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
Generation G

Generation G

This tweet emerged on Twitter yesterday. I had to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations to confirm its mind-boggling assertions. But yes, indeed. #GamerGate turns six this year. The Five Guys affair that incited #GG broke out in August of 2014. For many of us who fought to drive what we now…
May 4, 20208 Comments
Wasting a Crisis

Wasting a Crisis

It's taken for granted that Millennials are among the most left-leaning generations. Those who subscribe to Fourth Turning theory ascribe this leftward bent to a Hero generation coming of age during a time of unprecedented ease. The great crisis the Millennials spent their childhoods waiting for never came. Therefore they…
March 31, 202011 Comments
People Are Starting to Notice

People Are Starting to Notice

... that Generation Y and the Millennials are not the same demographic cohort, as Kent State found when they studied younger people in the work force. Many discussions of the post-1980 population lump everyone together and call them all Millennials. Increasing numbers of research studies, however, are recognizing that even…
March 9, 202017 Comments
Window to the Past

Window to the Past

The inventors of television probably thought they were pioneering a revolutionary new communications medium. What they couldn't have suspected was that they were creating the next best thing to a time machine. Yesterday I stumbled across this compilation of TV commercials someone had taped on a Saturday morning that time…
March 6, 202014 Comments
The Past as Battlefield

The Past as Battlefield

As the twenty-first century enters its third decade, we leave behind a landmark phase of the culture war that has raged hot and cold since before many of you reading this were born. The recently concluded stage of the battle for Western civilization saw one side drop its mask and…
February 21, 202014 Comments
A Gen Y Tale in Audio

A Gen Y Tale in Audio

Author and musician David V. Stewart presents his expert rendition of my viral short story "A Gen Y Tale". Folks have been asking to hear my work in audio for years. Thanks to David, here's your chance. Listen now! From my biased perspective, I think David not only delivered a…
February 17, 20203 Comments
Candidate Y

Candidate Y

The confusion among the lovable Gen X bug men over at the Z Blog as to Mayor Pete Buttigieg's generation is typical of blind men groping the tame elephant that is Gen Y. Pete Buttigieg is the millennial candidate in every way. Most likely his support came from his age…
February 13, 202010 Comments
Fumes and Leftovers

Fumes and Leftovers

Evidently our little project to reclaim Generation Y from the Madison Avenue Boomer memory hole is gaining some traction in the wild. Millennials do not remember the pre-internet, pre-9/11 world. By and large, they celebrate the cultural apocalypse of Clown World as the first generation to be fully indoctrinated at…
January 22, 202013 Comments
Zooming out of the Gate

Zooming out of the Gate

Evidence continues to pour in supporting theories that a major reaction against the Clown World Order is brewing among Generation Z. Consider this chart prepared by Audacious Epigone. Look closely at the generational trends in attitudes toward pornography. At first, you may be inclined to lament that more Zoomers want…
December 18, 201922 Comments