#BACK INTO THE FIGHTING GAME MINES

[grim-reapings]

HAPPY UNDER NIGHT CELES DAY!!!!!

#uni2 #inbirth #unib #under night #under night in birth #uniclr #my art #gordeau #BACK INTO THE FIGHTING GAME MINES #chaos #sorry chaos king i forgot to tag you in here at first my mind fixated on funyn scythe man

[misspickman]

My unpopular bg3 opinion is they tried way too hard to make some of these characters mean and flippant which is meant to make the player more interested in them and clearly this has worked on many (good for you !) but personally i could not care less. If 80% of what a character has to say to me is bitchy i will simply leave them at camp for most of the game

#Is this a skill issue of mine yeah maybe. I just find it annoying #At best and off-putting at worst like is there no better way to show that shadowheart is going through stuff/have her be mean that isnt #Her getting pissy that you have respect for a bunch of dead slaves #That was wild. I didnt ask her either she just had the need to let me know she thinks these slaves aint shit bc they didnt fight back #Thanks larian! #Wild take maybe idk but i dont think that makes her interesting i think it makes her off-putting. In this case #I generally like shadowheart this just sure is a thing to have her say. And not give the player an option to respond in any way #Ill get over this single line but im mad now. This isn't the only instance of this #I guess both larian and bioware think that characters thinking slavery is kinda ok is not a deal breaker #Txt #I know that these characters soften during the game. I have played a fair amount of it. I did shadowhearts quest i know whats up. Still #In both her and astarions case i think theyre written to have some wild takes on whats Ok to do that get kinda swept under the rug #if you manage to shove them in a Good direction. But u dont. Actively see them grapple with any of it #They just suddenly go wow im better now. Yay. I suddenly dont want to enslave other people for my power (in astarions case) #Like this switch flipped bc of my one roll? Idk. Im not super convinced #I know this is how the game works. I just think it could have been written better

[perilegs]

i cut several inchess of my hair off (it reached past my shoulders now its back at like. chin/neck length) and no one at work has said anything bc it still looks the exact same

#i went from having hair a bit longer than galebg to like. oh god. raphaelbg.... #but like. with cutting off so much hair + finally gettkng actual proper layers #i havent had a long hair haircut yet i just had whatever my short hair grew into #+ my hair being so much less heavy. it curls more which is fun! #also!!! i can wear my hair back (like the beforementioned characters) instead of just down if i want to bc #i wont be fighting against gravity so much so thats!! fun!!! #also I didnt cut it. i asked a friend of mine to do it #and. tjis is so embarrassing. i showed her a pic of gale and was like. layers. like him. but shorter so my hair is that length in like #january #and she was like on it boss #and bc her and i share one braincell she cut it EXACTLY like i wanted her to #10/10 experience. i usually leave barbershops never wanting to return ever again #leevi talks #sorry for using video game men as hair reference its just they have the same style and texture as my hair so its easy #to compare + theyre known characters so #yknow #i didnt get a haircut bc of them #gale has leevi hair not the other way around #OH ALSO now that my hair is a bit shorter i match with my bestie (who was the one to cut my hair) #so thays so fun too!! #except she has bangs and i dont

[lovesomehate]

Travis+Laura moments (out of order) 23/?

#first time I saw him flinching back I thought it had to do with Maxy being a werewolf #but after seeing him with his mum it hit me #it was just his involuntary reflex kicking in and now this just makes me super depressed #travis hackett #laura kearney #max brinly #the quarry spoilers #the quarry game #the quarry #travislaura #travisxlaura #mine #also the way he closes his eyes after she leaves holy fuck #it does things to me #I would fight his whole family for him gakgjdjgjshns #no wonder the man didn’t even flinch when ma died

[tjerra14]

Horizon Forbidden Critters, pt. 3

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw photomode #this time featuring some old friends #a new foes #looking at you carp #i did say i'm not a fan of the fox design #yet somehow foxes are now the pixel animal i have the most pics of #followed by owls and pigeons #and maybe raccoons #i found out there's squirrels in this game today #because one apparently got exploded in a fight today #but i wasn't even aware they existed??? #i thought they'd stayed in the cut with ikrie #(her adopting a tiny injured squirrel and nursing it back to health) #(and having it steal tiny things from other people on her travels with aloy) #(is a hc of mine that i hold very dearly) #(if ikrie ever had pets) #(or pet-like companions) #(it would be a scorcher named pebble) #(and a squirrel named scorcher)

[queenlucythevaliant]

Why did God harden the Pharaoh’s? I’m in a Bible as Lit class and someone brought up “wouldn’t that be against free will,” and why did God let the Israelites stay it in slavery for so long. Why is God different in the Old Testament to the New Testament? I hope this doesn’t bother you, with all these questions

Okay, so there are several different questions here and I'm going to try to address them all. I'm sure I'll miss something somewhere, so other more knowledgeable friends feel free to add on. Follow-ups are also very much welcome.

First off, Bible as literature class! Yikes. I took a Bible as lit class for my English minor years ago and my experience was pretty much wall-to-wall frustration. It was mostly an exercise in coming up with the most transgressive reads on Scripture possible and that really upset me.

I hope that your experience is better than mine. However, assuming that the class is at a secular university, I'd still encourage you to be intentional about talking the things you cover in class over with knowledgeable Christians in your life. I certainly benefitted a lot from doing so, both in the sense that I got to vent a whole bunch and in that I got help contextualizing the secular perspectives within Christian scholarship.

That out of the way: The God of the Bible is the same in both the Old and New Testaments.

I do understand where you’re coming from. It’s not uncommon for people to find God kind of inscrutable in the OT when they're more used to reading the NT. I actually think that's a failure on the part of the contemporary church in the West; large swaths of the OT tend to be understudied among lay-Christians.

Systematic theology can help a lot here. I'm just going to hit a few really broad highlights, but I really can't recommend Wayne Grudem highly enough if you're interested in more in-depth reading. Lots of people start with Bible Doctrine, but my family happened to have a copy of his enormous Systematic Theology tome in the basement when I was in high school and I got a lot out of just poking through that a little at a time too. A few quick bullets though:

Across all the Biblical texts, God is love. He glories in kindness to his people, whether it's in the covenant with Abraham, the Exodus, the faithful ministry of the prophets, Christ's ministry/death/resurrection, or the promised coming of his kingdom.

God is holy; he gives the Law to the Israelites so that they can approach his holiness without fearing for their lives and he sent Jesus so that we can do the same. Both Isaiah and Peter react with fear and awe in the face of God's holiness.

God is just. By virtue of his holiness, he cannot allow sin to go unpunished. As modern westerners, we often chafe against this but has any of us experienced justice that was actually pure? Justice is a form of faithfulness, and the same God who sent his people into exile poured out his wrath on his own son in our place. He has promised that one day, every evil will face his perfect justice.

God is faithful. He keeps his Covenant with Abraham even unto the cross. In the OT he is faithful husband to an adulterous people. In the NT he tells us that when we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

Lots of other characteristics but this answer is going to be long enough as it is. The only way to get a real sense for the continuity within the Bible is to read the whole Bible with an eye towards the continuity.

The reason that God is more approachable in the NT than the Old is that he became human. In the Incarnation, all of that holiness and justice and faithfulness and love that was God came to earth in our perfect likeness so that he could live beside us and die for us. God is certainly easier to approach in light of Christ's work, but he is utterly the same as he ever was. Read the Transfiguration and tell me that isn’t the God of Mount Sinai. Read John 1 and tell me it doesn’t remind you of the end of Job. Read the Gospels, Hebrews, and Revelation and play spot-the-OT-parallel. It's beautiful.

Why did God leave his people in slavery for so long? You could ask the same question about the Babylonian captivity and even about why Jesus waits to return and finally defeat Death. Why does he wait? Why let his people suffer?

Well. God is sovereign and he only permits evil to the extent that it ultimately accomplishes the very opposite of what it intends. Because the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, the Exodus was able to occur. The Exodus glorified God in extraordinary fashion, both among his own people and to the peoples of the ancient world. It was also a necessary type and precursor to Jesus's work on the cross. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that redemptive history rests on God's work in the Exodus, which is itself contingent on a period of slavery in Egypt.

“How long, O Lord” and “Come Lord Jesus” are the same sentiment in different words. We are still in exile, even now. We are chronologically exiled from the place where we belong, the New Jerusalem, and we mourn because we live in a fallen world in which sin and death can still hurt us. We can ask, just as the Prophets once asked, why God waits to vanquish the Enemy, extract suffering from the world, and restore our years that the locusts have eaten. And in each case (the slaves in Egypt, the Babylonian captivity, and the period of waiting for Jesus to return), the answer is that God does not fix it yet because He is doing something bigger!

Regarding Pharaoh's heart: this is basically a question of human nature. The easiest way that I can articulate it off the top of my head is using Augustine's fourfold state of man:

Prior to the fall, man was able either to sin or not to sin (posse peccare, posse non peccare)

The natural state of man after the fall is one in which he is unable not to sin (non posse non peccare). This was Pharaoh's state.

Following the work of Christ, regenerate man is able not to sin (posse non peccare)

In eternity, glorified man will be unable to sin (non posse peccare)

When we talk about man's will, we must acknowledge that our wills are subject to our nature. In other words, Pharaoh was a natural, fallen man. His nature was inherently sinful and his heart inherently hard.

What we've got here is sort of a "Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated" situation. Pharaoh, in his natural state, had a hard heart and a natural enmity with God. God did not intervene to give him a heart of flesh. My people I have loved, but Pharaoh I have hated.

Not a perfect parallel, but I think it serves its purpose. The point is that God's sovereignty isn't in conflict with man's will, since our wills are a function of our natures. Man behaves however his nature inclines him to behave at any given time. We call this free will; however, God is entirely sovereign over all of it.

This is definitely a long, messy answer, but like I said, feel free to continue the conversation. I've got some biochem to work on, but I'm always happy to talk theology :)

#Secular Bible as lit classes really are a quagmire #mine was basically where I decided that I straight up do not care what non-Christians have to say about the Bible #(in the scholarship sense I mean) #if you don't have skin in the game then i couldn't care less what you think on authorship/characterization in genesis/weird subversive take #on ruth/Job being internally inconsistent/God's gender/the purpose of the parables/whatever other nonsense #sigh #and like. i had a good theological grounding to be able to push back on the BS nine times out of ten #my prof actually called me the most engaged student she'd ever taught which was pretty hilarious #but i was FURIOUS on behalf of the other Christians in the class who by and large had relatively shallow foundations as far as i could tell #like one girl was seriously doubting whether God was good when we did the prophets because of the way it was presented #i went to the prof's office hours one time to pick a fight (long story) and she told me that she's had numerous students over the years #that renounced their faith after taking her class #i spent the whole semester praying for all the names on the class roster #ugh i could rant about that class forever #meanwhile! no discussion of the ACTUAL literary merits of the Bible which are awesome! #the poetry the reoccurring motifs the deft use of metaphor the beautiful elevation of theology to art #i wanted to talk about that! #and that wasn't what the class was about #this was years ago and i'm still mad. sorry #maybe that'll be a separate post one of these days #ask me hard questions #only thou art holy

[aintgonnatakethis]

current obsession: roleplay-heavy micro-management of my family tree in Total War: Medieval 2

#this is my childhood comfort game and comes back around every few years #(the level of incest i allow would 100% get me cancelled if i were a big blog 😂) #i'm just so much more interested in the family dynamics and the individual characters than the actual fighting lol #which means the new total war games sadly don't do it for me :( #and no crusader kings is waaaaaaay too much #not to mention the time goes by too slowly #i want hundreds of years to pass so i can get a really good family tree going #AND CK doesn't allow you to choose who family members outside of your main court get married to! #i don't think you understand how much i want to MICRO-MANAGE #video games #total war #mine

[todayisafridaynight]

God that reminds me I was writing this longass reply to when you were comparing MineDai to AraSawa and part of it was basically like. Hear me out but While I've Concluded MineDai Should Not Be Parents For Various Reasons… If they were. Non-zero chance the kid could plausibly turn out like Masato 😭😭😭like spoiled and entitled “wait ’til my FATHER(S) hear about this” nepo baby who can’t connect with either dad and actively resents at least one while taking advantage of their familial ties and living a life of (financial) privilege just sounds about right I'm sorryyyyyyyyy

So it was funny to me because just as AraSawa is MineDai With Dads… perhaps MineDai is AraSawa Without Kids… and AraSawa is the alternate, still-doomed timeline…

its only natural that if arasawa is Minedai But Dilfs then minedai inversely is Arasawa But. One Of Them Sees Red Around Happy Children

#snap chats #BUT SOOOO true that baby WOULD be masato adjacent tho... its in the cards... #only i imagine that kid's resentment towards mine is like. actually justified probably #i said it months back but i always think that if mine WAS a dad he'd be a lot like my mom #though somehow probably like. 2% calmer. he doesnt yell at you but he will make you feel inadequate about everything you do #money can fix whatever damage he does right <- it will not and in his soul he knows that but he wont acknowledge it #and why should he i mean its just a kid right. //screaming// #OK BUT ALSO DOUBLE FUNNY i thought of making a stupid meme chart of my first impressions of arakawa/sawashiro #vs how id feel bout them throughout the game and then just. The Conclusion Being 'this is minedai but with dads' #as a comedic super simplification of course. theres layers. but also lol #THE FACT THAT SOMETIEMS I DO FIGHT WITH MYSELF ON IF I WANNA EXECUTE AN IDEA WITH MINEDAI OR ARASAWA #IS REALLY FUNNY. theres differences tho dont be fooled.. its not a perfect mirror but its close enough to be hilarious #ive talked way too long ANYWAY. do not let mine around kids hes going to give them trauma just by talking to them #id trust daigo with a kid tho. hes proven he can take care of them..... what a king... #he reads as someone who'd be a lil awkward bout bein a dad tho but now im gettin too into it

[svtskneecaps]

thank you for bearing with my purgatory posting and i'm also glad to see i'm not the only one who still has this fungus eating away at my brain matter. seeing other purgatory posting in the tag makes me feel better lmfao.

i'm not done btw, posting will (probably) continue as i revisit vods. wanted to extend a thanks in the interim, since i know how contentious the event was in the moment. i kinda thought the general consensus was most people hated thinking about it, but there's been a weird amount of engagement and yknow other people talking. makes me happy to know i'm not alone here!

#qsmp #qsmp purgatory #shut up vic #block game brainrot #it also provides me the opportunity to get a new perspective on some moments as well #like watching the jaiden spawnkilling thing the first time i missed some nuance in bbh's tone when he offered to walk her to her body #rewatching i heard them :D #i'll probably rewatch his conversation with slime from the same day at some point to refresh my perspective on that #but i think i'll wait on that; that convo makes me super biased lmfao #i'm aware of my biases at least :D and dw i won't bring old discourse back #tbh i never rly posted discourse much to begin with? just that one list and analysis of time stamps LMFAO #but yea i won't be bringing that back to the tag even if it's back in my brain #i PINKY SWEAR; i'm not one to start fights on posts or blogs that aren't mine #i block and then if i REALLY have something to say i shittalk them into my bathroom mirror #bc i know neither of us are gonna snitch >:D #long tags #it's also nice to look at with the benefit of hindsight and reflection #bc i know everything that happened; i was there watching it live #bolas are unreliable narrators #i'll probably see about going through some of the other team's povs as well just to see #it's interesting is all! and i finally have the time to sink my teeth into it properly #since we aren't having to keep up with like six streams a day #it's been so long sinve this server took a proper breather i'm appreciating it for all it's worth #((yes i wish the circumstances were better but they aren't; we take what we can get lmao)) #ok anyway love u byeeeeeeee purgatory posting will probably continue #i'll tag as appropriately as i can; lmk if there are further tags i should add #i prefer people don't block Me if they hate these; i'll make u a tag to block if u ask i promise <3

[scrambledslut]

i was bored so here’s my stardew valley farmer Remy in all her different outfits using my favorite picrew :3

#she’s married to Harvey and spends almost all her days in the mines fighting monsters #they’re gonna have their first kid soon too 😊 #i’m on year 2 winter😛 #mutuals and non mutuals (basically everyone) pls do this with your stardew farmer OC #and pls tag me if you do i wanna see so bad😛 #OMG ALSO i finally got to level 100 in the skull cavern for the first time ever😛 #been so locked in i accidentally ghosted my boyfriend💀💀 #the first outfit is the with the dinasour hat and pants + a red shirt that matches the red in the hat 😊 #the blue outfit is her winter outfit with the blue bonnet and some random blue pants and a gray shirt #the one with mouse ears is self explanatory imo #and then the last one is almost exactly like her outfit in the game #black cowboy hat and black overalls with a purple shirt 😊 #just started taking my new adhd meds and hopefully i get my will to be creative back so i can make actual art of her 😊😊😊 #stardew valley #picrew

[luhvey-duhvey]

Leave him alone!!

#GET OFF OF HIM YOU’RE EMBARRASSING ME !!!! #I need Roberto to fight back tho #don’t let him talk to you like that #litg #love island the game #love island #litg double trouble #litg s6 #litg mc #litg roberto #litg Elliot #mine

[hollowsart]

if my spiderverse had a game, stealth missions would be a lot of fun, I like creeping around and hiding unnoticed. not even bothering to incapacitate the various enemies littered about, just scuttling about without being spotted while making my way to the destination.

also, imagine.. having Otto as a secondary playable character. his stealth missions would be less like mine for clear reasons, and more like regular spiderman style stealth missions in which he has to incapacitate the enemies as he goes through without being spotted, picking them off one-by-one until he reaches the destination as well.

Lol imagine playing and a cutscene happens and you turn around to see Otto walking in with like 3 guys hanging from his arms, looks over from the arms surprised at you, tosses the guys off screen and retracts his arms like “aha, yes. we’ve made it here safely. no one noticed a thing! haha..” no witnesses.

#Ghostie mumbles #it's 3am and I am having thoughts instead of sleeping. help. #but anyways these are good fun thoughts tho so I can't complain #there's a slight hint of Otto having that 'aren't you tired of being nice' hiding inside him. but he is fighting for his life against it. #and he is mostly winning for the most part..... except on the days in which is mental exhaustion is unstable just enough #it's FINE Tho. it's fine. Adrian and I are able to help him if that happens. #......Game function wise that's like web of shadows and using vulture as transportation until he gets assimilated with a symbiote-- #--and you gotta fight him to free him from it Lol #except Otto has an accident at some point and he ends up being a boss battle like in that one post of mine. he loses his control-- #--and you gotta fight him or fight to get close enough to him to try and help. call back up from Adrian probably.. for tech repairs n stuff #after all. adrian would know that sort of thing better.

[tamarin-opal-eyed]

OOP Tam's a bun now! Long story, will put in the tags, but aside from an adjustment in name/backstory/colors, she's still the same grump.

#tamarin opal-eyed #jesus how many name changes has she gone through lmao #v'tamarin kihb #just for the transition #I spent like uuuhhh all last week really struggling with tam #because I've really wanted to nail down her backstory and develop her more but I don't love how she meshes with the weirdness of suncatte t #and no matter which way I looked at it I couldn't get it to work to my satisfaction so it was starting to feel like a real 'kill your darli #plus I'd been fighting to find things in her color scheme that looked good with her skintone in game etc etc #so in an effort to fall back in love with my character I grabbed another character of mine--a gothy viera made more for ff12 #and I smooshed them together 'cuz they were already pretty similar lmao #so here's tam in bun form! she has opal-y eyes (hence the name) and considers herself unlucky #went from having a complicated mom relationship to a complicated relationship with The Wood ff12 style #I saw someone theorize that 14!viera don't listen to the wood exactly like 12 but more like hearing the elementals in gridania? I like tha #anyway she can't do that lmao so she threw a young person tantrum and left to explore and find new horizons #in just like...so many desert places lmao she's still a desert dweller at heart after going from dalmasca to thavnair to thanalan #but now with a lil more goth hehehe #so while the name and race might've changed at least a lot of her aesthetics and home-feels are the same

[lesbiangiratina]

I might end up reorganizing but i like that these cards are next to each other... the beasts are communicating

#i got too scared to fight a gleeok so im back to the png mines #guys its okay i can get this done cuz this game is scary i have to take breaks anyway #oh yeah and happy 25th bday guilty gear cuz that was today apparently. i dont think anything happened really #give me something cool to chew on... like an artbook. yum #i love images. as you can see. by my trading card madness #the kat goes meow #gg

[mudoran]

TAG DUMP : prince eliezer parzival hyrule II of zelda II : the adventure of link ( original character )

⸻  ELIEZER  :  in character   ✦ this cannot continue / become as gods ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  answered   ✦ gimme your best & i’ll show you scum where you belong  ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  visage   ✦  birth of a wish ; death of a sin .   ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  about   ✦ our ancestors had to fight to survive ; just so we could have a chance of a life . ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  dash games  ✦ i’m living in a grave but i haven’t quit !  ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  muse  ✦ how can it be that even though they see my plight ; everyone is blind !  ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  dash comm.  ✦ night is day & day is night in a world that lost it’s mind  ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  aesthetics  ✦  unto a bug ; a needle …  a needle …   ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  music   ✦  dead mans dreams ; filled with screaming pain .  ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  clothing  ✦  you whine & whine until you die & rot away ! ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  drabble  ✦ the world has gone insane & parasites are eating at my brain    ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  crack  ✦  i did it for the vine  ˎˊ˗

⸻  ELIEZER  :  desires  ✦  i’m taking back whats mine ; it's what i feel is right …  ˎˊ˗

#⸻ ELIEZER : in character ✦ this cannot continue / become as gods ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : answered ✦ gimme your best & i’ll show you scum where you belong ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : visage ✦ birth of a wish ; death of a sin . ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : about ✦ our ancestors had to fight to survive ; just so we could have a chance of a life . ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : dash games ✦ i’m living in a grave but i haven’t quit ! ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : muse ✦ how can it be that even though they see my plight ; everyone is blind ! ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : aesthetics ✦ unto a bug ; a needle … a needle … ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : music ✦ dead mans dreams ; filled with screaming pain . ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : clothing ✦ you whine & whine until you die & rot away ! ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : crack ✦ i did it for the vine ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : drabble ✦ the world has gone insane & parasites are eating at my brain ˎˊ˗ #⸻ ELIEZER : desires ✦ i’m taking back whats mine ; it's what i feel is right … ˎˊ˗

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

At this point like 40% of what i like about the owl house is just shit i made up in my head lmao

#shut up pandora #granted this is a relatively small percentage! #only 50% of what i like about fucking UNDERTALE is the game the rest is my complex network of lore hcs for all the characters #that toby fox then broke my heart by not adhering to 100% in deltarune (love deltarune tho) #actual homestuck makes up 40% of what i like about homestuck the rest is fandom shenanigans and the hypothetical act 6 where it was good #the sequel trilogy to ace attorney too i like it for the hypothetical games that could have been made if the writers were competent #if somethings generally well written enough that the fandom agrees on the themes intended by the author #well it doesnt generate a big enough fandom does it #you gotta rip each other to shreds over slight variations in your interpretatipn bc the author wasnt clear enough #or the author just made bad choices in writing lmao #undertale tho is mostly just the first one the game is too small for any narrative decisions to be truly controversial i think #but anyway everyone has a bit of flanderization they just cant STAND #and some plotpoints they fucking HATED and everyone has different points which is why they fight so much #my intolerance for flanderization is just for the characters ppl flanderize the most #and the plotpoints in toh that i hate happen to be the ones most are ok with or like #bc i am a Contrarian who gets angry when things dpnt go 100% the way i think it ought to i guess #this is to say #everyones opinion of toh is wrong except mine (she says mischaracterizing everyone who isnt her blorbo to the moon and back)