The Orthodox Church is equally the oldest (extant) denomination as the Catholic Church and they’re not as literal on this topic.

I had the opposite reaction to the Lorca reveal. He was the only interesting character at that point and they just threw it away.

I still think it’s weird that that’s the part Catholics go with literalism on. They usually go with things being metaphors, like the seven day creation story’s bit about ‘let the earth bring forth’ being a reference to evolution, but this thing, specifically, is literal.

Where do I find this setting?

I would love if Civilization or Crusader Kings implemented this.

Final Fantasy 9 had you learn skills from equipment.

If you’re only interested in multiplayer then those are solid options. If you like campaign then you should definitely check out 2, ODST, and Reach.

They’re pissed about sportsball because sportsballers started protesting while still respecting the flag by kneeling and now they refuse to watch sportsball.

And I’m hoping for them to be flatpacks so they still run five years later. I’ve had to resort to running Windows builds via Proton for games that have native Linux builds because they don’t work anymore.

And x-axis, just to be thorough. Especially for third person games since they still can’t all agree on what the default should be.

Relatedly, I’ve noticed ports of console games, particularly by Japanese devs, and especially Sqeenix, not actually having an option to quit to desktop. Sometimes hitting Esc will pop a plain system theme window with an option to close the program, but I’ve seen ones that didn’t even have that and had to be killed externally. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but even exiting DragonQuest 11 is a pain.

Yeah. I’ve yet to see porn that was lit like the final season of Game of Thrones.

American-made PlayStation games were using X for confirm and O for cancel long before the Xbox came out. It’s probably partially because X is blue and O is red; we don’t have cultural context for the symbols, but we do have cultural context for the colors.

Technically, Thanksgiving actually celebrates the brief period before the genociding began.

Strange New Worlds is also a potential entry point.

It’s not that the Darksaber felt heaver to non-Force-sensitives, it’s that it felt heavier because Din, and Sabine, to a lesser extent, didn’t feel worthy of the blade and was subconsciously rejecting it. It’s a general property of lightsabers rather than a specific property of the Darksaber, but other blades don’t have so much meaning and cultural importance making that kind of psychological block likely to happen.

The 7 to 10 migration was pretty standard. MS has typically supported a Windows version through the lifetime of its successor, only stopping support about the time the release after that comes out. XP was supported until 7, Vista was supported until 8, and 8 was supported until 11 came out. By the usual pattern, 10 should have been supported until 12 came out, not two years after support for 8 was dropped.

Did they watch The Peacekeeper Wars after finishing the show? Because it does help.

Or when Lincoln was assassinated, since his VP was a Confederate sympathizer and immediately set about undoing his work.

It won’t work. LLMs work on probability. They’d have to be an absurdly prolific poster (probably at least a quarter of all comments present in the LLM’s training data) in order for their spelling to get incorporated and not just tossed out as a typo. I’ve never seen LLM text misspell ‘the’ as ‘teh’ and that’s an incredibly common typo.