Project Story Blurb I’m excited to share my latest project: a fully-featured turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler built entirely in vanilla JavaScript. The game features three floors of procedurally-generated dungeons, six enemy types with unique AI behaviors, twelve collectible items, multiple room types including shops and rest areas, and a mysterious Sage NPC who guides you… Continue Reading →

As we’ve seen our previous posts here and here, weddings have become stupidly expensive in recent years. The biggest reason for this massive increase in price is due to advertising. The wedding industry has spent billions of dollars to make it seem like it’s normal or even romantic to go into debt just to get… Continue Reading →

As we saw in our last article a fancy, extravagant wedding doesn’t necessarily lead to a long, happy marriage. In fact according to a 2014 study by Andrew M. Francis and Hugo M. Mialon, the more money a couple spent on their wedding, the more likely they were to get divorced. They found that for… Continue Reading →

Let’s say you are planning your wedding. What if instead of a fancy meal your spouse-to-be ordered pizza? Or instead of a layered white wedding cake, they asked your mother-in-law to make a chocolate sheetcake? Your first thought would probably be, “Don’t you love me?” or “Don’t you want this to be the happiest day… Continue Reading →

Did you know that you can just write a check to donate to the federal government? According to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, “Citizens who wish to make a general donation to the U.S. government may send contributions to a specific account called ‘Gifts to the United States.’” Why would someone want to give… Continue Reading →