by Didact | Apr 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
The ever-excellent Prof. Ian Ironwood posted last week about the Wild Sigma: Sigmas are a mystery by design, and in their immature form can resemble hapless Betas, misguided Gammas, or even a desperate Omega, for short periods of time. That is because they...
by Didact | Apr 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
April 15th is a date that should be marked down on the calendar as the one date on which the American people ought to be able to tar and feather government officials without fear of reprisal. Why? Because it is, of course, Tax Day. Let’s get one thing clear...
by Didact | Apr 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Obviously this is written from a very Western perspective, but it’s an interesting read nonetheless: They take us to an almighty monument, a hammer, a sickle and a calligraphy brush: workers by hand and by brain, symbols of an old religion. Many people...
by Didact | Apr 14, 2013 | fitness, gym idiots, Uncategorized
One of the first things that anyone who goes regularly to any gym to work out with heavy weights needs to learn is simple gym etiquette. I can’t quite believe that there are people who go to the same gyms that I do who don’t get this, but the reality is...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Vox really pulled the gloves off in his recent post about abortion: Let’s make it perfectly clear. If you are a doctor or a nurse who performs abortions, you are every bit as bad, every bit as purely evil, as the SS-Totenkopfverbänder who slaughtered...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2013 | HALO, Uncategorized
There are many, many things to love about the HALOverse. The games are landmarks of the FPS genre; every single one of the original games is epic in scale and scope, addictive to play, and immensely good fun. Even HALO WARS, which most fans consider to be the weakest...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
I posted a while back about the effects that imbibing the Red Pill can have upon you. The cost is often severe, but I maintain that it is absolutely worth it. Having Truth thrust upon you is often painful, but in this day and age it is truly necessary. If you have...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
(Note: just after I finished reading this book, Vox Day posted his own review of it. I did not read his review before writing mine, in order to avoid bias, but his review brings up a bunch of points that mine does not, and like everything else Vox writes is absolutely...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Apparently my Ubuntu Linux system has decided that my life has been drama-free for too long, and decided this morning to essentially crap out completely and delete ALL of my files, programs, settings, and everything else on my PC. So, my Saturday plans of sitting here...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Vox Day ruthlessly eviscerates the pretensions of SF/F’s scalzied critics with an outstanding post on the cancer eating away at the genre Vox Day over at Alpha Game shows in perfectly stark terms the difference between ALPHA and BETA Roissy shatters illusions...
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