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let gravity win; freefall | @ailesswhumptober 2023
eschaton [n. last; the end of the world]
“Admiral, Lieutenant Pelera. I’m so sorry, sir, but we need you to come back to base immediately. There’s…been an incident. We’ll explain more in person, but...”
“But?"
“We need you to identify a body.”
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No 12: Character Death & No 25: Nightmares
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note: the death is only in the nightmare, mav is not actually dead! more details on ao3!
#icemav#tom iceman kazansky#pete maverick mitchell#ron slider kerner#top gun#ailesswhumptober2023#fandom#temporary character death#nightmares#brief description of injury#eschaton#let gravity win; freefall#words from lyss#don't mind me posting this at 1:30am lmao
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Die Muskete, 1914
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I PLAYED THREE MORE GAMES TODAY
I’ve just about caught up on my Gencon list now that I’m back to more regular game nights. Today I got three games in the very solid 6-7/10 category, all things that have interesting stuff going on.
Nexus Infernum, like Eschaton later on, are by Archon Games. Archon has a very defined sense of theme with excellent presentation. Even the rules are dripping with flavor text.
In Nexus Infernum players compete to become the most blasphemous necromancer by sending their skelemans to the portals for arcane energies used to commune with demos. Commune with two matching demons of the same tier to form a pact (unlock abilities on your mat) or even find an infernal patron to lend their efforts to your cause. Battle other necromancers’ skelemans to steal their blasphemy (victory points) and gather up energy for big turns or big points.
Nexus Infernum was delightfully light. It did not overstay its welcome. For its scope the game did exactly what it needed to do and was a delightful play for the spooky month. This game is highly influenced by luck. Its a dice roll to summon a new skeleman, its a dice roll to attack, its a dice roll to gather resources, its a roll to see what resources spawn. The game doesn’t have too many ways to mitigate luck, sure you can roll again with some abilities or “roll with advantage” but there’s not much for bumping up the value of a roll. Much of the game is rolling then making a plan from there. If you don’t like games with medium to higher levels of luck this game isn’t for you. If you are enchanted by the game’s presentation I recommend it!
I’m noticing a trend with modern games where they glue together two proven games. This isn’t a bad thing! Ruins of Arnak glues together deckbuilder and worker placement. Eschaton glues together deckbuilder and a Risk-like territory control.
In Eschaton each player heads a cult during the end times. They vie for power across the land searching for artifacts and infernal allies to bolster their ranks and grow their cult as events and omens are revealed. Each turn has four parts: Zeal (draw more cards), Divine (sift through the arcane deck for artifacts, infernal allies, etc), Influence (buy step), and Aggression (board actions like amass cubes and take out enemy cubes). Each region provides points should you have the most cubes there at the end of the game. Some cards from the arcana deck give points as well. Each turn begins with some event or omen (competing goal) to play for.
Eschaton, like Nexus, isn’t the most finely tuned game but it is very fun. Figuring out how all the game pieces work together feels good and since cards don’t have individual abilities just numbers added to each phase sifting through cards to add is never overwhelming. Presentation is also very strong here, I love that if the game ends in a tie everybody loses, someone must WIN.
Its expansion adds asymmetry and a neutral or npc faction. I liked Eschaton! Very grimdark and enjoyable, good theming, and the dominance and omen mechanics force a lot of change through the game to keep people from getting complacent. Its fun!
Decorum is the most passive aggressive cooperative game I’ve played. Each player is a roommate in a shared house with their own personal goals for what the house needs to look like, with the catch being you must be vague about your personal goals. You can say if you like certain changes but you can’t articulate why, showing a clue silently to other players during “family meeting” rounds. There’s multiple colors, types, styles, and kinds of furnishings you work together to set up.
Decorum is set up in campaigns and feels good as a cooperative puzzle. I don’t think the passive aggressive response quite worked out, but as a deduction game its good. Our set had great resin pieces and the game never felt unfair, and we solved our first puzzle with 5-6 turns to spare. For more intense puzzle game enjoyers this will be on the lighter side of things. For myself I had a good time.
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heading to my finals only knowing “0.0636 * (Total R - 100)3”
#david foster wallace#infinite jest#girlblogging#coquette#eschaton#academic aesthetic#finals week#chaotic academia
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3 character portraits from a game I've been loosely designing/thinking about called ESCHATON, a game that is essentially "Evangelion Tactics, with a lite lifesim element". Not (yet) in development mind.
I chose to make the 32x32 sprites conform to the Game Boy palette limitations, so I didn't have to worry about colouring the sprites or similar. Featuring Amaya, Jen (who, for some strange reason insists on being called "James" when around strangers. Or their parents), and the Main character, tentatively named "Kei".
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Jean-Claude WIP
It's Jean-Claude doing her thing!
(yes, i know Jean-Claude’s a male name. she's named after her previous master, a human man)
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Does anyone else think that Christians are gonna go apeshit in the early 2030s? According to historical figures and events mentioned in the gospels, Jesus probably died in the year 30 or 33, so I bet you anything that some right-wing nutjobs are gonna predict the end of the world will come on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2030 or April 17, 2033. It'll be like Y2K or the 2011 rapture, and when nothing happens they'll just shift the goalpost and say "well, actually it'll be Easter 2038," because that one falls on April 25, the latest date possible date it could be. "Ooh, symbolsm! Ooh, finality!" And then they'll say that it'll come in the 2060s or 2070s to coincide with when the gospels were written (my money says they'll pick July 4, 2076; American Christians love making it all about themselves, so when's a better time for Jesus to come back than the tricentennial?)
#2030#2033#end of the world#eschaton#eschatology#jesus#end times#easter#apocalypse#symbolism#prediction
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Omicron and on and on and on and on
What was that 90s song, "Onward ever ever on, destination Eschaton," Shamen or something? Weird how I recall random shit like that but ask me what I had for dinner yesterday and I'm like duhhrrrr... but anyway so yeah Omicron got me.
So that was fucking loads of fun. I've had three vaccinations so far. Time came for the 4th and I was like nah. So would I have caught this if I'd went and had that vaccination? Who knows. Anyway, I felt kinda funky Friday, then Friday night around 2am the fever hit and hit hard. Chills and cold sweat while simultaneously burning up with fever, and my knees and lower back were screaming, what the hell? Took some Target brand Advil, one of the staple take-back-to-japan things I buy when in the US, fever went down. Went to the local PCR test center, result was negative. Hmmm? But then Sunday it was roller coaster fun between normalcy and feverishness, headache, and then the sore throat from hell started. Seriously the worst sore throat I've ever had. So I went to the local outpatient clinic and did the double whammy flu/covid two-for-the-price-of-one test and welliwelliwell, positive. Doc said I probably did the first test too early or the reliability of the test I took was questionable. I don't care which. Told the doc about the sore throat and he was like "ah, omicron!" So he gave me these drops you flip in a glass and then dilute with water and gargle with, check the color of this shit out:
Funky! If I wasn't half out my head at the time I woulda busted out the UV LED flashlight I have and seen if it glowed. Shit worked wonders though. Wife went on full panic mode. Basically sequestered me off in the gear room and forbid me to come out except to use the loo, after which I have to wipe down everything with disinfectant flushable wipes, or to use the shower after everyone else has gone, then she goes in with a spray bottle of bleach and douses the entire bath/shower unit. Gotta wear a mask and plastic gloves when I leave the room. Madness. All this and my older daughter still caught it. Unavoidable really. And I offered to fuck off to a business hotel for the duration but no that costs money. Hmph. Anyway... Hell of a way to end the year.
Yay officer K's spinner from Bladerunner 2049. I've been watching that movie on repeat for the past three weeks now. And the original, both theatrical release and final cut versions, of course. I'm very intrigued by the sound design and soundtrack. They had some serious shoes to fill following Vangelis with the original, but I think they did damn good. I'd love to know what they used as far as synths/softsynths go, effects too. The piano at the start of the film sounds like it was run through an Eventide processor, the H9 and the H3000 I had way back when did stuff like that, reverb and reversed, pitched delays. Super neat but not cheap.
Well I hope you peeps out there had a better end of the year than we're having here right now. Who knows what madness awaits in 2023. More shenanigans for sure. Be well, and remember, слава україні, путін хуйло, йована русня!
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Hot Take: Eschatology is the opiate of the masses.
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Is Paul Teaching an Imminent Eschatology in 1 Corinthians 15:51?
Koine Greek——the language in which Paul wrote his epistles——is interested in the so-called “aspect” (how), not in the “time” (when), of an event. First Corinthians 15:51 does not suggest specifically when the rapture & the resurrection will happen. And it strongly suggests that the plural pronoun “we” is referring to the dead, not to the readers who, by contrast, are alive in Corinth. The argument, therefore, that 1 Corinthians 15:51 is referring to an imminent eschatology is not supported by the original Greek text. What is more, if we compare the Pauline corpus with the eschatology of Matthew 24 & 2 Peter 3:10, as well as with the totality of scripture, it will become quite obvious that all these texts are talking about the distant future!
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#Paulineeschatology#preterism#realizedeschatology#thelittlebookofrevelation#koine greek#PaulineCorpus#historicalcriticism#parousia#historicalgrammaticalmethod#futurism#paul the apostle#futureeschatology#Τομικροβιβλιοτηςαποκαλυψης#resurrection#Biblicaleschatology#bibleprophecy#textual criticism#KoineGreekgrammar#inauguratedeschatology#rapture#parsingkoineGreek#EK#lastdays#dayofthelord#eschaton#bible study#ελιΚιτιμ#imminenteschatology#EliKittim#theology
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[Album of the day] Eschaton - Sentinel Apocalypse
Providence, RI // 2015 // Unique Leader Records
[Genres] tech death, deathcore
[Themes] space and shit (cosmic metal)
[FFO] Nile
[Thoughts] Really solid tech death stylings and tireless deathcore. Just a whisper of Nile worship as well. Makes me want to play Starcraft.
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[From the band/label]
A theological term that refers to the world during the post historic era of God’s overt apocalyptic reign, immediately preceding the end of the world, ESCHATON was founded in 2007 near Providence, Rhode Island and manifests a uniquely belligerent, stand-alone sound that’s at once harsh and procedural yet wholly-enthralling. Featuring vocalist Jason Viteri, guitarist brothers Joshua and Jared Berry, bassist Pat Pattison and drummer Darren Cesca (Pillory, Arsis, Goratory, Incinerate), Sentinel Apocalypse was captured at Cesca’s House Of Grind Studios in southern Connecticut and supplies eleven tracks of some of the most visceral and unrelenting sounds the collective has ever composed. Rife with surgically precise guitar sweeps, debilitating drum work and enough vocal venom to collapse a population, Sentinel Apocalypse is fit for devotees of the maniacal craftings of Carnifex, The Faceless, Necrophagist, The Black Dahlia Murder and Beneath The Massacre.
#album#full album#album of the day#Bandcamp#music#underground artist#underground music#tech death#technical death metal#deathcore#Eschaton#unique leader records#cosmic metal#underground metal
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#DailyDevotion Come LORD Jesus & Deliver Us
#DailyDevotion Come LORD Jesus & Deliver Us
Psalm 83 O God, don't keep silent; don't be quiet, O God, and fail to act. 2Your enemies are raging, and those who hate You hold their heads high. 3They discuss shrewd plots against Your people and plan against those You treasure.
The psalmist is calling on God to deliver His people. It seems very urgent. The enemies of God's people are God's enemies also. God and His people are one. Their enemies are ramping up to attack His chosen people. Judah looks weak and seems a prime candidate to attack and plunder. Because of this he calls upon God to not be silent and quiet or fail to act. All God needs to do is speak the word and His people will be safe. So too, Jesus, because He is the LORD, during His visible ministry among us in the flesh, often just spoke the word and people were healed and set free from oppression by illness, demonic oppression or even death.
4They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation, so no one will remember Israel's name any longer." 5All of them agree on their plan and make an alliance against You: 6Edom's tents and Ishmael's descendants, Moab and Hagar's descendants, 7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and those who live at Tyre; 8Assyria also has joined them, becoming an arm of Lot's descendants. (Music)
Who is plotting against them? Their closest relatives are! Edom is Isaac's son. Ishmael is Abraham's son by Hagar. Moab and Ammon are Lot's kids by his daughter (Lot was Abraham's nephew). These all plot against their cousin with Israel's ancient enemies and their newest enemy from Assyria. Being jealous of Israel's inheritance they conspire together at this weak time in Judah's history to plunder them.
Perhaps then we should not be surprised when those closest to us conspire against us, either religiously or familiarly. Jesus tells us not to get revenge. Paul reminds us to let God get revenge for us. We are to overcome evil with good.
9Do to them what You did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at the brook Kishon, 10who were destroyed at Endor and became fertilizer for the ground. 11Make their noblemen like Oreb and Zeeb, all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunnah.
He recalls how the LORD gave them the victory in the past. He asks Him to do the same now. When we feel like we are being attacked, we should remember Jesus' victory over sin and death when He was crucified and risen from the grave for us. We should remember how He conquered temptation in the wilderness for us and ask Him for the victory over our spiritual battles.
12They said, “We'll take God's pastures for ourselves.” 13O my God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff the wind blows away. 14As a fire burns a forest, as flames set ablaze the hills, 15so hunt them down with Your storm and terrify them with Your tornado. 16Let their faces blush with shame when they seek Your name, O LORD. 17May they be ashamed and terrified forever and perish in disgrace. 18Then they will know that You Whose name is the LORD —- that You alone are high over all the earth.
The Church has its enemies in the world. We pray the LORD here to do for the Church what He has promised to do on the Last Day. He will overcome the world, the nations with all its leaders who conspire against Him and His people. He will judge them and wipe them out. They will finally, against their will, acknowledge Christ as LORD and receive their judgment in the Lake of Fire.
Heavenly Father, give us strength when we are attacked spiritually and by the world. Come LORD Jesus and deliver us from all evil. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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A short gamedev retrospective for my first solo-released game, Eschaton, a surreal lowpoly walking simulator set in Scotland.
The video goes into detail for development, stats, earnings etc. Going to start using tumblr again (I miss it) so will follow other developers, etc!
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De Kiefer Beleving II
Indrukwekkend, overweldigend, gigantisch!!! Hoe superlatief wil je 't hebben? Je moet er eigenlijk heen, maar hier doet Toos van Holstein in haar blog TOOS&ART een voorzichtige poging haar indrukken te beschrijven bij het Gesamtkunstwerk van Anselm Kiefer
Een beleving, of experience zoals dat tegenwoordig eigenlijk heet, was ‘t, daar op La Ribaute bij Barjac. De Kiefer Experience zogezegd. Vorige week las je hier al over die wereldberoemde kunstenaar en over de aanloop naar La Ribaute. Nu de uitloop.
Zie je me staan op de foto hierboven? Daar aan de verre einder van die immense hal. Tussen drie immense Kiefer-schilderijen? Enig idee van de hoogte…
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#alchemie#Anselm Kiefer#architectuur#Barjac#eschaton#Eschaton-Anselm Kiefer Stichting#Gesamtkunstwerk#Holocaust#kabbala#kunstinstallatie#La Ribaute#lood#Museum Voorlinden#mythologie#NASA#naziverleden#oude Egypte#Parijs#stro
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