💀 Announcement trailer for DIOXIDE, a first‑person tactical shooter from Byte Barrel (makers of Forgive Me Father). A SOULSLIKE set in a bleak corporate dystopia.
You play a rebel equipped with a Core‑ID that brings you back from death, instantly marking you as public enemy #1. Explore smokey factories, toxic slums and gated elite districts; fight mass‑produced hunters and enforcers, craft and deeply modify your arsenal, r...
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⚡️Meet DIOXIDE, a stylized soulslike FPS from Byte Barrel (the team behind Forgive Me Father).
A tactical first‑person shooter set in a collapsing corporate dystopia: your character gets a Core-ID that lets you respawn after death and instantly becomes hunted. Explore smoky factories, toxic slums and gated elite districts; fight mass‑produced hunters and enforcers, craft and deeply mod weapons, build a secret safehouse for survivors...
REPLY: "it’s not really up to you to “forgive,” a negative selective pressure." #ContextAssertion
#Perfection #Forgive #Forgiveness #WhyForgive ?
BILL MOYERS: So we tell stories to try to come to terms with the world, to harmonize our lives with reality? #WithReality
CAMPBELL: I think so, yes. Novels — great novels — can be wonderfully instructive. In my twenties and thirties and even on into my forties, James Joyce and Thomas Mann were my teachers. I read everything they wrote. Both were writing in terms of what might be called the mythological traditions. Take, for example, the story of Tonio, in Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger. Tonio’s father was a substantial businessman, a major citizen in his hometown. Little Tonio, however, had an artistic temperament, so he moved to Munich and joined a group of literary people who felt themselves above the mere money earners and family men.
So here is Tonio between two poles: his father, who was a good father, responsible and all of that, but who never did the thing he wanted to in all his life—and, on the other hand, the one who leaves his hometown and becomes a critic of that kind of life. But Tonio found that he really loved these hometown people. And although he thought himself a little superior in an intellectual way to them and could describe them with cutting words, his heart was nevertheless with them.
But when he left to live with the bohemians, he found that they were so disdainful of life that he couldn’t stay with them, either. So he left them, and wrote a letter back to someone in the group, saying, “I admire those cold, proud beings who adventure upon the paths of great and daemonic beauty and despise ‘mankind’; but I do not envy them. For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. All warmth derives from this love, all kindness and all humor. Indeed, to me it even seems that this must be that love of which it is written that one may ‘speak with the tongues of men and of angels,’ and yet, lacking love, be ‘as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.’ ”
And then he says, “The writer must be true to truth.” And that’s a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting—the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. And when the writer sends a dart of the true word, it hurts. But it goes with love. This is what Mann called “erotic irony,” the love for that which you are killing with your cruel, analytical word.
MOYERS: I cherish that image: my hometown love, the feeling you get for that place, no matter how long you’ve been away or even if you never return. That was where you first discovered people. But why do you say you love people for their imperfections?
CAMPBELL: Aren’t children lovable because they’re falling down all the time and have little bodies with the heads too big? Didn’t Walt Disney know all about this when he did the seven dwarfs? And these funny little dogs that people have—they’re lovable because they’re so imperfect.
MOYERS: Perfection would be a bore, wouldn’t it?
I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.
Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.
I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.
I'll #say this.
All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.
But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.
It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.
If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.
You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.
With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.
That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.
Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.
But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.
🛐🩷🌐🌏🧡🛐(Lord!*Help Us Forgive!)👑
Our sins were countless!*Like the sand on the shore!*We should be grateful that the Lord!*He’s not keeping a score!*👉
No!*His love erased them!*They washed away when!*He hung!*& died on the cross!*& paid the payment!*👉
It can be hard to forgive!*There’s no pretending!*But we’ve been changed by a grace!*That’s never ending!👉
*BY~Songwriters:
Bob Kauflin, Jon Althoff
🛐🩷🌐🌏🧡🛐(Lord!*Help Us Forgive!)👑
*I’m trying to be patient!*I’m trying to be kind!*Do I have to forgive him?*The same thing seven times?”*👉
Our sins were countless!*Like the sand on the shore!*We should be grateful that the Lord!*He’s not keeping a score!*👉
No!*His love erased them!*They washed away when!*He hung!*& died on the cross!*& paid the payment!*👉
It can be hard to forgive!*There’s no pretending!*But we’ve been changed by a grace!👉
🛐🩷🌐🌏🧡🛐(Lord!*Help Us Forgive!)👑
Now!*Peter came to Jesus!*Because he was so confused!*If my brother keeps on sinning!?*Against me what should I do?👉
*I’m trying to be patient!*I’m trying to be kind!*Do I have to forgive him?*The same thing seven times?”*👉
Our sins were countless!*Like the sand on the shore!*We should be grateful that the Lord!*He’s not keeping a score!*👉
No!*His love erased them!*They washed away when!*He hung!*&👉
🛐🩷🌐🌏🧡🛐(Lord!*Help Us Forgive!)👑
How can we hold a grudge?*How can we fail to love?*Once we have known what mercy is?*Lord!*help us forgive!*👉
Now!*Peter came to Jesus!*Because he was so confused!*If my brother keeps on sinning!*Against me what should I do?👉
*I’m trying to be patient!*I’m trying to be kind!*Do I have to forgive him?*The same thing seven times?”*👉
Our sins were countless!*Like the sand on the shore!*We should be grateful that👉
🛐🩷🌐🌏🧡🛐(Lord!*Help Us Forgive!)👑
Our debt was satisfied!*On the cross when Jesus died!*& if we’ve been forgiven!*It’s gotta change the way we’re livin!*👉
How can we hold a grudge?*How can we fail to love?*Once we have known what mercy is?*Lord!*help us forgive!*👉
Now!*Peter came to Jesus!*Because he was so confused!*If my brother keeps on sinning!*Against me what should I do?👉
*I’m trying to be patient!*I’m trying to be kind!*Do I have to👉
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