Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/ Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:33:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 182200397 HALO is dead, and they have killed it https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/halo-is-dead-and-they-have-killed-it.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/halo-is-dead-and-they-have-killed-it.html#respond Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:15:32 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23902 Fresh off the total failure of HALO: Campaign DEvolved, Microslop moved a couple of days ago to essentially shut down Halo Studios, or whatever it is called, and has now shunted all future HALO development to… Activision: That scepticism – Ameribros, please note, CORRECT spelling there – is entirely warranted. It is important to keep […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/halo-is-dead-and-they-have-killed-it.html/feed 0 23902 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori? https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori.html#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:30:25 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23892 Some years back, when I thought that Bozo BoJo was actually going to do some good as Prime Monster of PommieBastardLande, I wrote quite favourably about one Jacob Rees-Mogg, an MP for North East Somerset, who eventually became quite a high-ranking member of the Cuckservative goobermint. These days, he is Sir Jacob, as he got […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori.html/feed 0 23892 Monday morning diesel delivery https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/monday-morning-diesel-delivery.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/monday-morning-diesel-delivery.html#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:45:37 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23896 It is Monday, and for me a rather annoying one, coming as it does after a solid holiday spent in foreign lands. I got back Friday afternoon, and spent much of the weekend simply resting and doing very little of note – which is my default to begin with, admittedly. But then Monday arrived like […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/monday-morning-diesel-delivery.html/feed 0 23896 The overhyped collapse of bullsh*t consulting https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-overhyped-collapse-of-bullsht-consulting.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-overhyped-collapse-of-bullsht-consulting.html#respond Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:22:44 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23878 Over the past few weeks, I have seen a fair few videos popping up on my EWCHOOB feed about the collapse of corporate and management consulting jobs. They are all much of a muchness – there does appear to be something of a script circulating around the creator community about the supposed downfall of the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-overhyped-collapse-of-bullsht-consulting.html/feed 0 23878 Tolkien is F***ING METAL https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/tolkien-is-fing-metal.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/tolkien-is-fing-metal.html#respond Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:35:36 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23827 A few days before I went on vacation, Gary from Nerdrotic released a video explaining why the latest season of DEM RANGZ O’ POWAH!!! has completely failed to make any kind of impression among the viewers and the fanbase. The analysis was very good, as you would expect from him, but toward the back end […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/tolkien-is-fing-metal.html/feed 0 23827 Friday T&A: Golden Roofs of Miklagaard Edition https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/friday-ta-golden-roofs-of-miklagaard-edition.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/friday-ta-golden-roofs-of-miklagaard-edition.html#respond Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:13:33 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23872 I am finally back after a couple of weeks off, during which time I was essentially doing a whole lot of nothing. And that was no bad thing. This description is not entirely accurate, of course, but this was a family trip, not a solo one, and as such, the pace of movement was significantly […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/friday-ta-golden-roofs-of-miklagaard-edition.html/feed 0 23872 The grim darkness of the near future https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-grim-darkness-of-the-near-future.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-grim-darkness-of-the-near-future.html#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:09:11 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23865 To live in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-grim-darkness-of-the-near-future.html/feed 5 23865 On vacation https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/on-vacation.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/on-vacation.html#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:37:53 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23850 I am currently in “Indian Country”, so to speak, with various kith and kin, and as such, poasting is likely to be limited – well, even more limited than usual, to put things more accurately. I might have a few things to say here and there when I have time, but for the moment, I […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/on-vacation.html/feed 2 23850 Monday morning rolling out https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/monday-morning-rolling-out.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/monday-morning-rolling-out.html#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:24:12 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23834 That weekend sure zipped by damned fast – and, of course, we had the sad, though perhaps inevitable, news of the great Peter Cullen‘s passing. More than a few of us reading this ‘ere pokey blog grew up watching the Transformers shows. In my case, I watched parts of the original series, then the follow-ons, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/monday-morning-rolling-out.html/feed 1 23834 The inevitable return of the great white dope https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-inevitable-return-of-the-great-white-dope.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-inevitable-return-of-the-great-white-dope.html#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:32:21 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23800 When news broke the other day that “Harry and the Half-Blood Princess”, as Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible once so memorably branded the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are returning to PommieBastardLande, feelings on either side of the Pond were rather mixed. Americans were, I suspect, […]

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