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Quote from: InsanityIncarnate on October 12, 2014, 08:59:17 am

This argument seems very silly from my point of view.

What exactly is the argument? I'm not seeing the point of contention.

Pretty sure the argument is that the history of christian advocacy against alcohol and/or drunkenness is inconsistent with biblical depictions of alcohol use. The point of contention seems to be as to the extent the biblical drunks got, well, drunk. I'm seeing a lot of wishful thinking involve dilution and the far more likely alternative of them being stone blind drunk and then having divine fiat bring in more booze anyway.

Streaker J was a boozer that told his followers to flash people. Also had a hate-on for fig trees, and a bunch of other gorram weird stuff.

Honestly, the whole "Blatant Dionysus Ripoff" thing makes more and more sense as you think about it. SJ was depicted as acting a lot like a god of booze would.

This has almost certainly been posted in the thread before, but I just heard it again going through some old music, after not hearing it for... several years. I can't speak for the rest of Paranoia Agent's OST -- and I'm not terribly fond of the show itself -- but that one song...

It's got birds, damnit.

E: And then Frumple finishes skimming through the old music.

Have I mentioned lately I love the accordion?*

Other stuff! Crow on the Banjo.
More other stuff. Sold (Grundy County Auction)... has this not been posted before? Doesn't look like it...
More klezmer. Ale Brider. No idea what they're saying. Also don't care to know. Seem to be enjoying themselves, and that's plenty to know.
More more other stuff. Sunrise at the Ganges -- Karunesh is pretty sold for chill stuff.
More more klezmer. Simkhes Toyre -- Klezmatics 'tis one of those names folks familiar with klezmer should obviously know
More more more other stuff. I Try -- Macy Gray. And someone else, I think? I'unno. It's fairly nice.
Stuff I'm not quite sure what is other than south/central american. Musica Andina. It's guitary.
Why was this even in my playlist? Laser Breakdancing Beat. Apparently from Ocean's Twelve. I like the clicky bits. And the accordion, obviously.
Because apparently you soulless bastards haven't posted it. Banana Phone. Search couldn't find it, anyway.
More^4 other stuff. Sleep Now in the Fire. There was a pretty nice Eva music video to this song... back in the late 90s >_>
Its apparent nonexistence in this thread makes Frumple sad. Whistling Theme. From the old disney Robin Hood cartoon. Actually could have sworn I posted it at some point, but... search says no, so whatever.
More^4 other stuff. Walk like a Camel. Nicely odd lyrics, really.
More klezmatics. Man in a Hat.
Sometimes the tastes go odd. Indian Flute. No idea what the lady's saying. Probably don't want to know.

*Though with that last one, just... ignore the people. And stuff. Ridiculously hard to find that ruddy song. Probably got the wrong name for it in the playlist, whatever.

Ooh.

... and from the multiplayer perspective, death, particular high death, is also a pretty strong declaration of intent -- a death nation can't really afford to not be aggressively expansionist. The only way they can really cope long term is to outpace the erosion of their income with new acquisitions. I'd imagine it would make diplomacy more difficult, as well as make you a more attractive target for alliances (because the sooner you die, the more they get out of your decaying provinces). More than just about anything, a death dominion makes you a very unattractive neighbor.

I'd think prod on MA ulm would actually be... somewhat of a waste? More order would mean more of those resource producing critters (via gold) would mean more resources in the provinces you actually need resources in. And you want oodles (like, seriously, get castles, ooze smiths from your every pore -- this is one of MA Ulm's primary goals, from what I noticed) of priest (IB spam) and master (everything else) smiths anyway. More growth and luck would also mean that (plus all the nice stuff luck helps bring about). Growth would help a bit with your kinda' old main-line casters, too. Prod would give you stuff you can get anyway, y'know? All that gold means more spies, too~

Drain is probably a really good idea, though -- MA Ulm's MR is generally kinda' terrible, from what I saw, and some drain would help counteract that. Prooobably not drain 3, though -- iirc, that opens up some pretty terrible events.

Not sure I'd go so far as to take sloth, but neutral on the prod/sloth scale? Maybe. You do probably want a minor earth bless (everybody wants a minor earth bless, unless they have both no sacred casters and no access to astral for shrouds... maybe even then, since S1 indies are kinda' common) for reinvig on your IB spammers, but nothing beyond that. Seriously the only sacreds you have are the two casters and a H1 priest. Consequentially for that, you probably want your dom as low as you can stand, since you're not pumping out sacred troops (because you don't have any). Burning some for more order/growth/luck (i.e. gold) would probably help offset that with more temples, as well.

And yeah, some diversity would be nice. Your pretender being able to forge some combination of air/fire/astral (and the air/earth would give you elemental staves, eh wot) boosters would be a pretty big deal -- it'd let you get a lot more out of your native randoms.

E: Enough astral to boost your pretender up to gateway casting (S2, with coin then cap, assuming you've got that minor earth bless -- otherwise S3 and coin or cap. You probably would want the S3 anyway, for base mind hunt immunity) would also be a pretty good way to eek out some mobility for your armies.

Edit:  When you can do a five day job in five minutes the left-over man hours are transferred to functionaries who know deep down that what they do is useless busywork.

The magical word is "don't'. Just... don't do that.

... and now I'm watching After War X. Ep 6, so far. Can I just say that Federation containment methodology in regards to power generation is farcically terrible? Like damn. I think the only appropriate term for what's being shown is "Cavalcade of Incompetence". Or maybe something outright malicious, I'unno. We've got better safety measures with decades-old technology, and fancy space magic future tech can't even manage something like an auto-shutdown feature. It hurts my suspension of disbelief ;_;

And that's saying something, considering the setting.

Might want to check out f.lux, too, if you're not already using it. I only recently picked it up, despite knowing about it for years, and it makes it a helluva' difference. Just set the daytime setting pretty low, too, and all things are good and soothing.