This bastard has to burn

EDIT: I received a comment from Hanley himself (not logged in, but I take it on good faith) that he hasn't got anything against fanart as long as people credit him. He also very kindly pointed out that the Teclis one was actually done by Wayne England. I feel stupid for not having noticed...

Still: DeviantART has a strict policy against tracing and copying without crediting the original atrist. And the art contained in the army books are still copyright of Games Workshop Ltd.

Either way, the entry has been edited to suit this new information./EDIT

Okay, I'm for once mad. I mean it! I'm angry.

See, about a year ago, I called out a possible tracer on dA as well as reported the devs in question. Nothing has happen (wow, big surprise!), but the asshole of a copier/tracer still hasn't credited the original artists of his traced work. That's the least the mofo could do!

Games Day/Golden Demon Chicago bullshit

I have a bunch of stuff coming up, as I have said, but I'm just going to post one quickie first to highlight what has recently happened at Games Day Chicago ('tis the season of fantastic minis again!).

Apparently three minis that were entered (Warhammer Single, WHFB Monster and Open) and subsequently won those categories, weren't entered by the painter of the miniatures, but by a collector who had bought them off the painter. To make matters worse, the painter seems to have been in on this.

It's stuff like this that practically makes me fume from the ears in a comical display of rage and hate. It's keyboard-banging inducing. It just is one step below bribing the judges. Why oh why do people continue doing this and think they won't be found out?

Dave Taylor puts it succinctly at his blog.

One of the minis concerned.

And it's not like the case of the well-meaning collector who entered one of Aña's minis a few years back. He did so in Aña's name at least. This seems like regular cheating.

On a totally different topic: I have finally gotten round to reading Xenology. I recently bought a mic as well and I am thinking of doing something slightly different as far as reviews are concerned. Essentially make it an audio review. And no, I am not Yahtzee or trying to be: I'll be speaking slower.

Now this pissed me off...

Funnily enough, it has nothing to do with religious nuts, although there is plenty reason to be pissed over that right now. Let's just say that my religious nuts-o-meter went bust following the invasion of Gaza.