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Your life was a blessed life, filled with light. My condolences for helping to strip some of that from you

Would that none of the world knew of jack chick. It would be a brighter place. Assuming something even worse didn't take his place.

Well, the latter... isn't really there to deflect? Or something? With rationalization-style ones, the intent is to draw attention away from it, normalize it (in discourse, if not reality), make it more ignorable. With sexy-time ones, it's... really not. I mean, there's sorta' that for youngins, but... no one else. It's more wordplay -- playful in general, really -- euphemism than obfuscation euphemism. Or something. Hell, sexy-time euphemism can sometimes be more explicit than being explicit, amazingly. You don't really see that with conscience soothing euphemism.

Getting the odd urge to go play through Vision of the Future again. There's something about the thought of someone taking the concept of a Starcraft/Ranma 1/2 crossover campaign and then somehow spinning it out into one of the longest and best made set of custom campaigns Broodwar ever saw.

Seriously, 89 freaking maps split over four separate campaigns. That spawned from someone wanting to stick ranma characters into a starcraft map.

Yeah... I'll just note going back and playing D3 is almost physically painful, now. The myriad little quality of life improvements add up to make popping back to play the older game an exercise in minor frustration. Not necessarily saying that's reason enough to get D4 (all the other reasons tally up to that), but...

... anyway, if you hold out for another while (year, whatever), there's a pretty good chance you'll be able to get it for better than 25% off. I think it's already had at least one sale below that price point. Illwinter getting away from shrapnel has been great for Dominions lovers' pocketbooks.

Yeaaah... about the only thing anyone in the US gives even half a shit about in regards to highschool is your GPA and maybe, marginally, your extracurriculars. Absent half the classes? Burnt the freaking school down? No one gives a damn so long as your GPA meets muster and you didn't catch a criminal charge. If anyone tells you someone is going to go back and check your high school records, there is a 95+% chance they are lying to you. The most the vast freaking majority of people are going to do is check GPA and whether you actually graduated. Everything else is pretty much entirely irrelevant.

Yeah... I'd probably say the only classes that are going to be normally attracted to flexible combat are brawlers and ABs. Everyone else just doesn't have much in the way of incentive to use it. I mean, glove procs can be pretty nice, but... that's all you're really getting from it if you're not one of those two. Wyrmic after more damage would probably be better off with... a lot of things. Even carry the world or superpower would probably net you more overall dakka boost.

I think the big thing about it is it's flashy. Even if you're not actually getting much out of it, the glove procs are both noticeable enough and infrequent enough to both be attractive and not become boring. So people notice it, even if it's not really doing all that much.

Definitely wouldn't recommend it on higher difficulties, though, for pretty much anyone. Draconic will is generally your go-to, there, along with... one of the other defensive ones. D. Body, spine, whatever. Might even recommend temporal form if you're non-AM and fairly mono-type damage -- the staff doombringer I'm running on normal took it, both for the immunities and the ability to diversify damage on command. Wyrmic probably wouldn't hate windtouched speed -- passive +20% global speed is pretty nice... there's a bunch of stuff to take instead of flexible combat, basically

To be fair, in this case, it should be fairly obvious either definition works. So... arguing about it is somewhat silly.

Also, yeah, probably better suited for the middle-east thread or somethin'. We're not even hearing about the judaic or christian theological consideration of islam, here, just distorted secular views (of islamic minorities, even!).