Live here soon for a special Halloween episode of Wizard and Sibyl where we'll be discussing the psychology of fear and why people actually enjoy being scared, plus much more! Come hang out, frens~ youtube.com/live/k0XlW784qGc…

I recently had a chat with Nathan Hood about the Kingsflame Festival - a celebration of English heritage being held on the grounds of a real medieval castle next summer! So excited to tell you more about it here, frens!: youtube.com/watch?v=IZIcGyrn…

Live here in a few minutes to talk about Bioware shutting down and how it's totally not because the games are bad, Vivek's October Izaat Surprise, the burning of France's beautiful oak doors, and more. Come hang out, frens!~ youtube.com/live/lamAg5DfEA8…

New video premiering in just a few minutes on how woke Hollywood failed commercially while silently smuggling ideas and propositions into broader culture. Did "woke" win while appearing to lose? youtu.be/XwS0kqBfa_0?si=gjjP…

Doing Broken Crown today as we missed Wednesday and afterwards I'll be premiering my new video on how Woke Hollywood succeeded culturally while failing commercially. Come hang out, frens! youtube.com/live/dhFHBe6krY0…

We'll be doing Broken Crown either tomorrow or the next day. Bill's unwell and I have a new video I'm just putting the final details on. Apologies for the delay, frens, will see ya soon~

New Substack article on Malfoid, Tsunderes, and the Sensitive Psychology of Yearning. What is it about this character that makes people yearn and what is the real-world psychology behind attraction to hard-to-get others? aydinpaladin.substack.com/p/…

Live here in a few minutes for this week's science stream where I will be presenting my preliminary analysis of the Malfoid phenomenon and the science behind the appeal of tsunderes. Plus much more! Come hang out, frens~ youtube.com/live/xvNiOoW9T2k…

For this week's Broken Crown, we are first joined by the Chairman of the Pendragon Foundation, Nathan Hood to discuss the upcoming Kingsflame Festival. Then, we'll talk luxury boomer socialism. Come hang out, frens~ youtube.com/live/iyWNJD4m4z4…

Our TTRPG is always a bit silly~ youtube.com/shorts/2M8eyaSxd…

Why is it that crowds sometimes outperform experts? New video on the "Wisdom of Crowds" premiering in a few minutes! Check it out, frens! youtu.be/pxTw8Lu4osU

In about 10 minutes we'll be live with this week's science and technology stream. Astronomers keep finding "food" planets, spider's can built catapults, you can still hear when anesthetized, Japan has moved and more! Come hang out~ youtube.com/live/VatjoYcy_cg…

I have been suspended by Discord, again. My account was hacked 3 months ago by people using a token. You can just generate these and bypass 2FA and all security features - it's an incredible security issue on Discord that they've done nothing to mitigate. There is nothing you can do about it, someone can just take over your account. As punishment for their own security issues, Discord slapped me with 3 strikes lasting for 2 years. I messaged them 4 days ago to ask about removing these strikes and in response they slapped me with another that prevents me from using Discord again for another week. I pay for Discord Nitro, well, paid, as I will no longer be a paying customer for a company that clearly hates its own users and punishes them for 1) their own security issues and 2) asking for a resolution on those security issues. We usually use Discord for the podcasts, but clearly, they cannot be relied on for anything.

The vast majority of nerds dont care about diversity if the show is good and the characters are likable. Im sure there's some people who wouldn't like that Sam is a captain doctor girl boss today and view it as a sign the show was going to be polotical dreck. I know that because some people thought that and didn't initially like Sam...when the show first aired in 1997. To this day, I typically skip S1E4 "Emancipation" because it's not a very good episode and it has a forced political narrative. They didn't do more episodes like Emancipation after S1. In the 1990s, showrunners actually cared about audience reactions and audiences didn't like "just because my sex organs are on the inside instead of the outside doesn't mean I can't handle whatever you can handle" from jump. To this day and from the day it aired, Sams introduction is an off-putting one, and Emancipation 3 episodes later doesn't help. But the showrunners actually gave a damn, stopped telling us Sam was a girl boss, and let her just be a real character. I love Sam, and I seriously considered joining USAF ROTC in college because of her. That's what a good scifi show like SG1 and Star Trek used to be : aspirational. Now its all a race to the bottom.

New Substack article on the Wisdom (Or Madness) of Crowds. The idea that the collective is smarter than the smartest individual within it is a popular but incorrect one. The evidence from 100 years of research, inspired by a dead ox, is far more complex ⬇️

You know what's more harmful than speculation? Letting a young man bleed to death as you offer no aid because you're afraid of being called racist.

New vid discusses the historical scientific data explaining the "MAGA civil war" and predicts the likely future (if election cycles are consistent) of what will happen in the U.S. midterms and 2028 elections. I hope it is sobering, not blackpilled youtube.com/watch?v=XxurM8TN…

New video on how participation in democracy inherently results in partisanship and creates political parallel realities live here in a few minutes! I discuss both how this manifests in the "MAGA civil war" and historically. Check it out, frens! youtu.be/XxurM8TNYvg