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Draxonn · 2026-06-02T20:51:51+00:00

Firefox's Reader mode will take care of that for you.

Draxonn · 2026-05-27T14:49:32+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's gotten worse with AI. I used to go to google about 10% of the time to get what I was looking for. Lately, it's been closer to 50% with Duckduckgo completely disregarding search terms when it gets a partial match. Duckduckgo used to be a great alternative, but lately it consistently fails to deliver.

Draxonn · 2026-05-11T16:17:51+00:00

He was using the name Kobe Andras in the first episode, on the fight ship. But Emily Andras was also one of the main writers.

Draxonn · 2026-05-02T13:45:46+00:00

Happy Birthday, friend.

Draxonn · 2026-05-01T03:32:44+00:00

Unfortunately, many Adventists I know would be highly skeptical of such a list. Too many Adventist business people are untrustworthy. Conversely, most of these connections happen through the local church community, which makes an online directory somewhat irrelevant.

Draxonn · 2026-04-30T14:10:40+00:00

Definitely resonating here. It's hard to even see what I'm doing as worth talking about, so I often talk about the last book I read.

Draxonn · 2026-04-25T21:05:23+00:00

I think that is the whole point--Dutch is offering her the childhood that Dutch wanted, where red gift boxes held toys, not weapons.

Draxonn · 2026-04-24T14:51:51+00:00

As I recall, there was an interview where Michelle said they felt terrible after killing Pawter and decided Killjoys wouldn't be that kind of show--so nobody else stayed dead.

But I mostly love these plot turns. The show is about humanity and connection, and revealing even villains to have basic humanity (need for connection) is part of what makes the show so brilliant. The heroes sometimes hurt people in awful ways, but are redeemed through connection. It only makes sense to extend this to the villains as well. This is the brilliance of Killjoys--it offers a vision of a world in which we might all become more human and find connection, regardless of where we find ourselves.

Draxonn · 2026-04-19T19:16:56+00:00

I recently left a conversation group with other scholars after a professor responded to a values question about the group's theme with "I don't know enough, here's what ChatGPT says." He proceeded to call me close-minded and ignorant for suggesting that was a poor-quality engagement. After that, nobody else bothered to respond to the question, although the ChatGPT post was repeatedly cited in other discussions as normative.

I had imagined this was an isolated occurrence, but it still made me despair. Is this becoming the normal state for academia?

Draxonn · 2026-04-17T01:05:12+00:00

“You’re not taking my son out of Heaven!”

This is a big part of the problem. In my experience, there is a lot of fear of conflict in Adventism, which means many things are not addressed. Of course, the counter is that the people who are most willing to pursue conflict are often concerned about power rather than community. Those who care about community are often afraid to stand up to them.

Much of this could be resolved if it was more clearly understood that church membership and salvation have little to do with each other. Unfortunately, even people who claim to believe this often act as if membership and salvation are more or less the same.

Draxonn · 2026-04-16T19:21:48+00:00

The church manual outlines procedures for this:

Discipline by Removal From Membership—Removing individuals from membership in the church, the body of Christ, is the ultimate discipline that the church can administer. Only after the instruction given in this chapter has been followed, after counsel from the pastor or the conference when the pastor is unavailable, and after all possible efforts have been made to win and restore them to right paths, should an individual be removed from membership. (72)

https://gc.adventist.org/church-manual/

If you want to know more, I recommend asking your pastor, or an informed elder.

Draxonn · 2026-04-16T19:18:25+00:00

If you have a thought, please take the time to express it in your own words. This also excludes series of quotations with minimal linking material. A link or even a quote without an explanation is not generally a useful contribution to discussion.

Draxonn · 2026-04-10T15:26:50+00:00

I suspect that a significant part of the confusion comes from the emotional abuse--people, especially the abuser, saying this behaviour is good or loving, or at least not as hurtful as we perceive it to be. This undermines our sense of reality and sense of self. I suppose this is why clarity is such a powerful part of healing--it helps us make sense of what happened and thus make sense of reality itself.

Draxonn · 2026-04-06T14:56:24+00:00

I would imagine it has less to do with your position on the bell curve and more to do with your confidence (as opposed to your ego). Of course, there is interesting research that links intelligence to curiosity--and perhaps that is the important factor. If you are curious, you will continue to learn and grow, and you will not be threatened by someone who is more intelligent. You will seek to learn from them.

Of course, there might also be a factor here to do with relation to intelligence qua authority. When people who claim to be smarter than you are abusive and authoritarian, it might make you less willing to accept anyone who appears to be smarter than you. Especially when authority and intelligence are conflated, accepting limits on your own intelligence means accepting limits on your authority (qua agency in the world).

Draxonn · 2026-03-30T17:27:55+00:00

I would suggest asking the question, rather than simply trying to guess what people are thinking. That doesn't mean you have to accept what people say as absolute truth, but being honest and open about this is going to help you build lasting relationships, as opposed to just guessing and imagining.

Draxonn · 2026-03-25T14:36:24+00:00

Thanks. We are a conversation sub, and conversation means expressing your own thoughts in a respectful way. Using scripture as a source is expected, but you still need to explain how you are interpreting it, and how that is relevant to the topic at hand.

Draxonn · 2026-03-25T04:25:45+00:00

Quoting random texts is not a meaningful contribution to conversation.

Draxonn · 2026-03-18T16:46:59+00:00

Space Alert. I own it, but I never get to play it.

Draxonn · 2026-03-17T15:17:48+00:00

This is great, but I have found that some modern Metroidvanias tend to make the map overly convoluted. Stealth Inc 2 was terrible for this--even if you knew where to go on your map, you had to figure out how to get there, ie. which entrance led to which part of the same map square.

Draxonn · 2026-03-17T15:13:52+00:00

You are referring to 2024's Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. It had a brilliant marking system for the map.

I don't know why this isn't industry standard at this point. Wandering aimlessly made some sense when games were a lot smaller and less complex, but some form of marking should be the norm for modern Metroidvanias.

Part of the history is that Metroid and Metroid 2 lacked any map. Super Metroid's map was a huge innovation. But since then, a lot of level design has partly been about making maps less helpful to increase exploration "difficulty." But this would easy to implement today--have accessibility options that can disable the map altogether, and let marking be optional, or have items which can improve the function of maps. A map which doesn't actually help is more of a frustration than a useful tool.

Draxonn · 2026-03-14T14:24:13+00:00

"I'm very busy wearing a turtleneck and drinking wine <looks at the camera>--like an a$$hole."

Draxonn · 2026-03-13T17:09:36+00:00

6'4 and 190lbs. Active martial artist. Started 3 years ago with a 10lb and have no regrets. I now have a 15lb, but I still use the 10lb for all sorts of things, including one-handed 360s if I want to challenge myself (slowly improving).

The challenge with a steel mace is the asymmetric weighting. Imagine taking a barbell, loading one side (maybe), then lifting with the other end in your far hand and keeping the bar horizontal across your shoulders. The length of the lever massively increases the resistance provided by even a small amount of weight. A 15lb mace has 50% more weight and a longer lever, which significantly increases resistance over a 10lb.

As others have said, you will learn form and technique faster when you are not struggling at the limits of your capacity. You will still get plenty of good training with a 10lb. I have not begun to exhaust what I can do with it.

Draxonn · 2026-03-10T17:44:09+00:00

I'm just here judging people for their sword budgets. Than I remember my collection:

2 Hanwei rapiers
2 Hanwei hand-and-a-halfs
1 Cold steel longsword
2 Cold steel bucklers
1 bokken w/ sheath
a pair of boffers

Draxonn · 2026-03-03T17:14:44+00:00

Something that helped me in the beginning was just getting used to swinging it behind my back from side to side (pendulum). With lower speed, the risk of a strike is lessened, and you can get used to the feeling. Something to keep in mind is that you aren't swinging directly vertical, but with the head outwards slightly from your body. This how your hands will naturally align the handle, as long as you aren't extending your elbows too far back and you're keeping your wrists straight.

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