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  • MMS is not a text message, it’s a media message (that’s what the M stands for).

    See, that’s interesting because I was always taught that “text message” is just an overarching term used to describe SMS and MMS. The notion that a text message is a synonym of SMS and only SMS is a new one to me!

    Yes, RCS chats are encrypted (supposedly)

    Good to know! Do you happen to know if the decryption keys are stored offline or on the carrier’s end? Because if the latter, then okay it’s more secure than SMS or MMS but only in the sense that some encryption is better than none. Lol.













  • Oh cool.

    Yeah, in Eternal, it seemed that once I got past the first few areas, if I didn’t do glory kills, I’d be, within seconds, nearly dead and almost completely out of ammo (if not out of ammo).

    You’re saying Doom 2016 isn’t like that?

    Like, don’t get me wrong, glory kills are awesome, but I feel they should be optional flairs to spice up gameplay, not a required function just to progress. That’s what bothered me. It effectively locked out of the game (a Doom game no less) anyone who didn’t like the glory kill mechanic. Personally, as a long-time fan of the franchise, that felt kinda cheap.







  • Atheist.

    As far as I see, there are 2 basic possible states for being(s) with regards to divinity: either they’re omnipotent or they’re not omnipotent. (Partial omnipotence may perhaps be great power, but it is still non-omnipotence by definition.)

    The Stone Paradox demonstrates that full omnipotence cannot happen; and any being, however powerful, that does not have full omnipotence is inherently no different than me or you and thus has no right to be considered a god.


    and if you switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?

    Well, I used to be a Christian, but only by virtue of being raised as one. As I grew older, I grew out of Christianity. It makes no sense to me from the perspective of the scientific method or Occam’s Razor. Also, my very traditional Christian family did not exactly live up to the Christ-like ideals of love and tolerance, so that definitely put me off it, I can tell you that much.

    As I got older, I tried other religions: Islam, Zen Buddhism, Earth paganism, various other forms of paganism. They were excellent experiences that taught me the value of different faiths but they were, in the end, not for me. I like the rock that the scientific method provides, and I like how it teaches and encourages critical thinking ability. With science, I don’t need to take some reverend’s word for it that a magical sky-daddy is watching me masturbate while my great-great-grandmother judges me from past the celestial gates. I can be confident to know that it’s far more likely they’re dead in the ground, disintegrating back into the earth from whence they came.