I have been absent for a while, I offer my sincerest apologies for this. Life has been doing what life does, and I've been thrown many curveballs in the last few weeks - I won't go into most of them here. 20 days ago I wrote a blog post called "Woe To Pygmalion", where I described the phenomena of young men and women "checking out" of the dating scene and focusing their romantic interests exclusiv... » Continue Reading
I have noticed - as time has gone on - that within my generation and those surrounding it, men and women alike have increasingly shunned relationships with real, tangible, human beings in favor of romances entirely within their own heads with fictional characters. Yes, I am referring to the "waifu" and "husbando" culture which has sprouted online within the last few decades. I have seen it with my... » Continue Reading
Are you like me? Do you enjoy pulling the wool over people's eyes over the slightest provocation? Hell, over no provocation at all? How many people have you been online? How many faces and names have you had? Me personally, I've almost entirely lost track - upwards of 25+ past aliases - my best friends don't even know all of them, hell, sometimes I run into people who recognize my voice and I get ... » Continue Reading
Social Cohesion, on a fundamental level, is needed for any type of community to form and maintain itself - regardless of it's size, shape, or citizenry. Social Cohesion is how well a group of people can stick together when the going gets tough - or even when nothing's happening, Social Cohesion is when people don't go for each other's throats out of boredom. For any type of community to exist - th... » Continue Reading
There was a man in some kind of a post office - it might've been an airport. He seemed happy enough about his job, checking parcels for contraband behind a counter - he had a smile on his face as he explained the steps to people in line. A man with a rather large box comes to the front, explaining that the box has some puppies in it - but they've already been killed and prepared (for consumption).... » Continue Reading
Putting this under "Romance and Relationships" because I think it fits in this category better than others. For the past 25 some odd years men - in America and abroad - have lived by codified but generally unspoken rules which have kept everyone simultaneously "on edge" and "in the clear". It is my job in this blogpost to help elucidate on them where I can, to offer some insight and elaboration in... » Continue Reading
There is a very high probability that you - yes, you - don't own the majority of your purchased media right now. The digital age has given small and up and coming artists, musicians, filmmakers, game developers, and all-in-all, creators the ability to monetize and spread their products and creations near and far by means of digital distribution. "Digital distribution" herein is defined as purely d... » Continue Reading
I might come off as an old fart here - but back in my day this shit straight up did not exist. Normally people would wait until something had actually happened on a site - something big enough that they considered it an irreconcilable slight against them - to start telling people to fuck off. What happens when you immediately try to cut off any and all contact with anybody that you have disagreeme... » Continue Reading
In all of my years online I have seen many communities rise and fall - and in that time I have seen many of them fall for similar reasons. The Internet is a strange and powerful thing - as at it's core it's just the ability to share any kind of information - regardless of format - across borders and boundaries, nationally and internationally, with anyone - whether they're willing to receive said i... » Continue Reading
To rob someone of their creative passions - to put rats in their head and make them fear the ire of the masses - is a grievous fault, and those who do just that should answer grievously for it. In my years online I have criticized and been criticized for my creative endeavors. I feel remorseful for the former in ways I can hardly describe. Do you recall as I do when people switched from making to ... » Continue Reading
There is much power in words. I don't much believe that the pen is always mightier than the sword - but more often than not those who wield their words better than their adversaries can win a fight before a single shot is fired. The way that we use words, as well as the words that we use have much larger implications in the grand scheme of things than any of us can normally comprehend. I'd like t... » Continue Reading
More often than I'd like to admit, I've come across people within my own generation - people my age - who constantly reiterate how much they hate the generation that they're a part of, and how they wish they could've been a part of a different, older generation. I try my damnedest to talk some sense into these people wherever and whenever possible, most of the time it's like talking to a brick wal... » Continue Reading
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