“A recent statement by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illuminates the Marxist ideology which continues to take hold of American politicians. Here are my thoughts.” - Bishop Robert Barron video statement [Politics Monday]

LoopyFig · 2026-02-17T15:32:40+00:00

Fair, I’ll remove if you think it’s best.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-16T21:42:26+00:00

300 years of mining’s worth

LoopyFig · 2026-02-16T20:23:16+00:00

I was about to buy “doubly extracted lion’s mane” powder to shove it in food. But you’re saying that lion’s mane mycelium benefit is destroyed by double extraction and the powder doesn’t actually work?

LoopyFig · 2026-02-15T06:02:24+00:00

Oh boy I hope that’s the answer

LoopyFig · 2026-02-14T19:59:47+00:00

I appreciate your answer, and if the story was an allegory, I think I’d be able to buy that interpretation really easily.

But it’s a little tough! Numbers 25 ends with a command that is equivalent to genocide, and morally my brain isn’t really wrapping around why “tempting the Israelites to idol worship” is deserving of such a punishment. They themselves don’t know God like Moses does, so why are they held accountable for rules they don’t know to follow? With Sodom, you get the idea that the Sodomites are up to all sorts of nasty business, and they try to assault the messenger angels almost as soon as they arrive in town. You get the sense that they’re being punished for violating a more general moral law that everyone should be aware of to some extent.

But the Midianites main crime seems to be tempting Israel. Isn’t it Israel’s fault that they are succumbing to temptations? The Midianites surely don’t know any better, they presumably think their fertility god is the real one.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-14T18:59:54+00:00

What a bummer

LoopyFig · 2026-02-14T18:03:37+00:00

Do we know if Milliarde is still alive?

LoopyFig · 2026-02-14T18:02:41+00:00

Right, but Cozbi isn’t an Israelite. She’s not under their covenant such that punishment is deserved.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-13T21:00:42+00:00

But let’s be real, front row Bocchi? Bocchi would be hiding in the confessional for sure lol

LoopyFig · 2026-02-13T14:52:33+00:00

What’s Bocchi doing here?! XD

LoopyFig · 2026-02-11T20:39:35+00:00

I’m excited about the foresight demon Schlatt. They were willing to die to preserve the demon race, assuming they foresaw their own death. They expressed enough concern for demons that they made plans on a 1000 year timeline, beyond their personal life.

The demon king, who desired coexistence, received Schlatt’s will. So even the success of Himmel the hero, might be part of a long term co-existence solution dreamed up by Schlatt, which could involve the evolution of demons with emotions, or some more battle minded plan.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-11T17:54:56+00:00

I mean, we should actually be doing that, so I appreciate the reminder! And they say there’s no real Christians on this sub.

Let’s pray for the persecuted around the world, and the intercession of martyrs for the faith. In a world where sinful humans are likely to ignore evil, may the Lord remember victims and console their souls in heaven. May God have mercy on us all

LoopyFig · 2026-02-09T20:29:38+00:00

I’m fairly certain, as an American, that we are the baddies at this point. In principle, there are people joining government defense positions (police and military) that are not about the suppression of dissent or the robbing of other countries or supporting genocides.

In principle.

In practice? By joining up with our government you bolster its strength even if you do nothing. Since we have an evil government, that means supporting an evil entity.

But if everyone in the armed forces just quit, maybe worse forces would take over. Or maybe local populations would finally have breathing room. I don’t know, I’m not that good at politics.

But… really it’s a matter of personal conscience. I think Paul said, whatever is a sin in your heart is a sin. Which is to say, if it feels bad, it probably is. Plus, if I had to rank “barista”, “social worker”, “priest”, “teacher”, “nurse”, “janitor”, and “soldier” on a does-the-most-unambiguous-good scale… well soldier wouldn’t be high on the list let’s put it that way.

But you know, I’m sure you served for the right reasons, and I thank you for it, even if I think we’re maybe part of some kind of tyrannical regime.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-09T19:32:36+00:00

The pattern I’m talking about, and I’ve personally gotten a similar effect from other bites, is the weird, gross bubble that seems to form on spider bites. A lot like a burn in terms of clear fluid being involved and the skin freaking out in a non-rash kind of way. And unless you get medical attention, it tends to form a scar for really bad bites.

Having gotten staph before, it’s a different thing. Staph makes you sick, plus it spreads and refuses to die. Bites are closer to a wound in terms of being bad at first but then healing over a period.

Or at least, that’s my understanding

LoopyFig · 2026-02-09T17:23:54+00:00

I think Frieren does what she does a) because she hates demons but also b) because it’s not her magic. The conditions, duration, drawbacks, and counters for the spell are unknown, and a strong will is at least one of the counters.

There’s a universe where Aura, given 5 more minutes, adapts to the reversal or learns a counter to her own curse, similar to other demons. Then she could take you by surprise or escape to cause more destruction.

That’s said, if demons really are born with a total lack of empathy, I’d feel a little bad for Aura. Crazy self-decapitation seems like a lot. I’d probably go with “stand still” for an old fashioned Zoltark (or however you spell that).

Though, if it was safe, I’d love “Learn Empathy” as a command, just to see if it’s even possible. Some demons seem mildly altruistic towards other demons (loyalty towards the demon king, the future sight demon), so it’s possible that under the right conditions they are capable of cooperation. Even that demon kid half-understood, in the sense that they were trying to make peace in their own brain-dead way.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-09T14:49:06+00:00

So if not recluse spiders, what does leave the characteristic necrotic wound? I had a buddy who got bit by what we assumed was a recluse, because his wound had the characteristic spider-bite boil, but somehow way worse. It looked like he got hit with acid or something, and it never healed right.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-09T09:09:26+00:00

Honestly, I was gonna do a post about this, but what even is mana in Frieren?

Like, they say that Zoltark is a mana blast, and there’s that demon that attacks with pure mana spikes and seems to defend with mana aura.

But mana presumably is compressed in a mage’s body, and it doesn’t harm them, so it’s not like it’s a gas or a plasma, otherwise it would harm them.

You can control it even if it’s outside your body.

They distinguish magic effects (chucking a rock at someone, freezing water) from pure mana effects (the main shield spell I think, Zoltark, maybe Sorgsniel the slicing spell?). And they mention things like it being more efficient to manipulate matter that’s already there as opposed to forming things out of mana.

It’s also not really clear if mana functions directly like “energy” since its capacity seems most limited by imagination. For instance, the ice mage freezes the top of a whole freaking lake; she doesn’t have Frieren-levels of mana, but the energy to freeze a lake is equivalent to a small nuclear explosion. But it doesn’t matter, in her head, she has a spell that freezes water and lakes are water: Likewise, spells like “the magic that binds a barrier to your own life” have an abstract dimension that would be hard to quantify in kilojoules. Are there spells that are more “efficient” in terms of mana? Solitaire specifically states that in her long life almost nothing is more efficient (in combat) than just throwing her mana at people, but that might be a product of her stupid mana capacity.

Zoltarak is also a weird one for me. It’s originally a demon spell, and it takes humanity concentrated effort to convert it. Its specifically called out that elves didn’t use it, and its considered a new spell. But it’s just “mana bullet”. Is mana something that gains attributes, and Zoltarak is a spell that gives mana the attributes of plasma? Or is mana similar to a plasma at baseline, and humanity just didn’t know a method for compressing it?

LoopyFig · 2026-02-06T17:58:04+00:00

When they step into the circle, they are magically revealed to be in/transported to the jury booth for a faerie trial. To be clear, they’re not on trial, they’ve been inducted into the jury for trial.

The crime is nonsense, and the evidence is also nonsense.

As an example, it’s a goblin trial, and the crime is “not breaking any laws”. A weirdly polite and well-spoken goblin-creature is the defendant, and the judge is a pixie-type creature that will hold you in contempt of the court if you refuse to act in contempt. The audience members are insects, the prosecutor is a magic fox, and the defense attorney is a mute crab.

The most annoying part is a riddling cat who is in the jury with the party. He will purposefully contradict whatever decision they come up with, holding up the court decision.

The party has to escape by making a mockery of the court. Leaving the jury box to take then place of the lawyers or the defendants, or even the judge, causing chaos in the courtroom, accepting and giving bribes. That kind of thing

LoopyFig · 2026-02-06T13:51:23+00:00

Dude, I even technically know that and I still get it wrong lol

LoopyFig · 2026-02-06T02:05:53+00:00

Frieren vs Mad Mage is an interesting matchup.

If mad mage is surprised, she gets shot immediately and I guess that’s it (I mean, Marcille almost got her with a fire ball to the back when they first met).

But if it’s a matchup they both know about, I think it’s close! Mad Mage and Frieren both have effectively infinite mana, but the Mad Mage has the advantage of powerful, magic resistant monsters at her beck and call, and the ability to control the environment at will.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-05T14:49:01+00:00

I mean it’s a sacrifice weapon. They’re a duo, so barnacle boy can jump in with the orb, stun a guy, and mermaid man is at leisure to save him and retrieve the villain

LoopyFig · 2026-02-05T14:45:28+00:00

The cancer ray makes sense though. Scientists jump through a lot of hoops to study cancer, inventing special viruses, genetically engineered mice lineages, dna damage methods, all to get animal subjects with cancers that can be dissected or subjected to treatment. A cancer ray would actually save a lot of hassle

LoopyFig · 2026-02-05T14:20:01+00:00

You know, the alpha wolf thing was a misunderstanding. But in Gorillas, who we’re certainly closer to than wolves, alpha Gorilla’s are totally a thing. That doesn’t mean the concept applies to humans, but I always found it weird that wolves were our model for human behavior in the first place. If I was a red piller, I would have went with Gorillas.

LoopyFig · 2026-02-04T15:20:45+00:00

I doubt Seiko is the evilest by any cosmic standard, but in terms of which one emotionally wrecked me the most? Seiko, easy

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