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> Seduce the barrista.

Wait, no. What? No.

Also I guess that was the old batman dude. I remember those shows! Never remember actors, though. Even Picard is still Picard.

Beyond was pretty good, yeah. Arguably better than it should have been, ha.

People still watch Batman? I would think Adam West would be getting pretty long in the tooth these days.

... Adam who?

... nah. There's pretty good reasons to be buying in such quantities to need to go out of your way to preserve some of it in order to be able to eat it all. Buying in bulk and all that, which is almost always the most economical way to shop for certain things. The more you get in one go, the less transportation et al costs per item, as well. Cost savings all around, so long as the preservation efforts don't cost more than the savings. And it usually doesn't, from what I've seen.

I tried storm once, many, many versions ago. Back when it was a distinct class.

After a while, everything and its hatchling* either resisted or was outright immune to daze, which basically neutered half the build's offensive capabilities. Wasn't very fun. Do believe it's better these days, but the class is still fundamentally centered around a single status effect. The issues with that are kinda' obvious.

Cold's got basically the same issue, except worse, because even without it most of its spells are less damaging than a storm centered build. I hear good things about shivogoroth form, but...

You might be better off going a cold leaning minion-less necromancer.

Wildfire's imba 'cause it's DG's lovechild*, and stone's good enough. Haven't tried arcane but I hear good things about it. Storm and uttercold are just kinda' meh.

*Mild hyperbole, but not by too much.

The whole argument about which country is/has been the most oppressive out of all is based on a very important underlying argument - which nation/country/civilization has the right to criticize other countries?

It isn't. I'm not even sure the point was to point out which had been the "most oppressive". Even if everyone involved is equally oppressive, that does not magically make anyone involved not oppressive. It just makes them all equally assholes. Even if there is a hierarchy of oppression, that does not exempt whoever's at the bottom from having been an oppressive jackass (at least at some point in the past) just because they were the least oppressive of jackasses.

As for that western superiority nonsense... the only people, western or otherwise, that proclaim western superiority are idiots or pushing some kind of agenda. Much of the actual population is well bloody aware of how terrible their leaders are and that their country has done or is doing terrible things (if not necessarily the extent.). Those that aren't are either blatantly ignorant (especially in this day and age, at least in the areas relatively open internet is a thing), willfully in denial, or actively obfuscating. Very few nations, if any, are free from atrocity. Current or otherwise.

As for who has the right to criticize wrong action -- the answer to that is anyone. Because it's wrong action. Being a person that has also committed wrong action does not mean you lose the right to criticize the wrong actions of others. It just makes you either a hypocrite or repentant. Being fair, folks operating at the level of geopolitics are usually the former. It is true that there's definitely a certain sort of audacity involved with someone like Putin (as an example) calling people out (because it's pretty likely they're going to turn around and do the same thing), but if he's calling out other people with good reason, well... that wouldn't change the facts of the issue he's criticizing. At most, it'd just mean he's trying to milk the issue for publicity of some sort, which is a thing entirely separate from whatever issue is being criticized.

Haven't taken fungus yet. I'm currently sitting on a cat point. Not sure if it'll go into fungus or an inscription (or psi-fighting for more wil->str or finer energy for more doomkit). Probably hold off doing anything with it until I hit high peak or L50, whichever comes first. Hopefully by then I'll have picked up enough kit for stat juggling to make even more numbers of finer energy redundant. Already jacking stuff up about a tier and a half in terms of damage* (/armor), might be able to get it up to two tiers and change.

... probably going to pick up Carry the World for the second prodigy, too. +40 str = +20 mindpower >_>

And better melee attacks too, I guess.

*Well, base damage, anyway. Still, it's pretty great to basically turn dwarven-steel into voratun and voratun into solidified pain.

... Frumple, can I see how you spent your generics on that mindslayer? I just started one and I'm curious.

EDIT: Scratch that I just lurked your profile instead. I'm good

Link for anyone else curious, heh. Am running an addon race that's a little (but, for once, actually only a little) on the overpowered side (and notably, in a way that specifically shores up 'slayers primary weakness, their negative life rating), but nothing too egregious. I'd be about at the same level of whoop with a dwarf or thalore, I imagine, though the lack of passive regen would be fairly notable. Regen's a pretty big deal.

I don't really do anything fancy with 'slayer generics usually, though. Finer manipulation stuff (perfect control is a lot better than I remember it. Probably one of the best crit boosting talents in the game now, to say nothing of the ridiculously huge accuracy buff.), nothing in voracity, the normal passives on a melee character. Bit into antimagic, good old psiblades. Whatever else comes up as it comes up.

E: ... if you didn't like 'zerkers, though, you'd probably hate that build. I haven't spiked an aura since the dreadfell ambush, three or four dungeons ago*. Or used any active talents outside mobility and the occasional TK Smash. The only time I've spiked shields at all were to switch the non-kinetic one to something appropriate for the area I was in -- which is to say, I haven't spiked them to actually soak damage yet. At all. Admittedly, I do end up killing a lot of stuff while repositioning, but it's still mostly bump bump bump with careful, but only occasional, utility use.

*Took three or four thermal spikes to kill off all but a couple orcs (barring the boss, of course. With kinshield and the armor, he basically couldn't hurt me). Most of the fight was spent bouncing around with TK leap and wanderer's rest to avoid getting surrounded while the aura was on cooldown.