There are days that I wonder what Nolan, the man behind Tenet, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, is up to. He's obviously in the system, and regarded enough to have men like Michael Caine and Mat Damon eagerly take part in his movies. On the other hand, almost every recent movie is a giant fuck you to globalist and leftist shibboleths in some way shape or form. Memento This is one that doesn't quite fit the mold, as the trend I'm noting is a more recent change. I think the point Wright made in his…
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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…
Eric wrote a good post on the sad goings on at the Open Source Initiative [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8609&cpage=1#comment-2367336]. The article, and comments are, as usual, worth reading (even when I disagree with Eric, which is not so much, here). > The historian Robert Conquest once wrote: “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.” Today I learned that the Open Source Initiative has reached that p…
I happen to have a PDF of the core FATE rules because they sounded interesting. Not bad, but not a system I saw myself getting a lot of use out of even though I do like some of the more narrative systems, such as Dungeon World. Nevertheless, I'm in a position where another company has identified itself as one I'm not likely to hand money to. Though the fact that they went with the boy-aren't-we-clever soy-tier name of Evil Hat for their company should have been a sign all by itself. Courtesy…