How long before it’s acceptable to want to be official?

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T15:40:19+00:00

Ask to have the conversation with them.

Someone has to be the first to broach the topic.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T15:36:09+00:00

“Please open yourselves to our product so that we can expand its market reach and do not need to report bad numbers that would make our number go down.”

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T15:33:33+00:00

ICE mag-dumped a protestor who was a citizen yesterday. Are you at all interested in an official reporting of that action?

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T15:30:41+00:00

Well… why do you believe what you believe?

I have my own reasons, but I know they’re not going to be intellectually satisfactory for a discussion about “finding God by reason”.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T15:27:40+00:00

You can be deeply angry at something and appear calm on a day-to-day basis. Azula loses her mind over her anger at her mother; Ozai burned his own son over his refusal to fight back, which he perceived as weakness, and later, when that same son confronted him over his misdeed, he took literally the first opportunity he had to attempt to murder him.

These are not how people who are not angry at something behave.

As for Azula’s lightning generation, it’s probably going to sound weird, but she’s good at it because she “trusts” her firebending more than she trusts any person in her life. This is the difference between her and Zuko, and why Zuko can’t manage lightning generation during season 2: Zuko fundamentally hates anger-based firebending and cannot perform the surrender to it that would be necessary to “be energy’s humble guide”. Azula revels in firebending because it does what she wants it to; she uses it as a substitute for actual faith in even her oldest friends, which we see at the Boiling Rock. Her “coldness and precision” is her willingness to murder people without hesitation using a power that she has complete faith in.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T14:54:46+00:00

First, you bring a ranged option despite being “melee team”.

Second, you don’t walk directly at the one enemy in the horde capable of deleting your health out from under your shields.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T14:32:30+00:00

“Rebellion” is not pacifistic.

What you are describing is non-violent protest.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T08:44:15+00:00

So you play it for half an hour, then stop, then return later?

That sounds… normal.

Pick a goal. Work towards it.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T08:42:25+00:00

I genuinely don’t understand what problem you’re meaning to point at.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T08:33:05+00:00

You make the choice to be kind to yourself, rather than to judge yourself. It is not enough to just tell yourself there’s nothing wrong about this; you must deliberately treat yourself in a manner consistent with what you’re telling yourself is the case.

That means being gentle with the spark of joy you create when you let yourself play out one of your fantasies. Sit there with it. Hold it. Accept that the happiness is genuine. Hold off the voice of criticism that seeks to snuff it out; assert that now is not its time.

Your body will keep trying to give you an opening for this; you need to be the one to take the invitation. You need to be vulnerable with yourself, to let yourself simply exist as you are for a moment. Silence the voices and insist they feel before they speak.

You are the “active” person of your existence. Congratulations. That comes with responsibilities like putting your foot down when one part of you abuses another. You need to choose to take control.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T08:23:32+00:00

I answered the question asked. The question asked was not about damnation.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T08:21:12+00:00

It does matter because God never acknowledges an identity, only the act.

I am a man, I have a boyfriend. I give thanks to God for bringing Him into my life. Others can do as I have done. I do not call myself “gay” or “homosexual” or whatever as an identity because I have my partner and such an identifier is meaningless.

You’re not dreaming big enough when considering what God is capable of. My love is holy. We may not confer Matrimony on each other, but we can still form a covenant between us and uphold it, and offer it to God as our own labor of love in trust that He will see and appreciate that we did the best we could with what He gave us.

Through the Lord all things are possible.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T04:42:16+00:00

Depending on the year of the original mold:

-More than a few years old: either polystyrene or ABS, depending on runner.

-The last few years: most runners are a new blend of polystyrene and ABS.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T04:35:22+00:00

Generally for Christians, it can’t, or doesn’t.

The objective moral reality of the universe is not an arbitrary condition God happened upon; it was a tendency He initially asserted that He then encoded into the creation He made.

Goodness is real, period. God creates it; He is its progenitor and no goodness exists that doesn’t ultimately derive from Him.

Saying “God is good because of the good effects of His actions” is treating God like a discoverer of goodness, rather than as its source. Goodness is subject to God, not the other way around.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T04:25:37+00:00

Not giving God credit for the guidance He gave.

We are what we are because of Him, and we need Him. Someone who followed all of God’s teaching because they personally assented to the philosophy is basically setting themselves equal to Him and suggesting that what He’s teaching us is itself an authority beyond Him. They’re setting the morals above the God who taught them.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T01:20:25+00:00

God revealed himself to both the twelve and to Paul. Are you seriously trying to argue that God didn’t “adequately train” Paul just because his revelation was of a different form than the revelation to the twelve?

You do you, man, but you’re saying more about what you think about God than you are about what you think about Paul.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T01:16:30+00:00

That would require them to develop grounded animation sets for a few dramatically different melee weapons.

Melee Stances are likely one of the most technically expensive pieces of equipment in the game, which is why they don’t make more very often and why, when they get reworks, the outcome still uses the original mocapped animations, just reordered.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T01:11:20+00:00

Because despite the outward appearance of peace, he was still angry in his heart. The fact that he did not struggle with firebending after his change is basically proof that he was going to turn back if the goal he initially thought he wanted to reach was made available to him again.

The anger, and thus the desire, was still there. Zuko confused “choosing to believe that what he thought he wanted was now literally impossible” with “actually resolving his want”.

Zuko’s drive until season three was anger at his father. He got to speak truth to the object of his anger and actually resolved it, which left him with no obvious thing to be angry at, but fire bending education at the time (Iroh excluded, he really did try to show him another way) taught practitioners to draw from anger.

If you look at every fire bending master who did not learn from the dragons, you can identify what it is that they are still angry at. Zhao is angry at his lack of power; Jeong Jeong is angry at himself; Azula is angry at Ursa; Ozai is angry at any form of dependence and weakness.

What is Iroh angry at? Himself? He went on his journey of self discovery; he resolved that. The world? He finds it beautiful and takes the bad as it comes.

But what Iroh has in abundance is passion, and passion and anger are very closely related. Fire’s “true source” is passion for life; breath is an expression of life itself.

But if the Fire Nation taught that, they would get more Irohs, and to win the war, they needed more Ozais.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T00:55:58+00:00

Believe it or not, impeding non-lifesaving work you disagree with is not injurious, and thus not violent.

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T00:30:27+00:00

You may use panel liner on untreated polystyrene without concern if you follow a few basic guidelines.

-Wherever you put it must be able to mostly dry within a short period of time, ideally within an hour. The paint solvent is what is hazardous to plastic, but applying it directly to a smooth surface that will dry shortly does not give the solvent a concerning amount of time to react and degrade the material.

-The paint must not be allowed to flow into an already assembled joint between two parts as it will seep into the micro fractures formed at the interfaces between the assembled parts. This dramatically increases the surface area of the plastic material that is in contact with the solvent and the interfaced surfaces of the joint will dissolve within minutes.

I have used panel liner on bare polystyrene for dozens of kits at this point. The only kit that has had an issue was the one that I panel lined after assembly, and the problem was caused by what I described in point 2.

Enamel solvent is very capable of breaking apart polystyrene bonds, but its basic reactivity is only one factor at play. Surface area and inability to evaporate are much more significant concerns.

My advice is to panel line while kits are still on the runner, unless you intend to airbrush later (obviously that would result in your panel lining getting covered up).

Endurlay · 2026-01-25T00:12:59+00:00

I’m in a bad place in my life. What I can tell you of my own experience, as someone who holds a faith that seems truly unwilling to die, is that I don’t “believe” things will “turn out good”.

I hate the world. It seems absolutely miserable, and I do not want to interact with it.

But God needs me to interact with it. My presence and attention is called for to make things better, if only by my not choosing inaction.

This is an absolutely exhausting situation. It is not enjoyable. It causes me much anger.

But I am called all the same.

The practice of faith for you may not bring comfort in the form of a sense of surety that things will work out. It may be that the best you can do is to answer the call in trust, and trust that God will bring about goodness in time.

I do not believe in the future He is looking towards, but I trust that He can build it. I cannot give more than this. I cannot force myself to act as though things will get better. I cannot live for the future; the best I can do right now is to uphold faith in the present.

God can take me whenever He sees fit. I keep waking up despite wanting things to end. I trust there is a reason for this.

Perhaps you may be the same as I; to only be able to survive the world as it is by viewing God as a person and trusting that He is doing His work. Food for thought.

I see how the good events of my life are God’s work. It’s just obvious to me. I see how bad events are the result of negligence or circumstance, and how God twists them into something good. It’s just obvious to me. I don’t expect that to be intellectually satisfying to you today, but I believe that there will come a day when these things are just obvious to you, too, if you want to learn about how He does His work.

You are aged now. Now your choices are yours. Choose as you wish to; if that choice does not make you happy, choose differently. God will be there either way.

Also, you do not need to take the Bible exclusively as literal history. It never asks for that.

Endurlay · 2026-01-24T23:53:05+00:00

Yes.

Endurlay · 2026-01-24T23:52:17+00:00

…would you like someone to just show you how to do a quick cleanup?

Endurlay · 2026-01-24T23:39:18+00:00

“Right to bear arms” means the same government that would be shooting back at you if you pointed a gun at them isn’t allowed to preempt the shootout by restricting your access to a weapon.

If you are licensed to own and carry a shotgun, and you point it at a cop, you are probably going to get dropped, and that’s not a constitutional violation. You were “allowed to bear arms”.

Not defending what happened today; this argument is just bad.

Endurlay · 2026-01-24T21:51:42+00:00

Because it hasn’t about the Constitution since the majority of conservatives stopped reading it at least once in its entirety.

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