The Exigent Duality2024-03-12T06:05:31+00:00"Sniper""Angel"urn:uuid:57fd1eb7-6a4d-42c1-a083-14918cb38a66Emerging Light (Sniper)urn:uuid:10e68937-b5bb-4435-a98c-77eebbd346292024-03-12T06:05:31+00:00The Gospel reading this past Sunday made me think of many things. In the words of Jesus:<br><br>
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that the light came into the world,<br>
but people preferFourth Era Upon Us? (Sniper)urn:uuid:31c10247-491d-4c67-b825-5a15553df70c2024-03-09T10:33:41+00:00I was really sad to hear about Akira Toriyama's death, I just <a href="https://exigentduality.com/index.php?post=4393">mentioned</a> him in a post too! He's probably my favorite artist, along with Rieko Kodama-- and now both of them have moved on. God bleSteam Army Knife (Sniper)urn:uuid:4a9d32af-4ae9-4bf1-a830-c24799f0652f2024-03-02T15:25:39+00:00I got my PlayStation 5 "Remote Play" streaming to my Steam Deck OLED via "chiaki4deck", with HDR support! I didn't test extensively, but superficially compression artifacts are negligible-to-non-existent, as is latency.<br><br>
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<a href="pAffliction and Appeasement (Sniper)urn:uuid:04b82509-bdee-44cd-a157-3fe36f359b2a2024-03-02T09:10:38+00:00I recently had a <i>Catholic priest</i> say to a group of people I was among, "The church should <i>discuss</i> the issue of 'LGBT' people!" I didn't feel comfortable challenging him in front of the others, but thought to myself "There is nothing to discuSensations of the Unprecedented (Sniper)urn:uuid:13652db8-457d-4da8-a820-e1cf45e44bde2024-03-02T08:49:38+00:00The more that time progresses, the more it's starting to feel like the End Times. Each of these things <i>in isolation</i> are small, even trivial matters-- but they are coming so-frequently-as-to-be-daily, that when added together the cumulative effect pActions (Sniper)urn:uuid:7eb023dd-0b26-4caa-9bfc-5825ffaf6fa22024-02-23T14:50:27+00:00Very rarely do I read a games-related article and think it insightful and well-written-- yet <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/video-game-consoles-are-doomed-right-opinion">here</a> is an example. The author nails it: dedicated game boxes need to offBravo Mister (Sniper)urn:uuid:b7062875-1ddb-4c20-b6d4-a7ac27af895e2024-02-15T16:51:25+00:00I was justifiably critical of Maurizio Sarri in <a href="https://exigentduality.com/index.php?post=4408">this</a> post-- but maybe, just <i>maybe</i>, he will be able to, or already <i>has</i>, won back the dressing room? It's more tempting to write when Null Motion Vector (Sniper)urn:uuid:d53dcf7d-7b16-4714-af1d-614850bb28862024-02-13T18:28:50+00:00I really enjoyed <a href="https://gab.com/TuckerCarlsonTweets/posts/111899611741226185">this</a> interview with Vladimir Putin-- I found myself nodding along through essentially the entire thing, it's difficult to disagree with much of anything he said: h