Why I Don't Buy American

I want to be clear about something before we start. I do not hate Americans. I have never met an American in person. I am not qualified to comment on what they are like as individuals, in their homes, with their families. I am sure many of them are perfectly decent people. This article is about the American economic system, American companies, and the American government. It is about the practical reality of what happens when you, as a European consumer, hand your money over to an American corporation. Or when you, as a European company, try to work with American infrastructure. I have arrived at a simple conclusion after years of personal experience and observation: I will not buy American if I can avoid it. Here is why. ...

24 Jun 2026 · 18 min · Maxwell Jensen

How to Play Hideous Destructor

Hideous Destructor is what happens when someone looks at DOOM’s breakneck pacing, its comical disregard for physics, and its protagonist who runs faster than most cars, and decides to burn it all to the ground. In its place rises something closer to ArmA than anything id Software ever shipped: a tactical realism mod where every fight is dangerous, every wound stacks up, and everything you carry has weight you will feel in your bones. ...

24 Jun 2026 · 21 min · Maxwell Jensen