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  • They have a fairly short list of "bad takes" though, and they have an excellent track record in reporting broadly. Their impressive history of winning libel cases against them speaks volumes to that.

  • Usually because you actually own the retail/physical version but they can rescind access to a digital copy at any point.

    But I usually buy old games or new ones second hand, so, I exist on a slightly different market place...

  • I get the MSRP outrage, but I mean it's not an unusual cost for launch day titles, especially for physical media.

    I don't think I've ever paid full retail for any game or console I've ever owned though. And I do like to own my games by buying physical media (or at least the installer files).

  • What games currently cost that much though, is my question really, I guess. The last expensive titles I can see right now for standard editions of games is like, 70Eur equivalent for AAA type titles.

  • What has kept you in a "practicing" religious state rather than moving away from a supernatural/religious belief system all together?

    Most of the people I know who are ex-Christian have become agnostic or atheist over moving to another "faith" (of you want to call it that).

  • My family know, but mostly because of my lived example rather than any explicit conversation with them.

    They knew when I moved to a more liberal church (Society of Friends, who I have a lot of respect for), and when I eventually stopped going there as well, but I never explicitly said.

    My sister has asked if id consider "coming back to church" but it was a pretty relaxed conversation to be honest.

    It's just something that's the way it is now. Occasional remarks (especially as I'm marrying, legally, without a religious ceremony) but nothing terribly cutting! My mother is a little passive aggressive at times but that's not explicitly to do with my religious practice (or lack thereof).

  • I also remember hearing that surgeons who play videogames tend to perform better at their jobs too.

    Hand eye co-ordination (especially when looking at a screen without direct feedback in your hands), stressful situations, long stints of focus...

    There's lots of benefits to gaming!

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  • Autopsy reports are vague and contradictory. They describe women with evidence of trauma, including burns and electric shocks, all labeled natural deaths.

    The thinking is, presumably, that it's natural for slaves to die.

    Anyone I've ever met who has worked in Saudi Arabia and the UAE has acknowledged that there's an unbelievable amount of racism. Everybody knows about it, but you can't criticise them, because otherwise the oil money and tax breaks stop. It's sickening.

  • I go from "God is a kid with a magnifying glass" to "everything is as it is, and when I die that's it, nothing happens afterwards", with varying shades of agnosticism in between.

    I still find churches (well, big ones made by people hundreds of years ago, not meeting halls) super chill. I visited a catholic shrine on my holidays last year and I found it really peaceful. I enjoy the "practice" of that aspect of religion in that respect. But I can't square my experience of the world with anything other than an awful god who wouldn't warrant any attention anyway.

  • I'll start with the easiest one! They're members of an independent church which is a member of the Evangelical Alliance in the UK. My dad's background is Anglican, and my mum's is Baptist. They're both pretty okay with individual differences (as long as it's a protestant one!), so they're open to minor differences in belief - you can basically write these down to different interpretations of the scriptures. They are okay with discussing these differences.They were okay when I was a member of a Quaker congregation, but they don't really get Catholicism - they see some stuff as idolatrous but they're not anti catholic.

    Their reconciliation of the 'holes'; this one is trickier. The fact that it's difficult to pin down a historical Jesus (when we know about other people factually from the same era) is just sort of glossed over. Regarding the possibility of metaphysical stuff they're actually pretty chill with admitting that there's things we don't know, in part because of things like dark matter, or the development of a knowledge of atomic particles etc - for them I think it's more a case of "we can't prove it yet" rather than "it can't be proved". They love science because for them it's a proof of the elegance of creation; they believe that evolution, for example, is perfectly in line with a creator God - for them God is the spark at the beginnig of everything. A good summary of their attitude to the holes is:

    Science is full of stuff that seems counterintuitive to "rational thought" (ie. Virtual particles etc) so why is that any weirder than an irrational belief in a God whose existence you can't prove?

    Lastly, I've never outright told them I don't believe. Partially because where I stand fluctuates daily, but mostly because my life is enough of a tell - I have lived out of wedlock with my partner for the best part of 10 years, I drink to excess, don't attend church, etc., and I have spoken to my sister (who I know will talk to my parents) about not being a Christian in any practical sense. They know I'm a good person and for them I guess it's not problematic (and they're not "fire and brimstone" types so I don't know if they're worried for my eternal soul or not but they're content seeing me happy and being true to my conscience I guess!

  • I'd be curious to learn more about this if you're willing to share.

    What aspects are interesting to you particularly? I'd be happy to give you an insight!

    Both my parents are physicists (my dad got his PhD, my mother taught Physics her whole working life) and my grandfathers (also practicing Christians) were both scientists; my paternal grandfather was a research scientist working with radio telescopes who had some pretty hot takes on life.

  • Yeah, I mean Wikipedia is a great place to stark looking at biblical criticism/historiography as well, which I guess is kind of ironic.

    I'd love to know what his "proofs" are for his belief, and if there's an element of the Pascal's wager type thinking at all. I come from a family of scientists who are also Christian so I'm fully aware of the way people are able to hand-wave away the things that don't mesh with their worldview.

    The denomination hopping eased me out of faith too - I went from evangelical to Anglican, to Society of Friends, to being totally unengaged. If I was going to go back I'd still stick the the quakers to be honest - at least they know the value of shutting up!

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