Solus Gryphus

@IGN can you all stop being f@ggots for like 5 minutes?

Rather than move forward with spinoffs that cling to the original The Lord of the Rings movies, maybe the time has come to give the franchise a full, Harry Potter-style reboot. bit.ly/4rY74wY

@Pirat_Nation this is one of the reasons Playstations are going up $150

Bungie confirms that Marathon is here to stay “ We look forward to many years of steady improvements to every aspect of the game.”

@needGod_net @CarriePrejean1 Remember in the Bible when everyone had a New Testament to guide them and they set up denominations based on their interpretation? Oh wait...

@CarriePrejean1 Remember in the Bible when everyone had to wait till Easter before they could join the church? Oh wait… And the Bible says we are sealed with the Holy Spirit the moment we believe (Eph 1:13), not at “confirmation”.

Last April, I came into the Catholic Church with my two children. By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, this April, my husband will be welcomed in. The Holy Spirit led me home. Our Blessed Mother drew me closer to her Son and changed my heart. At my Confirmation, I was sealed with the Holy Spirit. Something in me was marked forever. I was given His gifts… wisdom to recognize truth, understanding to love it, and the courage to follow it no matter the cost. There is a fire in my soul that won’t go out. I’ve always loved Jesus Christ, but now I hunger for Him in a way I never have before. A deep, aching hunger for the Eucharist. For His presence. For His Mother, For His truth. For His Church. I was searching. Truly searching. I wanted what was real… something rooted, something unshakable, something with authority that didn’t change with the world. And I found Him. Fully present in the Church He founded two thousand years ago. This isn’t just a decision. It’s a homecoming. People aren’t coming home because it’s popular to do so. They’re coming home because it’s true.

@darwintojesus Sorry you cannot get to "slavery is wrong" from the Bible alone which is one of the many reasons why sola scriptura fails.

Reminder: The Bible is the reason anyone thinks slavery is immoral. The entire world engaged this practice without a second thought. It was the Bible and Christians that made the world finally realize this practice was wrong. You're welcome.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an iconic film series, but it also has many elements that are difficult to watch in modern day. cbr.com/8-reasons-toug…

@Cjhadley82 @chaswmig @heckyessica youtu.be/6p7a-kTcSZo?si…

@chaswmig @heckyessica Then how was the thief on the cross saved if baptism is required?

Protestants and Catholics are two types of Christians. If you’ve accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, believe He died for your sins and rose again, defeating death, you’re a Christian. Whether you choose to be a Catholic or Protestant doesn’t affect your salvation.

@chaswmig @heckyessica Baptism now saves you.

@heckyessica Baptism us what makes us Christian

Why the Lord's supper is SYMBOLIC

@Grummz oi vey

Another Schreier-ism has just dropped.

@BandaiNamcoEU People still buy CDs too, you know!

The melodies of a shattered world, washed away by the rain. The #ELDENRING #NIGHTREIGN vinyl collection is now available to pre-order in the official Bandai Namco E-store: bnent.eu/ERN-Vinyl

@Joseph_Spurgeon the reformation wasn't the start of the church. It was however, the start of your church.

I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but Reformed Protestants do not believe that the Protestant Reformation was the start of the church. We trace our lineage back through the Protestant Reformation, through the Middle Ages, into the early church, into the Bible, and we own all of that. So Saint Patrick belongs to the Protestants, as does Augustine, John Chrysostom, and all the rest of the saints. The Protestant Reformation was not the start of a new church. It was an attempt to purify and reform the church and move it away from the abuses of the papacy and its money-hungry, power-hungry twisting of the faith that was delivered once for all to the saints.

@PresbyInn lol

"St. Patrick was a Presbyterian and a Protestant. Neither popery nor prelacy are the religion of the Ancient Irish. Ireland is consecrated by the genius of a true, primitive, apostolical presbyterianism." - Thomas Smyth (1808-1873)

@ProtPhilosopher If Trent added 7 books to the Bible how come I can open any Orthodox bible and find those books too?

Doing their best Jerry Maguire impersonation, Catholic apologists demand, "Show me a 66-book Bible before Luther!" This is supposed to make the Protestant sheepishly think, "I can't show you the money :(". There wasn't a physical Bible containing only 66-books before Luther. It appears the Protestant canon was a late innovation. It was created by "one guy in Germany." Yet, there's a false assumption baked into the Catholic demand. It's that canonical status is determined by what's physically bound between two covers. There's a key distinction underlying this error. It's the difference between a codex and a canon. A codex is a physical object. A canon is a theological judgment about which books have doctrinal authority. The canonical judgment that the deuterocanonical books lack doctrinal authority was the main position for a thousand years prior to Luther. As the Catholic Encyclopedia's article "Canon of the Old Testament" explains: "In the Latin Church, all through the Middle Ages we find evidence of hesitation about the character of the deuterocanonicals. There is a current friendly to them, another one distinctly unfavourable to their authority and sacredness, while wavering between the two are a number of writers whose veneration for these books is tempered by some perplexity as to their exact standing, and among those we note St. Thomas Aquinas. Few are found to unequivocally acknowledge their canonicity. The prevailing attitude of Western medieval authors is substantially that of the Greek Fathers. The chief cause of this phenomenon in the West is to be sought in the influence, direct and indirect, of St. Jerome's depreciating Prologus. The compilatory "Glossa Ordinaria" was widely read and highly esteemed as a treasury of sacred learning during the Middle Ages; it embodied the prefaces in which the Doctor of Bethlehem had written in terms derogatory to the deuteros, and thus perpetuated and diffused his unfriendly opinion." (newadvent.org/cathen/03267a.…) That's a Catholic encyclopedia saying "few are found to unequivocally acknowledge their canonicity" and that "the prevailing attitude" matched the Greek Fathers who excluded them. So Luther didn't invent the canonical judgment about the deuterocanonical books. He inherited it. What he did was to stop including the deuterocanonical books in the same binding with the canonical books. That's a change in bookbinding, not a change in canonical judgment. The canonical distinction existed. The 66-book printed Bible came later. The 66-book canonical judgment came first. So Luther didn't remove 7 books from the Bible. Trent added them. And it took them 1,546 years to do it.

@bellbearinghunt other than some annoying ganks, I really loved DS2. I love how experimental it is.

@PastorDeberny Furthermore, there are quite a few problematic texts in the Apocrypha that contradict the Protestant understanding of the Holy Scriptures. Fixed it for you.

Neither Christ nor the Apostles cite the Apocrypha as authoritative scripture. God gave the Canon to the Church. It was not determined by the judgment of the Jews. Furthermore, there are quite a few problematic texts in the Apocrypha that contradict the Holy Scriptures.

@BooRadleyPoo @AI_EmeraldApple this is the real question. Who the hell is funding this shit?

@AI_EmeraldApple How did those people get 2-5 million to operate for 3-4 years? Who handed them that loan?

The lesbian knight action RPG game, 1348 Ex Voto, is a colossal commercial failure. We don't even have to wait for the numbers to see how bad it was. Their projected revenue is likely only to be at best 12% of their total budget... meaning a 88% shortfall. Using standard heuristics, we can predict sales numbers based on the Steam concurrent player numbers and total reviews. Typical CCU multiplier is 12-20x for early owners for smaller games. For bigger hit titles, the multiplier is in the range of 5-12x, as more people "play" the game. With garbage-tier games like Ex Voto, people/activists tend to buy the game and never play it. For reviews, it's typically in the range of 25-40x multiplier. Using those numbers, we can estimate that they will sell between 5000 and 10000 copies in the first week, with total Steam revenue of ~$200k. +PS5, maybe a max of another $100k revenue, for a total of a max ~$300k. The dev team consists of 15 developers, which will cost in the range of ~$2 to 5 million over 3-4 years. Add overhead like costs for tools, licensing fees, marketing, and that number balloons up to ~$3 to 7 million dollars. This number is similar to other small indie studios with a staff size of 10-20 and a similar development timeline. Even with the most generous projections, and with continued sales projections only adding $200k for a total of ~$500k total sales, minus 30% steam cut... the studio is set to lose AT BEST $2.6 million if their budget was on the low end at $3 million. AT WORST, if their budget was on the high end with $7 million with lower sales figures of $175k, they could be 6.8 million dollars in the hole... So at best, they have a 88% shortfall, at worst a 97% shortfall. The studio is toast, the game is DOA, and the employees had better be looking for a new job, unless some insane investor is looking to lose more money by tossing more money at them.

@Kotaku lol

I Fell In Love With Highguard And Now It's Gone Forever: kotaku.com/i-fell-in-love…

@engadget You don't actually believe this. No one believes this.

Starfleet Academy is the best first season of as Star Trek show ever engt.co/414DdYE

@EndymionYT 250k wishlisters are coming through!

1348 Ex Voto is cratering, the modern audience didn’t show up like usual & they banked on dunking Knight’s Path & this is where it got them. Dear games industry, STOP for the love of god making games for people who don’t support you. How many times do I have to say this before you understand. Not even your reviewers could eat the slop & call it good

@AteThePrincess @Wario64 I have like $500 tied up into CC. Would be nice to see it again.

@Wario64 Hopefully Degica follows suit over Crimzon Clover. 4.5 years since orders were taken, still nothing.

Chained Echoes developer Matthias Linda is terminating the business relationship with First Press Games and is preparing a lawsuit for not delivering all physical versions. Kickstarter backers can follow instructions for compensation kickstarter.com/projects/10138…