The Umbra
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@HobbitDumbass @ArkaneStudios My biggest crime is not having played pray 😩
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#dishonored Many many years ago we worked together with (late) Viktor Antonov and visually developed a new game and pitch it to be greenlit... Just happened to turn out to be Dishonored! Fond memories!
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As much as I prefer Dishorned over Dishonored 2, Karnaca trumps Dunwell in almost every aspect. The general atmosphere, diagetic soundtrack, and level designs are the best in the franchise.
Like, all the maps are so memorable
Bel@itsmebelb
This game has so much sauce man🤤
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@salt_icxc Iirc, the apostles heard this and asked Jesus for more faith. He responded that you don't need much, and it's expected of you.
I also struggle with this. A "friend" hurt me worse than any enemy. I don't want them to go to hell, but I also don't want to ever see them again.
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Dealing with a hard personal situation:
Jesus says to forgive others "seventy times seven" (infinitely) and that unless we forgive others, our Heavenly Father won't forgive us.
He goes further and commands us to:
- "whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also"
- "if anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also".
- "do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you"
What if the person sinning against you knows what they are doing but are totally unrepentant? They say "I'm sorry" ONLY because they know you're waiting to hear those words. But at heart, they are unmoved.
What if that person slaps you on the cheek and EXPECTS you to turn the other cheek because they knows you're Christian and have to do that? What if they mention God and forgiveness hypocritically in an attempt to manipulate your faith to their advantage?
What if, in spite of all this, you've forgiven them plenty of times already, showed them grace and kindness over and over and over again, fed them when they were hungry, helped them out of hard financial situations, but they spit on all of it and then double down on their sin?
Praying for grace and discernment about this because it's weighing heavily on me.
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@Kirito02016 If you can git gud, it's one of the best combat systems ever designed
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自分はSEKIROの弾きが好きなんですが、それはシステムとしてというより"コンセプト"や"演出"としてで、
一般的なゲームのボスって何十回何百回も斬り付けてやっと倒せるけど、現実的に考えたらそれだけ斬られながらピンピンしてたのに、最後は小突くような攻撃で倒れたりするのって変な光景ですよね
対してSEKIROは相手は基本ガードを固めていて、体力に直接ダメージを与えるのがかなり難しいようになっている
その代わりにガードの上から攻撃したり、相手の攻撃を弾く事で体力とは別に用意された体幹ゲージが貯まっていく
そして体幹ゲージが最大値になれば体力がMAXであろうと忍殺でトドメが刺せる
じゃあ体力の意味なくない？って思うかもしれないけど、体力が減ると体幹ゲージの減少が遅くなるからちゃんと意味がある
これってアクションゲームの面白さと現実的な戦いを上手い具合に融合させてると思うんです
お互い紙一重の攻防を繰り広げながら、細かなダメージが動きを鈍らせ、決着が付く時は一瞬
当然フロムのゲーム作りの上手さあってこそだと思いますが、SEKIROはコンセプトの時点で素晴らしいと思います
AUTOMATON（オートマトン）@AUTOMATONJapan
【コラム】近年のゲームに「パリィ」採用例が増えている理由。ゲームデザイナーが「合理性」と「歴史」の文脈で考えてみる automaton-media.com/articles/colum… シンプルに「気持ちいいから」もあるが、それだけじゃない
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@JustCallMeTomxd @Cinamer1 Iirc it was mostly (at first) the fact that Cecil was working with reformed killers. I found Mark to be hypocritical in that instance. Once Mark started going off the rails, Cecil used the sound device, which tbf was wrong but I'd have done it too if I knew Superman's kryptonite
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@TheUmbra2 @Cinamer1 No es que haya hecho algo malo, pero a ojos de Mark, Cecil lo traicionó al espiar a su familia, su vida privada y por sobre todo, ponerle el dispositivo con el sonido que le hace daño
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>Su propio padre casi lo mata a golpes
>Casi le matan a la mamá, a la novia y al hermano en más de una ocasión
>Fue LITERALMENTE destripado
>Lucho contra un tipo TAN CABRÓN que le dio PTSD y apenas vamos a la mitad de la historia...
¿Quién sufrió más? Oye no lo sé 🤔
Bad bunny™@Bad_____bunny99
Which character suffered the most here?
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@Cinamer1 Sin contar que:
>Un gatote lo medio mató
>Su papá mató a sus ídolos
>Versiones suyas arruinaron su planeta
>Su "jefe" lo traicionó y nunca confió en él
>Su exnovia le demandaba todo cuando él luchaba por sobrevivir
>Su novia tuvo un aborto
Y un muuuuuuuuy largo etcétera
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@Brochacho_Kun @fandompulse Definitionally, adaptation requires changes.
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@fandompulse When adapting a book story to tv or film, creative freedom should go out the window. It’s an adaptation.
If you want to take creative liberties with preexisting material, make a story “based on” whatever material it is. And don’t call it an adaptation.
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Invincible Season 4 wrapped with a 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and an 87% audience score, the show's lowest in four seasons.
Season 1: 94% audience.
Season 2: 90%.
Season 3: 93%.
The backlash centers on Episode 4 "Hurm" (original non-comic material), a pre-season gender-swap of a named legacy character, weak animation, and a finale abortion scene framed as the emotional climax of the season.
The Viltrumite War arc is still some of the best superhero animation running. The audience score says that isn't enough to cover the other choices.
What's your Season 4 verdict?
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90’s dads were like “ yeah my six year old can handle terminator 2: judgment day “
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@drew_downs @ceraliza She used coconut oil on the OP as a child so she didn't believe her granddaughter could have it. It's what she always used. OP disowned her mom iirc. I can't blame her
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@ceraliza I’d be willing to bet that she actively chose to use coconut to prove her position that the allergy wasn’t real.
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A woman on Reddit posted about how her mom "accidentally" killed her daughter. Basically her mother didn’t believe her granddaughter’s severe coconut allergy and used coconut oil on her hair while babysitting, and when she reacted, gave her Benadryl and put her to bed.
Because of the benadryl she was too sleepy to alert anyone and by the time parents got home it was too late.
The whole post is just awful and painful to read.
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@disrespect_i @roguewealth Skylar tried to leave him before she cheated. She didn't want to send him to jail and ruin his reputation in their son's eyes. Walt killed people indirectly and indirectly with his actions and product. She did bad things but he's infinitely worse.
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@roguewealth Skylar is an adulterous ,ungrateful wench who stepped out on her dying husband with an old fling because it was exciting. She is very much a villain..simp.
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Wrong.
I can see why people might think that so the case, but it’s wrong.
We, the audience, empathize with Walt because he’s the common man that could. From emasculated underdog to drug kingpin. But watch the show a few more times and you’ll soon realize that man put everyone around him through misery and hell.
Skylar was merely a bored housewife living an “I settled” life with a husband she no longer respected and a kid suffering cerebral palsy. Both their lives were already miserable by the time the story begins. However, White, using his cancer as an excuse, found a way to make things even worse for her and the family. His ego and fear of dying turned a mid-life crisis into a veritable shitstorm that not only destroyed his family, but also got one of them killed.
No way you can consider Skylar the villain under those circumstances.
Jessy knew. Mike knew. Everyone in the biz knew. That man was the devil.
Excellent show tho. I rooted for him. 😂
BLACK DUMPLING™@BlackDumpling
I have this fan theory that Skylar White may actually be the villain of the series. I was young when I first watched it, maybe shouldn't have, but there was one particular scene in the very first episode that made me hate this woman. I think everyone who watched it remembers this particular scene, even though it's never really talked about. It's the pathetic noncommittal dismissive birthday HJ she gives Walter and it served as a stand in for everything about that man's life. Emasculating, demeaning, boring, lifeless. Pitiable. What made it worse was how keenly aware of how demeaning it was to Walter and how utterly indifferent Skylar was. Not even out of some kind of cruelty, or hatred for Walter... just... indifference. In essence Skylar was Walter's entire life distilled into a single person, and where it's really uncanny is how she mirrors him, another thing few people pick up on. The below scene illustrates this but again, even going back to that first episode there were weird parallels. Her child, his cancer, for example. How the things that defined them grew within. How Walt Jr, stood in as a living metaphor for the family itself. In either case, people instinctively recognize that Skylar is the villain but they don't quite understand why. She's not a bad person, in truth she's mostly good. For all the hate she gets she's a person in a nearly impossible situation. But you have to remember that she's not a person. She's an idea. She's a representation. She's a theme wearing a costume that looks like personhood to make the translation easier to understand. So what exactly is it about her that makes her represent the villain? The story, of course is told from the perspective of Walter, and, facing death, he comes to the realization that he does not matter. His life did not matter. The tiny monument of a broken son, and a classroom full of indifferent children, a wife who barely acknowledges him, friends who eclipsed him. To Walter the great evil is that he is defined by pathetic obscurity. A life defined by "Did you hear Mr. White died?" "Who?". From there Walt's every single action seems to be about mattering. If he can't leave a mark he'll leave a scar. And Skylar frustrates this every step of the way, in every way she can. To Walter, as he stares down the towering face of death, she fights to maintain normalcy even as he wants to do everything to break free of it. To do something. To finally be someone.
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@Rooselee @metathomist Questions for you
Where in Scripture does Jesus say to write anything Down
Where in Scripture does it say what fruit Eve ate?
Where in Scripture does it say How many wise men they were?
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Jesus is everyone’s savior.
Mary was preserved from the stain of original sin in view of Christs future merits by a singular grace afforded only to her.
If you were going to walk into a pit and someone prevented you from it, they would’ve saved you.
If you were in a pit and someone lifted you out, they would’ve saved you.
Both are saved albeit in different modes.
We don’t only pray to Mary, we also pray to the other saints in heaven.
So if your concern is “we shouldn’t pray to them because they needed a savior” then why should I ask YOU to pray for me since you need a savior?
Shane Pruitt@shane_pruitt78
We don't pray to Mary. She needed a Savior too. Pray to the One who rescued her.
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@tyenasaur I wanted a bit more on how Astrophage and xenonite will change the world. Space elevators, post-scarcity, and a golden age of interstellar travel. I don't even remember him asking for xenonite as a gift.
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@JWhitebread1 I rreally wanted more of the start with Grace figuring out who he was and why he was there, and I wish we had gotten the quiet sit down scene with the crew when they talked about the options they were bringing to end their lives on the Hail Mary, instead of a passing comment.
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Project Hail Mary is an exceptional film. Great adaptation of the novel. Go see it. Anything I could criticize about it would be nitpicking.
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BUT HEY! THAT'S WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR! SO LET'S DO THIS! NITPICKS AWAY!
If you loved the parts of the novel of where Grace "sciences" his way out of problems, a hallmark of Weir's writing, you aren't going to get much of that out of this film. They chose instead to focus on the relationship between Rocky and Grace, which was the right call. It's mostly a story about a man finding his courage through an unlikely friendship.
Still, there are hints to those problem-solving scenes in the movie. One of my favorites is near the end of the novel where Grace uses the spin-drives on the Hail Mary as an improvised IR LiDAR to find Rocky's disabled ship. If you look at the displays, you can tell that's what he's doing, but they never explain it, it's more of an Easter Egg to fans of the book to let us know, hey, we love that part of the book too.
Still, the movie has a LOT of musical montages, and long cinematic scenes where nothing much happens other than gorgeous visuals. They are beautiful, but, they could have cut a few minutes of those and put a LITTLE more of the science into the movie, I think.
Overall, very great film though, great performances, great sets and visuals and really heart-warming.
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@GaymerPACU_RN It helped that he was described as the size of a dog with no eyes or conventional mouth and only five legs. Those Lost in Space spiders are terrifying any day of the week
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@DanFriedman81 @Yair_Rosenberg I was soo glad that it wasn’t creepy spider looking . I was worried it was gonna look like the spider villain from lost in space. I was happy with Rocky’s appearance.
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Writers like Dan Brown and Andy Weir, who write ugly and clumsy prose at the sentence level, are sometimes extremely engaging storytellers in ways that transcend their technical deficiencies.
“Project: Hail Mary” is a story about a lonely astronaut who undertakes a one-way mission into deep space to do a science thing that is the only hope to save the world, and when he gets there, he encounters an alien bug who is also a lonely astronaut on the same kind of mission, and they become best friends and work together to do their science thing and find a way to get back home.
It is utterly charming, and everybody knows it. All these dunks are meaningless.
Robert Rubsam@rob_rubsam
Driving me slightly insane that everyone has to pretend that Andy Weir is a real novelist and not a guy whose books are like 70% math equations
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Calvinism is a mental illness. Hell wasn’t created for you in the first place.
Jesus loved you so much he literally allowed himself to be killed and then went and kicked the gates of hell in and let everyone out.
What you all teach about God and hell is contrary to the nature of our loving father. Flee from Protestantism people. They don’t even believe this either or they would crawl over broken glass to save one soul. They use fear to manipulate and control while besmirching the character of our Loving Father.
There is a Judgment. It is a fearful judgment. But God isn’t waiting to gleefully torture you for eternity
Jason Howerton@jason_howerton
Pastor preached a sermon about hell today. The kind you don’t hear often in churches these days. I didn’t leave feeling afraid or angry at God for creating such a place. I left in complete disbelief that God would ever save such a wicked man like me after all I’ve done. Hell isn’t unfair. It’s unfair that I get to go to heaven
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@ImpudentDomain OP was talking about how *men* need to treat their wives before you tried to change the subject
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@resisfertile we were talking about women and relationships, concentrate.
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Brothers,
There is a reason Peter says to dwell with your wife in an understanding way.
There is a reason gentleness and warmth are to characterize how you are to interact with your bride (Ephesians 5)
Many men are honestly, knuckleheads.
A wrong headed husband can easily crush a right hearted wife.
You can needlessly crush a good wife with ill delivered words or lack of appreciation and perspective.
Let's take the below at face value - a husband should find a way to communicate this with his bride... but how he does it should be soaked in appreciation, gentleness, warmth, and more.
Because for this lady, each lunch was a piece of her heart she was giving to her husband, and he just walked all over it with muddy boots.
This is not uncommon, brothers. A lot of ladies truly are trying.
She should have walked away from him expressing the below feeling appreciated, loved, treasured... "honey, its so clear how much you love me, how much effort you are putting in here, etc. etc. etc.)" and with positive ways she can channel that to more practical things that will bless him.
It's a real failure of leadership and appreciation and love for your bride, brothers. Learn to dwell with her in an understanding way.
It will pay compounding dividends you can't imagine over decades of marriage.
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@thewittyblessed Scrolling through, we've been blessed with so many great stories. Anyway, Fury Road.
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I strongly believe everyone has that one movie that can NEVER leave their top 4. What’s yours? (I’m judging)
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@raztan @_clit_romney @danishacarterr Couldn't possibly just be vanity impotently raging against age and decay, nope, gotta get a cabal involved.
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@TheUmbra2 @_clit_romney @danishacarterr Or they say the clones are deliberately wrong because the illuminati are mocking us
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it’s so funny that conspiracy theorists always arrive at “they (whoever “they” is) cloned someone who it’d make no sense to clone, especially as said “clone” looks visibly different” instead of “this hollywood actor with tons of money and a specific beauty standard to keep up with, got a bunch of work done”.
MAVERICK X@MAVERIC68078049
They think we are blind.
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@_clit_romney @danishacarterr They'd say because these clones were rushed, formula isn't right blah blah blah.
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@danishacarterr Also why would the clone not look exactly like the original person..? Isn’t that what a clone is
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