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  • Blog 104

    Blog 104

    Ready.

    Better than Sex??

    B. Lorenzo Buckinchere

    May 3, 2026

    Ok, great! So now that I have your attention, you’re probably wondering what that could even be. In this article, I’m going to get down to what I’m actually hinting at. And no, it’s not a Harley Davidson.

    Stick around!

    There are some very thirsty people in society. Who are these people, you may ask? Random normies who see you and walk up to you in public to strike up a conversation without knowing you.

    And I mean anybody; dudes, chicks, dogs, cats.

    From your perspective, you are genuinely flattered at all the attention, especially if you’re not used to getting it at first. You likely believe their interest in you to be genuine.

    So you allow the unsolicited social contact to carry-on for a tad bit longer than your comfort zone would allow. To the point where you may feel compelled to say, “Go look a girl nuh, bredrin!”

    Speaking of which, here are some of the nuances about the men who show interest in you. If you are a man, and another man is chasing you, and forcing himself on you, you’re probably thinking that maybe he’s gay. And some of them genuinely are, even if they don’t show it.

    But here’s the kicker. Most of them are straight. Some of them would even go so far as to use their smoking hot girlfriends to publicly flirt with you as bait to get them in the door. And the girlfriend in question is totally on board with his idea, except that she probably has her own motives, and it’s not what you think.

    But this is where you get a little thrown off. Because most people are driven by lust. So if a straight man is using his girlfriend to bait another straight man, then what could possibly be better than sex?

    Your aura!

    Now this is where we start going down the rabbit hole into “chosen” territory.

    I do believe that some people are indigo children, meaning that they were born with certain innate talents that normies do not possess. But I don’t believe that these indigo children are actually chosen.

    Chosen by what?!

    Back to my point! People may be primarily driven by lust, but greed is a very second motivator, and when people meet an indigo child, they believe they have struck solid gold. And they are right.

    UniQue qualities of indigo children include, but are not limited to;

    Calmness:

    In a mad, chaotic world, calm is the light that shines too bright. They will flock to you like moths to a flame. Not only that, but they will crave your light while resenting you for having it at the same time.

    Good Listener:

    If people often come to you for advice, even people who don’t know you, then they likely see you as a free shrink they can use. They will blow up your phone at two o’ clock in the morning to burden you with their problems, then resent you for asserting a boundary.

    Visionary:

    This is probably the most dangerous one on my list. Specifically because you can never be too careful. But if you are a visionary, then people always come to you for advice. Specifically to pick your brain for ideas they intend to steal for themselves and take all the credit. These are the people who will talk you out of your brilliant plans, only for them to steal it and declare to the public that it was their idea to begin with. If you are a visionary who doesn’t want to be stopped, then prepare to live the life of a recluse. I mean that with all sincerity, and every bit of love.

    P.S. Buy a travel-sized padlock for your laptop bag.

    Creativity:

    Normies love to consume art, but don’t actually like creative people. Far worse than that, they actually hate them. Much like with peace, they will also flock to your creative light like moths to a flame. But once they realize that you are the one with the secret sauce that they cannot accurately replicate, envy rears its ugly head, then eventually turns to resentment. For that reason, many creatives are loved by the world, yet they often lead lonely personal lives. That is, if they have yet to find a fellow creative to share their lives with. True creativity comes with a curse that normies are not willing to accept, yet they envy creatives for doing that which they are not willing to do.

    Enigma:

    Speaking of having a secret sauce, this is the part that is actually better than sex. Picture this! You walk into a room. Not loud. Not seeking validation. But as a phantom. You go over to your table, pull out a chair, and order a drink.

    Everybody is wondering who you are. Some are rubber-necking your table. Others are not so obvious. You are whom they call an enigma. A mystery man. The most interesting man in the room. Yet your entrance was merely the whisper of a phantom.

    If you possess the aura of being the enigmatic presence of every room you walk into, then everybody wants to be around you. Men, women, dogs, cats.

    You get the idea!

    This is a phenomenon that comes naturally. That kind of aura cannot be faked, and I’d rather doubt you’d be able to lose it if you wanted to.

    That last one is where greed and entitlement always comes into play. Human nature is innately selfish, and most people only show interest in you for all the wrong reasons.

    I know it may sound cliche for me to say, but they literally see your gifts as a resource to use for their own benefit. The resource in question could be anything; from money to favors, etc. However, in this case, the highly addictive resource you possess that is better than sex, is attention.

    Your attention.

    The attention of the enigma in the room.

    And specifically because human nature is so inherently selfish and narcissistic, most people will seek to control your attention to keep it on themselves at all times.

    The general mindset is, “if you’re so great and I’m the one who either controls you, or breaks you, then what does that make me?”

    As such, they become sadistic in an attempt to keep you under their control, so they can be the ones to control who gets to access your precious attention. If you make it obvious that you don’t want to be controlled, then that is when they become hell bent on breaking you to make an example out of you.

    The over-familiarity of random strangers in public, coupled with the extent to which said strangers fight to get, even you, out the way of your own attention is a very telling sign of how powerful your aura truly is. And the irony of that statement is that you may not have been aware of it for a long time.

    They are not going to tell you why they are being so overly possessive with you. You only know that that level of aggression and over-familiarity coming from a perfect stranger is not normal.

    This is when you must assert stringent boundaries that are impermeable to human deception if you are to be successful in your war effort.

    No one’s gonna draw you a map. Not even me. But in case no one ever told you this, remember you heard it here first.

    Your attention is power!

    Your attention is currency!

    Your enigma is currency!

    Don’t give it away so cheaply.

    Make people earn their place in your space.

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  • If you are so smart, why aren’t you rich? (BTAS Review)

    Ready.

    B. Lorenzo Buckinchere

    May 25, 2025

    It’s the end of the month and time once again for our monthly review series. Our muse for the month of May is Edward Nygma, alias, The Riddler. Particularly in his first appearance on Batman The Animated Series, during an episode titled, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” But first, here’s a disclaimer: The following review contains spoilers so I recommend watching the episode first before reading this or any other reviews on the topic. Now without further ado, let’s begin.

    Overview:

    Batman The Animated Series is an American television series that premiered on Fox in 1992. The series was created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini as a 90’s revival of Bob Kane’s 1938 creation for Detective Comics, and originally consisted of 85 episodes across two seasons, the largest episode count for a single season of any children’s show at the time.

    “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich,” was the forty-first episode of the series. It originally aired during the show’s first season on November 18, 1992. Written by David Wise, Directed by Eric Radomski, and starred Kevin Conroy, John Glover and Gary Frank. It was also The Riddler’s debut episode.

    The Premise:

    Edward Nygma (John Glover) is an employee of “Competitron,” a toy manufacturer. The episode opens with Nygma arriving at work one cloudy morning just in time as the janitor was tossing his name tag in the trash. Nygma asked the janitor what he was doing and that was when his employer Daniel Mockridge (Gary Frank) who was standing there all along informed him that he was fired.

    Nygma protested that Mockridge cannot do without him because he is the smartest game designer in the company. Mockridge replied that he can indeed fire Ngyma because the latter is suing him for royalty. As an employee of Competitron, Nygma previously designed a video game titled, “Riddle of the Minotaur,” and is now suing the company for royalty. Furthermore, Mockridge lives up to his name by mocking Nygma in the form of a rhetorical question, the titular question of the episode.

    After some time had passed, Mockridge tried pitching Nygma’s work to Bruce Wayne (Kevin Conroy) and Luscious Fox (Brock Peters) who were initially hesitant. At some point during the meeting, Mockridge looked outside the window of the conference room and noticed an ominous riddle in neon light. The riddle read, “Why do multimillion dollar deals break down in the wasteland?”

    Later that evening inside the Batcave, Bruce dons his Batman alter ego, and ponders on the meaning of the riddle as Robin (Loren Lester) ironically plays “Riddle of the Minotaur” on the bat computer.

    “Holy irony Batman, it’s a good thing I’m already familiar with this game. I have a hunch we might be needing it soon.”

    “Good thinking old chum, to the batmobile.”

    Though they didn’t actually say any of that, I think it’s worth mentioning that their voices actually sounded a bit more cartoonish this time around, almost like they sounded in the classic “Superfriends,” cartoons from the 70’s, hinting at the fact that this episode is nowhere near as dark and brooding as other episodes.

    Meanwhile over at Competitron, Mockridge walked into his office and found Nygma sitting in his swivel chair in the dark, donning his Riddler alter ego for the first time. No doubt the end result of trauma, and a need to get even. Mockridge humored Nygma, perhaps feeling a bit cocky that he might be able to get Nygma to create more games for Competitron, but Nygma had other plans.

    He redesigned the Chinese finger puzzle in the form of some gold rings that look eerily similar to the symbol on the Olympic flag. He tossed the gold rings at Mockridge who was none the wiser and who tried solving it, only to unwittingly cuff himself with it, just as two of Nygma’s henchmen pounced on him.

    Batman and Robin crashed the party just in time, and got into a fight with Nygma’s goons who managed to escape with Mockridge as their hostage. Sometime later that night as Batman and Robin were driving across the Gotham bridge, they noticed that the lights were flashing all across the city.

    Batman, quickly realizing it to be morse code, translated the message, and it turned out to be another of Nygma’s riddles that read, “When is the Minataur’s owner as high as an elephant’s maize?” They quickly realized that maize is a wordplay for maze, and took off for the amusement park where they had to navigate a life-sized replica of Nygma’s video game in order to find Mockridge.

    Robin used his experience from playing the Minotaur game to help navigate the maze, and after solving several puzzles and riding on a cool mechanical flying hand (unique to the DCAU), they eventually got to Mockridge and answered one final riddle in time to save him from being sliced in two by an animatronic, sword-wielding minotaur. It turned out that Nygma lured them to the maze intentionally to buy himself enough time to flee the city.

    Wayne enterprise eventually bought Riddle of the Minotaur from Competitron, and Dick lamented during the aftermath that it’s such a pity they had to sell to a creep like Mockridge. But that was when Bruce interjected that “Mockridge may have his money, but he won’t be sleeping well.”

    We then cut to a scene where we see Mockridge carefully bolting his door at night and looking under his bed, trembling with a shotgun before reluctantly climbing into bed and cowering under the covers. Bruce ended the episode by asking the question, “How much is a good night’s sleep worth? Now there’s a riddle for ya.”

    Personal Takeaway:

    This cautionary tale serves as a reminder of a clause that could be included in your employment contract depending on the nature of your job. A clause stating that your employer owns the patent to anything you invent for the company while employed to that particular company. Most companies have ensured to include this clause within their employment contracts. The same is true with music, animation and especially writing.

    When I first got back to writing, and shortly before I created my blog site on WordPress, I tried freelancing for another blog site. Though I am avidly against using AI to write because I think it takes the soul out of writing, I nonetheless used Chat GPT to offer suggestions on what topics to cover. I did so for no other reason than to save my best ideas for my own upcoming blog.

    So I gave them mediocre ideas while saving the topics near and dear to my heart for myself, because I knew that if I wasn’t smart about it, I would never own my ideas outright, I’d only get paid for them. Sure enough I paid the price for my betrayal in the short term because they never accepted any of my submissions, but to me it was worth it because I was rewarded for remaining disciplined in the long run.

    The point that I am making by sharing that example is that if you have a bright idea that could potentially make you millions in the future, don’t share it with an employer, create it for your own profit and ownership. You’d be well within your rights to do so. It is your intellectual property after all, and make sure you patent it before pitching it to anyone.

    Another thing to add is to always rent the rights to your intellectual property versus selling it off. Never sell to any individual or corporation because if you no longer own the rights to your work you are forfeiting your rights to future royalties.

    Although The Riddler was the monster of the week in this story, he is really more of a tragic anti-hero who sold out his ideas for a quick buck. Edward Nygma was born but The Riddler was made, and the person who made him is the real villain of the picture.

    Nygma wasn’t Mockridge’s only victim, he was just the one who took action, albeit misguided. Think of how many more families were plunged into undue poverty all due to Mockridge’s greed and betrayal. At least we know Nygma’s name. Think of all the other Gothamites whose names we will never know.

    In the end, Edward Nygma got the poetic justice he so richly deserves, and I don’t think he stuck around long enough to witness the full extent of the damage that Mockridge was dealt at his hands.

    Bruce Wayne’s question at the end pertaining to the value of a good night’s sleep was essential in weighing the pros and cons of guilt versus reward. The final scene that saw Mockridge bolting his door at night was the most brooding part of the episode. It came straight from out of a horror film right down to the music score.

    Trivia:

    It was mentioned in the episode that Nygma’s first initial along with his surname (E. Nygma), are a wordplay for enigma, meaning a man of mystery and intrigue.

    This was a carefully devised strategy that Nygma used to trap Mockridge who otherwise wouldn’t have trusted him. Mockridge made the mistake of thinking he knew Nygma well enough and just assumed he was some harmless schmuck he could easily get over on.

    Conclusion:

    “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich” was generally well received by fans of the show and went down in history as one of the most memorable episodes of the entire series. I give this cautionary tale of greed, guilt and doubt in one’s own potential a five out of five good night’s sleep, and I’ll see you on the next one.

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