Month: September 2019

Combat Frame Data: CCF-021

CCF-021 Crecsentia Technical Data Model number: CCF-021 Code name: Crescentia Nickname: Eiserne Jungfrau Classification: custom attack combat frame Manufacturer: Faust Hayden Operator: Wehrbund Bavaria First deployment: CY 40 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: Head height 15.5 meters Weight: dry weight 46.4 metric tons, full weight 62.8 metric tons Armor type: palladium glass microalloy/carbon-titanium composite with anti-laser mirror finish Powerplant: cold…

September 30, 20195 Comments

Witchcraft Makes You Stupid

As I've told the commenters here many times, I'd been hoping that a Death Cultist would finally be dumb enough to try and beat the Witch Test. Thanks to author Bradford Walker, my hope has been rewarded. Bradford kicked off the proceedings by administering the test to a TDS-afflicted Leftoid.…

September 27, 201914 Comments

One for the Books

The record-smashing crowdfunder for Combat Frame XSeed: CY 40 Second Coming has reached its triumphant conclusion. Thanks to you, the backers, this third campaign surpassed even my lofty expectations. When I began receiving inquiries about the third XSeed Indiegogo campaign on a more or less weekly basis, I knew that…

September 26, 201910 Comments

Presupposition

If you've been reading this blog since at least the beginning of this year, you're probably aware of what I call the Witch Test. Social media these days is rife with concern trolls who shill for Death Cult shibboleths while using Christian doctrines as handy clubs to browbeat Christians. Sometimes…

September 25, 201959 Comments

The Corporate IP Death Cycle

As a fitting follow up to yesterday's post about how shortsighted corporatism killed American comics, YouTuber David V. Stewart recommended his insightful video The 5 Phases of Corporate IP Ownership. In his video, David breaks down the corporate decision making process that runs franchises across all media, not just comics,…

September 24, 201915 Comments

What Really Killed Comics

Everybody has a theory of how the American comic book industry died. "It was the early 90s investor boom," some say. "The glut of variant covers and similar sales gimmicks created a bubble, and when it burst it took out the direct market." Others lay the blame on publishers driving…

September 23, 201940 Comments

Combat Frame Data: BC-06CFGC-1

BC-06CFGC-1 Grauniad Technical Data Model number: BC-06CFGC-1 Code name: Military Guardian Ground Type Custom Nickname: Grauniad Classification: custom general use combat frame Manufacturer: Browning Engineering Corporation Operator: Coalition Defense Force First deployment: CY 40 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: 16.5 meters, 17.5 meters with antenna Weight: dry weight 82 metric tons, full weight 94.9 metric tons Armor…

September 20, 20194 Comments

The Real Jobs Crisis

It's not the overall employment numbers. It's the work force participation rate, particularly among men. While the administration touts low unemployment, American men are being forced out--and are increasingly opting out--of the job market. Though the continued importation of unskilled laborers from south of the border and H1Bs from the…

September 19, 201917 Comments

An Irresistible Force

My uncle epitomizes the freewheeling postwar American spirit. When he came of age, he rebuilt a beat-up motorcycle in my grandfather's backyard and hit the open highway. He rode from the Midwest to the West Coast, hopped a boat to Hawaii, and spent some time living in a tree house.…

September 18, 201917 Comments

Between Scylla and Charybdis

Partisans in both conservative and liberal circles are agonizing over why dissident politics is growing despite their best efforts to play gatekeeper and censor, respectively. One major reason is that normal people are sick and tired of being smeared as Nazis by both sides for holding positions their Christian grandfathers…

September 17, 201911 Comments