∞ Vince ∞

Well... Let's do this! Simon Butler put out a call for the Lardy Laird to appear on his Podcast, Let's get it done. He will have the full opportunity to present and defend his position and it will go out as it has been recorded.

Yeah, make sure to use footage other people have recorded and submitted to Jaguar Sector 2 forum. Download the hundreds of videos submitted as a collective effort to document and preserve. Then bang them together in a haphazard slap dash fashion and upload it all to your Laird's channel as your own work with no credit given or acknowledgement to the source of the material. Way to go fuckface. If you want proof in his own words, please go listen to the Podcast interview that was used as the basis of 'They Call Me Mr. Atari' MP3... where he openly admits to it. That's as lazy as it gets moleman.

I love this. It is very well drawn. But... For one thing, why is our hero literally standing in a fire ? And second, what the hell is that thing below the robot ? And lastly, how effective do you think that Knife will be (however sharp) against a METAL robot ?

When you've secured the rights to make a game of a film but not spent enough to use an image from the film or a likeness of the leading actor...

Yeah, so, I thought it would be fun to pick apart or give credit to bad, good or excellent game art. I started this over on Lemon64 but no takers so I thought I might bring it here, to a wider audience who might have fun with it. To kick off, I think John McEnroe here might be better off with an actual Tennis Racket rather than the Frying Pan he seems to be holding.

What a clown! Goes out of his way to wind people up then hides under the duvet cover when it all kicks off ! _ _ _ _ _ 30 quid to spend the weekend with the Luton mole-man. Nah you're alright ! Luton would be a direct train, St Pancras, 40 minutes. I could be there with a coffee in my hand within the hour! But fuck me if I had to listen to his weedy little voice missing out words every other sentence and going on about the non groundbreaking 'groundbreaking' Jaguar, I'd give up! That Tim Follin Q & A was a prime example of why Kizza should never be in charge of looking after a cat, let alone a gaming event! ROM was a half decent event until he decided the only charity he wanted to support was his bloody self!

What I find interesting is, how in this grab Mr. T, shows how Kizza is talking to himself. It's become so normal and run of the mill that no-one bothers to even acknowledge the absurdity of this anymore. It's the childish playground motivation that drives him to try this to convince us all that it isn't his account when we know it bloody well is. I'd never mock anyone for mental illness as I've been susceptible to bouts of depression myself, but if ever there were a time to call in the men in the white coats, it's now!

To be fair he said he worked for the Award Winning Retro Gamer. I don't think he claimed to have won awards himself, Dickhead of the Year might be a goer mind you. I appreciate his admission now that he is and has never been autistic.

@Mr.T Didn't his wedding reception take place in an aeroplane hanger or something ? WHY? I've seen some photos. He's dressed in a kilt as far as I remember it.

One thing about ebay. If you are interested in an item, just don't 'Watch' it. When you do that, ebay suggests the item to more people that may be interested, because it aggregates the interest than if you don't, so you effectively cut your own throat by watching items you are interested in.

Yeah but if someone new came here banging on like he knew everything and had an almost sexual fetish for Atari we would all clock it was him off the bat. I suspect he actually has a Sock Puppet on here already, I've told Al. And besides 99% of his socks speak exactly like he does - in that over confident cocky manner of his.

So... Can we all just take a moment to acknowledge that for all the posturing over on twatter, Kizza would love NOTHING MORE than to be back here as an active part of this Atari Age community. I've only been here a short while, but I have found it an open and fun thing to be a part of (inside and outside of this thread). As a self proclaimed Atari fanatic (and seemingly the only truthful thing he has ever said or not massively embellished), it must really really burn him up. All those discussions of the Jaguar. All those threads about the humble Atari 2600. The Panther. All the game polls. All the opportunities to be an antagonistic twat and claim the reason you don't agree with him is because he operates on a higher level, has a photographic memory and is a 'high functioning Aspie' as he has ordained himself. Someone made a valid point that all of us talking about him is exactly what he wants. I think he feels as long as we are talking about him he is still engaging over here at Atari Age, in the Atari community. It would be brilliant if we could all go quiet for a week or so and that would really rile him, but I am not the only one (not by a long way) to have decided to duck out only to then bounce back in. Don't get snappy because I have, everyone is doing the same. He's like a cat looking out the window wishing he was part of what's going on.

Fair play. If there are enough of the item you want to go round, then your in a buyer's market.

Then I take it, like me, you tend to play fair in the max 10-12% lower range and don't go too far. This is what I get mostly. Unless I am dealing with someone who thinks something is worth FAR more than it is. On occasion I've put in an offer well over the starting price: Say the book start is 10£ I go in for £20 because I really want it. It is a second hand book afterall. Anyway guy rejects, I put £22 guy rejects. Anyway, I've bookmarked BUT NOT watched it, I write down when to check say 10 mins before end time on a post it note and stick it on the reverse of my laptop. I come in at 10 minutes and watch. At the end, just like 1 minute before I put in my best (max) bid, £24. I DON'T confirm the bid. This means that I can just click 'Confirm Bid', 5 seconds before. Even if the guy is shilling, unless he's on top of his game, if there isn't a bid near my top offer, I usually get it. And. I usually get it for around £12.80 in that case. Sometimes I've put in brilliant offers only to decide not to bid and get into a war. I then find it went for a much much lower price than I offered. Well that's how it goes. Occasionally I message that seller just to remind them of my good offer.

I basically work out what I feel something is worth. Then I know what I want to pay. When there is an offer option, I'll go 10 maybe 12% lower, no more than the price. I know the person will go someway down but I know you're likely to get a negative reaction if you go lower. Also they tend to hold back feedback on you if you got a really good deal.

I don't see why every time you stipulate your position, Landstalker, that you feel the need to derail mine. It has everything to do with what he claims to have done, to be and what he does to cover his tracks when it is revealed not to be the case. I think I've previously mentioned, however briefly, some of the more recent and nasty transgressions of the 'Human Kizzing Machine', but as you rightly pointed out (LandStalker) elsewhere and I happily acknowledged, I have been out of the ' loop ' / not active in the community for a while (due to my health rather than any desire. I get on with a lot of you and enjoy game banter a good drink and a quality curry) and only come to from a point of finding out (have since extensively read about) after-the-fact. I therefore do not have the right to speak on those things and so have stuck to what I do know. I know it might be old old ground I tread, but they are no less valid points I make. I'm 100% out. If I could ask people on this thread to do me a favour and not quote or refer to this post specifically as I would rather not contribute going forward. Edits: Took out the words 'be bitchy and' from the first paragraph. Paragraphs 3 and 4 are entirely new. I amended this in view of recent replies and to put my final thoughts on the matter down. Apologies if it skewers the narrative but I felt it better to clarify than post after I had said I'm 'out'. I forget how the instant notifications and knee-jerk instinct to reply kicks in (been off fb for a while).

@psj3809 I think the thing with the 'books' is, you can't go round calling yourself an expert as he has here there and every bloody where without taking hits; when your 'books' are not factually accurate, not well written (claims to be a journalist), you've claimed to be a copywriter and yet they are so sloppily produced they are devoid of any editorial input what-so-ever, and while I totally agree that LD in particular is like a dog with a particularly juicy bone he can't let go of, he has still made some very valid points. It's less about what he is than what he claims he is. If I claimed to be an amazing artist and when you saw my 'work' I'd just doodled a pair of hairy balls, i'd be bound to attract criticism. Also worth pointing out that had K not been so bloody adamant and so blockheaded he wouldn't take half the shit he has. Plus there is the misogyny and bullying of others, which you either don't know about or have chosen to skip right over. Ps: why do you have 2x accounts ?

I wouldn't care if I were scrutinised because aside from a handful of subjectively offensive / choice things I may have said over on facebark, I don't have anything to hide; hence my username being my actual real world name. The boy Kizza knows who I am, but I am not a big cog in his game, merely a fairly knowledgeable observer. 💨 Some of you people are drawn in very dark shades of grey. I don't know if you deserve the right to wade in on the boy kizza after some of the stunts you yourselves have pulled, but that isn't down to me, so I won't pull that particular thread. ______________ The boy Hawken's twitter has not popped back up yet, I would love to think Twatter finally nailed him for all the messed up shit he did over there, but sadly Poppy is still in the wild, so that nixes that hopeful wish.

In the real world 'Bob' a journalist should have a basic grasp of the Queen's English and be able to construct cohesive sentences. In the retro world it seems being able to shout the loudest load of bollocks is a suitable substitute. Laird, don't make me laugh... Musical interlude. Hmmmm. Interesting. I spoke to a Bob the other day in relation to Kieren Hawkens.

To be fair, Lost, I was only mentioning this/that whole thing in passing in summary. I was making a clear point about how DJ must have had a good idea of what was coming down the pipe due to all of that. Perhaps what happened was, after his brother got booted and K insisted it wasn't him, Darren then felt guilty and therefore offered him to do something as a reward for not being a twat all over the forum in future. Who knows. I wonder what time today his retrogamerssuck account pops up. I note he never put 'retrogamersucks' which is probably what he wanted to put but he knows if he does that he can't also claim the credibility of having worked for them. Speak of the devil.

Oh yeah... This is pretty ironic considering a lot of people have expressed that exact feeling vis-à-vis Kieren Hawken. And a door opened up, the devil walked though and that was all she wrote. It took him more than 2 years to elbow his way through though...

🐱 Ok, well, from what I remember of it (and it is fuzzy) Darran / the forum had made a post about a recent issue. It was probably about the Megadrive. 👽 KH 🤡 jumped into the comments of it ranting off over lack of coverage of his beloved Atari. A few randoms waded in (and socks), he goes on an over the top rant. It got pretty nasty at one point (if memory serves) with accusations of people at RG not knowing what they were doing... Plus a bias against Atari. Comments may have then been removed. ___________ Next I know Kevin 🐹 from Roland Rat 🐀 is now popping up in RG on the regular. ___________ Hands up, I stand corrected if I am wrong. 💬 I also have a feeling the on forum stuff spilt over into DMs (if KH's previous is anything to go by) and after a lot of ear-bashing Jones gave in and gave him something to shut him up. 🖥️ What I really really do not understand is how the relative quality of his articles in RG does not translate to his gibberish ramblings of his 'books'. 🖥️ Do you think when Future took over they cleared house and told Jones to cut all ties with him. From my experience of Future from Amiga Format days onward, so many older titles, they built up a lot of goodwill and a decent rep for solid reliable info. ___________ Edit: Yeah so I went through all this, clearly the inciting incident was actually the release of Zaku for the Lynx but everything else I've said here holds true. It did go off over there, come here, get nasty. DJ did get involved (as did other RG people) at both places and Kieren did get work out of it. Darran seemingly trying to appease and please everybody. 🐼🐼🐼 I'd like to reiterate that I have no issue with Jones (aside from a couple of issues of the mag where his boat gets more coverage than some of the games covered) and I think some of the changes that were brought about under his tenure were great 🐼🐼🐼

The Retro Gamer thing is funny. He bullied Darran over on this? or another forum, perhaps the official RG one, I can't remember. It resulted in him using his socks to back up his argument that Atari got an unfair lack of coverage, which was and is bollocks. Proof if you need it being his profile pic over on atari-forum (featuring a huge article that graced the RG cover) when he wanted other users to do his leg-work on his future ST article. Darran must have known at the time just what a risk he was, considering it was quite an aggressive un-respectful rant on Kizzas part. I think he just gave him something to shut him up. No luck. So he gets a gig, then for fucking years Jones continues to use him again and again until a year or so ago, it seemed to have got to a saturation point for his behaviour and he was suddenly out. They put out in the snow, the dog they invited to shit on the carpet.

Those Leopards, they've really made their name for admitting to being wrong on the internet.

I think he is more like an addict. He knows all this is no good for him. But he keeps coming back and every time he does he's right back into it all. Another fix. People are talking about me! Big whoop. Notoriety is no acknowledgement of doing anything worthy. You've been found to be a right royal dickhead, and, however much you try to play it different the dice will always roll the same. I've said it about myself, social media is not good for a lot of people and I for one feel 100% leaving it alone, and I didn't have any pages, youtube, twitter or people I had called a talentless cunt to worry about. And she forgave him ! Fuck me the rich irony of such comments. As much as he protests otherwise, this is emotionally giving him a kicking. Mentally it can be absolutely no good for him. I'm fully in the camp that he went well over the line and deserves everything he now gets but it doesn't make it any less true. Oh and I spoke to someone re The Laird / Laird of Forsyth gabber he has been putting about since day 1, about his uncle being Alistair Forsyth the head of the clan. Whatever that currently means in the year 2020. They lost their castle a very long while ago... Anyway the guy I spoke to did confirm Alistair was Chief but he had never heard of a Kieren W Hawken in all of his puff. So there's that. ______________________________ NB: did you know by purchasing a very small very cheap parcel of land, you legally get the right to call yourself 'Laird'. Laird has never actually been fully synonymous with the word Lord in Scotland. ______________________________ Highland Titles don't mean pish in this day and age and can be purchased online for a fee. ______________________________ I'm not saying the Forsyths don't have a long nay colourful history, they do. In Ulster, Scotland, Canada; as do my ancestors, but KH's part in such a rich tapestry is very much in doubt.