Kyle Marquis
@moochava.bsky.social
he/him. Writer and game designer. Silverworld, V:TM—Night Road, Pon Para. Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names is out now! https://www.choiceofgames.com/werewolf-the-apocalypse/book-of-hungry-names/
It's a miserable, cynical way to live, but if I were staring down a balloon debt that would destroy my entire life unless I got a job paying six figures right out of college, I'd act cynically.
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It's a miserable, cynical way to live, but if I were staring down a balloon debt that would destroy my entire life unless I got a job paying six figures right out of college, I'd act cynically.
Well, every option is bad, but the idea is that if it's obvious you'll get the diploma even if you learn nothing, your best bet to maximize your chance of escaping debt peonage is to spend your time networking rather than writing essays.
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Well, every option is bad, but the idea is that if it's obvious you'll get the diploma even if you learn nothing, your best bet to maximize your chance of escaping debt peonage is to spend your time networking rather than writing essays.
But like with everything today, we are forbidden from fixing the problem and then people ask, "so how do we fix the problem?"
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
But like with everything today, we are forbidden from fixing the problem and then people ask, "so how do we fix the problem?"
Yeah, it's frustrating because my own attitude if I were facing 2025 as a teenager would be awful, but on the other hand, the only solution to the educational polycrisis is to get rid of all the do-nothings and stop handing them diplomas.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Yeah, it's frustrating because my own attitude if I were facing 2025 as a teenager would be awful, but on the other hand, the only solution to the educational polycrisis is to get rid of all the do-nothings and stop handing them diplomas.
As I've said before, if I were a freshman today my attitude toward college would be entirely transactional: fuck you, give me my Job Certificate, I'll do as little as possible to get it because networking pays off better than learning, and you're putting me $200k in non-dischargeable debt.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As I've said before, if I were a freshman today my attitude toward college would be entirely transactional: fuck you, give me my Job Certificate, I'll do as little as possible to get it because networking pays off better than learning, and you're putting me $200k in non-dischargeable debt.
One element not mentioned: teenagers today saw the hard-working, earnest, dedicated millennial generation study hard and get good grades and choose all the best classes and extracurriculars and then get obliterated by our no-jobs-for-anyone economy. Kids today saw what hard work gets you.
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One element not mentioned: teenagers today saw the hard-working, earnest, dedicated millennial generation study hard and get good grades and choose all the best classes and extracurriculars and then get obliterated by our no-jobs-for-anyone economy. Kids today saw what hard work gets you.
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Just made oatmeal raisin cookies last night and ate them for breakfast. It's the little things, man.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Just made oatmeal raisin cookies last night and ate them for breakfast. It's the little things, man.
The Age of Men is over. The Time of the Pie has come.
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The Age of Men is over. The Time of the Pie has come.
Thinking about the weird crumbling hotel I stayed at in New York last year, which I still think about, the sense of place and history it held even if it didn't have a waffle bar
Saying goodbye to the hotel in that really scary Delta Green adventure about Carcosa
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Thinking about the weird crumbling hotel I stayed at in New York last year, which I still think about, the sense of place and history it held even if it didn't have a waffle bar
But both of these essays speak to me about my experience with cities, where I have to stay in hotels because I live in the boondocks, and the joy I feel staying at an actually interesting place vs the empty dissatisfaction of staying at a Devoid hotel, a slick, barely-functional, barely-there place
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
But both of these essays speak to me about my experience with cities, where I have to stay in hotels because I live in the boondocks, and the joy I feel staying at an actually interesting place vs the empty dissatisfaction of staying at a Devoid hotel, a slick, barely-functional, barely-there place
Though I will say that one of the interesting things about New York is I've never encountered a place with a higher, denser combination of interesting spaces (intentional or spontaneously manifesting) vs. the Devoid, spaces empty of meaning or interest
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Though I will say that one of the interesting things about New York is I've never encountered a place with a higher, denser combination of interesting spaces (intentional or spontaneously manifesting) vs. the Devoid, spaces empty of meaning or interest