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Oh wow. Look, I'm bad at the game and that is still imbecilic by my standards.

Anyway, I don't think there is a problem with shooting over allies, but there is friendly fire. Skirmish mode (run when enemy is near) is deactivated by default but is just a button press away. Looks like, again, stupid people doing stupid things.

I mean, I sorta' understand how it goes. You're trying to hold dialogue, make it entertaining, and play at the same time. Something tends to give, there, and distraction tends to kill technical skill/tactical consideration before it kills conversational skill. It's understandable, and very common among LPers, especially ones that are doing streams and similar style material. I get what's happening, these folks probably don't have nearly as much trouble when they're not recording, so I'm not going to rag on 'em too hard.

But even if I understand, it hurts to watch. Also makes me constantly second guess as to whether they're actually rather competent at the game and they're working around mechanics I don't understand (particularly since I can't play) or they're really as bad as it looks. The state of confusion adds another level of mild unpleasantness

E: Speaking of which, is there some kind of downside to using the attack move command I've seen precisely one person use, exactly once? Because no one seems to use it, even when it would result in frankly better results (stay in line, engage as encountered, instead of break up in odd ways at odd times and ruin any cohesion you might have had) than dicking around trying to individually assign units.

E2: Or a reason to put off that initial hero-granting mission battle thing? Every time someone's bothered to actually look at the opposing force, it's been fairly puny and the rewards substantial, but... I've also only see it beat once or twice, with even folks that do look at the enemy composition just kinda' twiddling their thumbs instead of taking the easy rewards. People seem to enjoy staring down that horse's throat for dozens of turns... though at least that's not as annoying as the times that they actively comment on the fight looking easy and then screw off to garrison a town that doesn't need it or some meaningless crap like that.

Maybe check out Stalin's Dilemma? Pretty small, self contained, and of questionable ethical conclusion, but it might fit what you're looking for.

Sometimes! A major part of healthy ones definitely is, though.

As all-consuming as their editors' thirsting laughter.

Or turn around and install vista or somethin'. I can tell you, I don't get notifications to update to windows 10 on this machine :V

... other than that, maybe consider checking the services, if that stuff works anything like it does on older versions? Would be an option to turn off whatever's overseeing the ad. Or consider a third party program... BES, ferex, can flag an application for immediate throttling -- you'd point it at the update screen's .exe or whatev' and set it to full stall. It'd stop the program from doing anything right out the gate, though it'd still show up in processes or whatev'.

Sun and moon both out s'usually somewhat seasonal in the area I'm in. Tends to be more common closer to winter, iirc? Also yes, all you freaky tall people. I'm down here with MZ at a stolid 5'4. My physiological efficiency surpasses all of y'alls, ohohoho.

Really should go to sleep. It took entirely to little time to start interpreting that sentence through the other meaning of stool.

And... see, I'd disagree pretty heavily that not much substance was lost. Not all was, by any means, but it definitely lost a good chunk of what it could have had by pandering. It was fairly constant that they were cutting out characters faces (i.e. blocking emotion, not showing where the character is focusing, etc.), blotting out other characters entirely for periods (i.e. forgoing showing the non-verbal expressions for that time), etc., etc., etc. They were regularly (i.e. literally every individual scene in that episode had it happen) sacrificing showing interaction between the characters or even just individual character expression for the sake of locking the camera onto someone's sexual characteristics.

Take the start of the in-person meet, for example, before the other two showed up. Instead of burying you in Ako's tits and latching you onto the rear of her skirt, they could have changed the angle and had both characters in at all times, as well as showing more of the non-verbal communication in one go. A wider angle, one from behind or the side, so on and so forth -- everything the episode did there could have been done, done better, and had more done beside, had the designers not mandated the fanservice. Instead of starting it off both barely showing either character's full non-verbal expression (Ako, of course, had to be introduced sectioned off and in a way that obscured much of the relevant posture) and little to no combined interaction, you could have had full display of all the awkward body posture, a significantly better display of all the facial expressions, and so on, and so forth -- a much better showing from the angle of romance, drama, or anything of that nature. But the T&A meant that didn't happen. Which was really unfortunate, and felt like it really was missing quite a bit. It was less a meetup and more a titillation display.

Just about everything I commented on in that spoiler is another instance of potential like that being lost.

But hey, maybe the second episode isn't as bogged down by that sort of thing. I'll probably end up watching it in the next day or so and do another writeup, for the hell of it. As you say, they may be pandering harder just to make an initial hook. But it is the sort of design an' choreography that leads to comments like the one OW made that started off this whole convesation.