You may remember Aaron Clarey — also known as “Captain Capitalism” — as one of the random manospherians interviewed for the cinematic abomination known as The Sarkeesian Effect. I don’t quite remember if he made it into the final cut of the official, er, “film.” He definitely did appear in Davis Aurini’s bootleg version, pontificating about the alleged lack of ethics in American journalism while, for some unknown reason, wearing a cravat.
Turns out that Mr. Clarey’s definition of “ethics” is a rather unique one.
On Monday, Clarey encouraged his blog readers to take advantage of a unique opportunity to earn some sweet, sweet cash — helping students cheat their way through college by writing their essays and term papers for them.
Clarey posted a pitch from his apparent pal Aleksey Bashtavenko, the head of something called Academic Composition, who started off by thanking Clarey for sending so many aspiring , er, ghostwriters his way in the past.
I’d like to personally thank Aaron and all of you who follow his blog Captain Capitalism, you guys have been the main driving force behind the recent growth of our enterprise.
After a slow summer, “Alex” reported,
we’re definitely getting much busier and this may well be our most lucrative semester yet.
Quite a few people have inquired about job opportunities with us and we weren’t able to receive help from all of you. Yet, we could definitely use all of the support we can get. Within a month, we will be entering the busiest juncture of the academic year and it will last all the way through the end of 2016.
As you can see, he’s all about the high-quality prose.
Alex, who claims his “full-time writers earn over $3,000 per month,” also has some job openings in the Craigslist spamming “subcontracting” department as well.
We’re also looking to expand our ranks of Craigslist subcontractors. Many of you have been posting for us regularly and invariably, this helped us get to where we are today. We pay $5 for each lead our subcontractors generate and another $1 for each day your ads have been live.
Presumably Clarey is getting paid for posting this. Is there anyone in the manosphere who isn’t some kind of grifter?
Back to the article at hand, Clarey has posted a diatribe on his blog detailing what he thinks the education system in the US should look like. Let’s just say, it “jumps the shark” somewhat in impractical right wing crazy!
Ixnay on the azycray please!
@Milquetoast
Money is a store of value, it is not value in itself. Do read a book
@Violet
Since day 1. For both
@wwth
Did you forget where I pointed out that plenty of those people are in my fucking family? I think I know what’s going on in my own fucking family. Especially when the people in my fucking family are bragging about their ability to cheat the system. I know how much money my uncle made, he never shut the hell up about it and was always taking my fucking family on cruises and shit, just so he could wave it in our faces. You’re a real piece of shit, commie ape, I almost feel sorry about the amount of work your mother must have put into pushing you out after stuffing her face at the Golden Corral.
Gotta love how leftists think anecdotes don’t count, unless they involve rape or something.
My god, Mig has become tedious as hell.
Golden Corral partners with the Disabled American Veterans to raise money for (wait for it) disabled American veterans, and also for a summer camp run for the children of active-duty military who can’t see their parent(s). Tell me more about how Golden Corral is shorthand for something contemptible.
So what important engineering thing did you work on today, Miggy? What product or project is the subject of your STEM at the moment?
[blockquote]@Everyone else: Anyone for banning MarkyMark or are we still having too much fun with him? How about All That Migging and Towing?[/blockquote]
I say ban Migging right now,he;s just being abusive and hostile now. Marky I’m not sure about, he is still at the stage where he thinks he’s having intellectual debate with us but its wearing thin at this point.
@Axe
No fucking shit, Sherlock; I was distinguishing between commodity money and fiat, and using that as an explanation for why the orthodox labor theory of value cannot continue to be relevant in a world in which the latter is more prevalent.
@Tara
D’oh, you’re right! I can’t believe I forgot dirty moochers like me don’t deserve jobs until we pull ourselves up by our bootstraps!
ETA: Also gonna join the call to ban Mig. He’s not fun anymore.
@All That Migging and Towing
Your family isn’t a large enough pool to gauge what over 300 million Americans should and shouldn’t do. You might as well base your politics on reality TV, it’s just as intelligent and logical.
In my opinion, FFVII is easily the most overrated game on the planet.
Like it was good, but it wasn’t that good. And it aged like milk with that weird balloon-and-stick modeling. No wonder it needed a face-lift.
Though, I will say that I’m not happy about the way Squeenix is going about it. I don’t like the fact that they’re trying to pull the “chaptered release” bullshit, and I don’t like the fact that they’re going for more real-time action for the fighting.
First of all: Squeenix is a huge fucking company, with lots of successful games under their belts. To say that they don’t have the money to re-master and re-release one of their most popular games of all time is bullshit. They’re a huge company. They can afford a singular release of this game. If they can afford to release FFXIII in one go, they can fucking release FFVII in one go.
Would it take more time? Absolutely. Would fans be willing to wait? Yeah. I would rather they took their time and released a full game instead of trying to market pieces of a game.
Just because TellTale did it, it doesn’t mean that everyone can do it now. I love their games, but fuck me if I don’t hate this stupid trend of “chaptered games” that they’ve unleashed upon the world. It works for the type of games they do, and that’s it.
Second of all: Why would you fucking “fix” what isn’t broken? Because gamers don’t want turn-based combat anymore? Bullshit. The main people who are going to be buying this game are people who are already fans of the game. Why would you change the battle system if that’s the case?
On top of that, that’s going to fundamentally change the experience for those people who are going to be experiencing the game for the first time, and that’s not okay IMO. If you’re going to re-master a game, don’t change one of the biggest mechanics of the game.
Well, a broken clock is right twice a day, I suppose.
However, I would make a slight correction: Xenogears was actually pitched to be FFVII originally. SquareSoft said it was “too dark”, and went with what would be FFVII, but still made Xenogears. So, we’re lucky we got it at all, really.
Do I wish they put more money into it? Maybe. I feel like the game was amazing as-is, and I’m glad that it even got its spiritual sequels in Xenosaga, even if it didn’t get an actual sequel.
It’s aged far better than FFVII though in my opinion, mostly due to the way the graphics were done. The sprite animations were much better than FFVII’s odd 3D graphics, as well as their cutscenes, which had voiceacting and some pretty good animated quality for the 90’s.
It’s honestly so underrated, and I’m searching high and low for a new copy I can get in meatspace. Internet’s a bit of a last resort for it, but it’s looking like that’s the way to go.
I had one as a kid, but it belonged to my abuser, so it got ousted with the rest of his stuff when he went to prison. He had a lot of cool games that I wish I still had access to, so I’m building my own collection instead.
Hello, pagan here!
Yeah, there’s usually a LOT of authors to avoid when it comes to Paganism. We have the same problem a lot of other religions have of That One Person Who Thinks They Know Best especially.
I personally don’t have a list of good pagan authors on hand, but one tumblr I follow has a list of authors to avoid. Though, this is a bit more witchcraft-flavored. I can’t help you with straight pagan stuff, unfortunately. That goes by a faith-by-faith basis, and I’m not familiar with enough pagan faiths to actually be any use on that end. : (
I am working on learning some things though! I usually keep that on my own witchcraft blog, windowboxwitchery.
As someone who was in the same boat for two years (until just today, actually), and as someone who had to move from the west coast of the United States to the east coast to find work (among other things), and the only way I was able to get noticed at the place I’m going to be working at was because my roommate works at the place an could bug the manager on my behalf, I’m seconding all of this.
Any asshole who thinks that you’re “lazy” if you don’t have a job is full of shit. Especially if you’re disabled and you can’t work.
The idea that you have to “contribute” to society in ways that neurotypical, able-bodied people deem important* in order to be considered “valuable” needs to die a painful death.
*i.e. Working at a job, and working at that job in ways that are going to destroy your health in the long run especially.
Remember that intern at Bank of America who died from a fucking seizure because he worked 72 hours straight, so Goldman Sachs restricted their interns to work only 17 hours a day at the most?
@Handsome “Punkle Stan” Jack
Aren’t you remotely embarrassed by the possibility that I might see your relatives on there?
@All That Migging and Towing
On what? Oh, reality TV? Nah, I mean, I’ve got plenty of cousins who’ve been in and out of prison for all sorts of drug and prostitution things, plus a lot of my family members are bastards, born out of wedlock, including myself. I’ve got over two dozen cousins with all sorts of issues and shit going on. A lot are Republican. We would be what you’d call white trash, I guess, although some of us aren’t completely white.
So, like, no, I wouldn’t be any more embarrassed than usual. Be cool to get money off of it, though, but I wouldn’t watch it. I get enough as it is.
@Jack
Reality TV – no, the back of a milk carton, obviously.
@Jackie: I think he’s trying to insult you by making an allusion to the fact your family might be, you know, on reality tv.
The nerve of him!
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In all seriousness though, Miggytoes, the “I know you are, but what am I?!” shtick is getting old.
It got old in elementary school. But props for trying so very hard to insult Jackie. It’s cute you think that your words are just so cutting.
Personally, I’m all for banning trolls early and often. I get that tangling with them is part of the culture here, but they’re never as interesting as the conversations that develop naturally – plus, why should some arsehole get to set the topic of conversation for pages on end just ’cause they showed up and mouthed off in bad faith?
@Mr Mxyzptlk
And yet, he proceeds to be still wrong…
@PI
There’s nothing wrong with sticking with the fundamentals; at least I’m not so inane as to think that stupid gifs and worn cliches about “what grade are you in?” suffice as wit.
@All That Migging and Towing
Some people don’t really deserve wit to be used on them.
Glad you were able to find employment, PI! Also, I’m thirding this and, as an Aspie (if this is a problematic word, I apologize and will find another word) with ADHD and serious anxiety, seconding this:
@David: Please ban All That Migging And Towing…he is being abusive.
I never said it was “wit”, ducky. That was a grand assumption on your part.
I’ve had a good, long day of running around, I also have a big day planned for tomorrow, and you’re quite frankly not worth that much of my depleted energy reserves. You’re boring.
So you get “stupid gifs and worn cliches”. Yay you.
@Handsome Jack
Speaking from experience?
No, I have to disagree: it was that good. I replayed it just last year, and there is so much genuine emotion there that it overcomes the weaksauce graphics. They managed to do so much with a very limited medium. I love the world, and I love (most of) the characters, and the story is a brilliant deconstruction of a tired trope. I wouldn’t say it is the best game that ever was, but it’s better than most, and better than most modern games with their modern graphics.
I have to believe that the remake will be a single game at some point and all I need to do is be patient until that occurs. In the meantime I will have to console myself with DMC3 and DMC4.
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@All That Migging and Towing
Yeah. I’ve dealt with plenty of trolls and people in which the wit just flew over their heads, so I’m pretty versed in it. Of course, I’ve also missed witty remarks here and there, not above saying I haven’t, but then again I don’t think I’m the smartest jackass in the room either.
RE: Final Fantasy
Legend of the Dragoon was better than any Final Fantasy games. There, I said it. Legend of Dragoon is awesome, fuck FF.
@PoM: I actually agree that the story and characters were really good.
However, I don’t think it’s good enough to warrant the praise and adoration that the fanbase gives it, if that makes sense. I feel like a lot of fanpeeps of the game praise it like it’s the holy grail, when it’s really not.
And that kind of hype can really kill a game for me.
But, again, my post was my sole opinion.
DMC3 and DMC4 are pretty good. I’ve been meaning to invest in the special edition of DMC4 so I can play as
the husbandVirgil.If I may ask though, while we’re on the subject: What do you think of DmC?
EDIT: I gotta agree with you Jackie. To a point. I daresay that FFIV and FFVIII are at least as good as Legend of Dragoon. : /
It’s a bit unfair to engage in a battle of wits with someone who’s unarmed.