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@neo, of course you don't have an electron microscope in your back yard (probably), but yes, you can go get one and before deciding to use or not use it as a viable source of information go back and test everything that was tested before other people did. It'll take a few years/decades and probably many thousand dollars, but it's possible.

@tahu, nah, the big deal about it is the folks saying stuff about gravity on mars are also going, "This is how we found out." And you're welcome to repeat the process and see if the same thing happens.

... can't tell because PoS website est. Transcript of some sort?

Though yes, that does sound like the only way they could be grandstanding more would be if they were shouting it while riding on top of an elephant, that is itself balancing on top of a giant spiked ball, with all of it being on fire.

@C: ... yeah, you'd be good to be questioning the accuracy of the information your school is giving you. Why the hell is the spanish teacher babbling about evolution to begin with?

And @Furt, I have no idea. I call it one because you don't find out in game until a few levels in and I paid absolutely zero attention to the surrounding media and whatnot. I didn't even realize the thing had been released until like... yesterday. Day before. Something like that.

They did get a bailout, to the tune of around 180 freaking billion dollars, and ended up netting a 22b profit. Now the bastards want more.

I'll give 'em this much. Balls the size of Jupiter. Need to be taken out behind the shed and put down, but they're damn sure audacious.

I thought locking people in psychiatric institutions was a USSR-only shtick?

No? From what I understand, similar things are... pretty common, insofar as it approaches "common". Crazy folks don't get treated particularly well at the best of times, never mind when legal issues are involved. And that's assuming they're crazy at all, and not just being put in an institute because someone didn't have the evidence to put them in jail but did have enough influence to convince a few doctors to say the right things.

... yeah, a "come hither"  look, in particular, has been a sexually charged bit of wording since... well, since before I was born, so. Decades. It's definitely a loaded phrase.

... I'd probably posit that (one of) LA Pan's best early-game solution to elephants would be a small screen of units up front backed by a handful of dryads spamming tunes. Tune of fear, in particular, should be pretty ruinous to a squad of elephants, and growth is more or less tangle vines or vine arrow, but actually useful

If you can get in range, anyway, which becomes much easier when they're coming right at you. Dryads on tune duty is pretty useful in general for LA Pan, methinks, if you can get a handle on scripting them right.

Could also nab alt 2, bring along a pan and some minotaurs, and enlarge some critters up to no-sell trample size. Pan on panic duty would probably straight-up negate 'em, too -- if you've got const-4 and a D random pan, you could just forge up some skull standards and stick 'em on whatever, as well. That's one of your better things to be doing with non-caster commanders regardless, heh.

Really, anything in general that hits elephants in the morale is a good way to just make them go away. With rare exceptions, their morale is just kinda' terrible, plus when they rout they wreck the enemy as well. S'good stuff.