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Ah ha. Troublesome. Might have to hand it back off to the owner for a bit. itunes innit on the computer that I have access to, and there's basically no way in hell I'm installing it. Still, should be easy enough to work around, I guess.

Thanks for the heads up, fellows. It helps, heh.

Do not. Use. Safari.

Safari is shit.

There are other options. Use those. Maybe Opera, i'unno. Depends on the OS.

Well. Being fair. Maybe desktop safari isn't quite so much flaming excrement. iPad safari blows random animal gentilia, though. I've built up enough frustration with the portable version the desktop one can just go die in a fire.

Wait, wait. I thought the crash was primarily (though not strictly, of course) caused by the financial buggers doing some incredibly sleazy shit re: housing and some related things? Outsourcing is causing problems, definitely (and will until we -- as in humans across the globe -- can get worker conditions outside the post-industrial countries equalized to a sane standard. And keep the ones in them from backsliding, of course.), but I don't remember that being the major causative effect.

Maybe moreso than free-market capitalism, though. I think the buzzword they're liking to use nowadays is "crony" capitalism (which, from what I understand, is basically what happens when a free-market system gets top heavy with the sociopaths that thrive in said laissez-faire system), which is probably a big enough discussion to warrant another thread.

E: Or was that something earlier? Major spans of years kinda' mesh together for me, so far as large events go. At least within my actual life span. There is "before now," "way before now," and "now." Sometimes causing me confusions

Kinda' a lead on, but thinking on it later...

What would an exalted Cthulhu's stats be like?

Also vaguely curious what sort of exalted he'd be, actually. Don't really know enough about the grit of the setting to be able to make a good guess at it.

Mmm... has it gone fully free, yet? I've wrecked through most of it (except the last level or two), but knowing some of the better stuff is effectively cash locked... drains my willpower a bit, I guess.

Also not quite sure how you get the absolute highest difficulty. You apparently have to lose <0 units, and I can't quite figure out how you do that

But anyway, yeah, it's a pretty solid TD. About the only thing that's particularly innovative is the shielding stuff (and even that's just rarely used, not new to enigmata), but pretty much the whole thing is very well done and quite nice.

He exalts.

Is... is that some kind of euphamism for something? My mind's trying to connect dots and coming to at least one horrible conclusion, so...

What exactly is a wheel of freedom and, does it have anything to do with the digestive process?

Depends heavily on what the inventory screen is doing, and how detailed the items are. If the thing can be summed up as a sword icon with a +1 over it or a bottle with HP or MP, and that's the absolute most complicated they get, then minimal would work. Not as much information means not as much requisite screen coverage.

If you've got something more along the lines of balder's gate or ToME4 complexity, you need to give it (a lot) more room. Insofar as personal preference goes, I prefer fullscreen, so to speak, inventories... usually.

It also depends on now much the stuff in that inventory interacts with the playing field. Something like a belt slot (or the ability to designate inventory slots arbitrarily to go in a sort of "active inventory" window) can help if significant non-equipped utility items are being considered. Also hotkeys, of course. ToME 4 or Incursion is my go-to example of hotkeys done pretty damn right. Not perfect, but a lot better than a lot of games that could use them.