human stupidity Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/human-stupidity Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:15:36 +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 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 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 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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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-inevitable-return-of-the-great-white-dope.html/feed 1 23800 The misery of missile MAFF https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-misery-of-missile-maff.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-misery-of-missile-maff.html#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:56:11 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23763 The Epstein Coalition’s war against Iran has revealed, in no uncertain terms, the total bankruptcy and inadequacy of the Coalition’s economic capabilities. We have seen the New Evil Empire throw just about everything it has available at Iran, and it has failed utterly to do much more than cosmetic damage. Meanwhile, American air defence systems […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/the-misery-of-missile-maff.html/feed 3 23763 Cheap and reliable beats expensive and elaborate every time https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:17:52 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23718 Back in 1951, that deceased old monster and pederast, Arthur C. Clarke, published a short story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction called “Superiority”. You can read it for free using that link I provided. And it is well worth the time and effort, given the subject matter – though I must say, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html/feed 2 23718 HALO: Campaign DEvolved https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/halo-campaign-devolved.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/halo-campaign-devolved.html#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:56:33 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23696 So I sat down yesterday and started playing HALO: Campaign Evolved, and, having played through “The Pillar of Autumn” and about a third of the way into “HALO”, plus the first bonus mission, I have to say… what a bloody disappointment. (Yes, MrUNIVAC, I did buy the thing as a digital download – but no, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/halo-campaign-devolved.html/feed 6 23696 White elephant vs carrier crusher https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/white-elephant-vs-carrier-crusher.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/white-elephant-vs-carrier-crusher.html#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:48:16 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23686 The following is adapted from a poast on my Telegram channel, in which I analysed a recent article looking at the particular choices facing the Russian Navy. The article made the argument for mothballing Russia’s sole remaining Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruiser, and investing the funds in modernising its sole aircraft carrier. There was recently a rather […]

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