Hello, I hope I can articulate this well enough. As I come to understand more about the pervasive "parallel universe" inspired/generated by CT, I'm wondering about the range of responses to it. On one hand the lengths to which SI has gone in materializing its kingdom β Decorum Manual, symbolic (but intimidating) militarism, household etiquette, ministries and ministers, passports, coinage β show a serious, labour-intensive commitment to generation-stage tantrism. On the other, I've heard Shambhalians say that CT was "transmuting" previously (or recently) degenerated forms, so that the nobility of imperialism etc could shine through. Then others will say that it was all an absurdist show to break through conceptuality etc. These are not mutually exclusive views, I know. I'm wondering about the different weights accorded to them, or if the effect was for the indefinability to shut down resistance, or discernment. If anyone would like to share how they understood the affect and presentations I'm talking about (not now, but at that time) I'd be very interested. Thanks for reading. (Disclosure: I am writing an article but when I ask questions in public I always ask permission to quote any answers that pop up.)
I am working on 2-3 pieces that fit into the theatre of the absurd, including one full length play. I was just curious if anyone else had thoughts on the matter or experience with it. I feel like the conventions of the theatre of the absurd are more poignant now in our society than they were before.
What are some of reddits favorite Absurdist works? Of course, there are the shows that created a framework for what audiences anticipated in an absurdist play; Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" are commonly discussed. However, I'd like to hear some opinions on the pieces that expanded the genre and anchored absurdism into literary history.
Battlefield has always been my favorite fps out there. It offered so much while being so unique and reaching to a standard that was always above and beyond. Recent changes to game, they are just awful. In a perfect world where they revert changes and bring everything back to 5.0 values, people still are not going to come back. The community as a whole is giving up on the game. While one could argue that the reddit/youtube community does not represent it in its entirety, its the only sense of community a game can truly have. With all of them giving up, its pointless, the game is heading downhill very fast.
Now other games like Hell Let Loose and Insurgency are coming up, people will give up on this game. If those games were on console, Battlefield would have no support at this point. Battlefields old communities will drift over to those games, as they should, Battlefield has a phenomenal community that expresses so much passion for gaming. Dice does not deserve that great of a community if they just choose to shit on it entirely. Battlefront 2 is doing great. People are loving it. Good things are said about it. It's almost as if Dice is trying to drive all the players from BFV over to Battlefront 2.
This isn't a "I'm uninstalling" post. It's more-so just a, "Y'all really messed up, good luck getting back" post. Once more competitors come out to consoles and pc, battlefield franchise will not have the monopoly that they currently have. Being a person who truly enjoys Battlefield, you just get constantly shit on and disrespected. Honestly sometimes I forget that this is actually a thing happening to this game, it seems so foolish that it shouldn't even be happening. It is though
Any sense of a serious community for battlefield is being tarnished by poor management decisions and blatantly ignoring the player base. Even reverting the changes and saying "We are so sorry" wouldn't be able to undo the damage done.
Casca: How could you not order enough pizza for everyone?
Julius: But there was enough for everybody to have a slice...
Brutus: I ate 2 slices.
Julius: ATE TWO, BRUTE?
I have seen a lot of people (correctly) saying that The Fourth Horseman is a full-auto shotgun when talking about its return.
What I have not seeing is anyone adequately conveying how fast that gun fired, since it's not really comparable to what we have now in D2 and I think exceeds even what we had with IKELOS in its heyday.
I pulled up an old demonstration video I made for a friend back in D1 to illustrate this.
https://youtu.be/bjnC7fgZQy
1st Gun: Binary Dawn, no full auto (excited for Trinary Dawn or whatever they're calling the new version next season)
2nd Gun: Party Crasher+1 with full auto
3rd Gun: Invective, single shots and then full auto
4th Gun: Fourth Horseman in Full Auto
I am hoping they keep it this stupidly fast.
I was rewatching The Other Guys the other day and again realized how densely-packed it is with running gags and callback jokes. These include (in no particular order):
- βCaptain Geneβ (3)
- TLC references (5)
- Allen is inexplicably popular with women (7)
- Allenβs βGatorβ alter-ego (5)
- Allenβs Prius keeps getting damaged in various ways (7)
- Terry shot Derek Jeter (6)
- Little River Band / mellow music doesnβt match the scene (5)
- Captain keeps taking away Allenβs weapon (3)
- Dirty Mike and the boys (3)
- Terry is ironically good at something artistic (3)
- Other cops bully Allen for trying to be nice (4)
- βIβm a peacock. You gotta let me fly.β (4)
- Allenβs apps (narration app, fashion app, Faceback) (4)
- Allen keeps saying that his perfect wife (Sheila) is shitty (4)
- Allen and Sheila have a very aggressive sex life (3)
- Allen loves Ershonβs water (3)
- Martin and Fosse keep trying to be the next super cops but fail (4)
- Desk pop / apartment pop (3)
- Allen gets too detailed with animal references (2)
- Terry keeps coming on to Allenβs wife (3)
- Weirdly specific threats (3)
- Fresh starts (2)
- Terry thinks everything is related to drug dealers (3)
- Terry thinks ex is going out with guys who are clearly gay (2)
- Ershon keeps trying to bribe Terry and Allen with tickets to things (3)
- Ershon is into weird sex stuff (3)
- Bad guys keep taking Terry and Allenβs shoes (3)
- Danson and Highsmith go on absurd chases (2)
- People keep making fun of Allenβs Prius (3)
- Bob rambles on at a bad time; Terry yells at him (2)
- Captainβs son is bisexual (2)
- Captain has another job at Bed Bath and Beyond (2)
The number in parentheses indicate how many times the joke is used or repeated. Such a good comedy that much more deserved a sequel than Daddy's Home.
It was a huge catastrophe.
According to Bex:
Choke Points in Heists: We are reducing the number of rare guards that can gather behind Heist doors. Some monsters will release their skills in a staggered way so that you are not being hit by many skills simultaneously. Fewer monsters in these choke points will have their abilities ready to go as soon as the door opens. This should make these encounters more manageable and less about being blasted in the face with damage.
Only the "less rare mobs" part was implemented so far. Is there any update on when they are implementing the whole thing or are they stopping as such?
Let us count the ways.
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The authors of the Old Testament believed in a Biblical cosmology, with a flat Earth separated by a dome from the waters above and the waters below. This is absurd in light of our current understanding of the Earth as a sphere orbiting a spherical Sun in space.
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The authors of the Bible believed that heaven was a physical place located above the Earth. This is why characters in the Bible literally ascend into heaven. We now know that there is no heaven in space above us. If heaven isn't above us, where are Elijah, Jesus, etc. ascending to?
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The authors of Bible believed that the universe was created in six days in the last 10,000 years. Our current understanding of the age of the Earth and universe renders this absurd.
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The authors of the Bible believe that God created humans separately from other animals. Our current understanding of evolution and our common ancestry with every other living thing renders this belief absurd. Human speciation from our common ancestor with other apes happened very gradually over hundreds of thousands of years. At one point there were anatomically modern humans living with other species and subspecies in the Homo genus at the same time.
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The authors of the Bible believed that God created the universe expressly for humans living on Earth. Our understanding that the Earth is just one of billions of planets orbiting billions of suns in billions of galaxies renders this belief absurd.
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The authors of the Bible believed that all humans on Earth are descended from Noah and his family (and ultimately Adam and Eve). Our modern understanding of population genetics renders this absurd.
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The authors of the New Testament did not yet conceive of standards of evidence or the historical method, and so are perfectly comfortable writing about Jesus without explaining how they know the things they know, who their sources are, or what evidence corroborates the claims that they are making. We now know that the authors of the gospels were most likely not eyewitnesses, and wrote these stories about Jesus, ascribing dialogue to him, decades after the fact.
With all of this in mind, it is clear that the authors of the Bible were fundamentally mistaken about the nature of reality and the universe in which we live. If this is the case, why would an omnimax God divinely inspire a scripture that is so fundamentally wrong about all these things? And *why wo
... keep reading on reddit β‘.... they were chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.
Recently saw this about the FFRF fighting to keep the Bible out of public schools.
Frankly, the content of the Bible itself should exclude it from being taught in schools.
It contains:
- rape
- incest
- murder for pussy
- condones slavery
- commands genocide
... and all kinds of horrific shit.
And they want to teach it to kids?
Lawd, to think these are the same people who complained about Harry Potter being on reading lists.. but now they're trying to force the Bible on kids?
It's absurd.
