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I have a game, let's rank what's worse: x. Kids being nasty. x. God killing kids. x. Adults excusing God's killing of kids.

Maybe he's talking about passover?

Is there actually accounts of rape or what we would consider statutory rape? I knew he had young wives and multiple wives. The wive part has to do with women needing to be kept by a man, and an able man would keep another wife to provide for her and keep her safe from other men. Especially if their husband died. From my studies of the religion though, my problem was always that Muhammad tied the religious leader and governmental leader together, and further he spread the faith by sword and threat of disarray. People converted just to appease him, and deconverted on his death. Because his model is supposedly pure and willed by Allah, his successors had to attempt to fill his role, thus we get the various lineages of caliphs. Who all spread Islam by the sort as a top down integration of law and belief.

Larian looks like a cool place to work, still need to play their games. Maybe once I have some more free time. Also as impressive as SC is in scope, I'm also finding it less compelling as a "game experience" as I see more. I guess I just need to see SQ42, but not sure if I will really find it's persistent world appealing when it's all said and done. But they still have time. Also they need to fix the damn landing mechanic, and maybe implement some cleaner more arcady fly-by-wire mechanics, because movement wise what they have shown is whack.

Everyone should get this add-on btw.

I remember us having that conversation. My interpretation, at least given the clues and context in the game, was that Iselmyr speaks on behalf of Aloth. Essentially impersonating him in order to spur his life forward in a way that he himself finds himself unable to do. This is because Aloth is full of apprehensions. Iselmyr comes across much like the Steward of Caed Nua in this regard. She tends to Aloth. While she is confined to his body, she mostly respects his autonomy and mostly acts out in direct objection to Aloth's propriety. Given your choices on how to follow Aloth's plot, I think perhaps the supporting evidence for this can often be missed, but I think it's ultimately there.

Dune, but not as an RTS. Maybe like an open-world Half-life or STALKER.

If conservative Christians multiple times a year for over a decade were yelling god bless and going on knife attacks in all over south east Asia then I'd understand them to having to start taking faster in-moment action, and I would expect them to give a public warning on the matter if any such policy change occurred. When the context of something previously innocuously has changed. Let's say your non-fundamentalist Christian, by abstaining from shouting such a thing you are living forward a civic responsibility that is also healing towards relations and distrusts and latent fear that has been engendered. It might even be a moral imperative to understand the context, not behave that way, and to allow law enforcement one additional tool to take action. You may even counter, "what if they just stop shouting god bless?" well they could but some will still shout it out of principle. This is at least a step, and all members of a society must work to hold together a working social fabric in an unideal world. Perhaps you don't think the a priori conditions merit such a course of action yet, but I don't think it's so out of the question that they would arise. I think however they already have.

Well you can't shout "Fire" in a theater more "hijack" at an airport. So shouting "Allahu Akbar" in context out over a crowded public place does seem to tempt engendering mass panic and terror. Should that person be shot? Well if they meant no malice one should certainly think not, but if they were you'd need to respond promptly. It's very unpleasant that such a warning need be given, but here we are. Given law enforcement's responsibilities to the people wouldn't you rather have people aware of that risk in order to avoid tempting such hysteria and confusion? Further it's clear he is making this comment with regards to the recent attack in Barcelona and is speaking on maintaining a state of alertness over attacks. If they were shooting to disarm or immobilize I'd say there is even more justification to be found in this policy.

That's actually really cool. Obsidian is carrying a flag.

Just to note, Iselmyr now being vesseled in Aloth's body does not mean she herself is transgender.

Maybe they should be gifted to confederates to tend relations. /s

At first I thought that was a ball of tin foil.

Yeah, it certainly is an interesting discrepancy at face value. While jihad is framed less as a pillar under the Sunni branch, I think jihad ultimately ends up interpreted by a different tradition. It's particularly the Hanbali and Hanafi schools of Sunni Islams which give credence to spreading the caliphate by sword as modeled by Muhammad which spurs respectively the Wahhabi and Deobandi reformation movements of today. Of course all of Sunni Islam is fundamentally based on bringing to fruition the model that is set by Muhammad, quite literally being in accordance to a manner of living as set forth by the prophet. So while the major and minor struggles may be more forthright in Shia Islam, it is Sunni Islam that most deeply explores the example of Muhammad in full. So if an account of the prophet exists thereof, it is of potential source for inspiration. Nothing further need be said for what they the most committed and devout have found, upheld, and propagated. Additionally the west has only had a sliver of the taste of what the woman of the Sunni world have experienced through history, the jurisprudence over women is not pretty. It is here were the extreme revulsion towards secular freedoms develop, as the kafir embody the ultimate affront against the mumin and the pursuit of Ihsan. So it is that pursuit that reaps the seeds sowed by the Sunnah Fiiliyyah.

For Sunni Islam, and those pillars come from a Hadith, not from the Quran. Shia have a very different interpretation of the source passage and follow the Usul and Furu al-Din. Which translates to the 5 foundation beliefs, and the 10 branches of practice. In the practices includes jihadIsma'ilis also have their own set of 7 pillars of which jihad is included. Jihad itself has multiple facets but is vastly predominated by it's references to actual warfare which is both physically and metaphysically a struggle against evil. Further, this aspect of jihad is Quranically enshrined, not just found in some Hadith or apocrypha. Another part of the Furu al-Din is forbidding evil and disassociation with it, infidels repeatedly referenced alongside jihad as part of that evil. That does show the contradiction between theory and practice though, since Shia are practically far less prone to going full Jihad than Sunnis despite them theoretically having a more extreme philosophy. Even shia 'extremists' like Hezbollah fight alongside and are associated with non muslim groups including both Christians and Druze in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon- can't say the same for their sunni equivalent extremists who have no tolerance at all for difference. Most salafi style extremists are also takfir (basically claim certain groups aren't 'real' muslims) whether they'd implicitly admit to it or not and refer to groups like Alawites as fire worshipers (Zoroastrians) instead of muslims. It does seem like like the majority of terrorist organizations are Sunni, but the Ayatollahs of Shia Islam were the ones issuing the most wide resounding jihadist fatwas during the 90's. I think Shia jihadism is different because Iran is a fully top down Caliphate for shi'asim. You have Hezbollah like you said (which I believe in-part was removed as a terrorist group because it has a "legitimate" political party componenant to it,) but there is also the PIJ, Hamas, and Houthis. The groups that are funded are external to Iran and have a particular state in mind to disrupt. Iran seems more focused on Israel as a prime target and operates more through well funded Immams that implore the responsibility of jihad as to create solo actors with very little in the way of formal organizational ties. As far as Al-Qaeda, it's organization structure largely grew out of US involvement with rebel forces in fending off invasions from Russia, so I think a lot of those aspects of a largely more technically organization remain from that inceptions.

At least the trailer told nothing, but I remember long long time ago, there's a picture indicated the era of IV should be around WW I / WW II That was the old Ensemble series plan, who knows where things stand now. But the fact that they are doing Definitive Editions of everything they probably don't need to retread old ground. Imo we could use Age of Mythology 2.

I haven't come across any, but the announcement video has an animated slide-deck of different civilizations, which seems to run the gamut of what the series has done so far. So either they are sticking with their historic progression or maybe it means they want to run a wider gamut.

For Sunni Islam, and those pillars come from a Hadith, not from the Quran. Shia have a very different interpretation of the source passage and follow the Usul and Furu al-Din. Which translates to the 5 foundation beliefs, and the 10 branches of practice. In the practices includes jihadIsma'ilis also have their own set of 7 pillars of which jihad is included. Jihad itself has multiple facets but is vastly predominated by it's references to actual warfare which is both physically and metaphysically a struggle against evil. Further, this aspect of jihad is Quranically enshrined, not just found in some Hadith or apocrypha. Another part of the Furu al-Din is forbidding evil and disassociation with it, infidels repeatedly referenced alongside jihad as part of that evil. Yes text can be open to interpretation. Both the Bible and Quran seem to contradict themselves, but if you look to Jesus and Muhammad. You would find the above interpretation of Jihad to fit with how he lived. If you follow Jesus' example through the Bible, you'd find an emphasis on forgiveness and engaging with the sinner. This is very different from Islam. Further the Quran and Hadith have a much more rigorous system of citation, and the general uniformity of receiving the faith through Arabic hardens that interpretation. Many variant interpretations come from humanist intellectual movements during the regions golden age, have been largely been rejected for centuries by the majority of practitioners. I also think people forget the human element, many Muslims are as nominal as Christians. But if people feel weak, unfulfilled, and make a sincere concerted effort to their faith. The tenets and dogma of both lead one to very different places.

also Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition and Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

Age of Empires IV

I'll have hair 'til I die. Also I saw a 91% eclipse! Twas kewl.

I think Trump's address of the Afghanistan Strategy is his strongest moment yet, and lord knows he hasn't had many. I realize this plan wasn't put together by Trump alone and further he has some great speech writers, but Trump did okay all of it and no doubt had a hand as well. If there was anything I particularly disliked about the Obama administration it was it's foreign policy. Some of it was populist driven and opportunistic coming off of Bush's legacy, but a lot of it was gross and senseless. It will be interesting to see how US foreign policy plays out over the next three and a half years. I hope that this address does not become harrowing in hindsight, but having learned from Iraq I expect complications to come less from our nation and more from geopolitical upheaval in the region that once again pushes us into unknown and unprecedented territory. I think for me a highlight was acknowledging India as a partner in the Democratic world, far too long I feel they have been under-appreciated. Other highlights include moving away from time-tables, and the abandonment of nation building on behalf of another people's.

My family just introduced me to both 11.22.63 and Designated Survivor. I'm hooked on both now. Neither were things I would have chosen on my own. As a fan of 24 I'm happy to see more Kiefer Sutherland + US Gov, it's premise is interesting enough. "Kumar" is a great pick because he actually worked with the Obama administration in the white house. It's like 24 mixed with west wing, maybe a bit derivative but it's seems to stand on it's own thus far. Not sure I'll stick with it, but I'm having fun with it so far. 11.22.63 seems like something special. I'm reminded of the TV adaption of IT with this, and I certainly think a longer form adaption serves any book better. While I haven't read the book I'm guessing it wraps up in it's 8 episodes. Of course the eps are of varying lengths, and all longer than a normal hour TV ep. Definitely going to finish this serious up and I'll have to report back with my final verdict.

Same, I want a refund!

But how can be when computer is only 0's and 1's...