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- Comment on PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!! 1 week ago:
It’s like they took all the wrong lessons from their parents who made them eat their vegetables and yelled at them for dressing inappropriately. And the “Bible-thumping fire-and-brimstone preachers.” And Vance’s silly “childless cat ladies” comment.
If they were pushed away by zealotry, what makes them think it would appeal to anyone else?
- Comment on PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!! 1 week ago:
I’m talking about the real deal communists like Antifa and social media addicts - the kinds whose every interaction with their political opponents is hostile because they’re “the oppressors” or “colonists,” instigate fights, burn down cities, loot stores in the chaos, cheer on the recent increased crime and failing businesses because it serves their motives, want to overthrow the government to install a figure who will centrally plan the economy, and lie, cheat, and steal at every opportunity because anything is acceptable as long as it ushers in the glorious revolution that will somehow let them not work at all when all is said and done.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Talking like that could get you arrested, your friends and family detained, and your online communities shut down. Don’t do that to the people you care about.
- Comment on PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!! 1 week ago:
And everyone frothing at the mouth to insult anyone who isn’t a die-hard, propaganda-spreading communist has only themselves and their childish behavior to thank for this.
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t take non-OTC drugs without consulting a physician first. You could really screw yourself up with some of them, the hard stuff especially. The potential ups of doing them aren’t worth the likely losses.
People who take aspirin or ibuprofen take it for a specific purpose, and when they no longer need it, they stop. With things like steroids, heroin, cocaine, and Adderall (if they don’t have specific conditions like ADHD), people frequently end up chasing a horizon that only gets further away the harder they run to catch it. It’s a miserable existence and it causes them, and often their friends and loved ones, endless pain.
You deserve the best from yourself. That includes self-care. You’re more than your flaws and disorders, whatever they may be. Don’t make those an excuse to wreck yourself in pursuit of a goal that probably isn’t real.
- Comment on What's the point of a long-distance friendship? 2 weeks ago:
The majority of my friends are online. The internet has connected me with people who broaden my horizons, help me learn interesting and important things, and grow as a person. You don’t need to know someone in-person for that to happen anymore. IRL friendships will always be better, all other things being equal, but they’re not the only solution.
- Comment on 7 days to die is no longer Early Access, but still looks like this 2 weeks ago:
7 Days to Die has a terrible problem with the devs not knowing what they want to do with the game. All they know is that the players are doing it wrong.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 3 weeks ago:
Saint Benedict Joseph Labre followed a similar path. Though he was from a wealthy family, he strove to live a monastic life. When he was turned down twice, he resorted to becoming a homeless pilgrim who traveled between European holy sites until he died of starvation. Notably, though, he was said to avoid people who were too fond of him and practically sought out opportunities to be downtrodden.
- Comment on In other news at a gas station near by... 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the article. According to the story, there were two people panhandling and using drugs; they were asked to leave. One threw a rock at the employee’s car window, shattering it, and then threatened to shoot him. The video also says the person was shot because he lunged at the employee. I hope the truth comes out and the situation is handled appropriately.
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 4 weeks ago:
So what did he do, then? How can you substantiate it?
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 4 weeks ago:
Usually when I hear people described as “Christ-like,” it’s used to demote how much power and influence that person has over others - for example, “Donald Trump is a Christ-like figure among the alt-right.” Someone going around and calling themselves that would come across as strange at best.
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 4 weeks ago:
paranoid and psychotic tendencies
If he was simply insane, then how would he have performed any of his miracles? Or are you going to throw out the parts of the Bible you don’t like and keep the ones that support your position?
Also, I’ve dealt with, and am friends with, plenty of people with what you would call “paranoid and psychotic tendencies.” That you would accuse someone who walked this earth more than 1,900 years ago of having them suggests you either have supreme medical and historical knowledge. Perhaps you’ve spoken with him so you can make an accurate diagnosis?
in which he claims to be God
If he is, then that explains everything he said and did in the Bible. It’s pretty obvious that if he’s God that he would want people to follow him.
This comes off to me as incredibly paranoid
He was talking about Judas, who was stealing money from the ministry and later sold Jesus out for a handful of silver. Calling that out isn’t paranoia.
I’m apparently not the only one who thought Christ seemed mad
If he was just a madman and the people he was “curing” of “demons” were also madmen, those “cures” wouldn’t have happened. No person with schizophrenia has ever been cured of this disorder simply because another person with schizophrenia touched them. I’ve had the disorder for about seven years at this point; I wish it were that simple.
I agree with you that following Jesus doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you’re worshipping him. His entire message is based on his own divinity. If he was just a prophet, then if he was a good one, he wouldn’t be saying things like “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30).
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #20 - Slay the Princess 5 weeks ago:
I especially like that, despite the fact that you’re the supposed hero, every shot of your hand shows what appears to be a scaly monster’s hand. It makes you wonder who - or what - you really are…
- Comment on What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?: Crash Course Religions 1 month ago:
From what I understand, those who research religion prefer the term “high-control group” to describe what are colloquially known as “cults.” That’s partly due to people calling anything they don’t like a cult.
Picture two Christian denominations. One only asks its members to show up to church when they like, donate to keep the place running, and express Christ’s love to each other in whatever way they see fit without placing unnecessary burdens on them. The other demands, under pain of exile, that all members spend 40 hours per month on door-to-door evangelization regardless of social disposition, only receive theology that is dictated by one specific organization, tithe 20% of their income to that organization, only allows members to be friends with others in that particular denomination, and does not allow them to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, use any “hard” drugs, get tattoos, or receive blood transfusions.
Most people would probably agree that the second denomination is a cult/high-control group, but using that descriptor for the first denomination would dilute the term so much that it would basically become meaningless.
- Comment on Socialism 2 months ago:
I mean, capitalism is silent on the matter as well.
- Comment on So professional looking it must be true 2 months ago:
North Korea: Such a great nation, there’s no need or ability to ever leave.
- Comment on Paul Harrel has passed away from cancer 2 months ago:
The video was filmed in December of 2023 and he died in September of 2024. I’m glad he survived much longer than he thought he would, at least, but it’s a shame we lost him.
Rest in peace, Paul. You’ve earned it.
- Comment on A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. 2 months ago:
Maybe the real accessibility advocacy was the friends we made along the way.
- Comment on If you feel like you're always being watched, can you really claim to have integrity? 2 months ago:
Integrity isn’t just about doing the right thing when nobody’s watching; it’s also about being mindful of the consequences of your actions. Heck, I’d say that’s the more important side. You might start dumping chemicals into the water without treatment because it’s cheaper and there’s technically no laws against it. But you’re still going to be physically responsible when everyone who lives there starts miscarrying every single pregnancy and the town is abandoned because of your misdeeds.
- Comment on Irish Journalist Excellence 2 months ago:
This reminds me of that chart showing gun deaths over a few years that showed the line going down the more deaths there were. That made sense graphically, they colored it in to look like blood dripping down, but this is just dumb.
- Comment on I don't think it's true 2 months ago:
How long will this farce go on?
- Comment on Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month 2 months ago:
I think it depends on the amount of fun you have. There’s a difference between “I grinded for 30 hours to get this item, I felt pulled into doing it and now I’m 6 hours late for work” addictive fun, “I played for 30 hours on and off, it was such a relaxing experience” chill tf out fun, and “I played for 30 hours, I broke my controller from gripping it too hard and my heart was pounding the whole time” hardcore action fun. It’s tough to gauge a game just on how much time it takes to complete.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Political stances are relative across the globe. You can’t just draw a line in the middle of American political talking points and then apply that generalization to the rest of the world. It’s more useful to describe specific ideologies (although even that gets pretty muddy fast), but that wouldn’t be very practical for a bit either. Imagine if it somehow concluded that Mother Jones has a “minarchist-capitalist” bias. Still, I question the use of this bot, which is probably based on US terms, running this analysis on a site called “lemmy.world”.
- Comment on 'Elder Scrolls Online: Lamenting a challenge-free landscape' - article by Biobreak blog 3 months ago:
I’ve played about 150 hours of ESO. One of the big problems, IMO, is that the surface-world PvE story content is so unchallenging it’s boring. They made it so that someone with an intentionally atrocious build can solo everything that’s required for story progression, which means that anyone who puts the slightest thought into their character will steamroll the game. If I thought that’s all there was to the game, I wouldn’t have played it more than an hour.
Honestly, even the default-difficulty dungeons are lame. There’s technically a story in it, but everyone just rushes through it so fast that you have no idea what’s happening. All you know is that you and your party are sprinting from room to room, wiping out huge groups of enemies just by spamming your most efficient area attack. I play a healer character, a Templar in light armor, and when I do standard difficulty I think I pop a basic heal once the entire time if I’m lucky. Sure, the fast pace is exciting for the first few times, but you catch on at some point to the fact that you’re just mindlessly spamming AOEs every time.
If you actually want a challenging game, you need to do the world bosses, veteran dungeons, and trials. World bosses are technically group content, and there is usually a group running a schedule for the world bosses in each zone, but if you hate those people you can kill them yourself. Veteran dungeons are roughly on the same level of difficulty that WoW dungeons are. I actually have to pay attention to my positioning and resources when I’m in one, which is refreshing. Also nice is that the targeting system works seamlessly with my heals; all I need to do is point at my teammate and hit the spell key, no specific targeting required. It feels like I’m in a combat with magic I can control instead of playing with a UI. But anyway, it’s such a different experience from the default difficulty that I really recommend you try it out. You’ll be fine, I sucked my first few times and I never got vote-kicked or even flamed.
Trials are the one thing I don’t have experience with, and to my knowledge it’s the most challenging content by far. Someone else could tell you more about it, though. I also don’t have a ton of experience with PvP, other than getting ganked in Cyrodiil a few times while looking for delves and a match where I just ran around spamming heals and running away from enemies. My team didn’t win and I didn’t get so much as a single kill, but I got the highest score of anyone in the lobby. Good times.
- Comment on Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware 3 months ago:
Thank you based Ross.
I really don’t see why an indie dev would oppose this. If you were an artist, you wouldn’t want to watch your creation completely disappear from existence because you couldn’t keep working on it, would you?
- Comment on IF THIS WAS A PLAIN TEXT POST YOU WOULDN'T HAVE READ IT 3 months ago:
You should have named this “BECAUSE THIS IS A TEXT POST YOU WILL NOT READ IT” and put a heartfelt journal entry in here.
- Comment on Living in interesting times 3 months ago:
You think you do, but you don’t.
- Comment on Buy 7 Days to Die at your own risk 3 months ago:
The core problem with 7DTD is a lack of direction. The devs have spent the last however many years rebuilding the core aspects of the same over and over and over again instead of just deciding that they like what they have and refining that. I’m convinced this is what they’ll continue to do even after the “1.0” release they just did.
The only thing they’re sure of is that the players are playing the game wrong, and they will mercilessly nerf any particularly powerful strategy, trick, etc. that doesn’t fit wit their confused definition of what the game is. Really, the best thing I can say to someone interested in the game is, look at the end-game horde base builds. They follow bizarre logic that only follows around the nonsensical whims of the developers. It feels less like you’re surviving a brutal post-apocalypse and more like you’re playing a tower defense puzzle game. Something like Sanctum if it was a zombie survival game, ran like trash, and didn’t know what it wanted to be.
- Comment on Is everyone so depressed now partially because modern science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife? 3 months ago:
Really? Science disproved God? News to me, could you tell me more?
- Comment on Who's better at golf trump or biden. 4 months ago:
I have an idea for a debate. These two go to a golf course determined by a neutral third party (like, I dunno, make the Libertarian party agree on something for once in their lives) for a 9 hole game (18 holes probably wouldn’t work in the TikTok world). Eight topics, and then a concluding statement. On the first hole, they make their introductory statements between shots. They start with the same amount of time, but after that, they get more time to articulate their points based on how well they did on the last hole. After all the golfing is done, that’s when they deliver their concluding statements, again getting time based on how well they did.
Let’s settle the question of who the better golfer is once and for all.