Resident Contrarian
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Resident Contrarian is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 16, 2022 and September 02, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “other reviews, which I mostly avoided reading until done with mine, to prevent information cascades: Resident Contrarian”; “2 of the 5 winners, plus an extra 1.5 of the remaining finalists, were authors of Substacks which I read and have linked to here ( Hoel , Roger’s Bacon , Resident Contrarian”. It most often appears alongside 1587, 1587, A Year Of No Significance, @campeters4.
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- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 16, 2022
- Last seen: September 02, 2022
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- 1587 (1 shared issues)
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- 1587, A Year Of No Significance (1 shared issues)
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- @campeters4 (1 shared issues)
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- a_reader (1 shared issues)
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- Abercrombie & Fitch (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Mastroianni (1 shared issues)
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- Affably Evil (1 shared issues)
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- Albion (1 shared issues)
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- Albion: In Twelve Books (1 shared issues)
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- An Education For Our Time (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
[other reviews, which I mostly avoided reading until done with mine, to prevent information cascades: Resident Contrarian, Zero HP Lovecraft]
God-Emperor Of Dune, reviewed by Resident Contrarian. RC is a rapidly aging father from Phoenix, Arizona. He blogs at residentcontrarian.com and is available for freelance work
I was happy with my decision to keep this contest anonymous, because the most “famous” person to enter won first place, and if it had been open-identity I would have wondered whether he was drawing on a pre-existing fan base. But no, Erik can rest assured he is actually very good at writing (which he probably already knew, being a novelist and all, but you never know). In fact, 2 of the 5 winners, plus an extra 1.5 of the remaining finalists, were authors of Substacks which I read and have linked to here (Hoel, Roger’s Bacon, Resident Contrarian, and the extra 0.5 is for Etienne who I didn’t know about before this week but just saw his post Common Tech Jobs Described As Cabals Of Mesoamerican Wizards on the subreddit). I’m always suspicious that everything is fake and good writers aren’t actually good and it’s just a social conspiracy to believe that they are, but these results are a vote in support of our existing writer-identification-institutions (are they all Substack? I guess it’s just Substack) - although many unknown people also did very well, including the 2nd place winner (I didn’t get a response to my email asking how I should reveal his identity, so I’m defaulting to initials, but I don’t recognize his real name either).