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If an omnibenevolent God created a system in which existing without his involvement is an eternal torture, then I question his omnibenevolence. Especially if the best way to get that eternal torture is merely not believing something.

The omnibenevolence is a lie invented by believers (or, probably more specifically, proselytizers) in direct contravention to stated (and, assuming it exists in any sense even remotely similar in capability to what's attributed to it, observed) behavior, yes. This is true especially for the various abrahamic/monotheistic gods, but more generally as well. Existent reality just does not cohere to a tri-omni god in particular, nor a benevolent one less specifically unless it's remarkably powerless or ignorant.

Staggeringly little about the state of reality or attributed behavior in various religious traditions makes a single goddamn lick of sense if the divine was actually omnibenevolent, and it stretches things real hard just to be benevolent at all. The only way theologians have been able to even a little square that circle is by pissing all over the meaning of the word benevolent(/good)... which can be fun to watch if you're in the right mindset, but in most cases is just varying levels of infuriating. Religious language is interesting right up until it tells you god was being benevolent, actually, when it had your child die screaming in a fire, bleh.

Things make more sense if you acknowledge the divine are exactly as spiteful, petty, and murderous as they're described. It's a miserable sort of sense if you think they actually exist, mind, because it means everything is a spate of suffering wound up and manipulated by a omnipotent egotistical hatebeast that could at any time just slaughter pretty much your entire species on a whim, and is probably taking time to figure out how to torture (sorry, "test") you for its amusement, but it's at least coherent.

If there's a wise statement I've seen come out of religious belief, it's that if you meet God on the road, you should cut the miserable thing down.

Echo the congrats. Can only imagine it's a weight off the mind on several levels, heh.

There's something striking about looking at celeste and going, "But what if it had jiggle physics? "

... the sort of striking you probably refuse to pay money for, but for the price of bandwidth and pennies of electricity, eh. Sure.

*side eyes worries of bee extinction* Well... yes, but also no. Human consumption wouldn't be nearly enough to curtail the population of the bug species that are winning the total biomass competition, but our chemical warfare attempts and various environmental atrocities might manage in the end.

Please don't actually affix red hot metal to your face.

... that said, scarification does generally prevent hair from growing back in the area in question, so if you brand the relevant parts of your face, it probably wouldn't grow back in!

Oh, there's some hyperbole, just... not much. A sliver. There's still stuff out there that hasn't been R34'd, it's just. Less than what has, by and large.

Anything particularly well known or well loved (or hated), though, yeah, someone's prawned it. Something like hitler's small peanuts so far as esoteric R34 goes.

SEX & HITLER Presents: Himmler & Streicher

Rimmler. It'd be Rimmler in that case.

... probably Sudoku RPG? Not sure if expected to hate is the right framing, but I definitely wasn't expecting to like it all that much, bought it cheap on a lark wanting to see how they managed to design involved, basically, and my previous experiences with sudoku in general was largely somewhere between "meh" and "why am I interacting with this nonsense".

Ended up flawlessing the campaign and one of the hell boards over the course of about 35 hours of play. Not sure if I've been converted to sudoku in general, but I definitely ended up with more appreciation for the puzzles than I started playing the game with.