The recent five-star reviews on Kieren’s Spectrum titles are from Shaun McClure, aka DPaint.
He did this in the past. They “scratched each other’s backs” with reviews.
When the AtariAge shit exploded, McClure deleted his reviews and tried to distance himself from Kieren.
Recently, Hawken has reviewed two of McClure’s new books on his YouTube channel, indicating that he thinks enough time has passed and people have forgotten.
Bebbington is, from all accounts, somewhat odd.
Mean-spirited and vindictive. So calling Octavius a cunt, true or otherwise, wouldn’t bother him a jot.
Thacker, under his “The Bear” pseudonym, stalked her quite aggressively, and he was never shy of disparaging her on George’s Discord, so for him to be overly concerned about negativity regarding Kieren joining their writing “roster” is somewhat debatable.
The one concrete fact that we all grasp, regardless of it still being an annoyance, is that people like Kieren, Octavius and Nerd et al, will never change.
They are set in their ways for various reasons.
Octavius claims many mental issues, and true or not, is now determined never to set foot back into “normal” society with a 9-5 job and all that entails.
She/He/They are either so fucked in the head or cunningly clever that it has realised that others can be coerced into funding whatever slovenly, indolent, thoroughly grubby and creatively stunted lifestyle they choose.
Nerd is this new breed of Millennial who thinks he is deserving of something, if not everything, and that he should do the absolute minimum for it to be delivered to him.
Kieren is just thick.
His “creative endeavours” achieved sweet fuck-all two decades ago, everything he touched turned to shit, but he lacks the mental acuity to think of anything else.
All his video “types” are stolen from other creators, everything he does has been done hundreds of times and infinitely better by others.
The same applies to varying degrees to others within what was once called the “UK circle.”
I’ve said this dozens of times, the clock is ticking on all of them. Their visual, “intellectual”, commercial appeal is dwindling.
Add to this the undeniable fact that interest in all things retro is on the wane.
Fans are getting older, and their priorities shifting.
Fewer people are attending events, big or small, for financial reasons, health reasons or just “Fuck, I’m 50 plus, I can’t be fucking arsed driving all that way”.
If any of them have squirrelled away sufficient for when the bubble bursts on their internet lifestyle, then more power to them.
Will it be sufficient to last until they shuffle off? I seriously doubt it. Add to that the simple fact that a State Pension almost certainly won’t exist by the time they hit retirement age.
Kieren has at least found someone dumb enough to tolerate his inanities and put a roof over his fat head, to allow him to follow his dream and churn out his unproductive garbage.
While being one of his fiercest critics, I will say that he does appear to have finally learned his lesson.
The days of him pouring unalloyed bile and vitriol onto countless blogs, forums and channels are gone.
He had his nose rubbed in the feculent stench of his own printed and or broadcast fuckups so often and so vehemently by me and others that he finally seems to have realised that he truly was fighting against the only enemy he could never defeat, himself.
He could never refute the hard evidence of his own words.
He still skulks around various pages, groups and forums, but as stated here by others, his comments are invariably self-promoting or so vanilla they are instantly passed over and forgotten.
Gaming Culture is his last hurrah. If, as he claims, his books sell in the thousands, why does he need an exceptionally low-paying writing gig with a magazine that struggled to reach 77 backers and has not hit its July publication release?
If, as he claims, his books were such winners, why has he openly stated he cannot afford a much sought-after MSX book, which costs £42?
Kieren seeks relevance as much as finance.
Both are forever beyond his grasp.
Can’t escape this clown. Just clicked on a Facebook post about RJ Mical not being able to attend a talk in Cambridge and he’s replied asking if he can get a refund.
I’ve no idea what he is. But he could have just ignored the comments. Or just PMed the organisers?
But he only wanted to go because RJ Mical was involved in the Atari Lynx? His beloved Atari who only published the console in effect, it was developed at Epyx.
Also, might not be a good idea meeting someone involved in the Amiga after doing a video on the Amiga where he gets most facts wrong.
Simon Butler
1 month ago
Yes, they are considering using Kieren, as it is expected to attract more readers.
Their content isn’t doing them any favours.
They’re struggling to find writers.
So, using the Molerat and “mistakenly” discussing it on their Discord will potentially make people buy their publication to try and figure out which article Kieren has written.
He’s offered to donate some of his old work for free.
He is as desperate as they are.
I’m sure I could write stuff in a hurry better than he could taking his time. Then throw AI into the mix as well. I’ve had discussions about the Amiga, Atari Falcon with people who were clearly using ChatGPT to get information, it was wrong in many cases. The C-Lab Falcon was not the original Atari Falcon for instance, that happened later.
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LeeFogartysVegaplus
1 month ago
Maybe Chris T and Shaun B need to be reminded that the Wotsit referred to Octavius Kitten as a “Cunt”. They sound like simps so wouldn’t be surprised if they shit the bed about it.
Talking of Octavius. You seen her (yes her) latest threads comments. On the ponce for 2 grand “fundraising”
“I still need to come up with more than £2k to get to Fringe so my fundraising streams are super important. This is not good.
Starting to wonder if this career sidestep is really a good idea. The amount of funding needed just to get started is more than I anticipated. Massive respect to the established comedians and performers, I had no idea how driven and strong you have to be.”
Roughly translated to “My simps still haven’t given me 2k so I can go to fringe. Starting to thing this is all too much graft. I’ve no idea how other people do it, they must work hard doing any jobs they can in order to save up and fund their own dreams our something.”
“Career sidestep” ahahahahaha picking up a guitar and strumming a few chords with some lame lyrics over the top isn’t a career, love, it’s a hobby *at best* and probably one you should be keeping to yourself. Career sidestep! Which other career is she sidestepping from? Not-writing books? Poisoning rats with chocolate pudding? No, crying on a livestream is not a career either. Unbelievable!
What a fucking idiot. Did she think you could just waltz into one of the most highly contested sectors of the entertainment industry with her level of absolute toilet and somehow make a name for yourself? She’s really got zero clue, does she?
It’ll be online and for donations, of course. “Have a comedy song written about you for £100” (because she can literally make up that fucking playground level, unfunny, talentless shit on the spot – AS COULD ANYONE)
Hey look, it’s Keen!
He’s good for a bean, Keep hitting that pound sign,
‘Cos Louis really needs her wine!
Oh the void, the void!
Real work I must avoid,
But I can’t write for shit,
SO DONATE OR THE RAT GETS IT
Apparently it’s not that hard. The venues all need dross to fill the daytime slots that none of the actually GOOD acts want to do, so people like this malcontent oaf are ideal pickings.
It’s a trip to the fringe festival. Remember, first it’s a backroom during the daytime, then it’s a backroom during the daytime, then it’s THE ALBERT HALL. Fucking silly bastard.
I’ve seen them, yes. I was going to make a video about it but then thought “why bother”. She’s just a stupid arsehole. And she is a cunt, if we’re being honest. A useless one at that.
I think what sums it up is that one of her simps (who looks like he needs his hard drive checked) replied “dont worry, we will get you to Fringe somehow”.
He’s been hovering around the Acorn scene of late, posting his “best games” style videos in the Facebook group. A few people don’t know who he is and foolishly engage, but the vast majority just ignore him. His videos are such dross, he doesn’t even play the games, and his ‘commentary’ is often way off the mark. He even says things like “this game from 1984” when the game itself literally says “(c) Acornsoft 1982” on screen IN THE VIDEO.
Probably just baffled by the sudden influx of attention to their cobwebbed and comfortable community. I don’t mean that as an insult, I just don’t imagine there’s been much movement in there for a while.
Chris T knows fair well what bringing Kieren in from the cold will bring and from the conversation ive seen really doesn’t want Kieren anywhere near his magazine. Shaun however seems to want keiren onboard for all the wrong reasons, I would go as far to say he’s craving the drama he knows it will bring.
Idk what he’s up to (Shaun, that is). his angle on my recent post about nostalgia nerd seemed incredibly pissy. I mean, of course he knows who NN is, he’s just deliberately being a twat from what I can tell. Bizarre. He’s said nothing since then. Still, he’s recently put up a 5 star review for one of Kieren’s books on Amazon so I suppose it’s a situation of “all the boys together” when it comes to writing absolutely drab retro books. Strange.
I just seems like he wants Kieran onboard to cause friction, and has kierens proven time and time again he loves causing drama and maybe that’s what Shaun is hoping for.
Personally I don’t care for the magazine it’s full of nonsense and regurgitated articles from the past some of them not even being their own work. And the design and layout…
As I said, it’s not my cup of tea. Each to their own, but I like to read things I don’t already know that are written by people who can actually write. I’m a simple man.
Gordon Ramsays left eyebrow
1 month ago
The problem is two fold.
Some people just can’t get their head around / refuse to believe how much of an absolute 2 faced c#nt he is,
And,
There are always the do-gooders who are ready to forgive, and give him another chance, stupidly believing he won’t fuck them over the first chance he gets.
This is why, unfortunately, he will always be hovering around the retro scene.
I believe his latest attempt is to try and integrate himself in the retro Speccy scene.
Which, to be fair, should be easy enough, as he wrote Steve Davis snooker for it whilst aged just 12…….
The recent five-star reviews on Kieren’s Spectrum titles are from Shaun McClure, aka DPaint.
He did this in the past. They “scratched each other’s backs” with reviews.
When the AtariAge shit exploded, McClure deleted his reviews and tried to distance himself from Kieren.
Recently, Hawken has reviewed two of McClure’s new books on his YouTube channel, indicating that he thinks enough time has passed and people have forgotten.
Bebbington is, from all accounts, somewhat odd.
Mean-spirited and vindictive. So calling Octavius a cunt, true or otherwise, wouldn’t bother him a jot.
Thacker, under his “The Bear” pseudonym, stalked her quite aggressively, and he was never shy of disparaging her on George’s Discord, so for him to be overly concerned about negativity regarding Kieren joining their writing “roster” is somewhat debatable.
The one concrete fact that we all grasp, regardless of it still being an annoyance, is that people like Kieren, Octavius and Nerd et al, will never change.
They are set in their ways for various reasons.
Octavius claims many mental issues, and true or not, is now determined never to set foot back into “normal” society with a 9-5 job and all that entails.
She/He/They are either so fucked in the head or cunningly clever that it has realised that others can be coerced into funding whatever slovenly, indolent, thoroughly grubby and creatively stunted lifestyle they choose.
Nerd is this new breed of Millennial who thinks he is deserving of something, if not everything, and that he should do the absolute minimum for it to be delivered to him.
Kieren is just thick.
His “creative endeavours” achieved sweet fuck-all two decades ago, everything he touched turned to shit, but he lacks the mental acuity to think of anything else.
All his video “types” are stolen from other creators, everything he does has been done hundreds of times and infinitely better by others.
The same applies to varying degrees to others within what was once called the “UK circle.”
I’ve said this dozens of times, the clock is ticking on all of them. Their visual, “intellectual”, commercial appeal is dwindling.
Add to this the undeniable fact that interest in all things retro is on the wane.
Fans are getting older, and their priorities shifting.
Fewer people are attending events, big or small, for financial reasons, health reasons or just “Fuck, I’m 50 plus, I can’t be fucking arsed driving all that way”.
If any of them have squirrelled away sufficient for when the bubble bursts on their internet lifestyle, then more power to them.
Will it be sufficient to last until they shuffle off? I seriously doubt it. Add to that the simple fact that a State Pension almost certainly won’t exist by the time they hit retirement age.
Kieren has at least found someone dumb enough to tolerate his inanities and put a roof over his fat head, to allow him to follow his dream and churn out his unproductive garbage.
While being one of his fiercest critics, I will say that he does appear to have finally learned his lesson.
The days of him pouring unalloyed bile and vitriol onto countless blogs, forums and channels are gone.
He had his nose rubbed in the feculent stench of his own printed and or broadcast fuckups so often and so vehemently by me and others that he finally seems to have realised that he truly was fighting against the only enemy he could never defeat, himself.
He could never refute the hard evidence of his own words.
He still skulks around various pages, groups and forums, but as stated here by others, his comments are invariably self-promoting or so vanilla they are instantly passed over and forgotten.
Gaming Culture is his last hurrah. If, as he claims, his books sell in the thousands, why does he need an exceptionally low-paying writing gig with a magazine that struggled to reach 77 backers and has not hit its July publication release?
If, as he claims, his books were such winners, why has he openly stated he cannot afford a much sought-after MSX book, which costs £42?
Kieren seeks relevance as much as finance.
Both are forever beyond his grasp.
Can’t escape this clown. Just clicked on a Facebook post about RJ Mical not being able to attend a talk in Cambridge and he’s replied asking if he can get a refund.
He really is pond scum
Look at him rolling out the “I’m autistic and disabled, you hurt my feelings” rubbish now, as well…
I’ve no idea what he is. But he could have just ignored the comments. Or just PMed the organisers?
But he only wanted to go because RJ Mical was involved in the Atari Lynx? His beloved Atari who only published the console in effect, it was developed at Epyx.
Also, might not be a good idea meeting someone involved in the Amiga after doing a video on the Amiga where he gets most facts wrong.
Yes, they are considering using Kieren, as it is expected to attract more readers.
Their content isn’t doing them any favours.
They’re struggling to find writers.
So, using the Molerat and “mistakenly” discussing it on their Discord will potentially make people buy their publication to try and figure out which article Kieren has written.
He’s offered to donate some of his old work for free.
He is as desperate as they are.
I’m sure I could write stuff in a hurry better than he could taking his time. Then throw AI into the mix as well. I’ve had discussions about the Amiga, Atari Falcon with people who were clearly using ChatGPT to get information, it was wrong in many cases. The C-Lab Falcon was not the original Atari Falcon for instance, that happened later.
Maybe Chris T and Shaun B need to be reminded that the Wotsit referred to Octavius Kitten as a “Cunt”. They sound like simps so wouldn’t be surprised if they shit the bed about it.
Talking of Octavius. You seen her (yes her) latest threads comments. On the ponce for 2 grand “fundraising”
She is a cunt.
Yeah, and one that smells like a rotting corpse
Oh god, what is she “fundraising” for now? Is it the rats?
Shes somehow blagged a gig at fringe but realises she actually needs money.
Or talent
Oh good grief… back on the “I’m a musician now” horse, is she. Wonder where she’s going to do her “pre-Fringe show” now that Barcadia’s gone bust…
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“I still need to come up with more than £2k to get to Fringe so my fundraising streams are super important. This is not good.
Starting to wonder if this career sidestep is really a good idea. The amount of funding needed just to get started is more than I anticipated. Massive respect to the established comedians and performers, I had no idea how driven and strong you have to be.”
Roughly translated to “My simps still haven’t given me 2k so I can go to fringe. Starting to thing this is all too much graft. I’ve no idea how other people do it, they must work hard doing any jobs they can in order to save up and fund their own dreams our something.”
“Career sidestep” ahahahahaha picking up a guitar and strumming a few chords with some lame lyrics over the top isn’t a career, love, it’s a hobby *at best* and probably one you should be keeping to yourself. Career sidestep! Which other career is she sidestepping from? Not-writing books? Poisoning rats with chocolate pudding? No, crying on a livestream is not a career either. Unbelievable!
Indeed. “Career” lol. Fuck off, you silly orb, and get back to the factory!
What a fucking idiot. Did she think you could just waltz into one of the most highly contested sectors of the entertainment industry with her level of absolute toilet and somehow make a name for yourself? She’s really got zero clue, does she?
Two grand to get to the fringe sounds crazy, but then train tickets are stupid money now.
It’ll be online and for donations, of course. “Have a comedy song written about you for £100” (because she can literally make up that fucking playground level, unfunny, talentless shit on the spot – AS COULD ANYONE)
Hey look, it’s Keen!
He’s good for a bean,
Keep hitting that pound sign,
‘Cos Louis really needs her wine!
Oh the void, the void!
Real work I must avoid,
But I can’t write for shit,
SO DONATE OR THE RAT GETS IT
Apparently it’s not that hard. The venues all need dross to fill the daytime slots that none of the actually GOOD acts want to do, so people like this malcontent oaf are ideal pickings.
I’d rather listen to Ed Sheeran, and that’s saying a LOT
It’s a trip to the fringe festival. Remember, first it’s a backroom during the daytime, then it’s a backroom during the daytime, then it’s THE ALBERT HALL. Fucking silly bastard.
I’ve seen them, yes. I was going to make a video about it but then thought “why bother”. She’s just a stupid arsehole. And she is a cunt, if we’re being honest. A useless one at that.
I think what sums it up is that one of her simps (who looks like he needs his hard drive checked) replied “dont worry, we will get you to Fringe somehow”.
So there you have it, her begging has worked.
Hope she is declaring this income to the DWP.
He’s been hovering around the Acorn scene of late, posting his “best games” style videos in the Facebook group. A few people don’t know who he is and foolishly engage, but the vast majority just ignore him. His videos are such dross, he doesn’t even play the games, and his ‘commentary’ is often way off the mark. He even says things like “this game from 1984” when the game itself literally says “(c) Acornsoft 1982” on screen IN THE VIDEO.
I’m surprised that none of the Acorn greybeards have called him out yet. Or maybe they’re just too polite to do so.
Probably just baffled by the sudden influx of attention to their cobwebbed and comfortable community. I don’t mean that as an insult, I just don’t imagine there’s been much movement in there for a while.
Sounds about right. If ever there was a fart in human form, it’s this wanker.
Chris T knows fair well what bringing Kieren in from the cold will bring and from the conversation ive seen really doesn’t want Kieren anywhere near his magazine. Shaun however seems to want keiren onboard for all the wrong reasons, I would go as far to say he’s craving the drama he knows it will bring.
Idk what he’s up to (Shaun, that is). his angle on my recent post about nostalgia nerd seemed incredibly pissy. I mean, of course he knows who NN is, he’s just deliberately being a twat from what I can tell. Bizarre. He’s said nothing since then. Still, he’s recently put up a 5 star review for one of Kieren’s books on Amazon so I suppose it’s a situation of “all the boys together” when it comes to writing absolutely drab retro books. Strange.
I just seems like he wants Kieran onboard to cause friction, and has kierens proven time and time again he loves causing drama and maybe that’s what Shaun is hoping for.
Personally I don’t care for the magazine it’s full of nonsense and regurgitated articles from the past some of them not even being their own work. And the design and layout…
As I said, it’s not my cup of tea. Each to their own, but I like to read things I don’t already know that are written by people who can actually write. I’m a simple man.
The problem is two fold.
Some people just can’t get their head around / refuse to believe how much of an absolute 2 faced c#nt he is,
And,
There are always the do-gooders who are ready to forgive, and give him another chance, stupidly believing he won’t fuck them over the first chance he gets.
This is why, unfortunately, he will always be hovering around the retro scene.
I believe his latest attempt is to try and integrate himself in the retro Speccy scene.
Which, to be fair, should be easy enough, as he wrote Steve Davis snooker for it whilst aged just 12…….
I’m pretty sure the spectrum scene folks will not fall for any of “that”.