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So I just looked up how old he was when he died. He was 92.
Godsdamn there is no justice in the world. This bastard makes it past 90 and Terry Pratchet dies at 66, suffering from early onset Alzheimer's before that.
Always have to wonder if there was ever a soul who was brought to Jesus by reading that crap.
Even if one had a preference for fundamental Evangelism, folks should know poorly-written garbage when they see it.
Though his stuff was also so funny it's hard to think he was serious. You can go to places like Fundies Say The Darndest things if you want to hate-read some real garbage, but not too much of it is actually funny.
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The aggadah, homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, treat Gog and Magog as two names for the same nation who will come against Israel in the final war. The rabbis associated no specific nation or territory with them beyond a location to the north of Israel, but the great Jewish scholar Rashi identified the Christians as their allies and said God would thwart their plan to kill all Israel.
Early Christian writers (e.g. Eusebius) frequently identified Gog and Magog with the Romans and their emperor.[70] After the Empire became Christian, Ambrose (d.397) identified Gog with the Goths, Jerome (d. 420) with the Scythians and Jordanes (died c. 555) said that Goths, Scythians and Amazons were all the same; he also cited Alexander's gates in the Caucasus. The Byzantine writer Procopius said it was the Huns Alexander had locked out, and a Western monk named Fredegar seems to have Gog and Magog in mind in his description of savage hordes from beyond Alexander's gates who had assisted the Byzantine emperor Heraclius (610–641) against the Saracens.
The thing with Chick Tracts, I suspect, is that most of the people handing them out have probably never read them. It's just somebody's grandma thinking "what can I do to help all these young people find The Lord?", and hearing about him at church. So she orders a box and starts handing them out, because the young people, they allegedly love the comic books, don't they? But never reads them herself.
I'd bet that the True Believers, who read through a Chick tract and go "Yes! YES! THIS IS GOOD, THIS MUST PROPAGATE !", those are probably a pretty small minority of distributors.
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They still have the thing I dislike in Sierra adventure games where you can fuck yourself out of the end of the game, but eh.
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yeah it's harder to do in those than others, except in the third one, it's pretty easy to do but that game was kind of a shitshow in a lot of different ways
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My favorite "Sierra fucks over the player" moment is either Space Quest 2 having a monster that kisses you early on which makes a chestburster kill you on the second-to-last screen of the game
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the bridge in King's Quest 2 that breaks after you cross it a precise number of times, the number of times being exactly the number of times you should cross it.
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yeah I don't know what the hell Roberta Williams was thinking
being married to her must be like playing Wheel of goddamn Fortune
like FUCK YEAH MOSES YOU CALL DOWN THE WRATH ON THAT FUCKIN' HUGE STONE WALL
and then it was actually super dull
also it was an infuriating experience because in between levels you had to play bible trivia for extra lives and it did not have the right answers
let me tell you, nothing pissed off 8-year-old me like incorrect trivia
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what exactly is wrong with the anatomy
alex ross knows what he is doing
i get that the character evokes liefeld (because he is supposed to - he's a critique of the "grim and gritty" era of 90s comics) but I don't think there are actual technical fouls there
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Godsdamn there is no justice in the world. This bastard makes it past 90 and Terry Pratchet dies at 66, suffering from early onset Alzheimer's before that.
Even if one had a preference for fundamental Evangelism, folks should know poorly-written garbage when they see it.
Though his stuff was also so funny it's hard to think he was serious. You can go to places like Fundies Say The Darndest things if you want to hate-read some real garbage, but not too much of it is actually funny.
unless you're Alex Ross in which case it is that and also anything else you might ever need it to be for any comic you write, ever
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Fun fact: Nobody actually knows what nation "Magog" is supposed to refer to!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog
I'd bet that the True Believers, who read through a Chick tract and go "Yes! YES! THIS IS GOOD, THIS MUST PROPAGATE !", those are probably a pretty small minority of distributors.
No, that's Manannan.
A name I always thought was just 'Manhattan' when I was a kid.
So maybe one? And if so, look how that turned out.
I don't know. Bad anatomy, bunch of pouches.. No feet. Very Liefeldian
remember Commander Keen
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Yeah, I was banned from playing it because there was a jumping wolf monster in one section and I guess that was bad??
Which honestly was most of them
as a result, I'm real bad at Doom and such
the crazy thing is that because it's alex ross, he was definitely painting it from a life model
so he had that guy standing right in front of him and he still came out looking like that
These are strong contenders, at least.
They still have the thing I dislike in Sierra adventure games where you can fuck yourself out of the end of the game, but eh.
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the bridge in King's Quest 2 that breaks after you cross it a precise number of times, the number of times being exactly the number of times you should cross it.
being married to her must be like playing Wheel of goddamn Fortune
I am even somewhat fond of The Dig.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(video_game)
the cover makes it look fuckin' sick
like FUCK YEAH MOSES YOU CALL DOWN THE WRATH ON THAT FUCKIN' HUGE STONE WALL
and then it was actually super dull
also it was an infuriating experience because in between levels you had to play bible trivia for extra lives and it did not have the right answers
let me tell you, nothing pissed off 8-year-old me like incorrect trivia
alex ross knows what he is doing
i get that the character evokes liefeld (because he is supposed to - he's a critique of the "grim and gritty" era of 90s comics) but I don't think there are actual technical fouls there