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... Terraria 4 pack, back in '11. Gave one to a friend, one to ToME4's developer, and the last to B12 via giveaway.

Probably won't be able to manage for today... think it'll take me somethin' like 3-4 hours from this post on the outside to finish what I'm needing to do today. I'll kick on gameranger and check if anything's going when I'm finished, but it's somewhat unlikely I'll make it.

Entry fourteen shall have Why is the dog there? Why is it so tiny? What are the odds it ends up murdering every person in that scene?*

*High.

Any thoughts on the time for it, t'day?

That explanation is boring.  I demand another.

Yeah. It's one of those older, big TVs, y'dig? And it's been hollowed out and filled with sedated crack babies. Brain's part of an operation that's shipping unwanted children over the border to be used as part of illegal organ farms. But it's totes above board, sure. BF's transporting furniture. And whatever's inside it.

I believe you have to distinguish between failure of a specific capitalist system (happens all the time, we may be seeing it right now) and the failure of capitalism (i.e. free market efficiency) in general.

Failure of capitalism itself, however, is not something I see on the horizon; simply because a more efficient alternative is not in sight. More efficient than our current form, yes: Get rid of national boundaries and trade barriers, combat corruption in the Second and Third world, and institute mechanisms that make producing externalities not worth it - for example a working carbon dioxide certificate market or a cigarette tax that finances the burden that smokers put on society in form of cancer etc. But the absolute failure of capitalism itself? I couldn't find an appropriate quote, but more than 150 years ago Marx prophesied that capitalism would fail with absolute certainty because of its inner contradictions.

Marxists all over the world are still waiting.

... macro market failure has happened kinda' repeatedly, insofar as you could call that the failure of capitalism. I certainly would. The major depressions over the years are kinda' case one for: When Capitalism Can't Cope. It's a known economic thing that, even outside of corruption, the signals within the market just occasionally go tits up and destabilize. Sometimes (often, maybe even usually) it can get back in shape on its own. Sometimes it can't. And without those market signals being stable and clear, the efficiency involved with a capitalist system breaks down.

The capitalist system itself is inherently unstable and will collapse if left untended. S'been demonstrated time and time again. Only reason "capitalism" is still bumbling around is because it's been married to varying degrees of non-capitalist systems in order to keep it going. There's reasons there aren't really any pure capitalist economies anymore, yeah? I certainly can't recall any off the top of my head. States certainly aren't, Europe isn't, if there's anywhere in Asia that is, it's news to me (though I hear a couple are kinda' close). Same for the rest of the world.

So... more or less, Marx was kinda' right. Capitalism did fail with absolute certainty, and was replaced with things of varying degrees of greater efficiency. Usually involving bits and pieces of socialism tacked onto a capitalist framework.

*coughs* The desura page has screenshots with mage paths visible on the main screen. Right under where the items would normally show, iirc.

Yes to auto-pool (particularly useful if they keep the blood hunting mechanics similar to what they are in D3), though. That and multiple-provice movement commands would be up there on my hoped-for UI improvements. Rally points would be nice, too~

I mean, an ideal for me would be able to set a commander+minion setup (with a set command for the commander to do while waiting for its troops to finish building, if necessary), and then tell it to go to X province (possibly via spell, if the commander's capable of it). And the commander'd just... start heading that way once its got the troops you queued up for it. All in pre-defined formations and everything. Double-plus bonus if you could set that on an empire wide basis, at least the formation+troop composition.

Similarly, having thug or SC templates would be goddamn awesome, doubly so if you can just click on one and it'd draw from available mages automatically. Like, you'd click on a province, click on a caster's commands, and one of them would be something like "SC Loadout" or some thematically appropriate nonsense. When you clicked on that and the desired template, the caster you're issuing the command to would do the summon, and idle mages (researching or actually idle ones, basically) elsewhere in your empire would go ahead and forge all the items you want for it. You'd have something similar for recruited critters. And you'd make the template straight from the chassis's status screen, dynamically, so you could see exactly what it'd look like at the end, as well as the full list of what your nation is capable of forging.

Just... something like that.

Ha ha ha. You say that like there was anything here but automated machines. Humanity cannot be replaced by what it is

Now. It will likely be replaced by better machines. Which is probably good. We're pretty crap at a bunch of stuff, and foisting that junk off on stuff that's better at it is th'way to go.