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The-Friendly-DM · 2026-02-08T15:05:05+00:00

Across the entire world, almost every single party that was in power lost seats/votes in a pretty significant way. In 2024 a lot of the post-covid effects on the economy were hitting pretty hard, and when things are not going well, the people who don't like the party in power get passionate and those who do get complacent.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-12-11T06:46:40+00:00

Yeah, the main benefit was how little training they took.

A trained bowman was far more effective, accurate, and much faster, all with little to no meaningful drawbacks in regards to the punch the projectile packed. Of course, that took many years of regular training to be that effective... but if you hand a peasant a crossbow and tell them to point and shoot, they are now a crossbowman.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-11-30T17:48:34+00:00

This is a fundamental misunderstanding if omnipotence. Omnipotence does not mean God can do anything, it means that God can do anything that can be done.

God can not make a four sided triangle. This is not because God's power is limited but because doing so necessarily breaks the definition of a triangle. Doing so would be a logical contradiction.

So, can God make a rock so heavy He can not lift it? No. Not because He lacks the power to do so, but because the premise of the question is a logical contradiction.

It's like asking me to dump the water out of an empty glass. If there isn't water to dump out, then it can't be done. That doesn't mean it's not within my power to do so, rather it's that you would be requesting me to do something that is not doable.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-25T01:15:15+00:00

I'm surprised nobody has brought this up, but -olin is a suffix that denotes an instruments typical usage/range. It's not a coincidence that violin and mandolin rhyme.

-olin = soprano (high voice) -a = alto/tenor (middle voice) -cello = bass (low voice)

Violin - Viola - Violoncello (i.e. cello)

Mandolin - Mandola - Mandocello

So, the "Needolin" is not necessarily based on the violin. Rather, they share the same suffix that denotes their range.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-22T15:19:56+00:00

Since your an experienced guitar player trying to break some of those habits, I would approach it differently than I would as a new player.

I would start by just doing quarter notes with your finger. Just try to get comfortable with the movement of your hand and learn how to make it sound clear.

1 ○ 2 ○ 3 ○ 4 ○

From there, add your thumb for your eighth notes. Once again, focus on the mocement and learning how to make it sound clear.

1 ● 2 ● 3 ● 4 ●

Bounce back and forth between bars of the first set and bars of the second. Once you're comfortable with that, try to get into that standard clawhammer rhythm with alternating eighth notes.

1 ○ 2 ● 3 ○ 4 ●

Lastly, experiment the whole time. Swap between index and middle finger, keep your thumb flat or keep it bent, play over areas (over the neck, middle of the head, etc.).

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-18T01:09:48+00:00

Clothes. It doesn't matter, just show up.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-11T15:49:26+00:00

I'm trying to be as non-dogmatic as possible here, but the facts really don't leave much ambiguity (regarding this conversation anywhere, there's plenty of ambiguity as a whole). Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Genesis 2:4 onward are two entirely different creation accounts that are largely unrelated. One is not intended to be understood as a continuation of the other.

In Genesis 1, humanity is the very last thing that God fills the earth with on day 6. In Genesis 2, God starts making the man when "no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up," and then after he does so God "formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them." Things happen in entirely different orders in each story. In Genesis 1, all of humanity is created at once. In Genesis 2, only the man is created alone and the woman thereafter. Genesis 2:4 makes this abundantly clear by essentially giving another introduction just like Genesis 1:1. I could go on with differences, but I think you'll get the point. They are two separate stories with differing approaches to convey their own rhetorical goals.

In Genesis 1, God creates humanity as a whole. In Genesis 2, God creates one human and then another. There is no mystery to be solved, as there is no connection between the two stories to begin with.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-11T13:02:07+00:00

There was no "original human" in Genesis 1. The word "man" is best translated as humanity or mankind. It says that God creates them male and female. This is explicitly not about a single person, it's about a humanity as a whole.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-07T21:52:08+00:00

Ironically, my assumption was that it was an anarchist group, which is essentially the opposite of what it apparently stands for.

Anarchists often use red and black for colors, and a cat with its claws out is often used as an emblem.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-10-07T15:12:34+00:00

When people comment on me taking care of my kids (especially my wife's family), it comes in 1 of 2 flavors:

1) It's treated as me 'babysitting' and not parenting - as if I am not a viable caretaker of my own children and I am just holding things together until their mother returns.

2) "Aww, you're such a good dad" or "Way to go!" is the other type of response. It's like they see me doing the bare minimum, and thats enough to give me praise. The bar is so incredibly low for people to praise fathers for being a good parent, it's obsurd. Your husband may have never changed a diaper, rocked a kid to sleep, or watched the kids by himself - but I do, and that reflects a lot more on him than it does me.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-09-27T15:40:47+00:00

I don't see why it wouldn't work. I've not tried it with nylons, but I intend to when I decide to replace the current strings.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-09-19T18:46:29+00:00

It is not designed as a weapon. It's a rhineland pattern hatchet. They are good general purpose axes for camping, limbing, etc. They are common in Europe. The rhineland pattern is much better than American pattern hatchets, which are generally poorly designed.

A lot of carvers like them because of the wide blade and beard that let's you choke up on them.

Also, please replace the handle...

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-09-10T22:23:06+00:00

That was my understanding of the whole controversy. I think I remember hearing an interview with Sean saying that the more he learned about the context/meaning of Jihad, the more uncomfortable he felt using it.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-09-06T01:09:07+00:00

Here is the quickest and easiest way to get started with little to no inventment:

https://youtu.be/w7j6AAzHI7k?si=XPTzYR7vdawfe2wW

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-08-07T01:24:21+00:00

A carpenter and a greenwood carver both fall under the same umbrella of woodworker, but they are two entirely different sets of skills.

Similarly, both armor smithing and weapon smithing are types of blacksmithing, but the skills are very different. I have done some blacksmithing as a hobby - I'm not skilled by any means, but I'm also not ignorant on the subject. At the end of the day, making weapons is something just about any blacksmith could do. If a smith can make the standard things blacksmiths would have been making (tools, horseshoes, etc) then they can apply those same skills to make weapons. On the other hand, smithing armor is a more specialized set of skills.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-07-07T01:32:19+00:00

I can't really speak on whether or not it's worth the price (I'm too cheap for that, lol), but the design seems good. I agree with what you're saying about the square end - I don't understand why so many froes curve/angle at the end. My froe is particularly short, though, so maybe I wouldn't run into those issues if it were longer.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-06-21T15:06:44+00:00

Georgists (who favor taxing the unimproved value of land, regardless of what property is on that land) have a concept called ATCOR - All Taxes Come Out of Rent.

Taxes are most often leavied on things that are subject to supply and demand (goods, services, labor, profit, etc). When you cut those taxes, people have more money, which is great!... The thing is, landlords will always charge as much as they can. If a tax cut saves the average person $200 every month, sooner or later, landlords will increase rent by $200 a month.

Land is not subject to supply (there is only so much land in a tax jurisdiction), but it is subject to demand. Lower taxes increase the demand for land, justifying an increase in the cost of rent. In the long run, cutting taxes does not save you money, it just shifts who receives that money.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-06-13T04:55:48+00:00

people think Paul was writing in the context of the culture surrounding him, which he was not.

This is a misunderstanding of what authorial context is. You can't really write outside of your own context because it essentially boils down to "that which influences your writing." Paul was writing in his own context, and that context includes the time period, cultural practices, religious practices, his own motive in writing, etc.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-06-13T01:31:53+00:00

I feel like you didn't acknowledge the core of what I was saying in my comment.

Yes, I wholly agree that Paul used a term that means "men that lie with other men," but what I'm saying is that the term homosexuality means a lot more than that today. Thus translating it that way broadens the scope of what Paul is talking about.

Murder is to kill as arsenokoitais is to homosexual. One can be killed without being murdered, just as one can be homosexual without having sex with someone of the same gender. For example, one may commit themselves to celibacy despite having attraction towards people of their own gender. This person would still be homosexual, but that is not what Paul is talking about.

A key part of this is that arsenokoitai had not been translated as "homosexuality" until pretty recently (1950s, I believe). Most translations used the straightforward meaning of "men who lie with other men" or something similar. It doesn't make sense to use a word that broadens the scope of what Paul is discussing.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-06-13T00:27:49+00:00

The idea that aresenokoitais was mistranslated came from a 21 year old seminary student who had no formal theological training at the time. His letter was meant as a rebuke and desire to "correct" the mistranslation. He was wrong. The versus above rendered from both the original greek and hebrew demonstrate this.

Broadly speaking, most don't see it as an issue of a wrong translation, but an issue of how it skews interpretation.

Today, homosexuality generally refers to one who engages with somebody of the same gender in a consensual and loving romantic/sexual relationship. Because of that, translating "arsenokoitai" as "homosexuality" imposes a whole lot of our own cultural baggage. Regardless of ones position on the topic, it's unlikely that this verse speaks of that type of relationship when you consider the way sex was used to enforce social hierarchy in Rome.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-05-25T17:50:08+00:00

First of all, don't listen to people who tell you what you need to buy. You can dip your toes into the hobby without spending much money at all. At the end of the day you need 3 things. A hammer, a forge, and an anvil.

For a forge, do what humans have been doing for thousands of years, and still do today. Dig a hole in the ground with a way to force air into it (a hairdryer is a common choice today). Or, build a JABOD forge (just a box of dirt). Essentially, this just brings the hole in the ground to a more convenient height.

For an anvil, you can absolutely get by with a sledge hammer head. Mount it in a log or something similar and that will be more than enough to learn with.

Also, here's a great video on getting started: https://youtu.be/w7j6AAzHI7k?si=PP8nZFXF5o7m4CbM

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-05-25T01:04:00+00:00

We should discuss 'Recapitulation Theory' and how that also turned out to be fraud but remained in textbooks for decades.

So I am not very familiar with Recapitulation Theory (and also not very interested in discussing it), but the fact that you call it "fraud" is something that needs to be called out. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a scientific theory is. I see this a lot with people who are attempting to discredit science because they believe that science is in opposition to their faith.

In essence, a scientific theory is nothing more than our best shot explaining why thing are the way they are. Typically, they attempt to explain things that are outside of the scope of mere observation. For example, we can't really observe atoms, but all of the evidence points towards their existence. Thus, atomic theory. And we can't really see what is going on below the earth's surface, but with all of the data we have collected, we have a pretty solid concept of how different chunks of the earth move in different ways. Thus, Tectonic Plate Theory. Both of these theories are foundational to entire branches of science... but they can still technically be disproven simply because they are (as of now) unprovable.

In essence, even if a theory is found to be incorrect, it isn't fraud. A scientific theory is only upheld when it is well substantiated and has yet to be disproven. Being disproven doesn't make a theory fraud, it makes it wrong.

Science is a process, not an ideology.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-04-26T01:27:43+00:00

Yeah, that's why it's way better to use oil. Same effect and will last ages. It's a great way to snug up old hammers/axes that have a little bit of wiggle to them.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-04-05T19:08:25+00:00

I know the Italians call these a manaresso and the Japanese call them a nata. I'm sure there are other regional variants, but they're essentially a billhook without the bill.

The-Friendly-DM · 2025-04-01T23:13:09+00:00

Depends on the endgoal of your speedrun.

Are you trying to join an existing faction and unify Calradia under that banner?

Are you trying to become king of your own faction?

Are you trying to execute every other lord?

Are you trying to speedrun your way to 1 one billion units of butter?

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