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In her latest Biting the Hand article Jessica Mulligan has some random thoughts about, amongst other things, the closing down of the Lum the Mad site.What impressed me most about Lum was how the site matured over time. It started out as a true personal rant site, meaning Scott wasn’t afraid to get viciously personal in attacks on individuals. This I know from experience, having been the target of such, ahem, ‘personal attention,’ more than once in those early days. As a functionary for Origin System working on Ultima Online, I was fair game and, boy-oh-boy, did that guy hunt me with a vengeance. I’ll never forget reading his mid-1999 "Win a Dream Date with Durga!" posting, "Durga" being my Ultima Online handle. It was an incredibly vicious attack that played on the South Park-ish anti-gay ‘trash talk’ that was then popular among his readers. The implied point was that whoever ‘won’ the contest would, of course, actually lose, because they’d have to go on a date with a transsexual, and we all know what that means, right?
In a long life as a modern iconclast and being subjected to such slings and arrows, I can’t remember being quite so angry as I was just then. So I’m sitting there, staring at the monitor and seeing red, when I realized I was also laughing my head off and thinking, "This guy is an #*$hole, but he’s a funny #*$hole." About a month later, I met Scott in the person at a Texas Renaissance Festival gathering for UO players and we both realized the other was not the Anti-Christ. Over time, we developed a mutual respect. Besides that she also talks about christmas shopping and about Dark Age of Camelot. |
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Biting Lum's Hand
