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Pictured: One of the very few ensembles on earth that would get me to consider voting for trump.

Smj, if they're hitting race, too, I don't think even the divided scotus will avoid kicking it in the face.

I thought Obamacare was done because the market wasn't (bbcode is a PITA to do on mobile) fixing itself?

Eh, sorta'. One of the goals involved was making the situation re: accurate market forces somewhat less freakishly warped, yeah. Lotta' other stuff going on, though, not just that... the ACA was, to a large extent, just kinda' throwing every conceivable thing the folks involved could get through at the wall and seeing what stuck.

I got a little screwed by it, myself, but that's mostly because florida's legislature is a piece of shit, not so much the act itself. Near as I've heard anything regarding the national level, the ACA has... really kinda' improved things. Substantially. Folks are still falling through cracks, but there's less of them and they tend to be not quite as deep.

I'm not sure that's entirely speaking in its favor, as you probably could have just literally taken an axe to the medical fields' upper managements and improved things as well, but... still. It's less shit than it was. Not a high bar, that, but it's now a higher one.

Haven't had PM contact, unless it was just to iwi, so... yeah. Possible mini still doesn't have internet access.

Could step in for a turn or three, I guess? Feeling somewhat less lazy >_>

I'm not sure why that's relevant, but okay.

Bad infrastructure makes basically everything worse, OW. Harder to get out of situations that would drive you to violence (e.g. what baff mentioned), easier to get sick (bad water, electricity issues in areas with dangerous temperatures, various building issues that cause problems, etc., etc.). It's a pretty fair statement to make that a notable amount of the problems the poverty stricken parts of the US (in particular, if not exclusively) have are due to lack in basic amenities, including shelter, transportation, and water. Those are infrastructure issues, y'know?

That... last bit actually isn't entirely true. The character vault's only roguelike ghoul rogue winner* did... basically what you're talking about. Staff build, max shadowstrike, max stealth. Can't recall if they used illuminate much** (if I'm remembering right, they leaned on gravity traps in the end, or something along those lines), but they basically leveraged the build you're talking about into a ghoul win with no deaths and a class with exactly one built-in tie in to the magic stat (via mystical cunning). A shadowblade would probably have an even easier time of it, they've got a significantly better kit for those kind of shenanigans... don't have the gravity trap, but have much better options for pushing the magic part around.

*This one. Several versions back, but I don't think anything in particular has changed to make it less viable (or more, because it was viable in roughly the same way melee summoners are). Being fair, tiger eye is/was probably one of the best T4 players I'm aware of, but... still.
**E: Actually, I just looked at their generics, heh. They didn't even have illuminate

Vision runes (or just plain vision, if you get a seer escort), track, playing very very slowly. Don't forget stealth (stealth is freaking amazing), probably skim through the weapon shops to see if you can nab up a steel dagger or two early on. Maybe play skeleton or somethin' -- built in tankiness helps a lot with the early game deaths (and if you're running embers and can spare the cat point and some generics, you can offset pretty much all the normal undead issues). Rogues do freakish amounts of damage once they get rolling, and have native track -- you should be the one doing the one-shotting in the early east, heh. Definitely play adventure difficulty if you're trying for unlocks. Also don't forget thick skin and resistances -- +HP's very nice, but after a point resistance is probably going to be getting you more bang for your buck. Map control and awareness will be getting you more than either, but still.

... though with rogue, you should be able to unlock marauder well before the East if you're building for it, unless something's changed that I wasn't noticing. Iirc you can usually hit for 600 around level 20, 22 -- standard build for it is stack up some poisons, hit 'em with a 5/5 venomous strike with maxed shadowstrike (hide in plain sight, to get the stealth back, probably). Maybe use a 2-hander (and stick points into weapon instead of dagger mastery) for the v.strike attack. You'll hit like a truck, and with the damage all rolled into one source like the cheevo needs.

Giant/high hp full slot prophet in the middle of a GoH dominion, major N bless and whatever kit you need to keep from getting instakilled from soul slay or whatev'? Properly equipped prophet golem, maybe.