December 2010

Ferdinand Bardamu’s top ten video games of the decade

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.31.2010
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Last week, the neckbearded perma-virgin readership of GameFAQs finished up voting on the best video game of the past ten years. In an unsurprising refutation of democracy, the winner was…The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Really? Admittedly, I’ve never played Majora’s Mask (or any Zelda game, period), and I admit that this decade was the [...]

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Thanks for donating!

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.30.2010

As of 1:30 am EST today, I’ve met my fundraising goal with a total of $523.49. That is more than enough to pay off my increased bandwidth costs for the immediate future as well as other miscellaneous expenses that may arise. Virtually all of the cash came from PayPal donations, though I did work in [...]

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Has Julian Assange turned the tide in the war against feminism?

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.29.2010

Julian Assange may just turn out to be the best thing to happen to the right since Franco. With their comrades breaking ranks to call out Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén for the lying bints that they are, feminists around the world are foaming at the mouth because of the sudden “misogyny” of the international [...]

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Denis Dutton, RIP

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.28.2010

Read more: Denis Dutton, founder and editor of Arts & Letters Daily and a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, has died. Born in California, Mr. Dutton received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He created Arts & Letters Daily in 1998. The Chronicle of Higher Education purchased the widely [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: Christmastime Again Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.26.2010

More from Retrotic (NSFW). Raliv – “Four Coffee Dates in a Row.” Chateau – “The Modern Definition of Anti-Semitism“, “Going All in or Cashing Out“, “Thinking Like a Woman“, “Have a Herbly Christmas!” Omega Man – “Who Wants to be Naked Around Gay Guys?” Gaming My Wife – “Earth Fare” Humphrey van Weyden – “Killing [...]

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Merry Christmas

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.25.2010
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How I cured my case of Roosh Syndrome

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.24.2010

There’s a new disease spreading among American men of intelligence, class and accomplishment, characterized by total disgust of the victim’s surroundings. The victim becomes increasingly repulsed by the pointlessness of his job, the venality of his co-workers, the stupidity of the people he meets on the street, and the boorishness and dullness of the women [...]

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Even evangelical Christians think our drug laws are too harsh

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.23.2010

Pat Robertson comes out against American marijuana laws: The Rev. Dr. Pat Robertson, a longtime central influencer in conservative Christian Republican politics,  came out recently on television to say that the direction many politicians have taken regarding marijuana has turned out to be wrong. Robertson claims that mandatory minimum sentencing for Americans caught with relatively [...]

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Kill your game idols

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.23.2010

I’m busy with back-end work, so I’ve decided to highlight this great comment Rubix/Squared made in response to my night game post. I’d nitpick over the fact that I specifically talked about bars in my post (I’m not a club person, and the Capital District’s club scene is sucky anyway) but it’s a minor point. [...]

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WTF comment of the month

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.22.2010

I am completely floored by this comment. A part of me thinks it’s phony or a trolling job, but a halfway-decent troll wouldn’t bother with such an old post. If this is real, it’s clear that this woman is seriously sick in the head and possibly dangerous. So, as a public service, I present to [...]

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The enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend; or, radical Islam and the MRM

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.22.2010

Chuck Ross’ heart bleeds for the oppressed, burqa-clad women of the Muslim world. In a post last weekend, he detailed his clashes with the tard wing of The Spearhead’s commentariat on feminism and radical Islam: I walked by a couple at the restaurant the other day. The woman was wearing a burqa and had to divert [...]

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Intelligence is for stupid people

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.21.2010

Just before Thanksgiving, I said to Alte that I was planning to respond to her post on intelligence and genetic fitness. It’s just before Christmas, and I’ve finally managed to knock it out. No doubt she is squealing with delight right now. Anyhoo, Alte’s thesis is that intelligence is NOT an absolute good because its [...]

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Night game is dead, long live night game

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.20.2010

The Man Who Was… writes: Interesting experience last night. Went to a bar/club for the first time last night in the smallish city (100, 000 plus people) I’ve been working in this fall. (Not that interested in bars anymore.) Just about every guy in the place was either a ball cap wearing redneck or an [...]

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Support In Mala Fide (and Retrotic)!

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.19.2010

Yes, I’ve joined the panhandling brigade. Yes, it’s for a good reason. I moved from WordPress.com to my own domain over a year ago so that I wouldn’t be subject to the restrictive moderation of free blog services. Up until now, my hosting costs have been relatively low. Unfortunately, I’ve reached the point where cheap [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: Come for the Cheesecake, Stay for the Prime Steak Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.19.2010

More from Retrotic (safe for work for once, though the rest of the blog still isn’t). Chateau – “Womens’ Standards Crumble Easily Given the Right Incentives“, “Predicting a Girl’s Infidelity” Dalrock – “What We Need is More Moxy!“, “Stats on the Reasons for Divorce.“, “Are Men Morally Obligated to Marry?” Vasaphonia – “Life Isn’t Fair” [...]

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Readings from the Gospel of 2 the Ranting Gryphon

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.18.2010
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Enslaved by the centrifugal bumblepuppy

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.17.2010

Eduard Limonov on the fall of the West: “Europeans are so timid they remind me of sick and elderly people,” he begins. “And Europe is like one big old people’s home. There is so much political correctness and conformity there that you can’t open your mouth. It’s worse than prison. That’s why there is no [...]

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Punish the cad AND the whore

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.16.2010

A bunch of people have sent me this article, but Pat Hannagan was the first to blog about it: A German father was so angry his teenage daughter was dating a man 40 years older than her that he castrated the boyfriend with a bread knife, police say. Helmut Seifert, 47, who was originally from [...]

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