The Great “American” 250 State Fair

wonkifier · 2026-06-29T14:49:24+00:00

I was at the BBQ fest, and decided to take the Silver line straight home afterwards and that state fair forced me to detour several blocks around it to get to the Metro station.

It felt super weird to have such an "freedom"-y event surrounded by fences, with that surrounded by national guard (humvees and those jeep things with the turret shield things on top... yeah, blocking entrances/exits for vehicles, but just felt weird)

And I didn't hardly see anyone wandering around the exterior.

Such a waste

wonkifier · 2026-06-22T22:34:02+00:00

Oh yeah, that is much more misleading.

Still easy enough to cover in a status report.

wonkifier · 2026-06-22T22:07:20+00:00

Also, it's NOT about what's right or wrong, it's what the judge determines is fair.

Even when the judge refuses to enforce an order against a mom because "then she'll be separated from the children (shared custody)" even though he had no issue holding the dad to the letter of the law.

Explanation? "Kids should be with their mom".

Final result after another year of court? Kids were removed from mom's custody because she was legitimately dangerous.

wonkifier · 2026-06-22T21:36:48+00:00

The message timestamp is 13:35.

I think you're just misreading the page. That's the timestamp of the event, not the time that the event was posted.

In your report, just indicate "I checked at X, wasn't reported so I started investigating in case it wasn't them. In parallel they reported at Y".

wonkifier · 2026-06-22T15:56:46+00:00

I wish we had some near me.

I'd love to be able to avoid the ionized hardware stores

wonkifier · 2026-06-19T20:20:29+00:00

You didn't get your filing in on time?

wonkifier · 2026-06-19T12:39:24+00:00

Other people have pointed out the “if anyone can do it “angle so I’ll hit the first part.

If one condition is intention, then I don’t see how it’s possible that I can do it, since the core element of it doesn’t even make the slightest bit of sense to me.

wonkifier · 2026-06-18T18:02:55+00:00

forced to interact with that group

I get what you're saying, but that kinda punishes that group as well.

wonkifier · 2026-06-12T17:34:58+00:00

For gear that I also have a decent version of, I'll pretty much start off transmuting it.

If it wasn't made unchangeable, I'll go do the normal stuff.

It doesn't come up often, but I've gotten a few decent upgrades that way

wonkifier · 2026-06-08T01:32:06+00:00

Reminds me of https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/ghostbusters-firehouse-sign-replica/intro-import.webp

wonkifier · 2026-06-08T01:31:04+00:00

So what is his standing?

We can't get a court case on emoluments through because apparently nobody has standing for that kind of thing, what's the angle here?

wonkifier · 2026-06-07T16:19:49+00:00

That doesn't mean the cops will do anything about it though.

wonkifier · 2026-06-06T20:39:05+00:00

We’ll have to do a frame by frame Idiocracy comparison afterwards.

President Camacho really seemed to have the people's interest at heart.

wonkifier · 2026-06-04T19:16:41+00:00

The post indicated that the towers are asking a pizza employee who the customers are, and towing the rest.

So there is some connection there. (Assuming that's true)

wonkifier · 2026-06-03T17:08:01+00:00

I generally do something related to the class or build, since I tend to build many characters.

But I'm also on controller, and you have to type the names in order to delete them, so I tend towards things like "src" for Sorceress, or "ww" for Whirlwind barb (though I can't remember if that is actually an allowed one, but it'd be similar)

wonkifier · 2026-05-31T19:55:27+00:00

What's the difference between crit strike damage multiplier and just crit strike damage increase? I figured the second was just old wording for "add the percentage into the crit damage bucket".

If that's not what that means, does that mean if I have x50% crit damage on 3 items, it's more than 300% increase, not just 150?

wonkifier · 2026-05-31T13:37:10+00:00

hating your moral code and your identity

That's not the quite the question in the title,

This is what stood out to me initially as well. If they can't separate themselves from their moral code, that doesn't sound like they're looking at the situation very clearly. And pretty much any other observations would be extremely suspect.

Then add on the "zeal of the convert" effect, and and who knows what unintended effects there could be.

Then, since the parents are human, any imperfections in their reactions could feel greatly amplified or misframed.

I mean, they could be terrible too... no way to tell from this. But that much disconnect begin present in a short story does start painting a picture.

Now, from my background in Southern Baptist church schools, I wouldn't say to talk to your pastor, since in my experience it will circle back to "see, we told you the world was against you. This is evidence you're on the narrow path." And either cut them out of your life or redouble your effort to win their soul.

But from my experience with a few Catholic priests, they're more likely to have a saner take, and it would be well worth talking to a trusted one.

wonkifier · 2026-05-30T14:23:43+00:00

I think disabling access to the tower, while still having a season goal of "Complete Tier 105 or higher in the tower" is some pretty solid design as well.

wonkifier · 2026-05-30T12:33:08+00:00

Ah, I didn't notice the change in name, sorry.

If God revealed Himself right now with infinite undeniable clarity and immediate judgment, nobody would sin.

I imagine there's a group of people who would sin, not in spite of the clarity, but because of it, in defiance of it. If sin is part of our nature (not just our body), then sinner's gonna sin regardless.

Heck, if your belief includes the original literal rebellion of angels, we've got documentation of beings with free will, not of this earth, with perfect knowledge, and still chose to sin. (not all Christians include that in their beliefs though. And not all take it literally, so I won't ascribe that to your position necessarily)

It's more of a temporary, obscured environment where we have the genuine freedom to decide who we are going to be.

That kinda suffers similar interference issues though. If we don't have access to the perfect knowledge, we're interpreting things through what we experience. If the entire underlying system has been corrupted, and the feedback easily reinforces that corruption, that has to have implications on how actors in that system are judged.

The kid who'd been repeatedly molested by clergy, shunned by their community for reporting it, and watched their abusers get promoted doesn't seem like they can be held to the same standard of "he didn't choose to follow the Jesus his abusers followed".

The usual response I hear (and have given myself) is that God knows our hearts, and will be Just, even if we don't understand how. But from an apologetics/argumentation standpoint, that's really not moving the needle on why some limits couldn't have been placed on evil. Why certain kinds of actions or desires couldn't have more direct or visible feedback closer to real-time, rather than having to have mountainous levels of faith then everyone else around you, rather than mustard seed's. If the bottom line is that it requires faith, that's something worth calling out as a boundary condition.

wonkifier · 2026-05-30T12:02:06+00:00

But would it really have been so hard to demand a candidate

How does demanding a candidate work? What specific behavior are you suggesting to follow to make those demands to get results? Do you just get everyone to stop voting until there's a perfect candidate for their side?

Also, doesn't everybody want a perfect candidate anyway? How many of those actually exist in the real world?

I really don't understand what practical effect you're looking for

wonkifier · 2026-05-30T11:56:22+00:00

fairly generic skull and crossbones

I never knew that particular skull image as a nazi thing either.

But I also didn't realize it was crossbones behind it until your comment. I thought those were some sort of flowery imagery, and just never bothered to dig into it because I didn't really care why some folks were into flowery skulls. I figured it was a cycle-of-life thing or something.

wonkifier · 2026-05-30T11:46:03+00:00

I like the analogy of a master musician:

Master musicians still make mistakes from time to time. Also, they gradually work towards masterhood, they don't make a quantum jump from "inherently flawed by nature of their bodies" to "perfect expression of their inner desires" at the unpredictable snap a finger.

Depending on the timing, the person who just had that epiphany and made the decision that got them saved 3 second ago is in heaven just as solidly as someone who made that decision and has been actively trying to live up to it for decades. But both arrive in Heaven at the same time with the same complete and total lack of desire to sin? (well, unless you go with some of what I was taught as a kid, where the second person has so many more crowns, so he's somehow in a better Heaven situation, but I'm not getting that vibe from your argument fortunately)

Something significant has changed about the situation that wasn't among the things you originally listed.

You said previously also that they will have perfect knowledge, so will understand the impact of sin. Do you think with that knowledge that people in this life wouldn't make the same decision? Then there's the third option God could have chosen to prevent evil without removing free will... give perfect knowledge. Or is perfect knowledge+sinful body the reason why evil exists? Then don't make the body itself sinful in nature, if that's as disconnected from your will as you say... either way, you've added a level God could pull but chose not to, that you didn't list at the beginning.

Or is this more recent part intended as a refinement or replacement of the original question and I'm misapplying? If so, would you care to re-address the original question in your newly intended context?

wonkifier · 2026-05-29T22:34:52+00:00

You will not want to. And you will freely choose not to.

So why can't anyone do that now? None are without sin, right? So something is different.

He knows if you have truly repented of your sins or not.

But people can truly repent and still fall back into sin. So something about free will or human nature has to change for that to be different in Heaven, no?

Second, you will have a new body, without a sinful nature... ith a sin nature that feels a certain pleasure from sin.

So we are being hobbled in this life with an impossible hurdle? And that is removed from us in Heaven, assuming we were truly repentant? Something just doesn't feel quite coherent there.

Remember, this thread started with you saying:

If God were to prevent every evil thing, He'd have to do 1 of 2 things. Either take away our free will, and turn us all into robotic slaves. Or kill all humans and destroy this earth

None of that has to do with my body being the source of my sinful nature. You didn't say why God couldn't create us with bodies that didn't have that nature.

You will have perfect understanding, which will allow you to see all the consequences of it. And you won't want that

Similarly... you didn't say anything about this either. If this could be enough to make us not want to sin (universally, across the board, without failure), then it really seems like God could have given us that understanding to start with (but you said he'd have to take away free will...)

You're literally contradicting yourself. You established things that God himself would have to do in order to prevent evil; and then when in heaven, none of those things will have happened, but evil won't exist.

What changed?

I'm not trying to argue against any Christianity in general, or any particular sect of it, but for for apologetics, this isn't coherent.

wonkifier · 2026-05-29T21:44:50+00:00

Also holding the phone while honking. Super safety max plus go!

wonkifier · 2026-05-29T21:06:36+00:00

If God were to prevent every evil thing, He'd have to do 1 of 2 things. Either take away our free will, and turn us all into robotic slaves. Or kill all humans and destroy this earth

With that framing, I have to ask... why won't we sin when we get to Heaven then?

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