Gaming’s Nostalgia Industry

You can never go back. That’s the tired cliche that we’ve been trying to prove wrong since we first pined for earlier days. Soon, it may not be true. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of sitting on the floor in front of an SNES video game console–or in my chair in front of […]

A Sordid Tale of Webspam and Content Farming

There are an increasing number of jobs that are staggeringly valueless: what you’d call bullshit work in less polite circles. Not only the pointless administrative work that begs to be automated. But also the type of work where heroic amounts of mental ingenuity and effort are spent in achieving a result that delivers very little–if […]