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Ah, wait. Sorry. Everything is improved by being sparkly except vampires. They're the exception. I'd say undead in general, but I'm currently picturing a zombie with its head replaced by a disco ball and giving non-vampires a pass.

I... really could have done without knowing you had a fetish for shoving your braincase into one of my orifices, II. Because ick. Also ow.

And yes I know people will go 'but he put it there as a test'.

Test would... actually kinda' not make sense. Testing a creation implies it is not perfect, and to say that a creation -- to a certain extent, the creation -- of god is flawed is to say that the creator itself is flawed. Imperfection shouldn't be able to arise from perfection,* if I remember my theology bitsies right. Or at least some of them. Plenty of contradiction in all that stuff.

*Technically nothing can, since full-bore perfection necessitates singularity (if something is other, then the perfect thing is divisible, in some sense, and subsequently imperfect) and renders multiplicity of anything an impossibility. Nothing can exist except the perfect thing if it is, indeed, perfect. That's... skipping a few steps in there, but is one of the theological explanations of perfection in a nutshell. Also more or less how omnipresence becomes a logical necessity of the existence of a perfect god. Shit gets weird, some days.

More actually-taught, there is something or other that links Christ to Buddhism somehow, and posits that Jesus did take a trip through Asia after the biblical events he was involved in. Forget how large a following it is, but I had one of my professors (Ordained priest, radical christian, taught philosophy of religion and history, among other things. WW2 vet, put feet on ground in Japan, awesome guy all around) write a couple books on it.

I guess big J could have cartwheeled over the Bering Strait afterwards?

Yah, probably nitrous. Good ol' laughing gas. Had an experience with that fairly recently... probably going to have more, monday. Not exactly looking forward to it, bleh. It was... unpleasant. Much numbing, very sleepy. Didn't like what it did to my lucidity at all. Doctor critter said I was the calmest person they'd ever seen under the stuff, though, barring the people that actually fall asleep

Marginally better than the alternative of full coherence when someone is taking a bit of metal to your gum line, but only just.

... yeah, as a floridian, rain means not only will drought conditions lessen and/or get held off a bit longer, it will also be somewhat cooler until it stops raining. We love the rain, because it (usually) means the sun goes away for a little while. And it's, like, marginally less humid.

Yes, it often feels less wet when it's actually raining, most of the time. All the humidity gets in the raindrops and the ground, as opposed to the everything everywhere.

Massive improvement, is what I'm saying. Only visit florida when it's raining. Or during the late fall to early spring period. No other point of time is the state livable. The vacation posters lie like an appropriately vulgar noun. Florida approaches its most miserable during the summer when the skies are clear and you're at the beach. Because it's hot, and you're getting a double-dose of fuck-your-skin from reflected sunlight. The ocean breeze is but a small consolation.

Regardless, though, don't go inland. Everything horrible about floridian coasts is twice as horrible about floridian everywhere else, except everywhere has more bugs, more heat, less breeze, and more drugs.

And not good drugs, either. We're talking Florida Man shit, here. Stay away.

That moment in a dream where the person you're riding along with starts to wish they had taken the serrated/mechanical/chainsaw teeth upgrade, to be able to bite through through metal. To be fair, the were themselves part cyborg and being chased by a murderous amalgamation of something along the lines of a roboticized cobra commander, an octopus, fifteen different sorts of woodchippers, and probably a C&C tesla coil*, but...

*Imagine cobra commader, but with those giant jaws-of-life type 40k ork maws, tentacle limbs, massive electrical output, and blendy-bit basically everywhere. Also it is very fast, can climb walls, and wants to eat you. Oddly enough, it wasn't a nightmare, just a rather lengthy action sequence the point of view character was... well, about to lose, because commander will-it-blend had just tunneled into an insufficiently competent minion and basically crushed it from the inside while yelling about its lack of performance, and was about to stop being momentarily distracted and go back to chasing the poor main character. Good dream, but the kind you wake up from wanting to take a nap from vicarious exhaustion.

Autosave, no, but you can manually copy the turn file off somewhere else and replace the active one if something too terrible screws up, as per delta's ninjaing. I guess you could theoretically automate it if you were some kind of coding guru, but there's nothing I'm aware of in the game itself that allows for that sort of thing.

I guess alternatively you could make something like a two player disciple game on llamaserver where both players are you and rollback as necessary. I have no idea what llamaserver's opinion on that sort of thing is, though.

As for something like sceleria vs ulm, I'd personally probably be aiming for something along the lines of drowning them in undead. Early-ish second fort set to monthly recruit reanimators, splash enchantment to pick up your base 1d animation spells, bring along plenty of plain thaums. Ulm's troops two biggest weaknesses are their MR and their encumbrance, and if you can keep them fighting until they all fatigue out, you win.

Alternately, aim for conj 5 and ghost grip -- as noted, Ulm's junk has relatively terrible encumbrance, so a half dozen plain thaums spamming ghost grip is a good way to neuter their troops. Can do the same thing with stellar cascades with a bit more research -- 5-6 thaums following around a grand thaum set to power of the stars/northern lights/pass out. Bit gem heavy, but if you've got the construction for it, banner of northern lights works even better. Can also do something similar with tiny communions... actually, little five thaum communions set to spam raise dead could put out a lot of chaff, especially with a minor earth bless. They can even self bless...

Also sceleria has cheap assassins and plenty of 1D :V