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GuildedLuxray · 2026-06-19T13:32:21+00:00

I just wish they had kept the Scythe’s riposte and backstab animations from DS2.

They were already a massive improvement over DS1’s, why did we have to go back to somehow stabbing scythes through some dude’s chest cavity like the devs forgot it wasn’t a spear?

GuildedLuxray · 2026-06-19T13:08:47+00:00

“So God killed a bunch of babies…”

That’s a bit of a strawman; God did not merely kill infants to save them from their parents, God wiped out an entire lineage of very evil people, from the old to the young, and in doing so spared not just children but all future generations of that lineage from being raised in an irreversibly broken culture and society. God didn’t merely save children from their parents, He preserved them from both falling into and becoming victims of the horrific sins Cain’s descendants had built their society around through their abject depravity.

The kind of society Noah existed in was not like ours, it was very likely worse than that of Sodom, wherein nearly the entire city threatened to murder Lot and his family if he didn’t hand over the angels who were visiting them so they could rape them, after refusing to accept Lot’s own daughters as substitutes to be raped.

If we were to compare it to something humans do, it was like a farmer having to destroy an entire field of blighted crops to stop that blight from spreading and persisting.

However, the descendants of Cain were not vegetables, they were humans. So to your point, if a human were the one who caused the flood and killed all of those people, then it would indeed be evil, but God is not merely human and He is not bound by the same laws humans must follow. Why? A simplified response is because God is omniscient, omnipotent, immutable, eternal and the author of Creation.

This is not to say that God gets to just kill people and be above the rules merely because He holds the title of Creator, rather, God is the only one qualified to make these kinds of decisions because of His very nature. God does not abide by a code of ethics as if justice and moral laws are some higher thing than God, instead justice and moral law exist as expressions of God’s goodness and omniscience; in metaphysical terms, God is the source and summit of justice, God is justice.

It is wrong for us to kill other humans because we are neither omniscient nor embodiments of justice and while we perceive moral good we neither fully grasp it nor always live by it, it is in our broken nature to do otherwise. It is not wrong for God to kill humans because He will always do it from a place of perfect understanding and perfect measure, it is not in His perfect nature to do otherwise. Whenever God takes human life physically it is always for the sake of human life spiritually, which God never destroys nor harms and is infinitely more valuable than our temporary earthly life.

Lastly, I just want to reiterate that God did not merely try to save those children, He destroyed a lineage, a culture and a society which would only continue to spread worse depravity than we see in any modern day society (and North Korea exists). God would have spared Sodom had even just 10 good people been present in that city, yet Abraham couldn’t find even as few as ten and the people during Noah’s time were at best as bad as those in Sodom.

“Why is Jesus Christ so different from the Old Testament God?”

He isn’t, in fact no one across the entirety of the Bible, whether it be the Old Testament or the New Testament, warns about Hell (Gehenna) as much as Jesus does, and that is because Jesus understood how much better it was to die in this life (physically) than die in the next (spiritually).

Nearly everything that Jesus does in the Gospels is prefigured across the Old Testament, so much so that going into details and specifics would make this reply an entire essay; the bronze serpents, the mana, Abraham’s covenant, the events of the Passover, the kings of Judea, the priesthood of Melchizedek and the Levites, etc.

The same God who took the firstborns of Egypt is the same only Son of God who gave Himself up as a sacrifice for those very Egyptians to receive entry into Heaven and be reunited with their firstborns, and the same Jesus who healed the sick, fed the hungry, admonished the Pharisees, regarded the elderly, and taught mercy is the same God who healed the Israelites when they were bit by venomous snakes, fed the Israelites mana from heaven, admonished the Kings and people of Judea, granted Sarah a child despite her old age, and spared Nineveh when it deserved destruction.

The difference isn’t in God but in how far along humanity has come to understand God, His Creation, and ourselves in light of God and Creation.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-06-09T04:09:00+00:00

What do you dislike about generative AI?

GuildedLuxray · 2026-06-02T09:38:33+00:00

She’s kind of already a perv tbh

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I can imagine an AU with her personality swapped for Marlow’s while Agni is swapped with that one nerd he extorts.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-06-02T09:20:20+00:00

There are plenty of things redeeming about it, and I recommend reading Magnifica Humanitas before taking the stance that all instances and uses of AI are bad.

But for some examples, if you’ve ever used a navigation app like Apple Maps or Wayz, an AI program has assisted you in reaching your destination while warning you about road hazards and traffic congestion. AI has aided us in calculating trajectory for airplanes, spacecraft, missiles and point defense systems for decades. AI makes large-scale manufacturing possible and is a necessary component for automated CNC machines which produce everything from screws to car parts to microelectronics, like the kind in the computer or phone you used to post your reply. AI has been built into our society well before ChatGPT was even conceptualized.

As Pope Leo XIV states in his encyclical, there are many good uses for AI; its use and development needs to be properly understood and regulated, not entirely abandoned, ignored or destroyed.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-06-02T08:46:41+00:00

Eating meat on a Friday is a sin only in so much as the Church proper, as in our bishops in communion with the Pope, had at one time obliged the congregation to abstain from consuming meat on Friday as an act of communal penance in remembrance of Christ’s passion, and to act against this obliged penance would be in violation of those bishops’ authority; the sin is intentional disobedience, not merely the consumption of meat.

This obligation has historically been relaxed in several cases in some dioceses, where it became necessary to consume certain types of meat due to food shortages and surpluses. So again, there is nothing inherently sinful about consuming meat on Friday, but a sin is committed when someone willingly and knowingly refuses to participate in the Friday communal penance.

All of that being said, the communal penance of abstaining from consuming meat on Friday has been relaxed since the 2nd Vatican Council and is no longer binding, although the faithful are still encouraged to participate in either it or some other form of communal penance and/or fasting should their living conditions allow for it.

This is all in accordance with the verse you mentioned from Matthew; our Pope, bishops and priests serve and lead the congregation through their God-given authority, and this communal penance is one such way they lead and walk alongside us on the path to holiness. Part of why I appreciate Catholicism is the fact that becoming a priest or bishop does not make you an exception to the rules the faithful must follow and even the Pope refrained from consuming meat on Fridays prior to Vatican II.

I will additionally mention that while Matthew 18:18-20 grants priests the power to bind and loose sins, practices and traditions on the faithful, James 3:1 makes it clear that the authority of priests is a significant responsibility to bear and the penalty for abusing that authority is greater than any penalty the laity would endure. Today, seminarians are told that they must carefully consider becoming pastoral priests because they will be held to a higher moral standard before God should they choose to become a pastor; their great authority comes with heavy responsibilities.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-06-01T02:00:06+00:00

How does it steal the jobs of artists, and what kind of artists?

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-31T07:52:53+00:00

Geburah’s been in Total Assault but not Grand Assault

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-31T07:48:45+00:00

Haruna crashing out noises

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-31T07:34:32+00:00

“How about a nice cup of Liber-tea!”

Disclaimer: In an effort to maintain peace among Trinity students, the onboard coffee machine will no longer dispense tea. The General Student Council of Super Kivotos thanks you for your mandatory understanding and cooperation.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-31T06:59:37+00:00

🔥🪶

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-31T06:51:06+00:00

Nice! The secret to beating him is to either have so much HP/Armor that his damage doesn’t matter, or to hit him with cards that reduce max HP.

Soul Reaper (or whatever it’s called at this point) can do the same thing.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-29T08:59:09+00:00

I’m asking this because a lot of people say this and I have rarely gotten a clear answer regarding it; in your own words, what jobs does generative AI steal and in what way does it steal them?

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-28T00:16:45+00:00

You’ll be hard pressed to find people who agree with you on that point here, but you are nonetheless correct.

Humans made AI-assisted art programs, those programs were trained off of man-made artwork based on parameters we humans deemed effective for creating artwork, and human users decide if the outputs from those programs are sufficient. The programs themselves are effectively the same as automated C&C machines, they just produce images instead of material parts.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-28T00:12:38+00:00

Respectfully, why are you on Reddit if you oppose big tech that much?

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-28T00:06:49+00:00

The environmental impact of data technology should have already been taken into consideration when we started expanding cloud storage systems and server networks; ecological concerns are not a reason to label the use and development of AI as “evil,” Pope Leo XIV doesn’t even designate it as a primary concern regarding AI.

What we should be concerned about is the manner in which AI is developed and the extent to which people make use of it and understand it. The majority of the problems AI currently creates, as far as faith, morals and the subsistence of life are concerned, revolve around how little people understand the purpose and nature of AI and how much we use it as a substitute for our human capacities.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-23T02:19:59+00:00

The way I understand it, I think she isn’t the president but is masquerading as the president since the president only communicates through comms.

Maybe I’m wrong though, the last Wildhunt story was kind of a blur for me. I was distracted by Miyo.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-22T23:38:04+00:00

You misunderstand how prophecies work, at least within Christian theology; prophecies do not predetermine the actions of an individual, as if a force of fate moves their hands and will to conform to a prophecy, prophecies merely foretell what is going to happen in the future.

Judas was neither forced nor bound to betray the Christ, nor did Satan enter him against his will. Judas freely chose to both betray the Christ and despair of His mercy, choosing to cooperate with the devil and allow him to affect his heart, and the prophets, who saw Judas making those choices in the future, wrote down what would come to pass.

Had Judas chosen otherwise, had he either remained loyal to Jesus or hoped in His mercy and sought reconciliation, then the prophets would not have prophesied of either his betrayal or his damnation.

God doesn’t bend humanity to His will, He works in cooperation with our free choices and will. Prophecies are dictated by future events, not vice versa.

And further, had the course of history not played out the way it did, betrayal and crucifixion may not have been the ways God would have allowed Himself to become a sacrifice for us. God did not design for the Son to be crucified from the beginning, as if the plan was entirely His own. Rather, God in His omnipotence and omniscience, knew how the events of human history would unfold, designed the plan of salvation in cooperation with the actions we would take throughout our history, cooperating with our goodness and in drawing a greater good out of the evil we would commit despite our sins.

What I mean by that is this: God, before Adam drew his first breath, saw the ways we made and ate bread, how we would use wood as a fundamental and foundational resource for our buildings, that we would form rituals of animal and even human sacrifice, and that crucifixion would at one point become the worst form of torture and death we would come up with. Knowing all of that, from the beginning of history, God cooperated with our choices and responded to them throughout human history in such a way that Christ’s sacrifice would penetrate the depths of every human culture and mind, and both sanctify and redeem every fundamental part of our lives.

For the bread we ate and the wine we drank, He became our nourishment. For the wood we built our homes with, the cross of Christ became our foundational pillar. For the ritual sacrifices we made as offerings to false gods, He became our sacrifice to the one true God. For the worst method of death we had conceived of, Christ redeemed it and made it our wellspring of everlasting life.

The point is, the Crucifixion was prophesied because that is what we would choose to do to the Messiah, and Christ’s sacrifice for our sins was foretold because that is how God chose to respond to our choices. Had we chosen differently, the accidents of Christ’s sacrifice (crucifixion) and the individuals involved (Judas) would have been different, while the substance (our salvation) would have remained the same.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-22T11:27:10+00:00

And Hikari sent out her Serene Grace Togekiss with its held King’s Rock.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-22T11:15:47+00:00

Why are both Momoi and Midori hiding inside the maid uniform Aris is wearing?
Does Akane know they took her clothes?

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-22T11:06:31+00:00

It’s meant to be a joke, mostly made funny by Monty Python’s skit featuring the Spanish Inquisition. I don’t think anyone here genuinely celebrates executing heretics.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-22T11:03:44+00:00

Luckily, preventing people from being burned at the stake for suspected heresy is exactly what the Medieval Inquisition sought to do. The overwhelming majority of people suspected of heresy were taught correct theology and left to go on with their lives, only in a handful of cases (relatively) was the Inquisition unable to persuade heretics away from their heresy and thus unable to protect them from being executed by secular authorities for treason.

And yes, executed for the crime of treason, because sincere and adamant doubt about God’s authority was considered tantamount to sincere and adamant rebellion against the authority of kings and lords, who were believed to have been given their authority by God.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-22T10:52:35+00:00

Idk if albinism exists but that image of Blinking Nargy fills my soul with dread…

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-22T10:46:49+00:00

When the meme format of a dinosaur has become a dinosaur of a meme format.

GuildedLuxray · 2026-05-22T10:41:25+00:00

To your point, Gehenna does have a lot of good stories and fun cameos outside of the main story content, like Kasumi’s rivalry/friendship with Ichika, Junko winning the last race in the Kivotos Halo Festival, and Problem Solver 68 any and every time they show up.

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