Reality TV and Why I Like MTV's Catfish

I was sitting and watching a video from funny YouTube man We're In Hell about the Netflix Show Love Is Blind. It's a meditative piece and really gets into the weeds about bad media and our relationship to it.But I also have something of a personal story about this to share.My partner and I watch a lot...

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F*ck You, Injustice Is Good Actually

 This week I went through it all. I started at Year 1, read through all the prequel comics, played through Injustice: Gods Among Us, read the in-between-quel, played through Injustice 2 and as I...

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Cancel Culture, Reputational Harm and Deplatforming

It's really difficult to talk about cancel culture without the conversation turning into a swamp. I'm going to paraphrase Hank Green here, but there was an insight he shared that I think is really relevant. He said something to the effect of "You'll navigate the conversation much more successfully when...

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Game Immersion, or Why You Need To Stop Staring At Traffic In Games And Drive

I love The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.It's one of my favourite games of all time. Specifically on PC. What makes Skyrim so special is how unabashedly moddable it is. You can practically change anything in the game, it's so robust that it's almost become a game engine of its own.But one thing that Skyrim...

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NFTs and Crypto (Wow, in 2024? That's old news, who gives a shit?)

I've on my socials pretty thoroughly expounded on my position on NFTs and the Cryptocurrencies.These are technological solutions in search of problems. Do I really need to explain either concept? Maybe there's one person who needs the cliff-notes; The blockchain is both a system of validating transactions...

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