the blog of a disabled mother who likes to game, and "get in the pit"
Well, I had given a SEO plugin a try for a little while, but since it didn’t deliver the results that I had hoped for, I figured that there was no harm in getting rid of it. After all, I’m about saving space when and where I can.
But at any rate, it figures that I would like this song for multiple reasons, so here it is.
Since I have a copy of all major Bibles here in the house (and various… study guides, and supplementary materials, that go along with them), I want to actually take the time to read all of them cover to cover. Whenever the time does come that I actually commit to that and start it, I want to post about it here — I’m not sure when I’ll schedule the posts, as I’ve begun to get back into the habit of scheduling some posts to go out in advance, although it would be ironic if I scheduled some of these posts to go out on Sunday mornings.
Although it is said, and is generally true, that non-believers have read more of and know the Bible(s) more than their believing and worshiping counterparts, I want to go one(, two, or three…) further. I can see this actually causing migraines, having to read and stomach the contents of these — with the exception of LaVey’s The Satanic Bible and counterparts — although I already know in advance that it’s not going to convert me anywhere else other than to more fortified Satanism. I’ll post more about it here when I’ve committed to a starting date to this and have begun to plan out in what order I will read what “holy” text.
Better late than never to this review, right? Not that we haven’t already been playing it…
If you’re new to the Animal Crossing franchise, it is a vacation simulation series (although the semantics, and specifics, of each vacation site do vary with each game) which puts you at the mercy of a fictional character named Tom Nook who you need to “pay back” for things like building your house and what have you. This is intended to be the primary motivating factor in playing the game, although this also serves to drive the storyline as well since the amount that you owe him is almost prohibitively expensive — at least in my opinion — and is intended to take a long time to pay off. You build a house, manage a town of your own, invite villagers to your town with the goal of making them as happy as you can to keep them there, and fulfill various storyline-driven quests as you ultimately save up enough Bells (in-game currency) to pay Nook back. (That is, unless you play the Stalk Market, the game’s equivalent of the stock market, and manage to “make it rich” selling your turnips — which in New Horizons, you can buy Sunday mornings — back on your island or someone else’s island on a day when Timmy and Tommy are buying them for a really high price, and then you can practically pay Nook back all at once, or over the time span of a few days. That was exactly what Bub and I wound up doing, and it was glorious. Our home loan is now permanently paid off. See ya, Nook!)
Although I’m the sort of person who likes, barring Bub deliberately cuing that he would like to play the game, to take breaks from games to avoid burning out on them and then not wanting to touch them for awhile, I would have to say that I really like this game, and it’s been handled really well for the most part. There are the occasional seasonal storylines (such as Bunny Day for Easter) that pop up that you can participate in — that one I absolutely loved. GIVE ME THE BUNNIES. The fact that you can also play it so easily with your friends if you have a Switch subscription is great as well. I don’t really have anything negative to say about the game so far and would pretty much recommend it to anyone who likes Animal Crossing, is looking for a nice, family-friendly game to play with their friends (online or solo), or is looking for a great game in general.
Getting back to the whole “visual novels are just as valid, and real, games as “real games””…
· My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?
· Strawberry Vinegar
· The Fox Awaits Me
For the sake of this post, I’m not even going to count the dating sim that Steins;Gate came out with.
Not all of them are bad — actually, quite the contrary, these games… aren’t bad at all. But I’d be lying if I said that Nintendo hasn’t released some downright peculiar visual novels on the Switch in at least the last year.
I suppose that the visual novel niche has become so marketable that this had to happen at some point.
I don’t exactly mind, because the plots aren’t the worst in the world. But they are a… bit… peculiar.
When I first began to explore Satanism, I was drawn to the Church of Satan because I had (well, I should say have, heh) friends who are members of varying ranks of that… denomination? Church? However you accurately word that. Knowing that it was the first true religion devoted to Satanism founded and that I did have several friends that were members initially drew me to it, although the initial cost to join — even if it would only have to be paid once and it was good for life — put me off. However, engaging with various… dissidents of Jake Eakin’s on his Facebook wall, and also having friends who were members of The Satanic Temple, also introduced me to them, and I began to do some research on The Satanic Temple after their documentary, Hail Satan? was referenced (which, I’m not even going to lie, intrigued me in an extremely good way… because not only do I now have a copy of that, I’ve been watching it in piecemeal after the boys are in bed during the evenings, and I am making progress getting through it given our sometimes downright busy daily schedules). I realized that I appreciated The Satanic Temple’s more left-leaning politic stances and the fact that they were not afraid to get political or litigate in court over matters that were important to them as a whole, and I found their members more personable and easier to talk to (at least those I’ve spoken to).
I also have a copy of the book that was written about them that I was given as a late Mother’s Day present.
I’m not one of these who is going to go “my denomination is better than your denomination,” even though some people… do that, I guess. The Satanic Temple is just the… branch, or denomination, of Satanism that best meets my personal needs. Personally, I feel that Satanists have more common ground than they have things that drive them apart. And Baphomet is adorable, especially when he’s drawn and colored in pastel. As I’ve mentioned before, some people see joining “the proper faction” as a prize to be won — I see that reminiscent of Final Fantasy X-2, and I’m more content to find that someone actually is a Satanist and that person to be one less person that I have to worry about aggressively trying to evangelize me into theism, especially Christianity, who has denominations that are particularly notable for their apologetics. If that makes me a bit of an eccentric Satanist, well then so be it. Being a Satanist is eccentric enough. I don’t mind.