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Sounds like RL trolololo to me...

Just think, nen. They're actively waiting for you to get on the road to slow down. It's the sole bright moment of their day.

*mumblemutter* Beware the whole absolute statement thing, kaij. It's been years since I was as comfortable with a controller as I am with a keyboard, and that was far and away before I'd actually learned to type worth a flip. Even before that, though, the ergonomics of most controllers (certainly all the ones I've actually used in my lifetime) just don't suit my hands. So both the keyboard and the controller were initially awkward for me, and the keyboard become considerably less so, even despite (for a long period) roughly equal usage.

Now, for someone who, well, can't type well? Yeah, that's a different thing. Hunt and peck folks won't have much luck, heh, or even folks that just aren't comfortable with a keyboard (Hands don't quite fit, or whathaveyou.). But... yeah. It's not an absolute "Controllers are less awkward than keyboards for everyone" thing.

That said, you usually do need to reconfigure some controls to get things comfortable. Default controls are usually some variation of shit (Arrow keys, I'm looking at you, you poorly placed pieces of shite.).

... how would it manifest, though? Paper, metal, data? Flesh, something else? "Money" is more more conceptual than physical, after all...

Maybe some freakish conglomerate of all sorts of currency rampaging around? How do we picture a money elemental? Would it be $ or E?

It does mean, though, that if you do talk in, say, court, that the discrepancies will capitalized on -- even if they're innocent. Having an absolute reference to measure your fallible memory against in a situation where any discrepancies may be enough to sink you is... undesirable. Regardless as to if you did or did not do anything. Think that's the major point trying to be made, here. That video records are more likely to do damage to you than not.

Honestly, it doesn't even have to be a situation involving you, specifically. You could be testifying about something else.

E: Really, what I'd say about all this is it's going to be facebook et al taken even more into the public sphere. That shit is a plainclothes trap -- albeit one with a certain degree of functionality outside of it -- and on the fly self-recording is just the next step up. Only now it can shove itself into other peoples lives without their consent

I will say that now I'm probably going to have to look more carefully into what exactly counts as "in public." If there's going to be folks walking around randomly taping shit m'gonna' need to be more careful about that.

Yeah... the rF's nice, but guardian spirit is pretty deadly for most casters; about the only ones I wouldn't be quite as worried about is sif mummies/necromutation-enabled critters, probably with a heavy summoning focus. Having all your non-consumable escape/attack/defense/utility methods go 'poof' after getting hit particularly hard is a bit of a problem

As for the shield, iirc a plain shield is 10 shield skill to remove the penalty, or at least cut it down to minimum. It's 5/10/15 for medium sized characters, if my memory's not failing.

It's... less Cthulhu's logic and more "human" logic. Significantly more advanced even-remotely-human-thinking species runs into us and it's going to Cortez and the Aztecs all up in this joint, with the Aztecs played by mankind. Or something roughly equivalent, anyway.

It's mostly a 'pray we either have sufficient parity or absolutely nothing they want' thing. If they're human like, there wouldn't really be a third option that ends well for us Well... maybe the french-canadian thing. That probably wouldn't be quite as terrible.

Humankind is kind of a bastard in aggregate, really.

89 days... and I registered at least ~two years before any of you lot (that has yet stated log time in the last page or two). Draw your own conclusions

Re-reading keychain of creation. SCIENCE!!!

Kind of a shame it's in extended hiatus-type whatever.