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Watch some Sitting With Dogs videos and you'll get a good feel for dog body language and needs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Dz5d4mmdU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ptA-R6Gl0A
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Sometimes I feel like the only person who doesn't hate Ymir forest, lol, but I can see how it could cause problems if you don't have a really good memory for things because otherwise you'll end up back and forthing a LOT.

I've played most of the main Tales of games except for the Destiny 2, Rebirth, and Tempest (I get the distinct impression Tempest would be at the bottom of my list if I played it), but I also haven't played certain versions of games (ps1 destiny, DS Hearts/Innocence, some versions of Phantasia).

My favorites list goes something like:
Abyss > Berseria/Symphonia > Eternia/Innocence R > Vesperia > Graces F > Xillia 1-2 > Phantasia > Legendia > Arise > Hearts R > Destiny R > Symphonia 2 > Zestiria

Abyss has some dated gameplay but it's irrelevant to me; I like it's story the most by far so it's my favorite. Eternia, Innocence R, and Vesperia have pretty good qualities all around and some great qualities but some things hold them back a bit which keeps them out of the top 3 for me. The rest are a bit more nebulous. Graces and the Xillias have rough stories but their combat is really fun, however these games mark a downturn in level design that can't be overlooked and that's why they're below Graces F. Phantasia actually surprised me with how much I liked its story, but its gameplay holds it back. Legendia has a lot of issues but I think it had the potential to be one of the best; unfortunately it didn't get the budget it deserved and it shows, but if it ever gets remade, I think it has a lot to offer, and a great OST.

Arise was hyped a lot and ended up disappointing me as it retreaded a lot of old ground in the series and, imo, did it worse than much older games; I think I only liked 1 party member by the end of things, too, and I didn't care much for many of the new mechanics. Hearts R has fantastic gameplay but I did not care for the plot at all, and the cast made me want to throttle them most of the time, which is not great.

Destiny R, like Arise, was hyped up a lot, so I was very, very disappointed by it, and found characters who I was told were amazing to be extremely lacking- like Hearts R, the gameplay was good, but if I'm not enjoying the story, it doesn't mean much, and worse still, the game's story nose-dives later on, becoming more and more vapid and empty- I had expected the story to at least be better than Phantasia's, and imo, it wasn't. DotNW needs no explanation, it's garbage, but for some reason I actually kind of like it, so it's my guilty pleasure, and as such it doesn't get last place. That's Zestiria. I have never wanted to murder the camera in a Tales of game before. If that was my only problem, it would still be the worst Tales of game, but it's not. Combat is shit. Customization is shit. Story is weak. Cast is mostly obnoxious and boring. At least the music is good.
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I think I haven't had enough of it to judge really (I live in the middle of nowhere, I'm not getting good sushi here lol). I do like the veggie ones I've had, they're refreshing.
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Depends on the fixture you're putting it into.
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ALttP contains most information you need to beat it within it. It is not the game's fault if you didn't pay attention/think things through, and I am saying this as someone who got stuck for a while in several places. That was my bad as an 8 year old.

The first two games were a bit extreme on this front- especially the first one- but personally I feel ALttP hit the best balance between guiding you and expecting you to use your head of the games.

Damn_Underscore posted...
The problem I had was the one dungeon where you have to find a secret pathway randomly hidden in a waterfall
... But you can see the path from the adjascent room.
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lmao I'm sticking to PC and Nintendo from now on, this is ridiculous.
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People's opinions seem to differ greatly on this. Personally I liked XIII-2 more, but it does have some issues.

XIII is balanced a bit better (meaning overall the game is tougher and requires more strategy) but it has some obnoxious quirks like if the lead character dies, it's instant game over (this SUUUUUUUCKS I'm sorry it just does wtf were they thinking; XII didn't screw up like that). However, the optional side-quests that let you fight things in XIII are fun. XIII also starts INCREDIBLY slowly. It takes a VERY long time to open up, and a lot of people burn out on it.

XIII-2 has fucking QTEs, but they aren't terrible imo. It also has some puzzles which people seem to hate, but I didn't mind and also the internet exists if you really can't stand them. People also disliked that parts of XIII-2 were paid DLC when it first came out, and that's a VERY valid complaint, it was a terrible choice, but it's no longer an issue.

XIII is a bit more melodramatic/serious and has a better focus on multiple characters- it's more about character drama than plot really-, but the script is... sometimes it's really, REALLY bad, and I thought XIII-2's was a bit better. 2 also had a more interesting antagonist, I think, but the game often takes itself less seriously than XIII, which some people don't like. I'm ngl, I did not like XIII's story, so XIII-2's deviations didn't bother me like they did bother many fans of the original. In the first game I wanted to strangle most of the cast members for most of the story, lol. YMMV. Hard to say whether or not you'll jive with it, some people love one or hate the other, some hate both, some like both.

There are NPCs you can actually talk to in XIII-2, which is nice, but it also means that XIII is a more unusual JRPG because most of the time it's just the party talking amongst themselves or facing off against enemies. The XIII games have data logs which flesh out the story; it's not that you won't get it at all if you don't read them, but you might be confused at first because unlike other games, they often don't have the characters use exposition for the audience (although they constantly remind you that they are "SPOILERS OF COCOON!" for some reason, lol) and they use some technobabble (I'll try and fix that for you at the end of this post).

Personally, if you've tried to play FFXIII and didn't enjoy it, I would consider watching it sped up on Youtube and then playing the sequel. But if you haven't played it at all, I would at least try to play the first one, or maybe watch a little bit of gameplay to decide if you want to try it out? Here?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4cUWCixA8

Oddly, the third game is my least favorite, though it probably has the best combat of the three. I could not get over how atrocious the story is in 3 is and I didn't care much for any mechanics other than the combat. Most people say the first game doesn't get good until chapter 10. Chapter 10! but at least I can think of some sequences I really enjoyed. I did not like 13-3 at all.

For me it's 2 >> 1 >>>>>> 3.

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One issue people have is the lack of early-game clarity with some terminology. I'll just clear that up for you now without any spoilers:

Cocoon is a location, and you start inside it. It's really big. Sanctum is the name of Cocoon's government. Pulse is another location. It's even bigger. The two places historically have been at odds. If I recall correctly, in order to reach one place or the other, one has to fly (it's been a while since I played these games).

Fal'cie are big creatures that do important tasks. Sometimes they look less like living things and more like structures, but characters will usually point them out to you so don't sweat it. There are Pulse Fal'cie and Cocoon Fal'cie.

L'cie are humans the Fal'cie have made a connection to sort of, there's more to it but I won't go into more detail. Both Pulse and Cocoon Fal'cie can have L'cie.

Eidolons = name of the summons this time around. There are gods in this setting; keep an eye out for when they are mentioned as they become more and more relevant over the course of the games.
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Nichtcrawler-X posted...
With how much Abyss keeps getting passed over, they must have great plans for that one.
Pleeeeeeeeeeease... ;_;
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josh posted...
Hard times create strong monkeys
Nah, they usually just end up dead or traumatized, and being traumatized does not make you strong, lol.
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Hmm, yes, though I find chimps rather unsettling. They're extremely violent- not just violent, but sadistic, like humans can be. Gorillas, you have to be careful with as well, but not nearly as much as chimps so long as you follow most basic rules, you *should* be okay.

When my mother's father was stationed in Thailand (this would have been like 50+ years ago), they had a pet monkey. I don't remember what kind of monkey he was, though. Rhesus, maybe? What on earth they were doing with a pet monkey, I have no idea; my family is usually pretty good about animal rights (we have multiple animal rehab folk in the family), so maybe he couldn't be released or something. My mom's younger brother taught him to do backflips off of an elevated surface.

Monkeys in general are a very complex and diverse clade, so it's fine to feel different about individual species- heck, even individual members of individual species. I'm no fan of silverback gorillas, I hate to say. They are fascinating but terrifying, they frighten me more than sharks, gators, etc, but fortunately you are VERY unlikely to run into one and I think most people know what to do and not do around them. I think they just trigger an uncanny valley feeling in me on top of everything else.

On the other hand... there's this little guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_lion_tamarin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG8kx5moTqg
And the littlest guy:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p5uRpJpmTOA

ParanoidObsessive posted...
That low, huh?
What are you talking about? Cats are closer to the gods than us and they know it, lol. Well... some of them know it. XD
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I think once? A really long time ago. I have a vague memory anyway. It might have been a pony instead of a "horse" horse.
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Maybe? I'd have to ask my older family members. If I did, it was when I was really little.

There's a fenced field in the NE part of town that has horses near the sidewalk. If they're out, sometimes I'll give them something to munch on if I have something to offer when I walk by. It's been a while since I've been in that area, though... oh, I think I have a picture:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e9ab04ef.jpg
I took that photo years ago, but horses can live a long time, so I wonder if this one's still there.
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captpackrat posted...
Oh, they did worse than that. They forced Rosemary Kennedy to have a lobotomy, literally cutting out a chunk of her brain. The procedure left her with the mental capacity of a 2 year old. She was 23 at the time, and she lived to the age of 86.
Yeah. Karma sent brain worms to the wrong Kennedy; they should have gone to her parents.
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I think it was Pokemon White? But I don't think I finished it.
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rjsilverthorn posted...
There is something seriously wrong with that guy. The whole dead bear in Central Park thing was just messed up.
He's a Kennedy, of course there's something wrong with him. The whole family has a lot of problems. Parents locked away disabled family members and hid their existence from others, the two assassinated ones had a ton of personal baggage in addition to... being assassinated. Just sad, really. I can see how coming from a family like that could make a person exceptionally paranoid/prone to conspiracism, but that doesn't excuse the harm he's done:
In the piece, Kennedy relied extensively on the work of Mark Geier, a doctor whose license to practice medicine was revoked by Maryland in 2011. Geier pushed the vaccine-autism link as a frequent expert witness. He also misrepresented his credentials and developed "a 'protocol' for treating autism that involved injecting children with the drug that is used to chemically castrate sex offenders at a cost of upwards of $70,000 per year.
https://popular.info/p/the-pernicious-elite-obsession-with
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Jen0125 posted...
Why do you automatically assume it's fake?
It's a trauma response/defense mechanism, usually developed by people who have been on the receiving end of false apologies before.
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I don't hate dogs, but they are absolutely not for me.
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High school was the only time I wasn't shit on.

Regardless, I would be immediately suspicious of their motives, and would likely try to shut off communication asap.
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zhangliao1 posted...
Inaction isnt action and the fact that youre trying to argue that it is is ridiculous
Uh, no. This is actually a very old and well-understood concept.

Those who see action in inaction and inaction in action are truly wise amongst humans. Although performing all kinds of actions, they are masters of all their actions.

That's from the Bhagavad Gita. It's thousands of years old. You're getting tripped up by the "literal" meaning of the words rather than what they mean in practice.

https://moralguillotines.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/why-inaction-is-action/

You're just being a coward if you try to dodge responsibility for a choice by saying "I didn't act."
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Muscles posted...
If you don't act you are an observer of someone else's atrocity, if you do act you become a participant of the single person's murder
No. Inaction is in and of itself an action that one chooses. In the scenario you choose to either be responsible for 5 deaths or responsible for 1. People who try to weasel out of this are cowards; you are already a participant in the scenario. "I choose not to participate = I could have killed 1 person and saved 5, but I instead killed 5 people and saved 1."

If we apply your attitude to the real world, then the inaction of nations when the Rwandan genocide took place doesn't matter. The inaction of nations during the genocides happening NOW don't matter if that's the case. And that's ridiculous on its face.

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The only reason I wouldn't pull it is if I somehow find the single person's life more important than the group's. It can be both objective or subjective. Subjective is if the single person is someone I love. Objective is if the group consists of dangerous criminals or terminally ill people, or the single person is doing great things for humanity.
This is unfortunately where it gets muddled. There's lots of ways to complicate this, as the meme has demonstrated over the years, lol.
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Muscles posted...
The correct answer is to not pull it. If you pull it you are at least partially to blame for the single person's death, if you don't pull it you share none of the blame.
Inaction doesn't make you not culpable.

Anyway, I'd flip the switch and *try* (and fail) to save the one person. Maximizing harm reduction makes sense if you accept that the premise that the scenario does not allow for alternatives.
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Their pizzas are simultaneously very greasy and very unsatisfying... but I still like them. :-/
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Playstation 1, I think.

Maybe if it had been 2000-2001, I'd have picked N64, but without those, there's no Majora's Mask, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Paper Mario, Banjo-Tooie, Ogre Battle 64, Kirby 64, Mario Party 2, Pokemon Stadium...
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Just one pint? Beta.
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-kind of taste like chicken.
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Biscoff really do taste like high quality graham crackers.

They both have: wheat flour, sugar, salt, vegetable oils, leavening

Biscoff has: cinnamon and brown sugar syrup (the big difference), soya flour, emulsifier ( soya lecithin), acid (citric acid)

Graham crackers also have: honey and "artificial flavor"??? (the big difference), unbleached enriched flour, wheat starch

The end result is that Graham crackers are slightly simpler in flavor, have a different texture. Graham crackers are also shaped differently, like a flat grid cracker that can snap into 4 smaller pieces so that you can put things on them. There are variations but generally Graham crackers are a bit less "cookie-like" than Biscoff, if that makes sense. You can stick some graham cracker in your mouth and just let it dissolve into mush, which makes it a fairly safe sweet for young kids.
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Sega9599 posted...
What do you mean then by spirituality? It seems to be very unscientific when I look for definitions of it. Some unseen power that connects everyone. And I think people liking the values of Christianity, but denying any existence of a god or heaven or anything like that doesn't make them Christian at all. That's like me saying I'm muslim, but I dont believe in muhammed or allah, I just like the traditions and think some teachings are good.
Again, it sort of depends on your interpretation. I've met Christians who say that what it means to be Christian is to follow the teachings of Jesus, but that they don't see him as a divine entity (so they view him more like a spiritual leader like Siddhartha Gautama). This shouldn't surprise anyone; there are so many different interpretations of Christianity it'll make your head spin.

It is very interesting to hear some people say they are atheist but still religious and ascribing to Buddhism, for example as above. I'd never heard of that before.
It's definitely less common in the Americas and Europe, I think.

Wait wait wait. I'm not super super familiar with the story of Adam and Eve, but didn't they already know about God as they had talked and could talk and ask stuff, and had been given instructions?
Yes, but how could they make use of any of that? They had no knowledge that would give them context. They literally did not know what was right and wrong, that disobeying God was bad. God tells them they'll die if they eat the fruit, but they don't know what that even means. And the snake tells Eve God lied to them, how is she supposed to know the snake is lying? She doesn't know anything. It's like getting mad at a toddler for sticking doing something because their older sibling told them to do it.

But this is what happens when people try to make grand statements about the stories being literal and about God being absolutely moral and correct all the time and stuff, it turns stories that are meant to be explanatory and thought-provoking into... really deranged tales about an all-powerful being that keeps doing things that seem completely ridiculous.
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Maybe Mulan? (original obviously)

I like that one a lot. Emperor's New Groove, Lilo & Stitch, The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast are all great, too.

There are quite a few I haven't seen, though.
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Maybe he was worried about a trash goblin ambush.
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Nichtcrawler-X posted...
I do not have the legal background required to determine sentence lengths. I have trust in the system to work most of the time and that when it did not, the other systems in place can correct for that.
You're a fool. This guy was not let out because he changed. He was let out because his country wanted him to compete. You wanna see what rapists are like after this amount of time in prison?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGWdGXtedco&pp=ygUccmFwaXN0IHBhcm9sZSBoZWFyaW5nIHZpY3RpbQ%3D%3D
Now imagine the victim was TWELVE. TWELVE.

You trust the system because it's never fucked you. The rest of us know better. Tens of thousands of rape kits left unprocessed or just outright destroyed. Victims treated like the real perpetrators. Being forced to go to parole hearings to see the perpetrator over and over and over. And then he gets out and guess what happens? Just guess? You already know.
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Malleum posted...
They were both told in the beginning.
They were both told not to do something, but they had know knowledge that disobeying that order was wrong. Do you see the problem?

Sega9599 posted...
Atheism is non religious, not solely about Gods. No atheist I know says they believe in ghosts and an afterlife and crystal vibes and auras, but just no creator lol
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Jainism... I think there are some interpretations of Hinduism, and even some Christian sects that are atheistic. You're just wrong, dude. *shrug*

That's not how the law works. Break the law in a different country and say "well i just didn't know bro, so it's not my fault".
It depends on one's interpretation, however, in this instance, the individuals in question were physically incapable of educating themselves, unlike people irl. In such a case, ignorance literally is an excuse; there was no way for them to know, and they were set up to fail. I'm not going to strike a dog for not obeying me when it couldn't really even conceive of why it should.

adjl posted...
Philosophically, I personally see it as .... teaching humility.
I agree. It is unfortunate that people try to interpret these stories so literally. Unfortunately, for many Christians, they feel they *must* because they think much of what Jesus did relies on "original sin" being an actual literal thing.

I find a lot of modern Christianity to be both dull and repugnant, which is disappointing.
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Only so much time in the day.
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_Mortal_Kombat posted...
Boos continued to rain.
I hope someone makes a compilation video.
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IqarP15 posted...
The forbidden fruit was a test. But blaming Adam who didn't really know until afterwards is kind of a downer for us males otherwise we still be in the garden. Why should GOD tell us don't do that or this every time we are about to make a morally wrong choice? It is all right there in the 10 commandments.
If you don't have knowledge that disobedience is bad, then you cannot be faulted for being disobedient. And faulting people for being deceived is shitty, too. This applies to both humans in the story, not just the "male."

Meanwhile in the real world if someone's car is stolen, everyone starts screaming "why'd you leave your doors unlocked?!" God set them up to fail and then punished them for it. Why should anyone beg for forgiveness for something somebody else did in ignorance? Sometimes I'm a little baffled that people look at this story and see it as somehow less bizarre or more special than any other weird-ass origin story from any other land.
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Sega9599 posted...
These topics tend to be heavily and acceptingly pro atheism and how stupid or delusional Christians are though. It would be nice to hear from an atheist who stopped believeing in crystals or who was an ex muslim or who no longer believes in the 'ancient ancestral spirits', for a change. We never do though.
Atheism is about GODS, not crystals or spirits. And ex-Muslims are pretty common, actually, I just don't know that any are on this particular board, but you'll find that a lot of their arguments will be similar to ex-Christians for rather obvious reasons.

This is going off on a tangent but if people do want to learn a lot about the roots of stuff in these religions I'd suggest starting with Esoterica:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel/videos
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No, I'm too uncoordinated and would probably set myself on fire or something (I have problems lol). I do find cooking interesting, though, and I used to watch cooking shows.
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Sega9599 posted...
Which Ray Comfort video is that?
*shrug* been over a decades since I listened to that dishonest grifter. It's an argument he regularly used, but I couldn't tell you if he still does.

Christians are allowed to be offended in the same way that Muslims are allowed to be offended by anyone disrespecting their prophet.
Yeah, if it's about them, sure. Too bad it's not.

I don't know, maybe you're right and it was not intended to reference anything Christian at all. And of course some go too far by spreading hatred and bigotry.
But that's literally all this freakout is. By calling the characters in the performance demons, and calling the performance a satanic mockery of The Last Supper out of ignorance, that is an attack against the people who made and performed it. I have no respect for Christians who hate the gays more than they love their neighbor.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iupSzQY1pD0&ab_channel=RevEdTrevors
Slight bump but I liked this video on the subject.
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I agree with you that the Fromsoft games made a mistake when they decided that the way to go with boss designs was to make enemies with longer and flashier combos. That's just ANNOYING, and it can make a lot of fights feel very samey. Those should be reserved for only really special fights, and I mean REALLY special fights. It should be very, very rare if it happens at all.
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He's going to assault more children. He was basically given a green light. Not only will he get a slap on the wrist; he's been empowered to represent his country on the global stage.
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He looks like Percival from Critical Role.
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Your cat knows what he you really need, and is performing cat duties admirably.
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That doesn't sound right to me but okay.
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maybe this year will be better than the last.

Heard this song on the bus a day or two after my stepdad died at the hospital. That was not a fun experience.
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That short looks vaguely familiar.

You know what the sad thing is? I think the people who most need to learn lessons from that short would instead think that it's a warning about evil foreigners and why one must rigidly enforce national borders, because the threat in the story is the fox behind the fence. :-/
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Too expensive, I don't do sushi.
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ConfusedTorchic posted...
super ness
So that's where the Chaos Emeralds went.
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I say all three, actually. I'm annoying like that, I guess.
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the_waffler posted...
To be clear, I wouldn't have known any of this without research. But that's exactly what makes me so mad about a lot of conservatives and their mouth-pieces. They don't care if they have even the slightest idea what they're talking about. They will just start blabbering and living out their victim-complex and will learn absolutly nothing from being proven wrong time and time again.
This is the problem with ignorance. If you don't learn about anything beyond your own life, the only way you ever understand anything is to try and reframe it within the context of your own limited world view. If you don't know something as simple as "hey look at that weird headpiece that blue dude is wearing, I've seen stuff like that a lot in Greek mythology," but you do know that "demons exist, gay people bad, gay people and demons! DEMONS AND GAY PEOPLE! TABLES WITH PEOPLE ALONG THEM! MUST BE MOCKING JESUS! MUST BE!" well...

Someone with a world view this narrow actively does not want to learn. They care more about the narrative than anything else, because forcing everything they see to follow a narrative in their head makes their life simple and easy to understand. They don't WANT to think or learn about other cultures or history because it undermines the story by which they shape the thoughts they have on the world. If you asked them why it is that there's so much Roman-esque architecture in old US government buildings, they wouldn't be able to tell you, because after all, this is a CHRISTIAN nation built of CHRISTIAN values, not degenerate evil GAY ROMANS (heh).

They don't know anything about other cultures, and therefore any symbolism that isn't overtly Christian to them? To them, it MUST be DEMONIC. It MUST be, especially if it has ANYTHING to do with LGBT+ people.

Worse still, they are convinced that educating themselves about anyone or anything that doesn't just reinforce their beliefs would be a threat to their faith, so they actively spurn learning anything about anyone else. In so doing, they trap themselves into this ignorant world view, where they don't understand anything, but they don't have to, because anything they don't understand = DEMONS! SATAN! DEVIL! and so act as though they do, in fact, already have all the answers even though there's not a thing rattling around between their ears. This is a very easy line of thought for them to fall into because it's also the way they think about other parts of their religion. Example:
Ray Comfort: How did matter come into being?
?: We don't know exactly, but we are pretty sure about how the universe came to be shaped how it is.
Ray Comfort: Well, I know how. God made it come into being, and I know that because the Bible says so and the Bible is the Word of God so that's how it happened.
?: How do you know the Bible is the word of god? And how did god do that?
Ray Comfort: Because it is, and He just did.

Proving the veracity of the narrative is irrelevant. It is taken as given that it is true. Evidence doesn't matter. What's important is supporting one's "story."

This isn't necessarily where stupid narratives like "pokemon is demonic" originate, but it IS how such a narrative propagates among believers.
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MICHALECOLE posted...
No Im johnny Knoxville welcome to jackass
In all seriousness, I've never watched them. I don't watch movies very much unless someone else invites me to watch with them. It's not that I dislike movies, but I don't feel much motivation to watch them on my own either.
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MICHALECOLE posted...
Hi Im Johnny Knoxville and welcome to jackass
I thought you were MICHALECOLE?
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