Welcome to The Lower Middle
This is Troy's personal blog — it doesn't get updated on a regular schedule. What you see here is a curated archive of longer essays and reflections.
Right now Troy is focused on two big projects: The Worlds Greatest Story and Eternal Springs.
Latest writing
Tales of Zestiria and the mess between redemption and war
So I just finished my first “Tales of” game because I have ran out of Final Fantasy’s for the moment. JRPG’s (Japanese Role Playing Games) Always love to be as philosophical and edgy as possible, and a lot of the…
Thoughts on Mom
Originally Posted on Facebook on January 22nd, 2022 So my Wife and I just concluded watching the TV series Mom, here are many thoughts. First, about Chuck Lorre. If you don’t know who Chuck Lorre is, he is a TV show…
Final Space, Final Fantasy, and the Joker
Originally posted on Facebook on October 15th, 2021 Sorry, this is a long one. No hard feelings if you don’t read this monstrosity. Caution, spoilers are lurking. In the last few weeks I saw the conclusion of 3…
Thoughts on the term “Mainstream Media”
really want to tackle this understand that everyone has about the term “mainstream media” or the term “the media” in general. I want to write about it, because I believe that the term severely hampers public discourse…
Alberta and the Bigfoot Family
After a glowing recommendation from Jason Kenney to watch Bigfoot Family, we had nothing better to do but oblige him. There is so many things to say, so you get random point form commentary that you did not ask for:…
Reflection on 3 Years of Marriage
After reflecting on three years of Marriage, and I would like to say pretty good years in my opinion, there are definitely a few things that have not lined up with how both the cultural society I grew up in and the…