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Blue

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  1. Yes this a failure of perception. But what I'm talking about is those who claim to be christian are not acting christ-like. I read a book recently: the proportion of churches in the United States and the number of children in the US Foster Care system is roughly 1:1, there's about 300 000 of each. If each church adopted 1 child (that is, if one family from each church), then the US Foster Care system would be evaporated in under a year. Assuming that these adoptive families are healthful and wholesome for the new adoptions, this would eliminate thousands of young people from several kinds of vicious cycles (criminality, drug additions, teen pregnancies, which begat more into the foster care system), generate more happier youth, and liberate millions of dollars from US gov't social program funding for other things. That's one way we could show the world that Christianity helps. Christians invented the hospital, education free at the point of delivery, egaltarian sexuality, singleness as a viable way of life, orphanages, the steam engine, and many other great things. But the general sardonic remark made by secularism is "what have you done for people lately".
  2. Flask (Ye)
  3. This is going to make you so energized. It's also going to make the plaque bacteria by your teeth very happy, and make you need to pee later. Oh well, that's future you's problem. You sure did just do that. Your perception of time has dialated because now you're moving and thinking at double speed (10min duration). Obvious exits are the white house to the South and field to the West.
  4. Blue

    Q & A Thread

    Empire Strikes Back Apollo 13 Nausicaa or Mononoke The Iron Giant Schindler's List Ghandi The Shawshank Redemption Ghost in the Shell Beauty & the Beast Back to the Future III If you could have swapped the opportunity/idea/time/history with anyone, what great invention would you like to be the inventor of?
  5. Dream Daddy. My sister convinced me to play it. I'm not sure if I can words about it yet.
  6. I've been watching K-On at a snail's pace over the past few months. Weeks may pass between watching episodes. If I had an aircraft, I would put a patch of Mugi on the side, and name the plane "Piece of Cake".
  7. 1. Buy what you want. 2. Do not buy what you don't want. 3. It's only "on sale" if you were planning on getting it anyway. 4. Do your homework and see if a sale is likely to occur. Everything else (content sources and limitations, privacy, lootboxes and all that nonsense) I chalk up to "preference", and things like those are not things I prefer. To that end, I maybe buy like 1 game a year, and I only ever buy what I intend to play. I got Chasm this year and Mini Metro last year. Someone might say my preferences are too narrow, but in my view the jedi are evil I don't need many games or complex games to satisfy my needs.
  8. I try not to let the sun set on a frowny face.
  9. A recent study came out, polling Americans thusly: "Fill in the blank: Christians are ______________" Top results were: anti-gay, judgmental, hypocritical, power-hungry, and the list didn't get much better after words like those. I live in Canada but I presume the opinions here are not all that different. Considering the fact that Christians, according to their own holy book are supposed to be "loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle and controlled" [Gal.5.25-26], as a Christian I'd say: 1. if that's the overall impression then it's a legit criticism, and therefore 2. then we're doing a pretty fucking terrible job being 'little Christs'.
  10. He-Man Who Was Thursday He-Man takes on Skeletor's anarchist cell being developed in Edwardian London.
  11. You pour all of the skittles into the orange juice. Nothing interesting has happened. But your diploma in chemical food science says the skittles will likely absorb all of the orange juice over the next 4-8 hours.
  12. The problem is fundamentally about people presuming that they can seek their own good their own way (individually) or seek the good of their own people their people's way (collectively). Corporate conspiracy of greed and personal selfishness are both failures of moral conduct, and nothing can change the whole scene unless you change ones moral compass at the personal level. Something far deeper than any legislation twisting an organization's arm.
  13. >NORTH You head north to the back yard. There are poppies in the garden, which remind you of those who nobly died in the great wars of the past. There's also a picnic table with what looks like breakfast. It reminds of you of those who nobly prepared this delicious spread. The comestibles include a pitcher of orange juice, poppy muffins, a small fried mennonite-style sausage, a pitcher of denatured isopropanol, a bag of skittles and an empty glass bottle. The isopropyl alcohol kinda stinks.
  14. Is that the one with the guys who make snappy comments and references while watching old crap? Beethoven or Beats in Oven?
  15. Unfortunate
  16. Exactly what it says, except it's the animated musical for children. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  17. You are empty handed (and sober).
  18. You have no mail. You turn the little flag tab up _
  19. West of House ZORK Welcome to ZORK. Release 13 / Serial number 040826 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/7 West of House This is an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. A rubber mat saying 'Welcome to Zork!' lies by the door. _
  20. I played Inside and Limbo recently, as far as I cared to go. Gameplay and look are exceptionally well made and fun, but the subject matter is so dark and violent that I couldn't stomach it for more than about an hour each. And apparently their endings don't have much catharsis for all the death either.
  21. Not necessarily. though I hear a civil war may break out on r/prequelmemes between those who keep declaring war on other subreddits, and people who don't want to keep doing that. Am I weird for thinking pineapple on pizza is pretty ok?
  22. **** ACCURSODORE 64 BASIC V2.018 **** 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE READY. LOAD "FPA2",8,1 SEARCHING FOR FPA2 LOADING READY. Welcome to the Accursed Farms Text Based Adventures 2. The successor to the wildly and financially and not-quite-romantically successful original flavor Forum Post Adventure. This is a text adventure game. Post an action to be performed based upon the post above you, or a response to that action. No replying to your own posts (for obvious reasons). Please select a game: 1) Freeing the Giant Robot [1] 2) Zork [2] 3) Bravo: Project Isolator [3] 4) Bravo: The Legend of Tipidu [4] 5) The Borrowers (C64) [5] Your choice:_
  23. Make smaller projects. Once you can finish those, then grow your scope when you have a sense of what the motions are like for you, going from beginning to end.
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