Quetzalcutlass

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[–] Quetzalcutlass 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Gradle is so insanely over-engineered that it can do almost anything, yet so fragile that it can take weeks of bashing your head against the wall to get your build scripts working if you're doing anything remotely complicated with your setup (or even just upgrading Gradle versions). Everything is so finicky that even if you do things exactly as the documentation says, you'll still have to finagle things around nine times out of ten to get it to compile.

The user guide is longer than some novels.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 3 hours ago

I finally started a blind playthrough of Dave the Diver after letting it sit in my backlog for ages. I'm not that far in, but it's great so far. The core game loop is fun and relaxing and the characters are all memorable.

And the over the top pixel art cutscenes, man. Worth the price for those alone.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 3 hours ago

Biotech was such a good expansion. Ideology and Royalty were alright (haven't bought Anomaly yet), but neither transformed the way I played Rimworld like Biotech did.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 7 hours ago

A rerelease of games they previously gave away for free, no less.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 5 days ago

Hey, at least they added inventory sorting!

You know, after a decade of people asking for it. And without fixing the several fundamental design flaws that made the inventory a nightmare to use without sorting in the first place.

But at least they thinly papered over one of the game's most hated bits!

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm curious, why do you prefer the first one over the second? Baldur's Gate didn't focus on NPC characterization until 2 (I can't imagine playing without the banter!), and I always found low level 2e to be a nightmare due to low health pools and lack of class features. The sequel starts you out at the beginning of the level range where you can actually do stuff without being overpowered.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Company of Heroes gets my vote. I love having a sniper take out a machine gun nest so my riflemen can rotate the gun 180° and mow down wave after wave of Nazi reinforcements.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  • It'd be great if user tags and vote totals were included in settings export/import. Losing those would mean dropping Lemmy entirely at this point since I prefer to tag rather than block most problem users. Tag import is also critical if we want to write a script to import user tags from other apps like Sync or Boost (since it'd just be converting one JSON schema to another).
  • It's a longshot since I'm guessing it'd be incredibly heavy on API calls, but a way to import vote totals from Lemmy's up/downvote history. Voyager's vote tracking is the killer feature that had me drop Boost, but it was weird for the first week or so seeing people I knew I upvote all the time at only +1-3. We can manually set vote totals ourselves so someone could write a script to do most of the work outside of the app (especially if #1 is added), but a native way would be far more convenient.
  • An option for long pressing the post thumbnail to show an enlarged preview of said thumbnail. Sync has this, if you needed an example of what I'm thinking of.
  • An option to change what clicking on the OP or community in post view does. It's an incredibly minor annoyance, but sometimes on Android I accidentally tap one of them when attempting to open the post.
[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just wait. Miracle Mineral Supplement will come back into vogue any day now.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

My point is that what constitutes a god differs between religions, and the Christian claim of monotheism uses a very narrow definition of god that excludes the many supernatural beings described in their religious texts.

If you use the standards of other religions, one could easily argue it's a polytheistic religion - the Trinity, or one divinity appearing in multiple forms, is similar to other religions generally considered polytheistic.

It's an endless debate because both sides talk past each other due to disagreeing on the basic definition of the term.

I do not know much about mormons, aren't they christians? I thought they were.

That's a matter of debate I'm not at all qualified to get into. They have some very [out there](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaltation_(Mormonism)) beliefs that they understandably don't advertise to outsiders, and that only became common knowledge with the advent of the internet.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

he is a very minor character in christianity

In the text, definitely. In the practiced religion (especially in America), not so much. And even in the text he has a much larger role than in its predecessor Judaism.

I think the pop culture versions of religions have become so deeply ingrained that they became a part of many adherent's actual beliefs. For example, ask the average Catholic to describe hell and see how long it takes for something from Paradise Lost to pop up.

even in the popular depiction he is not nearly on the same level, as he was created by God, is not omnipotent, omniscient, unlike God, etc.

Why would that disqualify him as god-like? Polytheistic religions had gods of varying strengths, many created by other gods - the Greek pantheon is a tangle of lesser gods created by greater ones, and even Zeus came from Chronos, a Titan (which is somehow different from a god).

The whole assigning of godhood seems completely arbitrary to me. Archangels are more powerful than many full-on gods from other mythologies yet somehow don't count, whereas even humans could have been (or will become) gods in other lives in religions such as Jainism or Mormonism.

 

Long-pressing the link in [https://lemmy.ml/comment/7302466](this comment) will cause Boost to crash.

The link markdown is wrong, with the URL in the text tag and the destination tag empty, but this shouldn't crash the app.

Alternate test link in case the commenter fixes it: https://www.example.com

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