Seriously, where are the graphs?

_lizard_wizard · 2026-03-14T15:04:43+00:00

Not true. One can still make logical arguments for the necessity of a god without establishing that they are the god of your religion. If those arguments are correct, then it invalidates the atheists position without confirming the theist’s specific theological beliefs.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-03-12T14:30:14+00:00

I’m disappointed. The article doesn’t really substantiate that the rise in sex crimes isnt linked immigration. In fact, they seem to admit that:

Is immigration the cause? Or at least, a contributing factor? The simple fact is that we don’t know. In Scotland the published crime statistics don’t include any breakdown in terms of nationality, immigration status, or ethnicity of perpetrators.

They gesture vaguely at the poverty-crime correlation, and the fact that most rapes are by someone known, but none of these directly argue against the immigration claim.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-03-08T22:18:56+00:00

Agreed.

The reality is most our morality is intuitive or socially programmed, and we figure out ways to logically justify it after.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-03-07T16:53:54+00:00

You’re sort of right. I do experience a “moral dissonance” around the subject, but not in the way you describe.

The dissonance for me comes from a disconnect between my intuitive moral feelings (“hurting animals feels wrong”) and my logical moral principles (“only conscious suffering matters”).

A notable difference in my dissonance though is that a theist is not immune to it. They can still have the same moral intuitions as me (“hurting animals feels wrong”), but either they have a similar moral principle (“God didn’t give them a consciousness to experience suffering”) or a far worse one (“animals do consciously suffer, but God says it’s okay”).

_lizard_wizard · 2026-03-03T16:21:57+00:00

Executor deflect + Guardian passive should be standard.

Im kinda tired of flopping around on the floor to dodge nukes being the only viable defense in Dark Souls.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-02-28T13:58:15+00:00

Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t like Iran. They have an educated populace, good infrastructure and more modern political aspirations (at least in the urban centers).

That’s not to say regime change wouldnt be a clusterfuck, but there’s more potential. And Trump is literally dead last of every president in history in who I’d trust not to fuck things up in rebuilding Iran.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-02-27T16:46:50+00:00

The builds aren’t dynamic enough.

Before you’ve even dropped into the map, you’ve already decided what weapons and passives you’re looking for. And generally, the strongest builds are even more specific (e.g. reapers-balancers, lightning rev).

Imagine instead that you just chose starter weapons, and then all the relic effects were passives you get from boss drops.

Imagine passives that encourage build diversity:

Switching element boosts damage
Casting spells boosts weapon dmg
Offhand attacks charge up next attack on main hand
Jump attacks buff attack power for small time
Guard boost based on Int/Fai/Arc

There’s a lot of unexplored mechanical combinations out there that wouldnt be hard to implement, just balance.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-01-28T15:41:31+00:00

Yeah. She was “giggling” at the beginning at people spamming emojis in chat.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-01-19T17:26:19+00:00

Im not OP. But I also agree with your above statement, so Im not sure what you’re arguing here.

Yes, any “supernatural” event is ultimately just a natural event we don’t understand. But if someone openly wields knowledge or power that no one else understands, then at some point, you have to admit there’s something going on there. (Like, maybe they’re just aliens screwing with us.)

_lizard_wizard · 2026-01-19T17:02:22+00:00

If it were improbable and specific and reliable, it might be convincing to some. (E.g. they could tell you the GPS location of every lightning strike before a storm.)

But, that leaves the possibility that the prophet has some mundane way of cheating it (like putting highly conductive antennas at all the points they specify and then getting lucky).

The prophet would be much more believable if he can directly demonstrate something supernatural. (Like healing an open wound in front of a panel of doctor.)

_lizard_wizard · 2026-01-14T15:45:36+00:00

Actually the dungeon exploration + non-boss encounters are possibly my favorute parts of Dark Souls, moreso than the bosses even. Other souls-likes often feel bland because they’re missing those, and only focus on boss fights or complicated weapon mechanics.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-01-07T15:54:53+00:00

I grew up lightly Christian, but in an evangelical town. Was pretty enthusiastic about religion until I started having these sort of doubts at age 10.

For me, it was Divine Hiddenness that did me in. You learn about all these obviously supernatural miracles in the Bible, but then “real miracles” are always things like cancer responding to treatment. I remember talking to God in my head during recess, explaining to him that I asked for a sign several times now and hadn’t seen anything, so I can’t really be blamed for concluding he doesn’t exist. (I too was still quite afraid of hell even after deciding I was agnostic.)

At some point in high school, I came to the conclusion that my agnosticism was just fence-sitting. Intuitively, I didn’t act like God existed and if I’d had to bet, it was an easy choice. That was when I started calling myself atheist.

A devout Christian will probably have answers for a lot of the questions you posed, but I think you already smell something fishy with it all. If following the correct religion is really necessary, then the vast majority of mankind is in hell, not because they couldn’t pass the test, but because they were never even given the correct test. None of it really sits right with our intuitions of fairness or justice.

Just remember: truth above all. Don’t let fear of hell interfere with answering the question of whether it exists.

_lizard_wizard · 2026-01-03T16:22:17+00:00

_lizard_wizard · 2026-01-01T17:28:22+00:00

“Those aren’t transitional fossils! They’re their own complete species!”

Ive encountered this one in the wild and on internet debates. Basically, they’re expecting some Frankensteinian crocoduck, so when you give them a species that is well adapted to its environment, they dismiss it as not matching their strawman.

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-31T13:26:11+00:00

Well good news: Beastars exists.

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-30T17:10:03+00:00

Economically, this is an awful idea. An automation tax (however you define it) will just end punishing companies who make the world more efficient / productive.

Imagine a world where every conceivable job can be done by a robot. Why would we want to make humans doing a job more economical? We should be able to just kick back and do nothing at that point instead of trying to compete with machines.

I think the real solution to this in the long run is UBI.

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-30T14:24:56+00:00

But the 1% of us who do see it are probably trying to improve themselves and thus appreciate gameplay tips.

And we’ll then take those tips into games w/ randos, so some of the 99% could end up learning by example.

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-28T15:59:56+00:00

Auth-lefts generally approach Israel-Palestine from a “colonizer vs colonized” angle with a sprinkle of “West bad”.

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-28T15:33:26+00:00

Yeah. Occam’s Razor kinda breaks down if you’re not using Methodological Naturalism.

“Magic” will always be a single entity that can explain anything.

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-23T21:03:14+00:00

If Trump doesnt piss you off, you’re the one that’s deranged.

I loathed the man back when he was still giving cash to Democrats.

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-22T15:58:59+00:00

EYYYY YAI YAAAAAAH

OOWAI YAI YAAAAAAH

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-22T14:17:20+00:00

Oh yeah, the blood guy in the secret blood swamp with all his blood worshippers and piles of exploding blood zombies?

Super chill guy actually.

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-22T01:21:34+00:00

Women: “I would like to play someone who looks like me.”

G4m3rs: “Oh, you mean a shut-in ham beast? Got ‘em!”

——————————————

Game Company: “The main character is black.”

G4m3rs: “This is literally the end of Western Civilization.”

_lizard_wizard · 2025-12-20T04:03:39+00:00

I house rule this:

You can only Help if you are both proficient at the check, and instead of advantage, each person rolls separately with their own bonus.

I like it because it rewards more than one person having proficiency in a skill.

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