Have you been to their forums? They tolerate and defend much worse than that review.

Game awards are ridiculous, but I will never forget Expedition 33. It deserves all the accolades it has earned and achieved.

That one does what it says, says what it does, is short to type, and doesn’t psychologically reinforce any negative stereotypes.

The problem is “black” being used in a negative context while at the same time “white” is being used in a positive context. It reinforces racial stereotypes specifically because that is the language we also use for race. Language and psychology are inseparable.

“Block list” and “allow list” are clearer and less ambiguous anyway, and just make more sense.

No. Not even California. If they were to secede, that is a different matter.

No.

We have some sources in Hebrew and some in Greek, but they are all compilations of questionable provenance. That’s before you get to english.

Translation is tricky in the best circumstances, but the “Bible” is especially difficult. It’s a collection of documents from different times, cultures, authors, contexts, and purposes. If you already know the context for a document and can read Koine and Hebrew, those documents are dripping with meaning that cannot be easily translated for a modern english audience without a huge amount of additional exposition.

For example, 1 Timothy is often used as a cudgel to oppress women, but it is addressing a specific cultural conflict resulting from expanding into the very seat of power for the matriarchal cult of Artemis. Without that background, there is no translation that will make the clear and obvious intent behind the letter understandable to a modern audience. This is why the phrase “lost in translation” exists. The english translation might be “accurate” linguistically and still fundamentally incorrect because what it communicates to a reader of the new language is not even close to what was meant by the original.

Here are some fun facts about common Bible mistranslations.

The word “hell” does not exist in the Bible. The very concept does not exist.

It never claims that anyone goes to heaven when they die. Instead, they are resurrected at the end of all things and judged. Those judged righteous, based almost entirely on how they treated others — because god takes that personally — remain resurrected. The rest are permanently and finally destroyed in the same way ancients dealt with unclean garbage. Burning.

Homosexuality is never addressed. Not even once. What is addressed is abuse of power and position, putting the community at risk, and rebellion against Yahweh’s leadership. Particularly for members of the tribe of Israel during their nomadic post-Egypt years. If you are a gentile and not living among ancient Jews, then much of it — like Levitical law — is not for or about you, and does not concern you or care about you at all.

In summary, I have never encountered an english translation that was not awful to the point of being worse than trash. They are not merely bad translations, they are not merely wrong, they are nearly all deliberately and intentionally deceptive.

Good. Let’s get to where they can count the number of visitors without counting.

This is our daily reminder that the Republican party has revoked the US Constitution in its entirety.

My problem is that this is an unsustainable, unmaintainable ideal rather than a plan. It is nothing more than liberalism in infancy. We’re stuck playing Monopoly and this is a desire to start the game over rather changing it fundamentally. The outcome will be the same no matter how many times you start over.

That feeling that you are a liar who is always lying to yourself and you are both untrustworthy for lying to yourself and gullible for believing yourself. And little things like failing to get the ten competing but complementary and codependent thoughts out of your head in a way that others understand further reinforces the feeling that you are being deceptive even though you are trying really hard to be as complete and thorough and accurate as possible.

Stimulants and a reliable support network do help.

You’re cool. I like you.

I love what @[email protected] is saying, but there’s no mystery about the nephilim.

Adam and Eve weren’t the first homosapiens, they were only the first Jews. They were the true children of Yahweh/El/Elohim, the only created things that were imbued with divine breath. Other humans were considered subservient like other animals. The Sons of God are Jewish men, the Daughters of Men were outsider women.

Most of the oral traditions in Genesis were ancient before they were written down, so they could even be echos of early homosapiens cross breeding with neanderthals. Remember what Jesus called the gentile woman who begged for help? He said helping her would be like throwing the children’s food — the children of Yahweh — to the dogs. Those who weren’t the ethnicity and the religion were not only outsiders, they were akin to “beasts of the field.”

Remember when Elon Musk called that diver a pedo and got sued because it wasn’t true?

Saying malicious things that aren’t true is slander. Simple math.

Next time, put it somewhere warm and moist and let it rise before you turn up the heat.

Walk Like an Egyptian was released in 1986.

Commercial internet was not available until 1989 and was not mainstream until the mid 90s.

Prior to that we used telnet, which was a different thing. I miss the telnet days.

COSMIC is supposed to hit 1.0 in the next few days and I’m looking forward to it. I wouldn’t recommend it right now only because the beta still has too many rough edges. Once it’s more polished, Pop_OS it could be an excellent starter distro.

So slander is cool? You seem to think that slander is cool.

My understanding is that the game is a surrealist-horror social commentary, like something David Lynch would do. I see a lot of people in these comments making some very wild claims and assumptions based on a build the developers were coerced into putting together early in development and which does not actually exist. The developers know they are pushing boundaries and that is the whole point, they even said they would change anything if Valve requested it since the build they were told to send was so early and quickly assembled. Instead, Valve gave no feedback at all and blacklisted them without recourse.

Since Steam is effectively a monopoly - though earned on merits instead of anticompetitiveness - being rejected without recourse or discussion is a death sentence and Valve should not have that power. Generally, I am violently opposed to anyone having the ability to dictate what qualifies as art, but when it’s a company that has captured an entire market crushing an indie developer for being too avante-garde while that company actively distributes basic porn, I must call bullshit. This is an abuse of their monopoly and it needs to be called out and punished.

I don’t have the stomach to play it, but I bought a copy on GOG to support the devs. As a consumer I prefer GOG, but for developers, being blocked from Steam is death. Potentially literal death, since we are discussing peoples livelihoods.

I am very bothered by the OS section. Bazzite should be the go-to for gaming, period. Ubuntu should never be recommended to anyone. Fedora is far more stable and reliable as a starter distro than either Mint or Ubuntu. Fedora Workstation for Mac expats and Fedora KDE for Windows expats.

I won’t fault anyone for putting Mint in there, but I loathe Cinnamon and would never recommend a distro that excludes KDE by design.