War of the Titans (Jessica vs. Kate)

Has anyone else checked out the recent drama-lama-ding-dong from Swimchick and Outspoken Kate? Jessica’s at it again, she posted a blog attacking Kate for stealing her tutorial idea and layout style. Right then, we all know Jessica is as stupid as they come, if you saw the parody there is no questioning that (if you didn’t then you can download the transcript here). You can see the blog from Jessica here: Outspoken?, and the blog from Kate over there: Drowned and also her followup blog: stop the madness.

However, Kate is not without blame as she has been just as stupid as Jessica in the past. Although I must say, her stupidity is usually legible unlike Jessica’s (thread where Kate failed at life). I ca not vouch for the fact that she is still the same though; it has been a while since I last had the privilege of talking to her.

Jessica’s argument is that Kate stole her style of ‘layouting’¹ (as I’m sure she [Jessica] would refer to it) and also stole the idea behind some of her tutorials. Jessica you so crazy, do you not know that there are many, many layout tutorials on the internets? Do not believe me, take a gander at the sites linked on Good Tutorials.com under their Web Layouts section, shmexy.

Although, I would like to thank you for defining clearly what you feel is theft. I say that because now I can notify the writers of this tutorial, this one and perhaps even this one, thieves should be punished, even if they are holier than thou dinks like yourself.

Because you see Jessica, you did not come up with “gummy text”, the “angel effect” or any of the other “effects” you so happily pop out every few months so you can hear how wonderful you are. You learned those effects from other tutorials on different websites, and after learning you decided to share your vast wealth of knowledge with the people who visit your website. When it comes down to it, you do not hold any more claim to your tutorials than Kate, or even Jem, does to hers. Nothing on the internet is original anymore.

sweetie please stop trying to write like I do. Cmon now.

Jess, sweetie only a farting orangutan would want to write like you do, and it would probably be a very, very stupid farting orangutan because you are a horrible writer. Come on now, you don’t honestly believe that you are the better writer, do you?

I hate to say it but I’m siding with Kate on this one, while her layouts do resemble Jessica’s (or Jessica’s resemble Kate’s, I’m not sure which) she most certainly isn’t the only one to slap a blend on top of a two column layout; she also isn’t the only one who has used headers with a background. Granted it is not the best layout style in the world (in fact, in my opinion those particular layouts are murder on any sane persons eyes), but it’s not copyright to any one person, and by person I, of course, mean Jessica. Plus Kate can speak English whereas Jessica only has a middling grasp on the language she writes in.

However, I do feel for you Jessica I really do it must be hard being you, so that’s why I’m going to help you out! Yes, you heard me, help you out. What I’m going to do is give you links to some sites that I feel you should bust for theft, after all it’s hard having everyone want to copy your greatness, is it not? So without further ado:

• Melon Burst – Obviously she stole this layout style from you, note the headers, SEO unfriendly and idiotic title and Cutenews powered blog. Darn thief! Bust her for it Jess, no mercy.
• Glamour Garage – See above.
• Serenita Designs – See above.
• fae.citriqueheart.org – See above.
• Citrique Heart – See above.
• behindherheart – No dumb as Jess title this time, sorry, but the headers and whatnot still look similar!

¹Theft, in Jessica’s book, means taking a tutorial that was already done elsewhere and writing a completely different version of it.

Forums, forums everywhere

As some of you may know Alex decided to shut down nu/mb for reasons that are unknown to the rest of the world. Fortunately for us there were people working on other boards to fill the void left by the mainly inactive nu/mb (hey, unlike some boards you rarely ever heard faux-ghetto). Sarai has been working on Erudite MB (look up the definition for it, it’s worth it) and Jacky is putting together a replacement for those of us who are too “snobby” to join the likes of Disaster MB. I, of course, use the term snobby loosely because I am pretty well fed up with DMB as of late.

Erudite MB is currently up and running, the yet-to-be named nu/nu/mb is currently only in test mode. Jacky can be quoted saying:

I don’t think I’ll use XMB for the “final” forum… I think I’m going to go with SM. So if I can find the smilies, sure, but otherwise…

Depending on your taste either board is a good choice (and I’m not just saying that because Sarai made me an admin, take that DMB staffers!). Although I predict EMB will most likely become a hangout for DMB’rs who are fed up with the incessant drone of idiotic topics and Unnamed MB will be a hangout for those eschew DMB-esque boards.