u/TheDarkFloydChud

To be truthful, you have to have a very drightly wit to understand Richard and Deady. The funnies are sheerly lowkey, and forgoing a stark fathom of wretching kindlore most of the ribs will go over an everyday sighter's head. There's also Richard's wrakish thoughtworld, which is deftly twilled into his kist- his leedy outhwitting draws swearly from Narodnaya Volya bookcraft, forebisen. The rarers understand this idish; they have the thoughtline to truly sing of the breadths of these ribs, to beknow that they're not just funny- they say something insightful about LIFE. As an aftercoming folk who mislike Richard and Deady truly ARE gits- of course they wouldn't sing of, for instance, the laughsomeness in Richard's thoughtworldly bidword "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a dile calling to mind to Turgenev's Russish saga Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just thinking of one of those addlebrained samwises scratching their heads in welter as Dan Harmon's angetful wit unfolds itself on their farseer meshes. What fons.. how I ruth them. 😂

And yes, by the way, I DO have a Richard & Deady bleckmark. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to kithe that they're within 5 witscores of my own (by druthers lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

I have learned of late that the word "cartoon" comes from Attleyish beginnings, while "animator" comes from Leeden for soul. How would Anglish reckon "cartoon", for penstrokes on leaf, or for programs (maybe "program" needs an Anglish reckoning) on farseer or in film?

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Putting aside the thousand years of saints which the Orthodox share in common with the Roman Catholics, has anyone else came to the conclusion that literally every single Orthodox saint is the same? "Saint Soandsoimus was a priest and monk who wrote great volumes on the mystical expressions of the Holy and Life-Giving Trinity." I imagine that a regular layman could notice distinct differences between the most recognizable post-schism Catholic saints, they know Francis is the happy friend who loved animals and Aquinas is the learned man who wrote the Summa. Consider the most recognizable Orthodox saints, they're literally all the same!

I deleted my first account, but I'm a long-time poster here. I attended an Antiochian Orthodox church from 2021-2024, officially became a member in May 2024, and left in October 2024. I'm sure none of you guys are authorities on the topic, but the ability to share this experience is enough for me. I've only shared this experience with a few people, and to this day I have difficulty understanding what happened. Perhaps sharing with some deconstructing Orthodox people would help?

I'm not proud of who I was in my years before 2022, I was existing and not living, not super mentally well, >!masturbating every day to furry inflation/fat art!<. A friend at the time (who I am no longer friends with, lost him to the cult of Orthodoxy) invited me to the Orthodox church I later became a member of, and I later started attending. I began passive conversation with the priest, and my introductory experience was much like most converts here, I imagine. I was lulled in with the promises of friendship, meals every Sunday, esoteric cool songs, etc.

In January 2022, I woke up one morning with tears in my eyes and felt totally different. The only thing I can equate it to is that God slapped me in the face, I unexplainably felt a million times more sober when I woke up. It was almost as if he told me "You need to take your spiritual life more seriously". Since then I never >!masturbated!< again.

That experience is what started me on my journey into learning about Orthodoxy vs Catholicism, mostly through Jonathan Pageau (thankfully not through Dyer, Heers, Trenham, or the other schizos). I also started checking out Catholic talkers, especially Jimmy Akin, who is still one of my favorite Catholic speakers. He has a witty conversational style, very polite, very critical thinker, I recommend him even to non-Christians, he's just fun in general. Anyway, the important thing to mention is that that random experience happened to me in January 2022, which spurred me onto Orthodoxy to a freakish level. I have three main theories as to what could have happened:

1. It could have been a random scientifically recognizable case of mental shock or whatever the academically correct term is. As a Catholic who believes in angels, demons, and other spirits all over the world, this is the least likely to me.

2. It's possible God spoke to me through the only terms I could recognize, and even though me staying in Orthodoxy was not meant to be, God used it as a valid stepping stone for me in my path through life. This is much more likely to me than 1.

3. I believe demons are real, and knowing what this subreddit repeatedly says about how freakish Orthodoxy is, it's possible that my time in Orthodoxy actually opened me up to demons in this way! I don't believe in whatever the hell Orthodox freaks say about prelest, but it's possible that my time in their magical eastern church was an equivalent period of prelest in my life. Knowing how I acted against my Protestant family (and my thoughts in general) at the time, my experiences might agree.

Or maybe some fourth thing I don't know about. I'm not lying about any of this and I would be happy to clarify or discuss anything in the comments. Thank you for reading!

I just binged Like a Dragon and Infinite Wealth. First played Like a Dragon in May, blew through it, had a ton of fun with it, and I'm currently having a ton of fun with Infinite Wealth. At this point I'd probably say Infinite Wealth is the third best game I've ever played. I've almost beaten Infinite Wealth, and with that I have a few questions about author intent in certain bits of the story. Also, I have never played any of the other Yakuza/Like a Dragon games, so I know I'm not beating the tourist allegations, but maybe this applies to the earlier games as well?

How much knowledge did Ryo Ga Gotoku studios have on current events when they made these games? Infinite Wealth came out in 2024, and I won't go into specifics on current events, but I think we all see the similarities between what Kasuga and his gang went through and stuff happening in real life in recent years. It seems to me too on the nose to be a coincidence. I know that they're games first, social commentaries second, but there are clearly a few recent inventions/occurrences that get center stage in the games (>!A Vtuber cancelling Kasuga, a psycho religious leader bringing kids to an island to MKUltra them, having dirt on every government in the world, and in Like a Dragon 1, Kume joining Bleach Japan to get laid!<). It reminds me of Fallout New Vegas in a way, with how they had characters named Ted Gunderson, who was wrapped up in the secrets of a secret cannibal society, and Saint James, a human trafficker who sold war refugees as sex slaves.

Or perhaps this is me suffering from parallelomania, in which case, feel free to ridicule me in the comments. Perhaps this wasn't meant to be specific to events in our time (I know Tolkien's comments on applicability vs allegory), in which case, props to the creators. What do you guys think?

So, the essence of a gem is obviously their crystalline core. The gem's "body" is just a light projection that centers from the core, yet each individual gem's core is located on a different part of their "body". For example, the rubies that had their gems on the shoulder, the chest, the belly, with Garnet's Ruby having it on her palm. If the gem's bodies are just light projections and it's obvious that all gems can shape shift at least to some degree, why can't they move their gem to another part of their body? Or maybe they can do it and I just never knew, did they ever do that in the show or talk about it?

Also isn't it just the most miraculous luck how Garnet's Ruby and Sapphire's gems were located on the left and right palm? Perhaps that's why their love fusion was so special when it first happened

The word "hallelujah" is a nameknown late from the Ebrish tongue, onnimmed by the Leeden tongue as "alleluia". How can we use this late in Anglish? Is it as onefold as "Loave God"?

I just started a new game and truced with the Benzies. I am currently Bagman V and have completed all the quests up to this point, so I was just wondering if there's a point where Uncle Nelson calls me on the phone and says something like "You've got upward mobility, but I think you should end your truce with the Benzies", or else if it's all on me to text the boss and tell him I end the deal.

I think it's fate that such a topic came to me at nearly 3AM today before my meeting with a therapist. The parish I left wasn't a legal juggernaut like most big cults in the news, but their members definitely had those cultlike behaviors, blind submission to whatever authority is, inability to use reason or distrust of reason, and so on. It seems like the only reason I was able to make the mental leap and leave the church is that I wasn't lovebombed hard enough like most new members are. I can't even imagine the psychological damage that does to someone, getting lovebombed by a cult, but now I have to wonder, what do you do if you have a consistent bad memory that won't go away? It seems to me that there are a handful of good things that I liked about the church that I'd hate to throw away, but if I have to in order to dispose of the negative memories, then I'll take it.

Edit: I have circumstantial evidence that might link the parish I left to the cult leader abbot Dionysios Kalampokas. Of course, with anything that brushes on cult territory there's never any hard evidence, but I believe where there's smoke there's fire.