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4d ago
Ugh, that's really shitty. That's a bummer. :/
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4d ago
CGL has enormously poisoned the well with their shenanigans.
What has Catalyst done? I don't really keep up with the tabletop side, I basically bought a starter box and never played. I'm not surprised they have been up to shenanigans after how badly they botched Shadowrun 6e, but I'm not familiar with it either.
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4d ago
Although I think at some point HBS Battletech let you fire your small weapons while you meleed? Was that a thing?
Yeah, that is how it works. Melee lets you fire your small weapons alongside the melee hit itself.
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5d ago
True! Although I am worried that as a Packers fan I'll find myself excommunicated soon.
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5d ago
No Pope Pizzaballa. The meme dream is dead.
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5d ago
You're welcome! I hope you're feeling somewhat better now that some time has passed.
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7d ago
Thank you!
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8d ago
Do you have any tips on where one might read about the outcomes of the free state project? I thought it was an interesting idea, but I never really knew what became of it.
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8d ago
That's an interesting point, but is it not also plausible that dominating other people is pleasurable because it taps into an impulse which God does intend that we enjoy? In that case the good feeling of dominating others would ultimately be something which is corrupted by sin, much like how sex outside of marriage still feels good but isn't part of God's plan.
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8d ago
On the contrary: cite me somewhere in the Bible (or authoritative interpretation of it, e.g. Catholic Tradition) which says that sex is bad and not to be enjoyed. The burden of proof is on you here, especially given that the evidence you already cited (Paul) doesn't say what you claim it does. Otherwise, it seems self-evident to me that God would not have made something so fundamentally part of our nature feel good to us if he didn't intend for us to enjoy it. Much like the taste of good food or the beauty of nature are meant to be enjoyed in their proper context, so is the pleasure of sex. It makes no sense otherwise.
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8d ago
They're not exactly "encouraged to enjoy sex with their spouse", that's new age degeneracy. It's better to abstain and pray according to the church fathers.
That's not true at all. For one thing, the Song of Solomon (in the Old Testament!) is really sexual (I mean, by biblical standards) and is a good example that the Bible considers sex between married couples to be a praiseworthy thing to be enjoyed.
But also, your cited verses directly work against your claim. Paul never claims that sex is disgusting or bad, and in fact explicitly says that couples should engage in it! He does say it is better to be single and focus on God, but acknowledges that not everyone is equipped for that. If you choose to read disgust into that, that's your interpretation and not something supported by the text.
My understanding is that chastity is no sex outside of marriage, but inside marriage is fine. i.e. all Christians (married or not) are called to chastity but they are encouraged to enjoy sex with their spouse.
Then again my understanding might be mistaken. I definitely don't claim to be an authority on that. Fair point about celibacy, I got sloppy and was just using the common sense of the word even though I should know better.
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8d ago
Yeah... my wife also got me Modernist Cuisine At Home for my birthday, because she's a crazy person lol. That was the one I actually wanted because I felt like it would be more useful to me, but I can't say I'm displeased to have the full set as well. The publisher claims that the at home volume has new content not taken from the larger set, so we'll see i guess.
The Food Lab is definitely on my list of books to get someday. I really respect Kenji's food writing (it's consistently very high quality), so I definitely want to read his book.
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9d ago
It is socially acceptable to ask girls to dance at a school dance, but boys don’t want to dance. They want to fuck (or get married if you’re feeling charitable).
That's an oversimplification. Teenage boys also have feelings for girls, and want to express them and have those feelings reciprocated. They aren't just walking erections. That means that yes, boys do enjoy dancing with girls on occasion even if it doesn't lead to sex.
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9d ago
have they taught the kids to dance? Did they teach them dances that are compatible with the songs they are playing? Do the boys know how to play the role of lead in a partner dance?
I can certainly say from experience that this applied to me (and still does, though I'm married so I am past the point where dancing matters for forming romantic connections). I have no idea how to dance beyond "sway back and forth and step side to side a bit" during slow, intimate songs. As a result, I am well aware that if I try to dance (outside that context) I'm going to just flail around and look like a fool. So I don't dance.
The only time I can remember really enjoying dancing as a young man was when I went to a salsa night in college. Nobody was expected to know how to dance salsa, nor even bring a partner, so they split people up into couples and taught us all how to dance. And honestly? It was a blast! But at every other dance I went to, I had no idea what I was doing and had a miserable time.
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9d ago
Don't give her a big cup of juice.
I imagine that the parents around here will laugh at me, but I had to learn this the hard way with my nephew. I took him to a monster truck show a couple years ago (so he was 6), and I was given the OK by my brother to let him have soda if he wanted. Which of course he did. So I let him drink a 20 oz soda, and then get started on another at intermission, and... yeah we went to the bathroom about every 10 minutes the entire rest of the show. It just never occurred to me how small of a bladder kids have, and how if you let them drink too much they're going to have to pee constantly. Live and learn!
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9d ago
I'm reading Man And Woman He Created Them (aka the theology of the body) by John Paul II. The intro on the version I have was a doozy, like 180 pages. But I'm finally into the work proper, and that is easier going (mainly because it's smaller chunks so easier to digest).
I'm also reading Modernist Cuisine, after my wife unexpectedly bought it for me for my birthday. Ironically, I rather despise "modern" movements (in art but also in cuisine), because I find they get up their own asses seeking novelty without ever considering whether they have made something as good as the tradition they seek to distance themselves from (and more often than not, they haven't). So in theory I should hate the book. But I appreciate the sheer level of autism that goes into making something like this, and I think the photography is beautiful. I also appreciate that they have recipes that aren't trying to be creative and shocking, but are using modern techniques to make traditional dishes even better than before. So I'm enjoying the book well enough.
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9d ago
Not that it answers your question, but technically the Night's Watch doesn't take a vow of celibacy. They promise to take no wife and father no children, not to abstain from sex.
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10d ago
It's true. But I would say the primary difficulty (for me) isn't hitting the parry correctly, it's when the attack makes you think it's about to fall but then hangs in the air for another 2s and hits you when you're recovering from the animation. I find dodges equally susceptible to that problem.
Also to be honest my gripe is that the very damaging attacks exist in the first place. I don't like Dark Souls and don't want it in my JRPG. The places where it creeps in have been few thus far, but every time it's been a bummer for that reason.
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11d ago
I'm not gonna lie. I'm a 40 year old adult and that sounds awesome. It sounds like it was well worth the cost!
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11d ago
I'm enjoying it quite a lot. The writing has been really good, the graphics are well done (and the art style is beautiful), the music is good... the game really just fires on all cylinders. The only complaint I've had thus far is that the enemies can sometimes be overly damaging if you don't pull off the dodge/parry, but for the most part that has been reasonable. You spend more time healing up if you miss dodges and the like, but it's doable. Thanks @Silverdawn for the strong recommendation to play despite my misgivings!
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13d ago
I just use whatever ChatGPT has to offer, which would mean yes I'm using the latest tooling (since they keep it up to date). I've tried a variety of things - writing config files for programs we use at work, writing shell scripts, and asking it to explain how to do tasks in AWS CloudFormation. The first and the third tasks it just makes shit up (in some cases even dreaming up code which isn't even syntactically valid), I've found it to be completely useless for those. I've gotten some mileage in shell scripting, where it does fine as long as I keep the request small (like a few lines) so it can't trip over itself. But shell scripting is also an area I'm incredibly weak (essentially I can read bash but can't write it well at all), so it has the biggest gains to make over my own skill there. In cases where I actually know the language well, there's no benefit to me to use these tools. Like I said, if I have to check carefully every time I have it generate something (and you really do), then that's not actually speeding me up.
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13d ago
There's a real sense in which it's just getting better at everything. It started out decent at some areas of code, maybe it could write sql scripts ok but you'd need to double check it. Now it can handle any code snippet you throw at it and reliably solve bugs one shot on files with fewer than a thousand lines.
What? That just isn't true. I've tried to have it write code and it's still in the same shitty place it was three years ago. You get something which looks correct, but maybe it is and maybe it isn't, and you have to double check every time. Which is to say, AI tools still slow you down rather than speed you up.
This is why I'm so skeptical that we'll have AI any time soon. The current tools aren't even good at the things their advocates say they are good at, let alone harder things. I have yet to see any substance behind the hype, at all.
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13d ago
Those were the days. Technically you still owed sales tax and you were supposed to report it to the state yourself, but nobody did that. It was probably unavoidable that online retailers would start to collect sales tax (state governments weren't just going to give up a big revenue source), but it was nice while it lasted.
The issue here (if I understand correctly) isn't people from work calling for no good reason, it's "Jan from the tax relief department" calling the number to try to scam you. I get 6 or so of the latter type of calls every day, though thankfully not at night so they wouldn't wake me up.
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