I guess this is how having a stroke while reading feels like, I can really wrap my head around why this is even important, what's the relationship between Gaza and Coca Cola Zero. I feel like I'm reading something from a future distant enough to not be able to comprehend the context, but near enough to still read like the same language.

I know what you mean, but this is a fun exercise. The opposite of a Rat King clearly is a Cat Peasant. The opposite of an ant mill is trickier, there is no such machine that recomposes flour to make whole grains again, reversing the milling process, but the next similar thing would be making bread, so I pick Thermite Bakery.

If cults need to protect their members and beliefs from society and laws to survive, and with religions both support each other, then the opposite of an cult would be a society that needs to protect their members and laws from beliefs, taking drastic measures to separate their members from said beliefs. I guess some sort of atheistic authoritarian state would be the opposite, on your scale. So, North Korea? It doesn't feel quite right because those authoritarian states depend on a cult of personality. Maybe some technocratic AI state? I don't know if there is something simpler I'm missing.

The other way of thing it would be, the beliefs organization growing bigger and shallowing the society in that third stage, so people need to protect themselves from the big theocratic apparatus, taking drastic measures to restrict their members and separate them from the big theocracy, living in communities, farming and reading philosophy and cultivating science, educating each other? This is somewhat similar to the setting in V for Vendetta. Also reminds me of what people do in some places dominated by Islamic theocracy, a very cult like way of gathering in secret at houses, sharing banned books, and literally risking their lives for even discussing such things at their homes.

But I agree with you, OP needs to define better the difference perceived between cults and religions, so we can extrapolate a better answer.

Halls of Torment is nice

I left 10 years ago, web development is shit.

It's poorly optimized. At version 0.4 is probably the first thing that looked decent, with final art in place, but no QA or optimization done. My bet is that they had to launch earlier than expected due to the rumors, or they extended way past the due date and the money for the project ran out. If successful, probably optimization will take place, but they are waging on it.

Why this title reads as an Onion article?

Millennial here, I use the shit emoji

Tailscale? Netbird? I have been using hamachi like a fucking neanderthal. I love this posts, I learn so much

you also agree that England has de most English version of the language too?

I think it's a scale to measure furriness. How much "fuck me" eyes you see?

Most of the country is under the poverty live genius, and the ones that are not, have no money no spend and that why a recession is happening. Take your head out of your ass.

Mosquito (1994)

My older brother really did a number renting and bringing that movie to my house. I remember I saw it on a summer afternoon with him. You know, the time of the year when mosquitoes are everywhere.

I should watch it again now, I'm sure the effects aged poorly, and maybe that heals my wounds from the past.