Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
Fingers crossed. Behaviorally he's entirely himself, for now, but the kidneys are failing.
He's on a renal diet to help with that, but all it's likely to do is somewhat extend whatever time he has left.
The ending is about how the woman and the dude she ends up with, decide to rejoin the universe, so the big crunch can happen.
Save? Sniff meant to say stole. He clearly knows, too, commenting they'll end up locked up.
I really need to write the script to automate these. Had a string of vet visits, and I've been dealing with the dread of possibly losing my cat soon.
Keeping up with the stuff I post manually got deprioritized.
Pretty well summed up. I checked in on things now and then when kbin was still fairly functional.
Ernest went radio silent for long stretches of time, where before he was pretty active on kbin. He resurfaced a couple times to let people know he wasn't dead or anything, and explained that some fairly serius medical issues were keeping him from doing much work.
He expressed a desire and hope to return to running kbin, but it wasn't to be. Eventually the main instance just broke, and without Ernest around to fix it, it stayed that way.
As mentioned, we now have mbin (fedia.io) which is being developed by other developers and building atop kbin.
Hopefully Ernest is able to take care of himself, whatever he is now up to.
Let me put it in much fever words.
How can you claim to love me, even as you accept a god that judges me deserving of literally infinite pain? If I am truly that bad, how can I possibly deserve your acceptance?
And if I'm not that bad, how can you be ok with worshipping a god, that so insanely arbitrarily, condemns someone you love?
You cannot save me. The only way out for me, in your belief system, is for your god to spare me. But you and me both know you don't worship that kind of god.
I've deconstructed theological "logic" to the point of boredom.
I can't say as a secular thinker that I'm anything like "open-minded" to religion. I used to describe myself as agnostic, but that is a mere stop along a road to the truth of anti-theism.
And that road absolutely has a "wrong" direction. At this point, there is zero chance of anyone converting me. No-one has ever said a word to me that managed to shake that conviction even for a second. I'm at a point where I fail to see the point of religion even as a mere human institution of utility. All it seems to do is twist perception of reality en-masse, causing all the evil it does, and making all the good it does less efficient.
Both sides do not need to be open to convincing, for us to have a discussion about whether Santa exists. We can still talk about it even if one us knows he doesn't. And I would consider an adult changing their mind on Santas non-existence, to be an obvious regression. A child who is never falsely told by anyone that Santa exists, will never need to have that belief dispelled. The very same things are true for religious discussion.
It's not even that I won't listen anymore. It's merely that where I am now, I starting to hear the same arguments repeatedly, to the point that I can regularly re-use counter-arguments.
You speak of behaviour you'd consider destructive, as if we're talking about things a person chooses to be. We are not. Your god will judge me based on a set of a couple reasonable, and great very many arbitrary standards, obviously set for the convenience of those in power when they were written/last updated.
I hope you have your paradigm shift. Religions are born from human lies, and sometimes truths worshipped beyond reason. As such I will never see where people subscribing to them are "coming from". I can understand, but never agree.
The very definition of faith is belief without evidence, and I have never met a religious person who claims to have evidence, who isn't just interpreting circumstances, or mistaking their inner monologue for the voice of god.
My genocidal elf can't be this cute.
I find it wierd the anime got named "Journeys End" when the manga is literally called "Frieren the Slayer":
Whenever you see content that would fit in other communities, mention them in a comment. Even if it isn't consequently cross posted there, people looking at the post are likely to be interested, leading to discovery.
One I use, is stagger crossposts.
If you're not sharing something time sensitive, post to each relevant community with several hours of time delay inbetween. (I often do days or even weeks)
This will prevent the usual de-duplication of the posts, thereby preventing the biggest post from cannibalizing the upvotes from the rest, and is a soft excuse to repost something a few times.
People will discover the communities which were posted to earlier, from the newr posts. I try to go from smallest to biggest in order, as the first will benefit the most.
As long as you're equally prepared to be deconverted.
I have argued theists into corners, and at that point they disengage, or begin to pick and choose what parts of what I'm saying they will acknowledge.
The problem for me, is that for me to let you be, I just need to be ok with you believeing in some things that aren't real. As long as your conduct is acceptable and fair, I have no reason to intervene aside from a respect for truth.
Still, all religion is harmful, because belief in the unreal distorts reality, and impacts how you vote and make consequential decisions, affecting humanity as a whole. Individual behaviour is mostly benign, but as institutions religions are wrecking balls rolling through civilisation and history.
Even here you talk about how you wish to convince me by "living by example" as if religion provides something I would want, that I can't have any other way. All it has to offer are lies, and I have refused to believe them. Nothing you can say or do is more convincing to me than whatever a Muslim, Hindu, or the ancient greeks, might say.
But still, to placate your own sense of guilt, you might pray for me. But then, you're not letting me be. You're not accepting the way I've chosen to live life. If you want god to intervene, you've rejected me, and my choice.
This is what "there is no hate like christian love" refers to. You will openly express love, while completely failing to understand that your beliefs reject parts of who some people are. You do not love us. You do not accept us. You feel like you do and you say that you do.
But all thats felt at the other end, is the rejection. The knowledge that someone who is supposed to care about you, deep in their heart, with the fiery passion of religious conviction, believes that something about the way you are, is so deeply wrong, that you deserve literal eternal punishment.
Do you have any idea how deeply that wounds?
This simple reality turns the love you feel and attempt to express for someone, into the most vile, abhorrent, twisted feeling of rejection it is possible to inflict on another. And the more you express it, the more it hurts. Some people kill themselves because of it.
Those of us who maintain friendships with you, simply ignore that part of how you feel. I can't do it. I can't be friends with someone who thinks I'll go to hell for being me. They'll never convert me, and if they are ok with that, I can barely stand being in the same room. And if they do try to convert me, refer back to my second paragraph.
How are you able to love me, and also let me be, even as you genuinely believe that "my journey" ends in eternal suffering? Or how can you expect me, to accept someone who can do that, as a genuinely good person?
Or since they are right next to each other, it could be just one big touch surface.
The deck isn't great, it works for some people, and is still really good for the rest, but the touch pads are pretty awkward for a lot of us. If the new valve controllers ergonomics are equivalent to the deck, it won't be worth ditching the DS5 for me.
Thats because once discussion on something concludes, you generally make it law.
"Murder is bad" is very much agreed on to be a good thing. To me it is only logical for the next step to be "verbally encouraging or excusing murder is bad", which might not need to be law, but it should at least not be state backed.
There is a difference between being allowed to say whatever you think, and having the state guarantee that whatever you have to say is actually heard.
Not being heard or listened to, is not a violation of free speech. Being removed or "silenced" online or even physically in public, is not a violation of your free speech.
Free speech is to be free to say whatever you like, but it does not protect you from what other citizens do in response.
If you insult someone, and they punch you in the face in response, your free speech was not violated.
"Hate speech" is a category of "opinion" that is obviously harmful that anyone thinking straight should immediately dismiss it. The problems have started because thanks to the internet, those "opinions" can now reach all the people who aren't thinking straight.
For those who do identify hate speech easily, to protect those who don't, by at least not propagating it (social media, government) is the bare minimum of what they can do.
Taking away the megaphone if someone is using it to encourage murder is not a violation of free speech. And it's necessary.
With a megaphone, you don't need to be right. You just need to be heard by enough people that the tiny percentage that will believe whatever you say, is a large enough group to be dangerous.
"There's no hate like christian love."
How do you reconcile being a good person, with respecting other people's beliefs, and not trying to convert people?
By your own system of belief, your inaction allows evil to reign.
I absolutely do blame religion for some the worst behaviours exhibited by believers, as it puts them in an impossible position.
If a genuine believer loves a non-believer, how can they be a good person within their own world view, if they do not try to save them?
But if they do try to save them, they will fail to be good person in the world view of the person they are trying to save.
You can't do both, and as far as I can tell, most religions work this way.
To treat people with real respect believers universally have to engage in some of the most precarious double-think I can imagine.
It isn't fair to anyone that you have to "suspend your disbelief" for reality the way we do for fiction, just to come across as a reasonable person.
I would thank Jesus for bread, but didn't we have the stuff figured out quite a while before he showed up?
It mostly does.
As someone with big hands, I can't use the touchpads comfortably without scooting my grip downwards in a way that makes it precarious and less than comfortable.
I have a similar problem with the Index controllers. My thumb is too long to comfortably rest on any of the controls if I grip the grip where you're supposed to to be able to strap your hand in.
Good economics is supposed to work for everyone, and I've yet to try a valve hardware product that fully pulls it off. Maybe the first controller did, but I haven't tried that one.
Oh hell yeah.
The ergonomics on these look to be miles ahed of the index controllers. Much closer to the original touch controllers, which I still consider the best I've ever tried.