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Kolchak: The Wrong Goodbye (a Daredevils adventure)

Kolchak and crew investigates strange murders during the 1976 Christmas season. Inspired by “real” Soviet research as reported in UFO magazines of the era.

Roundup of Reactions to the Democrat’s Latest Corrupt Lawfare

There can be no comity in the face of corruption the size of New York’s and DC’s. Lawfare is war, and it must be treated like war.

How un-Christian is the prosperity gospel?

While I find the prosperity gospel of people like Joel Osteen weird, and am vaguely uncomfortable with it, it does contain an important teaching about God that we often forget: God answers prayers.

The Full Face of V: In Your Hands

The real story in all of Moore’s books is what happens after the final page. This is most obvious in Watchmen, but every one of these books highlights an uncertain future.

Apple’s FiVe Minute Crush

Between 1984 and 2024, Apple’s advertising has gone from ridiculing 1984 to being 1984.

The Fifth Face of V: I Have Saved You

Time brings progress and it brings suffering. Can humanity be saved from the latter without losing the former? How much can we turn over to machines or governments before we are no longer human or free?

Artificial Intelligence Meets Tex Avery

Will artificial intelligence degrade our own intelligence? So much of AI “contribution” to our decision making isn’t just wrong, it’s obviously wrong.

All gaming is Pastiche linked on Biblyon Broadsides

“It’s a shame that we use so many extant terms from places like creative writing and theatrical improvisation in order to describe the act of table-top role-playing games. We do have our own jargon, but most of it is fun, whimsical, and more than somewhat esoteric. Or, to my chagrin, it’s borrowed from the video game industry—which wouldn’t exist in its current form without D&D in the first place… What we do at the gaming table is neither fish nor fowl.” “Conversely, a game doesn’t have to resolve itself, doesn’t have to answer every question, account for every hanging plot thread… If you read a novel and it swung focus around like a typical D&D game, you’d throw the book across the room within a few chapters.”

The Fourth Face of V: Science ascends, Man gives way

Is all power destined to be abused regardless of good intentions? Is technology necessarily dehumanizing? What happens when literally everyone has that technology at all times?

Why does the Institutional Left hate Israel so much?

The institutional Left doesn’t hate only Israel. They hate any ethnic group that rebels against enslavement by the Left.