May 9, 2024: The May '24 Report is up.
News: April 23, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.13 has been released.
News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
News: November 21, 2018: A new Threetoe story has been posted.
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Granted! It runs on your soul.Granted! It is now a story-driven RPG with the most god-awful, cliched storyline you can imagine. It also costs $50.
I wish for the next version of DF.
Granted. You become the Never-Arnie. Arnold calls you up and says you're a little girly-man with a pencil neck.Granted: You get front row tickets to an all-morbidly-obese-male lingerie football game.
I wish for front row tickets + flight to a southern lingerie football league game.
Granted. Butterfree used Sleep Powder! Enemy Sirus falls asleep! Butterfree! Go back into your pokeball! Go Gengar! Gengar used Dream Eater! Enemy Sirus has "fainted".Granted, you receive DLC without the games to actually use them.
I wish for someone to give me free steam games.
Granted. You can manipulate your time, yes. In the sense that you can lie to people that your age is sixteen even if you're otherwise older or younger than that, with varying degrees of success.Granted. It's made by EA, is filled to the brim with anti-piracy software, and has a hundred dollars worth of extra content and special editions.
I wish for Cave Story the Second.
As is the Church of God Awaiting from David Weber's Safehold series. It is a stated goal of the main character to utterly destroy this church, so I'm kinda surprised that the fundamentalists aren't complaining about this."Magisterium" is obviously parody/satire of Catholic Church ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magisteriumes especially as it is inquisition+Inquisition+black legend of Inquisition+Inquisition)The Golden Compass, google search resulted in http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.aspSince I highly doubt that the term Christianity was ever used in those books, I call shenanigans. The series seems to be anti-religious in general, not anti-Christian.QuoteClaim: The 2007 film The Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.
Status: True.QuoteA Los Angeles Times article on the Golden Compass controversy noted that:
[Pullman]'s never hidden his skepticism about God or his rejection of organized religion. A quick Internet search turns up a 2004 essay he wrote deploring "theocracies" for a newspaper in his native Britain, and his own Web site states that he thinks it "perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it." "His Dark Materials" features a sympathetic character, an ex-nun, who describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake," while "The Amber Spyglass" concludes with the two child heroes participating in the dissolution of "the Authority," a senile, pretender God who has falsely passed himself off as the creator of the universe.
The Golden Compass, google search resulted in http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.aspQuoteClaim: The 2007 film The Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.Since I highly doubt that the term Christianity was ever used in those books, I call shenanigans. The series seems to be anti-religious in general, not anti-Christian.
Status: True.QuoteA Los Angeles Times article on the Golden Compass controversy noted that:
[Pullman]'s never hidden his skepticism about God or his rejection of organized religion. A quick Internet search turns up a 2004 essay he wrote deploring "theocracies" for a newspaper in his native Britain, and his own Web site states that he thinks it "perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it." "His Dark Materials" features a sympathetic character, an ex-nun, who describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake," while "The Amber Spyglass" concludes with the two child heroes participating in the dissolution of "the Authority," a senile, pretender God who has falsely passed himself off as the creator of the universe.
