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... that the last people to have living memory of black folks being lynched in the US will be dead in no more than another decade or two disagrees with that first statement, imo. Strongly.

Is it just me or is protesting a few cents worth of tax kinda silly

Just you, probably. A few cents several dozen times stops being a few cents. Multiplied by however many thousands or millions paying it, and it becomes very much not a few cents. 'Course, it's never exactly that simple... lot depends on what the tax is being used for, who it's impacting, etc., etc. How it's being applied, too... the stuff being talked about above where shaving supplies were considered necessary but tampons not would be an example. One I can't tell how applicable was to the UK (they've had sanitary products working under necessity/zero-rate VAT since at least 2011, ferex. Possibly earlier, but I can't seem to find the 2002 notice online so can't exactly check), but eh.

... that said, it again looks a lot like the UK was shafting their electorate a fair bit all their lonesome on that front, to say nothing about whatever extent they buggered up doing anything about problem points in treating with the EU itself. EU floor for non-necessities is 15% -- UK's government bumped that to 20% for the UK itself a few years back. Don't actually know where the money goes/what it's used for, but that does say that the UK's politicians took it upon themselves to fuck their nation at least a third as much as the EU did if you consider the VAT a proper rodgering. It's a theme with this mess, really. Just about wherever the EU was doing something that could maybe be considered negative in some sense, the UK's politicians were managing to either make it worse to some degree or another or trying really hard to frame it like it was.

... honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was intentional. Lot of it kinda' looks like good ol' US conservative style of institution undermining, tbh -- get control of implementation, make it bad under your own power, and then blame the institution itself for your own fuckups. Government/EU/whatever "doesn't work" (or at least isn't perceived to) because the folks claiming it doesn't work are specifically sabotaging it so it doesn't work :V It's legit pretty insidious how effective a strategy it is, 'cause it definitely does work to turn some portion of public sentiment against the institution in question.

Google (psx hostage train) suggests it's Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn.

Hello, Numenfall dev here.

Hey, weclome! Always nice to have the dev drop in. Glad the write-up did it some credit, and no worries 'bout the bugs. Expected with in dev stuff, and there haven't been any that were particularly game breaking (well, that I've ran in to, personally, so far, heh) anyway.

Anyway, always glad to see anyone enjoy the game!  I'd also be happy to answer any questions about the current state of the game, what you can and can't do right now, future plans, etc, etc.  The description on Roguebasin is a little out of date now; initially the plan was to basically make "ADOM 2" myself, but the goal is a little different now. Less open-world, more story oriented.

I'd definitely be interested to hear something about that necromancer option that's taunting us in the profession list, hehe. ... also, is that eternity archivist a nanoha reference, or is that unintentional/aiming at something else? Actually just noticed the possibility, ha.

Smaller scale, would be interested in knowing how to (/if you can) make use of the smith in Aberna. Swung by the place a few times with various bars or gems and whatnot in the inventory and didn't get any sort of positive response. Maybe some sort of indication of what you're missing could be put in, there?

... also, is there any way to get more mining automatons, or just things in general to stick in the hole under your tower? Take over the goblins after wrecking their fortress and use them as cheap labor?

Totally digging the almost masters of magic/age of wonders vibe with that tower, by the by. Should be really interesting to see how that progresses in the future, especially once stuff the screen actually fends off starts showing up.

There are some (a lot?) of similarities to TOME 4; some people have even thought that I use the T-engine.  But that's probably mostly because the layout of the UI is similar.  As far as I know, my game shouldn't be as demanding of your computer, and I hope the gameplay is significantly different.

Ehehe, performance is actually only a little better than T4... with everything turned down as far as it'll go (ToME could actually manage even better than it does, but no one's gotten around to making a truly slimmed down version, yet -- even the no music version has something like 200 megs of superfluous graphical finery in it). Definitely better than it with any of the bells an whistles turned on.

And yeah, gameplay is quite different (have been playing T4 since something like beta 2, so I can say that with some confidence ). Some rough similarities, but they're mostly pretty rough indeed. Just the resource interactions and the harmony/discord stuff are things T4 doesn't play with much (some -- oozemancers have some similar mechanics to the latter, and the paradox resource in general is pretty similar to numenfall's current magic system*, just with more moving parts and a different sort of penalty involved -- but not much). Only really close thing is the bag, and I blame absolutely no one for using the same mechanics as (or at least similar to) ToME's transmog chest, personally. Easily one of the best implementations of loot management the gaming world's seen, heh. Well... and maybe the stamina/ammo implementations. Stamina's generic, though, and anyone who says that infinite quivers are something bad is someone I'd have a go at. It's nice to have main characters that don't have trouble keeping themselves in food and arrows. Once they can figure out how to swim, your critters'll have the three main clichéd roguelike incompetencies beat :V

Other than that, nah, there's not really much in the way of similarities, other than a vaguely similar UI and sorta' similar talent design (cooldown based, et al, but T4 doesn't exactly have a monopoly on that sort of thing... just happens to be about the biggest roguelike that makes notable use of it, particularly while rolling with the whole icon thing). So far, anyway. Not that there'd be anything wrong with things if there were -- T4's got a lot of good design ideas floating around in it, and it's almost always good juju to pay attention to good ideas.

Any case, definitely thanks for what work you've done so far! Looking forward a fair bit to seeing how it develops in the future. Kinda' regret I never got around to checking it out before the name change, heh. Almost did a few times, but never got around to downloading it.

*The chronomancer classes in general would actually be a pretty decent thing to look at, if you were interested in doing more stuff with a similar intent to what you've got now, I'd say. The whole scheme of a resource that ramps up but becomes more unstable as it does is very much a similar concept, just with more involved effects than a simple effectiveness penalty. Could probably pluck out some ways one can riff on that more than numenfall currently does, if you were interested. Not saying it needs it or anything, but I'm pretty much always a proponent for adding more involved and novel parts to a mechanic, ehehe.

Honestly it's a mildly interesting way to pass the time, but I did break the mouse part of my laptop.

Somewhat late, if you've already broken your hardware, but if you're going to be playing clicky games like that, you want to get yourself an autoclicker. Autohotkey can manage it, at the least, and probably some other programs out there, too. Then instead of actually clicking the mouse equivalent, you press a button and the computer clicks for you, probably significantly faster than you're physically capable of.

Only when they don't alternate between lasers and missiles.

... okay, not going to lie. Now I kinda' want to see something with that as a feature. Play panflute peripheral, get danmaku blast.

Also, autocorrect is trying to turn danmaku into "Santa's". What the hell.

Critter's saying that if the EU starts playing hardball with the UK nationals in the EU, the UK would be in the stronger position if they hold the EU citizens in the UK hostage/retaliate against said civilians.

Or in other words, straight up declare war on the EU and probably most of the rest of the developed world. The brain dead thing apparently thinks the UK would be the one holding the advantage there.

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I've never managed to whistle in my life ):

... I actually pretty regularly whistle for, like. 15-20 minute stretches. More or less no breaks. Keeping the whistle going and on point on the inhale is somewhat more difficult, but possible, and once you get the trick of it it's how you keep time with not just entire songs, but entire sequences of them, including fairly complicated instrumentals. Fun stuff!

Not something I do around other people much, but for solo drives or when folks are out of the house, it's nice.