I really like the band 'Skillet,' to the point where I've had to impose a rule against using any more of their songs in my 'Appreciation' videos. The other day I found this song, which pretty much perfectly expresses my attitude towards the modern world in general and progressivism in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWofQTAhUKA Particularly love the … Continue reading The Traditionalist Anthem
Author: DBreitenbeck
How to Write Stupid Characters
Writing my Flat and Complex Characters post, describing the flaws in how Launchpad is written, it struck me that a major problem with him and similar characters (again, Soos from Gravity Falls) is that their stupidity is done in a very lazy way: they simply say or do whatever is most inappropriate or most idiotic, … Continue reading How to Write Stupid Characters
Why Did We Think This Was a Good Idea Again?
In the modern world, the well-being of the community is entrusted to the opinion of the crowd and the well-being of the individual to the pull of his appetite. In other words, we put our trust completely in the most fickle things in God’s creation.
Lazy Writing and Lack of Consequence
Something I’ve noticed about a lot of contemporary films is that they seem to have an almost childish inability to consider real-world consequences. I’m not talking about complex things that the average person wouldn’t think of; I’m talking major factors about how people behave or how the world works. Let me illustrate with two particularly … Continue reading Lazy Writing and Lack of Consequence
Seems There’s Something Off…
Critic: "This is a bad film: I want a movie with actually intelligent, competent, and admirable Black characters." Comment: "That's racist!"
Let’s Be Clear on This:
So, I caught sight of a thread on Facebook making a particular point. It was delicate subject, and I don't know the people involved, so I didn't want to intervene, but let's all be very clear on something: You cannot personally witness that a statistic is either true or false. That is because when speaking … Continue reading Let’s Be Clear on This:
The Difference Between Flat and Complex Characters
Now that the Ducktales revival is about half-a-season old, I can say that, while it is good, it’s not quite as good as I had hoped it would be. Part of the problem is that they go for the joke far too often, preventing the characters from developing much weight and consequently from engaging us … Continue reading The Difference Between Flat and Complex Characters
New Appreciation Video Up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoiMd6pQ1qQ Yeah, it's for perhaps the lamest kaiju character in the whole series, but it had to be done.
A Startling Conclusion
The real question raised by the tarantula hawk’s practice of paralyzing and laying its eggs into a tarantula before burying it is this; how does it know what a tarantula is, if it was born in the dark, underground, inside the thing? How does it know to go after the tarantula, sting it, bury it, … Continue reading A Startling Conclusion
Infinity War at the Federalist
A new Federalist article is up, this one based off of Avengers Infinity War and talking about some of the same things I've been writing about recently. Sample: In other words, Thanos is a classic student of Thomas Malthus: a believer in the threat of overpopulation, only on a universal scale and with a blend of Marxist … Continue reading Infinity War at the Federalist
Serpent's Den 