Neil Banging Out The Tunes Homestuck Style

I wonder if I’ll ever let go of the fact that they used nephilim in the singular when it is in fact the plural

What are your thoughts on what a kirby rpg would look like?

First of all. It should be directed by Kumazaki and written by Mie Takase. Then it will be 11/10 by default.

But that aside, in terms of gameplay I think there's lots of possibilities of adapting Kirby's copy ability into jrpg mechanics. I think I would make it so Kirby would be basically this game's Eevee but ADVANCED. He can change his "typing" from "normal" after defeating certain enemies and he can keep it, but he won't be able to level up after certain point if he keeps it on to balance things out. Which would force the player to change up his copy abilities and try different ones, levelling up various skills.

To balance things out, I think party members that are not Kirby also should have the ability to use copy ability typings, but not the same way Kirby does. It would work like elements in Star Allies where they are applied on their base ability (for example, Dedede's Hammer) which allows for wider variety of coverage and potential new skills. Here it doesn't have the same limitation as Kirby, but since party members are stuck with the same base typing all the way, it's encouraged to mix things up to allow for better strategy.

Of course this idea still needs some fleshing out, but I think I explained the gist of it.

Also, while I think it will be turned based, I want it to be turn based in the same way Mario RPGs are, you have action elements in the gameplay. Blocking, dodging, pressing button at the right time to make your hit more meaningful. Said action elements would change up depending on what kind of typing you currently have.

HEARTBREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: Kaneko is back and he's making art for a fucking NFT/blockchain game

I feel like a lot of the biblically accurate angel crowd seem to feel like depictions of angels are too "boring" or they're not religious themselves and think angels are only depicted in the Bible/Christianity. Which is doing such a big disrespect to the gorgeous Jewish and Islamic artwork of angels from hundreds of years ago!

Oh yeah, I saw this all the time when researching this for the Fan Myths last year. Any jokey memes about it are inevitably founded in earnestness.

Even here, "boring babi halo dog" is much closer to reality (relatively) than some imagined "eldritch" nightmare which as a concept has barely been around for 100 years. 😭 At this point, it's basically a test to see who does or doesn't possess enough perspective to see through the meme.

You're right though. While I can't think of much Jewish angel art prior to the 20th century, angels in Islam are imagined quite beautifully with their often kaleidoscopic bird wings.

Your article about JJCAT has irreparably rotten my brain. I randomly ran into a post on Reddit about the Sakafuneishi stone (which apparently nobody really knows what it was made for) and my first thought was "yo that really looks like the sefirot" lmao

It's funny,because my brain was also damaged recently (not irreparably,thankfully)

Here is the stone:

This is the only day you can RT this

honestly a Warhammer collab could be kinda neat (though im mostly familiar with 40k) i like the concept of a space marine screaming "HERESY!!" when he see japanese teenagers summoning demons

Putting aside outliers like Sonic, what series would you think would be a good fit for a Dx2 collab?

Something that immediately comes to mind is Court of the Dead.It's basically a collection of lore to sell expensive statues and other merch of its collection of characters, but I like some of its designs:

I can't say I'm really in to the property, whose best days seem behind it, but it's more or less the American equivalent in quality/tone to the less-than-stellar JP series you'd see Dx2 collab with, like Seven Deadly Sins.

Ah, Dx2, you're the perennial "break glass in case of SMT main series doldrums," such as what we're in now.

A claim repeatedly brought up online, in some media, in antiquated “scholarly” works, as well as seemingly in the online lectures of a certain Canadian self-help guru who shall not be named here is that the „storm god slays chaos serpent” motif – so called “chaoskampf” - found especially commonly in the mythologies of ancient Middle East and Anatolia represents some allegorical tale about the fall of primordial matriarchy and associated religious figures, or a broader triumph of some abstract masculine principle over feminine. This assumption is entirely ahistorical, and its spread is only possible due to the fact that despite being among the oldest recorded stories of the world, the myths of Mesopotamia and culturally related areas remain largely unknown to the modern audience, making it easy for various dubious authorities to claim they contain what’s not exactly present in them. See, the problem is… the „chaos dragons” in most versions of this narrative aren’t even female. Additionally, most if not all of them aren’t vilified echoes of older figures, but merely antagonists devised for already popular gods and heroes and figures which belonged in both these categories at once to defeat. They’re not demonized “primordial earth and sea mothers” or whatever, they’re cheesy, hammy over the top saturday morning cartoon villains of their era. Like the titans in Greek mythology, Apep in Egyptian, and so on, the likes of Tiamat, Yam or Illuyanka never served a purpose different than that of an antagonist for an established figure. And, most importantly, only one of them, Babylonian Tiamat, famous for her role in the Enuma Elish (the epic describing the deeds of Marduk, the lead god of Babylon) and not much more, is female – and even Tiamat was likely developed based on older figures of such mythical antagonists, like Ugaritic Yam.

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