I cannot wait until Gate Zero comes out. I've had it on my wishlist for some time.
I have created a criteria to base my future gaming off of.

Must be MMO or persistent multiplayer
Absolutely no non-Christian deity worship or deity-sourced powers (no gods, pantheons, altars, blessings, priests, divine magic, etc.)
No furry / anthro / beast race options (playable or major NPCs)
Arcane or learned magic is fine
Elemental / natural magic is fine
PvE-friendly content required (safe zones, PvE servers, or opt-in PvP only)
Crafting, building, or housing systems (the deeper the better)
Active playerbase in 2025 (not dead or <100 concurrent)
Actually released and playable now (or very close with confirmed global date)

I've been doing some research and have came up with these games that interest me.
War of Rights
Star Citizen
Albion Online
Myth of Empires
Corepunk
Avorion
…and Bellatores on the 2026 watchlist. English will be supported in the full release but is not supported in closed beta.

I am still researching to enhance my list of possible games to try out. The list might not be perfect and I still trying to refine it and might have to trim something out. Maybe one of them will actually work out.

Man's doctrine may change, but God does not.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. - Hebrews 13:8

Praying for you. I also am in a similar situation. Good luck and God bless!

Stopped_lurking said:

I asked about vitrification. Why shift the subject?

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Habit.

LizaMarie said:

My parents were born in the 1920's. My Grandparents in the 1890's. According to both my mother, and statistics, if anyone cares to look, it was not uncommon at all for families to lose at least one child under the age of one year, and even under 5 to disease, back in the early 20th century. Now look at today's statistics as we have herd immunity to many things. Of course lack of antibiotics and better medical care play into this too, but just look at pictures of children in an iron lung pre-polio vaccine, if you want to know if the polio vaccine is worth it.
The Hepatitis B vaccines for newborns was never mandated, only recommended. That means parents could refuse it before, so I don't understand why this new recommendation. It is just another sign to me that RF jr is unfit for this postion, and should never have been confirmed. Keep in mind also that most children including children as young as 3 months old go to daycare these days, as opposed to when I was growing up.
Babies have far less immunity to Hep B, and also Hep B is not like Hep C which is only transmitted by sexual contact or blood transfusions.
Hepatitis B can live on surfaces in room temperature for several days and can be transmitted to infants by relatives, in day care etc.

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All they did was adjust our recommendations to match those of most of Europe and many other civilized countries, spare us the fearmongering.

• Summary

• Trump says he can stop war
• Thai PM says mediation should be done through proper process
• Cambodia pulls athletes from SEA Games on safety grounds
• Malaysian PM says he spoke to Cambodian, Thai leaders

BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Thailand and Cambodia traded accusations of targeting civilians in artillery and rocket attacks on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump said he would try to intervene to stop the fighting and salvage a ceasefire he brokered earlier this year.
Clashes raged at more than a dozen locations along their 817-km (508-mile) border in some of the most intense fighting since a five-day battle in July, which Trump stopped with calls to both leaders to halt their worst conflict in recent history.

The Southeast Asian neighbours have blamed each other for the clashes that started on Monday.

'It's done': House Armed Services chair ends probe into boat strike

"It's done," Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., told reporters on Tuesday. "I've got all the answers I needed."

Rogers had previously pledged with Democrat Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., "rigorous oversight" of the Sept. 2 strike following The Washington Post report last month.

Larniavc said:

I think it’s more likely paradolia.

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In the absence of Starcraft movie for a very long time, I'd take anything. Many viewers seem disappointed by the film, but I thoroughly enjoyed it upon noticing the many similarities to Starcraft II.

As artificial intelligence reshapes the job market and the classroom, Catholic educators say their mission to form whole persons is more essential than ever.

Will Claeys, a junior at Thomas Aquinas College’s East Coast campus, isn’t overly concerned about whether his philosophy studies will be a liability in a job market that is becoming increasingly saturated with artificial intelligence (AI). If anything, they may be an asset.

“Right now, the AI job market is really valuing philosophy majors more than anyone else,” said Claeys in an interview with the Register. “They’re looking for people who can think conceptually and think in concepts.”

Amid concerns about the ripple effects of AI’s spread through the economy and culture, Claeys’ perspective is optimistic. Nonetheless, many Catholic higher-learning institutions are facing new questions about how potential upheavals in the job market may affect the relevance of a traditional liberal arts degree.

The issue of AI as it relates to liberal arts graduates “has come up multiple times, and the response is complex,” said Gregory Beabout, a philosophy professor and organizer of the “Pope Leo Series on AI and the Social Teaching of the Church” at Saint Louis University (SLU).

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People and groups weaponize the bible all the time. While I agree/disagree with certain points they stated, this is what happens when you have an institution rather than letting God lead you.

‘The government has no case. All they’ve proven is that my father is a good man, a man who loves God, a man who loves freedom, who loves truth, and loves his family.’​

Editor’s Note: EWTN News President and COO Montse Alvarado conducted this interview with Claire Lai, the daughter of Jimmy Lai, a leading free-speech voice and Catholic who is currently imprisoned in Hong Kong on national security charges. The interview aired on EWTN News Nightly on Dec. 8. The transcript, in which Claire highlights the suffering and strong faith of Jimmy, as well as her brief visit with Pope Leo XIV, is below. Watch the interview via the link at the end of the transcript.



Claire, this is the first time that you're coming forward to talk about your father's imprisonment, to talk about his case. Why did you choose this moment? Why now?

Well, we are coming to the end of his trial. While we're still waiting for a verdict, five years after he was charged, he is turning 78. We have waited a very, very long time for his cases to be resolved. And we do not believe that they will be through the domestic system. And our only hope is outside. And so that's why I'm here now.

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I do love Christmas though. This year I was excited to add another string of lights to our house. I got some flashing sidewalk lights this year too. I’m totally going to load this house with lights!

Are you aware that in Israel today there is a very popular movement to build the third temple ? The ”Temple Mount Faithful “ is just one group and certain prominent members of the Israeli government along with some false Christians are involved. Google the information about this, you may find it interesting.

Notre Dame’s Paolo Carozza argues that Big Tech’s influence is reshaping how we understand the human person — and says the Church must help recover a deeper vision of human dignity.

WASHINGTON — Paolo Carozza, a Notre Dame law professor and leading international human-rights expert, has long grappled with the threat to human dignity — earning him the notice of Pope Francis, who tapped him for a lifetime appointment to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

Today, as co-chair of Meta’s Oversight Board — created by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2018 to help restore public trust amid accusations of disinformation and censorship — Carozza has turned his attention to the challenges of the digital age, both in his role as a watchdog for the tech giant and in his academic work.

This isn’t a career shift. According to Carozza, Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads — recruited him to serve on its oversight board because of his extensive background in international human rights.

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So? The president only stated that Mary would go on to give birth to Jesus our Savior. There is
nothing contradicting what President Trump said.

The world will hear its own people. The world cannot hear GODS people. The truth of GOD is foolishness to them. Without the Holy Spirit no one can understand spiritual things. Jesus , the prophets and Apostles confirm this. They are of the world and the world hears them. It is their leaders, both religious and political that cause the world to err and destroy the way of their paths. The Apostle Peter tells us something very important, 1 Peter 1:12 , the prophets they were serving a future people who would be the church. I believe that after the death of the apostle John that massive deception began to enter. I believe that pagans in Rome that heard Paul preach abducted or kidnapped the Christian name and because they didn’t have the Holy Spirit created tremendous heresies. These are those men who crept in unawares and brought with them damnable heresies. Whose idea was the pulpit, who first came up with it ? Who Actually caused that period in history called the dark ages ? It was the eldest daughter of the harlot of Babylon and she would later be joined with her harlot sisters to form what is falsely called today Christianity. This, no matter how true, these worldly pulpits will never believe. Oh yes, they do have bits and pieces of truth and they know the buzz words but there is no unity but division, no agreement on doctrine or on leadership. This is the Babylon that in the near future worship the man of sin. GOD calls HIS people out of, not into, these synagogues of Satan. Come out from among them and be you separate, touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you. GOD ALMIGHTY has a church that for all intents and purposes is invisible to this current evil world. Only GOD can put a person into HIS church. There are no pulpits there.

In the end, it should be left up to the Bishop of that diocese. The Vatican involvement shows that
they really don't give authority to the local Bishop. Let the Vatican pay to keep those churches open
and provide the priests to run them.

RDKirk said:

I'm not worried about an exact routine, but about the elements you yourself said "must be used" and "is the minimum."

If one can't do that much at the moment, it's better to do it a bit later. As a Protestant, I see it as an act of obedience, and in obedience it's obedient to be done according to the minimal instruction that we're given.

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Obedience is indeed not much for us to give to our Lord compared to what He gave us in Christ's sacrifice.

In the previous chapter (chapter 15) we read the words of Jesus to his disciples letting them know that if they follow him with their lives that they will be hated by the world as Jesus was hated. But who were Jesus’ fiercest opponents? They were not the people out in the world, but they were the rulers and the teachers and the scholars and the people of influence within the gatherings of the people of God, in the temple of God. And today this would be the people of power and influence within the church gatherings.

So, let’s look at what this looks like today within the gatherings of at least what are being referred to as “churches.” If we are at all like Jesus when he walked this earth, and if we are doing the kinds of things he did, speaking the words that he spoke to the people, in the correct biblical context, then we should be experiencing some of the same types of situations as he faced when he lived on the earth, and by many of the same types of people, i.e. the people of power, rule, and authority within the church gatherings.

We should literally be being treated as outcasts within the gatherings of the church (or what is falsely being referred to as “church”). Why? Because so much of what are being referred to as “churches” today, at least here in the USA, are conglomerates of human origin, businesses of human making being marketed to the people of the world. Thus, many of them are altering the meaning of the church and the truth of the gospel of Christ in order to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings.

So, if we do not align ourselves with their marketing schemes and with their modern ways of “doing church,” as the saying goes, but if we are what they call “dinosaurs” who hold fast to the teachings of the Scriptures in their appropriate true biblical context, who will not compromise truth and righteousness in order to be liked by the world, then we are likely to literally be treated as outcasts. And some of us may even be pushed out or invited to leave and to go someplace else where we will be “a better fit.”

And this is not necessarily about anyone causing a ruckus or a huge disturbance of any kind, or speaking out of order without permission to speak. But it can be solely based in our beliefs and practices and in the words spoken in the correct order, as called upon to speak, or in words spoken in personal communications with others, or in words taught in small group gatherings when given permission to speak or to teach. And because we hold to the truths of what the Scriptures teach, we are now outcasts.

For we do not compromise our faith in order to attract the world and to appease the world with niceties intended to tickle itching ears and to make people feel good about themselves, even if they are engrossed in deliberate and habitual sin against God while professing faith in Jesus Christ. But we speak the truth of the Scriptures, spoken in love, because we care about people and their relationships with God and whether or not they will spend eternity in heaven with God, and even if they hate and reject us, in return.

In the USA, they may not yet put us to death because of our beliefs, but that time will come. But they have other ways of “killing” us by making us into outcasts and by vilifying those of us who still hold to the truths of the Scriptures in their correct biblical context. And they will accuse us falsely of teaching “works” salvation, even though we teach what Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught, in the correct biblical context. And so they will convince many people to not listen to us, and to reject our words.

But in all of this we are to remain true to the Scriptures and what they teach us in the correct and appropriate biblical context. We are to test whatever we hear spoken from others who teach the Scriptures so that we know the truth and we don’t end up believing the lies. For so many people today are willfully teaching the Scriptures out of context, and they are twisting the words to make them say what they do not say if taught in context, and in order to appease human flesh and to not call people to true repentance.

So, study the Scriptures for yourselves, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and read them in their full and appropriate context so that you get their true meaning. And then believe what they teach, and put what they teach us into daily practice in your daily lives. And do not worry about how other people will receive you, or whether or not they will reject you. But be who God intends for you to be, doing the will of God for your lives, obeying his commands, and sharing the truth of the gospel with the world.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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They Will Make You Outcasts
An Original Work / December 10, 2025
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NxNW said:

I've got a car a big as a whale, and its about to set sail!

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Don't forget your jukebox money.

Aryeh Jay said:

Great, another American city will now turn into a hotbed of illegal drug activity, crime, and debauchery. I give it a week before communist Cuban flags are flying everywhere and Spanish in spoken openly in the streets and shops. Good job Democrats.

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Shows you what perseverance can do.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

I felt bad for the Canadians because they were all on a flight to Toronto and it got canceled. Perhaps they spent an extra night in Zurich? There were 9 folks from the tour on the Chicago flight, including me and my daughters and mother.

Three months after a deadly shooting in Minneapolis that left two students dead and injured 18 others as well as three adults, Archbishop Bernard Hebda, along with Auxiliary Bishops Kevin Kenney and Michael Izen, said a special Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church on Dec. 6 that included a rite of reparation to restore the church for worship.

On Aug. 27, Robin Westman — who was born “Robert” and identified as a woman –shot through the stained glass windowsof the church during a morning Mass filled with Annunciation school students in first through eighth grade, killing Fletcher Merkel, eight, and Harper Moyski, 10.

Westman, who had posted anti-Christian and explicit messages on social media before the attack, then killed himself at the scene.

"Our Blessed Mother lived this faith and cooperated with God's plan for her life, despite the difficulties it would occasion,” Hebda prayed outside the building just before the Dec. 6 Mass. “We profess that our souls now will rejoin hers in proclaiming the greatness of the Lord in this church, dedicated in her honor, and now reclaimed for the glory of God."

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