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There's a list somewhere in this thread of sacred mounts, in one of my posts. Most of the rideability conflicts should have been fixed by the most recent version (H3 or H4, I forget which. I is actually a version or two behind the latest ). There were some specific checks added for the more exotic stuff at some point.

But yeah, kobold pretty much has the sexiest sacreds. Giant dragonfly is just ridiculously fast, heh.

As for use magic, yeah, things were never quite... well, fleshed out isn't quite the right word. "Viable" is more accurate. Scroll writing is pretty much only useful really useful for mages (and is outright broken for them if you push it right -- if a Mage reads a persistent buff scroll for a spell they know, it's free. This allows Shenanigans^(tm).), and alchemy and potion making are thoroughly subpar. You can make a pretty effective character leaning on wands for heavy blasting, though. One of my bard wins and my only rogue win did that. Some of the wands have just massive damage output.

And on good days, we're better than that.

Usually. First time I've ever done something related to post count in nearly two decades of Internet use. Could. Not. Resist.

Windaom's (what you called bootfighters, heh, the title's actually a bit lengthier) pretty nice, actually, for that type of game. The ship attack mode is pleasing to my sensibilities.

They only do that if you have Redstone current connected to them, and it's only 1EU/t per machine, I'm talking totally draining my MFE within seconds.

Yeah, that's a littl extreme. Leaving a massfab running, maybe?

Yeah... simple separation isn't simple, especially if you're going to do it in a way that doesn't turn straight into a clusterfuck. American system in particular is a fine example of how to turn that principle into a rolling human rights violation, but there's plenty more. Then there's the ones that literal brain restructuring (either literally or through chemical regimes) is the only way they're going to be able to function in society without being a risk of undue harm.

But... yeah. Mostly it was just a microrant. I twig a little on the subject, but that's because I have an axiomatic base that holds that torturing a human is worse than killing one and neither can be just. With incarceration being a form of torture, life imprisonment becomes categorically worse than execution. Both achieve the same goal of permanent exclusion, but imprisonment causes much greater harm. Current penal system is pretty much uncorrectibly broken, yaddayadda.

The issue of fallible sentencing is difficult, though. Perhaps it is better to irrevocably scar a person than to accidentally kill them, because even a life mostly destroyed is better than one completely? Perhaps it is within society's power to mend minds, restore stolen years, and repair a destroyed life, I'unno. The topic makes me melancholy, because there's literally no good or just choice in the current situation. Just bad and unjust.

Incarceration cannot be justice, for the simple reason that there's neither reparation from or rehabilitation for the perpetrator involved, only exclusion -- if either occur, it's occurring in parallel, and often at odds with the incarceration itself. It's in the same area of moral act that killing is, just (sometimes) revokable and usually more harmful in net. It is difficult for me to look at an argument kindly that proposes incarnation as a just act. It solves no problems, it just shoves them behind a wall.

Perhaps most just, though, maybe. Especially in this goddamned country (US, notch), where basically no damn body outside a bloody small minority is even remotely interested in something approaching justice. It's all either retribution or exclusion, and all that is is either making it worse or making it someone else's problem. But hey, rehabilitation's happening a little! All it costs the person is a bit of torture and permanent reallocation to at-best second class citizenry. "Just." Ha.

I'unno, have headache now. And rambled and unstructured mess and probably should have just left it because I've mostly already said the same bloody things on this forum in the past but whatever. Screw it and go.

'course, death penalty still being around and the occasional innocent being murdered by the state still not being the worst or least just aspect of th'American justice system doesn't leave me with much hope things'll get particular just in any meaningful sense any time soon.

Several millennium of social permutation and we still haven't figured out a moral way of dealing with the people we find to be too unsafe to allow normal social interaction. What's up with that? Are we going to need brain reconstruction before we get a workable solution that isn't a moral travesty?

=_= is... what I've been using to express "deadpan stare" for, uh. Uh. Over a decade now? Yikes...

Anyway, that kind of half squint someone gives when there's no appropriate response but steady ocular attention sans particular emotion. Because someone just did something appropriate of such a reaction. They know what they've done.

Now I don't want to what a shutter shade is, though.