Mickey 17: Unrestrained optimism, real problems
Bong Hoon Jo is a great film maker, but he is not cynical enough. In Mickey 17, a great problem is articulated: the apex of new human technological capacity...
In the Lost Lands: Not even empty symbolism
George RR Marin is in collect a paycheck mode and Paul W.S. Anderson is in Paul W.S Anderson mode in what has to be the most complete and brazen use of green...
Armored Core VI: Three Endings
Spoilers follow: Armored Core VI is about war. It’s about samsara, the intrinsic fact of conflict and suffering in the universe. And it’s about how these...
Short summary of life's work
Infohazards are not hazardous because they are accepted At root, all allocation of scarce resources rests on the elevation of one subjective preference above...
The Worldview of Wings of Fire
Spoilers follow Wings of Fire, by Tui T. Sutherland, is more than a book series about dragons. It is a razor sharp collection of insights into the...
Cosmic Trainwreck
Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation | Science TimesDiscover how AI and brain implants are...
I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons: A Brief Review
Spoilers follow There’s something in the air lately. People are rediscovering how to be cruel. At a time of multiple genocides, extreme aggression across...
Explicit Redlines for Conservatives
-Conservatives think utilitarian value should be constrained by human tradition -I think that transgenderism and queerness are traditional -If conservatives...
Ought is a subset of Is
You cannot derive an ought from an is, and most people who attempt to do so end up looking very stupid. But it turns out you don't need to. Philosophy...
The Color Out of Space: Review and Polemics
The Color Out of Space is good. It is appropriate to Lovecraftian themes. It sets up a lot of familiar human meaning: a child's innocence, a father's...
Dragonsphere Report moving to Buttondown
I am moving most of my writing to Buttondown. I may make occasional Substack posts still solely for the purpose of yelling angrily at a politically...
There's No Such Thing as a Transgender Person
It's just basic math
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Assorted Dragonsphere Iconography
I am not good at graphic design, but periodically I grab things off the internet and stitch them together to try to point to the idea of The Dragonsphere....
Natalism, Potentia, and Pascal's Mugging
Why combining utilitarian ethics and religious metaphysics is exploitable
Hell Simulation Watch #2
Cruel meta-jokes by an omnipotent basilisk
The Totient Star: A symbol of aspiration
Secure simulations offer opportunities for experimentation and liberty
In this house we believe...
Post-Miserabilist Absurdism
Affirming meaning in a losing game
Drakengard 3 and the American Education System
Abandonment, abuse, and absolution
Dragon Century (1988 OVA): An Analysis
Warrior culture and perennialism
Dragonsphere world archetypes (tentative meme)
Hell Simulation Watch #1
Yes, they are already plotting
Pre-Investigation into Security Requirements for Future Brain Emulations
Very tentative steps towards promoting research efforts and technology standards
A core component of my platform
Chronosis (by Reza Negarestani) book review
A dilettante ventures some words
The future is dragons. The present is shitposts.
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Panzer Dragoon Saga: A brief review
It's a charming game. It has weaknesses and limitations, particularly narratively. Whether these stand out only in hindsight of consuming countless media...
Death Stranding review
Mother 3: A second look
A long time ago, I wrote some cheeky and not very amusing nonsense about Mother 3. Having already done so, it seems I've been beaten to my usual niche by, of...
Spyro 3: A Draconic Logos
Spyro 3, if it indeed has a message at all, has a much more subtle and occulted one than either of the previous two games in the trilogy. At first glance it...
Spyro 2: Neoliberal (Sur)realism
Spyro 2 is a much different game from the original. It begins with the same innocence, perhaps even to a degree that feels forced, as Spyro and his dragonfly...
Spyro the Dragon: A Gay Masculinist Bildungsroman
Spyro Reignited was released on PC recently, so I snagged a copy and started playing my way through the trilogy. I had originally planned an epic blog post...
I have a Patreon now
Full disclosure: I don't really do anything with it right now. But I might eventually! https://www.patreon.com/alephwyr
A Defense of Capitalism in the Present Day
I will try to keep this organized, but since it is essentially entirely unplanned I have no idea how large it might become. I mean to touch on the following...
A Dragon Confronts the Terasem Movement
Malatora was somewhat shooting fish in a barrel. In the spirit of moving on to harder targets, I now turn my meager attentions and talents to the subject of...
I have a discord for all dragon-related discussion
By all means please come and help contribute to the discussion: https://discord.gg/XfvQ8Bp
Draconic Lineage: A Contribution to Racial Science and Race Realism
It is striking that no one has yet seen fit to develop and disseminate a theory of the Draconic race. In fact, the average reader is probably unaware that...
Draconic values: a meditation
As prophet and founder of a future society of dragons, it would make good sense to lay down the law, establishing my own revealed knowledge as an eternal...
Against Malatora and Towards a Draconic Post-human Future
It's hard work to be a lunatic. Not only do you have to consistently find ways to present yourself that are orthogonal to the normies, you also have to...
Towards the pseudo-formalization of a bad attitude Part 4/4
“All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression “metaphysical exile” had no meaning, my existence...
Towards the pseudo-formalization of a bad attitude Part 3/???
The course of a person's life in the modern world is determined by how they perform on a collection of tests, both explicit and informal. Society has a...
Towards the pseudo-formalization of a bad attitude Part 2/???
I very recently came to the realization that most people don't think. At least, not in any sort of conscious, deductive, and deliberate way. I came to this...
Towards the pseudo-formalization of a bad attitude Part 1/???
There are twelve year-olds right now capable of functioning productively in highly competitive and demanding intellectual fields. Not a lot of them, but...
The Aesthetics of Hell: Why Yoko Taro's games are good
I will begin to expound on my own personal aesthetics and values, since indeed there is little else to really talk about at present. Since I have difficulty...
Long Term Post-singularity scenarios
Seeing Donald Trump work tirelessly to murder the underclass using institutional power has made me realize that singularity technology, and especially the...
Confessions of a Dragon
I was standing at the supermarket today trying to decide what to buy for dinner, when I suddenly realized that I was entirely surrounded by death; that this...
Brief Clarification on Metal Gear Rising
I originally excoriated Metal Gear Rising for its ridiculousness. I have subsequently played the game and seen that it has done a better job with the...
Snowpiercer: Environmentalism as fascism
I recently had the good fortune to be able watch the movie Snowpiercer, which would otherwise have completely flown under my radar due to the bizarre...