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February 21st, 2019 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Langland
    Langland
    February 21, 2019 at 3:43 am | # | Reply

    Well it appears the war has just begun. Time to knock Jim down peg.

  2. Just Here
    Just Here
    February 21, 2019 at 6:40 am | # | Reply

    Nah, nobody could have seen this coming. Hope one of them screenshotted the Facebook group Jim was running before he takes it down.

  3. Abdiel
    Abdiel
    February 21, 2019 at 7:08 am | # | Reply

    This is kind of odd, really. If Jim’s this incompetent at game-playing, he wouldn’t have been in the position he was. Something’s not right here. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hardly rooting for Jim in this thing – but I’d expect a more insidious and harder to counter effort. This is like Superman showing up to fight Lex Luthor, and finding out all he’s got no plan, a BB pistol, and 2 guys with blackjacks or something. You’d have to wonder what he was setting you up for, given his part history. I’d be wondering here too.

    • Abdiel
      Abdiel
      February 21, 2019 at 7:09 am | # | Reply

      Gah. Past history, not part. Reminder to me – no typing when your hands (and apparently brain) are freezing.

    • Shadow
      Shadow
      February 21, 2019 at 11:56 am | # | Reply

      It could be a matter of Jim just underestimating the Internet. When he talks about keeping Garner in check when he was getting on Lynn’s case (after she first joined), he talked about distracting Garner with other tasks and breaking up any cliches. That’s all real-world, in-person matters. And all Unagi-con meetings and primary communication seems to be occurring in-person too.

      It makes sense to me that you could be a master manipulator in-person, but not so much in online if you underestimate the masses and how easy it is to document/screenshot things. There’s a reason the phrase “the Internet never forgets” is around. Jim might not be taking into account simple things like this. I think this might be especially so since he didn’t know how to disguise himself as an admin on the Bork Con Sucks Facebook page.

      • Shadow
        Shadow
        February 21, 2019 at 11:57 am | # | Reply

        *matter of Jim not understanding the Internet.

        • Shadow
          Shadow
          February 21, 2019 at 11:58 am | # | Reply

          Oh my goodness, I am not awake. I had it right the first time. @___@

    • John Trauger
      John Trauger
      February 21, 2019 at 1:12 pm | # | Reply

      Jim is good at manipulating but he’s not thinking at the moment. He’s completely over-the-top livid and his anger is clouding his judgement. He’s grabbing at anything that looks like a weapon to use against Lynn.

      Next play will be for Bork Con to mention the Bork Con Sucks FB group, which Jim will have to delete. he should have already done so before releasing the e-mail.

      As an aside, it is poor form at best for Jim to have NOT redacted the contact e-mails for the Bork con staffers. That info should be considered private.

      • Scotty
        Scotty
        February 21, 2019 at 3:49 pm | # | Reply

        No, he’d be able to claim the un-redacted stuff is fabrication by Lynn after the fact: time-stamps can be altered.

        You’d be scandalized to know just how much the average low level staffer does not know and does not want to know the dirty laundry; many have a keeping my head down and doing my job approach to getting the job done.

        Now in all truth the story is going whatever way Trae wants it to go and has story-boarded it out already

  4. Cathy
    Cathy
    February 21, 2019 at 7:50 am | # | Reply

    I think at this point, since Jim’s the one who made it public, the unreacted version of the letter needs to go up on Bork Con’s social media and they need to screen cap the “Bork Con Sucks” Facebook page before it is deleted.

  5. The Beard
    The Beard
    February 21, 2019 at 11:11 pm | # | Reply

    I think there’s something else that’s being overlooked. Overconfidence. Jim’s not used to ‘playing the game’ with capable people. He’s surrounded himself with people he knows and can manipulate on staff. And he’s used to being successful at it. He’s also used to playing from a position of strength, as Con chair. Now he’s playing against a team of people who are better at the game than he is (individually, and as a group).
    Just because Jim managed to play the game for a long time against a group of people doesn’t mean that he’s skilled at the game, it just means that he’s better than those he’s playing against.

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