#they’re a bit wonky but they r my children .

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hehehe

[hottestthingalive]

I figured out how the punnet squares could work.

First of all we have to assume the Fox Gene is recessive, and both Human and Smart Fridge are dominant over Fox. So then Wilbur gets a dominant Human (ish) gene from Philza who is pure HH human. And a Fox gene from the smart fridge (the smart fridges genes being Ff (F=fridge) (f=fox) making Wilburs genetics Hf (H=human) (f=fox).

Then we also have to assume the Salmon Gene is dominant over Fox as well, and Sally had a fox somewhere in her family tree and she is Sf (S=salmon) (f=fox)

This allows a 1/4 chance of the recessive fox genes for Wilbur and Sally combining to make Fundy (ff)

ok see that’s what i was thinking originally too EXCEPT punnett squares are for trait inheritance, not for species.

with crossbreeding species, it produces stuff like ligers or mules or camas. usually, these animals are often sterile, so it’s difficult to know how the species traits exactly translate, but we know from domestic dog and cat breeding that things can start to get a bit strange. punnett squares are especially difficult for species because sometimes mixing of traits will form a new trait: white and red flowers, for example, represented in this example by RR and ww alleles respectively, could create, instead of a red flower, a mixed gene that makes them pink in something called incomplete dominance. that’s why you’ll get mules and whatnot: the traits of the species mix or combine instead of the species itself being dominant or recessive. dsmp biology is pretty janky, but we have to assume some commonalities, and so that’s where things get tricky.

the difficulty here is that phil, and therefore wilbur’s, biology is questionable. that was why i could make my fridge headcanon in the first place: we could reasonably assume that, through whatever quirk of genetics causes phil’s strange semi-god traits and lack of aging, both of them ended up with a wonky circulation system or some magic bullshittery to make their body temperatures wonky. even without headcanons in play, just based on canon:

-phil had wings before he joined the server

-phil does not age or die of old age but naturally has only one life, which wilbur did not inherit

-phil’s definitely been affected by magic. even if we consider magic unknown science that hasn’t been cracked yet, that messes with things too

-wilbur has been confirmed multiple times to be phil’s biological son.

-wilbur has also said that the fridge parentage was canon, and although i don’t doubt he did that just to fuck with people, we have to take that into account.

-fundy’s age is dubious, and it’s hard to know how he ages or if he does so according to canon time because of mixed reports, but wilbur says he is wilbur’s biological son. this strange aging could be because of fundy being affected by phil’s wonky genetics, but we don’t know.

-sally the salmon is also dubious, as she is/was kept in a bucket and is called a salmon often, but also was apparently cross-eyed and an accountant, with her favorite color being brown (according to the wiki). she also divorced wilbur for unknown reasons, which means she was probably smarter than the average fish (i’m joking about the divorce bit, but the rest of it still applies). we can guess that sally is in some way like michael, steve, endermen, or yogurt; mobs that seem to have gained and/or been assigned by the ccs some higher level of sentience, although that’s a factor we have to consider with a grain of salt. we have to assume from canon alone that sally was a literal salmon and not some form of shapeshifter, like she is often headcanoned as, but is also a salmon that somehow attained higher brain functions than average.

-the fridge is also confusing, as fundy has claimed to have met them (i’m aware the fridge has been referred to as grandma and mother by ccs but i will use gender neutral pronouns for them until further notice) and we have to think that said fridge has some form of sentience to hook up with phil. or, well, hope they did, at least.

so with all that in account, here’s where things go downhill:

i said earlier that species cannot be graphed on a punnett square. we can use the hybrid animals as an example again to explain why.

when hybrid animals are bred, it is from two different species that have compatible enough genetics to still create offspring. however, when they are bred, it is rare that their traits act within the bounds of the regular punnett square; usually, hybrids will have incomplete dominance. and though hybrid animals are only rarely able to have offspring (as their mixed cells usually render them infertile) the few fertile mules we’ve seen have children tend to have strange genetic mixes of traits from mules, donkeys, or horses. from my understanding of hybridization (which could be wrong, as this is from a biology class i took years ago and brief research done just now, so science tumblr feel free to correct me) hybrid traits are not nearly as simple as R or w or Rw, like we saw in the flower example. hybrid animals’ genetics can not only demonstrate incomplete dominance-created trait mixes, but can display entirely new traits caused by the blend in species, which makes things very, very complicated.

which means that fundy’s (and wilbur’s, for that matter) genetics can’t easily graphed on a punnett square. the fact that wilbur, a hybrid, even managed to have fundy is shocking, as we know wilbur is also a hybrid. we know this because wilbur is phil’s son but does not have wings or only one canon life, and (according to the wiki) may not have entirely human traits either (the wiki talks about it being implied that his blood was blue even before ghostbur, although we once again have to take that with a grain of salt). wilbur also had three lives instead of one, something we have to assume is inherited from the fridge. we can’t explain any of that away by assuming that phil’s genetics are non-inheritable either, or that they’re caused by magic and not biology, because the cc has confirmed that c!phil does not know why he has not died or aged, which makes him being cursed or blessed or anything like that unlikely.

the fridge and sally both appear to be members of their individual species with merely a higher level of intelligence than normal: therefore, we cannot assume that either are hybrids. fundy, meanwhile, is an anthropomorphic fox, and clearly is hybridized. although he has fox features, fundy can walk like humans, must logically have some sort of opposable thumb feature since he can make potions, wield weapons, and create machinery, and has different internal systems to foxes. although minecraft foxes can actually consume any food besides cake, (which fundy can consume, so their digestive systems are also evidently somewhat different) foxes (in minecraft or otherwise) do not have the capacity for human speech, because even if they could learn the language, because of differences in body structure it is difficult for most animals to create human sounds. fundy is not fully a fox; he is a mix of fox traits, human traits, and possibly traits relating to sally, although we do not know if that is true.

basically what i’m saying, anon, (and again anyone with a better grasp of biology should feel free to correct me) is that wilbur and fundy are essentially genetic nightmares. even if wilbur or sally was part fox, the odds of fundy displaying only those traits is infinitesimal, AND it raises questions about wilbur and sally’s own biology. the biology of the minecraft/soot/dy family is preternatural and keeps me up at night tying string to pins and sticking them in a conspiracist’s corkboard.

[gayspock]

bake off ep 6 liveblog lets go ladies give us nothing

i hate this place

- i knowi keep calling him travis marcelroy but im actually really warming up to mark the mans just having a good time. travis mcelroy’s good and pure twin brother. forbidden man. he just VIBING.

- that being said now im starting to like him he’s probably cursed. gonna get knocked out

- also in general: i do understand why some ppl think some of the show is getting, like, increasingly gimmicky. it is like that a lot of the time. like literally when they asked for busts of celebrities made out of cake in week 1.... like ok. gimmicky and unneccessary and should be more of a last week thing. but like i dont think them branching into stuff like japanese week & 1980s week and whatnot is THAT bad . like i do think it needs to be changed and it needs to branch out over the years (like if the show just stood... at a standstill it would not be a show any more. literally like if it had jsut stayed on the bbc with all the OGs it would not be AROUND in 2020)  and i do think tht like.... stuff like this, where they’re kinda changing what theyre making, but not making them do stupid extra shit that’s just pushing them to fuck up . i think its a nice balance

- EDIT: AFTER WATCHING THE EPISODE. I HAVE COME BACK IN TO SAY. NEVERMIND. I SHOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THIS IS THE GREAT B R I T I S H BAKEOFF AND THEY WOULDNT BE ABLE TO PULL OF JAPANESE WEEK. GOODNIGHT GIRLS.

- also all the little buns are so cute

-   THEYRE LIKE MAD FUCKED UP UR RIGHT LAURA BUT I THINK THEIR LITTLE FACES ARE SO PRECIOUS OMG.............................  TINY LITTLE FACES TINY LITTLE NOSIES TINY LITTLE EYES AHHHHH

- OBSESSED WITH THE LOTTIE AND MARK DYNAMIC THIS EPISODE. 

- theyre a bit fucked up but i love them nayways

- dave ur like my second least favourite and thats not BAD its just bc i literally keep forgetting ue xist, and i STILL get shocked every time u reappear  but this... i respect you for this

chicken.

- no offence . i think even if theyre matcha..... crepe cakes just look so fucking nasty like. i just cant see how texturally and tastewise tht’d be good??? like surely ur just eating all the ganache (idk HOW to spell tht dont come for me) in like. a big fuckin stack??????

- not 2 be salty. but rmemeber when other bakers performed a little badly in the signature & then performed really well in technical and it didnt matter they were just portrayed as being a mess. like mak who did so well in technical but it didnt matter bc his first bake was literally boring.  and the technical just never seems to matter with ppl until its like... meanwhile peter does the same and he’s redeemed INSTANTLY. like WHY. why is he like... the favourite??? literally I WOULDNT MIND HIM IF THEY DIDNT KEEP . PUTTING THIS DUDE ON A PEDESTAL FOR MEDIOCRITY LIKE HALF THE TIME HE ISNT DOING THAT WELL AT ALL. like hes been held to a completely different standard and its absurd and he has the personality of fucking cardboard. smug little prick i will end him.

- like they keep hyping up the ideas he has and then whent hey get to judging they point out the things he did bad and theyre comparable to most of the ppl who fuckdd up but they just dont care ? im so done with him . anyways

-  me too man

- also this screenshot looks like one of those... whenu have a token straight friend in the group pics.

- travis marcelroy completely butchering the word kawaii is sending me absolurely off the rails . mans trying his best

- HIS LITTLE AVOCADO CAKES ARE GONNA HAVE LITTLE AVOCADO CHILDREN?

- OH IM OBSESSED MARK IM SO OBSESSED

- give this episode to the MARCKS

peter its stupid and i hate it and its head looks like a fucking tit

SORRY IDC WHAT PPL SAY ITS WONKY AND ITS SUCH A STUODAFFSD... A SHUTTLECOCK. WHY. IK HE DOES BADMINTON OR WHATEVER BUT A FUCKIN.... KAWAII SHUTTLECOCK ?? THEY BETTER NOT DRAG ANYONE ELSE FOR THEIR DESIGNS BC WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND.. A SHUTTLECOCK?

- most other ppl did sth tht is like... like they all make SENSE. they did animals (like the dogs) or they did foods that are often, like... done as cute patterns and stuff (avocados, pineapple, mushrooms) ... who the fuck. shuttlecock. okay.

- “its a hell of a chew, bc thats the style of the sponge” this si what i mean who the fuck... chewy sponge? anyone else would get ROASTED . what do you MEAN THE STYLE OF THE SPONGE PAUL. I HATE YOU AND YOUIR FAVOURITES

- okay so he said his flavours were bad. now heres tghe thing. the literal fucking thing. whenever ANYONE ELSE has performed badly on both signature and showstopper, irrelevant of their place on the technical, they have been in the danger zone. so they better fucking discuss peter or else im genuinely gonna be SO mad . like its insanity how literally they dont ever care abt technical (whether considering sb, or who to send home) until one of their faves depend on it. fucking milk toast peter. sickens me

- dave im sorry  i keep forgetting you its really cute. i love it. puppy.

- im gonna DHSODGJIOSGS  LOTTIE HE LOOKS SO SCARED

- CAN LOTTIE GET SB? I KNOW THIS MAN LOOK FUCKED UP BUT LITERALLY ... TASTGE AND TEXTURE SEEMS INSANE, GOO LOTTIE! GIVE OUR GIRLIE THIS WIN

- are you kidding me so now design matters with hermine fine it isnt kawaii but FCKING. LISTEN. CHERRY BLOSSOM MAKES MRLE SENSE TBHAN A FUCKIN SHUTTLECOCK YOU -

-  LIKE I SAID. FUCKING PETER SERVES UP A CHEWY, RUBBERY SPONGE IN THE SHAPE OF A FUCKING SHUTTLECOCK WITH EYES.

HERMINE SERVES UP A GENOISE AND SURE ITS A LITTLE THICK AND STUFF BUT LITERALLY ITS... im sick of it all im sick of it all literally why are you so obsessed with peter STOP TALKING ABOUT PETER

- ITS A LITTLE FUCKING FAMILY

- OH NO

- ITS DRY? ITS FLAVOURLESS? ITS- ITS INMEDIBLE!??!?!

- OH NO

- TRAVIS MARCELROY IM SORRY I CURSED YOUJ NO NO NON I DONT LIKE YOU IM SORRY I ACCIDENTALLY PUT U ON MY FAVES LIST AND NOW YOURE DOOMED

EVERYONE  TAKE A KNEE FOR THE KING

ALSO NOBODY CORRECTED THIS POOR MAN YOU ALL KEPT LETTING HIM SAY KAWAII LIKE THAT IM SCREAMING

- laura thriving now she’s seen travis marcelroy has fucked up terribly and she gets to stay. good for you laura i guess. god bless you and all

- you wilL PUT-

- YOU WILL PUT HERMINE DOWN AT THE BOTTOGM TOO?

- IN TERMS OF L-...

- HEY? HEY? SO WHAT ABOUT PETER? PETER WHO DIDNT DO WELL IN SIGNATURE? WHOSE CAKE WAS CHEWY AND FLAVOURLESS?

- LITERALLY THIS . I AM SO FUCKING MAD I HATE THEM SO MUCH

- YAAAY STARBAKER LOTTIE

- AND TRAVIS MARCLEOR.Y...

CAN WE ALL GET AN F. IM EVERYONE JSUSG CRYING BC WE ALL LOVE HIM. LOVELY RADIANT MAN.

[thisyearingaming]

1997 - This Year in Gaming

Muggins here was born in ‘97, and can’t really remember much of it, natch. But there were some good things released this year - I’ve played every one of these, and have missed so many more.

Diablo - Windows, January 3rd

We start with dungeon-crawl-em-up and well-loved out of season April Fool’s Joke, Diablo. I’ll be totally honest - I don’t like Diablo that much. It’s absolutely fine, I just can’t get into it. The writing, setting and characters are all very good especially since this year only marks the beginning of games being seen as a bit more adult and intelligent. Check out this gameplay from Hour of Oblivion on YouTube, and marvel at the faux-Scottish accent on Griswold the blacksmith.

Mario Kart 64 - Nintendo 64, February 10th

Compared to its more recent versions, Mario Kart 64 is a veritable bloody relic of the past - solid controls and a quirky style mean it’s still a crowd pleaser to this day, but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone right now that would die on the hill of it being their favourite single-player racing experience. It’s also got some of the deepest, impenetrable lore in any medium known to the human race - why exactly is Marty the Thwomp locked up here?

Blast Corps - Nintendo 64, February 28th

February’s position as most boring month of the year is shaken up a bit by having a uniquely designed Rare game slammed into its 28-day long face. Blast Corps is the puzzle-action game where you take control of several vehicles to destroy homes and buildings in order to prevent a nuclear warhead exploding in the coolest incarnation of Cold War politicking ever seen in a video game. Calling Blast Corps a “hidden gem” these days is like calling Celeste a hidden gem - it impresses nobody and makes you look like a dick. 

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - Nintendo 64, March 4th 

The N64 was home to a surprisingly large number of above-average shooters despite its muddy graphics and small cartridge space - Turok is one of these, a great FPS game where you shoot the SHIT out of dinosaurs. Brett Atwood of Billboard said it was like Doom and Tomb Raider mixed - Doom Raider, if you will. I say it isn’t - there’s no demons, and there’s no polygonal breasts to poke dinosaurs’ eyes out with! 

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Sony PlayStation, March 20th

What is a retrospective? A miserable little pile of opinions. I’ve only recently played through SotN for the very first time on a TOTALLY LEGITIMATE copy with a CRT filter. Bloody good (geddit?) game, that takes the repetition of its predecessors, improves on it in basically every conceivable way, and combines it with special effects and graphics that even 23 years later had me going “ooh, that looks quite good!” Symphony’s music and audio design are wonderfully paired with a deeply enjoyable experience that’ll have you saying “mm, maybe just one more room?”

Tekken 3 - Sony PlayStation, March 20th

Also releasing from the Land of the Rising Sun that day was Tekken 3, which many believe is still one of the best fighters ever made. Tekken 3′s combat is so fast and responsive that it’s better than some games made today. T3 is also the best and easiest way to knock seven shades of absolute shite out of your friends without risking a massive head injury or a trip to the headmaster’s office... where you could also challenge him, but only if he plays as my favourite Not-Guile-or-Ken character in gaming, Paul. 

Sonic Jam - Sega Saturn, June 20th

The moment Sega realised that re-packaging old Mega Drive games would net them serious cash - although unlike later collections, this is a strictly Sonic affair, and has a neat little 3D world to run around in as a sort of hub world. Sonic X-Treme proved that Sonic Team would have to work hard at getting the fastest thing alive into 3D space properly: Jam is the sort of test ground for it too. It features some genuinely good emulation work for 1997, although it’s basically the gaming equivalent of going round to your grandparents at Christmas only for them to give you the exact same gifts you got in 1991, 1992 and 1994 but wrapped in a bow to make you think it’s different. What are you lookin’ at, you little blue devil?

Star Fox 64 - Nintendo 64, June 30th

So there’s this German company, right, called StarVox. Nintendo look at Europe and say “shit, we don’t want another lawsuit... after all, we’ve done three this year!”. So they give us in the PAL region the exciting title of Lylat Wars which as far as I know means absolutely fucking nothing in the context of the game. They’re still called Star Fox in-game too so what was the point? Anyway, fun 3D shooter with graphics that’ll make you do a barrel roll off the sofa and onto the power button to make the brown and green blurs a little easier on the eyes. Hello 2007, I’ve come back to make old references with you!

Carmageddon - Windows, July 30th

The game so scary it was BANNED in the UK! More like the game so fucking shit it was banned. Carmageddon is so deeply boring to play on PC that I can only imagine that Stainless Games made it tasteless by 90s standards simply to ramp up demand - much like another game we’ll be covering soon. 

Herc’s Adventures - Sony PlayStation, July 31st

“And they said Kratos was the best hero? Shish... they got it wrong, sister! Hercules is clearly better... he even has a coconut weapon.” A surprisingly fun overhead action game that most people only know for... well, I’ll just embed it.

Mega Man X4 - Sony Playstation, August 1st

A few years ago I tried playing every Mega Man game there is - I gave up at X3 because I was getting bored. Even still, Mega Man bores me - but at least the level design is good. Stay away from the Windows port. Pictured: me in the background yawning.

GoldenEye 007 - Nintendo 64, August 25th 

The name’s Intro. Overused intro which I also managed to fuck up twice through the deeply editable medium of text. GoldenEye is like the Seinfeld of console shooters - playing it nowadays you’re unlikely to be amazed but holy shit there’s some absolute greatness in this game. Every sound and every piece of music in GoldenEye is permanently seared into my brain - sometimes I’ll just hear Facility or Frigate in my head alongside the door opening sound and the gentle PEW of the PP7. I mean come on, fucking listen to this and tell me Grant Kirkhope isn’t cool as all hell.

LEGO Island - Windows, September 26th

The first open world experience I ever had was LEGO Island. It’s still quite good today, utterly deranged animation from the likes of the Infomaniac and Brickster - a cautionary tale for children that giving pizza to high-profile criminals is disastrous for the human LEGO race. 

Fallout - Windows, October 10th

War never changes, but franchises do. Fallout’s legendary status in the industry is exemplified in how different it feels. Yes, we had the game Wasteland nine years prior, but until September 97 there was nothing quite like Fallout. From the chilling introduction sequence showing the ruins of the United States to the tragic ending, Fallout is an exercise in pure human misery with the brightest spots of hope it can possibly muster thrown in for good measure. What begins as a tedious isometric point-and-click RPG ends as a minigun-wielding power fantasy, before your entire worth is stripped from you at the finish line. You have 500 days to find a water chip before it’s too late, but you’re constantly being fought by terrifying Super Mutants, irradiated animals, and the biggest monster of all - humanity. See what I did there? If anything, humanity in Fallout’s setting would be the greatest unifying force possible against the horror of the outside world. But how is it? It’s dull, it’s sluggish, and it’s really hard to get into even if you’re already a fan - but push through that and it’s worthwhile to see exactly how far the series got before Todd Howard said “eh fuck it” and had the whole thing dipped into an FEV vat.

Grand Theft Auto - Sony PlayStation, October 21st

To put it simply, the first in the GTA series is now nothing but a novelty. It has an irritating camera, wonky controls, poor graphics and deeply repetitive gameplay. But thank fuck it exists, because without it the Rockstar story may have been very different indeed. It’s quintessential cops and robbers gameplay, spanning across Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas in one game, but with maps so far removed from their modern incarnations they may as well be named “Not New York, Possibly Bristol and Orange Town”. People really fucking hated Hare Krishnas in the 20th Century, didn’t they?

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - Sony PlayStation, October 31

A hard one to talk about, honestly - it’s more Crash and better than the first one. It looks great, and Crash controls so well compared to his first outing. It’ll also keep you playing for 100%, fiendishly addictive and unashamedly difficult. Had a weird cover that moved with your head. 

PaRappa the Rapper - Sony PlayStation, November 17th

Type type type the words into the box! (Type, type, type - uh oh - the box?)

PaRappa is a gorgeously stylised rhythm game about rapping to steal the heart of the girl of your dreams - which involves learning karate, getting your driver’s license, selling bottle caps and frogs, making a cake, desperately trying not to shit yourself, and finally performing live on stage. Every one of its segments is so well-produced that they’d genuinely sell like ghost cookies in this era of shite rap. Notable for producing the greatest Jay-Z backing track ever made.

Sonic R - Sega Saturn, November 18th

Sonic R is absolutely FINE with vibrant textures, interesting levels, neat gimmicks and decent controls. But I’m gonna talk about its fucking AWESOME soundtrack by Richard Jacques and T.J. Davis, an eclectic mix of Europop and New Jack Swing - even thinking about it is bringing tears of absolute joy to my eyes hearing Super Sonic Racing in my head. You’ve got the main theme, Living in the City, Can You Feel the Sunshine, Back in Time, Diamond in the Sky, Work It Out and Number One - all of these are absolute club bangers and genuinely wouldn’t be out of place in a 90s disco. 

Tomb Raider II - Sony PlayStation, November 18th

Lara Croft returns to single-handedly endanger every species on Earth. TR2 is really good, the exploration and puzzle-solving aspects of the first game expanded upon here and the gunplay remaining just as punchy. Lara’s got a fully-functioning ponytail which absolutely boggles the fucking mind - a lot of work went into Lara’s hair for the 2013 reboot, so I can’t imagine the amount of man hours it took to get fluid(ish, come on, it’s the PS1 we’re talking about) hair movements in 1997. 

And really, that’s all I played from 1997. I’ve left out big hitters like Quake II, Gran Turismo and Diddy Kong Racing, but I simply haven’t formed an opinion on them yet. Maybe in a future post. 

Thanks for reading.

[automatismoateo]

Something off my chest...just a rant via /r/atheism

Submitted May 08, 2021 at 06:56PM by CaptainBirthday (Via reddit https://ift.tt/3b9PrGc) Something off my chest...just a rant

Total atheist here pro LGBTQ.pro science. Some of my friends are liberal christians and they try to get me to take a second look at the Bible and not let the bad "christians" ruin it for me. Sorry not sorry-- my issue is the source material ....not the fandom.

So many liberal christians are lightning quick to say the Bible has been mistranslated and manipulated but they don't pause to consider that the majority of these shenanigans are to make it look BETTER.

The oldest and most reliable texts are still a book that commands stoning gays and atheists and even your own wife if you believe she isn't a virgin on your wedding night, outright genocide, winks at and condones slavery, treats women like cattle (on a good day, often it's worse) and Jesus shows up right on cue to say in Matthew 5 that all of this is absolutely fine and not one "jot or tittle" should be changed.

The rules change for sure and Jesus moves the bar up quite a bit but while things are different...he and the writers of the New Testament never actually say the old way was wrong or anything less than perfect.

The gospel story is essentially saying that man could not live up to gods law so Jesus had to die and take the punishment for us. Stop there...man couldn't live up to gods law---laws like stoning people for being gay. Man failed to enforce holy laws like this so Jesus came.

David says in Psalms that he meditates day and night on God's law. At the time of David writing this, there is no new testament so all he has is the law. Laws like how to sell your daughters as slaves (Exodus 20) and how to cut off your wife's hand if she injures a man's testes trying to save YOUR life (Deuteronomy 25 and 21)

So David, presumably a rapist (Bathsheba) who circumcises corpses for trophies, is called a man after God's own heart and has hundreds of wives and kills Bathsheba's husband so he can have her too.

The new testament doubles down on anti homosexual attitudes (Romans) and introduces hell to the story as a great motivator for loving God, this awesome character.

Yes you can cherry pick. Yes people have biases, but the absolute con of modern Christianity has no power on me. The slant goes both ways. Jesus is supposed to be God. If this is true in ANY way, then Jesus is guilty of laying out these laws. If Jesus really did break up a stoning for the woman caught in adultery, it's amazing the BALLS he has because the only reason they're doing it in the first place is because he/god commanded it in the first place and on dozens of occasions in the Books of the law, which by the way--Jesus never criticizes.

In the end you can say it was a different time and people were primitive but I got some questions for you:

When did genocide and slavery become wrong or were they always wrong?

Does god command these things and condone them in the Bible?

Was it good to do these things because God commanded it? If so, morality is relative and there's no real right or wrong in an objective sense.

One more for free-- stop saying we don't know what the original copies said. I see people on FB all the time saying that King James or someone else changed things.

King James lives in the 1500s. The Old Testament manuscripts are virtually Xeroxed for centuries leading up to this. New testament texts have some wonkiness for sure but the overwhelming majority of these were actually tweaked to make Jesus and his teachings appear BETTER.

Six years of seminary and 25 years of church y'all. I walked away from a lucrative (compared to a real job anyway) career in church and have a customer service job because I refuse to lie to children, others or myself about a disgusting book that should only be used for it's historic and aesthetic/poetic influence on the English language and art.

God is not real, and if there is a god, it's not the one in the Bible, and if you actually understand the Bible--this is very, very good news.

I love posts about this liberal Jesus who "hung out" with sex workers and was down with LGBTQ and BLM and I love those memes and posts because it pisses off Christians. But if you believe Jesus was real and was God, he commanded LGBTQ people to be murdered with rocks like a rabid dog in the street.

Your only move here is to say that Jesus wasn't god or somehow all the verses you don't like are fake and all the ones you do are real. Or that you have a super secret psychic connection to God and he divvies it up for you....or maybe as a long stretch you believe that God has improved and gotten with the times. If god got better over time then he wasn't god.

Everything you just read is my personal opinion, not any of my friends or family, just my own. And it has cost me everything...but along the way I have made a couple of friends and a wife and I can look myself in the mirror and not feel like a fraud trying to live a comfy life of pretending the Bible isn't dripping with ignorance, hate, lies-- and blood.

I know there are very progressive churches who are affirming to women and LGBT but they are doing so in SPITE of and not because of , the Bible which at best could support a kind of love the sinner hate the sin platitude.

The Ex Christians who are LGBTQ don't need a church to forgive them and "accept" them. They don't need to be forgiven. The backwards ass churches across America should be the ones seeking forgiveness for their war on culture and science that has made everything from Civil Rights to evolution, abortion access, pornography, and many other issues--as slow as it has been while secular countries have been far out in front for decades.

Rant over. Free your mind and other body parts. Be happy with life we know we have and love everyone. Treat everyone with kindness and humility. Run from religion and anything else that has all the answers. Question every thing.

P.S. I would love your comments but please don't hit me with the "it was a different time" or you can't compare modern society with ancient society. You can and you should. That's how we HAVE a modern society. And while people were more primitive back in the day, God is Eternal so he shouldn't be struggling with why slavery is wrong or stoning your wife, marrying 10 year olds or a million other things. If he can make animals talk and part the sea he can definitely tell people about the room temperature morality that would far exceed the one he props up in his word.

So choose God ain't real Gods real but the Bible isn't Gods real and the parts of the bible you like are real by sheer chance. Everything you dont like in the bible was out there by an outsider and corrupted, which is just what I said above with more steps lol.

Genocide. Slavery. Rape. Incest. Extreme patriarchy .child brides. Ethnic cleansing. Fairy tales. That's what the Bible is.

Change my mind

[curestardust]

Dust Watched: Black Bullet

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery [R - 17+] // 13 episodes, 1 special

cool concept but the anime itself is like a 13 episodes long walk in lolicon hell. MAJOR SPOILERS BECAUSE IT’S SO SHIT I DON’T CARE

✧  art  ✧

Wonky most of the time but the fight scenes are done well (6/10)

✧  sound ✧

IMO the strongest point of the anime. OP and ED songs are really good and the OST would be as well IF they didn’t use the same exact track in every fight scene. I counted, it was used 3 times in a battle heavy ep smh

The voice actors are meh. Especially the MC who seems to be constantly shouting or crying for some reason. boooring (6/10)

✧  story  ✧

Finally the meaty bits. The story is a piece.of.shit. It’s post-apocalyptic setting with sci-fi elements, how can you fuck that up? By forgetting about it. I’m serious. Apparently there was a devastating war that crippled the population. And YET Tokyo is as pristine as ever, people aren’t starving on the streets and the survivors had time to build X amount of GIANT fucking monoliths around Tokyo...HOW? I have no fucking idea as it’s never explained.

Now there are these “Cursed Children” who have the aliens’ blood in them and everyone hates them. All of these are underage girls. Why? For the lolicons of course! These little children get beaten up and straight up murdered in the most brutal fashion. All of this is done as some kind of cheap emotional manipulation towards the viewer but around the time the 3rd little girl got shot in the head i was like “You know what? I don’t care, fuck you”

Also, the creator seems to have forgotten that these children are YOUNG GIRLS. I do not care what kind of shit went down, people will NOT be able to just throw punches at young kids as that is heavily frowned upon and that whole social system will not just be forgotten cause of some bullshit.

One word to explain this whole anime: rushed. Villain is introduced in ep1. He looks cool and powerful. Wow, I wonder what it will take to defeat him! Haha, well...NOTHING. MC is some kind of super soldier bullshit whatever and punches the guy out in ep4. Alright fine. But THEN the super-mega-strongestest alien monster appears to take down Tokyo. And it’s so strong only one weapon can defeat it! Wow I wonder how- 

Don’t even bother. MC rips his arm off and puts it in the super-mega-hugestest canon and fires it at the alien despite having no idea how to operate the thing. Super-mega-strongestest alien is defeated in ep5. Rinse and repeat. Some villain gets introduced, 2 ep’s later they’re either dead or turned good. I just...hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. And I will not even talk about the plot holes. (1/10)

✧  characters  ✧

MC is generic “strong” harem MC. He is constantly shouting out cliché lines or is dropping on the floor in horror or is “tsk”-ing because he is depressed and he can cycle between these 3 emotions so fast that you will get a whiplash. Every single female character is ready to star in a hentai with this idiot and why exactly? Because harem. Right, but the problem is, half of his harem here is made up of the “Cursed Children”. Yes. The young underage girls. Yep. Uhu. 

Fucking disgusting.

There are no 3-dimensional characters to talk about in this anime. There aren’t even 2-dimensional characters. Every one of them has the personality of a toilet paper. There’s some girl with big boobs who is kind of a tsundere. There’s some girl who knows how weapons work. There is a science lady. There is the clingy little girl, the shy little girl, the smart little girl, the- (2/10)

You know what? Done. I’ve already put more work into this review then the writers did into this piece of shit that tries to pass as an anime. Do not trust the MAL review.

My Rating: 2/10

[massive-bick-energy]

More quotes

“FUCC I HAV A CHIPP IN MY AIRHOLE“

“fucc i dropped my banana“

“IM ASNLKING“

“THE KOKS ARE AMAZING“

“im gonna tape knives to my shoes

“jamemes“

“AU where everything is YOI is the same,,,except Viktor is Goofy“

“um ye im a team rocket memeber”

“bring ur sour cream chip ill crush them“

“What the actual flying fuck“

“James that's my line. Children no fighting“

“fite me behind walmart at 4:20 tommorow be there or be square“

“;; don't judge me and my wonky eyes. They tr-eye“

“:eyes emoji: I see a lie“

“I NEED MORE K-GAYS“

“go lik a bum”

“IS IT BECAUSE IM TOO VANILLA FOR THE CHAT”

“ME ON THE INSIDE: IT SEEMS LIKE BI HAS THE UPPERHAND, BUT       LOOK GAY STARTS TICKLING HER. THEY'RE BOTH DOWN THE VERDICT I'D STILL UP“

“BAGE L. ME. UP”

“DO YOU BIT YOUR THIMB AT ME SIR”

“ROM EO U DIT UVE KNOWN HE R FOR 20 SEX“

“YOU UNCULTURED CHILD“

“OTS BRUTUS“

“LNAO“

“Lnya”

“SPONGEBON DOESNT DESEVER THIS“

“I LIKE CHEDDER“

“HORSE DATING I LOVE THAT”

“I GOT MARRRIED TO THE HORSE MAN“

“I SMOKED A BAGUETTE LAST NIGHT“

“did u really think I stOPPED LOVING U U LITTLE FUCC“

“you can say yeet and shIt bit they can't say brojobs”

“DON'T YEET AT ME YOU FUCK“

“HEY HOW U DOIN WELL IM DOIN JUST FINE I LIEDD IM DYING INSIDE“

“FUCK EDWARD AND BELKA“

“nEIIIGHHHHHHH. hot“

“DON'T SAY THIS IN FRONT OF MY WIVES“

“EVE    U CANT  FUCC MAYO  ONLY   L  I K”

“U  ALL   LICKPORN”

@mochimistress @hatelikingbatman @oneofthewolfchildren @nocturnal-narcissus @ask-ice-family @caffeinebeancrock @katsukiyuurikatsudon @15h1pk4r3z1

[smoothshift]

The Clarkson Review: Ford Mustang GT convertible via /r/cars

The Clarkson Review: Ford Mustang GT convertible

A 1,000-mile gallop I'll never forget (Sept. 15)

For the family holiday this year, I rented a house in the Dordogne and we all decided to drive. That wasn't so bad for my son, who has a Fiat 124 Spider, or my elder daughter, who has a Ford Fiesta ST. But my younger daughter has a nine-horsepower, base-model Volkswagen Polo.

Her passenger called in a state of some distress when they were half an hour south of Calais. "This 130mph speed limit is ridiculous," she wailed. "We've been trying ever since we got on the motorway and we just can't go that fast."

Once I'd explained that France uses the Roman Catholic method of measuring speed, and that the local gammon have absolutely no sense of humour any more about rosbifs who choose to break their limits, we all settled down at a legal lick for the 530-mile slog.

Now, the people who write for all those car magazines you see in the dentist's waiting room often refer to a powerful car's "continent-crushing ability". They have it in their heads that people buy a Bentley Continental GT or a Ferrari GTC4Lusso because they need something to get them from London to Milan as quickly and as comfortably as possible.

I've been guilty of this myself. On television, I've often staged races between planes and cars to show cars are faster. But the truth is that when people with Bentleys and Ferraris want to go to Tuscany, Cannes or Gstaad, they fly. Often on a private jet. And if they want to go to Paris, they take the train.

The people who actually drive across a continent to their holiday destination all have dismal Hyundais with roof boxes and unnecessary GB stickers. One man had even painted his headlights yellow, as though it were still 1968.

None of them has the first idea about lane discipline. Yes, I know the inside lane of a summertime French autoroute is a conveyor belt for Dutch caravanners, but only the British see this as an excuse to drive at the UK speed limit in the outside lane. For ever.

Everyone else gets out of the way when they see you barrelling towards their back bottom, but not Ron and Irene. Maybe this is because they can't see you coming for all the National Trust stickers in the rear window of their miserable South Korean box. Or maybe it's because they're waging a class war.

They're certainly stupid enough. This becomes obvious when you pull up behind them at a toll plaza. It's very simple: you either take a ticket or you rub your debit card over the reader thing. But this seems to baffle them. So then they push the intercom button to speak to an uninterested Frenchy who, when he gets back from lunch at 4.30pm, refuses even to try to speak English.

Oh, and then there are the service stations, which are always crammed with French school kids on days out. Interestingly, the children can cope easily with the job of buying a sandwich, but somehow Ron and Irene can't. They stand at the till, not understanding a word the cashier says, then spend 10 minutes moaning about the exchange rate. Yes, well, it was you who voted for Brexit, so how about a nice game of shut up? You go first.

There isn't much romance to driving across France any more.

I dare say there never was. I look back with fondness at those long trips with my parents, but I bet that my dad, from behind the wheel of his Austin 1100, in the gazetteer and wonky-thermostat days, never thought, "Oooh, I feel like David Niven".

However, you can take croquet sets and inflatable beach toys in a car, which is harder to do on a plane. And no one touches your penis at the border. And you can stop when you want. We stayed overnight in Orléans, which is one of those cities that cause you to stop and think,"Why the bloody hell have I not been here before?" It is spec-bleeding-tacular.

It's good to have your car on holiday too. Because that way, you don't need to give half your spending money to the fleecing taxi bastards, or waste half your time at a car-rental desk watching that woman from Planes, Trains & Automobiles write War and Peace on her computer. "You've got the car and I've got the money, so hand over the keys, vache."

The only trouble is you know that when you get back to Britain, you'll have to crawl up the M20 at 50mph because they're installing a system that will make the 50mph limit permanent. Do you know how many coned-off sections of motorway I saw on my 1,100-mile round trip in France? None.

I'd do it again. No question.

But would I do it again in the car I used this time? The latest incarnation of Ford's 5-litre V8 Mustang convertible? God, it's childish. It has an unnecessary 10-speed gearbox and a seven-speed fan and a system that lets you choose whether you want the exhaust to wake the neighbours when you start the engine. You can even lock the front wheels while spinning those at the back.And that's brilliant if you are 10, or if you have too much tread on your Bridgestones.

But there's no getting around the fact this big, good-looking, honest-to-God V8 convertible muscle car with all the bells and whistles you've ever dreamt of — and a hundred more you haven't — costs as little as £46,545 for the six-speed version. That is extraordinary value for money.

Yes, you can tell where the money hasn't been spent. There's a fair deal of flex when the roof is down, but as this isn't sold as a taut sports car, it doesn't matter. Also, some kind of fluid often dripped onto my feet, but in the heat of a French summer, I was grateful for it. Oh, and it has a turning circle of about 17 miles, so in an ancient city such as Bergerac, I was a bit of a nuisance. But you don't live in an ancient city, so relax.

You're probably getting the impression I'd forgive the Mustang anything. And, to an extent, I would, because, crikey, it has a big heart. This is a car you treat like a dog. You want to tickle it behind its door mirrors and let it sit by the fire on cold evenings. And when it develops a wobble at tickover, you don't get cross with it; you worry.

And yet it really does work as a car too. After an 11-hour drive back to London, I stepped out without any aches at all. I'd listened to Rich Hall on the brilliant stereo, spent much less than expected on fuel, had the wind in my hair when it was sunny and icebox air-conditioning when it wasn't.

I don't want a US muscle car — I'd feel like a traitor to the cause of good engineering — and I don't need a Mustang. But I miss the car that took me across France so much, it actually hurts a little bit

(Source [paywalled]: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-clarkson-review-ford-mustang-gt-convertible-rxsnwzzjh)