I wonder if this has to do with actual growth of the faith, or consolidating in light of shrinking temple attendance, which is different from and more exclusive than church attendance . Western Europe in particular can’t be fertile proselytizing ground these days.
Oh, and my personal experience is a couple of decades out of date by now, but ExMo here. Happy to field questions. I’m no fan of the church, but I try to be somewhat even handed when discussing with folks.
Which is really how you’re supposed to present it in any ladder ranking. The top two being level on points doesn’t mean you weren’t third-best.
Or 35th best, apparently.
I wonder if this is just because it was made cheaply in Asia and not designed for the average heft of a trumpet.
I’m sure it’s this. Everything about this, down to the variable delays that different customers endure, screams out that this is a shady, shoestring operation stalling until they finally hit minimum order quantity with their drop-shipper in China.
That is certainly the highest “setup complexity to punchline payoff” ratio I’ve seen in a while. I’m not laughing exactly, but I am impressed.
I absolutely adore my kiddo and find meaning in my role as a dad that I did in very few other things I’ve done in life.
That said, it definitely does change your life in a way where you will not be able to prioritize the things that are just for you anymore. I am both deeply happy to have become a parent and simultaneously very glad that my wife and I waited and got our finances in order and traveled and lived our life as a couple for almost a decade before we decided to be parents. For parents whose story wasn’t quite as deliberate, I can imagine a lot of conflicting feelings.
In my estimation, its biggest fans, often (but not always) folks who are also Discovery’s loudest detractors, overpraise it. It was made by a TNG superfan to let him be a TNG captain acting out TNG scripts with TNG production values and TNG acting, and – for good or ill – with his particular sensibilities about what makes doing so fun. It definitely gets much better than the first couple of episodes, once they’d successfully tricked Fox into thinking it was a full-on Galaxy Quest spoof, and overall I enjoy it, but it has its issues.
wHaT dO yOu MeAn I dOn’T hAvE tO rEaD tHeM!?
My groom’s cake at my wedding was Tux.
I’m not even particularly hard core, lol. I still dual boot my desktop because of CAD, and I have to look up most console commands more complex than cd and cp and apt, but I’ve been using Linux off and on for over twenty years.
Counterpoint: it was nowhere near as good as its ratings warranted, and shows featuring stock characters slinging zingers amid half-assed farce plots are a dime a dozen for most of TV’s history.
It’s okay. I think they’re dealing with the stupid version of TLaw today.
Ironically, the Jags with their splashy offensive HC hire are looking like they’ll live and die with the D this year.
99.99% sure it is. That looks like the old classic: Lasso Select, Adjust Hue.
While I’m glad they aren’t entirely ignoring the elephant in the room, what I’m humbly suggesting is that they’re wrong. It’s a rather inadequate compromise, and you might as well just use RetroArch on a tablet, which could get closer to the original screen size anyway.
If the gameplay itself hits your nostalgia feels, then okay, modern gear can make it playable and… fine. But vector CRT games were just so deeply tied to the way the CRT worked that you can never properly capture their spirit in raster form, especially on a tiny and so-so panel. I’m not even much of a purist, but vector is special and this… isn’t.
Other than them, though…
Christopher Lloyd, Kirstie Alley, Adam Driver, Robin Williams, John Goodman…
Fuck. It’s almost like it was a recognized – if admittedly challenging – career path.
Experience the spirit of the original Vectrex
AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600
These two thoughts are not compatible.
One. It already looks like the sugar spoon my kid always picks first for her meals anyway.
That was the most Jacksonville way to win a football game ever, but I’ll take it.
Or the same play, Lol! DUUUUVALLL!
Slurm is still better.