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  1. Comment on Digimon Adventure tri. 1: Reunion in ~anime

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    Is this just tri, or a re-releaae or a remake? Sorry, content not available in my country.

    Is this just tri, or a re-releaae or a remake? Sorry, content not available in my country.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    So far, I've only game over'd two times, once because I got stupid confident with a new partners and chained a bunch of noise in a row, and once against a boss fight with the new black noise. I...

    So far, I've only game over'd two times, once because I got stupid confident with a new partners and chained a bunch of noise in a row, and once against a boss fight with the new black noise.

    I think I just need to figure out which pins I like. I'm trying to use then all because I want to level them and don't want to waste exp, but maybe that's a waste of time and I should just use the ones that feel better to use.

  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I've beaten Stella Glow. First I thought it was a harem anime game. And, well, it's not not that. But it's also genuinely charming, has really engaging characters, and really fun gameplay. I'm...

    I've beaten Stella Glow. First I thought it was a harem anime game. And, well, it's not not that. But it's also genuinely charming, has really engaging characters, and really fun gameplay. I'm glad I gave it a second chance.

    I am now playing The World Ends With You. I had a hard time deciding on Final Remix, Solo Remix or the original, and decided on the original, because I like the idea of having my partner fight at the same time..I don't think I'm good at this game, I feel I'm mostly smashing buttons. But the story is really fun so far.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    This is one things Christians, even formerly Christian atheists, do not understand. Belief in God is not the core determinant of your spiritual views in many (most?) cultures. There are millions...

    This is one things Christians, even formerly Christian atheists, do not understand. Belief in God is not the core determinant of your spiritual views in many (most?) cultures. There are millions (billions?) of Chinese, Japanese and Indians who pray at shrines, draw fortunes, honour the local gods. If you ask them if they believe in them, you'll get a gamut of answers, but mostly shrugs. Where does belief come into this? The important part is the ritual and practice. They might belheve in the god some days but not others, depending on things.

    It is a uniquely Christian (and Muslim, and other universal religions) to define your religious position on whether or not you think gods literally exist or not.

    6 votes

  5. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    The wine might vary. Some places also dip the wafer in the wine too.

    The wine might vary. Some places also dip the wafer in the wine too.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    I don't agree. An atheist coming from Christianity is different from one in China, and again different from someone simply raised without religion. Both me and my wife are atheists, but I grew up...
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    I don't agree. An atheist coming from Christianity is different from one in China, and again different from someone simply raised without religion. Both me and my wife are atheists, but I grew up Catholic and had to fight my way out, whereas she grew up in a society where belief in God just wasn't a thing.

    This has practical consequences. She's able to go to a church or a mosque or whatever and sing choirs to God, or close her eyes when people pray to Mary, etc. it means absolutely nothing to her, a Greek pagan might as well be sacrificing a goat to Zeus. Whereas it took me a long time to get out of the Christian-atheist paradigm that grew up with, and start to become able to to go a Mass and not feel a bunch of resentment and arrogance about it. Our atheisms are different.

    There's nothing wrong with being an atheist with a Protestant worldview. But what's frustrating is to see an atheist with a Protestant worldview pretend that liturgical languages (a practice going back to Sumer and Akkad) are obviously silly, and vernacular languages so obviously better. Neither is better than the other, it's just different religious traditions.

    22 votes

  7. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    To the Orthodox, the Catholics aren't heretics, they're schismatics. Both of them still follow apostolic succession though, and recognise each other as having properly descended from the apostles...

    To the Orthodox, the Catholics aren't heretics, they're schismatics. Both of them still follow apostolic succession though, and recognise each other as having properly descended from the apostles in one unbroken line.

    20 votes

  8. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    Religion notoriously also transcends language. Music is part of culture, but like, so is religion. Religion has been a core part of culture since the dawn of history.

    Religion notoriously also transcends language. Music is part of culture, but like, so is religion. Religion has been a core part of culture since the dawn of history.

    17 votes

  9. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    They're not. Mass doesn't really change, you pick these things up, or ask the priest or your school to explain later if you're interested. Or don't and just sit there and vibe.

    They're not. Mass doesn't really change, you pick these things up, or ask the priest or your school to explain later if you're interested. Or don't and just sit there and vibe.

    14 votes

  10. Comment on Should the plural of "milf" be "milfs" or "milves"? in ~humanities.languages

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    I really do think it's MILFs. We say gifs and radars, right? We usually pluralise acronyms as they are.

    I really do think it's MILFs. We say gifs and radars, right? We usually pluralise acronyms as they are.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on Blizzard sues to take down another private World of Warcraft server, Project Ascension in ~games

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    Yup. There's nothing Blizz can do to win me back, really. Nothing they could realistically do, anyway. They can take down every single pserver and back my computer to take out my personal one, and...

    Yup. There's nothing Blizz can do to win me back, really. Nothing they could realistically do, anyway. They can take down every single pserver and back my computer to take out my personal one, and then I'd just find a different game. I just don't want to give MS or Blizzard any money, and interact with them as little as possible.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Blizzard sues to take down another private World of Warcraft server, Project Ascension in ~games

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    Someone else can correct me, but it seems the Ascension devs turned out to be American. Which, if true, yikes.

    Someone else can correct me, but it seems the Ascension devs turned out to be American. Which, if true, yikes.

  13. Comment on Blizzard sues to take down another private World of Warcraft server, Project Ascension in ~games

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    I really hope the pserver community that comes out at the end of this is less... greedy. All these pservers take the hard work from the open source AzerorhCore project, monetise it with cash...

    I really hope the pserver community that comes out at the end of this is less... greedy. All these pservers take the hard work from the open source AzerorhCore project, monetise it with cash shops, and then contribute nothing upstream, which you're not meant to do under the license. Which sounds a bit rich for a game essentially form pirates, I suppose, but then I don't feel too sorry when they get shut down either.

    If they all contributed their fixes and enchancements upstream, not only would the project as a whole be much more developed (which benefits everyone, players and devs), but also pretty hard to take down.

    If you're going to run the game as a passion project, like the current City of Heroes Homecoming devs (who cap donations at server costs), then I support that 100%. But if you're going to try to run this as a business, and try to profit off of it, not just cover costs? Then you're playing with fire, and shouldn't be shocked if you're get badly burnt.

    6 votes

  14. Comment on GOG apologies for emailing Nazi runes to its followers in ~games

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    8th century? The Umayyads or the Abbasids, probably, depending on when specifically. I think the Romans are a strange group for the far right and Nazis to latch on to, because while yes they were...

    8th century? The Umayyads or the Abbasids, probably, depending on when specifically.

    I think the Romans are a strange group for the far right and Nazis to latch on to, because while yes they were authoritarian, imperial, etc etc, they were also extremely ethnically diverse. Like, Romans did not give a shit if your grandpa was a Pecheneg, a Gaul, a Punic, etc. They were absolutely cultural supremacists, but if you spoke the right language, wore the right clothes, has the right values, you were Roman.

    But I agree, if you already have an ideology in place, you just try to look for things that support it. That's true of anyone, I suppose.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on GOG apologies for emailing Nazi runes to its followers in ~games

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    It legitimately made Italian fascists angry, and was a point of contention. Like the Germans were trying to steal their revanchism. But Nazi ideology couldn't accept that the mighty Mediterranean...

    It legitimately made Italian fascists angry, and was a point of contention. Like the Germans were trying to steal their revanchism.

    But Nazi ideology couldn't accept that the mighty Mediterranean Romans were civilisationally superior (in their own definition of civilised) to the barbaric German tribes. At least, not without the empire secretly being led by Aryans somehow.

    (which just means Iranian, god the Nazis were weird)

    2 votes

  16. Comment on GOG apologies for emailing Nazi runes to its followers in ~games

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    Sure, but I'm talking about Nazis proposing that blonde Aryans ruled the actual classical Roman Empire from Rome in the era of Augustus. Nothing to do with the HRE. They did refer to the HRE as...

    Sure, but I'm talking about Nazis proposing that blonde Aryans ruled the actual classical Roman Empire from Rome in the era of Augustus. Nothing to do with the HRE. They did refer to the HRE as the First Reich, but it's not what I'm referencing.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games

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    My wife destroyed that game. I was just happy with the campaign, but she maxed out the Spanish (or Italian?) drug lord factions that you had to go out of your way to reach.

    My wife destroyed that game. I was just happy with the campaign, but she maxed out the Spanish (or Italian?) drug lord factions that you had to go out of your way to reach.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Kingdom Hearts IV | Gameplay teaser trailer in ~games

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    I think I'm not a KH fan anymore, which is sad. Like, I don't think there's anything particularly egregious with the trailer. But I look at it, and I just kinda feel... nothing, I think. I've...

    I think I'm not a KH fan anymore, which is sad. Like, I don't think there's anything particularly egregious with the trailer. But I look at it, and I just kinda feel... nothing, I think. I've turned into Xemnas.

    I hope this weird Versus XIII renewal project goes well, and that the people that like the direction of the story have a grand time. But I fell in love with KH because Cloud and Simba were in there, and I don't think that's what the series wants to be anymore.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on GOG apologies for emailing Nazi runes to its followers in ~games

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    Nazis are so fucking weird. Slavic runes from an ethnicity they despised. They called themselves Aryans, which means Iranians. They also larped that the Roman Empire was actually created by...

    Nazis are so fucking weird. Slavic runes from an ethnicity they despised. They called themselves Aryans, which means Iranians. They also larped that the Roman Empire was actually created by Germans, oissing off Mussolini. And they have a weird thing about Nordic gods?

    If you're going to insist on the superiority of your culture, it's just so weird how much they take from others.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    Super happy I got a retro console instead of a Steam Deck. Lighter, cheaper, and plays basically anything I want it to. I suspect those will go up in price too, but not to this extent.

    Super happy I got a retro console instead of a Steam Deck. Lighter, cheaper, and plays basically anything I want it to.

    I suspect those will go up in price too, but not to this extent.

    3 votes