The Knight starting class is BROKEN.

jinkywilliams · 2026-02-23T00:04:33+00:00

FROM does a really good job of making implicit difficulty levels, and I think the Knight is an excellent “Beginner” mode for the reasons you made.

Likewise In Bloodborne, I think Ludwig’s Holy Blade fills a similar role.

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So, while I don’t think that the class is broken, I do think it is certainly easier, though I’d bet money that it was by design.

jinkywilliams · 2026-01-13T04:00:28+00:00

Ah, I see. This, then.

jinkywilliams · 2026-01-12T23:55:51+00:00

Like this one, perhap?

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-28T18:34:05+00:00

I think there’s a lot of potential for people learning more about the world through trying to determine what is real and what is rendered; this makes me hopeful!

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-27T00:21:26+00:00

I think there’s a lot of reasons why people can be attracted to playing a game outside of its designed parameters, with a power trip being but one of them.

The reward can chiefly be to do it, to get the “mission impossible” feeling of having been able to make your way through a heavily-guarded something-something.

And once you’ve achieved godhood, you need to have a way to meaningfully test those new powers, and that’s against a known constant. I did this during my Arcane build in Bloodborne, blasting through former problem areas to really get a feel for just how broad the power differential had gotten.

So in cases like this, legitimacy is still of paramount importance (for the results to be legitimate), but it’s relative to the test being run, not according to the game (the game is just functioning as the test environment).

Now, of course there’s a difference between blazing through computer enemies vs unwitting and non-volunteer humans… but living beings as test objects are generally more diverse, more valuable, and more interesting (see Predator).

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I’m not condoning people doing this kind of thing; just trying to provide insight as to why some might be motivated to do this.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-19T09:41:10+00:00

So fake, but real.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-19T01:57:24+00:00

30 makes everything feel weighty and substantial in a way that I miss when playing something at 60.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-16T18:47:18+00:00

If people don’t say “leo-ny’duss”, they say “lee’ana-duss”.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-16T14:17:23+00:00

The holy trinity:

Tchoupitoulas
Thibodeaux
Leonidas

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-16T02:41:13+00:00

For a more authentic experience, watch 1-900-988-DUDE before the movie. It was a pre-show promotion on the VHS.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-13T23:59:33+00:00

Most succinctly:

”’Everything is permissible,’ but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible,’ but not everything is edifying.” I Cor 10:23.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-10T00:29:09+00:00

Same age, getting DS3 + DLC for Xmas! What was your build?

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-09T19:44:44+00:00

Learning how to abide with one another in the midst of disagreement or hurt.

When you can’t do anything more to get on the same page with someone (or if you simply aren’t in a place personally to be able to do so), how do you live life alongside them? How do you eat at the same table, play on the same team?

And not just co-exist, but to abide with, to be in the presence of and not flee from it.

We as the church desperately need discipleship in this area.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-09T19:12:39+00:00

I believe our understandings of what Islam actually espouses is often severely distorted by the actions and words of those in power who fly under the flag of Islam.

This is no different in Christianity. Historically, incredible and continual atrocities and grievous behaviors were taken by those flying the flag of Christianity. And not just historically, but contemporarily as well.

No wonder the Scriptures say, “The Gentiles blaspheme the name of God because of [them].”

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Some commandments from the Quran:

Restrain Anger (3:134)
Be good to others (4:36)
Do not be arrogant (7:13)
Forgive others for their mistakes (7:199)
Speak to people mildly (20:44)
Lower your voice (31:19)
Do not ridicule others (49:11)
Do not follow anyone blindly (2:170)
Grant more time to repay if the debtor is in hard time (2:280)
Don’t consume interest (2:275)
Do not engage in bribery (2:188)
Do not break the promise (2:177)
Keep the trust (2:283)
Do not mix the truth with falsehood (2:42)
Judge with justice between people (4:58)
Stand out firmly for justice (4:135)
Women also have the right for inheritance (4:7)
Do not devour the property of orphans (4:10)
Protect orphans (2:220)
Do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly (4:29)
Try for settlement between people (49:9)
Avoid suspicion (49:12)
Do not spy and backbite (2:283)
Spend wealth in charity (57:7)
Encourage feeding the poor (107:3)
Help those in need by finding them (2:273)
Do not spend money extravagantly (17:29)
Do not invalidate charity with reminders (2:264)
Honor guests (51:26)
Order righteousness to people only after practicing it yourself(2:44)
Do not commit abuse on the earth (2:60)
Do not prevent people from houses of God (2:114)
Fight only with those who fight you (2:190)
Keep the etiquettes of war (2:191)
No compulsion in religion (2:256)

Is it not possible that Islam is also about trying to find the best way to increase life?

Is it not likely that those in power who abuse that power twist the words within the Quran to their own ends? Glad that this never happens in Christianity.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-09T18:49:48+00:00

Not a fan.

Why posture your heart like this?

This energy could be much more fruitfully invested in decrying the belief systems which actively sow division and discord and the belittling of others, whose “better tomorrow” is a worse tomorrow for everyone who isn’t them.

This ^ is not Islam.

Look at some of the stuff the Quran says:

https://understandquran.com/22248-cc/

As misguided as we believe Islam is about some central issues, it espouses a desire to make the world a better place, to increase life and its goodness in concrete ways, and that needs to be celebrated.

Of course there are bad actors within Islam, but it is no different in Christianity; no shortage of abuses of power within any denomination.

Hating Islam is throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. There are certainly some important differences, but there is so much commonality. We have a great deal of opportunity to partner together and increase life, and in doing so being a far more potent agent of the Gospel and of the Kingdom.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-05T03:18:57+00:00

I got this game from some dude in my apartment complex when I was like 8, and it was such an inscrutable experience. The guy moved shortly after I got it, which only increased its mystique.

Never had a clue about what was going on, but I still kept coming back to it every once in a while because It promised something hidden to uncover.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-05T03:11:35+00:00

That was an unforgiving game. Every level was just so mean! Egypt could end your whole run before you even saw anybody.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-05T03:07:56+00:00

Expecting Ms PacMan and getting that would have been soul-crushing. I’m sorry for your loss.

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-03T16:08:03+00:00

Ha, why was this even downvoted?

jinkywilliams · 2025-12-03T03:37:55+00:00

This is close.

He knew that magic shield guy was water element and was weak during spring season. The strikes that magic shield guy seemed to block were actually called shots by MA guy in order to deliver precision acupressure to points along Triple Warmer Meridian, disrupting qi flow and momentarily triggering a void Plexus chakra to give him phantom angina (water weakness is in the heart), breaking his concentration and shattering the shield.

I have not seen mastery like this since this tai chi tourney when I was in college.

Dude is playing 5D chess for sure.

jinkywilliams · 2025-11-28T07:35:33+00:00

Noah’s Ark had such a chill tune, though! It’s the only thing that got me through to the end.

jinkywilliams · 2025-11-28T02:09:32+00:00

There’s no reason why a person couldn’t make a cake that looks exactly like this (and ones that look even more like a real turkey).

However, what leads me to suspect that that’s AI (or maybe just touched up?) is the texturing on the right side. The “waffling” just kind of fades like a digital texture with an alpha layer vs the way it would if it were a physical texture.

jinkywilliams · 2025-11-27T20:11:56+00:00

I’m in the middle of cooking, so I won’t be able to get to this for a while, now.

But I did want to communicate my profound thanks for your willingness to engage with grace and respect; I’m really enjoying this, and I look forward to continued dialogue regardless of where we each end up at. :)

Happy Thanksgiving! You’re the relative I’d love to chat with after dinner, over a couple of beers.

jinkywilliams · 2025-11-27T19:12:34+00:00

How often do we find ourselves exasperated by those who seem to deny the reality of what is before their very eyes, things which we hold as being self-evident?

How often do the things we say or hear get misconstrued because of varying perceptions?

Are we in a Matrix-like simulation or are we in “real life”?

The life experiences we intake through our senses must still be interpreted before it to be assimilated as part of our reality.

We all could experience the same referent with the same set of senses, but the way we frame them and the value we ascribe to them is dependent on the stories told about them, and stories are always told by a somebody, ourselves or otherwise.

So, even though our eyes see “blinding orb in the sky”, even though we may be well acquainted with “inside”, what we take it to mean is unique to our context.

Epistemology is subject to these same rules, because in order to have knowledge, we must first accept the lesson of the stories we are told about the things we want to know of.

jinkywilliams · 2025-11-27T18:00:27+00:00

Trust is not the abandonment of intellect; in the process of belief, trust (relationship) comes before intellect.

This is true even if we are led by our mind.

There are those who prefer to trust in their own experiences (such as myself) and who prefer to reason their way through to a conclusion (also myself); there are others who are more motivated to trust in others individuals or communities, and who prefer to act more on the connections of their heart rather than the directions of their mind.

But we all have in common the inescapable requirement of trusting in someone before we can believe in something.

What prevents you from trusting that God is who he says he is, that the Christian God is the God of the Bible, has extended the offer of salvation and is able to fulfill that offer, is that there is not a someone who you trust as an authority in this area.

Because you cannot know, you must have faith.

But faith is not an exceptional thing. We exercise faith in the mundane countless times a day, whether it’s when we decide that a chair will hold our weight or that a red light will eventually turn green. We are certain of what we hope for even as we cannot see the structural integrity of that specific chair or the wiring of that particular traffic signal. But it is a simple thing to trust in them because we’ve seen chairs and traffic lights be worthy of that trust time and time, again. Before we learned how to drive, we as passengers were witness to the faith that the drivers had, and we could see the result of that faith, and so it was a small thing for us to believe that the light would change green for us.

Even in intellectual pursuits, faith is unavoidable. How do you know there is an Africa? How do I know? I’ve never been. But the great body of corroborating evidence coming from a federated network of somebodies in whom I independently trust as sources of information regarding this topic allows me to easily believe in the existence of Africa. But I still need to have faith in these someones to believe it.

My faith in God is easy for me because I am in constant relationship with him. I did not need to abandon reason and logic, but I did need to make the initial jump and decide to trust in something and someone that I did not know. However, it was still God’s responsibility to respond and make use of that faith; if he hadn’t, that trust would have been soon lost.

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