TurtleSoup

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[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The more I read the Bible (having read multiple versions) as a teen the more I realized that people who claim to walk as Christ did, in fact do not walk as Christ did. There are exceptions, such as the pastor who I met volunteering at a soup kitchen, but a vast majority only prove my point.

Christ walked among sinners, the down and destitute, tax collectors, sex workers and the "unclean". The same people these self proclaimed men and women of Christ will rebuke and spit on.

I always think back to that scene from Castlevania between the Bishop and the Demon: "my life's work is in his name!" "Your life's work. Makes him puke."

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Kinda crazy when they subvert expectations like that sometimes and actually prove themselves as a journalist.

You'd think a journalist for Teen Vogue or Cosmopolitan would be a hack and then all of a sudden they drop some in-depth, well written op-ed that makes you go "what? How?.."

Like I said elsewhere, I've actually got a couple copies of Rolling Stone from the opening weeks/months of the Iraq Invasion (their somewhere in my personal library) and the comparison to issues from before the war is staggering. Their journalists were actually really good and when they weren't being told to write a bunch of gobbledygook about a has-been one hit wonder, they were really capable journalists.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"hey, boss man created a JIRA ticket for the revolution, they wanna know how many story points we think that will be." 😂

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 24 points 5 months ago

Rolling Stone was probably the only source of actual journalism during the Iraq Invasion for a time.

Oh the memories.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit it's AGILE....

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago

Industrial diamonds have always been on the cheap and that industry is far removed from the jewelry/gem industry, in fact a large majority of diamonds that are mined aren't gem grade, they're industrial grade. It's been growing and advancing despite the jewelry/gem market starting to fall.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 months ago

Also because newer generations just aren't sold on diamonds being a luxury item anymore. Your average Joe just isn't paying their rent or more on a diamond engagement/wedding ring like they used to because, well, that's their rent payment or mortgage for something that's gonna lose value the second they walk out of the store.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

Honestly out of all 12 steps it's the first step that actually hits the hardest.

"We admitted we were powerless over alchohol (although you could substitute alcohol for anything really)—that our lives had become unmanageable."

As my shrink used to say "the hardest part of overcoming a problem or mistake is admitting you have a problem/made a mistake."

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

God... Imagine being in the middle of an important call for say discussing family affairs for a dying family member and you just hear "there will be a 30 second advertisement break in 1 minute."... I'd probably pop a blood vessel.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

That said, before multiplayer was centralised, you checked the server pingtime before joining the server.

Scrolling through servers on CS:Source trying to find one that wasn't pinging harder than my anxiety... Those were the days.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's still a way to do it but it's convoluted compared to if they'd just add a damn resource monitor into the game itself.

If you still care about figuring out your ping: this comment on reddit from a year ago tells you how to find your games server IP, from there you can just fire up command prompt and hit with ping -n 100 <IP/Adress> This should return your ping and packet loss with the server.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Blind definitely helped me understand DF a lot better.

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