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Battle Royale 2 is literally KND if it were live action. I just realized.

... what's KND?

Because the only thing I get out of that is KKND, which was a fairly odd RTS from a ways back.

LSP, the subject is about criminal trials, not civil. Which, yeah, both judge and no trials in that case is kinda' fucking bad. Doubly so considering this is the states and being an ex-con completely screws you basically forever.

... so it would be an entirely toothless amendment immediately overridden by the federal mandates related to the subject?

Though double checking it, it does look like fair trial is straight up constitutional. Looks like there's at least three constitutional amendments involving the subject, one of which (due process clause of the 14th) specifically applies it to states.

I think they literally can't waive their right to a fair trial, if I'm looking at this stuff correctly. State level amendment would mean precisely shit.

E: Though don't mistake me, it is still entirely bullshit. I'm just not entirely sure writing that into the state constitution would do anything.

Yeah, pretty much, at least insofar as I've been able to tell from my relatively limited exposure to the workings of southern baptist churches. I think there may be some regional get-together type things (or a few different ones. The southern baptist convention is (the big) one, I think?), but they're generally pretty disconnected (and often contentious) from (/with) each other, from what I've seen. And affiliation with the larger coalition-type stuff is far from necessary.

We've got... well, multiple, though how multiple I couldn't say, baptist churches around my area. As I've noted, I try to avoid them, but some of the family doesn't and I occasionally get to hear tales of the local inter-church conflicts and whatnot.

Re: hexes: Pacification hex is incredibly solid. Really, really good debuffing talent. Burning and domination hexes are both also pretty darn sexy, or so I hear. I've never actually used any of them but pacification, but pacification is really rather good, so. There you go.

That said, when given the option between hexes and freaking light there's not really a choice, imo, so long as you've got enough generic points to get providence. Like. All of the light tree is even more intensely sexy nowadays than it used to be. Bathe in Light has become borderline OP (especially in conjunction with damage shields, obviously). Healing light remains an incredibly solid (functionally entirely free) healing talent. The shield is a shield, which again synergizes with BiL, and, well. Providence is providence. Still one of the absolute best anti-debuff talents in the game.

Person asking question, I would definitely say it's almost certainly playstyle. Exactly what, I couldn't say, but I very regularly do basically what you're doing in regards to order (though I tend to hit the maze before OF) and come out fine. I'd kinda' disagree that the alt-dungeons are particularly more difficult than the mainline ones (though the main maze is significantly less of a pain in the arse to navigate), and haven't bothered skipping them in a long, long time. I do alt-maze at 11 or 12, I do main maze at 11 or 12 -- same for OF, if I've already found waterbreathing kit (because I go straight into the lake). Swinging by to at least off the bosses on all the T1s is a pretty good idea, though. I often outright skip the sandworm lair nowadays... I love the heart, but half the time I can't be arsed to navigate the thing.

Wrathroot... if you've got a decent heal (regen or otherwise) the freeze is scary but frankly painless -- the CD on it is too long to be a genuine threat in the face of semi-decent (say, 150+ on regen, ~100+ on heal providing the CD is <10, stuff like that) inscriptions. Getting into melee can help there, if you're a melee class, since that can often screw with the boss's AI a little (i.e. they'll just whack you instead of doing something useful).

In regards to the snow giants, you want to take advantage of the terrain and make sure you let boulder throwers come to you -- they're the only genuine threat in that zone, imo, and if you get yourself in an open space with three or four of them, they will wreck you into the ground. If you can keep it one-on-one (and hopefully stun/daze/etc. that gorram freakishly OP boulder throwing talent into non-use) they usually fold fairly easily. Also, protip on confusion: If you're confused and you want to melee something, use the attack talent. I've got it hotkeyed to / on the numpad. If you try to move into the enemy to attack, it will often move you instead of taking a swing. Trying to actually use the attack talent does not have that problem.

Shadowblades and assassin lord sounds like you might be having problems with accuracy. Usually so long as you can hit them (and, preferably, have no more than one beside you at a time) they fold fairly easily. Push comes to shove, just kite until you can heal up. Also, that attack talent again. Or just melee talents in general -- so long as there's just one critter beside you, it'll autoswing at it even if you can't, technically, see the thing.

... all that said, I usually pay... basically absolutely no attention to my saves. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're not. I just don't really notice or care. Most status effects that aren't straight up damage have ways to react that help mitigate their effects, so you can often push through daikara with no confusion resists/low msave, and so forth, just by knowing how to react while confused to keep yourself from keeling over. Same for a lot of stuff, really.

instead we test them to make sure they know how to perform the job and let the most qualified candidates take the most high-profile slots.

You can cut the naivety in this statement with a knife

Today, my head has been relatively filled with fuck.

As a representative example, I have learned two, mutually contradictory, statements. Coming from the same person. One: Islam is the antichrist. Two: The antichrist does not yet exist, and will be born a half muslim, half jew (I don't know how that works, really.) syrian.

That. Kinda' set the general tone for the conversation going on in the other room while I painted.

That feeling. You know that feeling? When you realize the fairly genial individuals in the building with you are actually bugfuck insane? I felt that feeling. It  is a sensation. _{Smile and paint, frumple. Smile and paint. And move as little as possible. They track movement.}