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Sounds politically-awkward.
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5·2 days agoSounds like that was most-likely ahistorical, and resulted from the paintings having been created in different societies in a different time.
https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/did-jesus-have-long-hair.html
In the Bible, there aren’t any verses describing Jesus’ hair. However, there are verses that describe how Jewish men took care of their hair according to the Law. Based on these verses, Jesus likely had neatly trimmed black hair, long sideburns, and a beard. Long hair was an exception. Most Jewish men had shorter hair.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/what-did-jesus-look-like
Iconic artistic depictions of Jesus, such as Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper or Michelangelo’s The Last Judgement, look nothing like a typical first-century Jewish man in the Roman province of Judea. While we have little solid evidence of what the real face of Jesus looked like, he probably did not resemble the paintings hanging in most Western churches and museums to this day.
The artist Bas Uterwijk created a photorealistic depiction of Jesus based on DNA and forensic anthropology.
If you’ve ever looked at depictions of Jesus around the world, he changes quite a bit…like, in China, Jesus and company can be pretty Chinese-looking, in African art, he can look pretty African, etc.
3·2 days agoI’ve never seen naptha (i.e. Zippo lighter fluid) do anything to any painted or finished surface, nor any of the plastics I’ve ever tired it on.
I’d guess that it’s probably bad news for natural rubber. IIRC, naphtha is similar to gasoline, and gasoline will mess natural rubber up.
That being said, I have a can of naphtha myself.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubber
The two main solvents for rubber are turpentine and naphtha (petroleum). Because rubber does not dissolve easily, the material is finely divided by shredding prior to its immersion.
Sounds like it.
One other thing to keep in mind is that it is (obviously, given that that’s how lighters that use it work) quite flammable in vapor form and the fumes aren’t great to breathe, so this is something you’d want to use in a well-ventillated area.
EDIT:
https://kleanstrip.com/solvents-and-thinners/vmp-naphtha/
Klean-Strip® VM&P Naphtha can be used in place of Paint Thinner for oil-based paint, varnish and enamel when a faster drying time is desired.
So I don’t think I’d want to casually get it on oil-based paint.
3·2 days agoHammerfight
Oh, yeah, I liked that one. Pretty unusual game. Kind of a faux Middle East setting, mouse-controlled aircraft using in significant part melee weapons. Not incredibly deep, but the core gameplay loop did a good job of sucking me in.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/41100/Hammerfight/
Brigador
https://store.steampowered.com/app/274500/Brigador_UpArmored_Edition/
CrossCode
The whole outfit looks 100% polyester
I would certainly hope so!
“‘Keep my decrees.
“‘Do not mate different kinds of animals.
“‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.
“‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
Ah, gotcha!
Escape Velocity also had a sequel or two done by Ambrosia Software themselves. I remember playing and enjoying them.
kagis
Escape Velocity Override and Escape Velocity Nova.
It looks like Ambrosia Software’s website is now down, so I assume that one can’t legally purchase it any more.
It looks like Escape Velocity was never ported to anything outside of classic MacOS, so playing it today probably entails obtaining a classic MacOS emulator and abandonware copies of the binaries.
While Endless Sky is neat and last I looked still getting expanded, it also didn’t have as much story content as the Escape Velocity series either (again, at least last I looked).
The image of each planet in Escape Velocity series (not really worth keeping IMHO, as they were saved at 8-bit depth) were done with KPT Bryce, a now out-of-print terrain generation and rendering software package. Probably one of the better-suited applications for it, as it was pretty good at letting one quickly turn out alien-looking landscapes. While there are newer terrain generation software packages, I have to say that Bryce did a lot of neat stuff and I don’t feel that there’s something that quite fills its “exploration” role in modeling and rendering software today. For example, procedural generation of textures using slope and altitude (so, for example, you could get rocky faces where generated terain was steep, or snow at high altitude on mountains).
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved
https://store.steampowered.com/app/8400/Geometry_Wars_Retro_Evolved/
While I wouldn’t personally set it that high, I did have a lot of fun with it myself.
Limbo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/48000/LIMBO/
ReCore
https://store.steampowered.com/app/537450/ReCore_Definitive_Edition/
The Way
https://store.steampowered.com/app/311010/The_Way/
Inside
https://store.steampowered.com/app/304430/INSIDE/
Unravel
Looks like it’s currently 75% off on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1225560/Unravel/
Cat Quest
Someone else mentioned this one; I linked to it there.
Death Squared
I definitely enjoyed the original Syndicate. While I like the aesthetic and the music, it isn’t an incredibly deep game, but I did like the thing. I could go for playing the thing in HD, 24-bit color, maybe upscaled graphics, and at a high framerate.
IIRC, Syndicate Wars didn’t review as well. I can’t recall whether I ever got around to trying it.
For anyone who hasn’t tried Syndicate, the game is a cyberpunk, squad-based isometric-view pixel-art game where one has to perform various missions to gain control of territory; might be assassinating someone, capturing someone, clearing enemies from an area, etc. Doesn’t have destructable terrain, though vehicles are destructable. Late game missions tend to have so many very-durable bionically-enhanced enemy agents charging at one’s squad that one has to keep the squad pretty much bunched up and using either rocket launchers or miniguns just spewing out a ton of firepower in their direction.
In its time, Syndicate was pretty well-known, though I dunno how many people born later would be familiar with it today.
https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/vczi8d/someone_donated_cubivore_one_of_the_rarest/
Someone donated Cubivore, one of the rarest Gamecube games of all time, to the thrift store I work at. I got to take it home and play it for a night.
Non-japanese copies are rare. Only about 5,000 were released to western audiences.
Huh.
I think that Senator Julie Daniels does have a valid point. People of one gender wearing clothing traditionally worn by the other is prohibited in the Bible:
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.
Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.
I mean, that’s pretty explicit.
And I suppose that one could call exposing children to view of an adult doing so obscene. Maybe society would be best off if we jailed people with the temerity to do such things.
On an entirely-unrelated note, I see that in the article’s picture, the senator cuts quite a striking figure in her pantsuit and with her short hair.
Sen. Julie Daniels, R-Bartlesville, awaits votes on a veto override during the Senate session on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (Photo by Janelle Stecklein/Oklahoma Voice)
I’ve had good luck with Goo Gone.
It has an extremely strong citrus smell (which I don’t think is an additive for smell, as it’s overpowering).
kagis
No, according to them, orange extract is one of the solvents.
https://googone.com/media/ingredient/goo-gone-goo-and-adhesive-remover-spray-gel-ingredients.pdf
Rock n Roll Racing
That was notable for having a pretty good soundtrack for the SNES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngua3njzHBY&list=PLXtoniNoeLvpgFcFnhfzi2SxEAI4jyIZr
I mean, Lemmy is social media. You might dislike centralized social media or something, but…