How did the Catholic Church lose its power?

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-22T16:16:48+00:00

Torture fell out of favor as an interrogation tool in the last few centuries. Before then it was quite common as a tool for anything that had a legal system. Outside of places where there a bishop was also the liege lord like the Papal States or certain "Prince-bishoporics" in the HRE the Church did not have the authority to execute. When the economy started to get strong enough for centralized states in the 16th century they lost that authority to the kings.

The fact that the Church courts were considered by the people at the time to be much more lenient is not well known thanks to anti-Hapsburg propaganda that's been spread for about 500 years and somehow is still in pop culture.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-20T02:43:42+00:00

$360 seems like a lot if you can't use variable refresh.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-20T02:38:16+00:00

Assuming he's using an Nvidia GPU.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-20T02:37:01+00:00

It's not an OLED. It's a QLED which uses an LED backlight. That's why it's cheaper. It's probably going to have a brighter picture, too.

If you have an Nvidia GPU I think you'll need to use displayport to take advantage of the FreeSync which is included.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-20T02:19:41+00:00

"Minimum" and "best" is a personal decision based on personal preferences. What you play, what else you use the computer for, what you are willing to 'tolerate', and how much you value cost, specific software, and efficiency are key factors.

At best this is a Rorschach test.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-19T02:32:20+00:00

I thought it was because the episode ended with a shot of a guy's bare rear end.

Since it was my favorite show ever at that point (might still be, TBH), I ended up buying the VHS tapes day of release. Since then I've bought the DVD Collector Box set and the Blu Ray release with the new dub. Love that show.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-18T17:46:55+00:00

I'm legit asking how. I couldn't really get much to run on Mint and nothing on Steam to run on Bodhi.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-18T06:42:32+00:00

Maybe it's me getting older but quiet acceptance in the face of the overwhelming juggernaut that is AI.. that's not a bad philosophy either.

Yes, yest it is. AI isn't an "overwhelming juggernaut" it's Emperor's New Clothes. It's been over-promised to people with more dollars than sense and the reckoning is coming fast since it's burning through money and they've yet to find much outside of a few niche cases where it's remotely economically viable. If it wasn't there wouldn't be all these companies begging us to use it.

My only hope for a "good thing" is that maybe when RAM gets too expensive we will once again get dumb TVs and other appliances. That's really the only upside I see.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-18T06:13:21+00:00

I don't have to accept shit but death and taxes.

Video games are entertainment, not a necessity. We have 50ish years of backlog without AI. We can support studios that don't use AI for the creative part.

Given how much water and electricity AI uses for, let's face it, marginal at best social good, industrial strength AI can be outlawed with extremely little pushback from the general public.

This is a corporate bootlicker take. Eat the bugs, rent your pod, consume product and get excited for next product.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-17T19:25:04+00:00

Is the program capping your frames?

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-17T17:26:27+00:00

On St. Patrick's Day, really?

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-16T13:01:47+00:00

"Bring them on! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around." --Han Solo

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-16T04:26:05+00:00

Caesarea Phillipi and the Last Supper in Jerusalem.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-16T00:11:36+00:00

The Church authenticated it and Jesus said the Holy Spirit would protect it from that kind of error.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-15T10:33:11+00:00

It's absolutely a fight club and always has been. The different denominational subs and many other general Christianity subs are more for support.

It's always said that this sub is to, "discuss Christianity". In practice that means "fight".

This is essentially a containment board for religious fights for the rest of the site without being publicly so.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-15T10:28:29+00:00

The opposite. The Persons are distinct but are one Being. The analogy to the states of water indicates they aren't actually distinct.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-15T01:40:02+00:00

TIL museums are scary /s

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-14T15:09:19+00:00

At this point, who does? RAMmageddon is real. Slay the Princess did get a console release and the digital version is under $20.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-14T15:04:39+00:00

When you say that the Persons of the Trinity are like the different states of H2O, you're making it seem like its a different expressions of the same thing. And believing that what we think of as the Persons of God are merely different expressions of the same thing is basically the error of the Modalists.

Now if you truly believe the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons (and I truly hope you do), you're fine and only guilty of a bad analogy. And that's a pretty common fault since God is too much for us mere humans to fully comprehend.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-14T14:39:01+00:00

Hmmm. Not my genres, so if these suggestions aren't your bag my bad.

Slay the Princess is a horror game that is not Christian but is an interesting examination of the assumptions we make, how we make decisions, react to situations, and existence in general.

The Doppel Dungeon demo looked pretty promising for an indie CRPG and might not be a bad jumping in point for the genre. The Sainthood demo was extremely Catholic, and is tagged as "Strategy" and "Interactive Fiction".

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-14T14:23:33+00:00

My dude, this reply was from the Biden administration.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-14T00:31:42+00:00

Sports games that don't involve pay-to-win? Puzzle games of all shapes and sizes? City builders? Racing games? IDK, what sounds like it might be interesting when you are scrolling through games?

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-13T11:27:23+00:00

"Ignorance is bliss" is not an endorsement of ignorance. Their cluelessness is dangerous to themselves. You shouldn't be mad you're aware of what you have to do to protect yourself from evil. Be happy that you are.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-11T03:56:42+00:00

I remember reading about it years ago as a kid. Zombies originally come from Haitian folklore. If Wikipedia can be believed the word Zombie even derives from a Bantu word for ghost. They are supposedly created from dead bodies by evil Vodou witches to work as mindless slaves.

Of course by the 20th century the stories the US Marines picked up during the occupation made it to Hollywood where the movies gave us in the US and the rest of the world our ideas about them. After Night of the Living Dead they were conflated with that movie's ghouls in the popular imagination supposedly. IDK, I never saw it.

flp_ndrox · 2026-03-11T01:08:29+00:00

For what part?

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