My Life In Fandom: The Mouse Murdered Star Wars

If you still think Mouse Wars can be saved, allow me to demotivate you.

Here's your horror story, folks. Mouse Wars has successfully murdered something you loved, skinned and gutted it, and now goes about pretending to be it while wearing its skin as a grotesque costume.

Ever since Uncle George sold out to the Mouse, we've had some trepidation. Despite its flaws, The Force Awakens wasn't that bad; it was as safe a film as it got, being a remake of the original, but it was on the margins that the real nature of what went down first appeared and that corruptions exploded when The Last Jedi shat up the screen. It's only gotten worse since with all the media bullshit and SJW virtue-signalling.

The prequels were flawed, but earnestly so; the originals remain fantastic (but not perfect). We can just disavow Mouse Wars and be fine, so that's what I do; in the meantime, there's plenty of #StarWarsNotStarWars out there that focuses on something you love about Uncle George's love-letter to the pulps. Loved the grunt-focused episodes in Clone Wars? Galaxy's Edge is there for you. Fleet action and court intrigues? Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Tyrania await. The last best hope to save the galaxy? Yamato, Babylon 5, et. al.

And if you really want it all done better, go to the source: the Lensman books by E.E. "Doc" Smith. Better Jedi than the Jedi. Better superweapons than anything George or the Mouse allowed. Better action, better romance, powered armor (the origin for it and mecha generally), and so much more. Skip the anime and manga adaptations; they're trash.

And then there's my own upcoming #StarKnight series as well as Brian Niemeier's Combat Frame Xseed. Despair not over the loss of Star Wars; what it came from endures, and what came of it already surpasses it. Go forth and enjoy the diaspora born from Uncle George's accidental masterpiece.

The Business: How To Take On Big Social & Win

Gab's down. Vox Day spent last night on a Devstream not only talking about that, but how to make a competitor to Big Social that isn't so easily shot down.

Infogalactic is a very savvy competitor to Wikipedia, and it takes the long-form approach to building its network, gaining traction organically over time and thus avoiding a lot of the pitfalls of others such as Gab. This also shows the practical realities behind certain shibboleths of the West, weaknesses the SJWs and their masters used successfully to infiltrate and convergence institutions, and as such successful alternatives will have to acknowledge reality and revert to historical norms in order to create viable competitors. The reality of Narrative Warfare means that the business of media has to adjust if it wants to succeed.

Narrative Warfare: They Aren't Ready For The Chicago Way

This is where the madness in Western politics is going.

This is the old way. This is the Rule of Men. It's what happens when Civilization is abandoned in the pursuit of power, which is what the Left is doing now (and has been for centuries). The mob has a shot-caller, who points and shrieks at the target that the mob is meant to swarm and destroy. There is no reasoning with such a mob. There is no provision for inducing clarity of thought with well-executed, but restrained, violence; you cannot defeat them as Sun Tzu would have you do. This is not a threat you can intimidate into compliance; this is a Terminator-like threat, and it has to be dealt with accordingly.

You doubt me? Point your eyes to Brazil, where President-Elect Bolisonro took a knife before winning the race, and in South American getting knifed is mild. The living memory alone has death squads, disappearances, coups, and other full-on violence episodes- and that's before you account for the threatening of same from one or another player (including extra-national ones like the CIA).

You still doubt me? Those shootings and bombings--real and fake alike--that happen whenever the opposition is getting some headway are no accident; one doesn't even casually study the post-WW2 history of intelligence agency actions (CIA, MI6, KGB/FSB, or whomever) and not come away with a very different sense of what a coincidence is. Add in media manipulation--Project Mockingbird never ended; it just went underground--and #FakeNews is not just about bullshitting incompetents in newsrooms anymore- it's Narrative Warfare.

But they are not Masters of the Universe, as much as they want to believe they are. They think themselves Secret Kings, but when push comes to shove they show themselves incompetent and flee from responsibility for their actions. It's always someone else's fault, and so the real thing has never been tried, therefore they cannot be wrong. If this keeps up, they'll find out just how wrong they are.

Geek Gab: The BRAVE and the BOLD! With Hans G Schantz!

Yesterday's episode of Geek Gab was a good one with guest Hans G. Schantz, despite the technical issues that delayed the livestream. A solid hour of geekery and an author whose alt-history fiction is worthy of your curiosity.

My Life As A Gamer: One Week To BlizzCon

Next weekend is BlizzCon. Time to talk about what will likely come up at Blizzard's in-house fan convention.

• There will be nothing for Diablo, again.
• We'll get something about the patches to come for WOW.
• Overwatch will get some esport talk.
• Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone will talk about new content.
• Starcraft 2 gets its swan song.
• Nothing new at all gets announced.

Blizzard is a company in maintenance mode. The company's last jolt of dynamism spent itself a while ago when Overwatch decided to be an esport, following Heroes of the Storm's decision to fight with other MOBAs as such and Hearthstone's own turn to do so. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but this is too often a sign that a company's gone into a managed decline while the talent and capital flows out to where the action goes.

There is no escaping that this lineup is not the powerhouse it once was, especially the older games. Starcraft 2 has been on the downstroke for years, following its entire category of game, and Totalbiscuit's death is likely going to be the event (fair or foul) that will prompt a lot of people to check out of it entirely. World of Warcraft's newest expansion has had reactions that are far below expectations, such that several retention gimmicks have already been deployed as well as intentional leaks on the first patch released, and if not for its cash shop probably would be in much worse shape. Diablo 3 has been on a skeleton crew for years now.

The dynamism has left the newer games already. Hearthstone's been feeling unfun since they began restricting card usage via implementing Wild vs. Standard. Heroes is more fun to watch than play, and the same is true for Overwatch. The latter of those games has also shown that the aim of turning IPs into multi-media brands hasn't done well outside of tie-in novels (that few players read, or even know exist)- not even the comics have been that successful, when tried at all, and don't talk about the Warcraft movie if you don't want to talk about misaimed passion. (When you need to rely on the Chinese to save your movie, you dun goofed.)

"No king rules forever." indeed, and I think that this is a turning point for the company. With the turnover at the top, we'll see if Blizzard has the leadership necessary to regain its momentum and once more earn the glory its been coasting upon for the better part of a decade or more. The big properties need to hit big and hit big soon, and the smaller ones need to either go big or go home.

This is the moment at the party where the savvy sense if there's any potential for fun left, and either they dip out to find where the fun's at or they go for one more big moment before they blow it out and call it a night. We'll see by this time next weekend where Blizzard is at.

Narrative Warfare: The Fake Bomber's Been "Found"

Following up from yesterday, it is now painfully obvious that this bombing scheme is a psyop. Below is the first in a thread about the suspect arrested today regarding the fake bombing attempts. Read carefully; this is a sloppy job, and if the Fake News crew wasn't actively covering for it everyone would notice it.

THREAD ON Cesar Sayoc.

1) I don’t even know where to begin on this bullsh!t. Let’s get 1 thing straight before we jump into this obvious false flag. None of the packages contained a single explosive device. Not one!! How can you be a mail bomber if not one was actually a bomb?

— WWG1WGA (@findtruthQ) October 26, 2018

The pattern is stupid in its expression this time. Whomever threw this op together is banking on the media baffling with bullshit to make Trump look bad, and--as many of us expected--they're going after #QAnon (badly) as the target of the smear. They literally are trying to use a career criminal with career-length CIA ties (and so is a likely lifetime asset) to attack the most effective route-around their narrative control in American history, and it's only going to backfire badly due to the Streisand Effect (which is how we know this is not well done; a competent op would make that work for them).

Meanwhile, indie info diggers are already unearthing (as this guy did) all of the things that would make it clear what's going on by putting the pieces together in a place where it's going to be seen or heard- and that's why Big Social's gone so blatantly Big Brother. This is about narrative control, and the liars are now realizing that Truth and Falsehood are not equal in power. That such an op is so fake and gay, such that the petty bullshit around the YouTube Skeptics looks good by comparison, screams "DESPERATION!" and confesses the knowledge that the Fake News crew and their friends are about to lose big- again.

If this is what they're mounting, then they're down to their last resort. The real violence is about to hit, folks. Get ready.

Narrative Warfare: Fake News Pushing Fake Bombings By Fake Americans For Fake Americans

Those bombings? Fake news for fake bombings by fake Americans. Styxhexenhammer summarizes below just how stupid this is and why.

This would prompt the Supreme Dark Lord to comment and he held no punches: False Flag, Fake News. Transparent as Saran Wrap on a window. The push to blame Trump for this by the media is the tell, and it exposes the real intent: to shut the God-Emperor up on the eve of the elections. Not. Gonna. Happen. These bombings are fake and gay, and should be mocked without mercy.

The pedes at /r/The_Donald immediately nailed this entire thing as a shit-tier hoax. Well done, pedes.