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General Discussion / Re: European Union thread
« on: October 04, 2015, 05:18:50 pm »
Monsanto is one of those companies that has scary amounts of power, scary amounts of potential to abuse and grow that power, combined with a scary history.
Yeah, some of the companies peddling the newer stuff is a bit concerning, but GM in general is seriously good shit. Potential to do a hell of a lot in a lot of areas, already helping out pretty substantially in a bunch of places -- the pesticide related parts isn't even half the equation. Ruggedization (or whatever the hell it's called) of crops is a bit part of already existent and up and coming stuff, just as a example, and opens up some hella' venues for a lot of the rougher parts of the world. We've been doing this stuff for a long bloody time, s'nice to see the development of better tools and techniques finally kicking into high gear. Just a bit of a shame about the reactionaries, heh.

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Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: October 04, 2015, 04:44:01 pm »
Is there any chance for person lost in space and time to return?
Yes.
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It sounds really weird, but it looks like, that only good working way of asassination for asassins is asassin summoning something better then himself to do the job.
No, but it's definitely the cheapest. Thugging out assassins or getting your hands (usually via shenanigans) on better-than-human ones are also pretty much perfectly workable, it's just that a simple skelliespam+acorn (or whatever) combo is probably going to do better than it 90% of the time. Doesn't mean the non-summoning option isn't good, just that the summoning method is faintly ridiculous :P
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Do poisons stay after the battle ends?
No.
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Any way to remotely horror mark someone without combat?
Blood magic has a few ways. Mostly by sending horrors (which mostly can horror mark with some of their attacks) to remote attack. Which still sorta' involve combat, but you don't actually have to have your mages there for it.
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Is there anything capable of absorbing people for hp increasing like eater of dead?
Some pretenders can do the same thing.
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There is horrific angel from hell, it has 25 nonmagical damage resistance( something like chance not to get damage at all thing), it is also ethereal because of some special robes to be even more pitchforkresistant, it has pendant of luck  and flying shield and the shield in each hand to finish pitchforkproof kit. How peasants with pitchforks still kill him?
Fatigue + RNG, probably. Defensive methods are half-way to irrelevant if the critter isn't fatigue neutral -- eventually the fatigue will add up and the critter will die. SCs that aren't fatigue neutral pretty much have to rely on heavy offensive (probably on top of fear, or some equivalent effect) and just enough defense to survive, instead of heavy defense. Especially because you had two shields, the thing was likely just not doing any damage, got tired, and basically keeled over dead.

Also invulnerability is kinda' junky, from everything I've seen. Terribly unreliable, possibly even moreso than plain protection. Don't rely on it or expect anything from it, heh.
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Do effects of two same items stack? For example two scutata volturna for double disintegrate per turn(+ lightening bolt shooting helmet c:) or double bane venom charms on harvester of sorrows
Generally they don't. Weapons are about the only exception, iirc. Not sure how stacked up shields work with regards to stuff like auto spell -- you'd definitely get the defensive bonuses, but not sure about the spells. Can test, quicklike...

E: Yeah, both shields would cast shocking grasp. You, uh. You would never want to actually do that, since you'd be pretty much guaranteed to get more benefit from one of the AoE one-handers or a different shield (gleaming gold, charcoal, vine, eye, whatever) instead of stacking them up, but... you could.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: October 04, 2015, 12:28:22 pm »
GMAAAAAAIIIIIILLLLLLLLL
Y U MAKE ACCOUNT SWITCH NIGH-IMPOSSIBLE WITH STUPID ERROR MESSAGES.
AUUUUGGGGHHHH
 >:(
To preemptively punish you for your future overuse of anger emoticons. It knew what you were going to do, and retroactively dealt appropriate injury. If you hadn't added those extras just then, you would never have been incited to use any at all.

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Other Games / Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« on: October 04, 2015, 11:44:23 am »
It's friendly sacreds in general, pretenders included. The effect also doesn't go under water, iirc. Aquatic nations are pretty friendly to a miasma C'tis pretender disciple game team up.

There are a handful of generic sacred summons that aren't cold blooded/undead/lifeless/have swamp survival, though, I do believe. C'tis would have access to those just fine.

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Might be amusing, that. How far down would you go, though? Do you have to build the lathes and whatnot yourself as well, or do you get to rent them? Buy materials or gather on your own? Supervision during the construction process disallowed? Does the restriction include ammo? If so, do you have to go out and acquire the materials by hand? How deep does the rabbit hole go?

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Other Games / Re: Civilization IV - Anyone still playing?
« on: October 04, 2015, 10:04:02 am »
Have fired up master of mana within the last year or so. Good fun. Been a few months, though. Didn't mess with other mods (well, besides some of the other fall from heaven stuff) too much, and the base game is... there. I don't think I ever actually played a non-mod game of Civ IV. Probably never will. Base historical stuff's not been much of a draw for me at any point in the civ franchise.

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Stellar weather definitely did, though :V

And earth's is an extension of that. Sooooo...

E: Critter also does that once, behind the curtains, and never seems to do it again. Everything else is pretty much in line with weather. I'd call it as on par as taking the cop out of noting stellar phenomena :P

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Any particular reason turn 22 just got resent multiple times? Something need to be done on our end, or...?

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Yeah the guns rights crowd thinks they're in some great intellectual tradition stretching back to 1776 but it's actually stretching back to around 1970 when the paranoia lobby took over the NRA.
Yeah... gun ownership as an individual right is bloody recent. "This instance of the supreme court" recent, with the swing vote on the decision that was made having since expressed that they now consider that to have been a mistake. SCOTUS has apparently been recently-ish refusing to check over cases that would force them to go back over the decision, from what I understand. Says a lot about whether it's likely to stand up to another round of scrutiny, heh.

And without that, well... there suddenly exists a lot more room for constitutionally backed gun control. Already is, really, even with access being seen as an individual right rather than the collective right it was seen as for most of the US's existence. 2nd amendment doesn't promise nearly as much as a lot of firearm activists seem to think it does, heh.

... though, uh. Strife, you do realize that "ridiculously anti-freedom" argument has been the primary one for most of the states' existence, right? There hasn't even been the hint that it was intended otherwise to any meaningful degree until recently, and that recent decision is on damn shaky grounds.

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How can randomness be powerful in any meaningful sense of the word?
Capability of action? Pretty sure they're talking about the whole infinite possible worlds thing, without limit to stuff such as physical laws or logic or whatev'. That would indeed be more powerful than anything posited by mainstream religions, as those things would be explicitly capable of spawning an infinite number of beings infinitely more powerful than the noted posits (and things more powerful than them, and things more powerful than them, and...). They would also just have a jackton of beings equivalent to the mainstream divinities floating around... a genuinely infinite randomness would diminish deities by its very existence, because it would perforce render them no longer unique.

Though ant, you probably want to add "and everything that can't" to that. Theologians have long solved the problem of dealing with a unique deity in a multiverse of infinite possibilities-- it's actually something that some proofs/arguments for the existence of gods predicate themselves on. Mostly, they just propose a limit to what is possible. Generally, "nothing can be more powerful than god" is held as an axiomatic truth that cannot have a disproving example, ever, no matter how many possibilities are generated and tested. It's just held to not be in the achievable realm of possibilities, no matter how many goes you have at it. If you literally cannot, under any circumstances, make a circle (being more powerful than) a square (god), it doesn't matter how infinite your randomness is -- the circle will never be made a square.

... also weather isn't an infinitely random system. It's just beyond our currently capability to know in full. Probably argue a bit on whether it being a god-like power is a nonstarter, too. By and large, weather has literally shaped the world (primary influence on what formed the atmosphere, shaped geological formation, etc., etc.), is a key component to what made life, and has destructive and constructive powers on par or greater than those attributed to pretty much any god (hell, a lot of the times those powers of weather are attributed to gods). Weather, taken as a whole, is as god-like in power as pretty much any god. Made the world, made life, freakishly and capriciously destructive... it fits pretty much all the check boxes for an abrahamic deity.

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Government bureaucracy doesn't tend to make things safer, and when it does it certainly comes with significant costs in straight money, productivity, and freedoms.
... y'really have to work hard to come to that conclusion, considering that the stuff's ubiquitous, managing our roads, waterworks, a great deal of our medical needs, and all sorts of other stuff, and overall vastly increasing safety, productivity, sometimes even straight money, and enabling all sorts of freedoms (particularly that whole "not die a horrible death" one inherent to a lot of infrastructure management and industry regulation) in the process.

It's like saying that government regulation is likely to make things less safe and free, except for all those mountains of examples where it doesn't. Clearly that means we shouldn't look to those examples and pattern our future works on previous functioning ones. Instead, better to shove our thumbs up our bums and do nothing. After all, they took away all our cars after instituting that viciously restrictive drivers license malarkey, right?

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... there was a sound mod that made the sandking go dudududududu when it did the sandstorm? I think if I had known that I might have actually kept dota installed. And turned the sound on, which would have been something like a first since I played dota back in WC3 >_>

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Things what made me happy today: Dawn of War voice acting. Our weaponry is an unyielding hammer of woe. Gets me every time ♥

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General Discussion / Re: Hurricane Joaquin: ITS RAINING SIDEWAYS
« on: October 03, 2015, 09:45:09 pm »
Can't hunt when all the game's been washed out to sea :V

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Not the least terrible, but also not the most! Also probably better than just letting things cook. We're not at the point where stuff like that as a stop-gap/emergency measure is feasible, but it's getting closer every day.

... also we're already geoengineering on a massive scale as we (among other things) dump centuries/millennium worth of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere on an annual basis. We've been downing the climate heroin for years -- sometimes you have to switch over to climate methadone for a while in order to detox, or at least not be hurting yourself as much.

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