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A Blue Oni Bouncer in the House of Opportunity
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"Kimu"
One gingerly practises the signing of this kanji character, his new name.
It has been given to him by that duplicitous old harridan Jinbaba. One cannot...
I wonder if it would be permissible for Kimu's character application to write a section by Kimu himself and then an account by Jinbaba filling in more detail about Kimu's background - things the Oni can't remember himself?
No. Get the original. The HD Collection butchers the games, it's a rushed, glitchy and terrible product.
Besides which, the higher resolution textures actually make the games look more terrible, since the grainy textures and the grainy camera filter worked to the benefit of the original...
Plus, there is the existence of modern pagan faiths who still worship the Norse and Egyptian gods today. Germanic Paganism and Kemeticism/Kemetic Orthodoxy, respectively. How 'dead' does a dead religion have to be in order for its gods to qualify as orphaned? I think more people in the world...
Not to mention Amerindian deities. Coyote's an interesting example, because in his earliest form he is the Aztec god Huehuecoyotl, and Aztec religion is of course extinct (a case might be made for the survival of Mictecacihuatl as Santa Muerte in Mexican Folk-Christianity, but I digress). Does...
If the cosmology became irrelevant to the gods upon the collapse of their religion, then the conclusion to be drawn is that human belief is what shapes reality. I have two problems with the 'Clap your hands if you believe' scenario.
First, there's a difference between playing an angel fallen...
Good point, there is something to be said for the element of the unknown. But not at the cost of the very nature of the gods in question, I should think. It cheapens the struggles of Ra against Apophis, of Tonatiuh against the Tzitzimime, of Odin against the Ragnarok - or of the idea of the...