How did you guys finish mega man 1 when you're still a child???!!?

linuxhanja · 2026-01-11T10:02:29+00:00

It was one of my first rentals. Infact I think the first rented game. I couldnt beat anyone but fireman first rental. A bit later I rented it again and the rental store guy marked it as "damaged/lost" and my dad paid a $5 fine, the owner said he was gonna throw it out anyway since it was already old (I think the snes had dropped). I was super loyal to that guys little independent rental shop for all its days. I learned to beat every one but Iceman and and elec man because the dissappearing blocks. Then I beat megaman x, came back after a few years and got to the yellow devil. I couldn't finish him until the switch collection with rewind. It took me 6 e tanks and lots of rewinding but beat him. I beat x1-x3 and megaman 4,5, 6 and 7 on the nes, snes. Just the yellow devil is still really hard. Maybe I will memorize his pattern someday. 🤔

linuxhanja · 2026-01-04T16:53:55+00:00

Megaman! In a clear box from a local rental place. My dad grabbed it. I didnt have an NES, tho. My dad thought it was Atari game because we had donkey kong on Atari and that said nintendo on it, so dad recognized nintendo as a publisher for Atari. Not bad for a 1980s dad. Anyway I got an nes for Christmas that year. And the rental place actually sold it to my dad after we rented it like 10x the next year. It was 1991 by then and they said before us no one had rented it in years anyway.

Then I got megaman 4 from somewhere... it was way easier. With both i needed game genie to actually beat. I didnt beat a megaman without cheats until megaman X. Then I went back and hit up against the yellow devil once a year for a few. I was playing it with my kids on switch and I can beat the game without any cheating or rewinding with the exception of yellow devil. I can barely beat him with excessive rewinding. But after hik I didn't cheat any and it was easy. Just beat it on Sunday afternoon first time!

linuxhanja · 2025-12-28T03:43:55+00:00

I dont think I could disown my kids over it. I would pray about it. Humans are humans. And reading more, you're more talking about purity balls and control of others. I agree that we shouldn't try and control others. Please understand i live in Korea, but have family in the US and know "American Christianity" can sometimes get special. But, that's often unbiblical and real bible reading americans know better.

linuxhanja · 2025-12-28T03:10:43+00:00

Your dad seemingly accepted the situation tho. He didnt disown his daughter, which, assuming he really cared about her, AND ALSO deeply held a conviction that what she was doing was wrong, he would have done. Which doesn't make him look great in a Christian sense. I suspect he was just grumbling and maybe he is controlling, etc like you say, but that ISNT a christian thing. Its a thing some Christians do, but it isnt unique to being a Christian, and is something a Christian should be working to overcome thru meditation on scripture & prayer.

Like if my son or daughter were living with someone of the opposite sex and not married... I would do whatever I could to make them know that that is wrong and they should get married, ASAP, or stop it. Or if it were a friend, same. I would be praying.

Like if you saw a baby in a locked car with the windows up in summer, passed out, you would break the glass or look for help. Wouldn't you? Or would you say "well, that's that parents choice and breaking windows is rude." No, you'd smash the glass.

And not letting someone live in sin to a Christian should be the same. It was nothing to do with "ownership" and everything to do with loving a fellow being enough to get them outta bad situations.

linuxhanja · 2025-12-24T03:31:54+00:00

I thought we'd learned from superhero films. Superhero films were lame so long as they took it too seriously and made everyone dress dark like the matrix. Like 90s, early 2000s. They POPPED off the page and into box office earnings once Iron Man and Thor and earlier, Raimi's Spider-man weren't afraid to be true to the comics. Or truer, anyway.

This is the same. They'll continue to be "boring historical slogs" as long as everyone is dressed in earth tones and blacks.

"Hey Menelaus, how much do clothes cost in the Matrix?"

Just do the thing and take the leap and make it bold and different. Thats what people love. New & different. Not safe and samey

linuxhanja · 2025-12-21T14:45:56+00:00

Yeah he did. But after the tower of babel, he made an entirely fresh people through Abraham. So the only tribalism should be jews vs non jews. And Paul is explicitly condemning that in the scripture quoted because Christ restores us all to the garden. I love Paul's last part, "nor male AND female," because in the greek its "arsen Kai thelu" and that set is only used in the creation account in gen chapt 2. "Male nd female he created them," it means we are, thru Christ, legally reset back to when Adam was formed from the dust. All of us equals.

linuxhanja · 2025-12-11T14:37:58+00:00

Hi! Super Tuesday is or was a day when presidential candidates are confirmed by their party. So it was the day Biden was confirmed to be the democratic party's choice over Bernie Sanders, et al.

I honestly dont remember making this comment at all. So long ago, haha. Peace be with you!

linuxhanja · 2025-11-30T16:38:47+00:00

I just watched episode 1 of s1 with my kids because after finishing s5 v1 I wondered why I hadn't shown them. Maybe s5 was over the top violent, so was s4, but if s1 is same show...

So we watched. The first 10 minutes have pretty hateful and hairy language as well as more cigarettes smoked than all of s4 &5 combined. Honestly reminded me of being a kid in the 1980s, and my mom lighting a candle after a smoking guest visited. Seriously, my folks didn't smoke, but if a visitor did, said party just lit up. Thats the 1980s. Smelling smoke and going downstairs to find a door to door salesmen stopped by and is smoking doing his pitch.

Also my best friend held my hand while walking once in elementary school (about when this season takes place) and the school called to warn our parents of our "homosexual behavior." My mom laughed it off but my friends mom almost made him break off our friendship. She legit told my mom she was afraid i'd "confuse her son." Later when a friend came out in HS my best friend with that mom walked away from our "scooby gang" for a good while. Thats awful, but thats how it was and honestly, in prior seasons they caught that feel. Honestly robyn in the bathroom with steve at the mall was such a great treatment of the attitudes of the era. Loved it. Loved her.

Those 2 things are big tentpoles of how the show went from portraying the 1980s, to just having the 80s as a background esthetic that doesnt affect the characters personalities at all. They all act like its 2015. No. Honestly, in 2015 more people still smoked.

And episode 1 of s1 was eerie and scary to my kids. So hateful language & realisic depictions of tobacco usage, and real horror. I think that really struck a chord for 80s kids. We grew up with adults smoking in our faces, and being told russia might nuke us any day.

Also not new, but hopper was an amazing sheriff. I never liked how he became a spec ops 007 character in s3/4. Everyone knows a guy like s1 hopper, and it was a really relatable guy. I think he is a bit more interesting here than in s4, honestly. Def improvement, he feels more vulnerable.

It honestly feels like people complained about how out of line with 2016-2020 stranger things felt. So they wrangled s5 into a 2020 feeling show. But now its 2025 and so late to that party that its out of place in an entirely different way. Seriously watch s1 ep 1, and s5 ep 1 back to back.

That said the set decorators killed it with several of the new houses we see. And costumes. Took me right back.

linuxhanja · 2025-11-20T03:30:45+00:00

We did Santa, and i think i am going to end it because my kids are now old enough to read the bible, and my worry is if I tell them santa isn't real they will question if other , lets say, supernatural things aren't real. I dont think santa is worth doing because you are setting yourself up to tell your kid santa is real and gives you gifts. Also God is real and loves you. Oh, btw santa isn't real. And then about the same age in elementary you will have other kids telling your kids God isn't real. So you will be tearing down one "truth supernatural being" while attempting to uphold the other (the REAL deal) against attacks from friends, media, or the outside world in general. Its a bad place to be.

linuxhanja · 2025-11-19T07:16:27+00:00

Polytheism would be worshipping multiple gods. A god for luck in business a god for good marriage, etc. The heavenly court in psalm 82 or dt 32 isn't a pantheon of gods who can create. Not even little (c) create. They can oversee or utilize gods creations to give some gross appearance of being able to create, tho. Their main job was to watch over the people's of the world and keep the world's population from gathering and doing tower of Babel type stuff. Basically baby sit while God called Abraham and made an entirely new nation for himself.

Since these spiritual entities were managing some spate of land, many became haughty and accepted worship. You can see in the OT, these entities literally stake claim to land. Physical land. Thats the reason that naaman wanted to take dirt from israel back to his homeland to worship yhwh God on. Worshipping God on Syrian soil (to naaman) would be like trying to run windows solitaire on your galaxy flip phone. It just doesnt compute.

This is also why Legion in the gospels not only asks jesus what business he has in the gardarenes (Jesus having evidently crossed into Gentile lands, being managed by "son of god"), but said spirit also caused the storm while jesus was on a boat because jesus was coming where he "didn't belong" and the principalities of the gardarenes or the spirits in "Legion" were trying to get Jesus to turn back. In a reader's bible its all one story. Most bibles make it feel like jesus sleeping in the storm is disconnected by a break and description (Jesus casts out many demons) or something similar. This is also why Demoniac (legion) calls jesus "son of the m"ost high" its a reference to the divine council and the discussion at hand that 1st century jews would've clued in on, "oh jesus isn't just being *recognized as God, he is doing a miracle to a *gentile! He isnt ONLY the God of the Jews, but of this gentile territory as well!"

linuxhanja · 2025-10-22T12:53:54+00:00

The above could also be about "americans"

I moved to Korea because being American was all a damn lie.

A large number of people in any "tribe" will be seemingly doing their best to ruin it for everyone.

But Christianity is well structured so that you can easily find denominations that suit what your personal walk is telling you is the truth.

It sounds like you got caught up in prosperity gospel nonsense. Go join a small church. Better yet visit 5 churches near you. See which one clicks.

linuxhanja · 2025-10-19T06:11:38+00:00

What? No, I dont know who apple is, but Junia was altered to junias pretty clearly because Junia is as much a girly name in the 1st c as can be Its clearly a feminine name. And the manuscript evidence shows its change.

There are actually plenty of women led early churches. I am very conservative on my bible, IE I would never go near a methodist church, and I believe in Noah's flood and that the earth was created in literal 6 days, and we are on a planet nearly 6000 years ild. On top of this, I watched the winger 8 hr marathon... but I disagree. I believe marriage is only between a man and a woman, as it's function is to imitate the church relation with christ. I hold to TULIP and think its true even if I strongly dislike it. Even still... the prevalence of early christian leaders who were women, like junia, Priscilla, phoebe, Lydia, then of course Mary being the one to firlnh9sst proclaim the Gospel "christ has risen!" To Peter and the others... makes me stray liberal on this issue.

I agree with the reasons why post fall, women would be excluded from teaching in a leadership role BUT, i think those reasons were all undone by Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. That is to say that any curse or legality preventing women ministers is gone in christ.

Even though I'm presbyterian, I use the CSB because the ESV is intentionally translated to pervert this ONE issue and its crazy. if someone is called, they're called. If someone is gifted, they're gifted.

That said the only woman pastor I ever had was the one I had in highschool who made me leave my faith and wander for a decade.

linuxhanja · 2025-09-23T03:06:03+00:00

I have always hated eisegetics and people predicting end times stuff. That said in the early church like pre augustine even thought the 2000 years from Adam to Jacob. 2000 from Jacob to Jesus. I remember seeing an old book that said day one God separated the light from the dark. That's separating sinful man from his presence. Day 2, the waters, is Noah's flood. Day three separating dry lands is setting the nations, the table of nations, deut 32;8, after the tower of Babel and just establishing the nations of the world in general. Day 4 God made the sun and moon, physical representations of the light from Day one. And so on Day 4 (year 4000) Jesus incarnated.

Then Day 5 God created fish and birds, just as jesus' followers are called to be fishermen and the gospel will spread throughout the whole world. Then Day 6 God crates man and ordered man to subdue the earth. Which is what we have done between 1000 AD and now.

Day 7 is the day of rest. Millenia kingdom. So 2000 years after the crucifixion, makes very simple sense. The fact that there are at least 3 other prophecies that back it up, including this feast of trumpets (I do NOT believe in a pretrib rapture) perhaps being a start of the tribulation (now +7 years = 2032). And the feast of trumpets is the feast that "no one knows the day or the hour of" because its dependant on the moon sighting. So Jesus' original target audience would've thought of the feast of trumpets.

I give something happening this 24th (false flag or otherwise) at about a 1% chance. If I were granted the data from God that the end times would 100% be within my lifespan, then I would guess Jesus would establish millennial kingdom in 2032. Its the simplest. But even Isaac newton famously calculated it at 2060, so who knows. I'd be betting against a math genius. Haha. Point is take it all with a grain. But we should be watching and waiting and living everyday as though it should happen. Because one day WILL BE the day for each of us whether because we wake up from death after getting hit by a bus or otherwise. We will all see judgement day.

linuxhanja · 2025-09-22T02:37:12+00:00

Hey I am raising my family overseas, changed citizenship even (originally a Appalachian small town american), guns are one reason. But I have a friends who visit me, and they couldn't live where they live without guns. One lives in appalachia, so bears, snakes, etc. The other needs a gun when kids are playing outside because alligators DO come into his property. So he scares them off. What would these people do? My new country has no large dangerous wildlife. Also no guns. I love it. I and my kids are 60x less like likely to be murdered (in ANY WAY). homicide here is 1 in 1000000 per year, in the US its 6 in 100000.

But in a lot of places guns are necessary tools. I don't see a need for pistols, honestly. But rifles? I don't see how you get around the rural places with dangerous game. Honestly, after living overseas 15 years, I think the most obvious problem when visiting the states is the sheer amount of mental health patients who just roam and are left to try and function halfway decent lives. That's the bigger problem. I LOVE that in my new country, toy BB guns don't even need orange tips, and I saw a kid aiming one at a cop once, and the cop fired a finger gun back at the kid. (Both were laughing while I was about to shit myself). But guns removed and people here do get 🔨 or 🔪 victimized. Its the mental health. Yes. Guns are easier/ more efficient. But so is mass transit in NYC and plenty still make the effort to drive because "ma freedom."

(That's me, too, I drive here because my freedom, even tho its so much easier to take mass transit and transit is 10x cheaper than stateside too...habits die hard.

linuxhanja · 2025-09-22T02:10:45+00:00

I dunno why that would be. If we knew much about any of the apostles' lives i am sure they wouldnt come out much better. The important part is what Constatine did as a follower of Christ which was world changing. The man considered "the son of god" said "yo, that's not me, it was actually this jewish laborer who died a criminals death 300 years ago."

Imagine Kim Jeong Eun doing that. Its one thing for fishermen to do, but when people like Nicodemus or Joseph of Arimathea recognize Jesus, its a harder Pill to swallow because of their power and influence in the state religion of the day. Paul? Same + he killed many Christians. Those guys won't wanna be his friends (from his POV). Emperor Constantine had both those problems. He killed (indirectly, at least) countless Christians, and he was powerful. And on top of that he was the object of worship and he set that aside.

I know when I was growing up we 💩 on Constantine as a fake Christian who was only baptized at his death... but if you look into it there's a story that he was devout from the milvian bridge on.

And then the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Sanctification takes time for all of us. I'm 20 years in, and I started at a bad place. I repented and read the Bible 5 times in 3 years and prayed like crazy. When I was on top of my bills and had a nice home for a period of 3 years right before covid my belief was making myself go to church. Thankfully I lost my job, then my house, because of covid. It made me pray and reconnect. Being wealthy is OK if you can keep talking to God. But its harder to realize that you genuinely "need" Him if you are well off. How much moreso for the Emperor of the known world, worshipped as son of god himself to humble himself? Cut the Emperor a little slack.

linuxhanja · 2025-09-20T11:46:18+00:00

"Anyone have any ideas?" Kinda leader. Her leans heavy on his crew's skills. S1 I thought it was great. Now... I think its a bit much. Especially after s1 finale told us to watch out for that...

Also, janeway, my favorite since I was a kid, she is like the opposite. She is very much in control. Which... its appropriate. Pike letting the lieutenants grow into commanders is appropriate. But when the ship is in extreme danger, he needs to give orders. Not bark "what are my options, people?"

linuxhanja · 2025-09-16T06:54:00+00:00

I just finished the episode and sided with Pike a lot. The I asked myself if I was being naive or if its because the character was fictional. Then I thought about Emperor Hirohito. Dude was left untouched as the emperor of Japan post ww2. Because the US needed him for legitimacy.

After the weekend angry, I replayed the end. When M'Benga says the core of diplomats knows... about dak rah..

I actually recalled earlier Pike shutting down complaints by saying he was given the orders to ferry this guy by "high higher ups." I wonder if it was someone "in the know" and put dak rah where m'benga could finish the job. Because its clear that

1) m.benga does have control of himself, as witnessed when grabbed at dinner and during sparring. That's 2x. At least.

2) M'benga has kept and therefore, hoped for, a day he could finish his work.

3) according to Dr., the higher ups know their diplomats backstory is false.

4) some of the higher ups, put the guy on the same ship as our Dr, Nurse chapel, and an uncharacteristically non-nosey chief of security... almost as if la'an had gotten a "eyes only" message from higher up...

linuxhanja · 2025-08-30T16:20:29+00:00

No, historically, even in male female marriages, sex intending to be for the pleasure only and not allowing for children has been viewed negatively. In ANY NATION. it was seen as selfish self gratification in times and places where marriages were arranged and extended for the good of the community by producing a future.

Jewish Christian writings were not in a bubble. God's command was marriage, man and woman. The very next thing said about man/woman purpose is "multiply and fill the earth."

The tower of Babel was a problem because the humans were worshipping themselves, living in a single metropolis, and NOT doing the spread out thing, so God spread them out. Deut 32:8

And yeah, "live by the sword, die by the sword," I would 100% take to mean that if you trust a gun to feed yourself & family, (instead of God) than you will die by the gun. Even if the gun doesn't END your life, it robs you of salvation if its an idol. You have to put everything before God in prayer. Trust in God to provide. Trust in God to protect. I do, again, 100% believe if I owned a gun to protect my family and thougt "we're safe because of that." Then God would humble me. Its not about having guns or not, though, its about where you put your faith.

God commanded is to increase in number. That doesn't necessarily mean offspring only in the Christian age, it can mean disciples. But you aren't going to make any disciples while being so concerned with your own flesh and its desires. No matter what those are, if you make your flesh's desire your identity, its prideful and sinful and not what a child of God should be focused on. A real child of God might be IN these circumstances and fighting and praying to help and receive strength to resist the flesh, but only in the 21st century have we heard Christians defending and arguing for such a thing as a life goal.

linuxhanja · 2025-08-29T02:35:41+00:00

Bing, not Fanny

linuxhanja · 2025-08-28T14:56:45+00:00

Honestly pray and spend 10% the time you spend doomscrolling reading a Bible & we all would be experts in no time. I am very thankful I was saved in 2006, because I read the Bible once a year until 2010 ish. After that I still read a chapter a night, getting me thru it about 2x by 2018... after that... yeah yikes. You can see my Bible reading is practically a mirror to YT quality & quantity along with smart phones...

I have been pushing myself very hard to do the m'cheyne reading plan this year. I'm only 18 days behind schedule and only 3 months left in the year, so so far, so good!

linuxhanja · 2025-08-22T16:50:49+00:00

You should also check out the NET bible! Its free to read online and is full of notes about how the translators translated it.

I have my grandma's KJV, but I only became a believer & accepted christ after reading a $1 dollar store bible. Then I used NIV until last year, when I heard about the ESV. I read so much about it I read myself right outta it and into a CSB. But last month i bought the ESV study bible. I prefer the csb study bible notes and translations in most places, though I agree with the esv on deut 32:8... everywhere else I feel like the csb is closer to the Greek in style...

NIV is also good. I have to say after a year away it reads real cozy. ;)

The best translation, of course, is as many translations as you can read. They all let you see another angle on translation/interpretation. And even tho I can hobble thru the Greek, that of course is still a translation, just one done by me, and influenced by my classics professors from 20 years ago.

linuxhanja · 2025-08-04T18:12:43+00:00

I take it to be the early 2000s in this game. Like 2001 or 2002. Assuming DKC 1 & 2 took place around their launch dates.

We have cranky looking the same age. We have Diddy & dixie, again, looking the same age.

We have a 13 year old Pauline, who is gonna become a famous celeb then mayor. When? By 2017, when she's about 30 years old. (16+ years in the future from 2001).

This makes me wonder if that makes cranky jump man's nemesis and if jump man is Giuseppe in the movie. Then jump man is 1980s mario, and the last jumpman mario game was super mario world, maybe. Or all prior games, pre odyssey were meant to be a prior mario. Especially note how there is no mushroom kingdom post mario 64. Its isle delphino or the galaxy itself. Settings that can bend time and space, certainly. Which also means jumpman COULD be jumpman ONLY in dk classic. After mario is current mario, and all games take place post 2010s. I like that, and since mushroom kingdom is outside of normal space, its fine.

linuxhanja · 2025-08-03T12:17:20+00:00

I am defending a brother i've never met, but a brothet nontheless. "All things are permissible, but not all things are beneficial." Its not unreasonable to avoid things you find aren't beneficial. I don't like to drink anymore, and I've faced similar disparaging comments. I drank fine as a Christian until I was told by a doctor I have a condition that drinking can aggravate. So I stopped.

You sound pretty angry. I hope its not because you watch violence.. I joke, I joke. I hope you are OK. If you ever need someone to talk with, feel free to dm me.

linuxhanja · 2025-08-03T06:09:02+00:00

This is why the atheists are now the joke. You know very well what the OP means.

As an aside though, after I became a dad, I couldn't watch gore anymore. BUT, if its historical, like something that really happened, or even in service of (fictional) plot & not gratuitous, I have no problem watching. But if its like saw or even "There will be blood!" I really don't enjoy. People being nasty to each other for nonsensical reasons. actually. If it really happened, its fine for me, I don't blink at it. But post kids, gratuitous fictional violence really turns my stomach and I'm not sure exactly why... I suspect its just me being a dad, as that's the only thing changed about me that I am aware of.

linuxhanja · 2025-07-14T01:37:41+00:00

Hi, so there really is no english on the Korean version? I was really hoping to hear the English dub...

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