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Still working, anyway. And yeah, Terraria's coding being kinda' shoddy has been known for like... years? For a long while.

Yeah... re: Expert gold loss, you drop 75%, but if you're quick enough you can usually get it back. Something may pick it up, but it's not terribly uncommon for that to not happen, too, and for the thing to still be loitering around when you get back if it does (and then you kill it and get your moneys back, maybe). Between that and the increased income rate (due both to more gold in general and the extra drops -- my expert world has dropped like half a plat of goddamn ice biome yoyos on me, so far), that aspect of expert is often fairly painless.

The rest of it may cheerfully kick you in the crotch, but the gold loss really isn't that bad.

Though yeah, expert on anything but softcore is just masochism. I'd really say just don't bother. It's hard enough without the extra irritation. Bloody hell, I've actually been killed while I gave myself infinite hp, and not even to the dungeon head! Just one of the pillar things. Managed to take 500 damage in one go, through chlorophyte armor and full warding acessories, and insta-died. Expert don't screw around too much, heh.

In other news, it looks like Lindsey Grahm may have performed his obligatory one good act of the election cycle.

Graham said he's not afraid to let people know when he disagrees with them. And he proved it about 10 minutes later.

The same man led up to a question about the Islamic State by saying the United States should outlaw Islam in order to deal with the problem.

"You know what, I'm not your candidate," Graham said, cutting him off. "I don't want you to vote for me. I couldn't disagree with you more."

That word is entirely too close to schlick for my comfort, and I wanted you to know that so you can feel these emotions, too.

E: That said, it would be faintly incredible if by some vile confluence of fate, Trump became POTUS and used the inauguration speech to reveal to the world that they are, in fact, a woman. It would in no way make the situation better, because Trump would be POTUS, but it would be pretty incredible.

Probably. They seem determined to remove every method for beating it and force people to put increasing levels of effort into cheesing it.

I'd be incredibly amused if they made E. Dentatahand's attacks just flat out ignore immunity frames. A WoF effect makes sense, though.

I'd say no? Underemployment is usually an issue of qualification, not survival (iirc, we have a different word for poverty wages, though I can't recall it), iirc. If all you're capable of is minimum wage work, you're not underemployed if that's all you have, regardless as to if it's a living wage or not.

And nah, it's possible, but more or less only if you're consistently lucky. No major emergencies, existence of accessible/affordable housing, probably no kids, etc. Not terribly pleasant, and obviously one accident or misstep away from homelessness/bankruptcy/death/etc., but possible, in a "You're not dead yet." sort of way.

Mmhmm. Overqualification in general, really. Someone with 20, 30 years in on-site IT working as an entry level tech-support call handler because there's just not anything else available to 'em would be another example.

It's a little fluid as a designation in practice, I think -- someone working a job they're significantly overqualified for because they want to do that particular job, might not really count. But it's generally speaking folks doing less than they should be able (and generally want) to. Doesn't really have anything directly to do with hours worked, which in retrospect makes it kinda' odd the aide mentioned it...