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[–] beef_curds@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Accurate.

Also, one of the better Ultima games.

Also also plus too, nobody read up on the plot synopsis

[–] beef_curds@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

You get me.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

"Lord British" lmao

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

All of the Ultima box art goes hard.

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Name job join

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate AI generated imagery, but I do appreciate that there are always little rewards for not paying attention where/how you're supposed to:

In this case I particularly like the first angel on the left's barbecue fork

[–] Melonius@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Come on Jesus leave Satan alone and lets get back to what really matters grillman

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For when you have Satan poking to attend at 3 and a BBQ to host at 4

personally i'm a big fan of the devil's long snakelike penis

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess I missed that bit in the bible where Jesus takes up a sword. It must have been in those prequels that no one watches.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there's basically everything in the bible lol

Matthew 10:34-36 English Standard Version Not Peace, but a Sword 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's in Revelations, which I guess counts as a sequel?

And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

More like fanfic.

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes the avatar of Israel, Jesus Christ

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

He was also Palestinian lol

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[–] Jordan_U@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

There are far more Christian Zionists in the U.S. than exist Jews (of any kind) in the world.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

(im at the very very top middle tbh, i think of Ukraine-Russia like World War 1)

[–] destroyamerica@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

for my 2 cents, i think that's understandable but also misses that america is the dominating imperialist force in a way that britain wasnt any where close to being in the same ballpark as dominant as the United States, who has largely united the west under NATO in a way that would be inconceivable to the powers of WW1, and thus we can't copy paste our analsysis from communists during WW1. In addition, Russia currently serves as a very important ally to the PRC, DPRK, and other countries in the global south struggling to overthrow US hegemony

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah all true- if Russia even slightly stopped being a conservative capitalist hellscape I would swing all the way over there. And I understand that Nato has basically knowingly ensured the current war, but it doesn't fully excuse it

WWI's combatants pre-revolution weren't completely morally equivalent but definitely were relatively close

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[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Always relevant

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So do you think that when Muslims decided that they shouldn't depict Mohammad in their art, it was actually a prescient warning about tacky AI art bullshit? They just wanted to avoid this nonsense in the future?

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Midjourney is the demiurge

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i think iconoclasm does genuinely emerge from an instinct that shitass art of holy thing would be bad, but one didn't need AI to reach the conclusion art can be cringe

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's probably far more likely they saw all the weird ideas Christians had about depicting the baby Jesus with an adult's face and just decided to opt out.

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't you dare insult minature grown man baby Jesus! I'll have you know the Jesus Homonculus is the only canonical way to portray Infant Jesus and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

monkey baby jesusman is the next Budweiser commercial

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

In ancient times, if you were conquered by a foreign army, your statues and graven images could just be re-labelled as their God(s), whereas if you had an iconoclastic tradition based in the written word, it was much harder to destroy your traditions.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Depictions of Jesus aren’t really encouraged by Christianity either, technically. Catholics will claim they only use it to “aid” their worship lol. But tell them you don’t want any drawings or figures of Jesus or other biblical things in your home because you’re a traditionalist and watch them call you disrespectful

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

not as unlikely as you think!

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Satan lookin hella thicc tho 👀

[–] kot@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they somehow not aware that Israelis don't really vibe with that whole Jesus thing?

[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, since most Zionists are Christian and the religious basis of Zionism is an evangelical reading of the new testament, this actually is pretty on the nose.

[–] kot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are they? In the US I can see that being true, but surely you're not saying most Israelis are Evangelical Christians

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

they're just going by numbers I think. the number of Christian Zionists in the USA well outnumbers the number of Israeli Zionists

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

since most Zionists are Christian

Most Zionists, not most Israelis

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She has her name written in Russian blocky-wat

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quite a bit of Ukrainian nationalists are Russian-speakers who try to out-Ukraine Ukrainians.

[–] highduc@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If Satan's tail is between his fingers, what's the noodly thing next to his forearm? 😱

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

His tongue?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

that's the other end of the tail. jesus pulled out his buttplug tail. and he's trying to get it back

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

And the Palestinian Jew said to his disciples “kill the rest of the Palestinians”

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Strange that Zionists are allying with the nazi Ukraine state

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

i think this but the opposite

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