Nerd Culture Is Dead

Nerd Culture Is Dead

Over at the Emperor Ponders blog, the Frisky Pagan charts the decline of Western culture using the highest-grossing films of each decade as a benchmark. Since there’s a lot to rant about this, I will focus on a single hypothesis: since the late 90s, there has been a divorce between…
January 17, 201817 Comments
Changing Perspectives

Changing Perspectives

This incisive comment on my Fifth Columnists post by reader Constantin illustrating how #GamerGate gave many normies their first taste of the red pill merited its own guest post. Here's Constantin: This entire article summed up every change of perspectives I've experienced since 2014 until now.  GamerGate opened my eyes…
January 12, 20185 Comments
The Last Jedi Is a Con

The Last Jedi Is a Con

Film critic Steven Greydanus reviews The Last Jedi for The National Catholic Register. Before we dig in, a reminder: You were warned. Greydanus begins conventionally enough with the sorts of bland compliments you'd expect from any film reviewer who wants to keep his job under the ever-expanding Mouse Monopoly. In the…
December 15, 201742 Comments
How to Save Movies

How to Save Movies

I've written before about Hollywood's hatred for their own audience and their resulting financial woes. Today, rather than spend another post forecasting the American film industry's demise, I think it's high time to suggest an actionable plan to make sure the forces of Christendom and the West will fill the…
October 31, 201712 Comments
#ComicsGate: Diversity is Conformity

#ComicsGate: Diversity is Conformity

If anyone still wonders why comic book fans are up in arms over the desecration of their hobby by malicious SJW writers, artists, and editors, this Twitter exchange perfectly sums up the controversy: Got that? comics industry SJWs push for more "diversity", by which they mean ideological conformity. Fans note…
October 2, 201712 Comments
Casting Call: The Secret Kings

Casting Call: The Secret Kings

Every author daydreams about casting hypothetical movie versions of his books. Today I present to you my preferred cast for 2017 Dragon Award finalist The Secret Kings. Note: this list will only cover characters who are new to this book or who haven't been cast before. Actors already chosen for…
September 13, 2017
Simpsons Fall

The Fall of the Simpsons

Super Eyepatch Wolf charts the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of perennial TV fixture The Simpsons. The video proves an objective decline in the quality of the series, explains what made it work in the early years, and reveals how the creative team dropped the ball. Required viewing for anyone…
August 30, 201717 Comments
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Remember the Mall?

It's surprisingly difficult to explain to people born after the 1980s just how central the local shopping mall was to a community's social and economic life. I remember when social conservatives would lament that nobody went to church anymore, and that malls were the new, secular temples. Now people still…
May 26, 201719 Comments
Jeffro Johnson Presents Appendix N

Jeffro Johnson Presents Appendix N

Three-time Hugo Award finalist Jeffro Johnson of the Castalia House blog announces the release of his highly anticipated opus, Appendix N: A Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons. Appendix N takes its name from the suggested reading list included in the original Dungeon Master's Guide by D&D creator Gary Gygax. Jeffro…
January 16, 2017
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Soul Cycle Casting Call Part 1: Nethereal

Readers frequently tell me that they'd love to see movies based on my books. While I find these comments highly flattering, before any film adaptations of the Soul Cycle could happen, I would need: A) the six million reader fan base that's required to financially justify turning SFF books into…
November 2, 20163 Comments