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And incredibly OP, like mages.

Eh, 3.5 and thereabouts casters in general just kinda' leave the poor meat shields in th'dust, from what I understand. Though the only major interaction I have with the ruleset is Incursion's (modded) system, in which that holds pretty true.

... pac.

... I vaguely remember one of the two spiders being incredibly fragile... was it the assassin or the other one? Or just me misremembering things?

AoS is AoS... perhaps this one will be less crap qua AoS, so I'll give throwing in a shot.

As for stories, the only one I can vaguely remember as being humorous is

You can also pay a one-time payment of $300 and get free Internet, but a lot slower.

$300 (or $25/mo for one year) for a guaranteed (at least) seven years of 5 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up actually sounds pretty damn good compared to a lot of other stuff, I think. Probably caveated to a single house, I'd guess (so if you transitioned during that period you might be up creek), but from what I remember of the highway robbery pricing that's currently available in my area, just $300 for even a single year of those speeds is a pretty damn good deal, comparatively.

In same boat as Nadaka (Literally, iirc. Same state, roughly same area, I think.), though. Chances small it comes down here, even if it takes off.

Not sure what the creche is referring to (school/nursery type thing for young'uns in Belgium?), but we lose a few kids (or at least come close to it) yearly in Florida due to parents leaving them in cars while they go to the store or whathaveyou. You'd think it'd be incredibly obvious how bad an idea it is to leave a child in an enclosed space in summer heat, but apparently not obvious enough for some people.

If there's any crime for which sterilization is an appropriate response, something like that is it.

It does. Wink, perhaps, but say no more... squire.

Completely stopping co-op is something that's not going to happen for a long damn time. I use it primarily so I can get a feel for what the champ's talents actually do, as well as an initial test for item builds -- to figure out roughly how the progression works and what to loosely expect from performance. In the poppy case, I now have a better idea of exactly what a few items do for her skills and how those skills react to certain situations, and am now much better equipped to apply it to a more skilled opponent. Better to do one low skill game to ease in than three or four higher ones that just demolish me, just to get a handle on exactly what the one let me figure out.

I do alright theory crafting a lot of that, but without some actual hands-on in a fairly loose situation, when I try to apply it to a more capable opponent, I just melt -- and worse, I don't really learn much from it, because I don't end up able to actually lever the setup's capabilities in any way, because I'm too busy having no real hint what I'm doing and what certain things are going to do, and getting squished into the ground because of it.

The last time I went into a PvP with a build I hadn't ran through co-op first, I ended up 1/6 and just had no flipping idea how to actually work what I was trying to work. The only thing I learned from it was that laning against malph with Mundo is somewhat suboptimal, especially in the early game.

To put it another way, I'm not nearly at the point where I get much out of blind runs. Start small, work up, works better, for me, for now.

E: Honestly, it's very similar to how I've played most roguelikes. Do it on easy or cheat to ease the game first, to learn the system and how certain situations play out, then come through and play it legit. It saves so much damn time for me it's ridiculous.