crappitude

How about "Death to the Daleks" for sheer crappitude? Slow, utterly predictable, with annoying characters and *hilarious* incidental music. When I heard the Dalek theme, for example, I just about died laughing.

1996 June 27, David McKinnon, “Worst Dalek Story”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet)

The symbolic value of "The pied piper of Hamelyn" would have been ordinarily too subtle. It is hence repeated over all chapters till we begin to smell a rat and realize that it is all referring to fads. There is an encyclopedic--but far duller and shorter--entry on some "fad" or the other preceding every chapter. But only Alex Trebeck cares about burblers of facts. I take it on faith that the story involves chaos theory. In short, there are many ways in which the book displays its total crappitude. Hence it has to belong to SF even though it might be a very serious novel of ideas.

1996 July 7, Why?, “Bellwether -- a book full of crap”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet)

The foot-in-mouth disease that I displayed in my previous post (and have been afflicted with since birth) is precisely why I don't like to mention my band's name too much. People might think my band's crap just because of all the crud that I type. Rather than assessing our crappitude without prejudice. Plus Ross might not approve.

1996 November 27, Michael Ruthere Quaife-Dalton, “my circle of existence (part2)”, in alt.music.chapel-hill (Usenet)

> One of those spots obviously will go to a backup outfielder / >(Cruz, A.Ramirez, Whiten, D.Roberts). / D. Roberts?????!?!? Is this your ramblings or the Indians? Newflash^([sic]) everyone: Roberts is easily the worst of these, not even Ramirez can beat his crappitude. Yeah, he battered AA for half a season. He is 26 years old. That helps. Branyan battered AA for half a season at _22_.

1999 January 18, Ben Flieger, “Steve Karsay may be hurt”, in alt.sports.baseball.cleve-indians (Usenet)

Everything is more desperate. Everything is more hateful. Everything is exaggerated and distended into a nihilistic, dystopic parody of anything you'd recognize as the real world. Granted, you can just take most of that exaggeration and shove it. You can work to keep the 'Darkness' in the WoD in the unseen background where it more properly belongs, in my opinion. But the theme of the works is that of a World of Complete Crappitude. It is *not* 'our world with some nasty stuff in the shadows', it is our world completely soaked, drenched, and overrun with shadows.

1999 February 5, Stunt Borg, “Review of the New Sabbat Guide”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet)