Category: cultural analysis

GrimDark

Ashe Barker, over at the YouTube Channel Guerilla Miniatures Games, has been running down a long series of thoughts on GrimDark Media.  It’s a fun series – one of those hangout and gab sessions with a couple of ersatz friends who share many of the same interests as you. ...

On Lahaina

The one thing we can all agree on in the aftermath of the Lahaina Fire is that the events prove that my pre-conceived political and economic notions are one-hundred percent correct: Vegans suck.  They cause the fire by pressuring big corporations and legislatures (but I repeat myself) to enact...

A Love of History

This map has been making the rounds on social media. The white dots represent the locations of battles fought during the last 4,500 years of recorded history. Before we get into a deeper analysis, look at this: The map doesn’t really show the locations of all the earth’s battles....

Hello, Gym

Finally got things re-ordered in life to commit to the fit. A lot of my contemporaries have been losing weight, adding muscle, and generally vocal about their gainz and how they get them.  You could say they bullied me into it, though that might be a half truth.  For decades...

Pushed Out of the House of Cards

From the “They’re Not Sending Their Best Files” comes today’s general attitude among the moneyed class that all brands must participate in the Holy Modernist Month of June.  You know which of the deadly sins we are supposed to celebrate instead of celebrating something good and beautiful and true. ...

This Post is Not About True Detective Season Two

Meet Eliot Bezzerides, the wealthy and well-connected hippy-dippy father of detective Antigone “Ani” Bezzerides.  A supporting role in the grossly under-rated second season of True Detective, he serves as something of a red-herring in the narrative. Eliot shows exactly which side of the good/evil divide he calls home when he...

X To Doubt: The Derailment Edition

Every time you see one of these national comparisons, remember that Cuba uses a very different definition for “infant mortality” than the United States. It could be that all three countries are using an international standard definition for the term “derailment”, but in less than until you are shown...

WAR *sigh* HAMMER

You can find copies of Warhammer Fantasy 6th Edition online for ten bucks and that includes shipping. That’s less than the cost of a lunch, and in these troubled times a 288 page book for that price is a steal. I almost feel guilty for snapping it up. It...

No Shame In It

There is a really weird concept percolating through the miniature wargame substrate right now, and it’s probably a reflection of a trend in the wider culture.  It goes a little something like this: Man, there is so much to unpack here. Let’s begin with the fact that every man...

The Spanish Civil War

Yeah, we’re doing this. It’s a once-proud and wealthy nation that suffers from the high expenses of babysitting its colonies, beset by a crumbling economy, and in which radical left-wing nutjobs run riot in the streets, and in which quiet and reasonable men long for a strong man to...