Ubisoft has been compared to an all you can eat oatmeal buffet. They have not been able to create new game play for a very long time. They have been creating new background and story, new art content. Which new content has gradually become not plot, story, and character development, but has, like Hollywood movies, become insulting and hostile attacks on their audience, which amount to “You are scum, shut …
May all my readers have a blessed Christmas
With a new president and new team in charge, next Christmas, we may see the shopping centers permitting the sale of Christian themed Christmas ornaments and wrapping paper, which are currently unavailable in the shops, but are available from Temu under the search “Christmas vintage” Our enemies are motivated by envy, so living well is the best revenge. So, in the era of the Chinese hegemony, wishing you a “Vintage” …
Limited Hangout on the awesome might of the Covid Demon
I seldom report on the latest news of the day, because there are loads of people covering it with intense attention, most of them far better informed on details of the latest events than I am, which noise tends to drown out the perspective that enables one to see what is happening over the longer time scale. Today’s events are far better understood from a perspective that sees them as …
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The leftmost of the left currently is, or very recently was, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. (It is always hard to say what the current leftmost is, because the left is always re-inventing itself. Leftism has no essence, it is a bunch of tactics that serviceable in the goals of envy and covetousness, and the ever changing systems of ideas are merely flim flam and the latest tactics. What do Catastrophic …
The Russian invasion of the Ukraine is a just war
This post stolen wholesale from this excellent comment According the Christian doctrine of Bellum Iustum, just war, just war requires Jus Ad Bellum, the right to go to war. Jus In Bello, Justice in War. jus post bellum, Just ending of the war. Jus Ad Bellum requires: Auctoritas competens, right authority. You need a sovereign who can make peace or war, and if he says “war” everyone in his ingroup …
Delusion and end of the Ukraine war
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Hello? The west has been succumbing in every battle. A deal should have been made in July 2023 when it …
Government Healthcare and the deficit
Healthcare in the US is extraordinarily, ludicrously, bad. It is also absurdly, extraordinarily, ludicrously expensive, both for any individual who is not part of an official victim group, and for the government. The government deficit is about two trillion dollars, and is unsustainable. Economic collapse and hyperinflation looms. The cost of healthcare to the government is about equal to the deficit. Comparing US (corrupt civil service and judiciary) health care …
How to deport eighteen million illegals
I saw Vance accepting the defeatist frame that it is hard to deport eighteen million illegals. No it is not hard. Tony Abbot in Australia faced a smaller but similar problem, and here is how he handled it: Everyone has interactions where you have to present your ID: Cops, welfare, hospitals, and so on and so forth. And they then run your ID through their computers. Which in Australia, if …
The Crisis and Coup Thermidor
The most cohesive faction within the left wants to burn down the world in order to immanentize the Eschaton, and the kleptocracy does not want the world to burn. The kleptocrats want to steal it, not burn it, and are upset that their plan for stealing Russia and then China came unstuck. The old Clinton/Bush/Obama normal is heading towards an iceberg. Since the point of stealing the 2020 and 2022 …
End Game in Ukraine
War is a test of will and capability. The test has been run. We now know the will and capability of the parties. I have repeatedly predicted that the war will end real soon now, and repeatedly been wrong. My repeated error was to assume that individuals would respond rationally to the situation, once it was revealed. Rational individual behaviour for a Ukrainian who is not yet in the army …