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A very, very important year for the world in a number of respects.

... what makes 2014 any more important than... all the other years? Though I sorta' guess if you consider all of them to be very, very import, then the next one will indeed be very, very important as well... Not relatively, of course, but in a sort of absolute sense. If they're all meaningless in the grand scheme of thing, they're equally important, haha! If there's nothing more nuanced than 0 and 1, 0 is still the second largest number...

Though really "new year" is a incredibly arbitrary thing. Calendars are strange, somewhat meaningless things, but useful despite that. Arbitrary frame references are nice for cooperation and communication when no meaningful demarcation exists, I guess...

something something, "... but for me, it was Wednesday," something. Though it's less wednesday than it is "that time frame we can't actually isolate on a personal level that we sorta' call wednesday in a wiggly sense that's not actually pointing out a thing with boundaries so much as a sort of part of a larger thing, that we call wednesday for convenience and I guess some people attach greater meaning to for. Well, the hell of it, mostly? Which is fine, really. Just kinda' weird, some days.

Days give me a headache when I start thinking about them ;_; They don't actually exist, damnit. Administrative nonsense created to make things easier for us. Imaginary celestial paperwork.

Or something. It's late, no nap, back home, TV going all day, head, in building with ambient temperature over 70F, etc.

Could almost certainly do a mosaic/conglomerate construction with natural ones. There's hella' craploads of the stuff, last I checked, most being held off the market to keep prices up. Do believe ones to do the base body (not keys, etc.) out of a single stone are pretty rare though, yeah.

Halfway makes me wonder what other sorts of "natural" materials they've made keyboards out of by now. Scrimshaw? More... esoteric... bones? Reinforced leather? Gemstones of various sorts? Obviously there's a lego one, somewhere out there. The list goes on, really...

Not curious enough to actually go look, though. Ha ha.

Yes. He can. As can anyone not being paid to be an idiot. It's called sugar and cinnamon. Checkmate, theists. The mystery is solved. Your god is a lie.

You're talking about Caravaneer right?

Not even remotely, heh. There's some one-off flash game (On kongregate at some point, should still be there... somewhere) that had a pretty much dead rip of Ogre Battle's combat/strategy system... maybe some disciples influence in there, too, but yeah. Same RTS-style squad movement, same squad formation whatsit... fairly sure it even had the X-number-of-attacks thing, but that could just be my memory. Fantasy based, though, and definitely not even close to as fleshed out or engaging as OB.

Have played Caravaneer at some point, though... demo or something, at least. Very much not really what I'm looking for, especially the combat aspect. Not bad, from what I remember, but closer to Tactics Ogre than Ogre Battle, which despite sharing certain elements (class/races, overall theme) are very different mechanically, tactics being a fairly standard SRPG and Ogre Battle, well... not, heh.

Probably the same way they dry hump gigantic spinning sawblades without repercussion.

So... there was Ogre Battle, and the N64 version (and I guess technically there was some handheld thing that never got translated, hum). Their... combat, or just general nature. The hands-offy management/strategy, etc. There anything out there that, like, harkens?

Know there was some flash game a while back I've since forgotten, and I vaguely remember there might be a PS2 (3?) game or two that's similar (but have forgotten the names, of course ), but... anything? At all? System irrelevant, I just wanna' kinda' have a list of targets going forward...