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Bit of a bump, but I just wanted to share the fact that the Everything's Unique mod can make for some outright farcical situations:
Point to be made: I'm doing OF->Nur as my forth dungeon, after Norgos/Trollmire/Korpul... and stacking encumbrance, because I'm carrying something like 30 artifacts I wanna' store ;_;

The loot piñata situation with this addon on full blast is completely ridiculous, if you can survive the constant onslaught that happens when you turn pretty much every monster into a farportal boss. Not really something you do with normal characters, t'be honest, though lower frequency is pretty tame.

E: And the gold income is just silly, of course. That encounter ended up netting me 430 gold. Also two artifacts! Not counting the random artifacts.

E2: Though you can pretty much just write escorts off. M'actually using the enhanced escort addon (which is to say, escort easymodo) and they're still pretty much guaranteed to be flat erased within a few turns of encountering anything hostile, ha.

Yeesss, because 1.1 and 1.100000001 is a major difference, ha. I mean, comparatively, sure, but...

Which is to say, "compared to others in genre" still means the other ones mostly aren't. LoL's about as conducive to mucking about as any of the major AoS games.

As per usual, the actual answer is to get friends and hammer out ideas and game plans and synergies and whatnot beforehand and duo+ queue instead of experimenting randomly in soloqueue, so you're coming into the game with people that know what the hell you're doing, instead of trying to get a team that has absolutely no idea what the zog you're trying to do to work around/with you. Throw in "mute gorram everyone" (do that regardless, but still) and you'll get to play off the wall builds fairly often! You'll get dropped on your ass like carry crystal maiden tends to, pretty often, of course, but that's what happens when you try silly shit like AD 'dinger or whatev'.

Playing different AoS knockoffs is still probably a good idea, though. To a certain extent, there's not terribly much of a point -- most of them just aren't different enough for it to really matter -- but tasting some of the variations on the theme rarely particularly hurts.

W... well then. For the future. Fairly sure there's a couple other webcomic suggestion threads and whatnot laying around, if you haven't ran into them yet. Just skimming it, most of the major ones are mentioned in the first three pages, so... have a ball.

Oddly enough, I actually enjoy the smell of cigarettes and other burning stuff.

Yeah, as per Alev, wood smoke and whatnot often isn't that bad. Still likes to bugger my lungs a fair bit, but at least the smell's pretty bearable. It's pretty specifically cigarettes, cigars, etc. Almost all of them smell worse than shit. Like. That's a literal statement -- I'd rather go through a sump than go through the smoking area of anywhere.

Though there's a few exceptions. I have ran into some cigars and pipe tobacco and whatnot that's not nearly as bad -- almost enjoyable, even, insofar as the smell itself goes. Still will knock me into a migraine induced catatonia if I'm in it for too long, but at least those ones don't smell that bad. There's just something about cigarette producers that apparently make them completely goddamn incapable of creating something that doesn't smell exponentially worse than ass.

in all my experience with American teachers is this standard? Because it seems standard

If you're asking as to actual american teachers, then no, it's not standard. Least hasn't been in my experience, doubly or trebly so in relation to actual philosophy/related classes. Slightly worse in areas with heavy agenda bias in the population, but the flat fact is that spouting shit along heavy ideological lines is a very fast way to get your arse kicked out of the public school system in the parts of the states I've been in. You start getting complaints, your boss starts looking for a replacement.

It's actually been kinda' amusing, since this area is highly ideologically leaning in certain ways, and watching a professor get notably uncomfortable when one of the students starts yammering something about prayer is somewhat amusing/sympathy inducing.

... have you tried, anyway? PCs being PCs, sometimes they work regardless.

I am extremely sensitive to the smell of cigarette smoke.

So what do I do?

I let two smokers stay in my room overnight.

I am such an idiot.

Well. Learn from the mistake, and don't do that again. At the very least, make sure they're not smoking in your room. Not that it helps entirely, since the stench basically clings to the poor buggers. But it helps a little.

But what you do now is suffer through the stench for however long it takes to dissipate. Try LSP's suggestion, haven't given that a shot before. Hopefully it clears up for you faster than it usually does for me. Massively fucking sucks to have that goddamn stench in your nostrils for like a week or two after exposure. Why that shit sticks around for so long, I don't know, but if I find out who's responsible for it I'll be incredibly tempted to go maim them. If it's intentional on the part of the producers the fuckers need to be fined and then shot, and that part of the process made illegal.

I wonder if Toady would allow a thread where only a certain language is spoken (or typed :p) so long as the thread is meant to help people learn that language easily.

We've actually had one or two specifically non-english threads pop up over the years, if not ones for specific languages. Forgot what happened to 'em, though.