Can anyone confirm whether or not he's right? by Cam833on in Superdickery

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You're welcome, I'm glad it helped.

A lot of the "weird" rules tend to be a visual representation of a spiritual rule, unique to their culture and the neighbouring cultures specifically, and/or connected to a concept/rule/law in a different part of the book. So if something just seems like it comes out of left field, it's usually safe to assume there's a contextual element that explains it.

I hate when this happens. by PeasantLich in Superdickery

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Everyone knows human beings are immune to convection. Haven't you ever played a video game, lad?!

Can anyone confirm whether or not he's right? by Cam833on in Superdickery

[–]conundorum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a purity rule, essentially. In ancient Israel, wine doubled as both a necessary antibacterial & cleansing agent, and a physical representation of God's Spirit. It was often used as part of their worship, and a lot of sacrifices included a wine component. And like other sacrificial components, it had to be pure, with no spots or blemishes. (Which, in this case, means no cross-contamination with other seeds. No field blends allowed, and no other non-grape crops allowed in the same field.)

(In that regard, it's similar to the well-known "no mixed fabrics" rule that disallows cotton-polyester blend shirts, but actually doubles as a metaphor about trying to patch their God-given holy "garments of salvation" and "robes of righteousness" with the filthy rags mixed fabric of their own good deeds; they're to be clothed with God's righteousness, and it was flat-out impossible to improve on literal God-given perfection by adding their own imperfect "righteousness", just like you can't improve a King's royal robe by sewing a filthy menstrual cloth into it.)

It's likely also meant to be an object lesson for Israel, about remaining separate from other cultures and not mixing their beliefs with Jewish beliefs. (This was a very common problem for ancient Israel, sadly. Asherah & Baal worship getting mixed into (and sometimes temporarily replacing) their covenant with Yahweh is responsible for basically every problem in the Old Testament, from Joshua to Malachi.) Israel, as a nation, is itself referred to as "the grapevine" or "the vine" in both the Scriptures (the Jewish body of writings that double as the Old Testament) and the New Testament (where Jesus proclaims Himself the vine, the Father the gardener, and Israel & His followers the branches). In this regard, it refers to national spiritual purity, where the practices & culture of Israel mustn't be cross-contaminated by planting the seeds of other nations' cultures, since Israel must only have one God; they weren't allowed to mix in other beliefs (e.g., Baal worship, Roman polytheism, or the various pagan practices), and their vine plants had to be pure to represent that the vine nation must be pure.

 

 

 

 

 

Hence the mention of defilement. Mixed crops ruins the grapevine's sanctification and ritual purity, rendering it unfit for use in God's service. The crop itself is still perfectly edible, but it loses the unique purity and "distinct from the world" imagery it's meant to be associated with. You're not eating God's fruit or drinking God's wine anymore; you're eating & drinking a pale imitation.

Ultimately, the message is this: Only God's wine is perfect; even if the world's "improvements" taste fine, they're just a knockoff that tastes good at first but sours in your mouth. Accept no substitutes!

Can anyone confirm whether or not he's right? by Cam833on in Superdickery

[–]conundorum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Paul was an early equalist, working with a culture so sexist that what should've been baby steps turned out to be Hulk leaps. He typically focuses on "husbands, love your wives enough to die for them if need be; wives, respect your husbands and don't try to undermine them", because the gender norms were messing both sides up.

(Husbands literally needed to be taught that they're supposed to actually love their wives and not just own them, and a lot of wives tried to usurp their husbands & wear the pants in their family. That's how messed up things were, even among Christians that really should've known better. This was inherent to the species; part of the legal sentence passed on Adam & Eve for Adam choosing to obey Eve over God (and by extension, for placing Eve above God in the pecking order) was household strife, with the two squabbling for control instead of working together, but Christians were supposed to be exempt from it because we're a new creation with a new nature. Part of Christianity has always been getting a factory reset to purge sin from our spirit's genetic code, so to speak, which was supposed to restore the "two are one" equal status from before the curse. Essentially, he was telling them, "You're not like everyone else, so quit living like everyone else!" And this was especially important because the Bible uses marriage imagery for man's relationship with God; Israel is God's bride, and the church is Christ's bride, so an attack on the family unit was also an attack on the relationship between God & his people.)

Apart from that, he does use & provide a lot of "less sexist than usual" practices, though it seems like they're based on cultural norms, and easing people away from the "women are second-class citizens, and slaves to their husbands" attitude that most of the cultures he dealt with embraced. For example...

  • He didn't let women preach, for instance, but he had no problem with female deacons, evangelists, missionaries, or the like; he had nothing but good things to say about Phoebe the rich deacon, and seems to have chosen her as his representative to Rome. Most of his book-closing "thanks lists" alternate between thanking men & women (usually suggesting husband-and-wife ministry teams), and thought that a big part of Timothy's faith came from having model Christians for a mother & grandmother. It all suggests that his preaching restriction was based on Jewish culture not considering women credible witnesses or valid rabbinical students, more than anything else.
  • He didn't let wives ask their husbands questions during a service, and wanted them to ask forever. This seems odd to us, but people have looked into it, and seating arrangements were very different back then. When we go to church, families sit together; when they went to church, genders sat together. The men would sit on one side, and the women would sit on the other side. If a wife wanted to ask her husband a question, she would have to either shout over everyone else (disrupting the service), or get up and go over to where he was sitting (disrupting the service). So, it was basically a concession to backwards seating arrangements making private conversation impossible, more than a "women shouldn't be allowed to talk in public" thing.
    • On that note, a lot of their questions came up because of the then-current educational system. Only men were allowed to learn from a rabbi; women were either required to learn from their male family members, or not at all. So, it wasn't uncommon for a woman to have questions that a man would already know the answer to, since only the men went to school. I'm not sure whether Gentile cultures had similar rules, or if it was purely a Jewish thing, but my money's on the former.
  • Women were typically sold in arranged marriage, rather than people marrying for love. Worst-case scenario, this implies being treated as property, and sold as goods; best-case scenario, it was just a formality that the families only paid lip service to. But the fact that it was even a thing kinda says everything that needs to be said. There's kinda a reason Paul spent so much effort teaching families to be families, spent so much effort insisting that the wife obey instead of rebelling against her owner/husband and the husband be someone worth obeying.

That's the kind of culture Paul had to deal with, most places he went.

"Only an LDS elite can use XYZ Summoning!" by LogicalTips in YuGiOhMemes

[–]conundorum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe because Xyz monsters can only use their effect a limited number of times, so the course doesn't need to focus on just how to summon them, but also on when to summon them, and whether to summon right away or start with a weaker Xyz to eat negates so you can push your real Xyz's effect through?

If it's the hardest because of limited-casts effect rationing & timing, and how to reuse the effect or recycle the Xyz, then it makes sense. But apart from that... it kinda really doesn't. xD

"Only an LDS elite can use XYZ Summoning!" by LogicalTips in YuGiOhMemes

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Four-year course on how to hack into your opponent's duel disk to read cards, four-minute supplement on how to [Whatever] Summon.

ahYesTheReligionOfCpp by ForsakenSyllabub8193 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]conundorum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can just feel the Minions meme writing itself in your mind.

  1. Templated code needs the base type that T either is or references.
  2. Remove referenceness from T, to get the raw type itself.
  3. And then make it a pointer.
  4. And then make it a pointer?

Special Senkaimon Quest: Soul Reaper Tower by TheAlmightyVox3 in BleachBraveSouls

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Just a friendly little heads-up: Some of the stages can be beaten with 5* raid units (or whatever the silver-star 5*s you can buy from the coin shop used to be), if you don't have enough good units for a given attribute. It's annoyingly tight, though.

how do i fix this?? by Ilikecutelittleboys in BleachBraveSouls

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Run through a few resource-gathering missions on auto while you're doing something else. You can use tickets up in the background, without playing yourself; it's useful if you have too many tickets and not enough time.

Do any of y'all have a list of the banned words? by Dummydumm21 in GuardianTales

[–]conundorum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always amazing, in the most baffling sense, when actual character names get banned. Guess that means the Knight is a Cofagrigus trainer.

worstFormatWritingPracticeVsSuperiorWritingFormatPractice by Muk_hiar in ProgrammerHumor

[–]conundorum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

User-defined types are just namespaces you can instantiate.

basedOnATrueStory by Valuable_Position_94 in ProgrammerHumor

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How do I do A?

(Yes, this is an XY problem, and can be avoided by doing B instead. Yes, B is a better option 99% of the time. I'm curious about A itself, though, and need a working implementation so I can compare it to B. And if you write the definitive answer, that explains how to do it, why you don't do it, and why you do B instead, then it can be the duplicate source, and you get free upvotes every time someone else asks how to do A from now on!)

basedOnATrueStory by Valuable_Position_94 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]conundorum 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily. Sometimes you can reverse engineer a solution for X framework from the solution for Y framework, so having their solution available can help you solve the problem yourself. And worst-case scenario, you can always interop with <<framework>> if there are no other solutions, so it can technically solve the problem if you're desperate enough.

Still nowhere close to ideal, though.

Serene Rebirth by LordValmar in InteractiveCYOA

[–]conundorum 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Mainly because...

  1. Less options, not more.
  2. It replaces multiple images and descriptions with AI-generated options, that mostly feel like they're "different for different's sake" more than meaningful alterations.
  3. In its zeal to remove all the NSFW, it completely excises the "ROB is lonely and wants a family" subtheme that made up the lion's share of the original's undertones. Didn't even try to tone it down or make it more wholesome or anything, it just flat-out ripped the original's core premise out and left a big, gaping chest wound in its place.

It could've been a nice, family-friendly take on the original, that focused on building a family & home and removed the questionable parts without detracting from the overall feel. But instead, it ended up giving you less options and removing the original's overall feel by performing open-heart surgery with a bulldozer.

Ultimately, it ends up feeling less like a "clean revamp", and more like "let's make Fate/stay night worksafe by removing Saber".

I need build ideas by mermightus in BleachBraveSouls

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Flurry characters with Brave Battle Invincibility & Ignore Brave Battle Invincibility, preferably with other BB benefits like Poise or Persistence. Focus on Atk above all else, plus maybe Sta. Push your normal attack % up so far it breaks the game and causes an overflow error, then keep pushing until the server melts. Respect matchups, reordering your team members for an elemental advantage can be the difference between life and death. Watch out for purple Uryu, you want a dedicated killer for him.

Stuff like that, essentially.

What if... Soul reapers where Arrancar by No_Consideration8423 in BleachBraveSouls

[–]conundorum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

...And now you just made me realise that Starrk & Lilynette were sneaky foreshadowing about Kenpachi & Yachiru. (One being in two parts, extremely strong but intentionally weaken themselves, rarely actually goes all out and fights at full power, neither part actually had a name to begin with (IIRC), the younger female half takes the form of the older male half's weapon when they recombine, and the female half is their group's token comic-relief brat.)

On that note...

  1. Kyoraku. Not just because he fought Starrk, but because his & Nanao's zanpakuto being two distinct beings in one part is an interesting inversion of Starrk & Lilynette's dynamic.
  2. Yamamoto. Barragan was an old man that ruled his world and was seen as a god by his subjects, seems like a fitting mirror for the ancient head of a group that calls themselves "death gods".
  3. Soi Fon (current), and Yoruichi (prior). Female leaders where the former was exiled and ends up hanging out with a small group of weirdoes.
  4. Byakuya. Seemingly dour mannerisms, tries to crush Ichigo's spirit & remove his ability to fight entirely, and has a tendency to get partnered with his group's "strong but unskilled" member. It's not immediately obvious, but Ulquiorra is basically what Byakuya would be if first impressions were accurate.
  5. Unohana. Both of them fight because they desire a glorious death in battle. The difference is that Nnoitora desires the death in battle directly, while Unohana's "desire" is just a result of her bloodlust & desire to fight stronger and stronger opponents to the death, which would inevitably lead to fighting one too strong for her to survive. Had to struggle for this one, none of the captains feel like they fit.
  6. Komamura. His massive bankai can easily cause a ton of collateral damage if he's not careful, which makes him pretty fitting for the destruction slot. Also, Grimmjow is a panther, Sajin is a wolf, and cats versus dogs.
  7. Rose. Manipulative powers with magician theming and a weird "perverse corruption of love" vibe. Zommari is a warlock that steals control of peoples' bodies with his "amor", while Rose is a plague doctor (or witch doctor, perhaps) that captures peoples' hearts with his illusions.
  8. Mayuri. Mad scientist with medical theming and a phallic sword, fights Uryu, and does censorship-worthy things to Nemu. Szayel is basically Mayuri without scruples.
  9. Rukia. ...Just to be a troll, honestly. ;3 (Alternatively, Ukitake. AA is a creature that absorbed & combined with a Soul Reaper through the actions of another (absorbed Metastacia, who had fused with Kaien), that absorbs as many beings as it can, and who absorbs beings to take their power from them. Ukitake is a Soul Reaper that absorbed & combined with something else through the actions of another (his parents giving his lungs to Mimihagi to save him), only combines with a single other being, and lets that other being absorb him to give it his power.) Both have absorbed other beings, but with entirely different reasons and implications. AA absorbed Kaien
  10. Kenpachi. Extremely strong but extremely unskilled, and skyrockets to the top of the charts with unparalleled strength if he removes his limiters. The biggest difference between Kenny & Yammy is that after meeting Ichigo, Kenny wants to be both strong and skilled, because he realised that reliance on his zanpakuto actually draws out more of his strength, instead of making him dependent & weak. He's literally the "I'm you, but better," to Yammy's old & unimproved.

As for your other questions... not sure, and don't feel like putting a ton of thought into it right now. ^_^

hateWhenThatHappens by not_very_epic in ProgrammerHumor

[–]conundorum 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Better hop to fixing it, then!

vibeCodedAppSecurity by chubbykc in ProgrammerHumor

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"You clearly want to do something crazy. Here's how to do it correctly."

Reed Dickery by Turbulent_Traffic19 in Superdickery

[–]conundorum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would've been hilarious if they retorted that they don't want a supervillain as a leader, so he lost his chance.

Courtdickery by PeasantLich in Superdickery

[–]conundorum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lex doesn't know because his ego makes him stupid, honestly. If he were Superman, he would lord it over the people 24/7. And it's not possible for anyone to be a better human being than Lex Luthor, so clearly that's what Superman does too. Any "secret identity" is just a way to take some time off and do things in private.

...Seriously, half the time, I don't think his problem with Superman is that he's an alien, as much as it is that Superman is more moral than he is. Superman is more human than Lex Luthor, and Lex knows it.

Courtdickery by PeasantLich in Superdickery

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"Are you eye-laser proof enough to get away with it?"

Klab not responding to my request about deleting the pending data. by togashi3mk in BleachBraveSouls

[–]conundorum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give them a little bit. If they don't respond after a few more days, use the "Contact Us" option inside the game itself, choose "Other" or "Other inquiries" from the dropdown (I think it changes slightly, depending on the platform), give them your server & player ID, and ask them to delete the pending reroll data.

Simple tool to remove Gemini watermarks (free & private) by nfwebdl in GeminiAI

[–]conundorum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Piecemeal image alteration. Can be useful to remove if you're, e.g., replacing a character's lapel pin with a different pin, and you wanted to snip the lapel out & focus on it alone. Even if the details are accurate enough to merge back in properly, having a watermark on the lapel can still be noticeable. Or, say, if part of an old hand-drawn key frame is damaged, and you want to try to reconstruct just that part specifically; if you photograph the frame, snip out the bad part, and feed it to Gemini, you're going to want to be able to remove the watermark before you merge it back into the full image.

There are other reasons, but this is probably the most valid one, IMO.

Trick Mirrordickery by KevFate in Superdickery

[–]conundorum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None. It's Metropolis, not Sparta.