Ending the empathy apartheid: musing on the nature of gender dynamics
David Barnett of the BBC recently wrote an article (see ) asking the question “Is Fight Club’s Tyler Durden Film’s Most Misunderstood Man?…
If you’ve been paying attention I’ve kind of been challenging myself lately while I’m working on materials for my new hobby shop. This is no exception, taking something technically last minute and going along with it. Recently, Kotaku tried to suggest changing a key genre name in video games.…
First I apologize for not having an article a bit. I got caught up with a lot of other project work and Father’s Day. I do what I can but sometimes skipping a week is unavoidable due to various issues we all deal with at times. In any case I should just get onto my subject for this week: Space colonization.…
Before I go into reviewing this I should put out there that even though as of this writing I’m 33 years old I actually started up on the web very young. I was surfing the web when Windows 95 first came out when I was about 9 years old. However my first browser was NOT Internet Explorer.…
It’s been a long time coming but I’ve decided to fully announce some plans that I’ve hinted in some of my past works in relation to mentoring. I’m planning on starting my own hobby shop named Built To Scale: Games & Hobby!…
Since the Steele Dossier, Mueller Probe, and every other attempt to discredit the administration of President Donald Trump has failed, the Democratic Party establishment that has all but violated the needs of its primary constituency for the better part of the past 4 years has gotten desperate to retain its power.…
Recently I tried to once again apply my son for preschool or as they are loving to call it nowadays “Pre-K.” My in-laws were attempting to help me out and in their ‘testing’ they misdiagnosed my son autistic because of a 4 point differential under what’s tested.…
Anna Cameron, a sociology PhD candidate at the University of Virginia, recently had a paper of hers published in Gnovis Journal. This paper is entitled “No More Games: An Intersectional Approach To Geek Masculinity And Marginalization In Video Gaming Culture.” Of course this comes from the usual cesspool of Grievance Studies in the academy, and as such has little genuine scholarship...
Recently we’ve had the announcements by both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden for candidacy for the 2020 Election on the Democratic ticket. While I believe that Biden is gonna fall short despite his pleas to the politics of the far left, due to his misunderstanding of them, I am of the mind that the platform piece that is going to more openly determine who ends up on top of the pecking order is...
Well this has been a hectic week so to speak, particularly within the vein of anime with the filing of the Vic Mignogna v. Funimation lawsuit. However, I am wanting to approach this from the possible consequences of this event. How this would change defamation law interpretations, how this might give the falsely accused more ways to fight back, and perhaps even the potential abolition of the...