Gloomy

Millennial here, bordering 40.

I just really don’t give a shit how anybody dresses. You want to rock cat ears and anime related stuff? Cool. Painted nails as a guy? Nice one. Wanna wear a dress as a guy? Go for it. Wanna dress like my parents did in their youth? Sure thing. Dress in a way that places you outside of a clearly recognizable gender? Why the fuck not.

Do i get this stuff? Not really. It’s mostly part of a world that i am very clearly not part of. And that’s fine. I don’t have to be in the loop here. Hell, i don’t even have to like outfits somebody, that is not me, is wearing.

Wear whatever you like. As long as it makes you happy and you feel like yourself in it, i just don’t give a fuck.

In this logic even red rooms are morally wrong.

Well there is this here:

And then of course there is the obvious choice:

While i have to admit that this was a fun article to read, i also feel the need to state that this is by far not a scientific source and borders between speculation and “conspiracy style” usage of selective information.

The article ends with this:

The reference to “Mystery Babylon — Mother of Harlots” is referencing Ishtar, the Mother of Harlots of Babylon…and her “mystery doctrines” such as salvation by sex for money. There are numerous other statue of other pagan deities in the US Capitol building and around the nation’s capitol city. America is indeed the Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17 and 18.

Suggesting that America is referenced to in a 2000 year old book is just… bulhshit, i gues.

I agree to a point. Getting older has changed how i interact with games and what i am looking for. I went from “i want something to hold my attention for a long night or seven” to “i want something that i can engage with while watching a video” or “i want something i can play in short bursts because i only have about an hour to play”.

And yes, the enthusiasm isn’t the same any more. I played Expedition 33 recently and while i liked it i’ve been sitting in the last bit for weeks no without touching the game.

Some things still grab me. I prolonged my studies by a semester (which is not expensive to do here) because i wanted to play through Baldurs Gate 3 before the kids are born.

Alh of that said, i still see how the industrie is beeing sett down the same path that took movies from us: more of uhe same, no risks, looks over substance. If not for Indie devs i’d likly moved on from gaming by now.

Schierke lief doe nou even rustig aan met die screenshots éénn of twee is genoeg hoor

Is this dutch? Without using translate, are you saying something about one or two screenshots being enough here?

Yeah, i had no idea and once i reached the white line i looked at the image and it switched in perspective from a 2D to a 3D perspective. Quite fazinating.

Sounds legit idk. A hobby is a hobby.

Hello, my name is Gloomy, from barleynews.wtf

Would you allow us to cite your comment in an upcoming article about the link between consumerism and a new AI driven trend, where an app takes random screenshots of you during your day and posts them to your social media account with AI enhanced captions fully automated?

One hurts a bit more and a bit longer.

The stabbing thing happened after he died.

Romans would brake the legs of crucified victims to check if they were still alive. In Jesus case they instead pocked him with a spear.

The person that wrote this part of the gospel (as in, very likley, made it up), had to write this in because they needed to keep the story of Jesus in line with old testament prophecies about the Messias, one of which speaks of said Messias beeing “unbroken”. So they came up with an alternative to the leg braking.

It’s one of several examples where gospel writers tried to write things into the gospel that made it look like Jesus was the Messias by inventing events about him that made his life line up with existing prophecies about the jewish messiah.

I’ve seen to much “I am sorry, Jon” content over on reddit. I looked at this and was like “Why hasn’t he turned into an eldritch beast yet?! Is there a panel missing?”

I always understood them as a way to signal to other drivers the reason for driving slow and / or more defensive.

to thaw out a frozen mouse for a snake

Was… Was that an euphemism?

That’s… That’s a big cat.

Fair enoth :-)

Duno… She looks like twelve or something.

I read the Dying Earth stuff. It’s writen between 1950 and the 1980is, I think. And you can fucking tell. It has rape scenes that are handed so utterly casual as if they said “and then the character got on a bus.” Got a lot of other problems along those lines too.

That said, it does give an interesting idea of how D&D Magic might look if you translate the game mechanics of spell slots etc. into how that would work and feel in a practical sense and what implications it would have for the world it is set in, in general.

But read it as a historical document, it you do so. It helps that the main protagonist is a fucking unlikeable brick.

Tell me you’re vegan without telling me you’re vegan ;-)

The hard part is not having every cake taste like banana bread. But I can confirm that it works if you know what to do.

Quality work right here (the meme, for fire not Ea-nāṣir).