I feel like religious debate in America has been somewhat hampered by the relative density of Southern Baptist Fundamentalists.
Like, a leading new atheist voice literally does not know that Augustine and Aquinas didn't advocate strict literalism. This is literally a thing that happened.
all phenomena are empty of characteristics: they are neither created nor destroyed, neither defiled nor pure, and they neither increase nor diminish. This is because in emptiness there is no form, sensation, conception, synthesis, or discrimination. There are no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or thoughts. There are no forms, sounds, scents, tastes, sensations, or phenomena. There is no field of vision and there is no realm of thoughts. There is no ignorance nor elimination of ignorance, even up to and including no old age and death, nor elimination of old age and death. There is no suffering, its accumulation, its elimination, or a path. There is no understanding and no attaining.
i feel like there's got to be a more poetic way to translate this
Sleeping round at my sister's house. I tried sharing the spare double bed with my mum, but couldn't do it and now sleeping on the sofa downstairs. Does that make me a horrible person?
Bloody hell, that's an obtuse reading of Genesis 2:1
There's actually a few verses in the Bible that allow for alien life. The bit with God's court at the beginning of Job is one of them, since it implies that beings were there besides God and his angels.
Bloody hell, that's an obtuse reading of Genesis 2:1
There's actually a few verses in the Bible that allow for alien life. The bit with God's court at the beginning of Job is one of them, since it implies that beings were there besides God and his angels.
Sleeping round at my sister's house. I tried sharing the spare double bed with my mum, but couldn't do it and now sleeping on the sofa downstairs. Does that make me a horrible person?
Today in Magical Burst my players got royally screwed over by the RNG. One of them burned two Boosts to attack a rival magical girl. This was the result:
Before we take this discussion any further can I ask if anyone here has played any of the Five Nights At Freddy's games, much less the most recent one?
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Like, to me, metaplot is something that occurs in setting-heavy tabletop games, with multiple points of agency and opposing forces. Players are expected to be plonked down in that world, and that things will occur without their input. It's the story that exists outside what is played at the table, sometimes affected by it, sometimes not.
And then you have meta-metaplot, where there's another layer of story, the story that exists in books, that affects the larger game world, that affects what is played at the table.
Before we take this discussion any further can I ask if anyone here has played any of the Five Nights At Freddy's games, much less the most recent one?
Am I biased by TORG, or are RPG metaplots generally terrible.
Because to me it just seems like "Oh no, our players can't be allowed to kill this big bad evil guy who they'll probably want to kill, because some writer in three sourcebooks down the road might need him"
You know while i haven't played Spec Ops the Line, it *does* sometimes bug me how it feels like stuff that's witty and/or thought-provoking is apparently eyeroll inducing here
like i don't think i'm actually an elitist, but a lot of stuff that's supposedly just dumb and enjoyable just feels obnoxious to me, or at best kind of boring
but any time i think something's smart, now i have a nagging voice that goes 'what if you just think this is smart, but actually it's a stupid thing that assholes who THINK they're smart like so they can feel superior?'
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
There's no right way or wrong way, really.
Actually, I think I'll amend my terminology. What happens at the table is the story. What happens above that is the plot. And what happens above that, in books, is the metaplot.
And there are lots of players who love the metaplot, and they either want to change things, or they don't want it to change.
There's a place for a metaplot, and I have no room in my head or my heart for it.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Takino Emi: rolling 5d6!+7 ( 1 + 2 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 4 ) +7 = 26
Ryouga Yukino: rolling 2d6!+6 ( 6 + 6 + 6 + 1 + 6 + 4 ) +6 = 35
Also when we left off Emi was bleeding swords.
it's not even that, although 'metaplot' is a new word to me
but Five Nights at Freddy's is not a complicated thing and it's charitable to say it even has a regular plot plot
But i have read a fair bit about the story, in so far as there is one, on the wiki.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
like i don't think i'm actually an elitist, but a lot of stuff that's supposedly just dumb and enjoyable just feels obnoxious to me, or at best kind of boring
but any time i think something's smart, now i have a nagging voice that goes 'what if you just think this is smart, but actually it's a stupid thing that assholes who THINK they're smart like so they can feel superior?'