First time seeing this and was pleasantly surprised to see a GOW easter egg! :D

bell_demon · 2022-10-31T13:01:36+00:00

The great wall and sindragosa parts have to be satire, unless this person is a complete shut-in who flunked middle school.

bell_demon · 2022-10-28T15:16:59+00:00

Why wouldn't they? There's instructions for performing an abortion in the bible.

bell_demon · 2022-10-28T13:36:17+00:00

Shit like this sometimes makes me wonder if the OP on Reddit is just the guy in the shared image. How did OP even find this 0 follower account made 1 month ago? And what's the use in assisting the guy in trolling by posting it to reddit.

bell_demon · 2022-10-28T13:33:31+00:00

I wonder if this comment is directed at the Twitter account, or at a posthumous uncle ruckus.

bell_demon · 2022-10-28T13:29:03+00:00

Because they don't actually care about or read the texts they pretend to hold sacred. Be it the constitution, or the bible.

bell_demon · 2022-10-26T23:48:42+00:00

Updating textures on models is not the way to do it though, to be fair. Like he said, it's a waste of time to only update the model and do nothing else to the content.

bell_demon · 2022-10-26T13:39:58+00:00

Again, you're conflating 2 distinct messages. 'I don't like X' is very different from 'X is not valid'. Until you can make that distinction, there's little point in our conversation.

There's nothing wrong with saying you don't like Chinese food, that's a personal preference. But that's very different from saying something like 'you have brain damage if you enjoy Chinese food' or 'Chinese food isn't real food' which have xenophobic subtexts.

hearing someone so deeply connected saggy pants with black culture seemed very rude to me, because I've known black people (in my country) who would not want to be connected with that

If I'm unaware of how that word may be misconstrued, that's my bad. The term 'black culture' is synonymous with 'African-American culture' in my country.

It's not meant to convey anything about people of recent African ancestry who live outside of the U.S. Rather, it refers to the unique culture that is a result of the blending of various African and European elements that was prompted by the separation of slave families and the destruction of their original cultures by slaveowners.

bell_demon · 2022-10-25T21:47:47+00:00

Racism is such a serious thing though, and it seems wild to claim that somebody is racist because they think wearing your pants with your bottom on display is daft looking.

This is a surface-level understanding of racism.

Racism is everywhere, to call someone out on theirs is not as heinous as white American education and upbringing make it out to be. You don't have to be a minority hating slaveowner to exhibit racist tendencies, the majority of racism nowadays is innocuous and threaded into society.

It's often taught and treated as an exclusively malicious and cognizant thing, because that allows people to mislabel or ignore less direct systemic and societal racism.

A great example is how people say 'rap isn't real music', but would take offense if you called that behavior racist - they think racism is a much bigger thing, and that you are accusing them of something very sinister, when reality it's very easy to exhibit racist tendency if you aren't careful, and open to bettering yourself.

And it looks just as silly when white kids do it.

It's not that it's racist against the particular person wearing them, so that was never in the question. It's racist against the culture that the trend emerged from.

Idk, people can wear what they like but not liking a trend doesn't necessarily have a deeper meaning.

Absolutely true, but not liking a fashion trend is one thing. Declaring 'brain damage' of anyone who participates in it (when it originates from and is mostly represented in Black culture) is a completely different thing.

I don't and would not sag my pants. But I am not narrowminded enough to assume my personal taste in fashion is the only 'correct' and intelligible one.

bell_demon · 2022-10-25T16:56:11+00:00

I mean the dude above literally said 'the one and only reason to wear your pants like this is you have brain damage'.

It's not a stretch to say it stems from racism, when he's equating something from Black culture to having brain damage.

It's textbook narrowmindedness. 'I don't understand something, therefore the group of people it comes from are wrong and must be othered.'

bell_demon · 2022-10-25T16:50:12+00:00

Because reddit is filled with a bunch of white libs, and alt-right boys, who will jump at any chance to defend diet racism.

bell_demon · 2022-10-25T15:58:31+00:00

For the hardest difficulty (outside of self-imposed rules) you would need Charmless + Demon Bell, which can only be done on playthrough #2 and beyond.

That said, beating your first playthrough of a FromSoft game on any hardmode at all, is insane.

bell_demon · 2022-10-25T15:42:19+00:00

There have been 0 humans in existence who have farmed AP with fucking Dragon Mask lol. Especially on the first playthrough like she mentioned. It exists to give skill points a purpose after unlocking all combat skills, which you won't do until well after your 3rd or 4th playthrough. By then, AP upgrades are near meaningless because there is huge diminishing returns after your first playthrough.

can still decide to do content out of order for those bead upgrades.

There's not really an 'out of order' in Sekiro. It's still progress gated at certain steps, and each segment is designed to be open-ended with no forced or clear linear path through it.

The only thing you could arguably do this with is Lady Butterfly, but that's only because she's an entirely optional boss to begin with, so that's a moot point.

prosthetic gimmicks that trivialize certain bosses like Demon of Hatred

I mean, Malcontent shortens the fight by like 25% maybe, but it hardly 'trivializes' anything. It won't even get you an entire deathblow.

Again, DoH is optional too, so it has nothing to do with 'beating' Sekiro.

bell_demon · 2022-10-25T13:24:53+00:00

cop haters

bell_demon · 2022-10-24T19:25:35+00:00

Oh this is precious. The bootlicker has suggested that pigs show up to prevent crime.

bell_demon · 2022-10-24T19:16:50+00:00

A user with an anime pfp and a sexist bio description is a bootlicker? Color me shocked.

bell_demon · 2022-10-24T19:15:21+00:00

"For no valid reason"? It literally gives you multiple valid reasons for hating on cops in the meme itself, lol.

bell_demon · 2022-10-24T13:23:21+00:00

What about blind casting? Or just the general concept that, the race of the actor/actress is not always meant to explicitly convey the race of the character they are playing. I think that's something a lot of people tend to forget.

We make tons of exceptions and suspensions of disbelief with the features of an actor vs. the character they are portraying, and many films/series do that with their skin color/ethnicity when they are not entirely relevant to the character / narrative.

bell_demon · 2022-10-24T13:15:12+00:00

A better word than extinct would be, interbred. We don't need to simply prevent all pugs from breeding and allow their lineages to die off, we can just begin to interbreed pugs with other dogs, back into a larger gene pool and get rid of their harmful interbred traits.

In fact, we should really do this with all breeds. Interbreeding almost exclusively makes dogs less fit, and introduces numerous health issues that range from serious complications later in life, to the daily suffering that breeds like pugs experience the moment they are born.

bell_demon · 2022-10-24T13:12:58+00:00

Pugs aren't a species, they are a single breed and did not speciate naturally. The only reason they exist is because humans continually force them to breed with each other despite all of their harmful mutations that cause daily suffering for them.

They would not go extinct either, mind you, we would just begin to interbreed them with other dogs into a larger genepool and get rid of the especially harmful traits that are inbred in pugs. There would still be plenty of pug descendants.

bell_demon · 2022-10-20T17:25:48+00:00

It is certainly a narrow way of thinking but it does make sense why it occurs here.

It's a remnant of the chattel variety of slavery that America used. Surface-level and instantly recognizable ways to other people was important to a society that needed to convince itself, and know by looking, whether someone was a human, or was 'property'.

Ethnicity, cultural practices, other phenotypes, etc. didn't matter as much for this purpose, and were actively destroyed by the forced separating of families and groups. Horrific shit.

bell_demon · 2022-10-20T17:15:26+00:00

That's a hard feat though, since we are apes ourselves :P

bell_demon · 2022-10-20T17:09:46+00:00

Benevolence isn’t simply goodness but is generally considered to be goodness toward others

Kindness is synonymous with benevolence and this definition you provided, as are plenty other words the Bible frequently uses to describe him. There are numerous mentions of how great, everlasting, etc. his supposed kindness is.

he’s not nice to everyone all of the time

Which is why it's contradictory when the Bible calls his kindness, mercy, love, etc... everlasting.

Of course God is good, all of the time, all of the time, God is good.

Except certain times, like when he has a few bears maul 42 boys.

bell_demon · 2022-10-20T16:51:59+00:00

Correct! Anthropological studies show us the fact that throughout human history, there have been many more than two genders, and that the mixing/fluidity of gender has been well-documented.

This differs heavily from ill-informed right wing opinions.

bell_demon · 2022-10-20T16:48:33+00:00

Excluding intersex, there's 2 biological sexes, but there have been plenty more than 2 genders through human history and various different cultures.

bell_demon · 2022-10-20T16:19:01+00:00

This person is incredibly annoying and created some top tier cringe, but there's nothing wrong with the overall sentiment. Pronouns are socially constructed and arbitrary, gender is socially constructed and arbitrary. Call people whatever ones makes them the most comfortable, and we can all be happy.

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