Metalhead33

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

Happy New Year, everyone! I have wanted to write an article about AI art for a long time - and that's a big word, since I haven't written anything on read.cash for 5 months, as of now. Basically half...

2 likes · 0 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

Cars, Covid and School Shootings

If this is the first time you read an article of mine, I have a surprise for you. Two surprises, in fact. Surprise Number One: I'm not American - I am a Hungarian, from Central Europe, who has never...

3 likes · 1 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

In search of the Old Hungarian vowels

Well, this is unusual. I am writing an article on read.cash about linguistics. Quite the novelty. Still, I wanted to write this article for a long time, and figured - why not put it out here? Anyway,...

3 likes · 0 comments

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

In a year, there are 365.25 days. In a year, there are 52.178 weeks, so roughly 261 weekdays and 104 weekend-days. According to the Hungarian law, the average worker is entitled to at least 20 days...

1 likes · 0 comments

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

What is the abortion debate really about?

Yeah boiii.... Looks like my previous opinion piece raked in quite a bit of money, but it seems that Ukraine is out of the window - or as we say in Hungarian, "lejárt lemez" (oldie, so-last-year)...

2 likes · 1 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

What's in an (Graphics) API?

In the beginning, there was software rendering Ever since the late 1970s and early 1980s, we had both video game consoles and personal computers. One was obviously geared towards entertainment, the...

10 likes · 1 comments · Developers and programmers (c0e2)

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

The War in Ukraine: My thoughts about the future

The war between Ukraine has been officially raging on for two months as of the time of writing this article... though, many agree, that the war actually started in 2014, not 2022. Curious people flock...

17 likes · 3 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

The Rise and Fall of Might & Magic: Part 2 - Ubisoft

In my previous article , I talked about how Might & Magic saw its birth as a passion project by an ambitious nerd named Jon van Caneghem, how the series spawned a spinoff that all but overshadow the...

4 likes · 0 comments

@Metalhead33 · 1 year ago

The Rise and Fall of Might & Magic: Part 1 - NWC & 3DO

The Might & Magic series is one I hold dear. To this day, it continues to hold a special place in my heart, and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Now, some of my readers might...

3 likes · 1 comments

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

The timeline that never was

Well, hello again, read.cash! This might be another first, because I don't think I ever posted alternative history onto read.cash. And by "alternative history" , I don't mean some alternative interpr...

3 likes · 1 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Someone ought to make a tier list

Someone ought to make a tier list Let's say, that hypothetically, you decided to write a video game, and also decided to develop your own in-house game engine for it, rather than use an existing one....

5 likes · 0 comments · Developers and programmers (c0e2)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

The Hungarian Left: How to lose an election

Well-well-well... It happened. We had an election in Hungary, and the results aren't surprising anyone. For anyone who isn't in the know, Hungarian politics ever since 2018, can be best summed up a...

3 likes · 2 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Ukraine: Set up for failure from the start

Long time no see, read.cash! I don't usually write articles here anymore, but when I do, it's usually about subjects I've been doing a lot of thinking about, a lot of internal dialogue with myself wit...

4 likes · 1 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

At Crossroads III - Goodbye, college? Maybe...

Long time, no see Hello, read.cash! It's been a long time, hasn't it? Ho boy, ho boy, lot's of things have happened since I wrote my last article . That time, I was preparing to quit my terrible jo...

1 likes · 0 comments · Diaries (cc77)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

At Crossroads II - A New Beginning?

On the 21th of July, 2021, I wrote an article titled "At Crossroads" . Since this article is a sequel to it, I highly recommend reading the original first. But in case you can't be bothered.... He...

1 likes · 0 comments · Diaries (cc77)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Az unschooling az az iskolának, ami az unworking a munkának

Ez a cikk egy angol-nyelvű cikkem magyar fordítása. Hát lássunk bele! Egy hete gondolkodtam azon, hogy folytassam egy korábbi, angol-nyelvű cikkem gondolatmenetét, miszerint elég erős párhuzamot...

7 likes · 0 comments · Magyar Read.Cash Közösség (5cb7)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Unworking is to work, what unschooling is to the school

Around a week ago, I had an idea about writing a new article to follow up my older article "Sunday Evening Musings: Education and Employment" , and I even mentioned it in my latest article, "Ideolog...

3 likes · 0 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Ideological Journey

I haven't written an article in over a week, and I had several ideas for a new article. I had two, actually. On the 20th of August, Friday, we had a national holiday of Hungary, celebrating the anni...

1 likes · 0 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

A Lusta Manifesztó

Nézőpont kérdése Sokminden nézőpont kérdése. Bár tény, hogy vannak olyan nézőpontok, amelyek igazabbak a többinél, és léteznek objektív tények - pl. hogy a víz két hidrogénatomból és egy oxigénatombó...

2 likes · 0 comments · Magyar Read.Cash Közösség (5cb7)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Modern Secular Cults

Cult vs Religion What is a cult, and what is a religion? What sets the two apart? Not an easy question. Some say that a religion has a clearly established set of dogmas and an established scripture...

4 likes · 3 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Magyar bevezetés az anti-work és poszt-work ideológiába

"Ak nem dolgozik, ne is egyék!" - Tesszalonikaiaknak írt II. levél, Újszövetség "A tétlen kéz az ördög játszótere." - Puritán közmondás Ugye többször is hallottátok ezen közmondásokat? Sokak szeri...

4 likes · 0 comments · Magyar Read.Cash Közösség (5cb7)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Imperium Galactica II: Alliances

Before there was Stellaris, Endless Space, Galactic Civilizations or Sins of a Solar Empire, there was Imperium Galactica , made in Hungary. The game I am about to review in this article is the seco...

3 likes · 0 comments · Developers and programmers (c0e2)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Loathing and Revulsion

"Iszony" . No, I did not let my cat step onto my keyboard and type in random letters. I spelled out a word in my native language, Hungarian. The Hungarian word "iszony" means "disgust" , "loathi...

1 likes · 0 comments

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

I just can't put that topic to rest, can I? As much as several of my readers are probably getting annoyed by me chewing on the same bone and writing about the same topic over and over again, it seems...

3 likes · 0 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

At Crossroads

The Article that never was Nobody can see the future. Because of the existence of human free will, I reckon that not even God can. Yet, people try to predict things all the time. It may come as a sur...

3 likes · 1 comments · Diaries (cc77)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Coercion

The Debate Two months ago, I wrote an article about consent . Being read by just 40 people as of the time of me writing this article, it clearly did not generate the storm that I expected, but it d...

1 likes · 5 comments · Random Articles (a45d)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

The Rise and Fall of the Hungarian Text-Based Pet Simulator

Which profession is the most ancient profession? It is hotly debated. Many use "the world's oldest profession" as a euphemism for prostitution, but we'll probably never know what was the world's tru...

4 likes · 1 comments · Developers and programmers (c0e2)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Reality

rEaLiTy "Reality" is a easily abused word. At least, in my world, in my life, it is. Remember my article about " maturity " , and how my mother and my sister contort its meaning to something.... s...

5 likes · 2 comments · Politics - The voice of the people (cc97)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards - The Socio-Economical Arms-Race

Arms Race If we gloss over all the (not so) epic battles, arduous sieges and politicking, military history from the Neolithic (10 000 BC) all the way to the beginning of the 20th century (1900 AD...

4 likes · 0 comments · Random Articles (a45d)

@Metalhead33 · 2 years ago

Every Second Counts

A lot of my articles have very anti-work overtones, but with the exception of one , none of them have anti-work as their primary theme, all of them having it as a secondary theme. So, here goes one...

5 likes · 1 comments