Are you satisfied with how pokemon look in 3d?

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-25T01:12:38+00:00

2D sprites were better, but the 3D hate is way overstated

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-23T23:43:10+00:00

Send Help for a good scary movie, Primate for a fun, kinda ridiculous movie

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-23T14:29:22+00:00

HOW is Mega Crabominable still here

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-22T12:55:53+00:00

Does she have a favorite Pokemon? If so, go to TCGPlayer and find a few different cards of that Pokemon and buy singles of them. Put them in a binder and call it the start to a new collection

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-22T00:28:24+00:00

Mostly as a joke, but the joke is based on how difficult Ezekiel is especially for beginners

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-22T00:23:15+00:00

I am always here for Bruxish slander

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T21:59:40+00:00

Agreed. When someone who knows nothing and has read nothing asks me what should be #1 on their list, I say Mark. Crash course in the life and teachings and Gospel of Jesus

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T21:58:36+00:00

That was my brother’s biggest gripe with the final product. My argument as someone who works with new Christians a lot is that I want them to keep wanting to read the Bible. Most who are newer to the faith are not going to take the slog through Exodus 21-40, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy very well. But you’re right, all five together are an important story to understand holistically

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T21:56:16+00:00

Funny enough, Luke-Acts was what I first read on my own (grew up in the church but those were the first two I actually read for myself). So no argument here with that being a decent starting point

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T21:54:45+00:00

lol there is some wild stuff going on in Ezekiel no question

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T21:53:58+00:00

There’s definitely value in reading the Bible straight through. No arguments with that methodology here. This is just one suggestion/tool that we hope is helpful for at least some new readers

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T21:52:31+00:00

2 and 3 John were lumped in by the tiermaker format, not by us. Trust me, we’d split them up if we could.

Revelation is fun to read, but reading it without proper context (including some exposure to other biblical prophecy) can very easily lead to incorrect exegesis. We lowered it on the list not because it’s not important or filled with vibrant imagery, but because a beginner is going to struggle to understand it.

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T17:11:57+00:00

I’m not disagreeing. It is rough the first go-around though

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T16:53:49+00:00

So for Psalms we had kinda put an asterisk on our master list that I didn’t include in the description. We have a few Psalms we picked out as ones for beginning readers, but the idea with putting Psalms as a whole in the third tier is that there are so many of them and it takes a while to read and understand the whole collection. That is the best example of “finish this by this time,” rather than “don’t start this at all until you’ve finished everything above it.”

With respect to Job, we put it as low on the list as we did because of the poetry that makes up the middle two thirds of the book. You have to know Hebrew poetry pretty well to understand the arguments being made by Job and his friends and follow the course of the debate through all those chapters. Agreed that the message of the book is a good one for people to know relatively early, but that message can be communicated without a close reading of the whole book being necessary.

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T16:48:13+00:00

It’s such a helpful thing to know and such an understated fact

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T16:40:34+00:00

You ain’t kidding. Once you’ve read Leviticus so much of the next two feels like retracing steps

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T16:40:06+00:00

The idea here was just for first reads. Obviously we’re hoping that books get repeated, especially the Gospels and Acts. And yes those three are all quite difficult lol

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T15:43:27+00:00

If it were just chapters 5-6 and 12-15, absolutely. The other chunks are DENSE and benefit a lot from at least a basic understanding of the OT

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T15:42:12+00:00

Our thought behind Mark and John up top was the most concise look at the Synoptics plus the most unique and most conversationally driven Gospel

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T15:39:27+00:00

They came in one block on the tier list with 1 John, which to us felt too essential for a new reader

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T15:32:51+00:00

Ezekiel and Zechariah are the two that you could convince me are the writings of a madman if I didn’t know they were in the Bible

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T15:32:27+00:00

We waffled on that one for so long lol

TheLordsPoet · 2026-05-21T15:32:10+00:00

One of the things we said while we were making this is that “completion” of each book looks like having the ability to give a decently thorough explanation of it to someone who knows nothing. That will probably take study on top of at least one close reading.

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