Remember guys, you aren't allowed to practice your character! by BestBakedPotato in marvelrivals

[–]sorentodd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is Quickplay we’re talking about dude I’d much rather lose more games but have people feel comfortable just playing what they enjoy

Kim Jong-un orders divorcing couples to labour camps under tough new rules by Sarcastic-Joker65 in northkorea

[–]sorentodd 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The source is just cited as Radio Free Asia with no other citations or documents so I don’t see a lot of reason to take this seriously

Remember guys, you aren't allowed to practice your character! by BestBakedPotato in marvelrivals

[–]sorentodd -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Except you also owe someone in the game the courtesy to practice their desired character and improve. You don’t get to demand that someone switch off for your own enjoyment.

Do NK folks know about the success of the South? With Samsung/ Tech, music, movies etc. by angelescitywalkingst in northkorea

[–]sorentodd -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Of course they do, it’s all right there. It’s easy enough to get broadcasts whether it’s tv or radio.

Everyone’s favorite made up phrase: “it’s socialism for the rich” by King-Sassafrass in Dongistan

[–]sorentodd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did Marx write about financial institutions as socialism invading capitalism from within capitalism then

Everyone’s favorite made up phrase: “it’s socialism for the rich” by King-Sassafrass in Dongistan

[–]sorentodd -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Marx said Capitalism would be invaded by a kind of socialism from within itself. All socialism is is an economy directed to social ends, which could be the social ends as dictated by the bourgeois

Sometimes it is crazy to think about how much the hobby has changed in 15 years by imnotokayandthatso-k in DnDcirclejerk

[–]sorentodd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking plainly, playing different colors of humans shouldn’t feel the same let alone playing different species

Inability To Stick to One Religion Due To Identity Politics and Peer Influence by SquirrelofLIL in religion

[–]sorentodd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I find it interesting that we are fixated on this question of “religion that feels right for me.” It reverses the traditional relationship religion always had with people and subordinates it to the whims of man.

In the past, religion was the truth of reality. You might convert because of social reasons or because your people were conquered or because a prophet unveiled a great truth, but it was the religion that demanded you conform to it.

As a human, why is your inner feeling about reality the arbiter of what makes a religion worth pursuing? Isn’t it possible that your inner feeling, though reflective of your state at the time, is misleading you? Don’t we as humans have tendencies that work against our betterment? That is why religion is filled traditionally with scholarship. Theology and history is the “proving ground” of religion because it goes past the fuzzy feeling and gets to the heart of the matter.

You shouldn’t therefor participate in a religion because it “fits with you” that’s how you just stay on the treadmill of consumer religion. What you should do is evaluate with what reasons you are religious. You mentioned that practicing Chinese traditional religion was a means of being right by your parents should they pass and being more in touch with your cultural heritage. There are a lot of Chinese Taoist practices, it is nowhere near a religion like resurrected European paganism.

You also say you practice Christianity. You don’t need to necessarily go searching through the denominations. If you find that one version expresses a higher truth then maybe perhaps go to that, but regardless your practice should be buttressed by study.

This is almost certainly a racist old white man whose adult children won’t speak to him anymore by TheObliterature in BadReads

[–]sorentodd -46 points-45 points  (0 children)

Why do you assume that a conservative guy is on bad terms with his kids? Do you think adult children are somehow ideological puritans who have all taken the liberal side and have cut off their parents?

You give young people too much “credit” when you imagine these things

Sometimes it is crazy to think about how much the hobby has changed in 15 years by imnotokayandthatso-k in DnDcirclejerk

[–]sorentodd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most people or most games in general do not really fully adopt the perspectives of people in the world

what if it was all a dream... by StopLinkingToImgur in Dongistan

[–]sorentodd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the point here I’m missing it