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Yeah, I haven't used precognition at all. Err... well, the forth tier talent in that tree, anyway. Precog's just a fancy track. Just ran into the cultists in two different zones.

As for enemy wardens with temporal hounds, that's actually probably not much of a problem, usually. They take a while to generate and if the AI's not getting hung up on them they're considerably less of an issue, plus it takes fairly careful use of blink and breath to really squeeze the use out of 'em. If the AI had the brains to just flatline their HP and then dip until they unraveled, or just juke the blink, they wouldn't be nearly as useful. That said, I haven't actually seen any rare wardens toting doges around, so it may be disabled or somethin'.

In other news, shantiz and warden call do not play together very well. Like, at all. As near as I can tell it makes it incredibly likely your temporal clone lightning-splodes your arrows, causing a good 100+ damage and daze. Basically every time you shoot something. It's... unpleasant. And unfortunate. I love the imbablade, but it's pretty much unusable on a warden with warden's call. Which I'll reiterate sucks. Blowing up projectiles with AoE daze effects from both a distance and in melee, sometimes twice a turn, would be incredible.

E: Though I will say spreading the wintertide ice storm around while you're shooting people with a bow is... pretty nice. So's pinging them with a 44% gloom chance dagger at the same time >_>

What I'm saying is the call is pretty nice once you've got some particularly sexy proc effects. After this character's done m'probably going to kick open adventurer and see if they can trigger arcane combat :V

They might just have an app for that tracking bit, grak.

Which is honestly kinda' brilliant, I think. Offload the cost of phone purchase and maintenance onto the worker, and possibly neatly sidestep the issue of workers using company phones to do <whatever they shouldn't be>. Plus maybe even have some kind of backdoor/data gathering aspect, to make a little extra money on the side selling employee info. It probably wouldn't take too long to offset the software development costs doing that.

And think of the moxy points that would net you at inter-business management+ level meetings. Everyone would be jealous of your superior layer of glossy scuzz.

It's somewhat clumsy milwank, at least to a fair degree. That pretty much always has a nationalistic bent, unless it's using a coalition force as its primary mover (and sometimes then, too, of course). It's a mess, but the nationalistic aspects aren't particularly notable -- you see the same sort of thing in pretty much any piece of media of its sort, tailored for whatever military force it's using as the protag faction. And unless it's making a lot of references that I'm not recognizing (which, to be fair, is very possible), the nationalism-related fluffing isn't really all that involved in the plot and whatnot. There's some half-hearted use of some other nations as convenient incompetent antagonists, but that's about it. There's pleeeenty of things to criticize, but that's not really one of 'em.

To be fair to Gate, it's generally not quite your standard harem anime antics, there's just a lot of skin and some pedo baiting.

Well, and the surprise borderline snuff scene. And the rapes. So far. Bloody hell, it's like I'm talking about away to neverland again.

...

Uh. In retrospect, that might not actually be being fair to Gate. Hrm.

Anyway, it's not quite blatant in that particular way. S'instead fairly pervasive and... I'unno. At this point, I can't actually recommend anyone read it, due to the content (gore, rape, pedobaiting, fairly gratuitous nudity...), but it at least seems to be more sveltely terrible than what you're describing, ree. Sorta'. Less clumsy. Still clumsy, but less.

... in further retrospect, I should probably just stop talking about the thing entirely. It's not even remotely appropriate for these forums

Good luck getting a majority. Better try to actually get some more people to vote for you.

That would probably be about the quickest way in existence to get mandatory voting put in place, at least...

What mankind creates, nature sometimes provides on its own.

Honestly, it's been a while since I read something that rode mood dissonance so damned hard. It's like the author(s?) wanted to write a fairly standard modern-military-hits-fantasy thing, but had some sort of fanservice director writing in lines every third paragraph or something. And maybe two or three different artists with similar but notably distinct styles. Feels almost frankensteinian, somehow.

It's... I'm reading it? And I think I sorta' like it? Maybe? But it's the sort of like I feel for particularly readable bad fanfiction. B-Movie, so-bad-it's-good kinda' stuff. Along those lines. Inspired but distracted amateur work.

Did just realize the last time I felt like this, though -- reading Re:Monster LN translations. Suddenly humor and cheerful tentacle-inclined harem antics in my previously bloody half-video-game/half-survival fantasy romp. Like a porn quota was bolted onto the story or somethin'.

Which is, like. I'm okay with porn quotas. But it feels weird. Not exactly bad, just... wriggly? Like you'd expect onset worm rot to feel, I guess. Makes the story mooshier than it could (should?) be.

"Hundred thousand people just got brutally mowed down -- let's talk about tits!" Sorta' like that.

E: Sweet hell, I just realized they actually named the 900+ year old serial-killing apostle of what appears to be a god of murder Loli. My face has been palmed.

E2: Aannndd now the Actually 500 Years Old loli is orgasming herself into a berserker frenzy. What the hell have you people brought upon this thread.

E3: Then the fondling of the well-endowed corpse. Really? Really? I mean, on one hand, okay. Demoralization. And it worked. On the other hand, you people just drew that. The other hand is now full of decapitated corpse tit. Alright then.

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