What grinds my gears

A lot of terms that originally had, and in fact even today have a particular meaning often get misunderstood and used incorrectly, with the incorrect meaning in a context that doesn't fit. One that's gets misused a lot nowadays is "gaslighting". Curiously, in my experience it gets misunderstood and misused by all sides, not just the far left (which loves misusing words and change their meaning to suit their agenda.) A lot of people seem to think that "gaslighting" is synonymous with "deceiving", in other words, making someone believe something that's not true, to have them have an incorrect belief about something. While "gaslighting" is a  form  of deception, of making someone believe a falsity, it's not the generic term for it, nor a synonym for it. It's a very  specific  form of such deception. In particular, "gaslighting" is making someone doubt his or her own memories about something, with the end goal of having ...

Christopher Nolan is one of the most famous film directors in the world, up there with the greatest and most famous of them. He is best known for highly successful movies such as Memento , The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception , Interstellar and Oppenheimer . While his writing/directing style might not be exactly as recognizable and unique as eg. that of Quentin Tarantino, it's still quite much so, and he is famous for it (a style that he most clearly demonstrates in Inception and Interstellar .) In the context of this post and his most recent upcoming movie, his previous movie,  Oppenheimer , is quite notable: It's a historic docudrama that depicts the eponymous historic person and the development of the atomic bomb as historically accurately as possible, with only very slight deviations from actual historic events for the sake of drama. The movie prides itself for its historic accuracy, and isn't pushing any political agendas or sugar-coating anything. It is, thus, incomp...

There are not enough words in the English language to describe how absolutely despicable and abhorrent of a grifter Anita Sarkeesian is. Over ten years ago she knew nothing about video games and, in her own words, actually hated video games, but only nominally entered the gaming sphere for one purpose, and one purpose only: To invade the entirety of the video game development industry and to change it to become a propaganda piece for her far-leftist "feminist" "progressive" agenda. And she is still at it, to this day, as has been seen numerous times. For some unfathomable reason she is being used as a consultant by many video game developers, she is giving private lectures to said developers (some of these videos have been leaked online) and she is engaging in all kinds of activism. If you are a gamer, she despises you. If you oppose or criticize what she's trying to do, you are an "asshole" according to her (yes, her own literal words.) According to h...

I have written about the American "sovereign citizens" several times (although they don't call themselves that anymore because of the bad reputation and the FBI having declared them domestic terrorists, but their beliefs and conspiracy theory remain exactly the same to this day), and how the conspiracy theory that they believe in is absolutely enormous and explaining it full detail would require an entire thick book or a 4-hour-long documentary video. However, here's a summary of one part of this conspiracy theory that's relevant to the question in the title of this post: The American "sovereign citizen" conspiracy theory asserts and believes that the United States government is, secretly behind the scenes, behind the public facade, a private corporation, which operates like a private corporation, and which considers citizens to be "abstract corporate entities", each with their own super-secret bank account worth billions of dollars (in which b...

As I wrote in a previous blog post , the recently published video game "Mixtape" has been raising some eyebrows because something like a whopping twenty professional video game journals have been giving it review scores of 10's and 9's out of 10, many of them (such as IGN) calling it a "masterpiece" and a "game of the year candidate". This has raised many eyebrows for several reasons: Almost no video game in existence has received this many perfect and almost-perfect scores from 20+ professional reviewers. The game was made by some extremely obscure "indie" game studio with no fame at all, prior to this. The game is complete crap. It's a 3-hours-long game that's nothing but cutscenes occasionally being interrupted by a walking simulator with occasional minigames that have no failure conditions of any kind. In other words, you can't fail and there is literally zero challenge to the game. On top of that, the cell-shaded graphics...

There are many far-leftist activists, mostly women, who constantly express the idea that society would be better if there were no men at all, and they dream of some place, like a city or an entire state, where men are not allowed and thus there would only be women. One of the main problems they have is that not only are they deluded by their politics, but they are completely uneducated, they have done zero research on anything, and they just don't think. They just don't understand how society works. And by that I mean: They don't understand how society keeps running. What makes it work rather than completely collapse. They never stop to think what exactly keeps electricity coming from wall sockets, what keeps water coming from faucets, what keeps sewers working, where food comes from, how is that food produced and how it gets to stores, how other items are produced and how they got to stores, how roads, bridges, buildings and other infrastructure are maintained so that they...

"Mixtape" is a recently published game that about twenty professional game journals have given a 10 or a 9 out of 10, many declaring it a "masterpiece" and a strong "game of the year candidate". So clearly it rivals previous industry-changing masterpieces like Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild and other similar epic scale games? Nope. This is shell-shaded game with extremely choppy animation (that's supposedly "artsy") and pretty much no gameplay at all (raising the question of whether it can be called a "game" at all), where there are only three things you can do: Walk around, click on things to get some textboxes, and occasionally play some minigames that cannot fail, ie. they have no losing conditions at all. And that's in between lengthy non-interactive cutscenes. And the length of the game? About 3 hours.  And that's not just hearsay, or badmouthing, or something that critics of the game are saying. That's literally wh...