October 26, 2025

A Disquisition on Tuckertardation

I have always had a great deal of respect for Dinesh D'Souza. He is smart, respectful, and literate. He's also one of the few old school conservatives who has not had his brain addled by TDS*. Here he sits down with the Triggernometry guys and has a wide ranging discussion on the situation we face and the often self inflicted challenges that the American right faces. 


Well worth an hour and a half of your time.

 *I'm an old school conservative and have had my trepidations about 45/47 which I went into in some detail here and here. Trump's performance in his second term have mostly, but not completely allayed those fears.

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October 25, 2025

Genshin 6.1

Genshin Impact is a free to play, online, gacha game.  This means that expectations are rather low. However the game has, over the 18 months that I've played it, actually impressed me with its storytelling.


What starts out as a bog-standard fantasy game (with, God help, me isekai elements)  develops over the first few scenarios into something quite unique.

Then it gets really strange

And awesome..  

Over the last 5 years (or 18 months if you're speed running it like me) Genshin Impact has drip-fed its players a quirky, interesting and exceedingly deep, & detailed backstory for the world in which the player finds him/her self. 

This drip feed has been quite entertaining and thoughtful, providing a very well realized world and that worlds history which one uncovers different layers of , as one wanders across the planet of Teyvat exploring each country and discovering how their histories and challenges tie into the larger story. Amazingly the characters one encounters are well written, and well realized. 

With the 2 latest updates, however. this drip feed has stopped.

It's been replaced with a firehose. 

Genshin's 6.1 update story was "all that and a bowl of grits". Exceptionally well written,  with excellent character development, surprises galore, and building on the previous story in a believable way, An Elegy for Faded Moonlight ties together or clarifies more than half a dozen plot threads, some of which had appeared to just be flavor text. It resolved the current in-game crisis in a most satisfying way, while simultaneously setting up foundations for future  mayhem. The only online game I've seen that has anything on a par with this is Final Fantasy14 with its award winning  Heavensward update from a decade ago. This really was a 9/10 out of 10, and exceeded even the high expectations I have come to have of this game. 

My only concern is that the next updates will be hard pressed to live up to this. But given the tightness of the story and how well it integrates elements from the beginning of the game, I do hold out some hope that this is not a fluke and they've really been working towards a coherent and satisfying ending.  

Fingers are crossed. But as of now, it's looking quite good. 



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October 23, 2025

FTP Streaming!

Tonight at 6:30pm EDT 10:30pm UTC, I will be broadcasting LIVE from Nasha Town while exploring Nod-Krai and the new Genshin Impact chapter An Elegy for Faded Moonlight! As of the last few updates Yo-Hoyo is no longer drip-feeding us lore,  they've just turned on the fire hose! This should be awesome, so grab a drink, a snack, every one of your BrickCoins, and join us in chat as we explore the region, uncover its secrets, and face down the implacable RNG by rolling the gacha! 


Join the fun tonight at https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet 

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October 22, 2025

Disgaea: Hour of VICTORY!!1!(?)

 In just under an hour (6:30pm EDT/ 10:30pm UTC) My crackerjack streaming team (consisting of Me, myself, and I) will attempt to vanquish this JRPGs FINAL BOSS! If we succeed, we will begin Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories! This is it people! It's likely your last chance to bully me for my skill issues in this game! Stop by say "Hi!" and witness the completion of the channel's 3rd JRPG!



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October 19, 2025

Strim Schedule

Next week's schedule is up!

Monday we will proceed from where we left off Thursday with the climactic battle of Zenless Zone Zero's  quite impressive MEMORIES OF DREAMS BYGONE! ZZZ continues to advance the story at a breakneck pace, so this should be quite fun.

Tuesday we will do a bit more grinding in the item world of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness as we prepare for...

Wednesday's assault on the game's final boss! 

Thursday we will be up late with version 6.1 of Genshin Impact , the eagerly anticipated  Elegy of Faded Moonlight! (there might be an intermission around 10pm EDT that will contain zombies. However, if so we will return to Genshining after sacred honor has beenb served) 

Friday is a little up in the air: There might be a new game, a Movie, or we might continue with Elegy of Faded Moonlight! 

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October 13, 2025

ROCKET!!!!

THIS IS IT!!! (again) Space X is launching its 11 starship and will be running it through the ringer to test its survivability. THIS MIGHT MEAN FIREWORKS! If not it will be interesting! Join us in 15 minutes! 7pm EDT/ 11pm UTC) for the wonder and the snark! https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet


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October 12, 2025

Streaming Schedule

Next Week's Schedule is up! There will be no stream Friday, as I must go out of town and Monday's stream will start a tad later as we will be covering the Starship 11 launch!


We will be exploring he new chapter of Zenless Zone Zero on Thursday, (It technically drops the day before, but too late for me to stream it)  


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Thoughts on the "Right" vs Conservatives


Part of the issue is the large influx of essentially leftist men to the Republicans escaping the diversity bullies. Bernie Bros form a huge part of Trump's coalition, and they did not becone conservative in the process, most of them are still shitlibs, but cosplaying in Americana because doing so angers their tormentors on the left. 

American conservatism has always been 'Liberal" in the classical and continental sense. What it seeks to "conserve" are enlightenment values. There is a strong respect, and sometimes arguably a reverence for traditions because those generally ARE beta tested by time. 

The first change in this was in 1980, when the evangelicals were driven out of the progressive movement (which they had founded and been the backbone of for over a century). I would argue that the Evangelicals are philosophically and neurologically still progressives because they have a broad affinity for big government and frequently cannot imagine that they might go too far in their cause. This reflects the same pathologies on the left, though there is FAR more dissent on these points amongst religious conservatives. 

The new right is basically a bunch of bitter, resentful socialists and communists racists and antisemites  who adopt the iconography and fashion of U.S. patriotism in the same manner as the leftists of the 1930s. They like their more overtly leftist counterparts wear such norms as a skinsuit. To a large extent this is a result of them being shat on by the diversity goons since they were able to talk, as well as the abominable state of history and civics education This is, in turn exacerbated by a focus by their Gramscian educators on a very smooth brained and unthoughtful (oppressor/oppressed) view of society, and, ironically, the lesson that has been drilled into their heads by these same oppressors, that all politics is immoral power games and that oppressors are intrinsically justified in any atrocities that they do. 

In my experience, many of them see civility and compromise as being as the intersection of stupidity and evil. 

This all has the potential to go quite pear shaped. 

Especially since the alternative to this potential looming horror, is, if anything worse. 


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October 11, 2025

MOVIE NIGHT!

TONIGHT at 9:30pm EDT/1am UTC join us for a short spooky movie festival as we look at some silent films for SPOOPY MONTH. First up is a French film from 1896 (or 1899 sources vary) A TERRIBLE NIGHT which documents EXACTLY what it says on the tin. Then Thrill to a science fantasy from 1912 in Georges Méliès CONQUEST OF THE POLE (note this is about Arctic exploration and not bullying an Eastern European) Finally, we will be showing a good copy of Thomas Edison's FRANKENSTEIN (1910). We showed the last two about two years ago, but these are better copies.  Since these are all fairly short we will follow the films with some Q&A before doing a bit of vidya gaming. Grab some popcorn, stop by say "Hi!" and do your best (sfw) MST3K trolling in chat. The channel's at  https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet




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October 08, 2025

Giving it a Shot

In about 20 minutes The crackerjack online creative team of Me, Myself, and I will dip our toe into streaming again broadcast a short Doom 2 stream. We'll see if I'm up to it. Check out the sickstreaming (as opposed to Sick Streaming) at  https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet. 


Also: Whoever's comment I deleted, please repost it. (Unless you are a spammer. In that case get bent).