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Yeah when I played D&D in college it was just like that lol.
My favorite are the satanic conspiracy ones. Like where there’s literally a satan who is directing their devils and worshippers to lead people to commit sins.
My next favorite are the ones that are just telling people to believe in the christian god and to follow the christian moral code and that they will suffer eternally if they don’t. These are occasionally moving.
The ones I dislike are the rest, which are mostly promoting bigotry against other religions or that have extremist views like you mention.
btw if you haven’t seen it, check out the “Dark Dungeons” short film; it was made by some independent filmmakers who got Chick’s permission to adapt one of the tracts. They play it (mostly) straight with just the right touches of satire, and it comes off beautifully:
(the video says “preview” but the full playlist is the full movie)
2·4 days agoIt’s odd the way these articles talk about dictatorship taking hold in the US
Yeah, there are a lot of valuable lessons to be learned by studying the Roman Republic and Empire. This article does none of that, it just lists a bunch of parallels. It’s in the same genre as “12 reasons why Joe Biden was the antichrist!”
I’m continually disappointed in The Atlantic. At one time it would have published a thoughtful essay on the topic. Instead this article just normalizes the idea that democracy in the US is doomed to fall.
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Oh, you’re descended from people oppressed by the French. (audience member: “that could be anyone!”) Got it, makes sense now.
France jokes by Americans are usually just embarassing because they show how ignorant most Americans are about military history.
PugJesus I know you’re not ignorant, so in this case it’s just confusing.
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They were bad, but they made all the other bands sound great!
OK, new reality show: Drunken Sleepwalk Dorm.
Obviously fake, no mullet.
Agreed, for any non-trivial bug I just start dumping text into a word file to track what I’m doing. Like: error messages, values of variables at key places, libraries used, URLs of documentation and background reading and stackoverflow pages looked at, test fixes and their effects, etc. Then if someone asks me wtf I’ve been doing all day I can easily show them. Also, if I have the same problem a couple months later I can remind myself.
On what basis comes the conclusion that there is no architect behind it?
That’s a great point - if there are divine beings, they wouldn’t necessarily build the universe using a bunch of elves or something – better to spark a Big Bang with the right starting conditions and let everything develop from there. I think it’s more correct to say that evolution and modern physical cosmology provide an explanation of how and why the universe exists without necessarily needing divine intervention.
I’ll go farther and say that its wrong.
Well, it’s debatable but I think it comes down to defining your terms.
- “Evolution is blind” suggests no guidance at all, and as you say there is randomness, but an important part of the evolutionary process is survival and propagation which are guided by the environment. so arguably evolution is NOT blind.
- However the evolutionary process is reactive and does not involve long-term planning so you could argue that “blind” means “looking ahead, considering more than what you can immediately sense.” so arguably evolution IS blind.
Either perspective agrees that there is no “Grand Architect” and/or “God’s Plan” which I think is the general point being made. But it’s just a little distracting.
“Evolution is blind” is debatable. Arguably, we evolved to fit an environment. We are survivors.
Spez would be very disappointed to hear you say that. He would immediately shoot another DM to Elon telling him he’s trying real hard to be just like him.
Lemme guess… dad’s favorite pokemon is Vaporeon.
parfait… yum…
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