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Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« Reply #200 on: March 30, 2012, 02:51:21 PM »
 

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Here's how I see the situation. Complete speculation, but as a critical thinker, this makes sense to me, and until proven otherwise I reserve my right to have this opinion:

1. TCA claims their deck will be the worlds best deck, and targets various other highly-successful decks as inferior to their own.
2. TCA reveals their first batch of artwork.
3. The playing card community, collectors, artists and produces blowback on TCA highlighting poor craftsmanship, advertising strategy, and general outlook towards their public.
4. TCA decides to remove their initial artwork revealings after writing inflammatory statements and accusations on or about and against the people they originally targeted in the first place's walls or on their own threads where critique was being received.
5. TCA messages a reputable card production entity (CCC) in an attempt to plant the seed that they are bigger and better (CEO's approval bit) than the other groups producing cards right now.
6. TCA releases yet-to-be-determined-legitimate artwork in order to replace their already revealed artwork to spin their own wheels in a different direction and appeal to the masses.

Now mind you this merely my take on the situation and there may be more to this than we know. I tend to agree with Alex more-so, people who are simply out to "prey" on consumers really have no respect in my book. I'm a little late to the game so I didn't get to see first hand all that they've done to garner this distrust from people, and I usually don't like to go off the he-said-she-said bit in terms of judging of character, but if you have enough people who aren't affiliated with one another saying the same thing, at some point you have to listen.
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Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« Reply #201 on: March 30, 2012, 04:22:36 PM »
 

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On the other hand, I do like the artwork for the suicide king, it reminds be of the Rat Fink art by Ed Roth.

Exactly, it looks like a known type of art that's been in popular culture for years. It also has absolutely zero to do with anything they posted before. So, new concept? An art deck? Just finding things on Google to post? Things have been so disjointed up to now that there hasn't been a single instance of anything looking production ready or even close.

Their own stated timelines and goals are so out of whack with the apparent state of their design I just don't see how they can continue the claims they'll be launching in a few weeks. If I went online and stated that my next deck would be ready to give away in 2 months, USPCC would have it already, it would probably be close to printing and I'd have a huge and cohesive set of highly refined teasers to share.

I think any of the designers on here would do essentially the same. TCA stuff is just...not even close. It's totally vexing.
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Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« Reply #202 on: March 31, 2012, 03:54:42 AM »
 

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I keep lobbing him an occasional question about this deck - he's pretty much taken to ignoring me now.  Yay!
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Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« Reply #203 on: April 01, 2012, 10:00:15 PM »
 

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Word from his facebook page:
"Great news! Our designs have been approoved and our decks have now started being printed!"
What should we expect?

http://s7.postimage.org/aswujygt7/harlequin.jpg
 

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« Reply #204 on: April 01, 2012, 10:06:07 PM »
 

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Yeah, he pretty much just copied John. Just sayin'
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Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« Reply #205 on: April 01, 2012, 10:12:40 PM »
 

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Word from his facebook page:
"Great news! Our designs have been approoved and our decks have now started being printed!"
What should we expect?

http://s7.postimage.org/aswujygt7/harlequin.jpg

Yeah, I already read the thread where John posted that same link... you know there's plenty of people who can read URLs, you know.  Why would that be called 'harlequin.jpg'?
 

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« Reply #206 on: April 01, 2012, 10:19:49 PM »
 

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Word from his facebook page:
"Great news! Our designs have been approoved and our decks have now started being printed!"
What should we expect?

http://s7.postimage.org/aswujygt7/harlequin.jpg

Yeah, I already read the thread where John posted that same link... you know there's plenty of people who can read URLs, you know.  Why would that be called 'harlequin.jpg'?
I thought it would be funny, especially for those who wouldn't have read that thread. Anyways, I was wrong.
Anyways, what happened to his "Spade Queen" account on these forums? Was it erased/banned or is it still in existence?
 

Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« Reply #207 on: April 02, 2012, 03:55:51 AM »
 

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Word from his facebook page:
"Great news! Our designs have been approoved and our decks have now started being printed!"
What should we expect?

http://s7.postimage.org/aswujygt7/harlequin.jpg

Yeah, I already read the thread where John posted that same link... you know there's plenty of people who can read URLs, you know.  Why would that be called 'harlequin.jpg'?
I thought it would be funny, especially for those who wouldn't have read that thread. Anyways, I was wrong.
Anyways, what happened to his "Spade Queen" account on these forums? Was it erased/banned or is it still in existence?

1) Nope - recycled humor is sort of like recycled school lunches: much better the first time around.

2) I'm guessing you didn't look at the "Members" link, just below the fame notifications.  SpadedQueen is still listed as member #671 (listed alphabetically), a newcomer with 7 posts.  For someone who claimed no connection to TCAC, "she" vanished from here pretty quickly.
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« Reply #208 on: April 02, 2012, 09:13:24 PM »
 

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Word from his facebook page:
"Great news! Our designs have been approoved and our decks have now started being printed!"
What should we expect?

http://s7.postimage.org/aswujygt7/harlequin.jpg

Yeah, I already read the thread where John posted that same link... you know there's plenty of people who can read URLs, you know.  Why would that be called 'harlequin.jpg'?
I thought it would be funny, especially for those who wouldn't have read that thread. Anyways, I was wrong.
Anyways, what happened to his "Spade Queen" account on these forums? Was it erased/banned or is it still in existence?

1) Nope - recycled humor is sort of like recycled school lunches: much better the first time around.

2) I'm guessing you didn't look at the "Members" link, just below the fame notifications.  SpadedQueen is still listed as member #671 (listed alphabetically), a newcomer with 7 posts.  For someone who claimed no connection to TCAC, "she" vanished from here pretty quickly.

But then again, so does everyone these days. I bet you for every 20 people that join this site, only one sticks around and contributes, so I'm not sure how strong of a point that is, but it is suspicious how this is I believe the only topic she became part of.
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« Reply #209 on: April 09, 2012, 10:06:48 PM »
 

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Word from his facebook page:
"Great news! Our designs have been approoved and our decks have now started being printed!"
What should we expect?

http://s7.postimage.org/aswujygt7/harlequin.jpg

Yeah, I already read the thread where John posted that same link... you know there's plenty of people who can read URLs, you know.  Why would that be called 'harlequin.jpg'?
I thought it would be funny, especially for those who wouldn't have read that thread. Anyways, I was wrong.
Anyways, what happened to his "Spade Queen" account on these forums? Was it erased/banned or is it still in existence?

1) Nope - recycled humor is sort of like recycled school lunches: much better the first time around.

2) I'm guessing you didn't look at the "Members" link, just below the fame notifications.  SpadedQueen is still listed as member #671 (listed alphabetically), a newcomer with 7 posts.  For someone who claimed no connection to TCAC, "she" vanished from here pretty quickly.

But then again, so does everyone these days. I bet you for every 20 people that join this site, only one sticks around and contributes, so I'm not sure how strong of a point that is, but it is suspicious how this is I believe the only topic she became part of.


Yeap that is true. That SpadedQueen was so obvious anyway. ***sigh***
Anyway, come-what-may, I just feel so bad for the people who already gave this douche personal information.
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Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« Reply #210 on: June 06, 2012, 03:37:02 PM »
 

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I knew they were just going to disappear from one day to another. It's been almost 2 months now.
 

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« Reply #211 on: June 06, 2012, 03:45:45 PM »
 

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I knew they were just going to disappear from one day to another. It's been almost 2 months now.
Was there really a need to bring this thread back up?
 

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« Reply #212 on: June 06, 2012, 08:31:08 PM »
 

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I knew they were just going to disappear from one day to another. It's been almost 2 months now.
Was there really a need to bring this thread back up?


Yeah - Nathan hasn't read his own thoughts in print enough for one day!  :))


I think it's rather odd that they haven't posted anything on their FB since April 8, one day after we stopped talking about them, and now Nathan revives the topic two days after they've made a new post, their first since then - a photo of what looks like an uncut sheet...  Coincidence?    :t11:
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Re: The-Con-Artist.com
« Reply #213 on: June 06, 2012, 09:15:15 PM »
 

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Wow. Really? Actually I was just thinking about them, so I posted here. I actually saw that picture just after I posted, but thought it was just another camera trick. Didn't actually notice the resemblance until now.
 

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« Reply #214 on: June 09, 2012, 03:46:39 AM »
 

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Wow. Really? Actually I was just thinking about them, so I posted here. I actually saw that picture just after I posted, but thought it was just another camera trick. Didn't actually notice the resemblance until now.

Due to the sheet being rolled, however, it's hard to confirm that it's an uncut sheet at all, never mind his uncut sheet (which is REALLY unlikely).

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