Home ownership is a scam.
Home ownership is a scam.
Archive - September 8th, 2014
“”One has to wonder if this is down to game fans being systems thinkers, who see the world as an…”
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“One has to wonder if this is down to game fans being systems thinkers, who see the world as an ecosystem of curiosities to discover and solve. Everyone wants to feel they’re part of something bigger, after all, that they might be a hero of an underground society that no one else knows about. And Twitter exposes us all to the vocabulary of extremes, an intense world where even minorities can feel very loud (a good thing for Ferguson, not so for video games).
As video games unshackle from old constraints, traditional fans double down on keeping the treehouse sacrosanct. The tension between “games as product” and “games as culture” is visible within these online controversies as everyone invested in the industry watches to see which will “win”. “
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– Sexism, Lies and Video Games: The Culture War Nobody Is Winning.
overthinkingvideogames: In light of the recent controversy in gaming, I’m taking a few days off to…
In light of the recent controversy in gaming, I’m taking a few days off to recharge, because this has meant that I’ve been doing a lot of reading about mostly unpleasant things.
Instead, please read Kris Ligman’s roundup of the flurry of articles about this topic, as Ligman is doing a great job.
Millennials aren’t using credit cards, and it might come back to haunt them
Millennials aren’t using credit cards, and it might come back to haunt them:
A new study finds Millennials are ditching plastic. That might hurt them in the future.
Being responsible with your debt isn’t going to help you get a good credit history. Welcome to a system designed to force you into significant levels of potential debt in order to go into further debt. All this to abdicate responsibility of your personal information to faceless sketchy credit and credit rating companies for a house or a car that is more likely to lose value than gain it by the end of your life time.
Our parents bought into a system in which credit card use and taking on high debt loads were qualifiers for loans and positive background checks. Now when Millennials opt-out of a system designed to provide approval for what is essentially wage-slavery they find they are unqualified to gain credit because they’ve been more fiscally responsible then the last two generations.
Millennials: screwed either way.
