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hourly11970-01-01T00:00+00:00An Open Letter to Tana MongeauOn June 22, 2018, the world got to bear witness to the colossal failure that was Tanacon. Tanacon was the brainchild of YouTube creator Tana Mongeau, in response to her feeling shunned by the Youtube Creator Convention VidCon. And so, with hurt feelings in hand, she decided to run a competing event. On the same weekend. In the same town. Across the street....
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Fixing American ElectionsThe Republican National Convention is this week. It's a full week of nonsense that's meant to make the Republican Party feel good about themselves, despite having chosen a walking spray tan for their Presidential nominee. Except, the GOP didn't choose him, did they? And the Democratic Party didn't choose a woman who should by all rights be arrested in the near future. No, that's the public's fault. Because for some reason, the US has decided that choosing who will run their country should follow roughly the same process that is used to elect a Prom King. Well, I'm from a country that uses a more sane election process, and I'm going to tell you how to fix the Presidential election cycle, because I'm a smartass....
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The SolutionOver the last almost 9 years, I have used this website as a platform for voicing my frustration with some of the things that go on in our society. Those topics have ranged from people running red lights to the detriment of pedestrians, to calling out hypocrites on their hypocrisy, to calling out psychics for defrauding the public, to addressing a list of attacks on Justin Bieber as a way to encourage people to do research and not take things they read on the internet at face value. To date, there have been 99 articles written by me for this website. I feel like 100 is a good place to stop....
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Don't Exploit People - A Steam Modding StoryAnother day, another example of a corporate giant trying to exploit the little guy. This time, though, the little guy won! Valve and Bethesda tried to make money on the backs of modders, and public outcry made them stop. This is truly a victory for public decency, and all that jazz. But did we actually say what we needed them to understand? Did we do an adequate job of communicating to Valve and Bethesda exactly why we thought it was a problem? Did we?...
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Put Up, Not Shut UpWe live in a world where most people in 1st World countries have freedom of speech, the right to say what's on your mind as long as you're not one of those idiots who yells "fire" in a crowded theatre. We also live in a world where people think that freedom of speech also means freedom from judgment for the things you say, and that receiving criticism is tantamount to being told to stop talking entirely. There is a difference between "being silenced" and "being held accountable."...
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Your Top 4 New Year's Resolutions for 2015Well, it's that time again. Another year has come and gone, leading into yet another year that will come and go, to be followed by another after that, and so on. Unless you're extremely old right now, in which case I suppose every day is a crapshoot. But hey, every day is a good day, right? Just try missing one. Well, it seems that these days, that's exactly what most people are doing: they're doing the same day over and over again, and missing out on new ones. With that in mind, here are what your resolutions for 2015 SHOULD be....
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CelebGate - The Fappening Is HappeningA few days ago, the internet exploded with the news that numerous celebrity iCloud accounts had been hacked, and hundreds of previously unseen celebrity nude pictures started flooding the tubes of the internet, clogging them with semen. Reddit went wild, coining the term "The Fappening" and opening up a subreddit just for the pictures. Celebrities lost their minds, and for the most part either claimed the pictures were fake, or threatened legal action upon those who would distribute them. And somewhere along the way, every single person in the world missed the point....
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Zoe Quinn is a Terrible Person (but not why you think)Recently the internet exploded with the news that Zoe Quinn, the creator of Depression Quest, had cheated on her boyfriend with five guys in the gaming industry in order to advance her career. I've done everything I can to stay out of this, and to avoid posting about it, but people keep making comments, both in support of Quinn and against her, that are either misinformed, not fully formed, or just plain damaging. The truth is that Zoe Quinn is a terrible human being, but not because of who she may have slept with. She's terrible because she's manipulative, deceitful, and a liar. And I can prove all of that....
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On Dealing With RejectionI know it's been a while since I posted an article on here, and I know you're accustomed to a certain tone in them. This one's going to be different. I'm going to talk about Elliot Rodger (dumb way to spell a name), but I don't have the energy right now to put on the familiar persona; this is going to be a very honest, very open article, because I think this topic deserves it....
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God Hates "God Hates Fags"If you've been paying any kind of attention to the news in the U.S. recently, you know that over the last few years there's been a war on homosexuality and abortion going on in the United States. The Westboro Baptist Church pickets soldier funerals. Individual States are waging internal wars on gay marriage, and all of this is happening because those things are against God's Will. But are they really?...
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