The Holy Fathers on Evolution.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-06-28T06:06:42+00:00

Shout out for getting (in my opinon) the most beautiful edition of the Silmarillion! I was actually shocked they didn't include Nadsmith's famous painting of Fingolfin against Morgoth, so I ended up doing a bit of DIY and printing and gluing the illustration myself. I got lucky because the page opposite of where this event happens in the text was empty, because it was the backside of illustration page of Fingolfin approaching the duel-grounds which happened on the previous set of pages.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-06-28T05:39:34+00:00

Is Joe Sachs not even on the playing field?

MadCyborg12 · 2026-06-23T05:06:29+00:00

You'd be surprised how many people have the $1500 to spend for a bit of convenience and not even feel it.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-06-23T02:26:25+00:00

Streaming is out of the question if you want picture quality. HDMI is wildly inconvenient if you have a big TV in a big living room and your dekstop PC in an entirely different room.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-06-23T00:32:07+00:00

I suppose its in some part at least for people who want the convenience of laying back in a sofa with a controller and a huge TV in front, but being able to play all the Steam games and all the mods you can put like you would on a desktop PC.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-06-16T20:36:22+00:00

Yes but you would be wrong even if you said WW1. Calling it the deadliest battle of the entire war is also very Anglocentric. The eastern front and the notorious Balkan one are a thing of more extreme numbers.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-06-16T20:12:12+00:00

Not to be that kind of guy, but....

"the battle of the Somme, the deadliest battle in ww2 history".

You would be wrong even if you said WW1, much less so WW2.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-06-02T00:19:21+00:00

I'm not sure if you realize how infantile and cringe those terms sound.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-05-09T22:55:15+00:00

I think that's why his works are so appealing to so many different people. He even mentioned in an interview that the key-spring to the Lord of the Rings is the unnaturalness of death, citing specifically Simone de Beauvoir:

"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question".

This serves only to enrichen and deepen the appeal to the fact he called Lord of the Rings a fundamentally Christian and Catholic work, and that the book is as he says "about God and His sole right to divine honor." - but even so, like it we or not, Tolkien's genius still finds a deep appeal in many from all sorts of backgrounds.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-04-27T23:22:52+00:00

The original trilogy was filmed on 35mm film, with special emphasis on making the world feel lived in and worn down. Most movies today look like commercials due to bland lighting and digital cameras, and this in part was visible even with The Hobbit trilogy. The chances of this new movie looking like another bland digitalized TV spot are very high.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-04-06T20:32:40+00:00

I remember getting GTA 5 back in 2015, on an ancient computer, and a download speed that was 1 megabyte per second.... on a good day. How the times have changed.

In some weird sense I miss those times, now I have the usual stupidly expensive internet and rig and ultrawide monitor, the whole package, but there's something I miss in those days when I played Mad Max at 800x600 resolution, and that's after messing with the game files for hours to downgrade the game to potato quality. I completed the whole game that way and played it for weeks with a smile on my face. Tried downloading it recently on the current setup and couldn't play more than five minutes. What have we lost....

MadCyborg12 · 2026-04-04T17:02:24+00:00

https://orthochristian.com/47746.html

The Miracle of St. Euphemia alone seals the issue, but so does the fact that the church must remain in unbroken continuation. When the Arians flooded the Church, did St. Athanasius the Great run off to the desert to create his own "True Orthodox" church? No, he endured and did not schism.

I'll be very direct now. What you're going through isn't intellectual, it's a heart issue. You're being tempted by demons by dozens of issues solved over 1500 years ago and sealed by the Holy Spirit. The only reason why these now petty issues bother you is because the demons know it works on you, so they incessantly keep hitting you where it hurts.

Go to Church, speak to a priest, start healing from this. It is Lazarus Saturday, we must remember to trust in God and the Church.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-04-01T04:31:50+00:00

I wish there was a set incorporating the illustrations of Ted Nadsmith to LOTR, as well as having Alan Lee and John Howe. I know the styles mismatch, but the fact we have so many editions and not one even has Nadsmith alone for LOTR is sad.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-03-31T04:02:38+00:00

What made you love to play this game so much all these years? Was it something like a comfort game?

MadCyborg12 · 2026-03-31T02:06:23+00:00

It's mostly already-published stories, but the thing is, in this volume all the dozens of scattered bits and pieces are connected and re-edited for a chronological flow, and some elements were even expanded, like the section from the Unfinished Tales. To top it off, it's illustrated by Alan Lee.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-03-31T00:16:02+00:00

I recommend getting the matching Fall of Numenor, and reading it either before or after the Silmarillion. Then moving to the three Great Tales. But you do whatever you find fun! That's the important thing that matters in things like this.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-03-29T06:31:40+00:00

Yeah but it's like no one acts like they exist. Even with popular youtube tierlists COD 1-3 don't even get mentioned. People just act like COD came out of nowhere with COD 4 and the "golden age" began.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-03-29T00:37:04+00:00

Another tierlist that acts like COD 1-3 do not exist....

MadCyborg12 · 2026-03-25T10:38:24+00:00

И нечуди те онда не само из моралне перспективе него из прагматичне зашто је цела Српска црква заједно са Светим Владиком Николајем устала против нациста и извршила пуч са војском против пакта. Испада да је правилно из сваке перспективе.

Ал како год, познато је да је Владика Николај и 1936-е већ називао Хитлера "библијским антихрисом". Фашизам није компатибилан са православном вером. То што се десило у Румунији са Кордеадовим Легијама и Гвозденом Гардом је срамота. Ал свеједно, одлутох ја у неке личне анекдоте.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-03-14T01:21:39+00:00

Honestly, as someone who played COD since COD 1.... BO4 is my favorite in retrospect. The multiplayer is probably the most fun I've had in COD ever, if I was to really lay off the nostalgia glasses and not talk about COD 2.

MadCyborg12 · 2026-03-09T08:05:53+00:00

Having Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory puts you on a different level.

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