Andrew Johnson

They're clearly talking about their D&D campaign

@ChristianHeiens I understand we want Massie out. What is Ed Gallrein like?

Just over 20% of the vote is in, and the Cincinnati suburbs of Boone and Kenton are coming in strong for Gallrein.

Mark 7:18-23 calls people who think this way "without understanding" "18 And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” The object (food, a knife, Ai, social media) is neutral. It enters from outside and cannot defile by itself. Sin originates in the heart and flows OUT through the use of tools. Technology doesn't corrupt people, corrupt people corrupt technology. The Bible could warn about tools or technology, but it doesn't, instead it focuses on the true fault and it covers it so well one has to have an agenda to miss it: The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Ai as well as a banana are terrible things in the hands of fallen man. Tubal-Cain forged tools of bronze and iron - no condemnation, just a stated fact. The same metals make plows or swords. God didn't curse bricks when toppling the Tower of Babel, he scattered the people. Ai is just a tool. There not only is such a thing as "just a tool" it is a fact that every thing is just a tool.

Summertime romance 💖

And the app I've been writing, Kohera3D, doesn't have much to do with SQL or other databases. 3D Laser scan data yes, XML files yes. SQL not so much.

Well, I'm looking around for a new job. I liked my previous one, but things haven't gone well for the company as a whole, alas. Unfortunately, most .NET jobs involve ASP.NET and SQL, which I don't have much experience with, being a WPF guy :\

@pureMetatron You're the kind of immigrant that we need and want! God's blessing on the test!

This morning I’m studying for my US citizenship test. The interview and the test are happening soon! Wish me luck! PS: I think I’ll do fine on the history part ;)

@SandyofCthulhu The only thing that could justify a remake would be if they treat Faramir properly. Muppets, however, is not a remake. It is Muppets. Muppets are always valid.

Yes yes. No one wants to see Lord of the Rings remade. But hear me out. MUPPETS. One or two should be live people. Sam? Merry & Pippin? Who Do you think?

@Gingerblast You were just playing the evil of suicidal empathy :)

It's so hard to play evil characters in RPGs. Played Mothership last night and my goal given by the GM was eliminate the infected. Then when someone got infected, I knew my character would do it, but I just couldn't bring myself to say it!

@DougTenNapel At best it would just be a copy of your physical mind. I expect our soul is locked to our hardware for now, and thus all of our ability to experience.

We don’t even know what the mind is so no way of speculating if we will be able to upload it in 15 years or ever.

@ChristianHeiens Shoutout to the video game Steredenn. Sure, it's not an in-depth story, as it's just a side scrolling space shooter, but the villains are the rebels this time around.

It's almost like "Order" itself is bad. After all, the First Order was bad. They're space Nazis, and space Nazis are bad. To rule is also bad, at least openly. Of course, the heroes always win in the end, and in doing so, they still get to rule, but they're never allowed to admit it. We need stories where "the Empire" is objectively the good guys and the ruling order openly admits that they're the ones who wield power, but in the name of something higher that's clearly good, just, beautiful, and true. We desperately need more works of fiction that depict an explicitly imperial power as a beacon of civilization.

I will never get over the fact that Disney chose to name the heroes of the Star Wars sequels "the Resistance", despite the fact that the Rebel Alliance overthrew the Empire decades earlier and re-established the Galactic Republic. There's a broader lesson in there about how modern writers and artists think about everything. They ALWAYS have to be the brave revolutionaries and are never willing to accept that a day could come when they themselves become the ruling order.

@elvenmaidinn Dragon Age, Skyrim, Monster Hunter. I don't play dragon-murder simulators! 🐲

GTA VI

The entire history of the Muslim-Jewish conflicts in the land since the Ottoman Empire days summed up purrfectly in 35 seconds

@fawnfargu Hey, even nice dragons need their protein ;)

Sometimes I like to imagine that Iney is a wild beast who might be a little intimidating >:3

"This is your captain speaking... err.... if you look, you'll see we'll... err.... be travelling with a few new... err... friends"

I told you when this baby hits 88…you’re gonna see some serious shit. A lifetime of stories. Coming soon.

@archon I'm sure yours would have been done better.

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@ChristianHeiens And it still looks mostly reasonable, not thin lines stretched across the land

Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis just published this proposed map that stands a very good chance of passing. It flips 4 Democrat-held Congressional seats: 🔵FL-9 Darren Soto 🔵FL-14 Kathy Castor 🔵FL-22 Lois Frankel 🔵FL-25 Debbie Wasserman Schultz Long term, that Palm Beach seat could be cracked, and if you tried hard enough, you could possibly destroy the Orlando seat too, but this is pretty much exactly what we needed right now.