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... what does reading a book have to do with using your brain, anyway? I mean, the better ones, maybe, but there's plenty of autopilot semi-brainless junk novels of varying sorts and forms. I mean, hell, most fanfiction. You don't have to think to read that stuff. Just read.

Y'know, I don't remember noticing it or not: Does LoL have a share gold function? Or the ability to give other people items you've bought?

That was how I usually shut people up about KSing in WC3; I'd split the gold with them. Take the money and STFU dood.

Eh, rogue can go bugger itself. Roguelike no longer means game-like-Rogue to most of the people playing them. Some folks still hammer on that, but most RL players more or less ignore them.

Anyway, suggestions: Steamband! It borderlines, but it's pretty nice; Steampunk/Victorian influenced *band variant.

Broken bottle (A T-Engine game) and Unstoppable (same website) are both non-fantasy.

You've also got Lambdarogue, which is technically sci-fi. There's a starcraft 7drl. There's Warp Rogue, a warhammer 40k inspired one, but the website for it seems to be down and I'm not finding it hosted somewhere else

Anyway, here's this. Pretty sparse; big ones that haven't been mentioned already are 3059 (And possibly 3079, which isn't free) and the JauntTrooper series (Which'll take an apple emulator to get running). The Slimy Lichmummy might fit, though it's a bit of a grab bag. There's several 7drls I've ran across that weren't fantasy inspired, but blazes if I can remember what any of their names are at th'mo.

Nn... well, America always has been at its best when it's actively stealing from other cultures. We would probably be better off if we did a bit more of that than trying to export.

M'not even sure where I stand on all that rotterdamn nonsense, I guess; I've never really noticed America having much of a culture to integrate with. Some junk on upward mobility and "freedom and equality," a hefty dose of 'leave me the fuck alone, everyone else,' a few holidays and... shit, what's left? Fair amount of local stuff, but nothing really on the national scale. Plenty of room to haul along old traditions if folks feel like. Guess what I'm saying is that I'd be all for mainstream culture (which is mostly empty) starting to be a little more proactive in stealing the neat bits from the immigrants. Or rather, it's rather silly to say melting pot and expect all the integration to be one way... I guess. Which seems to be the more virulent anti-multiculture position.

I'unno, I haven't been exposed to many people not using the 'say no to multiculturalism' as thinly (if at all) veiled bigotry/racism/xenophobia. The message, "Let us work towards integration" sounds a lot better than "Assimilate or fuck off, not!us." Unsurprisingly, I haven't really ran into much multicultural crusading in my area (The occasional exhibit or whatever doesn't even remotely count), so maybe it's being hammered in harder in other places.

I'm just not really sure what the issue is, I guess. I can't really see anything negative in checking out the practices of other cultures. Maybe some negatives in it being mandatory, but having the option there (and possibly encouraged) to learn more about the history of the world doesn't sound like it'd be something objectionable.

E: Sweet madre de doubleninja.

Sound-dampening.  My fucking kingdom for sound-dampening powers, even if it's only my experience of the sound that I get to change.

No joke, gun shop. Gunrange ear muff things, in addition to ear plugs of some sort. Won't be able to hear shit except your breathing/heatbeat/muscle contractions. You have no idea how much I've fallen in love with a low-end winchester headset.

Gotta go with kaenneth on this one, because I hate myself and want to inflict all sorts of time-related misery.

But hey, with boundary manipulation, you can tweak the boundary between past (or future) and present, allowing you to traverse the continuum of time at will. Chronomancy and omnipotence. Gap hax is best hax.

I'm going to stick to my ice magics.

Boundary between the possibility of there being an ice spear sticking through your enemy and there not being one. Gap hax is best hax.

I DON'T KNOW!

I'm not really sure what the reason for this thing was, really. I mean, I know they've got similar stuff for medical research, but I have no idea what motivated this guy to make the software for personal use (and then go and share it), nevermind what motivated the hardware (so to speak) manufacturers to design and build a piece of machinery capable of collecting that sort of data.

All I can really conjecture is that it being from Japan has something to do with it; the Japanese have taken the manufacture of that sort of item to new... well, heights, I guess is the best word for it.

Incidentally, does this mean my sharing of this news wins WTF of the week? Maybe even month? It's pretty high on my WTF scale, honestly.