Bay 12 Games Forum

How is that a good thing?
hormones

The answer lies within the question. Probably a side order of aesthetics to go along with it, though the latter tends to be more inclusive than the former. There's not many other reasons people like to see pretty people, iirc.

And... eye candy is nice, even if you don't intend to indulge. Real trick is keeping the appreciation for the form separate from the appreciation of the person, so you're not quite as likely to go down the path of objectification and whatnot. That and appreciating either without making people uncomfortable...

... nah, those are definitely kinda' digimon-y. Or rather, you could say they're more digimon than pokemon, perhaps. Maybe the kinda' distinct sections sorta' thing they've got going on? Digimon tended to run that sort of way, iirc. Busier in terms of art style.

Definitely won't be backing, but if it gets through and a year or two (or more) from now, it gets a decent sale or included in a bundle... yeah, probably. Be neat to see how it turns out, in any case.

... so how much longer until you can move out, Ak? Having a definite date/time frame might help deal with those people apparently squatting in your home.

Heck, I was finally able to open treasure chests without using a Berserk Bash. And hit down walls in one hit.

Just a kind of idle FYI, you can do either of those pretty easy with just plain ol' axes. Not even a need for it to be holy or anything. I've been bringing one (7x or so quality enchant lumberjack axe, so far) along with most of my unarmed runs, for knocking down walls and skeletons.

The clear image for Hero is...interesting. First to clear Bay12, though! Treasure Hunter + 4xUnarmed + Zenura Weave = 116 damage per attack, with probably four attacks per turn or something insane like that, plus nice treasures. It was beautiful.

You should try 5x unarmed zenura weave hero. The damage gets even more ridiculous than that -- demon lord was getting wailed on for like 2-300 damage per swing, getting swung at 3+ times with regularity. Killing the poor critter in <10 round is pretty great.

The problem then becomes that you have large businesses who depend upon selling products that reduce people to addicts. They wouldn't be as likely to go around staging mass executions and torturing people, but it's still a bit horrifying.

We already have those. They're called the alcohol and tobacco industries, as well as a great chunk of the pharmaceutical industry, and that's without even touching psychological dependencies.

Any memory of what was being sold? That'd probably make it easier to track down...

Totes an aside, but innit there full color manwha out there? Pretty sure I've seen a few. Could argue the korean stuff =/= manga, but s'far as most folks I've encountered are concerned they're effectively the same thing. There's definitely full color one-shot manga running around, though I'm less sure about anything particularly lengthy.

Ehn... not so much sad as unsurprising. It's not the cartels that are driving drug trafficking, just like it's not corporations or investors that create markets or provide jobs. It is -- and has always been -- existent demand. So long as the demand isn't impacted, volume will not reduce -- probably not even over the short run, and definitely not over the long.

... and you can't really reduce demand by imprisoning drug lords. Not meaningfully. It'll take either a very extreme cultural shift (both in the countries where demand centralizes and where production occurs) away from recreational drug use (hint: This isn't going to happen.), drug legalization of various sorts shifting production into better controlled areas, or something legal -- probably some form of designer drug, or a spread of them -- that provides a superior competing product, for less. Then -- and almost certainly only then, no matter how many cartel members you kill or imprison -- you will see demand for cartel products reduce, and consequentially cartel power begin to wane.

"How to kill the cartels" is... well, basically it's just simple economics. If you starve them, they will die. If you take away their food, they will not revive, later. If you kill the members and dismantle the organizations, all that happens is another group will grow to fill their place -- their sustenance (drug demand) is still there, and until it's not, the problem will remain.