Sophia is taking the milf pills to become a milf

Now that things are good

How many times have you been the person saying “It’s 2018, things are better now”, or even “It’s 1970, nobody is racist any more”. Or if you haven’t, how many times have you been arguing against the person telling you “It’s 294, Diocletian has implemented the tetrarchy and now e...

Born to the purple, or how Black Panther uses costume colours

Porphyrogenitus was a greek word that was somewhat of a slang term. It meant “born to the purple” a bit like our “born with a silver spoon in your mouth”. Purple, a rich and rare colour to produce a dye for, was understood in many ancient societies - Egyptian, Persian, Roman and Greek - t...

Small charging update

Hi everyone!

I literally didn't know about up-front charging before, and I would have had it on before if I'd known, so I'll be changing to that model from January 1st. I'm waiting until January first because I know I've gained a few supporters in the last couple of weeks and they won't have been ...

Curio essay 10: Frostpunk, making cold choices

Q&A - submit questions! (+updates)

Just a reminder, the tier reward for $5+ patrons to submit Questions for a Q&A is not limited to one per - You can submit as many questions as you like, via Patreon messenger or however you like. I'll select 20 Questions I think are interesting and make a 20 Questions Q&A video, and I'll do ...

Curio Essay 9: Socialism in Space

Socialism in Space Teaser

Socialism in Space

My name is Jean-luc Picard, and I am here to ask you a question: Is a man not entitled to the sweat on his brow? NO says the man on Vulcan it belongs to science and reason! NO says the man on Kronos it belongs to the most honourable warriors! NO says the Borg it belongs to everyone! I rejected those...

Hello new patrons

Hello everyone! Thanks for being cool dudes and supporting Curio. Thanks to several of you who stopped by the test Live stream yesterday, we all had a lot of fun.
I'm just posting to give a couple of updates:
There will be two new main essay videos coming out at around the end of this month an...

Frostpunk, making cold choices

In Loving Memory of Craig Bowker Jr.

Frostpunk is a game set in an alternate history version of 1886 where a catastrophic event has frozen the whole planet - wait, does this mean there’s no coca cola? Why even go on living?

Frostpunk is a game set in an unliveable hellworld versio...

Bioshock 2 is incredible, don't @ me: Curio Mini-Essay 6

Curio Discussion Episode 2: God of War (Never talk to me or my son again)

Bioshock 2 is incredible don't @ me

I’ve seen the 2015 horror film The Boy more times than I am proud of. I really love that movie. Everything about it is insanely funny to me. If you aren’t familiar, The Boy is about a woman who has to come take care of the son of an old rich couple who live in a mansion in the english countrysid...

Curio Mini-Essay 5: How We Mythologise Family

Mythologising family (Halloween come-down de-spook)

Okay, so Halloween is over now. We all did some dressing up and got in the festive mood. I released my Bloodborne Spooktacular and everybody loved it. We’ve all gotten a bit spooked, now let’s all take a breath, and get de-spooked. The best way for us to get de-spooked is if we look at something...

Quiet Souls

Stream with Non-Compete (2h30m)

Curio Essay 8: Bloodborne and the Lovecraftian Curse of Capitalism