Yeah, you know, that's about where I had set my expectations of a rational response. The floor.
Anyway, have a nice day, peace be upon ye.
Oh boy, here we go.
What is your definition of a god if Kratos, who literally killed and usurped Ares, and then killed most of the rest of the Greek pantheon, before fleeing overseas and killing large numbers of the Norse pantheon, doesn't count as a god?
Not saying this retard leftist wall of text has any decent points to make, before some crayon muncher jumps in here with some bullshit to derail. The wall of text is wholly retarded.
I'm just curious what your standard of "true god" is.
I would say "Spain needs some freedom", but it's not like America is in any position to visit Spain and accidentally lose a few munitions over the illegal storage centers.
Too busy sending money, bullets ,and bombs back to the fucking sandbox for israel.
Also, there's a drafari camp near a good early game base location on a plateau that's near iron, coal, a river, and the forbidden city.
So if you go thrall taking, you end up with a coterie of black slaves, entirely by accident.
How cheap are Nintendo products actually though? I have a switch 1 I got as a gift forever ago that I mostly use for indie games and monster hunter, but out of curiosity I checked to see how much SSB Brawl or BotW were, and that shit is still $60.
You want first party nintenslop, you pay through the nose.
I just bought Ender Lilies and Ender Magnolia for like $30 together instead. Lilies has a wonderful soundtrack.
Guys, for fucks sake. It's not alive. It's not intelligent. It did not "make" any decisions.
It is a glorified toaster following simple if then logic and outputting words from training data.
I have read that exact opener at least twice before from some wokie retard moaning about some dumb shit they tried doing or demanding being rejected. This dumbass bot has literally scraped a bunch of bluehair blogs, moved some words around, and reposted. It's the woke version of rewriting mein kampf and replacing all of "the jews" with "the patriarchy", and it appears to be working the same way.
Marathon would be doing better if it was actually Marathon, instead of a trannybot extraction shooter live service slop wearing Marathon's skin suit.
Seriously, how do you take a game series that became a cult classic for its deep story and time/dimension hopping shenanigans, throw all that out, and then become confused when no one wants to play your version?
Its the same types of people who get triggered by CE, but from the other side
I mean, look at the thread you commented on. Thirty odd people having a tiny sperg about someone giving the date without referencing their god.
He lives rent free in many people's heads.
And I sat that as someone who really quite disliked the little shit.
And I'll join you in that if you ever find some decent, falsifiable evidence. I'm an empiricist at heart.
Honestly, what's funny about this whole thing is that you're almost as much of an atheist as I am. I simply believe, out the myriad hundreds of gods, demons, devils, and spirits that humans have invented and attributed things to over the millenia, in one fewer god than you do.
Like I said, you guys aren't the target audience. You've already based your personality and identity around the lie. Changing now would require you to tear large parts of your identity apart and admit you may have been wrong about something you consider foundational.
Most people lack the capacity to do this. I can't realistically expect 99% of you to even try.
This is for those not yet absorbed into the cult, and the 1% who can.
If that's some obscure reference to something, I don't get it.
Satan isn't real.
Again, no.
Understand that this isn't for you. You've already made up your mind.
This is for others who may not have drunk quite so deep of the well of superstition and foolishness. What to you, the faithful, is a screed, may to another be the first step away from the cult.
And, for the record, I am sorry for you and your type. I recognize that the overwhelming majority of you lack the ability to shake the programming. This is how people are.
But it is not how people could be.
Because the language you choose, especially the language you choose in reflex under pressure or in the face of emotional extremes, is one of the most telling indicators of how you view the world.
People lie to others, and to themselves, all the time. We craft and wear myriad masks, and speak in dozens of fine tuned codes, all to fit in to specific social groups and hierarchies. We bury the truth of who we are for who we pretend to be, for whatever reason we pretend to be that person in that place at that time.
You can never truly know who a person is until you put them in a place and time where the masks fall free and the code book is dropped.
And here we had an excellent moment. When faced with the evils that men do, in the reality where men live, the language you chose to describe it showed that, deep down, a concerningly large number of people still believe in magic and monsters.
If the word that leaps to mind is "demons", then you understand these people to be such. You do not see evil humans whose actions can and must be stopped by good humans. You see mystical creatures from mythology, whose only doom is other, bigger mystical creatures from mythology.
Or, in short, this shows that, fundamentally, you do not live in reality. You live in religiosity, and it forms the underpinnings of your entire worldview.
Why do I do this? Because I hold the, perhaps foolish, hope that at least some of you can be talked off the ledge of religiosity. To borrow a metaphor from a different mythology, this is buddha's golden thread I wish to throw down to the misguided sinners, in the hopes that even one of you clings to it and ascends out of the pit. And yes, I am aware of the ridiculous irony of arguing against religiosity using a religious metaphor, but the advantage of stories is that we can reference the lessons from them without pretending they are reality.
And that segues into the last point, as far as demons vs other fictional evil creatures like orcs or goblins or the like. Because all of you already recognize those are fake. Because none of you need to be told the uruk hai are not coming to siege the walls. Because none of you read a story about mudslime rape gangs or paki shitskins murdering a man for shits and giggles and go "these subhuman GOBLINS are evil". You know, deep down, all those other alternatives you listed are fake, but you still think, again deep down, that demons and gods are real.
And so here I am again, reminding people demons aren't real, because a concerning number of you actually don't understand this, on a visceral, personality defining level.
Yeah, I'm sure the voices in your head tell you any number of things.
I always am curious, though: what makes your type think this is a good comeback? Its neither pithy nor hurtful, and its certainly not novel. Is it just an audience thing? Do you say it for the same type of clapping seals that bark in great fervor when some middle aged female comedian says "but my vagina!" as the punchline?
No, we absolutely need to combat that instinct, because I work on the assumption that we win in the end.
If we build a system supported entirely by irrationality, that system won't magically vanish with the enemy. It will simply pivot to target a new set of "demons", using different criteria. Look, for example, at the satanic panic and the cultural and social suppressions done by and in the name of christians and catholics a few decades ago. Those were "demons" they were after as well.
And don't tell me it won't. Every single system mankind puts together has attempted to keep itself alive long after its purpose had been served.
Look. Hatred of islam and judaism is perfectly rational, as is hatred of those who engage with their vile practices. You don't need to invent magic invisible monsters that can only be dealt with by magic invisible good boy beams. Quite frankly, I'd even argue that this is counter productive: you offload the responsibility for preventing their predations and depravity from the average man on the street to some higher power. You give the lazy average joe the excuse to be the good man doing nothing, because now he can assume god or the church or whatever else will take care of it.
When we know perfectly damn well that nothing will be taken care of if we don't go do it.
Demons aren't real, dude. I hate the goat fuckers and the ragheads as much as some, and a lot more than most, of you guys, but you need to stop putting this in the context of fiction. Its exactly as retarded as the leftists going "this is exactly like my favorite capeslop/wizard book/ etc", as a lens through which you interpret reality.
People need to come to the understanding that there exist a massive number of humans, regular humans, who meet the criteria of what we define as "evil", and that this is their default state. No god, no devil, no demon, no spirit, no cosmic ray made them this way; there were simply born thus and never had it beaten out of them by proper civilization.
The sooner people accept this truth, the sooner we stop sending thoughts and prayers and start sending bullets and bombs. There is no other way. You cannot overerite decades of formative and post-formative behavior reinforcement by giving them a bible and telling them to play nice.
Plate mail is secured to your body by leather straps and cloth bindings. The whole point of platemail was to create armor that is molded fairly well to your body, and would turn blows.
You could run in platemail once it was fitted; it actually weighed less, and had fewer loose parts, then a modern soldier's gear.
Yes, the armored boot may make trying to be quiet more like sneaking in steel shoes, but it's certainly not going to be rattling around like pots and pans shifting.
People have balkanized into some very specific purity enclaves by this point.
Because, at the risk of fedposting, the modern American is too fat and happy to make corrupt political figures swing from lamp posts.
Fun fact: this is the same bitch who filed the retarded lawsuit against Bad Orange President Man (TM) for "overvaluing" his home to secure loans with it as collateral, while she herself has done the same shit and more besides.
Just out of curiosity, is anything NOT a secret ploy of the jews?
Disagreement is the jews. Hot takes is the jews. Overcooking your pancakes in the morning is the jews.
I hate them too, but this shit is turning into this sub's stair muffin.
Horseshoe theory in action.
And I say that as someone who de-nigs more or less every game I can get my hands on, wherever it makes sense.
It would be more immersion breaking for me to go to mudhut land and see it full of whites who somehow never figured out even something as simple as baked clay brickwork and ash and bone mortar.