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Get a Life

One unintended consequence of internet search algorithms' increasing uselessness for finding what you want is sometimes finding what you didn't know you wanted. For instance, the other day I was wrestling with YouTube in search of some obscure clip I was looking for. Instead, YT's search engine spat out some…
February 20, 20237 Comments
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3 Days Left for Mongoose & Meerkat 3

Just 3 days left to back Cirsova's Tales of the Mongoose and Meerkat: The Redemption of Alness. Two years have passed since the fall of Alness. And two years have passed since the brash young sellsword Mangos teamed up with Kat, the mysterious Alnessi rogue. Together, they have made a…
February 17, 20232 Comments
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The Friendless Generation

The sexual revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for men. And not just in the way your brain instantly sprang to. Sometime in the last 30 years, men pretty much stopped having friends. The real male retreat from society is husbands vanishing into man caves when not serving…
February 16, 20239 Comments
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Watterson’s Return

Almost thirty years after retiring his beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, artist Bill Watterson returns with a strange new project. The Mysteries is a new 72-page book by Watterson and fellow artist John Kascht are creating what is described as "a fable for grown-ups." Scheduled to be published by…
February 15, 20232 Comments
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The Charity Principle

One of the first things you learn from working around creatives is that we're passionate folk. We kind of have to be, since the main demand of our job is maintaining the conviction that our artistic vision is worth charging people money for. That is to say we tend to…
February 14, 202311 Comments
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It Was in the Hills

High time for another high strangeness post. But instead of covering the recent rash of astroturfed UFO stories, which look like a government psyop, we'll discuss wild man lore, which is based on reliable accounts from real people. Disclaimer: That's not to say all UFO reports are fake. We've had…
February 13, 20238 Comments
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The Price of Fun

A frequent complaint you hear from gamers these days is the rising cost of games - especially when you factor in the scummy DLC and games-as-service models. But a running theme of this blog is putting current events in historical perspective. So it must be asked: Are video games that…
February 10, 202314 Comments
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They’re Still Coming for Christians

The feds have gotten some bad press of late for persecuting pro-life activists. Now we're hearing from whistleblowers that the FBI is targeting Catholics under the guise of policing "violent extremists." Watch the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67ecIlQCqw In all honesty, this spying on the Church isn't new. A relative of mine by…
February 9, 20232 Comments
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Writer Ideas

"I've got this great idea for a book. You write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50." Writers get that pitch a lot. And when we do, it's hard not to bust out laughing. Because it immediately gives away that the guy making the pitch has never made art for…
February 8, 20233 Comments
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Reason #8,964,283 to Raise Your Own Kids

Let me preface this story by pointing out it happened in Canada. With a tyrannical dictator for life who's legally sanctioned sacrificing his subjects to the Enemy, it's the nearest Current Year equivalent to Mordor. Josh Alexander, a Canadian high school student who protested his Catholic school last year allowing…
February 7, 20237 Comments