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Latest daily update's biggest reveal:

We're going to be able to romance the furniture with gifts of food.

Presumably this thing. Would have found it faster googling

Definitely thinking more about it, though it'll be another day or two before I can really sit down and crunch things out. Current intent is to be the luckiest taxi driving troll that never knows where the blazes he's going, but gets there anyway. To hell with feasibility, rigger troll away!

... maybe you're looking for this, Neo?

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Kinda' feels, Soli. I'm banking on long odds to give back to society or whatev', but kinda' gave up particular hope that I'll actually manage anything meaningful... years back. Too mismatched with societal standards, too tired, can't seem to care enough to change either of it. Not sure what's going to happen when I don't have family to fall back on anymore, hum. Trying to work through some certification/education stuff so I can manage at least self-support, but... not feeling it. Not feeling it so hard. Wish it was easier to do something useful and stay fed and somewhat entertained at the same time.

In more localized sad... I'm starting to suspect I've lost of the ability to lie or... something. Somewhere in the last few years my ability to communicate in willful bad faith seems to have atrophied, and I'm kinda' starting to think I may never have had the ability to begin with. It's... such a strange feeling. This is supposed to be a good thing or... something, right? But it's more like it's crippled certain means and methods of communication. Somewhat annoying that it mostly limits things to honesty or avoidance and the only reaction you have available to certain sorts of inquiry are... weird. S'just... dunno. Long day today, more tomorrow. And right now I'm struggling with the concept of telling people what they want to hear, regardless as to the appropriateness of doing so. Feels so fucking wrong. Same kind of fundamental wrongness that comes from crap like "selling yourself". Not supposed to withhold or manipulation information that would impact optimal decision making, damnit! Even when it would be personally beneficial

Riddle me this, though: How do you respond to someone asking you to judge a person based on insufficient information, when "I cannot" is not accepted and you can't communicate in bad faith? Judging without sufficient information to make a justifiable judgment would acting in bad faith, yes, and in the confines of the scenario in question calling the asker on it is verboten. Is it possible to get out of something like that without compromising principles?

In all seriousness though, what in God's name is going on in freedomland?

... money, honey.

Seriously, it's one of those things you really have to keep reminding yourself when dealing with the states. For all that we harp on freedom and whatnot, this was a country founded for the money. That was our first colony, that was most of our colonies, we fought a war of independence over goddamn taxation, have destabilized nations and murdered innocents in the name of profit, etc., so forth, so on. We have always and nearly entirely been about the greenbacks. If you want to find out why something's happening in this country, track the cash flow and you'll probably have your bloody answer.

In this case, hey, Monsanto. There's most of your answer.

They did it with Dragons that is for sure. How were Knights supposed to win? They are nearly unbeatable in modern times.

Maaaagiiiiccc. Also other dragons possibly screwing around. Or other mondo-big-bad-tier buggers giving the knights in question a leg up. Or a bunch of lesser critters throwing some weight around. Etc., so forth, so on. Magic, patrons (/allies), trickery. Guns, numbers, backstabbing. Same sort of thing. Shadowrun magic had some pretty big mojo flying around, though, so that kinda' explains how stuff was getting offed back when magic was waxing the last time.

All adding high ordinance does is provide another tool... if stuff was managing to off dragons back then, then heavy weaponry isn't a necessary tool, y'know? Maybe better at it in some ways, though, sure.

I've... never actually noticed that tendency, at least with the stuff I've ran into with fantasy/sci-fi mixtures (which is admittedly fairly limited exposure... mostly shadowrun and a smattering of fanfiction). Most of the stuff I've seen tend to not "upgrade" historical critters during the transition (unless it's through sticking robot arms on them or somethin'.) -- either past times lean toward considerably more bloody for squishy monkeys (with magic or patrons or hiding or whatever possibly being mitigating factors), or stuff that slams into the present gets splattered by high caliber weapons fire. Or some combination of both where you're suddenly dealing with incredibly asymmetrical combat situations where both "sides" are running into outside context problems and things get really interesting.

That last one. That one can be fun, especially as both sides start figuring out what's going on and intermixing methodologies. Major potential for shit to get wonderfully crazy.

... now if only I can remember where I've encountered it before. I know I have, but...