Halt of the Spinnoffs” and “Old Ben Movie“.
“Whoa!” -Yoda
-R. Rankin
She-Ra DraMa
She-Ra Remake stirs commotion among fans old and new.
80s She-Ra the Princess of Power
The 1980s was a strange time for kids. We weren’t indoctrinated in the placid pacifism and fear of hurting people’s feelings like folks are today. He-Man, She-Ra, Ghostbusters, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Johnny Quest, and a slew of other properties shaped our world-view in what people now call “The First World” or “Modern Civilization with privileged amenities”. However, with the blissful memory of running down the hall and skidding on the carpet to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons have faded and the properties of our childhood have a new evil overlord in the form of an insipid, all inclusive, non-decisive, demanding idealistic polymorphic nonesuch that we call: New Wave Animation and Non-Triggering Character Design Neutrality or in the opinion of the author of this article “Sloppy cash grab hinged on nostalgia and little girls”. Remember the NEW Thundercats? Poor great uncle five times (or however many it was) times removed Arthor Rankin Jr. is Spinning in his grave on that one already.
We remember…
What’s old is new, not really in this case and without descending into the downward spiral of what a minority of consumers scream loudly about as opposed to the majority. We’ve already seen the ruination of most of those properties. Placing blame on where it started does not change the fact that we are at a loss for nostalgia because everything they make now is, for a lack of better words, Terrible. Netflix has gathered their artists, paid for a show, green-lit the designs being “Hip and modern take on the Princess of Eternia” only to get some backlash from old die-hard fans. The lie that “She-Ra” was “only for girls” that so many people cling to with the new incarnation is grossly misinterpreted. She-Ra was Adam’s sister and meant to bring a strong female lead to the forefront of the scene and provide that she was an equal to the Pumped, Undulating Muscled, Super-Freak that was He-Man without the need for magical-muscle juice and expand the idea that “Girls could be badass and fight evil too”.
He-Man’s gotta be psyched up while She-Ra is cool and confident.
Everyone forgets, though, that these shows were mostly advertisements for children’s toys. Commercialized and sold en mass at all the local toy stores (rest in peace Toys’R’Us). Every kid had at least one toy from these shows. Maybe not every show there was but at least one. To my recollection I had a Man-At-Arms and a She-Ra then a ton of second hand G.I. Joes and third hand Star Wars figures. She-Ra was never the damsel in distress but my little sister’s Barbies were. This was the social engineering of the 70s, 80s and early 90s in this case.
The actual toys from way back when… Via He-Man.org
This year, however, we’ve got a new Princess of Power coming November 16th. Same name, some design similarities, much younger than what we were used to, and dipped in a coat of thick resin to reduce the overall feminine shape. This would be a correct adjustment for the targeted audience of ages 6-12 worldwide. However, the themes this show will have to cover will be approaching the Pre-Teen to Tween school children from ages 13+. We are thus given a character that we can’t quite place the age of while fans of the original show look back and scream in terror at what their originally visualized “Powerful Female Image” has been turned into.
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The “New” She-Ra
The problem is not that she’s not as mature as she was presented in the original but that she’s being placed in a situation of power while retaining the title and being presented as “The Modern Version” this invalidating the original works and subsequent investments of years of what people’s supposed imaginations have shaped the character out to be. Is “The New She-Ra” supposed to be a hot and mature of-age babe? Nope. Does she represent the average modern teenage girls body? Nope. Does her design look like Avatar Ang with long blond hair wearing a white skirt over some spandex shorts? Yes. Should we all care? Not unless girls start feeling bad for not being slim like this princess and start having body issues because the only character with some curves is the older Pastel Pink haired “mentor friend” character.
Comparison
What about the DRAMA? Well, after searching the twitter #SheRa I found a lot of contradictions. People like the redesign, people hate it, people who like it calling the people who hate it various names and insults. People who hate it then providing scientific data as to body shapes and maturity. Other people saying artists are bias. Websites like Polygon, and various other “Entertainment News” pages are covering and quoting people’s Twitters left and right. While we could do that we suggest you just check it out for yourself. Since this whole show has already been paid for by Netflix we know that there won’t be a redesign this late in the game for the Tomboyish tween princess but we do know that many collectors have divided opinions. Fanart is flowing like a river and it’s only a matter of time till the show hits public viewing.
Classic She Ra Fan Art from https://www.deviantart.com/nazuroth
