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FD's omni-battle thing. Man. I'd put my bets on Archer, followed by Nanoha. The Blink thing I didn't remember, but if he's just immune to spells Archer would fillet the poor bastard, and everything else is just... from lower power realities, so to speak. Archer's actually a bit broken in an arbitrary sense -- dude's primary shtick is to be able to recreate magical artifacts, and then potentially supercharge them and make them explode. He's largely limited only by the arsenal you decide to let him play with, and for the period before reality notices they're there, the stuff he makes is as real and physical as the originals. His secondary shtick is he's basically a self-made Elder God of Swords, at least in a limited physical area. Reality marbles are wonderful, heh. E: Wait, wait. It might depend on the Archer. The one before CG-Shirou... might actually have been worse, I'unno.

As for Nanoha, magery's all well and good in the case of the rest of them, but she's something a little bit different. Crazy witch is a human sized mecha, with most of what that entails, with a side course of magical fuckery. Gandalf can You Shall Not Pass all he wants, I don't think it's going to help much against a beam of energy capable of scuttling an interplanetary warship from over the horizon.

As for the rest... yeah, those two are in the category that can casually destroy mountains and/or countries/(in archer's case, potentially planets, given the right kit. Iirc, there's anti-planet level artifacts out there. Dude could also just conjure up a sun crusher or whatever.), if they particularly feel like it. The rest of the lot are a bit more... subtle, from what I remember.

Put this way: Careless play can get you a lot further in T4 than it can in DCSS. T4's overall considerably more forgiving about... like, everything. Mostly. You've got a lot better access to a lot more powerful tools than pretty much anything DCSS offers.

Now, T4 will still pound you into pace if you sequentially fuck up enough times, but it's not quite as enthusiastic about it. But yeah, T4, especially on the most played difficulty (adventurer/normal) is pretty darn forgiving. Considering you end up with 7+ chances to die, you've got a lot more leeway about things.

Science, have you gone to far?!?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IfUaKXasdD4

I declare that science has not yet gone too far enough!

Science will have gone too far when we consider dicking around with our past selves by traveling back in time, gender flipping them (to a previously unknown sixteenth or so gender), and then shoving them into a constructed sub-dimension made entirely of breathable jello as the normal method of afternoon entertainment.

Bitch please. Anthro planes.
Get on my level. Do you even internet?

(I would recommend not if people may be watching you, or you're at work.)

Anthro planes are kinda' tame. Japan/the internet's long habit of anthromorphizing military and commercial (fictional and otherwise) hardware is so long running it's basically blasé nowadays.

... Zaku-chan's kinda' cute, anyway. So hush. Though we apparently need submarine ones or something. _{could have sworn I've seen some of those, actually...E:Ha! Found one! SFW, but not sure if the site it comes from is, so no links. But humanized submarines exist. Go-go internet!}

... no purple. So, uh. Abstaining. Purple is best color, and in its absence I refuse to vote for inferior hues.

If you're playing alchemist, you should be able to click on the critter's portrait, uh. Wherever that is on minimalist, I'unno. Then enter your inventory as normal and have access. Alternately, just hit F2. If you haven't buggered with the keybindings, the F# stuff will swap control/give orders to appropriate party members. Then, providing the critter has an inventory and nothing buggers up, you should be able to manipulate its equipment the same way you do the player's.

Hell, if you haven't tried getting a hold of 'im already, you might try hitting DarkGod up. He's recently shifted Tales of Maj'Eyal onto Desura and might be interested in spread it further.

Not really sure if "sell", per se, is the right word, though. The game is free and largely open source, but what DG's been doing is letting folks buy through other services (Desura, so far, but a greenlight is being attempted as well) and having that count as a donation (which opens up donator status, which is mostly cosmetic things with a bit of early access on the side). Fair caveat that I have no real idea what Gamersgate is or if DG'd be interested, or if there'd be some kind of conflict of interest with him aiming for multiple sell points. But it might not hurt to pass a message along.

As for the game itself, it's basically a modernized roguelike. Graphical options, fairly slick UI, lots of ease of use features, unlocking system and achievements, plus in-game chat integration and other such shenanigans, and a quite deep and involved combat system and generally well written lore. It's definitely one of my overall favorite games.

Huh. Did one of the books even cover that? I know there's actually quite a few of the Wizard of Oz book things, I've just, uh. Never read any of them.

Eehh. Beyond the whole kill-all-bugs thing, Buddha himself said that if you come across him, strike him down. I figure four times the number of limbs and eyes requires eight to sixteen times the necessary force to appropriately strike down. Suborbital bombardment takes out the fiddly calculation bits. It makes sure of things.