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Frumple can probably be easily convinced. Don't have anything planned but a wee titch of shopping probably t'morrow morning.

Political, legislative, economic... bad press means less profits, generally, and some of the press that could be coming from down there is really damn bad. At least if you're talking about what pressure would be exerted on the companies if awareness increased. We've actually had a couple cases, iirc, where states-based companies were basically hung by the court because of some of the shit they've pulled south of the border, but from what I recall they only really got pushed down by the law after it got a bit of news coverage. Public awareness makes it harder to get away with stuff, so public awareness has a hefty chunk of mitigation thrown toward it. Wheels are easier to grease when constituents aren't looking

Ehn. Yeah, I was young and not there for very long (just a few hours), but I still pretty vividly remember the outskirts of one of the towns/cities close to the border, down there. Place looked like somewhere that'd been hit by a nuke or somethin'. Couple miles worth of shanty town, iirc. Cardboard shelters and suchlike. Realize the states have stuff like that, too, but we tend to hide it better up here

USA's got its problems, but it's a bit of a land o'milk and honey in comparison to that. Maybe it wasn't representative of the whole country, but...

Still working for me. I could probably throw up a mediafire or something mirror for the game's .zip, if you're interested, though.

E: Though... maybe after I take a nap, since I'm apparently sleepy enough to be incapable of spelling throw correctly

Frumple, man, how do you keep finding these games? Seems like you play every major and minor roguelike out there 

I've got the magic touch. *hip thrust* Un. *hip thrust* Ah!

... seriously though, it's mostly just been a matter of RSSing roguebasin's news section (much less of a pain in the ass before spammers starting hitting the site ), swinging by roguetemple's forum occasionally, and a bit of checking out roguelike developer's posts and whatnot from time to time. I think I found DBT while reading something or other about either Dungeon Monkey Unlimited or... another party-based roguelike that was cross released on the Mac not too long ago, the name of which I'm forgetting (it was also pretty awesome!). Then I'll at least try, well... most of what I run in to. I haven't played every major and minor roguelike out there... just a large majority of them, at least a little. S'a lot of really neat stuff out there.

Downloaded it, I don't have the time to play it properly, but I love TBSes and squad games, so I'll give it a proper try tomorrow. Everything seems to take way too many clicks, though.

Yeah... it's pretty clicky, honestly. You can hold down the mouse on the little arrow thing in auto mode to make that go faster, at least, which is something. It hasn't been too bad once y'get used to it, for me, though. Double-clicks seem to speed up a lot of things a little.

@FFS, yeah, there's not much in the way of shortcuts at all. I think you might be able to enter through a few things, but that's about it, iirc. Definitely a bit of a weakness, t'be honest. Do think there's some particular way or place you can click to default to no action, though. Just... forgetting what it is, bleh.

Before anything else: Link.

So, what it is!

Dungeon Bash Tactics is a free single-player turn-based mouse-controlled, random dungeon, loot & leveling game with a minimalist plot. It's somewhere between a Rogue-like and a Japanese tactical RPG.

And, ah. There's... not much else to say? It's a neat little game, easily playable in coffee break time chunks. You run around in randomly generated dungeons murdering the inhabitants and looting everything, occasionally doing little quests of the find-foo-kill variety. Very straightforward, but still with enough moving parts to be interesting and tough enough enemies to pose a degree of challenge. There's even an auto-fight function to speed things along (though it's rather stupid, heh.).

It scratches the top-down 2d party & turn-based dungeon crawl itch a little, and so I figured folks might be interested!

Yeah... mostly a choice between worms getting it or it maybe being something more useful to our species than a spat of fertilizer. Probably end up as the latter anyway, but might as well get something good out of it before it turns back inta worm shit.

Do need to look in to what lets you throw the whole shebang at 'em, though. Organ donor's easy, but I'm not entirely sure about the procedure required to donate the whole corpse.