Ben Dolby

Husband, Father, Pastor. I spend my time between serving others in the Name of Jesus & dreaming about enjoying a Hobbit brew @ the Green Dragon.

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@Daniel_Ross622 I love Isaiah 55 nearly as much as I love Isaiah 25:6-9 & Isaiah 49 (especially 49:6).

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@Daniel_Ross622 It would only be worse if they were calling one side and not the other.

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@Daniel_Ross622 Easiest poll ever

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Death's gift for us is hopelessness. Death has been crushed under his feet.
Genesis 3:15, Deuteronomy 18:18-19, Isaiah 25:6-9, Isaiah 49:6 Ezekiel 18:23-32, and John 3:14-21 for starters. #PromisesmadePromiseskept

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@BY9muse Washington state. Keep pounding!

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@NVIDIAGeForce #GeForceRTX50

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@NVIDIAGeForce @hardlinenexus #GeForceGreats

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@TheRubenSaurus @masonxbradford Congrats to the winner. This was a fun giveaway with a question that helped me focus on a positive about SC.

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@TheRubenSaurus Server Meshing being available to all backers, PTU, Live Preview, and whatever else folks call it. 😊

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happy 70th birthday to the fellowship of the ring book. i don’t think i’ve ever read something that gives me as much comfort as this does 📚

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

In celebration of 70 years, here is Tolkien reading the walking song that Bilbo taught Frodo.

“Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread”

[Jared Huckaby, Prefers to Like Things @discolando]

If you follow Star Citizen, please RT. You can help me shout out a few people on this.

So @willpricedop leads our ISC Gameplay Capture Team and dropped the first version of this scene in chat as a gag this week. It was a, "Haha, this is funny, too bad we can't do it" moment...

But anyone who's ever worked alongside me will tell you that's usually the first and best reason I'll ever need to make something happen, and things started to move.

Meanwhile our brilliant @Kattercakes was already working on a brand update for the show. I have a tendency to be very "xtra" and she was working to finally realize what I'd tried to do when I invented this branding way back in 2016, and everyone on the team was thrilled with the results.

So, I finally had the logo I'd always wanted, and a kickass sequence that referenced the earliest days of the persistent universe (look up "Big Benny's Challenge" and @badnewsbaron if you don't know or remember) and my current life in the UK, what I needed now was a track to lay under it that could not only hold it all up, but elevate it beyond its combined parts.

I spent hours searching the libraries we had. Nothing fit. Nothing vibed. In desperation, I pinged @pedrocamacho at 12:39am in the morning.

Of course, he was working, too.

I was only looking for guidance, but he knew exactly what was needed, and he didn't hesitate to offer to create something special for our milestone.

We only had an evening to work. We'd need to extend the sequence to fit the idea. We had to create moments for the new title to reveal.

This was the 1,171 video I've made for CIG, and 500th in a legacy begun by others and entrusted to me by @banditloaf that I take as seriously today as I did when he asked if I could do it in 2015 and I summoned up a lifetime of bullshit to tell him I could. 😜

But not one of those 1,171 was made by me alone. It's people like Will and Kat and Pedro and so, so many more that enable me to still love what I do, it's people like Ben and Sandi and Chris that take chances on weirdos like me, and folks who's names and faces you don't see nearly as often as mine who keep taking those chances with me week after week.

It's 2:04am on another evening I can't sleep, and I just gave Twitter $4 so I could make this post. But my life doesn't get to be what it is without these people and others like David and Tom and David and Alex and Julian and Joe and Rena and Toby and Gemma and Vicki and Tyler and Elliott and more and more and I hope you'll forgive me taking this space on your timeline to say how much I love working with them.

Ups and down and ups and downs, but always with love and appreciation for those who came before, those who are here now, and those that'll help make the next 500. 💖

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@Daniel_Ross622 Although…there’s always a chance one (or more wasps) escape and becomes an Avenger against you. So the 40k approach is probably the best…

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@Daniel_Ross622 I’ve seen some videos of folk putting gasoline (I think, in a clear solo cup, and placing it around the nest until all the xenomorphs/wasps fall out from lack of oxygen the cup enclosure causes

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@Daniel_Ross622 I love this depiction of King Dain defending King Brand's slain body.

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@Daniel_Ross622 I'd LOVE to see Dain Ironfoot, King under the Mountain, fighting for an entire day over the slain body of King Brand before Dale & Erebor while Frodo and Sam are moving ever closer to Mount Doom after Frodo's capture & his mail shirt is in orc possession.

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@Daniel_Ross622 Everything for Aragorn & Arwen was gonna be wonky/awkward since she is pulled from the Appendices - trickier to weave that into the narrative.

Also, elves at Helm's Deep - nah, War in the North with Erebor, Dale, & Lothlorien under siege would be better.

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@Daniel_Ross622 I love the movies too. But continue to long for 30 Rangers of the North, their noble steeds, & Elrond's 2 sons to be with the Three Hunters through the Path of the Dead as it was in the book - horses not bolting solely due to trust in their Ranger companions