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Woah, what the hell? They're running Ranma? I'm guessing censored and suchlike, but that's still a bit of a surprise. I vaguely remember them saying they'd never-ever run it, years back.

Also 08th's getting another run. Nice. Shame I don't watch TV

I am aware of all of that. Psychology advances. The church does not. They will always damn people who are different.

Nrghle. I hate actually supporting the religion side, if only because almost every modern practitioner I've seen basically piss on the face of whatever their major spiritual leader is, but I do have to point out that church =/= religion and organized religion =/= the breadth and depth of spirituality. The church does advance, though slowly, and the latter two can be incredibly helpful on a lot of different levels, it's just... well. Most people I've seen who claim religious preference don't even remotely do what's needed to be done to take advantage of that help, to put it lightly.

That doesn't necessarily mean that religion is a flawed and useless thing, but it does seem to implicate that it doesn't have a very good success ratio, so to speak. Psychology seems to do a little better, especially the bits of it that aren't wrapped around big pharma's reproductive organs. I'd take a counselor over most priests any day of the week, but psychiatrists can blow me, in other words.

I'm not sure why you'd compare religion to psychology in the first place given that they're completely irrelevant, though.

No, no, there's definitely connections between the two. The priest most definitely did take the role of counselor and mental health physician in the past, at the very least. Religious practice is definitely slanted toward engendering certain behavioral practices, same as psychology.

It's definitely not a direct correlation, though. Most of the psych. aspects of religion aren't exactly the direct goal, unlike with psychology.

So I'm confused.  Did Obama put his name on ACTA or not?

It's considered an "executive agreement" according to that article, so it basically doesn't matter whether he did or did not specifically put his name on the treaty. It's being enforced by the branch of government he's at the top of and a big enough deal that he pretty much cannot be ignorant of it. It went through with his approval, even if not specifically with his signature.

I haven't seen a list of names specifically put on the treaty, though. Considering the continuing refusals to bring the negotiations into public purview, it might be a bit before that comes out.

Wait, the NES one, right? Or... or the MSX2 one?

Actually played the NES version a bit, years back (via a particular bit of technosorcery). I'm not even entirely sure what an MSX2 is, heh.

FSM, maybe... I'd think more along the lines of Hermes or something, really. One of the various gods of messengers or knowledge, I guess. Inherent semi-degenerate nature of a lot of the content aside, the sheer marvel of the speed at which information moves in this place is definitely god-tier as far as old myths and such are concerned.

Maybe if Zeus and Hermes had a butt baby or something. It's definitely a Grecian god, as far as major western mythos goes, though. Not many other of the big ones involve sufficient debauchery.

Also derail? Yes, derail. RERAIL!

The dwarf fortress steam group chat thing... probably. Unless Telle's got a fondness of the other DFC. Of which there's probably several chats related to the appreciation thereof, but none specifically connected to the Bay 12 community... that I know of.

Mundane sadness: Foodbag (which is basically just a ostensibly-laundry bag stuffed with foodstuffs) is down to four single-meal bags of (actually edible microwaved) rice. Once that's gone, nothing but ramen left for nonperishables. I hate grocery shopping as much as I do any other type of shopping, but I guess another trip's coming soon. Bleh.

For reference, foodbag usually has somewhere between a month to two months worth of nonperishables in it. Four rice bags won't even last a week Four days, if I do the eat-at-7-8pm once a day thing.

Though there's ramen still. Two or so weeks worth, if I ate nothing but. M'never really comfortable about food supplies unless I've got four or five weeks worth of various nonperishables in the foodbag, though.

Anyway, time to go finish cooking rice. Breakfast is always the first meal of the day, even at nineteen hunnard hours.