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PirateSoftware, an example of how to destroy one's reputation almost instantly

Jason "Thor" Hall, who often goes by the online nickname "PirateSoftware", was quite popular and famous not only among the followers of his live streams, but also millions of casual YouTube viewers. Many of his videos on YouTube are about interesting facts and tidbits related, most often, to video game software development. His takes on many aspects of this field are really insightful, enlightening and interesting. He also often emphasizes how he worked at Activision Blizzard for something like a decade. He is also developing a video game of his own, which is available for early access on Steam. While he probably has never directly claimed it outright, most people got the impression from all of the above that not only is he a very competent programmer and game developer (probably even a "star programmer" of the likes of John Carmack), but he was also working in that role at Blizzard, and code he has written is likely found at least in World of Warcraft (a ...

How you know that the Democratic Party of the US is full of BS

Recently the Trump administration introduced to congress the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill" which was primarily about tax cuts for several forms of income that affect mostly low-income workers, in other words, the poorest people in the country. In other words, a bill that benefits and helps the poor and the low-middle class the most, and has pretty much no effect on the rich. The bill was so much aligned with American leftist ideals that even the leftist pundits who are constantly attacking Trump for everything he does couldn't come up with any real reason why the bill was a bad thing. Instead, their only desperate line of attack is trying to claim that the bill isn't actually all that beneficial, or that it doesn't actually do what it claims to be doing. They can't object to the goals of the bill itself, so they are desperately trying to discredit it and gaslight people into thinking that "actually the bill isn't doing what it says it's doing...

"YouTube Shorts" has increased my appreciation for good video editing

But not because these "shorts" are really well edited. Actually, the  exact opposite . You see, after YouTube introduced their "shorts" feature (which is still absolutely horrendous and incomprehensible, and completely unnecessary and unneeded), many people have for some reason become enamored with it and uploaded millions and millions of videos in this format. One particular trend has raised its ugly head in later years (and at an ever-increasing rate) with these "shorts": People taking longer clips of something, like a movie, TV series, anime series or whatever, and then they themselves cutting bits and pieces off of them in order to make them much shorter (usually under a minute long). Sure, they might have good intentions at heart: Trying to retain the core essence of the scene in question, without cutting out anything important. Problem is: As a result of these constant micro-cuts (that oftentimes cut out just a second or two of the original), the end...

No, "non-binary" is not a real thing

Many modern far-leftists, seeking for attention and acceptance, and following the popular trend, as classifying themselves as "non-binary". They carry that label like a badge of honor, like a medal that they carry around in order to get admiration and adulation from their peers. But that entire concept does not stand any scrutiny. What does it even mean? From the literally hundreds of different attempted definitions, perhaps the most common one is: "I don't identify as a man or a woman." My response to that is: So, what does it mean to "identify as a man"? I'm 100% serious with that question. What is that supposed to mean? Being "a man" is not something you "identify" yourself as: It's something you are. I don't "identify" myself as being a mammal: I  am  a mammal. I don't "identify" as being a human: I am  a human. Likewise I don't "identify" as a being a man: I am  a man. It's ...

The very strange case of Xlibre

(I have written a bit about this topic in a previous blog post, but allow me recapitulate, to keep this post independent.) In the early days of Unix and Unix-compatible operating systems there was a demand for a standardized graphical user interface system, and the "X windowing system", or just "X" as it was very commonly shortened, became that standard in 1984. Over the years X was updated, with the newest version being the most famous and most commonly used one, so much so that the shortened nickname for "X windowing system" became "X11", following the versioning. However, this version 11 was developed in 1987, and hasn't been updated since. It became stagnant. This became a problem particularly when a new Unix-like operating system started become immensely popular: Linux. Linux needed its own updated version of X11, both from the point of view of its technology as well as its usage license. This built-from-scratch new system was called X.o...

Japan is already experiencing the first stages of mass immigration

Japan is one of the safest, most peaceful, cleanest, and most high-trust societies in the entire world, where crime rates are extraordinarily low, streets are extremely clean and safe, and where respect, politeness and good manners are an integral core part of the culture into which every Japanese is grown into. Unsurprisingly, for quite a long time Japan has likewise had some of the strictest immigration policies in the world: The amount of people granted permanent residence in the country has been extremely small, and the requirements for it have been extremely strict. Even if you get work in Japan, it's still much more likely that you will be granted  temporary  residence (that needs to be renewed at regular intervals) than permanent one. However, in recent years the far-leftism cancer has infected some Japanese politicians who are set on opening Japan's borders and let millions of immigrants from Africa and the Middle-East in (to this day I still can't understand why pr...

The destruction of the western world will not stop until universities are completely replaced

I have been saying this for over a decade now in this blog: The source of all the sociopolitical problems that western countries are currently suffering, and which are tearing them down and continuing to do so until everything has been destroyed and replaced with Islam, is universities. Western universities in many countries, particularly the United States, have been completely overtaken by far-leftist radical activists. (This was most likely started by Soviet infiltration with the precise goal of destroying the west so that the Soviet Union could then take over. Ironically, the Soviet Union is long gone, but their plan is still going forward in full force, as there was nothing to stop it.) These universities have stopped being institutions of higher education and have become  bona fide  sociopolitical indoctrination camps, where students are indoctrinated into the ideology and radicalized. In most American universities students are constantly being bombarded with far-leftist ...