What grinds my gears

The game Death Stranding 2 is getting really high review scores both from regular gamers and from most journalists. There's one significant outlier, though: GameSpot gave the game just a 7 out of 10, which is the lowest it has got from such a publication. The reason? The woke game journalist who wrote the review considers the game "sexist" and "misogynist". The big irony here is that, inadvertently, this actually works as an advertisement for the game: It immediately made  me  more interested in the game, and more likely to consider purchasing it at full price. If a "woke" professional game journalist calls a game names, it immediately makes the game more interesting, it immediately raises interest in finding out more about the game. So it works in the exact opposite way than the journo intended. I would like to once again repeat a message I have been writing to any professional video game journalists who might be reading this: Your profession is obsol...

For about a decade now, whenever the American far-leftist mainstream media, far-leftist politicians, and other far-leftist political commentators and influencers make a claim about their political opposition, if you just assume it to be a complete fabrication, distortion or outright lie, overwhelming chances are that you will be right . Making a comprehensive list of all the lies and distortions made by them, which can be absolutely proven to be false, over the past decade would make quite a long list indeed. You could probably write an entire doors-stopper encyclopedia about it. But here I would like to write about one particular recent incident: Some time ago a man named Abrego Garcia was deported to his home country of El Salvador. The mainstream media and, thus, the entire far-leftist mob, painted a very tragic picture of the situation. According to them, he was a completely innocent family man, married and a father of two, who had done absolutely nothing wrong, and who had been de...

In common parlance a "tryhard" is someone who, well, tries really hard to be "cool", to be one of the "cool kids", to be popular, to follow the fashions, to fit in, to get into the social circles of the "cool" people, to get validation and admiration from others, and usually does it in such an obvious and transparent "trying-too-hard" way that it's outright cringe. Or, similarly, someone who tries really hard to become popular and to succeed as a content creator, for example on online video and streaming platforms, but just doesn't really have the talent for it, and it just ends up being awkward and cringe. They are just trying very very hard to do or become something they don't really have the natural talent for, and it just seeps through and can quite clearly be seen, and it's often awkward and cringe. Or just boring. The effort may be there, but not the required talent. Recently I played the quite criticized game  Sui...

"Terrorism" is defined as violence or threats of violence for political purposes. Well, consider what the American left, the American Democrats, have become during the last 10 or so years: Every single time that they don't get what they want, every single time that they lose an election, every single time a governing body decides or passes a law that they don't like, how do they react? With violence, of course. By this point it has become normalized among the American left. Rioting, vandalism, destruction of property, arson, assault. It is literally happening every single day, without exception, in the United States, for the most random of things. By this point it isn't even if they don't get what they want, or they lose an election, or some judicial system makes a decision or passes a law that they don't like: By this point they are outright  fabricating  reasons to become violent. Any single minor issue that they come up with, they will use as an excuse,...

So this South African game developer company by the name Nyamakop, owned by Africans, run by Africans, staffed by Africans, subsidized by the South African government, wanted to create a video game 100% by Africans, showcasing and bringing forth African people and African culture, for the entire world to appreciate and learn. So what kind of game did they come up with? Is it, perhaps, some kind of point&click game, or an adventure game, or an open world game, where you travel through different cities, towns, villages and African tribes to learn about their culture, perhaps doing some side quests along the way? Perhaps the African people, including the playable protagonists, are depicted as amicable, friendly, honest, down-to-earth, noble and wise, imparting their wisdom, their knowledge and their culture to the player? Something like that? Nope. The homogeneous all-black cast of playable characters consists of, get this: Thieves. I am literally facepalming right now, and I'm no...

The government of the United Kingdom just voted to legalize abortion all the way up to just prior to birth. So yes: Killing a baby one day after birth is murder, but killing a baby one day before birth is completely legal. What exactly is the difference? This means that the United Kingdom has officially become a country where infanticide is legal. And the most horrendous thing is that a lot of people are  celebrating  this, as if murdering children was some kind of human right, and social progress. The fundamental human right to life for the baby be damned. To the United Kingdom government and every single person who celebrates this and thinks that this is some kind of "human right" and a good thing: You absolutely disgust me. You are monsters, and I want to puke. I wish there was a hell, so that you would burn forever in the deepest pits of it, for supporting and engaging in the murder of innocent children. And then you call people who oppose you and oppose this "Nazis...

Far-leftists in the United States are protesting deportations of illegal immigrants. Because of course they do. They have been told to protest it, so they obey like sheep. Well, I have something shocking to tell them: Every single country in the world deports people. Without exceptions. Yeah, I know, shocking, isn't it? And yes, every single country that exists in this world deports people from their lands, constantly, without exceptions. Even the most far-leftist liberal open-borders "all immigrants welcome" European countries, like Canada, the UK, Germany, Sweden and so on, deport people. (They might not deport even nearly as many as they should, but they nevertheless do.) Nobody has ever considered deporting people who have no right to be in a country to be some kind of crime against humanity. Even the cringiest far-leftists countries do it all the time. Canada does it all the time. Mexico does it all the time. The United Kingdom does it all the time. Name any country ...