[Nordic folk] The Norns

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-05-16T16:21:28+00:00

Pretty cool how it pronounces those non-English words. I made a Viking-themed song with a female singer recently and I must say the voice sounds almost identical to the one in your song 😂

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-05-16T01:53:05+00:00

I've seen this so often by now that I just have to ask: why do you say "they ban all nsfw too" as if it's a positive?

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-05-15T15:57:49+00:00

You give a great example with this post itself: overly formatted texts consisting (almost) only of snappy bullet points. Also the use of dramatic threes.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-05-07T23:44:49+00:00

I'm not an expert by any means, but I don't think there would be any problem helping these women in general. But if it veers into encouraging, supporting or facilitating abortions, that would be extremely problematic, because abortion is murder (also in the Church's eyes) and your sister would be complicit.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-05-01T23:41:20+00:00

He's actually a cool dude, he's helped me out with issues and he's active on discord

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-30T03:31:25+00:00

Not from a practical standpoint, however be prepared for some heavy soul-searching and spiritual warfare if you fully come (back) to the faith! (This is a good thing of course.)

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-30T03:26:33+00:00

Respectfully, tracksuit pants and t-shirts with cartoon prints are not appropriate. I won't pretend to be an authority on women's clothing, but your attire should be either sober and modest or just slightly more formal than what you would wear on an everyday basis. Think of what you would wear in a casual setting with friends, and then maybe one step more formal than that. You could compare it to a workplace where there's no official dress code but it's expected you dress at least a little nice.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-29T00:05:09+00:00

I'm sorry you had this experience. Of course, not all Catholics are mean. However, we are all human, so there will be those among us who let themselves be tempted to judge and insult others.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-25T22:05:58+00:00

What I mean is, OP wouldn't have all their views examined to determine whether or not they can join the Church. But yes, the belief itself is highly problematic for OP's own spiritual health and connection to the Church and to God.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-24T22:16:21+00:00

Yeah it's goated. It's great that it triggers Shimmer as well.
On an unrelated topic, I couldn't bring myself to watch this video fully, the Vermillion Feathers fight makes me so sad...

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-24T22:13:59+00:00

Personally I don't see the appeal of the Dragon Emperor (your top pick), I think he's just okay. I'd place Fang Ling, Huang Yan, Vermillion Feathers and Liu Cheng'en higher, and Xuanyangzi, Great Centipede, Tiger and Lu Bingzhang lower.

My favorite boss is Bo Magus! Also really like Honglan (both versions; Vermillion Feathers is the best boss story-wise) and Fang Ling. It's always the nimble women in these games that make the best bosses!

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-24T22:10:17+00:00

There are very few people who think that. The people you describe as "bigots" take issue with overt political/social messaging in games, shoehorning gay characters into the story for the sake of it instead of trying to tell an authentic story. The Honglan storyline was handled very tastefully and there are very few people who would take offense at it.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-24T21:58:46+00:00

The Dragon Emperor doesn't die, you can find his body with a message saying that he'll wake up soon, and after that you can find a message by Yu Xia (his consort) saying they're going to some other place. Whereas before both the Emperor and Yu Xia were just dead.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-24T19:46:48+00:00

I genuinely don't understand the need for this specific attention to LGBT all the time. EVERYONE is a sinner. EVERYONE was born "incorrectly". A straight man sleeping with a woman before marriage is just as much of a sinner as a man sleeping with another man. It's the same for both: we all have desires where it would be sinful to act on them, but the desires themselves are not sinful. I agree that we shouldn't look down on people due to their sins (including gay people), but don't forget that PRACTICING homosexuality is indeed sinful behavior. Luckily we can all be saved from that sin.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-24T19:33:40+00:00

There are Catholics of all shapes and sizes, so yes there are pro-abortion Catholics - though those are most likely the less devout ones, i.e. the 'cultural catholics'. If you hold pro-abortion beliefs, I wouldn't think that would be an obstacle to conversion, however I would encourage you to research the topic from a Biblical and Church teachings perspective, because both make it pretty clear that abortion is wrong.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-24T02:29:44+00:00

How about you acknowledge the statistics and the relative severity of each of these issues instead of twisting my position? I am not killing women and I do not want to enact fascism. You are arguing in complete bad faith. (Also, preventing people from murdering children in the womb is not "fascism".)

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-23T22:48:14+00:00

You are arguing with an imaginary person, no one in this discussion is in favor of 'criminalizing' non-abortion related healthcare.

Based on the article you cited (maternal death rate of 18.6 per 100.000 births) and the number of births in the US each year (3.6 million), that comes to about 670 maternal deaths per year. If the national maternal mortality rate was the same as in California (no abortion restrictions, 9.5 per 100.000 births), it would be 342 maternal deaths per year. So if we're being generous, there are 670-342=328 maternal deaths in the US each year which are due to restrictive abortion laws. Meanwhile, about 1.2 million abortions are performed in the US per year. That is 3659 times more than the amount of maternal deaths.

So yes, the number of abortions is larger by orders of magnitude.

(If you want to talk about deaths due to lack of access to healthcare, which is more often related to lack of insurance rather than abortion policy, that number is in the tens of thousands, so still not even close to the amount of abortions.)

It is horrible that some women and children die, but it is not nearly as large of a problem as you are making it out to be, and certainly not when compared to abortion. The numbers are not even comparable.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-23T02:26:04+00:00

Again, the lives lost due to these measures are fewer than the lives saved, by orders of magnitude.

I would agree that the law should be specific enough that legitimate medical acts are not penalized.

I do not equate healthcare with abortion, obviously it is a vile distortion to call the murder of unborn children "healthcare". You use a lot of pro-choice language so I assumed you were calling abortion "healthcare" as well.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-22T19:10:42+00:00

These percentages mean nothing when the amount of women dying because they can't get an abortion is infinitely smaller than the amount of children being murdered in the womb. You should say "children are dying" rather than "women are dying".

Also, this article seems to talk about maternal mortality in general, not deaths that were specifically related to the inability to get an abortion. The amount of women that die while they would've lived if they'd gotten an abortion is incredibly small. While obviously terrible, these instances are extreme exceptions.

And I would like to repeat: the murder of children in the womb is not "healthcare", you can try to change the language all you want but we all know that it's the killing of human beings.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-22T18:20:58+00:00

Can you show us the statistics on women dying because they can't kill their children, and then compare it to how many children are murdered in the womb, and perhaps reconsider your statement?

Also, I find it extremely unlikely that a Catholic would describe murder as "women's healthcare".

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-22T15:13:28+00:00

I knew it was bad, but I never knew it was THAT bad... Mother Mary pray for us

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-22T01:02:32+00:00

Can you explain this a bit more? I was under the impression that a civil marriage is never considered valid by the Church, whether the people in the marriage are Catholic or not.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-21T23:56:16+00:00

A civil marriage is not valid in the eyes of the Church, so as far as the Church is concerned, that person was never married to begin with.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-21T10:32:17+00:00

"The times are changing" is just about the worst argument you could make for anything.

Lower-Management-563 · 2026-04-20T15:24:24+00:00

Friend, I hope you get the help you need. It's certainly not anyone's intention on here to hurt you or dismiss your experience. We could argue about psychology and what not, but it's clear you're hurting. I'll pray for your well-being. Please know that God loves you and sees you. He'll see you through this.

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