Ben Saint Illiteracy Scandal

Events


The Scandal arose when, during the Relics Contest stream Ben expressed his distain for text posts during a contest that inherently relied heavily on text (timestamp: 12:00). Feeling spurned by the contest judgement, several people who wrote text posts discussed how to move forward in detention-center, along with many wisecracks about Ben's inability to read, which persist to the time of writing.

The next contest was the Backstory Contest, the vod of which is now lost. Three guesses as to what the best format for a backstory would be.

An open letter from Olive
No actually fuck you Ben I poured my heart and soul into each page, most of my stories were written immediately after coming home from work and often times took longer to complete than my actual shift that day. "I want immediate gratification in the art I consume" is precisely why we have shitty pay-to-win mobile games and horse armor dlc. Is that what you want, Ben? Titty clicker simulator and gambling mechanics, forever? If it were a direct "I don't like your writing" I'd be less mad, it's a matter of personal taste whether or not I'm a good writer and if you don't that's fine. It's that an entire medium of artistic expression is effectively barred from the contests. If reading isn't conducive to the contest format then read it as it comes out like everyone else and talk about it when it shows up during the contest judgement, I always posted at least the day before the actual contest. Set a text post deadline if you absolutely have to, but reading it in your head takes 10 minutes at most. Endless War is a place for artists to get their bearings and work their shit out in a community (a community you haven't been an actual part of in years) of other people figuring their proverbial artistic shit out. Refusing to engage with an entire medium in good faith is simultaneously absurd and infuriating in a space where we all :111: art because people fucking bothered to make it; people care about the setting and the community and do their best to make the best art they can and that should be celebrated for what it is. It is, everywhere but the contests. Fucking fantastic artists grew from practicing in #community-service and the contests. We improve as we continue to create and stifling creativity because you're too lazy to engage with it (when a new ARG is made every 3-6 months and often picked apart for months at a time) is incongruent with how Endless War actually works here and now. You're washed up, old news. You and Endless War grew in different directions and clinging to it only makes the place worse. Accept it and leave like 99% of the genwunners did. Eat candy for dinner every day and jerk off for dessert if you want instant gratification. Fuck you Ben, go out for a gallon of soy milk. Endless War would be better for it.