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Stellar Blade is under attack.

Sign this petition on Change.org.

I am a marginal gamer, but Critical Drinker mentioned this issue.  Hollywood has been hammered by pushing an agenda.  The movie industry is down something like 40% from the pre-Covid days.  Creative properties that used to be box office gold, like the MCU and Indiana Jones have been trashed and people are losing their jobs.  We don’t need to go through this again for video games.

The gaming industry is huge, and now, studios are being pressured to surrender to DEI.  Gamers are pushing back.  Stellar Blade is a popular game that is getting censored by corporate.  People who bought the game had to download a patch before playing for the first time.  The patch censored the game in ways contrary to how the game was marketed.  Here is one example.

That is a minor change, but we know the wreckers are never satisfied.  If the activists capture the video game industry as they have Hollywood, another popular diversion will be gone.

Even if aren’t a gamer, sign the petition to push back.

Alum Creek State Park 7/10

A friend’s daughter was graduating from Ohio State, so we decided to make it a camping outing. 

The campground at Alum Creek State Park is laid out very well for RV’s.  The pads are level, pretty deep and have enough trees between sites that it feels private.  The sites had electricity only, but the shower house was nearby and nice enough. 

That’s about the best I can say about Alum Creek State Park.  Oh, and it’s 15 minutes from IKEA.  There was a dog park that was big enough and had a beach access dog park for water dogs.

Alum Creek State Park has water-based fun.  There are several boat ramps, so fishing and boating are the big attractions.  It’s a state park, so there are hiking trails.  I didn’t notice any bike trails.

WaPo: Outside agitators are involved in campus disruptions.

WaPo: Many protesters are outsiders

WaPo: Many protesters are outsiders

More than a quarter of protesters arrested Tuesday at Columbia University and 60 percent of those arrested at the City College of New York had no connections to the institutions, according to data from the New York Police Department.

It’s time to take these provocateurs seriously.  When a DA wants to, an avalanche of charges can be dropped on a defendant.  Outside agents should be treated as a serious threat.  They should be kept in jail as long as is legally possible to keep them from fomenting chaos elsewhere.  Intelligence agencies should be investigating their background.  Foreigners can be expelled, and student visas revoked.

The useful idiots from the student body should face university disciplinary hearings along with more modest charges.  Academic freedom doesn’t shield faculty from punishment for criminal activity.  They should be dismissed from the university.

Our government representatives should be monitoring the response by university and local officials.  If these disruptions aren’t seriously addressed, those officials should face consequences.

Indulging bad behavior isn’t doing anyone any favors.

My old classroom at North Royalton was on the second floor.  The windows opened on to the roof of the first floor.  Prior to my employment, a physics student climbed out the window, on to the roof.  The teacher, Miss Jen, tried to coax the student back in.   She begged, promised, compromised and negotiated.  The student screwed around on the roof until the period was almost over, then came in.

There are a few ways to handle a situation like this, but the main dysfunction is that the student thought climbing out the window was an action to consider.

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Those old movies, with a manly star like Humphrey Bogart or Cary Grant, made an impression on me.  The tough guy could be stranded on an island, living on the prairie or on the African Queen, and they always manage to shave.  Invariable, if the fella isn’t shaving, it’s because he is drunk all the time.

In The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart explains it.  “A man alone, he gets to living like a hog.”  Inevitably, a woman throws all the booze away and civilizes him.

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Politico: Far Right wants more babies.

Real Clear Politics: Have more babies.

Based on recent articles, we are supposed to worry about not having enough babies and people who worry about not having enough babies.

Back in the 1980’s, before we were afraid all the time, I supported several environmental groups.  Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund and a few others.  Never Greenpeace, they were already crazy.  World population was an issue of interest, so I supported a group called Negative Population Growth.

They were completely reasonable, but in retrospect, I can see how they could go off-the-rails in a catastrophic way.

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Enforcing order on campus

Philadelphia Inquirer: Storming Campuses

I value free speech and celebrate this commentary from an agent of chaos.

They are destroying the American university in order to keep it “safe.” In a week when decades happened, the lowest moments in what became a nationwide assault on college free speech by militarized police veered from shock to tragicomical irony.

Police should always conduct themselves as professionals and use an amount of force necessary to maintain order.

BLM, Occupy Wall Street and any other mob of thugs intending to disrupt lives and seize property should be arrested, charged and have their day in court. 

It is a relief to see university and government officials doing their jobs without regard for their own political opinions.

NYT: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV

NYT: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV

NYT: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV

This NYT article makes some good points, but without a good conclusion.  Many TV shows are good, but not great.  It is suggested that actors who were in great shows are used to make new, uninspired shows.

In February, Glover and Erskine returned in the action thriller “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” on Amazon Prime Video. It’s … fine? A takeoff on the 2005 film, it updates the story of a married duo of spies by imagining the espionage business as gig work.

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