Joe Rogers
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Joe Rogers
@Joe_Hobbies
Miniature nerd & RPG-er: All hail Blibdoolpoolp! Fan of spiders. Minion of Drogheda Games Club. {Louth, Ireland} #DnD #Warhammer
Ireland Beigetreten Mayıs 2024
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Pop Culture Crisis star Mary Morgan says the idea of Pragmata naturally gives people the creeps:
"Childless men do not have paternal instincts the way that childless women have maternal instincts (we observe this even in the way little girls play vs. little boys). Men first experience paternal instincts once they have their own children - and typically, those paternal instincts are only ever felt for their own children, and no one else’s.
"Men are not nurturers. men don’t gush over cute kids in public. men don’t have baby fever. if a man wants to possess a child for any reason other than it being a product of his own lineage, he is likely a predator. and you’d be taking the feminist/radical gender abolitionist position to protest any of the above points. this should explain why a 'dad simulator' game marketed to mostly childless men gives people the creeps."
Is she right about this?


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@Pirat_Nation Lung cancer rates back to even when dogs smoked.
1970s: Approximately 38,000 cases per year
Present Day: Approximately 49,300 cases per year.

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Parliament has passed the UK’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill to create the first smoke-free generation.
From 2027 the legal age to buy cigarettes and tobacco will rise by one year every single year.
Anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be legally able to purchase them in their lifetime.
Current adult smokers are completely unaffected, this only targets future generations.


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Things are about to go BOOM.
العميد إبراهيم ذو الفقاري@Ibrahim_alFiqar
Everyone must leave the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain,Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait immediately. Seamen on all vessels in the Arabian Gulf must also prepare to evacuate their ships This is especially urgent for vessels near the Strait of Hormuz which will be destroyed first. Time is running out
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"[Farmers] still see themselves as the people who bring money and jobs into Ireland, where actually a lot of the time they bring costs on Ireland...[Urban Ireland] are the ones paying all the bills", Varadkar said:
gript.ie/varadkar-says-…
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@Nerdcognito @LostLoreScholar I became a whoremonger with untold wenches buried in my basement...
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@RinoTheBouncer No one has mentioned FFVII where Jenova is the main villain being everything?
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Joe Rogers retweetet

#SpaceMarine2 has now welcomed 12 million players. 🥹🎉
A couple years ago, we had great hopes for this project. Today, it has surpassed even our wildest dreams.
Thank you twelve million times over. 💙

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@NornQueenKya @DYorgy @For_Macragge It was cheaper for me to buy a printer and print out the heresy shoulder pads and heads than it was to buy shoulder pads and heads from games workshop
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Calling people stupid for supporting their hobby to continue to hobby is definitly a take
I own a 3d printer. I also own more then 1 real Titan. Planning to buy more. As @For_Macragge said, its the journey. Printing comes with its own challenges but nothing replaces the several month long kit building experience for me.

Crane Gunner Lee@BattleSquire90
I saw a post about a GW titan, you are actually stupid if you buy one from GW. The numbers have been crunched multiple times, it’s cheaper to buy a whole 3d printer and print it yourself.
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@cmisbackagain @Caoimhinn55 On what the hate speech bill, the women referendum? Consistently taken an "unpopular" approach different to the government and "opposition" and then proven right by the public
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@Joe_Hobbies @Caoimhinn55 Aontú haven’t made their mind up
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@DungeonNoir It was modular and mathematically robust but far too complicated with a zillion feats and skills and iterative attacks.
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More people hating on this edition than my 4E post. Thats Twitter for ya, a vocal pissed off old bastard minority.
I know, I’m one.
Ben@DungeonNoir
Once again… someday
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I have conversed with a woman before, during, and after a demonic possession. The "during" conversation was exceedingly unpleasant.
Before, she was a lady that me and my LDS companion were teaching, on my mission to the wicked pagans of Los Angeles. She seemed normal enough. Her husband didn't seem interested in our church, but politely sat nearby while we taught her. Her weirdest quirk was her absolutely firm faith in astrology.
We got a call from the husband. She was in the VA hospital in West Los Angeles and he wanted us to give her spiritual comfort. We assumed she was there for some physical issue but when we found her, she was strapped to a gurney in the hallway, shouting and cursing, with a hideously distorted face. It wasn't like the same woman at all. She was unable to communicate with us except to (A) curse us and (B) demand help unbuckling her which we did not do. We said a prayer, but didn't formally attempt to cast out any evil spirit (felt we needed permission and husband wasn't there).
Apparently they gave her a heap of drugs and released her. I only spoke with her once after she came home, after which I was assigned to a different area. She was kind of strung out on the drugs. The husband now was interested in religion however. so missionaries kept teaching him.
Was she possessed or was it a psychotic break? Obviously I had no way to diagnose or analyze her. But what I WILL say is that her condition at the hospital would have been recognized as diabolic possession in any pre-modern culture in the the world (and some modern). So it was clearly the same event, whatever that event comes from.
I am content to think it was the devil, possibly taking advantage of previously unseen mental issues, but I am also okay with anyone who thinks it was purely something else. It was horrifying.
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So here's the thing. Every atheist I know that has kids spends time trying to explain to them why there's no God, and why churches are (more or less) bad. And every agnostic I know with kids, who never talks to their kids about God, tells me that their kids kind of seek out spirituality and sometimes even prayer on their own. They think it's from peers.
But I think the fact that every culture in the world, regardless of how distant they are from others, maintains a belief in the supernatural, indicates that this has a basis, either in something fundamental and unique to humans, or in reality. It cannot be just "old falsehoods we're carrying on" because animals don't have instinctive worship and belief. But we do. There's evidence that Neanderthals did as well.
So something is going on. This isn't proof that God exists of course. But it's evidence that we should probably do more research into this human trait instead of just dismissing it as superstition.

Internet Atheists@AtheistTakes
Atheism is not a belief!
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