October 07, 2025
A Moment In Which The Blog Descends into Local Politics
Well....local to the state where I lived before I, um, totally got isekaeid into the internet. (Which, coincidentally, is why I can link to this dude without getting double tapped by Virginia Democrats)
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Cycles of Violence
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"ACHOO!"
Disgaea DENIED! Sorry. I'm talking like Popeye, and coughing/sneezing so much I'm not going to be able to stream tonight. I am feeling better though, (fever broke!) so hopefully the rest of the week's schedule will still happen as planned.
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October 06, 2025
Sick Day:
Whelp: Those of you who watched last night's stream know that I was coughing/sneezing rather a lot. Today I am sufficiently sick that I called into my day job. I've waited as long as possible to make the call, but I will have to cancel tonight's stream since I cannot really talk.
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October 05, 2025
A Crusade Against Reason and Common Sense
Yes, My cartoon avatar is still streaming and still putting up schedules in the hopes that someone watches. (I can't adequately express with words how grateful I am for those that actually do!)
Tonight we will be attempting to clear two story quests as we try to clean up all the side plots and unlock the new content that's dropping next week (on the 16th) in the very weird and wacky future of the 90's(?) post-and-pre-apocalypse gacha game Zenless Zone Zero.
Monday we will be warming up the PS2 and grinding away in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness as we prepare for a Tuesday assault on the final boss!
Wednesday we will be continuing withthe very first of the "Doom Clones" Doom 2 (1994). Stop by and be amused at my skill issues as I am befuddled by puzzles and monsters sent from Hell itself.
Thursday we will again be honoring spooky month, this time with Project: Zomboid. A collaboration with other V-Tubers on a community server is planned, but if they cannot show I will amuse chat with an apocalypse run in the same game.
Friday we are CHILING in Genshin Impact. (Somewhat literally as Nod-Krai is canonically quite cold). Since we are caught up on the plot for now, I am just grinding and exploring, so other Genshin players are welcome to join in on the fun (we're at world level 8 ) if more than three other players show up we'll rotate.
Saturday is not a normal streaming day but we will have some special programing. In keeping in mind both the horror theme of October, and the DMCA we will be showing 3 short silent Sci-Fi & horror films! A Terrible Night (1896), Conquest of the Pole (1912), and Frankenstein (1910). 2 of these we showed a few years ago, when we were still streaming on an iMac, but both Edison's Frankenstein and Georges Melies' Conquest of the Pole have much better prints available now. After the films we'll do some gaming, but that is still TBA.
Anyway, over the next week stop by, say "Hi!", chat and take the opportunity to bully a streamer on his skill issues.
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What Canada is Learning From China's HealthCare System
In China, organ transplants can be scheduled reliably months in advance because there is always a ready stock available. Wealthy westerners pay large sums of money to schedule needed transplants there because the Communist nation lacks long the waiting lists. These are a result of needing to wait for someone with biological (eg blood type) to die, but still be young and healthy enough to donate. Since there are a lot of people on the waiting lists this can result in fatal delays to people who need transplants.
China does away with this issue by the straightforward method of developing a comprehensive database of peoples donor status and designating anyone with a low social credit score organ donors, who can be called up at any time.
This is logical, rational, and if one is not a secular materialist completely evil. However if one is NOT a secular materialist, that indicates a state mandated mental illness that gives one a low social credit score, so any opposition to this policy can be dismissed as self interested counterrevolutionary rhetoric by isolated monads.
Canada (that place to the north of us that makes transporting guns to Alaska so difficult) has decided to implement this policy for their national Heathcare system. Because of silly notions like "individuality" and "human rights" they've had to do bureaucratic work arounds. This this case leveraging the ever-expanding of their M.A.I.D. program (Medical Assistance In Dying). Because in Canada, the suicide HELP line is exactly what it says on the tin. (Unlike the U.S. version where a literal interpretation might cause some confusion and lead to an initially unwanted non-terminal outcome, resulting in our inadequate ready reserve organ supply).
Now the Beaver-Burg of Boreas has invested some money (no doubt nicked from their Maple Syrup Reserve) to co-ordinate their assisted suicide office with their organ donation office and are on track to compete with China in the ready organ market.
Hat tip to Ian at The BugScuffle Gazette, who has a good overview of this including the fact that even the tankies over at frickking JACOBIN had this story blow on the near dead embers of their conscience.
Triggernometry had talked about this 8 months ago, but as of that filming, the Canadians hadn't taken the final step of checking the National Healtcare Database for an organ and sending M.A.I.D. out to....acquire it.
I believe the astronomical term for this phenomenon is MORAL EVENT HORIZION.
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It's Been Almost a Month
I posted about this WHEN it happened, but not much about the aftermath.
One of the reasons I haven't streamed a lot has been rather too much doomscrolling these last three weeks.
Shoe on Head, a fairly left of center streamer that I've been aware of for a few years, had a good overview of the situation two weeks ago. I saw this being reacted to on Leaflit's stream of all things when it dropped. It's actually one of the better video takes I've seen regarding the reaction to the event, and the reaction to the reaction that seems to confuse a lot of my coworkers. It confuses them so much that I may retire before January, since, after a couple if incidents ( and daily unhinged rants from certain individuals) at work, I tend to keep my head on a swivel.
Anyway, this deserves to be seen....
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September 28, 2025
How Will A.I. Destroy Us? The Screwfly Solution
So: over the weekend I blundered onto what appears to be an A.I. slop channel. It boasts amazing, if creepy animations and it's spouting out "tips" regarding female psychology that formed deep within the most incellitard reaches of REDDIT. The following embed is typical.
"What the frickking HELL did I just watch?"
While some of the noted pathologies are, in fact, a real thing (and part of the reason I no longer date), they are presented in such a way as to make associating with women in any way appear to fail any reasonable cost benefit analysis.
Are there AWFL women like this? Yes, and yet I know many men who are happily married, women who are responsible members of society, elderly couples where the wives have not only NOT killed and eaten their husbands, but are happy together, and they are NOT unicorns.
Most interesting to me is the way the videos fairly regularly, stop and explain to the audience that "Women aren't like this because they are evil" In the same way one might explain to a child that Ole Yeller isn't actually evil...At one point one of the videos admonishes the viewer to not hate women any more than you would a scorpion, because when the scorpion stings you with a deadly poison it's just being a scorpion doing scorpion things...and women do the things they do for the same reason.
The obvious problem is that only nerdy arachnologists actually feel any affection for scorpions.
I do wonder what the prompts were for this channel.
I can see a bunch of channels like this as well a distaff equivalents stoking the already insane levels of mistrust and paranoia in an increasingly screwed up dating market.
And suddenly every nation with internet access turns into the demographic equivalent South Korea. In three generations there are scattered groups of people wandering deserted wastelands of empty decaying cities.
To be divided up between North Korea and the Amish.
Not the apocalypse I expected to be honest.
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September 19, 2025
Finally Some Happy News
Apologies for the over-the-top absurdity of the unrealistic and click-baity title. As is noted at the link it's actually bad news being undone, but I, for one will take the win.
No V-Tubers or Ducks Were Harmed Making This Post
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September 18, 2025
A Request Response
I cannot provide Mauser the experience of throwing a ball in a centrifugal habitat, but the Kalpana one habitat design has multiple ballfields...so...imagine I guess?
Animation by Brian Versteeg
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September 16, 2025
Thoughts on What Course to Set.
I'm in a spot of pain (kidney stone) and I'm streaming in a few minutes, so I don't have the time or state of mind to expand on this...
Lawdog over at Bugscuffle Gazette has a short, but extremely good post that focuses on what sane Americans should do moving forward. It is a tight, integrated piece that defies excerpting so take 3 minutes of your time and go read it.
Understand it.
Act on it.
And don't be stupid. Stupid plays into the hands of those who would kill us all. Lowering ourselves to their level is a strategic failure, as well as a moral one.
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September 14, 2025
A Story That People Might Have Missed With Everything Else Going On
This is potentially a incredibly awesome discovery that has the potential to be catastrophic for human space exploration.
If Mars has an environment then environmentalists will ensure that no human foot ever sets foot there.
Mars and Titan have major advantages with regard to the ease of resource utilization and will allow a much shallower learning curve, but long term, Space Habitats are probably the way to go.
Still, It might be good to consider if single celled life is sufficient to declare a celestial body a nature preserve.
Even if this does come to pass , there is always a chance that there is no life on Titan, and, in any event we do have O'Neil's vision as a fall back position.
Art by Don Davis
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An Assessment of the Ratio of Bad Ass to Cringe
In Zenless Zone Zero the character of Nicole Demara is an interesting set of contrasts.
Despite being a fractally annoying, rapacious mooch, she has a surprisingly strong moral compass, takes care of her people and keeps her word even at great personal risk. She also has considerable in-game utility and combat potential given that she is fast, acrobatic and carries a briefcase that fires black holes at opponents.
This has led some misguided players to suggest that she is not actually a being from beyond the event horizon of cringe.
That erroneous assessment is scientifically disproven by her official character video.
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What Orwell Got Wrong
Well, except for the part where we have slipped into a timeline where competing analyses of the meaning of OwO are a topic of intense public discourse because competing theories regarding the term are a critical part of an investigation into an assassination that could spark a civil war.
But, I'll give him a pass on that.
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September 11, 2025
On the Doubts Expressed in the Comments
ctx217 asks how we defeat this at the ballot box.
This is not a silly question given the current environment and rhetoric. Bringing strong words to a gunfight is rarely a path to victory and a long life in a street fight Moreover the left in the U.S. is quite definitely Maoist in their view of violence and political activism. The fear that civil engagement in the manner of Charlie Kirk will lead inevitably to his fate is not unreasonable, especially if one gets what little history and civics students learn today taught to the by followers of Alinsky.
However....
An understanding of history does put the problem in a different light. The Democrats and their goons have been engaging in political violence in a variable intensity way this since reconstruction off and on. Before the current crop of "direct actions" we had the Klan, the Anarchists, Tammany Hall, and the assassinations and bombings of the1960's & 1970s. We defeated them all by prosecuting the perpetrators. Though lessons can still be learned from the errors that let the Weathermen and their ilk walk free and into education jobs.
Our principles work.
So to answer the question "How can we win at the ballot box?"
We vote.
We win.
We prosecute the fiends.
But wait!
Rick C. points out that the Mayor of Charlotte won her primary. Well, that does reflect poorly on the Democrats now doesn't it? Now this blood tainted race hustler must face a conservative in the general. Despite Charlotte's leftward tilt, we might actually have a shot at turning even that blue hell hole red.
We CANNOT get rid of all violence, but we can put away the criminals and those so mentally challenged that they are active dangers to the populace.
But there is more. We should not go off half cocked, even as awful as this sickening crime is.
While I certainly give the domestic leftists the side-eye here, and am sickened by the reaction of many of them (though by no means all) to this horror show... I am not completely convinced that this particular atrocity was even domestic. It plays into the hands of foreign adversaries to see us fall on one another like condors and coyotes fighting over a dead deer. Several nations are contemplating, or engaged in rather high risk mischief and would dearly like to see the US engaged in violent navel gazing for a few years.
Those principles again. Due process and the idea of being innocent until guilty. (rather the opposite of leftist notions like Me-Too and cancellation).
Now the alternative to this admittedly difficult and dangerous struggle is to try and make them understand the gravity of the situation by putting large caliber rounds in the heads of their influencers....outside the context of Minecraft. This is the path that most other nations that have faced our problems have taken, and an option we (arguably inadvertently) flirted with in the 1860s. This might be viscerally satisfying in the shortest of terms, but it always leads to sub optimal outcomes.
Pablo Picasso provides us a very stylized, sanitized example of a sub-optimal outcome.
In that scenario, for every free helicopter ride there will be another deposit in the bucket in front of the guillotine. The other issue is the notion that one should not become the monster one is fighting as that defeats the point of fighting the monsters....at least in the eyes of the broader public, who in the absence of complete totalitarianism will be required to be persuaded to support any resolution of the absolute bloody shit-show that a tit-for-tat series of political assassinations, let alone the full-blown civil war that would probably result from that.
We are almost certainly entering a dark time, likely akin to the 1970s or slightly worse. However, it will be darker than Vantablack if we decide to accept the invitation of the assassin and engage in direct reciprocity.
Charlie Kirk set an example. Do not let his death be in vain.
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24 Years
The last few days have been awful. Moreso because "the call came from inside the house".
But it bears remembering what came out of that surreal clear sky 24 years ago. Because that enemy (and others) are still at the gate.
Do not forget.
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September 10, 2025
Oh Hell
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was just shot, apparently in the neck. He's been hospitalized. That's all I know.
Megan Kelly is covering it live.
Things are getting bad.
Kirk is blunt and offensive to some but his modus operandi is to go to meet with those who disagree with him and debate them, trying to persuade them with WORDS.
There is a growing segment of the population who cannot abide other points of view. I have a degree in history. I've seen what happens when groups of people in countries stop talking to each other. It's a dark place.
UPDATE: Reports are that Charlie Kirk died on the operating table.
End Update
Read the link I posted below.
Keep your eyes open.
Get to know your neighbors.
Prepare.
But do not emulate these Jacobins. Taking an eye for an eye only leaves everyone blind.
We'll solve this at the ballot box.
Or not al all.
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6.0
Tonight at 6:30pm EDT/ 10:30pm UTC join us as we plunge into the season 6 premier of Genshin Impact. This gacha game has been way better than it has any business being and the writing has been top-notch. These Yo-Hoyo game events are always fun but tonight's premiere isn't just an event, it promises to be a MAJOR lore dump, opening a whole new region and explaining......all sorts of stuff. Plus there will surely be combat!
The channel's over at https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet so stop by, say "Hi!" and then you can bully my animated alter ego about his skill issues. If you're not familiar with the game, then chat and I will bring you up to speed. This update look to be really fun, so support your indie V-tuber!
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Read The Whole Thing
Some people cannot be examples. But they can be lessons.
This is not to blame the victim in any way. It is to remind people that danger exists. Moreso now because people that don't believe it exists have unleashed it on our streets.
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September 09, 2025
Well.....
( Checks newsfeeds to find out what the hell is actually going on in Nepal.)
That escalated quickly.
A few observations:
Things must be very chaotic on the ground. The Kathmandu Post (first link) appears to have just gone offline, as I proofread this.
What I've been able to glean is that the government responded to accusations of corruption and authoritarianism by banning news items that contained what they determined was disinformation, before banning social media sites. This did NOT reassure the public.
The most disturbing thing from a purely domestic point of view (well, local hemisphere at least) about this is the number of folks in Tommy Robinson's feed pointing to this and admonishing him for his peaceful flag protests claiming that the Nepalese are handling the situation more correctly than he is.
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