Your opinion is a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? If religion was always a private matter you wouldn’t be able to go to any country and tell what religion that country is.

Part of the problem is that a few religions tell their followers that they own specific land, so they are competing to have exclusivity of that land instead of just going somewhere else.

The expansion of civilisations has always encroached on religions as well. You basically have to choose a point in time to say “starting now religions are allowed to exist in the countries they are already in.” Should the aboriginal Australians just go somewhere else if they don’t like the multicultural/multi-religiousness of modern Australia? What about native Americans if they don’t like capitalist Jesus?

It’s the stand that comes with the console. I didn’t notice them at first and was wondering why my ps5 was a bit unstable. Just a clear little clip thing that hides underneath.

It’s a shame that it’s only when they get caught. There’s no excuse for driving drunk.

This is whataboutism.

If the question is whether cars on the road should be ICE or EV, the answer isn’t more public transport. You’re ignoring the question of power technology to force your opinion on civil design.

What, you guys don’t have phones extra graphics cards in your computers?

There was more then a few Winamp skins that looked like that

Why must people pay video games? If people don’t like it, just don’t play it. Watch a YouTube playthrough if you must.

Automating the experience of art is such a dystopian nightmare.

With what army?

Might makes right. The only thing stopping countries from violent hostile take overs is the chance a bigger country will step in to stop them. Now the US is showing they are happy to help countries to this, it might open the floodgates and China will just take what it wants as long as it stays within its timezone.

That was a great show

Say hi to your mother

I liked The Happening.

Whether it was intentional or not, there’s a really interesting metaphor for the 24/7 news cycle, the need to blame something, and the state of the world. There’s so much in there to think about but most of the audience just thought “plants make people kill themselves? That’s too silly”. In my mind it isn’t the plants; no one knows, but the need to get the first headline, or feel in control is so great that people get frantic, panicky, and dangerous.

I think it might be connected to that Spiderbait concert and not wearing earplugs at the time.

I miss GameFAQs text pages. Now it’s YouTube videos stretched out to 10 minutes to explain 30 seconds worth of info.

Got it.

That seems pretty cool.

I’m a little confused. It’s this a self hosted program? Following the link I see a monthly subscription cost.

I suppose it didn’t help that I played Stranger of Paradise first, which has a very fun and varied battle system. If that feeling of battle was in ff16 I think I’d rank it much higher.

What’s the name of that plugin?

I’m playing 16 now.

It’s ok. The battle is a touch better, but honestly if you’re going to do a DMC mimicry do it all the way. I’m pretty disappointed that a game about collecting different eikons has zero elemental stat effects. I’m vaguely enjoying it but so far it’s ranking pretty low on the list of FFs that I’m emotionally attached to.

I was one of the people that wasn’t mystified by HL2. It was cool, but it was just a spectacle of good graphics and the gravity gun.

I felt they really mucked around with the story laid out by the first game, it barely felt related. Like, Independence Day 2 vibes.

Final Fantasy XV

I’m a huge FF fan, but felt there was a dip after the golden era of 7-10. 13 was middling for me, 14 was an MMO which is not my area of interest.

FF15 took a long time to come out. And then we find out that you are manually controlling the main character like a hack’n’slash. It just no longer sparked that joyous wonder.

I waited ages before I got a PS4 and then got the Royal Edition. Slowly as I played it a fell in love with the characters. They are flawed, thrust into a journey they didn’t get to choose, and instead of a toxic male fantasy it was a story about brothers, fathers and sons, about love, loss, and sacrifice.

I bawled my eyes out at the ending. The game definitely suffers from feeling like it’s not quite a finished product, but the characters are the star of the show.