ballskicker

joined 1 year ago
[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I'm enjoying it, tried a few different rogue builds and doing a sorc right now, fireball then probably switch to lightning spear when I get the right gear. Doubt I'll be playing this season for much longer though since it's shorter and I don't wanna burnout right before the expansion. Plus I'm a simp for Age of Mythology so that's gonna be my September.

I also finally beat Lilith and all the tormented bosses, I've really been enjoying the changes since season 4 and the reworked uniques for this season

[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Looks fantastic! And now you've inspired me to make myself one

[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This is something the wife and I have looked at doing for our next house but is clover less resilient to dogs than grass? We were figuring on natural stuff for the front yard but keeping grass in the majority of the backyard because of our pets

[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I went from AoE1 to OG AoM years and years ago and didn't think there was a huge jump in feel or quality, but I'm just a filthy casual that plays these on toddler difficulty because I want to relax when I'm gaming. If you're on my level then you really can't go wrong, it's a fun game that can be played in a very simple manner if that's how you wanna go about it.

[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

The guy suspended his practice in 2022 and somehow still got 3rd place in 2024 Best of Utah's "fertility doctor" category. That state ain't right. For so, so many reasons.

[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

And no recipe? Or at least type of cheddar and quantities of it and the jalapeños? I used to make an Asiago habanero bread that turned out real well

[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Enjoy the Mammoth caves! I went as a kid and it was a lot of fun. If I remember right, though, the humidity only gets worse in there... It certainly is a big change going from dry heat to the humid summers of that region, but depending on how long you're there it can do wonders for skin and hair so hopefully you get to at least enjoy that perk for a little bit

[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I was pleasantly surprised by it too, glad I ended up giving it a shot. Turned out to be a deeper movie than I was giving it credit for even if a lot of tropes still showed up throughout

[–] ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a real cognitive dissonance there. Their version of Christianity takes a back seat to politics because they've been told all these visions of grandeur about how "Jesus is coming back" and how they are the "sheep" and all those godless liberals are the "goats. They've been trained to look for reasons to feel persecuted even if they don't come directly out and say it, even if they don't realize it themselves. There's a real "us vs. them" mentality in a lot of those types of churches and they'll gladly go rub one out to stuff like where Jesus said to his disciples in one of the gospels that if people aren't for him then they're against him. Nevermind that one of the other gospels says the opposite. A lot of Christians I've come across just have this persecution fetish where any slight inconvenience or call for accountability from pretty much anyone (because their church won't take them to task over things) turns into a 'righteous' cry to their lord about how the godless Philistines around them are normalizing oppression and sodomy and trans rights or whatever and these holy little Christian's are the only beacon of hope in society even though they insist on treating anyone who isn't like them like absolute garbage. I'm not a social scientist or anything like that, hopefully people smarter than me chime in. But conservatives treat equity in a community like a zero sum game, you know? If poor people are given a hand up by the government then it's interpreted by these (at best) middle class Christians as an affront to their hard earned money. They worked for their income but "these filthy poors just get handouts at MY expense?" You can tell by their actions that they have absolutely nothing to do with Jesus regardless of how they try to present themselves. They're full of crap and they deserve to be treated as such.

Source: Grew up in a very conservative farming community, did all the church stuff, then moved away and found myself.

Also, I know I abused quotation marks but my bad on any grammar or spelling errors or general incoherence. I treated myself to vodka for dinner.