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  • Am I the only person who likes removal of evil races?

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  • It's a matter of world building. Orcs can be noble savages, or violent monsters. The main problem is humanizing these creatures. If you instead imagine a separate evolutionary path, then the race can be inherently "evil".

    If orcs have evolved for conflict and violence far beyond human levels, then by our standards they would be evil. At least by the philosophy of a middle ages like world. Catholics and Protestants considered each other evil for a few hundred years. A violent species that destroys humans on sight due to their violent instincts would easily be evil. Exceptions could exist, but the mass of individuals would be "evil".

  • Was my memory wiped or was the Star Wars sequel trilogy just that forgettable?

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  • Yes! I've been thinking the exact same thing. Watching TOS and TNG it clearly comes across that they're military hierarchies inspired in part by the kind of sciency and professional approach of the military / real life space program. The new shows reveal that the creators lack this understanding.

  • This Motherf*cker

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  • You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Bob Dylan

  • Bennett: Israel’s status in US ‘has never been so bad,’ it’s becoming a ‘leper state’

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  • Rogue state revealed. Amazing it took so long, but I guess that's what good PR / lobby can do.

  • White House Bashes ‘South Park’ After Trump Parody: ‘This Show Hasn’t Been Relevant for Over 20 Years’ and Can’t ‘Derail Trump’s Hot Streak’

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  • Thank you, sweet prince /princess

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ showrunners say their version of the series would have gone on ‘forever’

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  • It's good, but, have you noticed the enterprise has a crew of about 10 people? It's the main cast, and a few recurring characters here and there, and that's it. Sure, there's tons of extras in the bar and other shots, but none of them have names or lines. I happened to re-watch some TOS and there's new extras everywhere, on every away mission, on the bridge and they're... there. Once I realized this it broke my immersion a bit. Otherwise it's pretty good.

  • Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!

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  • Relevant?

  • Son of Norway’s crown princess suspected of 23 offences including rape, police say

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  • The royals are quite decent and cool. I'm in principle for getting rid of the monarchy, but this gang is so chill I'm ok with not making a fuss. Except for this shitstain. And the crown prince's sister. And her charlatan husband. In fact, only the hereditary bloodline is good. It's almost like some divine magic, or that they got all the good attention and the others have useless sibling syndrome.

  • Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?

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  • Cause stupid people buy games on pre release and there's apparently a lot of them.

  • The World Is Completely DONE With The United States | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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  • I've wanted Kyle to be right about just about everything he says, but sadly it's rarely so. There are plenty of countries that have no problem going from liking the US for its role in the world, to being sycophants who coddle up to power. Others will respond by playing nice to not have the administration turn their eyes towards them, and others still have leaders who have no objection to what's currently going on. Just because you want something to be true, doesn't make it so. There's a definite shift happening, but I doubt it's size and effect will result in any short term results. Just my opinion.

  • Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life'

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  • Compensating for relative lower income with low cost of consumer products is a bit like pissing your pants to get warm. The underlying issue is declining wages, caused by the loss of labor power. If people had decent wages a rise in prices would not be a problem. But while scraping by a rise in prices is a huge problem.

  • It's almost like a colonial power intentionally divided the region so they'll be focused on infighting instead of competing with said colonial power

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  • The Empire podcast goes quite deep into some of the issues and roots of partition. It was very clear that the English wanted out ASAP. One reason was the sectarian violence they could no longer contain.

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  • I would just fucking love it if there was discovered a correlation between autism and microplastics, or between autism and stress during pregnancy, or between autism and some food coloring or whatever. Just to see RFK shut the fuck up cause he would never challenge the owners of the country.

  • I am God.

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  • I've been thinking about that particular event. Leonard Cohen has a song about it as well that put me on this track.

    Now, as a historical fact, back in those days, sacrificing ones children was a not uncommon thing to do. The old testament god in several places tells the israelites NOT to put their children to the fire, as the term was. But if you read the texts you find that the israelites weren't very good at following commands, and one could guess that god knew that.

    So he puts his favorite follower through the worst nightmare imaginable, demanding that he sacrifice his beloved son. Put him through the ringer, of doubt, despair, fear, and sorrow, let it sink in what it actually means to sacrifice a child. Then stop him. It's basically show don't tell. Put the experience of the evil of that action into his heart, and vaccinate him against such ideas. And while Abraham took that lesson to heart, I'm reasonably certain that Isaac took the lesson even more, and taught it well to all his descendants.

    Is it a shit thing to do? In one man's perspective, yeah. But to set a people on a path away from human sacrifice, I'd say it wasn't a very high price to pay.

    And that's if you take the story and all literally. If you take it figuratively, as a demonstration of what is the path to goodness, to people in a bronze age culture, I'd say the story carries the message across exceptionally well.

    I'm a history teacher, and the first thing you learn is that history must be understood by its own time and standards, not by ours. The story of Isaac is a great example of what in our modern eyes is pure malice, but to its original culture it was a story that had the function of making a culture better.

  • Diversity in your ear holes

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  • The who? The Hu! Who? The HU!

  • [Video] Democrat leader Chuck Shumer: "Of course we say it's our land, the Torah says it. But they [Palestinians] don't believe in the Torah. So, that's the reason there is not peace."

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  • French aristocracy? Who ordered French aristocracy?

  • Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder

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  • Can you guys stop complaining on Lemmy and get together a labor party. Any day now would be great.

  • RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’

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  • Thank you so much America and RFK. Vaccines have become contested as scientific fact, and the only way to truly show the world the truth, is to rip away vaccines from a country that has them, and count the dead before and after. Your willingness to sacrifice potentially thousands of American lives to prove your opponents' point, is almost Christ-like in its self-sacrificial nature, and Trump-like in its mythical level of stupidity and disregard for the value of human life. The rest of the world thanks you for ridding our countries of any traction vaccine skeptics might ever have had. We thank you for your service.