"You've never watched anime? You have to watch Akira!" Eh.... no. Before some idiot gets his panties in a wad and proves that I should block him for being an insofferable git, I can fairly say I've been hooked on some form of anime since at least the broadcast of Space Cruiser Yamato as "Star Blazers" in the early eighties, and in high school was swapping videotape copies to watch everything from Megazone 23 to Area 88 with no subtitles or dubs. Some of us with two VCR's were starting…
It's been busy the last couple weeks, and when not occupied with work, I've been catching up on a lot of reading. Also - things have been changing so fast that it's been futile to spend too much depth on any current event as by the time I mulled it over, the sundry details were beaten to death, and something new came up. Stepping back - this isn't even about Kenosha. There have been a number of office-related shootings in different towns since then, but the attempts to make something of them…
Over the last decade, I've run and played Pathfinder (I know...), played Dungeon World, and run ACKs and Classic (1st gen) Traveller. I've also had a fair bit of exposure to FATE, the recent version of Paranoia, and the world of darkness vampire setting. The less said about the latter, the better. So what did Pathfinder get right? Mostly, a lavishly filled out game world and background, with solid art and production values, as the core system was "d20," a reskinned open-source D&D 3.5 which to…
Reading, Ritin', 'Rithmetic. It's long been noted that homeschooling is not just a good idea because it's a better option than current public schools are supposed to be - instead it could now be a matter of life, death, or sanity. In case you needed a reminder: First of all, even when indoctrination is back burnered, it is likely that teaching to read using proven effective methods is not a priority - following the latest teaching fads is [https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats…
I had a surreal experience recently that displayed a total lack of awareness among the midwit, "educated" liberals who believe CNN. First, a digression to an excellent, relevant article I discovered [https://www.unz.com/akarlin/stupid-people/] via "Further Reading" over at Decline and Fall [https://declineandfall.blog/further-reading/] - I am remiss in adding the Unz report to my reader stream, but regularly get passed good articles there. In it, Antony Karlin shows what it means to deal with a…