I hate this argument. Everything was cheaper back then. I purchased tacos at Taco Bell for the change in my couch ($0.39). The simple truth was that your dollar went further because wages had not stagnated quite as badly, and the enshittification of everything hadn’t really picked up steam so companies weren’t just…

My top three probably are:

Not so much now, thanks to federal and state subsidies. In fact, we spend more and get poorer results. (Source: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/issues-2020-us-public-school-spending-teachers-pay)

The issue is not how much is spent, but how it is spent.  The US as a whole is fairly bad at that because we think the…

Add to this that the local governments actively encourages building McMansions and Luxury Apartments for the tax dollars, and you quickly have a shortage of affordable housing for everyone else leading to longer commutes which burn more fossil fuels as people search for housing.  The average price of a home in 1985…

I enjoyed Voyager when it was on the air, but writing was an issue as the premise was a lone ship in an unknown territory with limited supplies/no help. There is a YouTube video that explains this better but the ship quickly burns through their supply of photon torpedoes and just keeps firing them. Likewise, the magic…

Well, the costs aren’t the same unless you are talking about waiting forever for it to show up in the local cheap theater. I can pay $19.99 to have my entire family watch Trolls: Torture Parents Around the World for 24 hours as many times as I care or I can pay $45-50 for tickets for my entire family to watch it once.…

Well, that was when I followed instructions on how to run Linux on it, and my Mid-2012 MacBook Pro is now an Apple branded Ubuntu 20.04 LTS that will be supported for much longer.  For apple services, I make use of icloud.com and music.apple.com.  Along with a few proprietary applications like Chrome and Steam and it…

I am still waiting for Google to just pay for the AP News and Reuters News wire services and just publish the news sans all those sites. That would just remove the middleman for the majority of news anyways since most local news does little more than parrot the stories from those two sources. Anything more can get…

So if I quote a politician that outright lies, will I get flagged for the untruth shared or allowed to pass because I am factually quoting the lying dirtbag politician?

Disney could have easily looked at our own history to inform them on how to move forward. World War I was “The War to End All Wars”, but that lasted roughly 20 years before the wounds never healed (or inflicted by) the victors in the war brewed into a second more horrific war. Luke, Leia and Han could have had the…

Decisions, decisions...

While I am hesitant to wade into this, I feel compelled to point out some misunderstandings that too often get thrown around. The gospel of Christ is one of grace, love and redemption; but it is also one of self-denial and sacrifice. Everyone walking planet earth currently falls short, hence the need of a redeemer.…

I’ve gamed on a budget for a while now, and here are the various ways I handled it: First stop reading gaming news/reviews for new games (and other systems you do not own), as you cannot be envious of what you don’t know about.

The reason that particular sub-plot bothers me is because it took a character I thought was interesting and cool and turned him into a comedy relief buffoon. Basically they turned him (and Rose) into the C3-PO/A2D2 of the movie, and that wasn’t cool.

But keep thinking all the hate is solely based on race.   Because I…

You may again want to fact check yourself. Twitter made tweets stop at 140 characters because there was a 160 character SMS size limit.

I understand that you are well meaning, but you really should spend more time studying history and less time being social. Part of what made this country unique in history was a simple concept, “All men are created equal”. That wasn’t last generation, or two generations, but the inception of our country. It was a…

You say that about the New Republic, yet our own world history shows that just 20 years after Europe had one of the deadliest conflicts known to man at the time a second World War broke out. All the nations became pacifist and nationalist, which helped create an environment for fascists to arise.

In simple terms the…

You would think there would have been more Square titles since they produced so much on the console. Final Fantasy Tactics, Brave Fencer Musashi, and Vagrant Story are odd ones missing to me; but so are games like Tomb Raider 2 (which was much more polished than the first), Legacy of Kain, Silent Hill, Symphony of the…

Dual Screen was innovative, but it can only go as far as developers are willing to take it. World Ends with You, Affordable Space Adventures, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (yes dual screen started in the Gamecube era), and dozen of other games saw innovative uses of the ability. However, when developers just want…

Most games have three release dates now: Pre-order, pre-release corporate whale hunting day, actual release date (for people that know what they are getting and cannot wait; and those too stupid to wait), and when it falls in a bargain bin for $30 or less (when most sane people purchase it).  About the only company…