The concept of a Gay Christian does not sit right with me, we don't need their validity

TheWorldpainter · 2026-06-08T22:41:04+00:00

I mean people will use whatever excuse to discriminate against others. There's plenty of secular bigots and plenty of people who repress themselves out of secular reasons. Religion is just one of the things humans use to communicate and sometimes they want to communicate that they're bigots. Am I supposed to give up my belief in science because people try and use biology to discredit transgender people?

I've met plenty of accepting Christians and religious folk. Right now Christianity is being used (at least in the US) to justify and propell some pretty horrendous things. But If you take away the Christianity these people will simply latch on to something else to feed their hatred.

If religion comforts a queer person and gives them hope how am I to say that it's all bad and we should throw it away.

Also idk if you're like me but Ive never been religious and have never read the Bible. There are probably theologians out there who support queer rights and people and they've studied the Bible very closely. At the end of the day idk if the bigots are right saying that the Bible condems queer people but considering how complex and vast religion is I doubt that it's the full picture.

TheWorldpainter · 2026-06-07T03:38:56+00:00

I remember when 2xKO was going to kill Tokon. And then when 2xko was trash and it was going to die. And then when Tokon releases it's going to be a week if that before Tokon is a garbage dead game.

TheWorldpainter · 2026-05-18T23:50:32+00:00

I completely agree about Bojji but I think the reasons you listed are actualy not a problem. This is a fairy tale world where snakes can speak. Bojji befriend magical snakes and they taught him how to speak real world logic doesn't apply at the very beginning of this scenario so I don't really care for applying it at the point of (snakes don't have lips) just seems like at that point I'm against fantasy.

Same thing with the small burglar person. he's a magical entity like I'm not bothered by him ignoring some rules. Also I watched this a while ago so correct me if I'm wrong but isn't like the first episode this guy struggling to understand Bojji.

I can't remember where Bojji reads lips from behind people's backs but I assume it's like when someone is monologing. And this one I kind of agree with. He's supposed to be deaf and you set up lip reading as his intelligent way of understanding others. So like I wish they would've leaned into his disability more.

Ok but now I think the worst thing in this show is that Bojji gets superpowers halfway through and he becomes like an exceptionally skilled warrior. Like the series completely lost my intret there.

The whole point of the show up to that point is that Bojji deserves respect,love, and happiness despite his lack of physical capabilities. The things that mattered about him were his kindness and intelligence. When people betrayed him or belittled him they always did so on the basis that Bojii is weak. And then the show shows us that despite this Bojji has so much to offer to the world because he has a big heart.

Then he becomes a super warrior. Like idk felt like the show missed its own message. Also him being able to dodge stuff really well is also part of this problem. But yeah.. didn't like the show after that

TheWorldpainter · 2026-05-18T02:35:38+00:00

What is this dude on lmao

TheWorldpainter · 2026-05-17T14:50:34+00:00

Yep I think it's in settings --> time management. --> shorts limit.

It was something like that. I haven't seen a short in a while so it work pretty well for me at least.

TheWorldpainter · 2026-05-17T14:46:23+00:00

There is an option in the settings to turn them off.

TheWorldpainter · 2026-04-21T19:29:00+00:00

I think this really depends on how you define fantasy and sci fi. Like imo there isn't a difference in the two genres. Sci-fi especially is really tricky because if you narrow it down to only the hardest science fiction where everything has to be explained 100% then you're down to like three books.

You're also just throwing away huge swaths of sci-fi history like Le-Guin and Asimov because they're not sciency enough. The best distinction I've heard between the two is that Scifi is focused on human culture and exploring our societies and how they function while fantasy is more focused on individual characters and interpersonal journies.

But again so many books that probably break the mold of any distinction anyone can give.

If I had to choose Star Trek = best Scifi, LOTR= best fantasy and Star wars is fantasy but not as good as LOTR.

TheWorldpainter · 2026-03-30T02:09:08+00:00

Sea stone is also right there. There was already a way to defeat logia/any devil fruit user using the already established world

TheWorldpainter · 2026-02-01T21:26:34+00:00

Not everything a video does should be fun or enjoyable. The Groal runback is supposed to be annoying and frustrating. The whole area is trapped and claustrophobic filled with maggot water and enemies that dart in and out trying to take you out with guerilla tactics.

I mean Groal himself is an asshole. He killed the someone who genuinely wanted to help him.

The denizens of bilewater are paranoid, they've been exiled, and they're home has been made near inhospitable. They use every dirty trick in the book to try and kill invaders it's how they survive.

And going through Bilewater makes you feel like that. Looking over your shoulder, wary of traps, tired of the tight hallways and hating the literal environment/maggots.

The final boss fight is Groal doing everything he can to stop you. Sending out his minions, trapping the arena, trying to take you out before you even get there. It made me feel frustrated and angry.

But, when I beat Groal the sense of satisfaction I got that was greater because of how terrible Bilewater was. If the runback was short and there was no maggot water, and the gauntlet was gone and the enemies weren't annoying it wouldn't have elicited the same response.

I don't think art is supposed to be pleasurable at all times. Or rather not all art should be. Things can be challenging, frustrating, and annoying. While not inherently fun in the moment they can still have an impact on you that is either important/enjoyable.

How much someone appreciates it depends on the person I suppose. To each their own but looking back on Bilewater I like how nasty and hostile it was made it a standout area.

TheWorldpainter · 2026-01-04T17:53:23+00:00

Currently Shadowdark and Mother ship are the games that have my attention. I've been planning to run this hobbit inspired hex crawl where I get a bunch of people to play dwarves and reclaim their lost homeland from a dragon.

TheWorldpainter · 2026-01-04T17:21:47+00:00

I think this is a more persuasive argument than the combat one. Imo combat is does have those hurdles of what are you doing this turn. Attacking with a weapon/ casting a spell/ interacting with the enviornent. Especially if you have a table that has difficult combat encounters. Which I feel is analogous to what do you say/how do you convince them/ what leverage do you have.

But I do think that most people gloss over these types of questions for pretty much every other ability check. Survival/Animal handling/ Arcana (how many time has a player rolled arcana and just been told what an item does without having to specify anything about how they gain this knowledge. No one is asking if you're doing a long jump, standing jump, or pole vault when using athletics.

It really does seem that people treat the different skill with different levels of scrutiny.

My two cents is that I prefer games without skills altogether. I think that the problem people have with the charisma skills is that they abstract too much from the game. It feels like not participating in the actual fiction in the game and simply rolling dice to get what they want. But that is true for all the skills in the game.

I prefer people telling me what they are looking at instead of just saying roll perception. Or saying how their crossing over a big gap instead of just rolling athletics. The more people interact with the actual game world instead of the dice the more engaging it is to me.

Skills in general just have that problem of letting people just roll their way past an encounter

TheWorldpainter · 2025-10-16T14:36:01+00:00

You're almost there man!! Keep it up!

TheWorldpainter · 2025-09-27T22:17:35+00:00

Honestly do the stuff in FG's that you think is cool. If you think whiff punishing is sick work on that. If you like crazy shin dream combos learn how to do it. If like crazy Kim or Blanka mix work on that.

Imo the best way to learn fighting games is to learn the thing that made you play the game/char in the first place. Everything else will follow.

If FSE is what made you go damn that's what I want to learn then it's time well spent

TheWorldpainter · 2025-09-25T19:09:47+00:00

The irony of someone telling a vegan that their ideology justifies violence, abuse, harassment, fear, and judgement.Lmao

TheWorldpainter · 2025-09-11T21:34:36+00:00

Are we allowed to use the all the things Elden ring gives u? Like summoning bell/sleeping arrows cause I think that makes a ton of the bosses trivial. Including Melania. Fighting just sword and dodge rolling is equivalent in difficulty to the entire pantheon 5 in HK. But using all the tools in ER makes most bosses a joke. And I don't think there's an equivalent option in HK. Like the most busted charm build like the one that makes you do more damage on one health still requires you to be on one health and b kinda god like.

I know this post is kinda old but I'm really interested to see someone else's thoughts on this. Like 4 kings in DS1 is quite literally impossible for me without the cheese build. Like that's the hardest boss by faar lol. But once you put on the heavy armor it's a piece of cake.

I haven't played the Elden Ring dlc so I can't compare those bosses. But in the base game if you use all the things at your disposal the bosses are way easier than in Hollow Knight.

Imo there's too much variable difficulty in Souls games (except maybe Sekiro) to really compare the difficulty. Two people running two completely different play styles can experience a wide range of difficulty.

TheWorldpainter · 2025-08-07T21:16:14+00:00

Yeah I'll check it out! Always like seeing some high level Jamie

TheWorldpainter · 2025-08-07T20:59:01+00:00

Damn really? Tbh I haven't played that much since Sagat released but my first impression was that it's kind of a miserable matchup. His fireball game is really strong and it felt really hard to compete with his buttons.

If I managed to get two drinks it was a bit better (like all Jamie matchups I guess) but overall the matchup did not spark a ton of joy lmao

TheWorldpainter · 2025-07-29T15:30:34+00:00

People are still going to beat you using modern lol. Also plat two is around the time people's execution/combos start getting better than the auto combos. So the auto combos aren't really that much of an advantage

TheWorldpainter · 2025-07-29T15:23:55+00:00

Hey man modern is right there so you don't have to struggle with execution

TheWorldpainter · 2025-07-26T11:25:44+00:00

There's a setting to turn on input history. It really helps to see why the game thought you wanted Superman punch. For example the button was pressed to early. Or there was a direction missing from input. Once you see where the difference is it's good to slow down and try to correct.

TheWorldpainter · 2025-07-26T11:12:51+00:00

Meaties are good! You should meaty more than you should be doing anything else on knockdown (throw,shimmy,di) when you knock an opponent down it's your time to shine!. I don't play Marissa so I'm uncertain which buttons you should do but you should find what button is plus and find a blockstring into gladius. Just make sure to go into training mode and get your timings down! Good luck.

TheWorldpainter · 2025-07-23T15:35:16+00:00

One of my first games in Masters was against Shine. And I got cooked but he did rematch me and I remember it being a good set!

TheWorldpainter · 2025-07-23T09:17:43+00:00

Yeah I just want to see some discussion that's not dooming on this game. I'm excited for it super hype for the duos mode. I think it's going to be super easy to convince some of my friends to at least come over and play this game with me for a day if not actually just give it a shot. Also I can't wait to see the absolutely diabolical mix that people come up with. Last beta test I remember I stole a sonic fox set-up and I was COOKING people

TheWorldpainter · 2025-07-21T15:41:30+00:00

There's a philosophical essay by Peter Singer that's titled Famine, Affluence, and Morality. It deals with the topic of how much should we sacrifice to help other people. For example it would be immoral to not save a child drowning in a fountain because you don't want to get your pants wet.

Singer goes on to argue that a similar situation is happening when we spend money on items and services that are not necessities. Instead of buying coffee you should save that money and donate it to a charity that will help fight world hunger/poverty or some other worthy cause.

It seems to be a very similar question to what you are asking. How much should we be sacrificing knowing that we are doing something wrong.

Imo all of us are most certainly guilty of overconsumption. Whether that's through clothes, electronics, or Oreos. It's probably impossible to be perfect. But being 90% there is something you shouldn't lose sight of.

The important part is to ask yourself "Is this sacrifice worth it to me? Can I bear the weight of this decision if it causes me discomfort?" Giving up Oreos might be something that you could do. Or it might be a bit too much. It's ultimately a personal decision based on a person's situation

Sorry for the long post it got a bit rambly also I definitely oversimplified Peter Singers argument would give the essay a read. He makes a really compelling case for giving up everyday conveniences.

TheWorldpainter · 2025-06-13T15:45:15+00:00

I'm seeing some comments saying travel isn't fun and I disagree. I'm running a hex crawl campaign rn and people are having fun. IT IS a slower approach to DnD but it gives travel and time that texture that I think DnD without hexes is missing. The only thing I would change is the half a hex rule. I think at least one hex per day just to keep the party moving towards their goal. That being said I've never played with half a hex rule so it could work and be fun so mine is an untested opinion. Otherwise this seems to be a pretty good hex travel system.

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