The Musings Of The Consensus

A recent anime discussion has prompted me to write about the most cringe-inducingly stupid moment of the second season of Code Geass and how it could have been avoided. And I mean THAT moment, the one where Zero gets backstabbed by the Black Knights over what amounts to a biased set of witnesses, a bunch of paranoia, a lot of poorly reasoned assumptions, an idiot seeking short-term gains making a judgment call they had no good reason to be making in the first place, and a leader whose biggest flaw was understandable but made the situation worse. Let's dissect the situation and analyze the stupid, shall we? 1. Zero (Lelouch vi Britannia) is accused of planning to sell out his own subordinates, based on an out of context conversation recorded between him and a member of the enemy with an obvious axe to grind (Suzaku Kururugi), and said proof is provided by another enemy (Schneizel El Britannia) who has every motive to profit from sowing dissension. This alone should have mad...

I'm currently using Linux MInt 19.2 as the only OS on my laptop currently, and since I discovered a few weird quirks of RPG Maker VX Ace and earlier (MV has native Linux support), here's a few points to things that won't work well and some issues to work around. 1. If using Steam, even though Proton works just as well as non-Steam Wine to make RPG Maker work fine, some things to keep in mind. A. Due to some weird issue, if you don't create a folder to dump all Steam Workshop items into and redirect all VX Ace projects to it, good luck trying to access the folders outside of the program itself. While Windows does this just fine, Linux is bit dense on this topic and forces you to do the step I just mentioned if you want to add resources to the project in any way, thanks to the goofy way Linux handles the Windows file structure and how Steam Workshop saves VX Ace projects. B. The X window interface and DirectX can mostly play nice, but any scripts that dynamically re...

Note: The original version of this post contained an error concerning Mormon positions on caffeine. There are Mormon beliefs advising against coffee and tea consumption, but not caffeine in general, this latter topic tends to vary in some Mormon circles. I would like to thank Sstavix of ChristCenteredGamer for the correction. Before I address the main topic the title addresses, I feel it important to get my own personal views about alcohol consumption out of the way first. I'm a teetotaler entirely by choice. I do not consider drinking to be a problem when done in moderation, and for those that can enjoy the occasional drink without it becoming a substance abuse problem I have no issue with. The Bible generally seem to concur with my personal beliefs on this topic, and I consider it's admonition against allowing alcohol to be a snare to sin and foolishness to be sensible for reasons of morality and health. That said, let's address how Christianity views the topic. C...