Frontier Pop June 2025 Volume 15 Issue 198 “Creating Pop Culture”

 

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This issue is about the creation of pop culture and trends by individuals.
Everyone should create and express themselves, and, while it is fine to be enthusiastic about interests, it is important not to be obsessive and not to lose your objectivity; don’t be a biased fanboy or fangirl.
Learn. Create. Invent. Express. Write. Come up with your own pop culture content and get excited about it!

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Frontier Pop May 2025 Volume 15 Issue 197 “Game Crash”

 

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The video game industry, as of 2025, is falling apart. XBOX seems to want to publish games from their studios everywhere, taking away any reason to buy any XBOX Series X or Series S (why anyone would but that, we have no clue) Console due to lack of exclusive games to that platform. Nintendo has released the Switch 2, an underwhelming overpriced version of the previous Switch console with restrictive and oppressive restrictions and DRM, as well as expensive storage limitations for the forced downloads of games due to the lack of the game software on physical media. That, and their anti-consumer practices leave a bad taste in the mouths of their fans and gamers. Oh, and this time, there is no Zelda there to sell consoles and to help them establish an install base. Zelda: Breath of the Wild, in our opinion, was the reason that the original Switch sold, and why it succeeded; it certainly did not succeed because it is a hybrid console, or for what it is. They obviously think that it succeeded because of what it was. In our opinion, they are wrong, and will soon learn that.
Oh, and Nintendo decided to raise prices and open the Door to overpriced $80 games. No thank you.
Sony’s Playstation 5 is a solid console, but it has few games that we want, mainly due to scalpers keeping gamers from the gamers from buying the console and being able to play games on it when it first launched, which meant that games didn’t sell. That, and the overpriced “Pro” model.
All this, and video game developers and publishers going out of business, as well economic reasons for increased prices, we have to wonder if the video game industry is crashing, again.
Maybe it should.
Gamers have options, including, but not limited to, emulation and collecting past consoles and games. We’ll be just fine.

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Frontier Pop April 2025 Volume 15 Issue 196 “Pop Culture Fanboys”

 

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In this issue, we examine a toxic group of pop culture fanboys that we defeated long ago, as well as why we believe that fanboy culture is toxic. We learned a lot as we destroyed their web site, which they used to slander and bully people with.

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Frontier Pop March 2025 Volume 15 Issue 195 “Getting Physical”

 

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This issue of Frontier Pop is about physical media and why it will always be important, as well as multimedia preservation and backing things up.
Streaming is convenient, and we do it. We just don’t rely upon it.

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Frontier Pop February 2025 Volume 15 Issue 194 “Relationships by Numbers”

 

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This issue explores a toxic relationship, as well as relationship information, and a strategy, which the author wishes that he would have known when he was 18.
There is no reason to be alone. There is also no reason to define who you are as an individual by your relationships.

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Frontier Pop January 2025 Volume 15 Issue 193 “Emulation Consoles”

 

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Pop Culture and Retro Gaming are awesome, especially when you have access to all of the great things from the past, inexpensively, today. We now build our own video game consoles and arcade machines, and can play just about anything that we want to play.

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Welcome to the 2025 reboot of Frontier Pop, bringing it up to the standard established by our sister sites Omnicapire and Polyvinci.
Frontier Pop, our oldest pop culture site, established in the Tampa Bay area in 2010, is now a Polyvinci web site. This site established many of the standards and the publishing format used by our sister sites, which refined what we established, at which time we retroapplied those enhancements into the 2025 reboot of this web site.
Our sister sites have an Owl logo and theme, which represents knowledge, wisdom, and comprehension, so our new logo has continuity with our sister sites, although our sites are not linked to each other with reciprocal links. Although some of our graphics and images may raise questions, relax; it’s a theme, and nothing more. Once we designed our Owl logo, we just went with it with some images that we generated with an image generator in late 2023, and it basically went in a direction which is where we are at, now. It works for the theme. For more, please see our legal disclaimer and our site TOS (Terms of Use).
In essence, however, the Polyvinci sites, which include, but is not limited to, Frontier Pop, is actually one pop culture, current event, and information web site. We are just spread out among several web sites to segment markets and our target audience, and to mitigate potential conflict of interests. We want to be able to write about and publish content in a wide variety of different subjects, and, face it, a site such as Polyvinci would have credibility issues if it were to publish content on subjects such as fringe subjects. That is why we separated the content over several related web sites.
Frontier Pop is a web site which is free to explore more controversial topics such as fringe topics. This site, while often serious, is more fun. That is why we overhauled it and kept it. This site has parody and satirical elements to it, too, such as our Reader Reaction area at the bottom of each issue page, which is there for entertainment, as well as serious discussion and debate. That said, consider any published reader interaction on this site as a work of fiction, or a creative writing exercise, because it often is. Features such as this are not on the Omnicapire or the Polyvinci web sites, as those are positioned for more serious journalism, with Omnicapire being our workhorse web site, our backbone, and Polyvinci being our serious journalism web site.
That said, some may be wondering what these web sites are.

01. New Web Site in Development (Branding TBD.)
Formatted like Deranged Fanboys, like a blog, but for serious journalism. Updated frequently, often several times per week.

02. New Web Site in Development (Branding locked, but currently classified).
This web site is for our online television series, which is in development, and will debut in 2025. This online television series is the reason for the work on all of our pop culture sites, as they support it. The web site for it will be updated as new episode air.

03. Polyvinci
Our main web site. Used for serious journalism. Monthly new scalable issues. Lots of old issues, too, which will be retroactively written and published at a rate of several per month.
There are also lots of Polyvinci web sites, which are directly linked to Polyvnci and often integrate our Polyvinci brand in their branding. Some of these web sites include, but are not limited to, The Arcade Leaderboard, Arcade Preservation, and Cobra Kata.

04. OmniCapire
Or backbone, workhorse web site. Also backs up Polyvinci. Monthly new scalable issues. Some old issues, too, which will be retroactively written and published at a rate of several per month.

05. Frontier Pop
The O.G. pop culture web site; the oldest. Overhauled in 2025 to current standards. Monthly new scalable issues. Lots of old issues, too, which will be retroactively written and published at a rate of several per month.

06. Deranged Fanboys
Formatted like a Blog, with scalable issues which can be written and published in minutes, this is an expansion of our Reader Reaction feature, and is a parody. It’s mainly for entertainment, but it does publish serious content. New posts and issues at least once per week.

Organization Web Sites

01. The Polyvinci Society
Our main organization. This organization is elite, and operates under heavy security.

02. The Frontier Society
Our secondary organization; a part of The Polvinci Society.

Organization Support Web Sites

01. Seeking Interesting People
Marketing and recruiting web site.

02. Seeking Professionals
Marketing and recruiting web site.

Pop Culture Support web sites

01. Online Pop Culture .Com
Marketing web site.

02. Pop Culture Fanboys .Com
Marketing web site.

There is more, a lot more, but that’s what we can reveal, for now.
Back to Frontier Pop.
Frontier Pop publishes one new issue per month. These issues, which can be about a wide range of topics, are not final, however, and will grow over time as new content is added to them. All issues remain in play and can be updated at any time. These issues often start our very small and then grow and expand over time as new content is added to them, as, once the issue is no longer the newest issue, it becomes a issue for the subjects which it is about, and can be easily accessed and referenced not only from our Issues Section, but from our Subjects Section, which also lists related issues.
Content on Frontier Pop is not advice and should not be accepted as advice or factual information, unless specifically presented as such. The information on this web site is the opinion of the author, and may not be necessarily shared by this web site or other writers who contribute to this web site. Writers often publish under pseudonyms, as well, and we respect their rights and their privacy. Thank you.

 

Past Issues

 

Frontier Pop July 2023 Volume 13 Issue 175 “Switched On”

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Editorial: Frontier Pop: Are we really back?
Our ultra-awesome editor and chief, C. A. Passinault, is back, and he assures us that Frontier Pop is not only back and better than ever, but that it will now regularly publish new issues, as well as begin filling in those missing and complete back issues (a mission that will take at least three years... or maybe two).
We are back!

Issue main topic and featured content:

The Nintendo Switch
Is the Nintendo Switch the most powerful portable video game console ever made, or is it the most underpowered current home console? What is it that we hear about it being “incomplete” and “glitchy”. What about those damn crashes, Nintendo?!?! Despite the problems, we love our Switch! A Frontier Pop exclusive!

Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The best video game ever made, or something that may transcend video games altogether? After over 180 210 hours experiencing this game in roughly 12 18 weeks, it certainly has the record for keeping C. A. Passinault's attention. He still isn't nearly done with it, and, much like real life, he is powered up to be like a God!

No Virtual Console, but Neo Geo games! Yay! YAY! (Really... These games are AWESOME!)
Here is one of the aspects of the “incomplete” when it comes to the Switch. The eShop is not a mess... It is basically missing! Hell, it is even more of a mess than Frontier Pop is on this fine July day in 2017. Things are getting better, though, in both cases! They are giving us Neo Geo games, at least (although, at the time of this writing, in some cluttered proto eShop, what we really want them to give us Last Blade 2), but that lack of a real D-Pad on the left Switch joycon absolutely SUCKS, especially for fighting and platforming games. Don’t make us use a sloppy analog stick or fork out moola for an overpriced pro controller which complicates the portable form factor of the Switch, Bitch!
That lack of a D-Pad is like something that a non gamer, would design, in our opinion. Fix it, Ninty!

New Frontier Pop format
Frontier Pop is a mess (Nolan and his minions are smiling, we bet, but they won't be for long). We admit it. It will take a while to get this site where it needs to be (to the point that we almost threw it away and started over), but it will get there, eventually (We still rule, and are awesome, however!).
In the meantime, we are going to update the design template and get rid of those redundant, pointless, outdated social media buttons (Done as of 08/17/17, and the entire site has been moved to a secure server account, although the past issues are still in the old format)!

Web Sites
Passinault resumes updating web sites. Here we go!

Nolan Canova and Crazed Fanboy / PCR (Pop Culture Review). My opinion.
An underrated site that needs a new lease on life.
Sure, Passinault’s feeling about Crazed Fanboy are mixed, but he does go on record saying that there is a lot of good information on the web site, and that it needs to resume publication.
Well, kind of like Frontier Pop, although we just resumed publication.
It would be a tragedy if Crazed Fanboy never published again.

300 Web Sites by 2019
Passinault unveils a goal to have 300 web sites online by 2019. How will he accomplish this feat of magnificence?
Better yet, how does he propose to keep up with all of those web sites?

Talent Resource Sites and Security
Passinault reveals next-generation web sites and his plan to deter some people from learning from them.

Independent Film War
The independent film war, which started in 2008, and which Passinault, in our opinion, won, continues on. Why? What is at stake?
With Passinault also managing conflicts in modeling and in photography, how is this a good idea?

The Frontier Society is now the Cypher Society?
Why? How? What is going on?
What exactly IS the Frontier, or Cypher, Society, anyway?

Word is the word. Choice!

LEGIT!

RECENTLY UPDATED ISSUES OF FRONTIER POP

09/04/13/0901: Issue 56 for August 2013: “Back on Track”.
This issue, which was written over the entire month of August in order to help get Frontier Pop back on track and regularly publishing again, as well as to start the process of updating past issues and finishing incomplete issues, is the LARGEST single issue of Frontier Pop, EVER, and it should be, as it is the swan song for the old format of the web site. We are talking about over 45 pages upon initial publication, and it will only get larger over time (If you try to sit down and read this, do it at a computer, make yourself comfortable, and pack a lunch and lakes of tea; you're going to be there a while).
Highlights of this landmark, brilliant issue include:
Animal Crossing: New Leaf impressions and suggestions. Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a video game for the Nintendo 3DS, and it is awesome.
An Artificial Life essay, in reference to Animal Crossing.
Video Game Emulation update.
The Frontier Society Reloaded.
News about the official DJ Frontier and DJ Wiz Kid web sites.
Tentative schedule for C. A. Passinault and his projects from 2013 to 2018, including web site, independent film, film festival, independent film industry, photography, and modeling plans.

09/04/13/0901: Frontier Pop Issue 50, for February, 2013, "The Love Issue". This issue is a special Valentine’s Day issue of Frontier Pop for 2013. It is about, well, love. It is a little about some ladies by the name of Kristen and Samantha, too, from failed relationships from over a decade ago.
It is also very controversial.
This issue is about heterosexual love, so fanboys need not apply. We know what you are into, and most people are not into that, despite what a vocal few may say! Upon reading this, one of our readers told us that we have a very 90's mindset, which we agree with and are proud of, but we disagree with what they are implying with that term. We do agree, however, with equal rights, although giving anyone special rights is, well, not a good thing. Equality is good.
We do think for ourselves, though, and refuse to think a certain way because the crowd, most of whom have been conditioned since childhood to accept certain things as normal, tell us that we have to think a certain way. Don’t.

08/20/13/0909: Frontier Pop Issue 33 for September, 2011, "Video Game Emulation".
This issue of Frontier Pop is all about emulation, specifically video game emulation. We go into the legalities of video game emulation, the emulators, the rom files, and the recommended emulators for classic consoles and the arcade machines.
Emulators, basically, turn your computer into the video game console or arcade machine (coin op) being emulated. By themselves, emulators are perfectly legal. The rom files which are the actual game, however, are protected by copyright, and are not legal to play unless you own the game, in our opinion.
Although the legality of playing emulated games without owning the actual games is in question, it is possible, although illegal, to play perfect classic video games on your computer free of charge (please read the disclaimers in this issue. We do not recommend breaking the law, and you use this information at your own risk). Most of the time, the emulated games are perfect, but sometimes, due to missing support files or corrupted rom files, the games are not perfect. Galaga, for example, although it looks and plays perfectly, is missing some audio files. Super Castlevania IV for the Super NES crashes. Most emulated games , however, are perfect, although adjusting settings on in the emulator software is sometimes required.
Our favorite games for each emulator are also revealed in this issue. Most importantly, the top games of all time, recommended by C. A. Passinault, who is a video game expert and possibly one of the top experts in the country, are explored.
If you love video games, don’t miss this issue.
Like all issues, this issue remains in play, and is updated as-needed; it is the official issue covering this subject.

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This is Frontier Pop, Tampa Bay’s top pop culture and entertainment web site and online magazine. Updated as needed, with new issues published monthly, Frontier Pop is a publication of the Polyvinci Society, and is a Polyvinci web site.
As it is with our mother web site, Polyvinci, and the Polyvinci Society, Frontier Pop is considered to be a compendium of human knowledge, covering both mainstream and fringe subjects, with an emphasis on technology, cyberculture, and current events. There is, literally, information in this web site which you will not find anywhere else.
Frontier Pop began publication on July 20, 2010, with a weekly publishing schedule, which, eventually, in January 2011, was changed to a monthly schedule so that we could put more time into the content of each issue. Although Frontier Pop does publish content delivered in issues, issues usually have a dominant subject, and serve as a subject-based dynamic document long after new issues are published. Issues are organized by month and by subjects covered. Also, no issue is ever final, and all issues remain in play, and are updated as needed. Additions to issues are referenced through links and synopses on current issues, which means that updated issues become an extension of current issues, and that our readers don’t miss a thing.
For readers who are short on time, we added an in-site search engine on Frontier Pop in September, 2013 (it was since removed, but will be back).
As of the September 2013 issue, we are now publishing individual articles which make up the content of each issue in their relevant category directories, with the articles referencing, primarily, their host issue, but also issues which share them. The body of each issue has the issue header information, which includes the month of publication and the title, past issue updates, a thought blog section, and an issue editorial under “initializing”. The main body includes links to each article, and the issue can be read, in its entirety, by simply clicking on the links going to the next article (or back to the previous one) from within the articles. Issues can be accessed from within the article by clicking on the host issue cover graphic at the top of the page, or through links. If the reader tries to read an article which is before the first article, or after the last article, they are brought back to the host issue. The articles can also be individually accessed from the main body of the host issue, or from our subject directories, which the articles are also referenced from upon publication.
The rest of the issue body, after the article links, consists of the closing statement and preview of the next issue in the “Initialized and set” section, as well as reader and character comments in the Reader Reaction section, which is primarily published for entertainment and parody purposes, as well as real reader feedback and debate. The Reader Reaction section is a mix of characters and parody characters that we create and write for, often with pop culture references, as well as real readers, who we do not write for. We leave it up to the readers to determine who is real and who is not, and make no guarantees to the accuracy of any statement made or the legitimacy of any “reader” profile in this section. Again, this section is for entertainment, parody, and debate purposes, and some “readers” may not actually exist in real life. Reader characters who may have similarities to any persons, living or deceased, are either a parody or coincidental, and we are not obligated, in any way, to point out which is which. It’s supposed to be entertaining and fun, and half of the fun is figuring out who is real and who is not. Any use of this web site, which includes, but is not limited to, access and reading the content, waives Frontier Pop and its publishers, affiliates, advertisers, and sponsors from any and all claims of liability. Use this site at your own risk, as all readers assume liability and the potential of the use of this site. We are also not responsible for anxiety, anger, and the feelings of those who feel that their rights have been infringed upon. Again, use at your own risk, as you assume all liability.
Subjects covered in Frontier Pop include, but are not limited to, lifestyles, pop culture, cyber culture, video games, anime, entertainment, theatre, events, trends, fashion, cool things blogs, services, military technology, speculation, parody, DJ Frontier, and the Frontier Society. This list will grow as we grow. The only things that are off limits for the subjects that we cover are subjects that we have no interest in, or which are simply boring, in our opinion. These forbidden subjects include, but are not limited to, sports, coffee, country music, and ignorance in general.
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