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That... that was an incredibly violent dream, as my dreams go. On the flip side, I am apparently the prettiest kyuuki, according to the insanity themed gang myself and a few others just spent like a half hour violently murdering. Won an all expense paid resort vacation for myself and whoever I wanted to invite. Invited everyone present, which included what was left of all the dudes I was just violently killing. Cheering~

... what the Christ just happened. One of my allies turned into a spinning murder coat rack with like, spindly wooden arms that killed people.

You... you can't actually stop a rocket launcher/rpg from going off by sticking a shotgun down the barrel, I... I think?

Shotgun-assault rifle dual wield is hilariously impractical. It shouldn't have been working, especially not used primarily as melee weapons!

Goddamn. Dream brain apparently had a field day this time. Four hours sleep good (?) for that, I guess...?

A good punch in the face never involves murder!

Now manslaughter, well, that's a different story.

There is no cheap way to kill in Crawl... unless you're talking about mana/food efficiency. In which case it isn't too bad, but could probably be better.

Not even going to click that, but I know beyond the shadow of a doubt my day would have been better without even knowing about that, never mind what they've actually done this time. Sue baiting is something that's pretty morally reprehensible

Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on July 22, 2012, 08:37:07 pm

Once again, the Westboro Baptist Church has decided to get involved.

oh for fuck's sake!

are they trying to piss everyone off? if so, it's definitely working!

Yes, yes, they actually are. Get people to go over the line that legality has established, sue the hell out of them. As I understand, that's basically WBC's modus operandi. They're playing a legal game of flame baiting.

Only time I've killed mennas with a caster was a MuSu (or maybe Wz -- it was summoning focused, anyway) of Sif in a sprint game. I did it by simply burying the bastid in haunt spam from as far away as possible. And by burying, I mean probably four or five dozen -- maybe more -- undead died before mennas did. He couldn't approach me because I just spat out another haunt every time he managed to kill one off, keeping the newly opened square, well, not open.

This was a while back, though, before Mennas was porter over to the main dungeon... it's possible he's changed or something and that's less viable than it was.

Semi-amusing, there's already a thread, though your OP is a fair bit more detailed (unsurprisingly ).

Haven't given the alpha a try, yet. Your project's not quite on my to-get list (which is currently only about two long, heh) but at least at first blush it sounds like something that has the potential, at least, to be solid.

Best of luck getting enough scratch money to push things through, yeah.

Suicide rates in Japan is a good start... there's more going on there than just density issues, of course, but they're a good way of pointing out some of the psychological issues related to heavy population density. Psych problems in general are more prevalent in denser areas, as I understand it. Increase the density, logically, you increase the problem -- if not proportionately, then at least in raw numbers.

Many of the lower income or slum areas in the larger US cities are also stuff I'd point to and say, "This is what would be a problem." The issues related to those are tremendous and far from adequately addressed, as well as affecting already tremendous populations. Increasingly sophisticated methodology and technology will help offset that sort of thing, of course! But. The cost is still very, very high.

Then logistic issues... trash disposal, ferex, for larger urbanized areas -- better and more ubiquitous recycling efforts might reduce the problem, but it's still both incredibly non-trivial and something we're not really dealing with. That's far from the only one -- how much arable land does it take to support these places? -- but it's notable and representative. There's a lot needing to be done. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but there is a hell of a lot of invention that needs doing, and even with necessity and genius, it takes time.

High density living is something we've only solved in a sort of engineering sense -- we can build the infrastructure for it, at least as far as the strictly residential requirements go. There's considerably more that needs to be done for that project to really be done. I worry about it, y'know?

Re: Examples: I've been living in Florida for a good long while, now. Most of my immediate experience related to environment related disasters is flood or hurricane related and... in some ways it's incredibly impressive, what we manage. In other ways, well. We've got areas that are scarred several years after the fact, and families that never actually recover from the damage. I see that, and extrapolate. Again, even if the proportion does not change -- even if it gets considerably better! -- the raw numbers would be much, much higher. That's basically what I'm worried about. 99% effectiveness on a global scale is still a death toll of many, many millions. Even if it's better than that, how many decimals back will it go? There's a flat number related to that percentage, and I'm not sure we're going to be capable of getting it low enough to be anything short of horrific. That's basically what worries me, what troubles me at the core.

Frumple will throw in for the Wyr. The way I see it, the only thing better than one Frumple is two Frumples *hits replicate button* and the Wyr lets that happen! Barring the Wyr, Drones. We like the slow, plodding, and powerful. We're not actually terribly enthused by the Wyr's glitch possibilities, t'be honest, but more of us is just nice.