I've said it before, the earliest Christians were as iconoclastic, destructive, and fanatical as Muslim fundamentalists today.
"You then have neither ordered the closure of temples nor banned entrance to them. From the temples and altars you have banished neither fire nor incense nor the offerings of other perfumes. But this black-robed tribe, who eat more than elephants and, by the quantities of drink they consume, weary those that accompany their drinking with the singing of hymns, who hide these excesses under an artificially contrived pallor – these people, Sire, while the law yet remains in force, hasten to attack the temples with sticks and stones and bars of iron, and in some cases, disdaining these, with hands and feet. Then utter desolation follows, with the stripping of roofs, demolition of walls, the tearing down of statues and the overthrow of altars, and the priests must either keep quiet or die. After demolishing one, they scurry to another, and to a third, and trophy is piled on trophy, in contravention of the law. … So they sweep across the countryside like rivers in spate, and by ravaging the temples, they ravage the estates, for wherever they tear out a temple from an estate, that estate is blinded and lies murdered. Temples, Sire, are the soul of the countryside…”
-Libanius (Oration 30 / Pro Templis, addressed to Emperor Theodosius I, c. 386 CE)
A indie dev has claimed Google’s Gemini AI revealed the exact name of an unreleased game character that only existed in a private Google Docs file.
According to the developer behind Operation Octo, a player asked Gemini about future content in the game. The AI responded with the name “Vantage Tripod”.
“Somehow, the AI spitted out the exact & highly specific character name ‘Vantage Tripod,’ which I had never mentioned to anyone.”
The developer says the name had never been shared publicly, posted on Discord, or added to the game’s files.
“The scarily accurate & very specific name ‘Vantage Tripod’ was never written anywhere except in my own Google Doc.”
After searching their Discord server history, he said there were no previous mentions of the name.
🎮 Steam accueille bientôt un simulateur de… grattage de testicules 😭
Ball Scratch Simulator est un jeu d'infiltration complètement absurde dont l'objectif est simple : se gratter discrètement les testicules dans des lieux publics sans se faire repérer.
Plus les témoins sont nombreux, plus le défi est difficile. Il faut attendre que les gens détournent le regard, choisir le bon moment… et éviter que votre niveau de suspicion n'explose.
Le développeur promet six environnements différents, des objets à débloquer, un système de score avec classements mondiaux et même un mode VR, où il faudra reproduire le geste en réalité virtuelle.
Le jeu est annoncé pour ce mois-ci sur Steam.
The common myth that Japan "kept true to its cultural values" is quite odd. The Meiji-era modernization program involved a heavy-handed purge of Buddhist monasteries, discarding of the traditional Japanese aristocracy (instead replacing it with a British-style peerage)...
Mi abuelo me contó la historia de que él ya sabía que el Titanic se hundiría, y dio el aviso a gritos, pero nadie le creyó, todos le miraron raro y lo echaron del cine