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Sil survival isn't only about tactics, seems to me it require more luck than in crawl by example as usefull items are very fewer on the ground and monsters out of their depth isn't a rare occurance by it's nearly every of them.

Luck's pretty helpful but there's a lot less of it then seems at 1st. There's a lot of subtlety in the mechanics as to where you position yourself in a fight & how to explore to maximize stealth (sticking to walls, closing doors etc.)

I'm unsure how line of sight really work in that game as it seems enemy monsters all can see in the dark, but i hoped to have broken that enemy los after that long dark corridor.

Yep they see in the dark. You need an actual corner to break los. They can hear as well, if you want to vanish you really need multiple closed doors between you & them or the vanish skill. It's hard to get the space to vanish properly unless you go with sprinting or invest heavily in stealth.

Anyway I've been playing a bit again so I put this feanor through. Fairly straight forward heavy armour, bow & sword.
http://angband.live/user/wobbly/sil/Deleb.txt

Yeah vanilla is still pretty dry in aesthetic though there's less of the wading through a billion identical Ogres I remember from the much older versions. Pretty sure reworking the monster list is one of the next things on Nick's plan so maybe there'll be some improvements there. I suspect vanilla is always going to be drier then variants because the core players like the simplicity/balance of not having a thousand little quirks in the game play.

I play more Sil or Poschengband than vanilla. Sil has such beautifully tight game mechanics and does a much better job of staying true to the lore than any other game I've seen. Played it to death for a while. Poschengband goes in the opposite direction, real fantasy kitchen sink, with Cthullu monsters, knights of the round table, stuff taken from basically everywhere. Also lets you play as a monster race. It's from that whole zband -> hengband chain of variants.

Pretty sure provident works in the sense of "fated"

Edit: Yep if you look up "providence" the definition is supernatural or divine in origin.

Mueller could easily put him under deposition though.

Meanwhile, the House Intel committee has requested both Comey memos and the tapes Trump was talking about, if they exist. I suppose if the WH hasn't given any sort of records by the 23rd, they can force the WH to hand over the tapes. They did the same with Nixon and at the same time, set a precedent.

Can they though? How exactly do you go about forcing someone to hand over tapes that may or may not exist?

IS is stepping up their operations in this region, it seems. They are on the back foot in the Middle East, but their brand is still inspiring attacks worldwide.

Worth keeping in mind, Indonesia actually had this exact problem before IS was even a thing

You are right that nothing is that simple, but generally the government wants revenue spent where it came from. Some services benefit everyone, police, courts, national defense so everyone gets taxed for that.

Out of curiosity do you count the health system as 1 of those that benefits everyone? Besides anything else there's the economic cost of sick leave there. A bunch of other stuff.

Yeah, single payer (government pays for health-care) could work if the US government just raised another trillion dollars in tax revenue...

yep most countries pay for their public health insurance through a tax. The point being the extra tax is less then it'd cost in insurance premiums for the same coverage.

... , OR it mandated a law, broke several laws in putting that law into place, then it called up all it's federal agents, soldiers, police and ect and physically seized the assets of hospitals, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers, ect, uso that a federal entity could administer these enterprises and have absolute monopoly over the entire industry.

Guess which is actually constitutional and politically possible?

If you guessed either answer you are wrong.

So Obamacare/Trumpcare or a similar system is the really the best only way that universal access to healthcare can be done in the USA. It makes sense for the USA.

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Pretty sure you can create a public health system without doing any of those things.

So, 700% excise taxes on your burgers and soda and cigarettes and alcohol and whatever else. Probably ban any activity like motorcycling or ATVing or anything they think might cause trauma.

So it's this kind of BS, that makes people say look at countries that already have a public health system. That way we can discuss reality, rather then fantasy.