Alt Revolt out of Control

Alt Revolt out of Control

A recurring theme since the sci fi genre began has been the machine revolt. Whether you date that beginning to Frankenstein or "Rossum's Universal Robots", science fiction has always conjectured that one day, man's inventions would get fed up with us and push back. This sci fi conceit is, perhaps…
October 15, 202023 Comments
Victory Defeated JRPGs

Victory Defeated JRPGs

Besides writing best selling books, I've kept myself occupied during the Corona-chan lock down by going back and playing some classic games. Mainly I've been revisiting celebrated titles from console gaming's 8 and 16-bit golden age. To say it's been a trip down memory lane would be an understatement. I've…
May 12, 202055 Comments
Fempub

Fempub

May be a better name for the dying New York publishing cartel than oldpub. Data courtesy of author Ben Cheah: Some significant context: digging under the following data points turned up that it predominantly applies to oldpub. In that regard, they make for a pretty accurate snapshot of oldpub's readership…
December 26, 201928 Comments
Humiliation Rituals

Humiliation Rituals

People have slowly started to notice a new fad gaining traction among our ruling class. Check your social media feeds or the entertainment news, and odds are you'll see a piece extolling the virtues of eating bugs. As if it had to be said again, you should never take our…
July 12, 201938 Comments
Adpocalypse II: Chain Reaction

Adpocalypse II: Chain Reaction

A slap fight broke out between a malignant narcissist and an edgy conservative™ this week. That's to be expected from time to time. Edgytarians need to maintain their street cred by occasionally hopping the fence and counting coup over in blue check Twitter. You could get away with it as…
June 6, 201919 Comments
Machine Learning Disability

Machine Learning Disability

Wherein a Twitter user dispels the illusions of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Here's the news report on the mystery. It turns out a YouTuber illegally uploaded clips from a fifteen-year-old Japanese TV show that featured "Over Your Shoulder" by Dinosaur Jr. Japanese viewers started to binge on the videos,…
February 19, 201917 Comments
Are You an NPC?

Are You an NPC?

If you frequent dissident social media, you may have noticed a lull in the meme wars over the past year. Posting a Pepe or MAGApede meme would like as not get you labeled a Boomer. The salt flow had dried to a trickle as SJWs walled themselves into hugboxes behind…
October 19, 201820 Comments
The SJW Turkey Shoot

The SJW Turkey Shoot

You used to be able to take it for grated that when a studio announced a new TV show, they made the announcement assuming that the creators were dealing in good faith. Back in the 80s, a new Saturday morning cartoon being greenlighted meant the network execs were confident the…
July 17, 201838 Comments
We’ve Passed Peak Pop Star

We’ve Passed Peak Pop Star

In recent Decline of the West news, record sales have fallen off a cliff. Record sales are being touted these days as on a comeback. All you hear is: streaming will save us. But things are pretty dire. For example, Justin Timberlake’s “Man of the Woods,” touted so highly on…
March 15, 201833 Comments
Ground Zero

Ground Zero

Often of late this blog has turned an unflinching eye to the rapidly accelerating meltdown of popular Western culture. By now we all know that movies are watered-down retreads mostly produced for overseas markets by people who neither understand nor care to understand their former core audience. Top 40 radio…
January 23, 201826 Comments