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Mm... not sure what system Pnx is working under, but here that would be a (just barely) failing grade, most of the time. Equivalent to a very high D, where it takes at minimum a C to pass in most cases.

And yeah, it's not the easiest of things, for most folks, to get to the point where poor performance in a particular incidence (or even series of them, or overall) isn't a demoralizing thing. Despite th'fact that demoralization just makes it worse

... chin up and all that, Pnx, best y'can. Do what'cha can to pass, and worry about performing well once the minimum's hit. Seemed to help me, anyway. Not that it helps much if you can't internalize it, but... best wishes, et al.

Visual stimulus -- I've been hit with the effect looking at particularly awesome (Happened more than once when I was up in north carolina -- mountains are incredible to a swamp dweller) scenery, ferex. There's also just... imagination or whatev'. I'll hit it from time to time with particularly moving or impressive scenes in writing, when I let myself really sink in to the scenario. Annnd meditation, at least in my experience, though it did take like 5+ years before that started kicking (and over a decade before it got particularly strong) in regarding the tinglies.

Though physical contact doesn't necessarily have to be with people or somethin'. If I'm in the right mood and the air is right, it's pretty easy to trigger off the simple movement of air. S'hard to put in words, but you sorta' have to embrace the sensation -- really feel it, very attentively, and sort of sink yourself into it on a mental level. Embrace it, almost internalize it, and feel. It's a very particular cognitive state, heh. And once you've done that, the charge comes, and you can expand the process to that and it (eventually, after much practice) ends up feeling like every hair on your body is standing up. S'great~

After playing this for *years* I've finally beat it.

Congratulations! Especially rocking that lawful good. LG is an utter pain to maintain in Incursion.

... now do it on challenge mode

Also, yeah, you can disable complicity transgressions (i.e., your allies wrecking your alignment). Was one of the things boss Mensch even recommended, especially if you had allies or a mount (poor paladins). AI FoF protocol was never quite kinkless, and it's bloody close to impossible to maintain some alignments (Like LG, heyo) without turning off complicity. I've had paladin runs fall because complicity wasn't off and a trap caused them to take an alignment hit. Nasty stuff.

Though as commentary goes, your equipment choices boggle my mind. Mostly-useless boots of stability instead of sexy, sexy striding? Acid warding ring instead of... almost anything else? I guess the ring of animal kinship was for neutrality, but...

Did you ever get any actual use out of the amulet of bile? It almost seems like you just had terrible luck finding kit, or somethin'. Not entirely impossible with 13 luck and normal difficulty, I guess...

Though yeah, that's a crazy amount of god finagling. Kudos for that. Re: Asherath, I want to say conversion was a simple matter of, well, converting at an altar. Forget what it took to be a lay worshiper, if it was even possible. Maybe a prayer or sac attempt, even though ashy doesn't like the latter. Kinda' looks like you were a lay worshiper of Ash, though... might just not have ever done anything to gain favor, which certainly isn't impossible in a normal run.

Nothing much to say on build and whatnot. Beyond the lay worship abuse, you had a pretty standard (read: Effective) sword/board warrior build, which can be fun stuff. If you're looking for a build with seriously silly crits, give a halfling warrior with a sling specialty a try. Make sure you start with 18 luck, and watch the sub-10 crits roll in

When I launch the game, the window goes to the title screen and freezes. But the game doesn't freeze; if I drag the window around, it jumps to where it should be. So I can move around the title screen or the character creation, but not without having to stop and drag the window every couple of actions. If I go fullscreen, that problem goes away, but then the colors go all crazy. Everything gets kind of yellow, and it went really blue one time. Has anyone heard of this problem before? I'd really like to be able to work around it, because the game sounds pretty cool.

I couldn't tell you any specifics -- or what, precisely, is causing it -- or how to fix it, but I can tell you the cause is probably related to either your operating system or your video card. Inc goes a little wonky with more than few. Best suggestion would probably be to try it on a different machine, or possibly try running it in a virtual machine for an older OS. Could give compatibility modes and whatnot a try, but I doubt it would help much.

When I say -that-, I mean the potential of learning. It is never lost. We may forget (or not be able to consciously remember, yes this is different from forgetting), but we can always relearn.
Why we're smarter before (usually I guess this pertains to those older than "25" or so?) is because we exercised our brains more, I believe. Check on elementary and the like. What did you do for most of your day?

... nah, T. It actually does become harder to learn as you get older, for the vast majority of the population. Vaguely remember something about pathway formation (?), though I've badly forgotten the details. It's a very well known neurological thing, last I checked the research on it (though, being fair, this was several years back. Maybe they've found out new stuff while I wasn't paying much attention.). Not just folk psych, actual neurology studies.

S'one of the reasons it's a lot easier to learn new languages when you're young than when you're old (and why mono-lingual education systems are honestly practically criminal, from an educational efficiency standpoint. Languages are best learned young.*). Your brain's literally better wired for it at the time.

Doesn't mean it becomes impossible to learn (for most -- there are degenerative or brain-damage conditions that do make it impossible), but... not as easy. Will's part of it -- you won't learn if you don't want to -- but th'brain's just not as good at learning once you're past full physical maturity.

That said, staying as mentally active as possible does slow down the change (and there's still plenty of older folks that can pick up new tricks and whatnot just fine. Harder doesn't mean impossible, it just means harder.), and make it less likely for varying degeneration scenarios to show up.

* Also means that, yes, how a lot of stuff (Like, say, math or coding) is taught in most educational facilities are kinda' backassward. Languages -- including math, logic, basic programming principles, and spoken/written stuff -- are best taught young, and through use. But we don't, in general *vague mutterances*

I'd recommend a google search >_>

Tal's of age, and almost certainly not able to support the younger ones independently given the stated history. Calling in social services of some stripe would, judging by the sound of things, end up with them in foster care and Tal... probably on the streets, from the look of it.

It... might still be something to consider if it would put the siblings in a better situation, but foster care is somewhat notoriously inconsistent in quality, and if the situation isn't too bad for them, as is, well...

Maybe we should start revolting against the oppressing bureaucracy? 

Sure, sure... just sign form 420-R in triplicate and submit it to the Bureau of Domestic Reform and you'll be contacted within 36 weeks as to whether your application to participate in bureaucratic revolution has been rejected or denied.

Yeah, s'far as I'm aware it's the same phenomena, or at least the same sensation being caused by different stuff. Either/or, heh.

And yeah, it started mostly around the spine/head for me, with a little in the limbs. Nowadays it can reach pretty much everywhere, though it's pretty difficult/unusual for it to extend to the crown of my head. It's like I'm a static kappa or something with a little pool of non-static up there. Something something lotus chakra.