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Had an interesting train of thought today. The gamers Anons will get a kick out of this one . . .
So the company Sony recently has been having a rough time of it. They acquired two studios, one of which produced a colossal flop for them, and the other of which is currently on track to do likewise.
First, they acquired Firewalk which developed the failure of Concord at an estimated cost of half a billion dollars, after considering acquisition, development and marketing.
Second, they acquired Bungie which is currently developing Marathon at an estimated cost of 3.6 billion, again after considering the same costs.
Each game has the same D.E.I. nonsense shoe horned in, even after the market has shown that such initiatives are not only unpopular among gaming audiences, but lead time and time again to disastrous sales and loss of revenue. In Bungie's case, they were just caught in an asset theft scandal on top of the notable signs of D.E.I. in their game.
What caught my attention earlier today was the name of each of these productions. Marathon and Concord. For the Anons who study history, these names should ring quite the bell.
The Battle of Concord occurred on April 19th of 1775. We just crossed the 250th anniversary of this battle last month. It was famously the battle that proved a turning point in the Revolutionary War and put Washington and the Patriots on the path to eventual victory over the British Empire.
The Battle of Marathon was fought in 490 BC and saw the Athenian military win a total and decisive victory against the invading Persian army. This battle completely halted the Persian conquest of Greece and in many ways paved the future of Western civilization.
I thought it interesting that Sony would acquire two separate studios to develop clear and predictable flops, losing them nearly 5 billion dollars in the process, and just happen to choose such historically significant names as Concord and Marathon for the titles of these failures.
Q has posted about Marathon and Concord in the past as well.
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Sure does make you think if these flops in the gaming industry are some kind of psy-op or deliberate attempt to bring down D.E.I. across the entertainment industry. Rather reminds me of POTUS and the C19 situation with Warp Speed, and Captain Ramius turning his submarine into the torpedo's path before it could arm itself.
Rather than allowing D.E.I. to fester like a cancer, instead bring it into the spotlight and shove it in gamers' faces so that they collectively reject it and the industry can move on from the madness all the quicker.
Certainly resembles combat tactics to me!
Controlled demolition.
Good catch on the names.
The guy who dealt the biggest financial blow to sony was Michael Jackson.. Coincidentally he was best friends with Trump in the 90s and rented an entire floor in trump tower where they would hang out regularly.
Very interesting. And the whole DEI falls into the same strategy of "making your kid smoke a whole pack of cigarettes if you catching smoking, so that he will never ever touch a cigarette again" category. Same with illegal immigration, trans craziness etc.
Astute observations.
I'm not a gamer but believe you could be spot on! WH's are hard at work everywhere...
Faith is the reality of what we hope for, the proof of what we don’t see
Hebrews 11:1
😇 We just started Hebrews in Bible study. There’s a lot to unpack in that book.
Absolutely girl! Enjoy your study and share with us her..🤗
Seeing as how SCOTUS has told DT to run illegals through a process of being deported I'd say this is the best time for Trump to take a page out of Bidens playbook and completely ignore this ruling.
14th Amendment, Section 1: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." This amendment was written without the current invasion in mind, but we must obey it unless we repeal it, or are in continuity of government.
Good morning Frens on this May Q Day. Today I will introduce the concept of a Living Corporation. This is part of the rescue strategy to Save Man and Earth. The living Corporation is represented equally by God, Mother Earth and Man. 33,33,33. The last percentage is the Seed capital. Myself and a group of the World's Best and Brightest Minds will start painting the future forward by assigning working capital to top priority projects. God owns 17, Earth owns 17 and Man owns 17. Meaning all proceeds are divided equally between the 3 Pillars. That they have a voting control over the Corporation. The 48 is shared with the minority shareholders. These are all the living people on Earth. Everyone has a Living Share. As you walk or run through Life, you can expand your share participation by reaching Milestones within the 3 Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods. God, Earth and Man.
The Living Corporation will work with God's LOC and when the Living Corporation has paid down the entire Line of Credit in the next 1000 years. It will dissolve itself. God' Line of Credit is a massive Liberation from the tyranny of the Global Bankers. It is a tool to assist in the transfer from the old unstable currency into a stable financial system currency. Imagine if a Black hole is approaching the Sun and just before it engulfs the Sun, it is frozen in time and moved little by little to the other side of the Sun and reassembled in Harmony. Imagine if a Solar system is spinning out of control and we want to move to a near by Solar system. The Living Corporation will assist in the transfer by leaving all the bad behind and only carrying forward the good to the new Solar system.
I have struggled with finding a version of the Bible I can readily understand. I was told at a very young age that only the King James Version is all I should ever read from, and then to the disappointment of a few family members, I "committed the sin of reading a few other versions" along the way. I now have several different versions of the Bible strategiclly placed all around me. I keep one in my car, and one in each room, so I am never far from the comfort of His word. I have discovered that all versions have diffrences because "man" translated them, but all versions are meant to lead us closer to Christ. The other day I purchased a used Bible for my office at an old bookstore, and the person who owned that Bible before me had such a deep and tender relationship with Christ. I loved leafing through the pages and finding tender momentos she had tucked away in her Bible, as well as highlighted verses that brought her comfort and clarified soemthing she might have been going through at the time. I hope someday if someone gets hold of one of my Bible's, they will find the same thing!
Any translation into any language is only as good as it accurately communicates the sense of the original manuscripts it is supposed to represent. No single translation is perfect but God has blessed us with a multitude of witnesses and given us His Spirit to help us understand His comms. May God bless your hunger for His Word and satisfy you with His fellowship. Psalm 16:11.
King James English can be difficult, so your thoughts are understandable.
King James was meant to be kind of poetic for their time, with English vocabulary and meter in many instances. But modernly, hard to understand .
One guy I listen to reads from English Standard Version ESV
sample Exodus 20:2 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020%3A2&version=ESV
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Another friend sends me verses in Lexham, where they retain God’s name “Yahweh” instead of writing in” LORD”. — they don’t go overboard with the Hebrew as some Hebrew or Sacred Names translations do, so Lexham is still easy to read.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020%3A2&version=LEB
2 “I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.
For fun, here’s some King James language history. He was King Iames, j= “y” sound! The 1611 edition was “his Maiesties” if you can zoom in on the 4th photo of the cover here https://www.antiquebible.com/shop/p/1611-the-great-he-bible-first-edition-of-the-king-james-bible?
There was no hard “j” sound “dge” as in “judge” as we know it now.
check out the fine print on the cover here https://www.ebay.com/itm/265079356912
and here, “Iames by the grace of God, a biography of the King, facsimiles on pp. 24 and 26). https://archive.org/details/TheWorkesOfTheMostHighAndMightiePrinceIamesByTheGraceOfGodKingOfGreatBritaineFra/page/n25/mode/2up “J” was pronounced like a “Y” back in early 1600’s, so Jamestown, founded in 1607, would have been pronounced like “Yamestown” so the j, y, and i all had similar soundes, interchangeable, with the “dge” sound for “j” being developed later
Many of you know that I've taken up grass cutting as a stop gap measure until the economy improves. I wish I had a psychic drone that would fly through neighborhoods to gather data on who wants their grass cut.
+1 so you don’t feel ignored! over 40% of small business stocks on the Russell 2000 index are down 50% or more over the past year. I think I got in 7 hours of work in this past week, and not expecting things to pick up until autumn.
I recently interviewed the CEO for this game on Prayer Garden Podcast. Should have it posted tomorrow. I encourage you all to check out this game. If anyone has skills that could help...I encourage you to reach out. I think this game could be something special
https://www.noahvr.com/
the graphics look good for gaming, I don’t play much, but +1 for you and also Mod’s gaming comment in today’s General Chat.
The story line looks creative: days before the prophesied flood, near the time of Methusela’s passing, Noah’s sons go on a quest.
17 is a highly symbolic number: 17 is a number associated with the god Saturn. Saturnalia would be celebrated every December 17th when "the harvest was ready". Today is Saturday the 17th, which is also Saturn's day.
Not really sure where you got the 17 as a number associated with Saturn. Saturnalia is celebrated between 17th and 19th December, but other than that I couldn't find any connection.
According to Grok:
Hi BB, I haven't seen Blacksmith21 around for awhile. Do you know if he is still active on GAW?
interesting — on the Julian calendar, XVI Kalends Ianuarius = Dec. 17 in modern Gregorian calendar