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Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 12 : The Scummy Stalling of the Filibuster is a lot like Winning by Doing Nothing in Mario Party

I presume you’ve heard of the filibuster? A lot of the details are pretty complicated, but to put it simply, it’s a weird stalling tactic in the American legislature involving reading stuff that’s barely relevant. At some point in time, they nerfed the whole thing, and now it’s a lot less infamous and egregious thanContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 12 : The Scummy Stalling of the Filibuster is a lot like Winning by Doing Nothing in Mario Party”

Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 10 : Controversial Scientists have the Humble Audacity of Tier Lists (a maddeningly hopeful climax)

I took a class called “Scientific Issues” back when I was in college. It was a philosophy course, I guess. It was pretty engaging. There was some weird logic stuff about “ravenswans”. Debates about “direct observations” with microscopes or glasses. And some general talk about people getting bad vibes from heliocentrism. Perhaps if we hadContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 10 : Controversial Scientists have the Humble Audacity of Tier Lists (a maddeningly hopeful climax)”

Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 2 : Corporate Madmen Grab the Useless Eleventh Coin in Mario Kart (Proposal to Humanity)

Do you know about my favorite tactical aspect of the Mario Kart series? One of things that sucked me back in after 10 years or so? It’s the coins. You can grab coins on the road, lose coins when being hit, and take coins from other people. The more coins you get, the faster yourContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 2 : Corporate Madmen Grab the Useless Eleventh Coin in Mario Kart (Proposal to Humanity)”

Inner Beauty Parry 12/11/21 – That Time I Messed Around with Super Mario Himself

I used to go to the Nintendo World Store a lot of the time. Did you know Mario’s voice actor does this motion capture thing where he talks to people looking at the screen? Apparently he’s been doing it since even before Mario 64. He does a few silly impersonations, lets kids and adults askContinue reading “Inner Beauty Parry 12/11/21 – That Time I Messed Around with Super Mario Himself”

Dragon-Headed Research;Notes 10/21/21 – How True Badasses Pick Things Up Off The Ground!

I can’t remember how long ago it was, but at one point in my life I decided that whenever I was going to pick up an object off the ground that I had dropped, I was going to look around me to make sure nobody was right next to me. I honestly don’t think anybodyContinue reading “Dragon-Headed Research;Notes 10/21/21 – How True Badasses Pick Things Up Off The Ground!”