What Were the 80s Like?

With the final year of the 1980s now thirty-two years in the past, a phenomenon that strikes many members of Generations X and Y as both curious and bittersweet has emerged online. The first Zoomers are now twenty. That means two generations have now reached adulthood with no living memory…
May 20, 2021
Chronology

Chronology

These decades later, 1995's Chrono Trigger stands as the capstone of the 2D JRPG genre. You could argue that Final Fantasy VI, released the year prior, is the better game on aesthetic or technical grounds. But at least in North America, CT marked the end of an era when console…
April 5, 202111 Comments
Porn Chart

Gen Z Blackpilling

As a counterpoint to some of the recent blackpilling about Generation Z, I went back and dug up some data pointing to encouraging trends among Zoomers. Look closely at this chart by Audacious Epigone. Pay particular attention to the generational trends in attitudes toward pornography. "This is terrible!" you may…
March 30, 20219 Comments
Aughts Nostalgia

Aughts Nostalgia

The accepted wisdom among creators in the new counterculture holds that there will be no aughts nostalgia movement as there is for the last decades of the 20th century. Western cultural development stagnated and finally started eating itself circa 1997. Therefore, the lion's share of media products after that point…
March 9, 202131 Comments
A 1980s Loser

A 1980s Loser

... lived like a king by today's standards. Readers over a certain age will remember the house above as the one used for exterior shots of the house from the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. The series chronicled the life and times of Al Bundy, a shoe salesman going through…
February 19, 202121 Comments
Zoomers vs Coomers

Zoomers vs Coomers

A major backlash against the Death Cult is fomenting among Generation Z. Consider the following chart. Look closely at the generational trends in attitudes toward pornography. At first, you may be inclined to lament that more Zoomers want porn to stay legal than any other generation polled. But on closer…
February 8, 20211 Comment
Traditores

Traditores

Going back to the dawn of history, human civilization perpetuated itself in the form of knowledge handed down from one generation to the next. This statement may seem glaringly obvious--and in any other age it would be--but something unprecedented happened in the 1960s in the West.The parents of generations X…
February 1, 202128 Comments
Time Machine

Time Machines

Did you know that you own a time machine? As a matter of fact, you probably own several. Even if you don't have all the necessary components, any missing parts of your homemade time machine will be relatively easy and cost-effective to obtain. In this post, I will tell you…
January 20, 202111 Comments
Generational Rights and Duties

Generational Rights and Duties

Stereotypes get a bad rap, but when you get right down to it, they're just ways of conveying shared social understandings quickly and efficiently. A common stereotype online these days is the trope of the out-of-touch Baby Boomer wagging his finger at younger folks who have less than he did at…
January 13, 20217 Comments
Hiding Wealth

Hiding Wealth

*Disclaimer: The following is not intended to be, and should not be taken as, investment advice.*Perhaps the greatest disservice done to inmates of the American educational system, besides teaching them to hate themselves, is keeping them ignorant of wealth.This ignorance isn't limited to the means of wealth creation. Most people…
December 21, 202018 Comments